Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's team pursuit

The women's team pursuit competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, began on 15 February at Oval Lingotto. The team pursuit consisted of a qualifying round, then a series of elimination races, with the winners of the elimination races progressing to the next round of the 'knockout phase'.[1]

Women's team pursuit at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Oval Lingotto
Dates	15–16 February
Competitors	35 from 8 nations
Winning time	3:01.25
Medalists
Germany Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, Anni Friesinger, Lucille Opitz, Claudia Pechstein, Sabine Völker  Canada Kristina Groves, Clara Hughes, Cindy Klassen, Christine Nesbitt, Shannon Rempel  Russia Yekaterina Abramova, Varvara Barysheva, Galina Likhachova, Yekaterina Lobysheva, Svetlana Vysokova

Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
Team pursuit	men	women

Each race was skated by two teams of three skaters, over a distance of six 400-metre laps (2400 metres total). The three skaters of a team were allowed to change order at any time, but the team's final time was always recorded when the third skater crossed the finishing line. If two teams started simultaneously on opposite sides of the track, and if one team managed to overtake the other before the full distance, the overtaking team was immediately declared the winner.[2]