Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom

Women's giant slalom at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing
Venue	Sestriere
Date	February 24
Competitors	65 from 38 nations
Winning time	2:09.19
Medalists
Julia Mancuso   United States   Tanja Poutiainen   Finland   Anna Ottosson   Sweden

Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Combined		men		women
Downhill		men		women
Giant slalom		men		women
Slalom		men		women
Super-G		men		women

The last event of the women's alpine skiing, the giant slalom, took place on Friday, 24 February. Kostelić was a favourite once again, as she was defending Olympic champion, but Swede Anja Pärson led the World Cup and was defending World Champion of the event. Kostelić was second in the World Cup standing, however, while Austrian Kathrin Zettel was third.

Results

Complete results from the Women's Giant Slalom event at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Rank	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Time	Difference
	Julia Mancuso	United States	1:00.89	1:08.30	2:09.19
	Tanja Poutiainen	Finland	1:01.21	1:08.65	2:09.86	+0.67
	Anna Ottosson	Sweden	1:02.04	1:08.29	2:10.33	+1.14
4	Nicole Hosp	Austria	1:01.26	1:09.40	2:10.66	+1.47
5	Geneviève Simard	Canada	1:01.47	1:09.26	2:10.73	+1.54
6	Anja Pärson	Sweden	1:01.07	1:09.89	2:10.96	+1.77
7	Kathrin Zettel	Austria	1:01.95	1:09.40	2:11.35	+2.16
8	Nadia Fanchini	Italy	1:01.77	1:09.69	2:11.46	+2.27
9	Ana Drev	Slovenia	1:02.45	1:09.22	2:11.67	+2.48
10	Maria Pietilä-Holmner	Sweden	1:02.00	1:09.69	2:11.69	+2.50
11	Brigitte Acton	Canada	1:02.07	1:09.64	2:11.71	+2.52
12	Tina Maze	Slovenia	1:01.97	1:09.86	2:11.83	+2.64
13	María José Rienda Contreras	Spain	1:02.28	1:09.85	2:12.13	+2.94
14	Karen Putzer	Italy	1:02.46	1:10.01	2:12.47	+3.28
15	Martina Ertl-Renz	Germany	1:01.44	1:11.10	2:12.54	+3.35
16	Fränzi Aufdenblatten	Switzerland	1:03.46	1:09.16	2:12.62	+3.43
17	Marlies Schild	Austria	1:02.68	1:10.59	2:13.27	+4.08
18	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby	Sweden	1:02.12	1:11.24	2:13.36	+4.17
19	Nika Fleiss	Croatia	1:03.27	1:10.16	2:13.43	+4.24
20	Carolina Ruiz Castillo	Spain	1:03.18	1:10.36	2:13.54	+4.35
21	Ingrid Jacquemod	France	1:02.56	1:11.49	2:14.05	+4.86
22	Chemmy Alcott	Great Britain	1:04.47	1:09.95	2:14.42	+5.23
23	Stacey Cook	United States	1:03.35	1:11.09	2:14.44	+5.25
24	Nadia Styger	Switzerland	1:01.87	1:12.58	2:14.45	+5.26
25	Dagmara Krzyżyńska	Poland	1:03.86	1:12.05	2:15.91	+6.72
26	Noriyo Hiroi	Japan	1:04.63	1:12.03	2:16.66	+7.47
27	Petra Zakouřilová	Czech Republic	1:03.93	1:13.07	2:17.00	+7.81
28	Eva Hučková	Slovakia	1:05.24	1:13.07	2:18.31	+9.12
29	Soňa Maculová	Slovakia	1:05.77	1:12.84	2:18.61	+9.42
30	Jelena Lolović	Serbia and Montenegro	1:05.00	1:13.84	2:18.84	+9.65
31	Macarena Simari Birkner	Argentina	1:05.81	1:13.62	2:19.43	+10.24
32	Kirsten McGarry	Ireland	1:08.19	1:14.68	2:22.87	+13.68
33	Jae Eun Oh	South Korea	1:08.22	1:16.25	2:24.47	+15.28
34	Tiiu Nurmberg	Estonia	1:08.39	1:16.70	2:25.09	+15.90
35	Yulia Siparenko	Ukraine	1:10.43	1:15.50	2:25.93	+16.74
36	Vera Eremenko	Kazakhstan	1:10.32	1:19.43	2:29.75	+20.56
37	Duygu Ulusoy	Turkey	1:11.43	1:19.38	2:30.81	+21.62
38	Jinzhi Dong	China	1:11.61	1:24.11	2:35.72	+26.53
39	Magdalini Kalomirou	Greece	1:15.28	1:21.17	2:36.45	+27.26
40	Ivana Ivcevska	Macedonia	1:13.89	1:23.47	2:37.36	+28.17
41	Réka Tuss	Hungary	1:16.12	1:23.70	2:39.82	+30.63
42	Neha Ahuja	India	1:15.59	1:25.72	2:41.31	+32.12
43	Mirella Arnhold	Brazil	1:20.17	1:29.00	2:49.17	+39.98
	Michaela Kirchgasser	Austria	1:02.22	DNF
	Denise Karbon	Italy	1:02.90	DNF
	Sarah Schleper	United States	1:02.01	DNF
	Annemarie Gerg	Germany	1:03.04	DNF
	Šárka Záhrobská	Czech Republic	1:03.61	DNF
	Ana Jelušić	Croatia	1:05.19	DNF
	Lucie Hrstková	Czech Republic	1:03.21	DNF
	Chirine Njeim	Lebanon	1:06.80	DNF
	Matea Ferk	Croatia	1:06.67	DNF
	Jana Gantnerová	Slovakia	1:06.73	DNF
	Bianca-Andreea Narea	Romania	1:10.89	DNF
	Janica Kostelić	Croatia	DNS
	Lindsey Kildow	United States	DNS
	Mojca Rataj	Bosnia and Herzegovina	DNS
	Manuela Mölgg	Italy	DNF
	Christina Lustenberger	Canada	DNF
	María Belén Simari Birkner	Argentina	DNF
	Alexandra Coletti	Monaco	DNF
	Nicola Campbell	New Zealand	DNF
	Dagný L. Kristjánsdóttir	Iceland	DNF
	Erika McLeod	New Zealand	DNF
	Olesya Alieva	Russia	DSQ

References

• Official Olympic Report