Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's sprint
The Women's sprint cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 22 February, at Pragelato.
Emilie Öhrstig was the defending World Champion, but she won in the classical style, and the last free style sprint in the World Championships was won by Marit Bjørgen. Yuliya Chepalova is defending Olympic champion. The most recent freestyle sprint event in the World Cup, however, was won by the Russian Alyona Sidko at 30 December 2005.
Results
Qualifying
Sixty-six skiers completed the 1.1 kilometre course in the qualifying portion of the event, with the top thirty advancing to the quarterfinals.| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Beckie Scott | 2:12.45 | Q | |
| 2 | Arianna Follis | 2:12.90 | Q | |
| 3 | Lina Andersson | 2:13.29 | Q | |
| 4 | Claudia Künzel | 2:13.64 | Q | |
| 5 | Alyona Sidko | 2:14.54 | Q | |
| 6 | Petra Majdič | 2:14.62 | Q | |
| 7 | Virpi Kuitunen | 2:14.83 | Q | |
| 8 | Chandra Crawford | 2:15.06 | Q | |
| 9 | Sara Renner | 2:15.37 | Q | |
| 10 | Kikkan Randall | 2:15.63 | Q | |
| 11 | Aino-Kaisa Saarinen | 2:15.75 | Q | |
| 12 | Anna Dahlberg | 2:15.91 | Q | |
| 13 | Ella Gjømle | 2:16.02 | Q | |
| 14 | Manuela Henkel | 2:16.04 | Q | |
| 15 | Madoka Natsumi | 2:16.30 | Q | |
| 16 | Viktoria Lopatina | 2:16.36 | Q | |
| 17 | Marit Bjørgen | 2:16.38 | Q | |
| 18 | Magda Genuin | 2:16.41 | Q | |
| 19 | Britta Norgren | 2:16.43 | Q | |
| 20 | Olga Rocheva | 2:16.43 | Q | |
| 21 | Emelie Öhrstig | 2:16.75 | Q | |
| 22 | Yuliya Chepalova | 2:16.90 | Q | |
| 23 | Hilde G. Pedersen | 2:17.17 | Q | |
| 24 | Kati Venäläinen | 2:17.29 | Q | |
| 25 | Natalya Matveyeva | 2:17.73 | Q | |
| 26 | Laurence Rochat | 2:17.73 | Q | |
| 27 | Alena Procházková | 2:17.75 | Q | |
| 28 | Nobuko Fukuda | 2:17.82 | Q | |
| 29 | Olga Vasiljonok | 2:18.12 | Q | |
| 30 | Stefanie Böhler | 2:18.14 | Q | |
| 31 | Nicole Fessel | 2:18.35 | ||
| 32 | Seraina Mischol | 2:18.83 | ||
| 33 | Barbara Moriggl | 2:19.12 | ||
| 34 | Aurélie Perrillat | 2:19.28 | ||
| 35 | Wendy Kay Wagner | 2:19.71 | ||
| 36 | Vita Jakimchuk | 2:19.92 | ||
| 37 | Irina Terentjeva | 2:20.08 | ||
| 38 | Elena Kolomina | 2:20.28 | ||
| 38 | Lindsey Williams | 2:20.28 | ||
| 40 | Vesna Fabjan | 2:20.34 | ||
| 41 | Tatjana Mannima | 2:20.44 | ||
| 42 | Elina Hietamäki | 2:20.49 | ||
| 43 | Marina Malets-Lisogor | 2:20.79 | ||
| 44 | Justyna Kowalczyk | 2:21.19 | ||
| 45 | Natalya Issachenko | 2:21.22 | ||
| 46 | Oxana Jatskaja | 2:22.12 | ||
| 47 | Émilie Vina | 2:22.42 | ||
| 48 | Kaili Sirge | 2:22.42 | ||
| 49 | Amanda Ammar | 2:22.78 | ||
| 50 | Eva Nývltová | 2:22.86 | ||
| 51 | Ekaterina Rudakova Bulauka | 2:23.19 | ||
| 52 | Esther Bottomley | 2:23.55 | ||
| 53 | Katarína Garajová | 2:23.98 | ||
| 54 | Piret Pormeister | 2:24.67 | ||
| 55 | Élodie Bourgeois Pin | 2:24.77 | ||
| 56 | Man Dandan | 2:25.16 | ||
| 57 | Song Bo | 2:27.07 | ||
| 58 | Maja Kezele | 2:27.16 | ||
| 59 | Mónika György | 2:27.53 | ||
| 60 | Daria Starostina | 2:27.58 | ||
| 61 | Jia Yuping | 2:30.03 | ||
| 62 | Elena Gorohova | 2:31.61 | ||
| 63 | Kelime Aydin | 2:33.33 | ||
| 64 | Lee Chae-won | 2:35.47 | ||
| 65 | Liu Liming | 2:35.76 | ||
| 66 | Panagiota Tsakiri | 2:43.28 |
Quarterfinals
There were five quarterfinal races, each with six skiers. The top two in each heat advanced to the semifinals.;Quarterfinal 1
| Rank | Seed | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | 2:16.6 | Q | |
| 2 | 10 | 2:17.8 | Q | |
| 3 | 20 | 2:18.4 | ||
| 4 | 30 | 2:18.5 | ||
| 5 | 21 | 2:19.9 | ||
| 6 | 11 | 2:20.7 |
;Quarterfinal 2
| Rank | Seed | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 2:15.5 | Q | |
| 2 | 7 | 2:16.2 | Q | |
| 3 | 14 | 2:16.4 | ||
| 4 | 17 | 2:16.8 | ||
| 5 | 27 | 2:17.9 | ||
| 6 | 24 | 2:18.1 |
;Quarterfinal 3
| Rank | Seed | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 2:17.7 | Q | |
| 2 | 6 | 2:17.7 | Q | |
| 3 | 26 | 2:18.9 | ||
| 4 | 15 | 2:19.9 | ||
| 5 | 16 | 2:24.8 | ||
| 6 | 25 | 2:31.4 |
;Quarterfinal 4
| Rank | Seed | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 12 | 2:14.3 | Q | |
| 2 | 2 | 2:14.7 | Q | |
| 3 | 19 | 2:15.0 | ||
| 4 | 9 | 2:15.6 | ||
| 5 | 29 | 2:16.6 | ||
| 6 | 22 | 2:16.6 |
;Quarterfinal 5
| Rank | Seed | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 2:14.2 | Q | |
| 2 | 13 | 2:15.7 | Q | |
| 3 | 3 | 2:16.0 | ||
| 4 | 18 | 2:17.9 | ||
| 5 | 28 | 2:18.2 | ||
| 6 | 23 | 2:19.1 |
Semifinals
There were two semifinal races, each with five skiers. The top two in each semifinal advanced to the A Final, to compete for the top four places, while the third and fourth-placed finishers advanced to the B Final, for places five through eight.;Semifinal 1
| Rank | Seed | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 2:15.5 | Q | |
| 2 | 1 | 2:15.8 | Q | |
| 3 | 7 | 2:16.3 | ||
| 4 | 6 | 2:18.7 | ||
| 5 | 10 | 2:19.1 |
;Semifinal 2
| Rank | Seed | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 2:13.4 | Q | |
| 2 | 5 | 2:15.1 | Q | |
| 3 | 2 | 2:16.2 | ||
| 4 | 13 | 2:16.4 | ||
| 5 | 12 | 2:18.9 |
Finals
finished 0.7 seconds ahead of Claudia Künzel to win the Olympic gold medal in the women's cross-country sprint.;Final A
| Rank | Seed | Athlete | Result |
| 8 | 2:12.3 | ||
| 4 | 2:13.0 | ||
| 5 | 2:13.2 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 2:14.7 |
;Final B
| Rank | Seed | Athlete | Result |
| 5 | 7 | 2:18.1 | |
| 6 | 13 | 2:18.2 | |
| 7 | 2 | 2:20.3 | |
| 8 | 6 | 2:21.5 |