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Sweden won its second ice hockey gold, and first in a best-on-best competition, over Finland 3–2 and the Czech Republic won the bronze medal. Three months later, Sweden won the 2006 World Championships and became the first team to win the Olympic and World Championship gold in the same year. [2]
In the men's final, the host nation beat Pakistan 3–0, after leading 1–0 before the break. In the bronze medal play-off, England lost to Malaysia 2–0. Netball New Zealand defeats Australia 60–55 in the gold medal match, to become the first country other than Australia to win Commonwealth Games gold in the sport. Closing Ceremony
In the men's competition, the Czech Republic defeats Russia 3–0 to win the bronze medal game. Short track speed skating American Apolo Anton Ohno wins the men's 500 m, earning his second career gold medal. Canada's François-Louis Tremblay wins the silver, while Ahn Hyun-soo of South Korea wins bronze, earning his third individual medal of ...
Further information on the medal tally : 2006 Winter Paralympics Medal Table. With one silver and one bronze medal, Australia finished the games placed equal thirteenth overall, tied with Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland. This result was Australia's equal fourth best result in Winter Paralympic history, equal with the Nagano 1998 games where ...
Her score was changed to 13.766, which put her ahead of both Romanians and gave her the bronze medal. Barbosu, who’d begun celebrating before the results were official, dropped the Romanian flag ...
Spain won all nine games they played. Spain's gold medal in this tournament was the first medal Spain had ever won in a FIBA World Championship. Pau Gasol also became the first Spaniard to win the MVP award. It was the first time a country has won all nine of its games since 1994 when the United States won all nine games and took the gold medal ...
Two French swimmers, Clement Secchi and Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, shared the worn-out state of their bronze medals, which they both took home from the Olympics after winning the 4×100-metre medley relay.
2006 Winter Olympics; Tournament details; Host country Italy: Venue(s) 2 (in 1 host city) Dates: 11–20 February: Teams: 8: Final positions; Champions Canada (2nd title) Runner-up Sweden: Third place United States: Fourth place Finland: Tournament statistics; Games played: 20: Goals scored: 136 (6.8 per game) Attendance: 91,609 (4,580 per game ...