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Singles, Women

Date21 – 23 February 2006
StatusOlympic
LocationPalavela, Torino
Participants29 from 19 countries
FormatTotal of points from short program and free skating.
Judge #1Gloria MorandiITA
Judge #2Annette Boeren-MaasNED
Judge #3Diana Barbacci LevySUI
Judge #4Tatyana DanilenkoRUS
Judge #5Susan LynchAUS
Judge #6Benoît LavoieCAN
Judge #7Laura McNairGBR
Judge #8Gale TangerUSA
Judge #9Zsofia WagnerHUN
Judge #10Katarina HenrikssonSWE
Judge #11Yuriy KliushnykovUKR
Judge #12Elisabeth LouesdonFRA

The skater with the most talent was easy – Sasha Cohen (USA), who had been runner-up at the 2004-05 Worlds. But she had a nasty habit of skating poorly under pressure situations and dropping out of the lead. The skater with the best pedigree was the 2002 silver medalist, Irina Slutskaya (RUS), who had been World Champion in 2002 and 2005, and shortly before Torino, had won her seventh European title, bettering the record of Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie , who had won six Europeans. Another contender was Japan’s Shizuka Arakawa, who was World Champion in 2004, but she had not skated well in the early 2005-06 season. Cohen won the short program, but her lead was almost non-existent. She scored 66.73 to 66.70 for Slutskaya and 66.02 for Arakawa. In the free skate, Cohen skated well, not succumbing to her personal demons, and bettered Slutskaya, who had skated earlier, 116.63 to 114.74. Arakawa was the last skater on the ice, and she skated superbly, scoring 125.32 to win the gold medal, the first ever by an Asian figure skater, and again deny Cohen a major international title, with Slutskaya winning the bronze. Both Cohen and Slutskaya had problems with falls, Slutskaya in the free program, and Cohen in the short.

PosNrSkaterNOCPointsShort ProgramFree Skating
1Shizuka ArakawaJPN191.3466.02 (3)125.32 (1)Gold
2Sasha CohenUSA183.3666.73 (1)116.63 (2)Silver
3Irina SlutskayaRUS181.4466.70 (2)114.74 (3)Bronze
4Fumie SuguriJPN175.2361.75 (4)113.48 (4)
5Joannie RochetteCAN167.2755.85 (9)111.42 (5)
6Kimmie MeissnerUSA165.7159.40 (5)106.31 (6)
7Emily HughesUSA160.8757.08 (7)103.79 (7)
8Sarah MeierSUI156.1355.57 (10)100.56 (8)
9Carolina KostnerITA153.5053.77 (11)99.73 (9)
10Elene GedevanishviliGEO151.4657.90 (6)93.56 (13)
11Liu YanCHN145.3049.84 (15)95.46 (11)
12Mira LeungCAN145.1650.61 (14)94.55 (12)
13Susanna PöykiöFIN143.2253.74 (12)89.48 (15)
14Yelena SokolovaRUS142.3546.69 (18)95.66 (10)
15Miki AndoJPN140.2056.00 (8)84.20 (16)
16Kiira KorpiFIN137.2044.84 (20)92.36 (14)
17Olena LiashenkoUKR134.0852.35 (13)81.73 (18)
18Júlia SebestyénHUN129.2649.58 (16)79.68 (20)
19Idora HegelCRO127.0747.06 (17)80.01 (19)
20Halyna YefremenkoUKR125.3741.25 (24)84.12 (17)
21Tuğba KarademirTUR123.6444.20 (22)79.44 (21)
22Silvia FontanaITA120.3742.47 (23)77.90 (22)
23Viktória PavukHUN119.8546.40 (19)73.45 (23)
24Fleur MaxwellLUX109.5744.53 (21)65.04 (24)
25 r1/2Joanne CarterAUS40.86 (25)
26 r1/2Roxana LucaROU39.37 (26)
27 r1/2Kim Yong-SukPRK39.16 (27)
28 r1/2Jelena GlebovaEST38.47 (28)
29 r1/2Anastasiya GimazetdinovaUZB38.44 (29)

Short Program (21 February 2006 — 19:00)

PosNrSkaterNOCPointsTech. ElementsProgr. ComponentsDeductions
1Sasha CohenUSA66.7335.3331.400.00Q
2Irina SlutskayaRUS66.7036.2130.490.00Q
3Shizuka ArakawaJPN66.0235.9330.090.00Q
4Fumie SuguriJPN61.7532.6129.140.00Q
5Kimmie MeissnerUSA59.4034.2025.200.00Q
6Elene GedevanishviliGEO57.9033.2524.650.00Q
7Emily HughesUSA57.0831.7125.370.00Q
8Miki AndoJPN56.0029.1226.880.00Q
9Joannie RochetteCAN55.8528.8726.980.00Q
10Sarah MeierSUI55.5730.6924.880.00Q
11Carolina KostnerITA53.7726.2528.521.00Q
12Susanna PöykiöFIN53.7428.4325.310.00Q
13Olena LiashenkoUKR52.3527.4724.880.00Q
14Mira LeungCAN50.6129.3821.230.00Q
15Liu YanCHN49.8427.2422.600.00Q
16Júlia SebestyénHUN49.5826.7523.831.00Q
17Idora HegelCRO47.0626.7420.320.00Q
18Yelena SokolovaRUS46.6921.1325.560.00Q
19Viktória PavukHUN46.4026.7819.620.00Q
20Kiira KorpiFIN44.8423.8421.000.00Q
21Fleur MaxwellLUX44.5324.3320.200.00Q
22Tuğba KarademirTUR44.2025.7018.500.00Q
23Silvia FontanaITA42.4719.8722.600.00Q
24Halyna YefremenkoUKR41.2520.4321.821.00Q
25Joanne CarterAUS40.8621.2120.651.00
26Roxana LucaROU39.3721.4917.880.00
27Kim Yong-SukPRK39.1619.3719.790.00
28Jelena GlebovaEST38.4721.0618.411.00
29Anastasiya GimazetdinovaUZB38.4419.0619.380.00

Free Skating (23 February 2006 — 19:00)

PosNrSkaterNOCPointsTech. ElementsProgr. ComponentsDeductions
1Shizuka ArakawaJPN125.3262.3263.000.00
2Sasha CohenUSA116.6355.2262.411.00
3Irina SlutskayaRUS114.7453.8761.871.00
4Fumie SuguriJPN113.4854.2359.250.00
5Joannie RochetteCAN111.4255.2956.130.00
6Kimmie MeissnerUSA106.3152.7753.540.00
7Emily HughesUSA103.7953.8250.971.00
8Sarah MeierSUI100.5649.3151.250.00
9Carolina KostnerITA99.7343.8455.890.00
10Yelena SokolovaRUS95.6645.3850.280.00
11Liu YanCHN95.4650.4045.060.00
12Mira LeungCAN94.5551.8342.720.00
13Elene GedevanishviliGEO93.5643.6049.960.00
14Kiira KorpiFIN92.3648.8443.520.00
15Susanna PöykiöFIN89.4840.5449.941.00
16Miki AndoJPN84.2035.6950.512.00
17Halyna YefremenkoUKR84.1241.7042.420.00
18Olena LiashenkoUKR81.7336.0145.720.00
19Idora HegelCRO80.0139.1540.860.00
20Júlia SebestyénHUN79.6834.8645.821.00
21Tuğba KarademirTUR79.4442.6436.800.00
22Silvia FontanaITA77.9035.6742.230.00
23Viktória PavukHUN73.4536.5837.871.00
24Fleur MaxwellLUX65.0426.7739.271.00