Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metre relay

Women's 3000 metre relay
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Women's 3000 metre relay; at the XX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for short track
Venue	Torino Palavela
Dates	12–22 February
Competitors	36 from 8 nations
Medalists
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The women's 3000 metre relay in

short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics began with the semifinals, on 12 February, and concluded with the final on 22 February, at the Torino Palavela.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	South Korea	4:11.742	Calgary, Canada	19 October 2003	^[2]
Olympic record	South Korea	4:12.793	Salt Lake City, United States	20 February 2002	^[2]

No new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Results

Semifinals

The two semifinals, taking place on 12 February, matched four teams, each with four skaters on the ice, with the top two in each advancing to the A final. The other teams advanced to the B Final.[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athletes	Result	Notes
1	Yang Yang (A)	4:16.739	QA
2	Canada Alanna Kraus Amanda Overland Kalyna Roberge Tania Vicent	4:17.231	QA
3	Hyo-jung Kim	4:18.333	QB
4	Nobuka Yamada	4:21.413	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athletes	Result	Notes
1	South Korea Byun Chun-sa Choi Eun-kyung Jin Sun-yu Kang Yun-mi	4:18.854	QA
2	Italy Marta Capurso Arianna Fontana Katia Zini Mara Zini	4:19.797	QA
3	Celine Lecompere	4:20.030	QB
4	Germany Tina Grassow Aika Klein Yvonne Kunze Christin Priebst	DQ	QB

Finals

Two of the teams participating in Final A changed their teams between the semifinal and final rounds; Canada replaced Amanda Overland with Anouk Leblanc-Boucher and South Korea replaced Kang Yun-mi with Jeon Da-hye.^[2] China crossed the line in third place, but was disqualified when Wang Meng was adjudged to have interfered with a Canadian skater. This moved Italy up to the bronze medal position.^[3]

Final A

Rank	Athletes	Result
	South Korea Byun Chun-sa Choi Eun-kyung Jeon Da-hye Jin Sun-yu	4:17.040
	Canada Alanna Kraus Anouk Leblanc-Boucher Kalyna Roberge Tania Vicent	4:17.336
	Italy Marta Capurso Arianna Fontana Katia Zini Mara Zini	4:20.030
–	Yang Yang (A)	DQ

Final B

Rank	Athletes	Result
4	Hyo-jung Kim	4:18.740
5	Celine Lecompere	4:18.971
6	Germany Tina Grassow Aika Klein Yvonne Kunze Christin Priebst	4:24.896
7	Nobuka Yamada	4:35.096

References

^ "Short Track Speed Skating at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Women's 3,000 metres Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Torino 2006 Official Report - Short Track Speed Skating" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
^ Liu Yang (23 February 2006). "S.Korea wins women's 3,000m short track relay". Xinhuanet. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2009.

[SR-1] "Short Track Speed Skating at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Women's 3,000 metres Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2019.

[ShortTrackSpeedSkating-2] "Torino 2006 Official Report - Short Track Speed Skating" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009.

[3] Liu Yang (23 February 2006). "S.Korea wins women's 3,000m short track relay". Xinhuanet. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2009.

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Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m relay		women
5000 m relay	men
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