Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics


Japan competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Shizuka Arakawa won the country's only medal, a gold, in women's figure skating. She was the first person born and raised in Asia to become an Olympic champion in that event. Athletes representing Japan participated in all but one of the 2006 Olympics' 15 sports, with Ice hockey the only exception.

Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
Figure skatingLadies' singlesFebruary 23

Alpine skiing

Biathlon

;Men
;Women

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

;Distance
;Sprint

Curling

Women's

Team: Ayumi Onodera, Yumie Hayashi, Mari Motohashi, Moe Meguro, Sakurako Terada
;Round Robin
;Draw 2
;Draw 3
;Draw 4
;Draw 5
;Draw 8
;Draw 9
;Draw 10
;Draw 11
;Draw 12
;Standings
RankTeamSkipWonLost
1Anette Norberg72
2Mirjam Ott72
3Shannon Kleibrink63
4Dordi Nordby63
5Rhona Martin54
6Ludmila Privivkova54
7Ayumi Onodera45
8Dorthe Holm27
9Cassandra Johnson27
10Diana Gaspari18

Key: The hammer indicates which team had the last stone in the first end.

Figure skating

Key: CD = Compulsory Dance, FD = Free Dance, FS = Free Skate, OD = Original Dance, SP = Short Program

Freestyle skiing

;Men
;Women

Luge

Nordic combined

Note: 'Deficit' refers to the amount of time behind the leader a competitor began the cross-country portion of the event. Italicized numbers show the final deficit from the winner's finishing time.

Short track speed skating

Skeleton

Ski jumping

Note: PQ indicates a skier was pre-qualified for the final, based on entry rankings.

Snowboarding

;Halfpipe
;Men
;Women
Note: In the final, the single best score from two runs is used to determine the ranking. A bracketed score indicates a run that wasn't counted.
;Parallel GS
Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.
;Snowboard Cross

Speed skating

;Men
;Women
;Team Pursuit