Day 6

Day five of the Olympics brought us a surprising result in men’s ice hockey: the United States, a team favored to win a medal, only tied Latvia, a team not considered one of the best in the field. Also, Apolo Anton Ohno safely moved on to the medal final in short track’s 5000m relay. Here are the results for today’s medal events:

Biathlon
Women’s 7.5km Sprint
Gold Florence Baverel-Robert (France)
Silver Anna Carin Olofsson (Sweden)
Bronze Lilia Efremova (Ukraine)

Cross-Country Skiing
Women’s 10km Classical
Gold Kristina Smigun (Estonia)
Silver Marit Bjorgen (Norway)
Bronze Hilde G. Pedersen (Norway)

Figure Skating
Men’s
Gold Yevgeny Plushenko (Russia)
Silver Stephane Lambiel (Switzerland)
Bronze Jeffrey Buttle (Canada)

Nordic Combined
Team
Gold Michael Gruber, Mario Stecher, Felix Gottwald & Christoph Bieler (Austria)
Silver Jens Gaiser, Bjoern Kircheisen, Ronny Ackerman & Georg Hettich (Germany)
Bronze Anssi Koivuranta, Antii Kuisma, Hannu Manninen & Jaakko Tallus (Finland)

Skeleton
Women’s
Gold Maya Pedersen (Switzerland)
Silver Shelley Rudman (Great Britain)
Bronze Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards (Canada)

Snowboarding
Men’s Snowboard Cross
Gold Seth Wescott (United States)
Silver Radoslav Zidek (Slovakia)
Bronze Paul-Henri Delerue (France)

Speed Skating
Women’s Team Pursuit
Gold Daniela Anschuetz Thoms, Anni Friesinger, Lucille Opitz, Claudia Pechstein & Sabine Voelker (Germany)
Silver Kristina Groves, Clara Hughes, Cindy Klassen, Christine Nesbitt & Shannon Rempel(Canada)
Bronze Yekaterina Abramova, Varvara Barysheva, Galina Likhachova, Yekaterina Lobysheva, Svetlana Vysokova & Valentina Yakshina (Russia)

Speed Skating
Men’s Team Pursuit
Gold Matteo Anesi, Stefano Donagrandi, Enrico Fabris, Ermanno Ioriatti & Ippolito Sanfratello (Italy)
Silver Arne Dankers, Steven Elm, Denny Morrison, Jason Parker & Justin Warsylewicz (Canada)
Bronze Bob de Jong, Stefan Groothuis, Sven Kramer, Simon Kuipers, Rintje Ritsma, Mark Tuitert, Carl Verheijen & Erben Wennemars (Netherlands)

In addition, here are revised results based on Russia’s Olga Pyleva being suspended due to a doping violation.

Biathlon
Women’s 15km Individual
Gold Svetlana Ishmouratova (Russia)
Silver Martina Glagow (Germany)
Bronze Albina Akhatova (Russia)

And here are the medal standings, by country, and the end of day six.

Norway
13 medals total
1 Gold
6 Silver
6 Bronze




Russia
11 medals total
5 Gold
2 Silver
4 Bronze




Germany
10 medals total
5 Gold
4 Silver
1 Bronze




United States
9 medals total
6 Gold
2 Silver
1 Bronze




Canada
8 medals total
1 Gold
3 Silver
4 Bronze




Austria
6 medals total
3 Gold
2 Silver
1 Bronze




China
6 medals total
1 Gold
2 Silver
3 Bronze




Italy
5 medal total
2 Gold
0 Silver
3 Bronze




Finland
5 medals total
0 Gold
2 Silver
3 Bronze




Sweden
4 medals total
2 Gold
1 Silver
1 Bronze




France
4 medals total
2 Gold
0 Silver
2 Bronze




Netherlands
4 medals total
1 Gold
2 Silver
1 Bronze




Switzerland
4 medals total
1 Gold
2 Silver
1 Bronze







South Korea
3 medals total
1 Gold
1 Silver
1 Bronze




Estonia
2 medal total
2 Gold
0 Silver
0 Bronze




Australia
1 medal total
1 Gold
0 Silver
0 Bronze


Bulgaria
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze




Croatia
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze




Czech Republic
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze




Great Britain
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze


Slovakia
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze




Latvia
1 medal total
0 Gold
0 Silver
1 Bronze


Ukraine
1 medal total
0 Gold
0 Silver
1 Bronze