Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay
The Women's 4 x 5 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 18 February, at Pragelato.
Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Kristin Størmer Steira and Marit Bjørgen of Norway were the defending World Champions, but finished third at a pre-Olympic World Cup event in Val di Fiemme, where a team representing Finland won. Germany were defending Olympic champions, with Claudia Künzel, Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer and Evi Sachenbacher.
Results
Each team used four skiers, with each completing racing over the same 5 kilometre circuit. The first two raced in the classical style, and the final pair of skiers raced freestyle.The race was started at 09:45.
| Rank | Bib | Team | Time | Deficit |
| 2 | Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Larisa Kurkina Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova | 54:47.7 14:34.9 14:41.8 12:41.2 12:49.8 | ||
| 4 | Stefanie Böhler Viola Bauer Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Künzel | 54:57.7 14:33.9 14:19.5 12:50.6 13:13.7 | ||
| 3 | Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa | 54:58.7 14:32.0 14:26.1 13:05.0 12:55.6 | ||
| 8 | Anna Dahlberg Elin Ek Britta Johansson Norgren Anna-Karin Strömstedt | 55:00.3 14:23.9 14:38.6 12:55.0 13:02.8 | ||
| 1 | Kristin Størmer Steira Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Kristin Mürer Stemland Marit Bjørgen | 55:21.8 14:23.5 14:29.3 13:03.7 13:25.3 | ||
| 6 | Helena Erbenová Kamila Rajdlová Ivana Janečková Kateřina Neumannová | 55:46.3 14:40.8 15:03.0 13:16.6 12:45.9 | ||
| 5 | Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen Riitta-Liisa Lassila Kati Venäläinen | 55:55.8 14:21.1 14:30.4 13:13.4 13:50.9 | +1:08.1 | |
| 16 | Kateryna Grygorenko Tatjana Zavalij Vita Jakimchuk Valentina Shevchenko | 56:36.3 14:56.5 15:01.8 13:33.4 13:04.6 | +1:48.6 | |
| 9 | Aurélie Perrillat Karine Philippot Cécile Storti Émilie Vina | 56:41.4 14:27.9 14:31.2 13:22.1 14:20.2 | +1:53.7 | |
| 10 | 17 | Milaine Thériault Sara Renner Amanda Ammar Beckie Scott | 56:49.8 15:09.6 14:04.5 14:31.5 13:04.2 | +2:02.1 |
| 11 | 11 | Seraina Mischol Laurence Rochat Natascia Leonardi Cortesi Seraina Boner | 56:52.4 14:25.3 15:03.4 13:29.4 13:54.3 | +2:04.7 |
| 12 | 12 | Nobuko Fukuda Masako Ishida Sumiko Yokoyama Madoka Natsumi | 56:57.8 14:20.0 15:22.8 13:18.8 13:56.2 | +2:10.1 |
| 13 | 7 | Oxana Yatskaya Yevgeniya Voloshenko Elena Kolomina Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina | 57:52.9 15:02.6 15:52.3 13:41.8 13:16.2 | +3:05.2 |
| 14 | 15 | Wendy Kay Wagner Kikkan Randall Sarah Konrad Rebecca Dussault | 57:58.4 15:00.0 15:28.5 13:43.5 13:46.4 | +3:10.7 |
| 15 | 10 | Alena Sannikova Ludmila Korolik Shablouskaya Ekaterina Rudakova Bulauka Olga Vasiljonok | 58:19.5 14:54.0 15:24.0 14:09.9 13:51.6 | +3:31.8 |
| 16 | 14 | Wang Chunli Li Hongxue Liu Yuanyuan Song Bo | 58:42.5 14:58.0 15:01.6 13:47.5 14:55.4 | +3:54.8 |
| 17 | 13 | Piret Pormeister Silja Suija Kaili Sirge Tatjana Mannima | +5:36.7 |