Latvia at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Latvia at the 2006 Winter Olympics
IOC code	LAT
NOC	Latvian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olimpiade.lv (Latvian) (English)
in Turin
Competitors	57 (49 men, 8 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Artūrs Irbe (opening) Ilmārs Bricis (closing)[1][2]
Medals Ranked 26th	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 0 1 1
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948–1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014
Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1900–1912) Soviet Union (1952–1988)

Latvia competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Mārtiņš Rubenis won Latvia's first Winter Olympic medal.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Bronze	Rubenis, MārtiņšMārtiņš Rubenis	Luge	Men's singles

Alpine skiing

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
Ivars Ciaguns	Men's super-G	n/a			1:38.18	52
Renārs Doršs	Men's downhill	n/a			1:57.54	46
	Men's combined	1:44.54	52.55	Did not finish

Note: In the men's combined, run 1 is the downhill, and runs 2 and 3 are the slalom. In the women's combined, run 1 and 2 are the slalom, and run 3 the downhill.

Biathlon

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Jānis Bērziņš	Sprint	29:09.9	1	48
	Pursuit	40:22.83	2	42
	Individual	59:24.3	2	37
Ilmārs Bricis	Sprint	27:26.9	1	12
	Pursuit	35:46.94	2	4
	Mass start	50:27.6	3	28
	Individual	57:19.2	4	19
Kristaps Lībietis	Sprint	29:21.9	0	54
	Pursuit	43:51.23	6	54
	Individual	1:03:13.4	4	68
Edgars Piksons	Individual	1:06:12.5	7	79
Raivis Zīmelis	Sprint	29:11.4	2	49
	Pursuit	40:58.04	7	46
Jānis Bērziņš Edgars Piksons Raivis Zīmelis Ilmārs Bricis	Relay	1:28:10.6	5+12	16

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Anžela Brice	Sprint	26:03.1	3	60
	Pursuit	Lapped
	Individual	56:30.5	2	48
Gerda Krūmiņa	Sprint	27:30.5	3	74
	Individual	1:00:26.1	4	70
Madara Līduma	Sprint	24:11.02	2	28
	Pursuit	40:50.80	8	20
	Mass start	43:52.7	5	20
	Individual	52:27.2	4	10
Linda Savļaka	Sprint	26:54.6	1	72
	Individual	59:44.3	3	63
Madara Līduma Anžela Brice Linda Savļaka Gerda Krūmiņa	Relay	1:26:21.3	2+11	18

Bobsleigh

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Jānis Miņins Daumants Dreiškens	Two-man	55.94	55.84	56.16	56.69	3:44.63	6
Gatis Gūts Intars Dīcmanis	Two-man	56.37	56.36	57.05	57.73	3:47.51	20
Jānis Miņins Daumants Dreiškens Mārcis Rullis Janis Ozols	Four-man	55.88	55.69	55.51	55.51	3:42.59	10
Mihails Arhipovs Intars Dīcmanis Māris Bogdanovs Reinis Rozītis	Four-man	56.34	56.54	56.13	Did not advance		21

Cross-country skiing

Distance

Athlete	Event	Final
		Total	Rank
Oļegs Andrejevs	Men's 15 km classical	45:44.2	77
	Men's 50 km freestyle	Did not finish
Valts Eiduks	Men's 15 km classical	44:12.0	69
	Men's 50 km freestyle	Did not finish
Oļegs Maļuhins	Men's 50 km freestyle	2:15:10.6	60
Intars Spalviņš	Men's 15 km classical	45:13.4	75
	Men's 50 km freestyle	Did not finish

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Total	Rank	Total	Rank	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Oļegs Andrejevs	Men's sprint	2:33.23	74	Did not advance					74
Valts Eiduks	Men's sprint	2:31.25	68	Did not advance					68
Oļegs Maļuhins	Men's sprint	2:24.88	50	Did not advance					50
Intars Spalviņš	Men's sprint	2:32.26	72	Did not advance					72

Ice hockey

Men's tournament

Players

Position	Name	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Birthplace	2005–06 team
G	Artūrs Irbe	175	80	02/02/67	Riga	Red Bull Salzburg EC
G	Edgars Masalskis	175	78	03/31/80	Riga	Neftyanik Almetievsk
G	Sergejs Naumovs	172	75	04/04/69	Riga	Khimik Voskresensk
D	Rodrigo Lavins	180	84	08/03/74	Riga	Brynäs IF
D	Krisjanis Redlihs	189	88	01/15/81	Riga	Albany River Rats
D	Sandis Ozoliņš	188	92	08/03/72	Sigulda	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
D	Georgijs Pujacs	182	96	06/11/81	Riga	HK Riga 2000
D	Arvids Rekis	183	95	01/01/79	Jūrmala	Augsburger Panther
D	Agris Saviels	186	100	01/15/82	Riga	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
D	Karlis Skrastins	188	90	07/09/74	Riga	Colorado Avalanche
D	Atvars Tribuncovs	188	100	10/14/76	Ogre	Mora IK
F	Ģirts Ankipāns	184	97	11/29/75	Riga	HK Riga 2000
F	Armands Bērziņš	192	98	12/27/83	Riga	HK Riga 2000
F	Aigars Cipruss	178	80	01/12/72	Riga	HK Riga 2000
F	Martins Cipulis	179	87	11/29/80	Cēsis	HK Riga 2000
F	Vladimirs Mamonovs	176	85	04/22/80	Riga	HK Liepājas Metalurgs
F	Aleksandrs Nizivijs	177	78	09/16/76	Riga	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
F	Grigorijs Pantelejevs	178	90	11/13/72	Russia	EV Zug
F	Mikelis Redlihs	180	80	07/01/84	Riga	IF Björklöven
F	Aleksandrs Semjonovs	181	91	06/08/72	Riga	Malmö Redhawks
F	Leonids Tambijevs	176	83	09/26/70	Riga	EHC Basel
F	Herberts Vasiljevs	180	85	05/27/76	Riga	Krefeld Pinguine
F	Maris Ziedins	178	78	07/03/78	Talsi	Stockton Thunder

Results

Round-robin

15 February 2006 21:05

Latvia

3 – 3 (1–2, 2–0, 0–1)

United States

Palasport Olimpico Attendance: 7,851

Game reference
	Artūrs Irbe	Goalies	John Grahame	Referee: Timo Favorin
	0 – 1 9:44 - Gionta (Liles, Gomez) (PP) 0 – 2 10:38 - Conroy Ņiživijs (Ozoliņš) - 13:15 1 – 2 Tribuncovs (Ozoliņš, Ņiživijs) (PP) - 35:04 2 – 2 Vasiļjevs (Laviņš) - 35:44 3 – 2 3 – 3 42:01 - Leopold (Hedican, Conroy)
	16 min	Penalties	16 min
	25	Shots	42

16 February 2006 17:05

Slovakia

6 – 3 (4–1, 1–2, 0–1)

Latvia

Torino Esposizioni Attendance: 2,960

Game reference
	Ján Lašák	Goalies	Artūrs Irbe	Referee: Danny Kurmann
	Zedník (Višňovský) - 5:23 1 – 0 Petrovický (Surový, Meszároš) - 5:43 2 – 0 2 – 1 6:27 - Ozoliņš (Cipulis, Panteļejevs) Demitra (Mari. Hossa) (SH) - 7:54 3 – 1 Mari. Hossa - 13:17 4 – 1 4 – 2 20:54 - Cipulis (Cipruss, Panteļejevs) 4 – 3 26:51 - Ņiživijs (Skrastiņš) Chára (Mari. Hossa) - 33:49 5 – 3 Mari. Hossa (Gáborík) - 49:04 6 – 3
	12 min	Penalties	8 min
	25	Shots	28

18 February 2006 17:05

Sweden

6 – 1 (1–0, 4–0, 1–1)

Latvia

Palasport Olimpico Attendance: 8,795

Game reference
	Henrik Lundqvist	Goalies	Sergejs Naumovs	Referee: Paul Devorski
	Påhlsson (Forsberg) - 14:20 1 – 0 Lidström (Zetterberg) (PP) - 22:22 2 – 0 Alfredsson (K. Jönsson) (PP) - 24:59 3 – 0 Axelsson (Forsberg) (PP) - 25:17 4 – 0 Zetterberg (Holmström) - 27:58 5 – 0 Alfredsson (M. Sundin, Lidström) - 44:48 6 – 0 6 – 1 49:10 - Ziediņš (Ņiživijs, Ozoliņš)
	6 min	Penalties	14 min
	40	Shots	14

19 February 2006 13:05

Russia

9 – 2 (3–1, 3–0, 3–1)

Latvia

Torino Esposizioni Attendance: 4,310

Game reference
	Evgeni Nabokov (out 40:00) Maxim Sokolov (in 40:00)	Goalies	Artūrs Irbe (out 27:58) Edgars Masaļskis (in 27:58)	Referee: Dennis Larue
	Kovalchuk (Kovalev, D. Markov) - 7:26 1 – 0 Sushinsky (Kharitonov, Gonchar) (PP2) - 9:15 2 – 0 2 – 1 9:55 - Cipruss (SH) Kovalchuk (Datsyuk) - 12:36 3 – 1 Kovalchuk (Kovalev, Datsyuk) - 23:32 4 – 1 Kozlov (Yashin) - 25:45 5 – 1 Kovalchuk (Datsyuk) - 35:16 6 – 1 Yashin (Kozlov, Zhukov) - 41:58 7 – 1 Malkin (Sushinsky, Vishnevski) - 47:32 8 – 1 Ovechkin (Kozlov, Yashin) - 56:27 9 – 1 9 – 2 58:04 - M. Rēdlihs (Bērziņš)
	16 min	Penalties	18 min
	39	Shots	11

21 February 2006 11:35

Latvia

2 – 5 (1–1, 0–1, 1–3)

Kazakhstan

Torino Esposizioni Attendance: 2,300

Game reference
	Sergejs Naumovs	Goalies	Vitaliy Yeremeyev	Referee: Christer Lärking
	0 – 1 7:20 - A. Koreshkov (Y. Koreshkov) Tambijevs (Ņiživijs) (PP) - 15:13 1 – 1 1 – 2 35:04 - Antropov (Y. Koreshkov) Cipruss (Panteļejevs, Tribuncovs) - 45:04 2 – 2 2 – 3 52:33 - Alexandrov (Polischuk, Trochshinskiy) 2 – 4 54:53 - Y. Koreshkov (PS) 2 – 5 58:08 - Y. Koreshkov (A. Koreshkov)
	14 min	Penalties	6 min
	32	Shots	30

Standings

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Slovakia	5	5	0	0	18	8	10
Russia	5	4	1	0	23	11	8
Sweden	5	3	2	0	15	12	6
United States	5	1	3	1	13	13	3
Kazakhstan	5	1	4	0	9	16	2
Latvia	5	0	4	1	11	29	1

Luge

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Aiva Aparjode	Women's singles	48.934	47.957	47.721	48.453	3:13.065	18
Kaspars Dumpis	Men's singles	52.432	52.063	52.391	52.402	3:29.288	17
Anna Orlova	Women's singles	47.654	47.317	47.280	47.232	3:09.483	7
Guntis Rēķis	Men's singles	52.769	52.338	52.307	52.742	3:30.156	21
Mārtiņš Rubenis	Men's singles	51.913	51.497	51.561	51.474	3:26.445
Maija Tīruma	Women's singles	49.623	47.987	47.889	47.545	3:13.044	17
Andris Šics Juris Šics	Doubles	47.353	47.761	n/a		1:35.114	7

Short track speed skating

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Evita Krievāne	Women's 1000 m	1:39.986	3	Did not advance					19
	Women's 1500 m	2:34.171	5	Did not advance					23

Skeleton

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Martins Dukurs	Men's	58.79	58.60	1:57.39	7

References

1. "Flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony". Retrieved 30 March 2009.
2. "Flagbearers for the Closing Ceremony". Retrieved 30 March 2009.

• Yahoo! Sports – 2006 Winter Olympics – Latvia at the Wayback Machine (archive index)