New Zealand at the 2006 Winter Olympics

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics

2006 Winter Olympics

The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...

in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

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The nation sent its largest team ever to the games with 18 athletes, 7 more than in Salt Lake City in 2002. New Zealand has only won a single Winter Olympics medal, a silver medal in Albertville

1992 Winter Olympics

The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 8 to 23 February 1992 in Albertville, France. They were the last Winter Olympics to be held the same year as the Summer Olympics, and the first where the Winter Paralympics...

Alpine skiing

New Zealand's top finisher in alpine skiing, Mickey Ross, survived a fall in the first run of the men's slalom to record a 31st place finish.

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
Nicola Campbell	Women's giant slalom	Did not finish
Nicola Campbell	Women's slalom	45.90	50.92	n/a	1:36.82	35
Erika Mcleod	Women's giant slalom	Did not finish
Erika Mcleod	Women's slalom	47.96	52.61	n/a	1:40.57	40
Mickey Ross	Men's slalom	1:03.30	54.50	n/a	1:57.80	31

Bobsleigh

The New Zealand team did not compete in the four-man bobsleigh due to injuries from a training run.Mathew Dallow and Alan Henderson

Alan Henderson (bobsleigh pilot)

Alan Henderson is an English-born New Zealand bobsledder who competed from 1990 to 2006. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 23rd in the two-man event at Turin in 2006....

did compete in the two-man event, but did not qualify for the final run.

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Mathew Dallow Alan Henderson	Two-man Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Two-man The Men's two-man bobsleigh competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 18 and 19 February , at Cesana Pariol.-Records:...	56.61	56.79	57.46	Did not advance		23
Mathew Dallow Alan Henderson Aaron Orangi Angus Ross	Four-man Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Four-man The Four-man bobsleigh competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 24 and 25 February , at Cesana Pariol.-Records:...	Did not start

Curling

The New Zealand national men's team qualified for the games after placing 8th at the 2005 World Championships

2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship

-Draw 2:April 2, 18:30-Draw 3:April 3, 09:30-Draw 4:April 3, 14:00-Draw 5:April 3, 18:30-Draw 6:April 4, 09:00-Draw 7:April 4, 15:00-Draw 8:April 4, 19:30-Draw 9:April 5, 09:00...

. The team heading to Turin was skipped by Sean Becker, out of Ranfurly

Ranfurly, New Zealand

Ranfurly is the largest settlement in the Maniototo district of Otago, New Zealand. Located 110 kilometres north of Dunedin, it lies in dry rough country at a moderately high altitude close to a small tributary of the Taieri River. It is a service town for the local farming community...

CC. The New Zealand men's team is the first team from the southern hemisphere to compete in curling as an official sport at the Olympics. Australia had previously competed in curling at the Olympics, but that was as a demonstration sport.

Sean Becker's rink twice lost games late, including giving up two in the final end to fall to the eventual silver medalists from Finland. However, these were the only bright spots for the New Zealand side, which finished the round robin in last place, without a victory.

Men's

Team: Sean Becker

Sean Becker

Sean Peter Becker is a New Zealand curler.-Career:Becker was the skip for New Zealand teams which won three Pacific Curling Championships in 1998, 2003, and 2004. He also skipped for the New Zealand team in the 2004 and 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship, finishing in 8th place with a 5-6...

(skip), Hans Frauenlob, Dan Mustapic, Lorne Depape, Warren Dobson

Warren Dobson

Warren Dobson is a curler who was on the team for New Zealand at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He was on the teams that won the 2003 and 2004 Pacific Curling Championships.- References :...

(alternate)

Round Robin
Draw 1
;Draw 2
;Draw 3
;Draw 4
;Draw 6
;Draw 8
;Draw 10
;Draw 11
;Draw 12
Standings

Rank	Skip	Won	Lost
1	Markku Uusipaavalniemi Markku Uusipaavalniemi Markku Uusipaavalniemi is a Finnish curler and politician.-Personal life:Uusipaavalniemi lives in Hyvinkää with his wife and three children. His older brother Jussi taught him how to curl.-Curling career:...	7	2
2	Brad Gushue Brad Gushue Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL is a Canadian curler from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland...	6	3
3	Pete Fenson Pete Fenson Peter Fenson is an American curler, skip of the men's rink which represented the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The rink took the bronze medal, the first ever Olympic medal for the United States in curling...	6	3
4	David Murdoch David Murdoch David Murdoch is a Scottish curler from Lockerbie. Murdoch and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith were the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions.-Background:...	6	3
5	Pål Trulsen Pål Trulsen Pål Trulsen is a Norwegian curler from Hosle in Bærum, and was the 2002 Olympic curling men's champion....	5	4
6	Ralph Stockli Ralph Stöckli Ralph Stöckli is a Swiss curler from Lucerne.Stöckli began a successful curling career at the junior level, winning a bronze medal at the World Junior Curling Championships as an alternate in 1994. In 1996, he was the Swiss skip and they won a silver medal, losing to James Dryburgh of Scotland...	5	4
7	Joel Retornaz Joël Retornaz Joël Thierry Retornaz is an Italian curler. He was in 2006 the leader of the Italian men's curling team.Retornaz gained sudden notoriety in Italy in occasion of the 2006 Winter Olympics...	4	5
8	Peter Lindholm	3	6
9	Andy Kapp Andy Kapp Andreas "Andy" Kapp is a German curler from Unterthingau. After a number of unsuccessful tournaments at the Junior, Olympic and World Championship levels, Kapp surprised many by winning the 1992 European championship. The next year however, he finished only 7th, but at the 1994 World Championships...	3	6
10	Sean Becker Sean Becker Sean Peter Becker is a New Zealand curler.-Career:Becker was the skip for New Zealand teams which won three Pacific Curling Championships in 1998, 2003, and 2004. He also skipped for the New Zealand team in the 2004 and 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship, finishing in 8th place with a 5-6...	0	9

Skeleton

Skeleton provided New Zealand with its two best finishes in Turin, including its only top-10, from Ben Sandford. Sandford had the fifth fastest second run, but his slower first run left him in 10th place.

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Louise Corcoran Louise Corcoran Louise Corcoran is a New Zealand skeleton racer who has competed since 2000. She finished 12th in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin...	Women's Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's The women's skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February, at the Cesana Pariol.-Results: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...	1:01.06	1:02.03	2:03.09	12
Ben Sandford Ben Sandford Ben Sandford is a New Zealand skeleton racer who has competed since 2002. He finished tenth in the men's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin....	Men's Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's The men's skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the Cesana Pariol.-Results:Canadians Duff Gibson and Jeffrey Pain won gold and silver despite Pain nearly losing control of his sled coming around the penultimate corner...	59.16	58.60	1:57.76	10

Snowboarding

All three New Zealand snowboarders in Turin competed in the halfpipe, with Juliane Bray

Juliane Bray

Juliane Bray is a New Zealand snowboarder. She first gained notice in 2001 when she won a World Cup boarder-cross race in Japan. She represented New Zealand at the 2006 Winter Olympics by competing in snowcross and halfpipe. She represented New Zealand at the 2010 Winter Olympics and was selected...

being the closest to qualifying for the final, finishing 16th overall. Bray also entered the snowboard cross, but was unable to qualify for the knockout rounds.

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Qualifying Run 1		Qualifying Run 2		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Rank
Juliane Bray Juliane Bray Juliane Bray is a New Zealand snowboarder. She first gained notice in 2001 when she won a World Cup boarder-cross race in Japan. She represented New Zealand at the 2006 Winter Olympics by competing in snowcross and halfpipe. She represented New Zealand at the 2010 Winter Olympics and was selected...	Women's halfpipe	17.1	23	32.2	10	Did not advance		16
Kendall Brown Kendall Brown Kendall Brown, born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 15 August 1989, is a halfpipe snowboarder based in Wanaka, New Zealand. 16 years old, at the 2006 Winter Olympics she finished 25th and at the 2010 Winter Olympics she ended 15th, after dislocating her shoulder twice in the semi...	Women's halfpipe	22.9	18	22.4	18	Did not advance		24
Mitchell Brown	Men's halfpipe	16.3	33	28.3	19	Did not advance		25

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.

Snowboard Cross

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		1/8 Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
Juliane Bray Juliane Bray Juliane Bray is a New Zealand snowboarder. She first gained notice in 2001 when she won a World Cup boarder-cross race in Japan. She represented New Zealand at the 2006 Winter Olympics by competing in snowcross and halfpipe. She represented New Zealand at the 2010 Winter Olympics and was selected...	Women's snowboard cross Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's snowboard cross The women's snowboard cross event in snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Bardonecchia, a village in the Province of Turin, Italy. Competition took place on February 17, 2006.-Medalists:-Qualification:...	1:34.45	20	Did not advance				20

Flag bearer

Sean Becker, the captain of New Zealand's curling team, carried the flag for the New Zealand team in both the opening and closing ceremonies. There was some controversy about the later of these, as the position of closing ceremony flag bearer is usually reserved for the best-performed competitor from the country and the curling team had finished last in their competition.

Traditionally the New Zealand team flag bearer at an Olympic games wears a blessed Māori

Maori culture

Māori culture is the culture of the Māori of New Zealand, an Eastern Polynesian people, and forms a distinctive part of New Zealand culture. Within the Māori community, and to a lesser extent throughout New Zealand as a whole, the word Māoritanga is often used as an approximate synonym for Māori...

cloak called the Kotahu.

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