Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's sprint
| Women's sprint at the XX Olympic Winter Games
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| Venue | Pragelato | ||||||||||||
| Dates | February 22 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 66 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||
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Chandra Crawford |
 Canada
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Claudia Kuenzel |
 Germany
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Alena Sidko |
 Russia
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The Women's sprint cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 22 February, at Pragelato.
Emilie Öhrstig was the defending World Champion, but she won in the classical style, and the last free style sprint in the World Championships (in 2003) was won by Marit Bjørgen. Julija Tchepalova is defending Olympic champion. The most recent free style sprint event in the World Cup, however, was won by the Russian Alena Sidko at 30 December 2005.
Sixty-six skiers completed the 1.1 kilometre course in the qualifying portion of the event, with the top thirty advancing to the quarterfinals.
There were five quarterfinal races, each with six skiers. The top two in each heat advanced to the semifinals.
There were two semifinal races, each with five skiers. The top two in each semifinal advanced to the A Final, to compete for the top four places, while the third and fourth-placed finishers advanced to the B Final, for places five through eight.
Chandra Crawford finished 0.7 seconds ahead of Claudia Kuenzel to win the Olympic gold medal in the women's cross-country sprint.
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