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Canadians Duff Gibson and Jeffrey Pain won gold and silver despite Pain
nearly losing control of his sled coming around the penultimate corner.
Switzerland's Gregor Stähli finished third, beating out Canadian Paul Boehm by
only two tenths of a second to prevent a Canadian sweep of the podium. Two-time world champion Maya Pedersen set the two fastest times to win the
gold medal, Switzerland's first gold of the games. Shelley Rudman won silver,
Great Britain's only medal of the games. Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards took
bronze for Canada, the first Olympic medal in skeleton won by a Canadian
athlete.
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Medal table
Pos.
Country
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1
Canada
1
1
1
3
2
Switzerland
1
0
1
2
3
Great Britain
0
1
0
1
Men's
Pos.
Athlete
Time
Time Behind
Gold
Duff Gibson
1:55.88
--
Silver
Jeff Pain
1:56.14
+0.26
Bronze
Gregor Stähli
1:56.80
+0.92
Women's
Pos.
Athlete
Time
Time Behind
Gold
Maya Pedersen-Bieri
1:59.83
--
Silver
Shelley Rudman
2:01.06
+1.23
Bronze
Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards
2:01.41
+1.58
2006 Winter Olympics
medal count
Pos
Country
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1
Germany
11
12
6
29
2
United States
9
9
7
25
3
Austria
9
7
7
23
4
Russia
8
6
8
22
5
Canada
7
10
7
24
6
Sweden
7
2
5
14
7
Korea
6
3
2
11
8
Switzerland
5
4
5
14
9
Italy
5
0
6
11
10
France
3
2
4
9
Netherlands
3
2
4
9
12
Estonia
3
0
0
3
13
Norway
2
8
9
19
14
China
2
4
5
11
15
Czech Republic
1
2
1
4
16
Croatia
1
2
0
3
17
Australia
1
0
1
2
18
Japan
1
0
0
1
19
Finland
0
6
3
9
20
Poland
0
1
1
2
21
Belarus
0
1
0
1
Bulgaria
0
1
0
1
Great Britain
0
1
0
1
Slovakia
0
1
0
1
25
Ukraine
0
0
2
2
26
Latvia
0
0
1
1
84
84
84
252
