February 2006 in Sports - 25 February 2006 (Saturday)

25 February 2006 (Saturday)

• XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day fifteen:
  • Speed skating:
    • Clara Hughes of Canada sets the winning times at 6:59.07 for the gold medal in the 5000m event. German Claudia Pechstein skates to a silver medal. Cindy Klassen, also from Canada, gets the bronze, her fifth medal at these Games. (CBC)
  • Biathlon:
    • Anna Carin Olofsson of Sweden wins the women's 12.5-km free gold with Kati Wilhelm of Germany taking the silver and her compatriot Uschi Disl capturing the bronze. (CBC)
    • Michael Greis of Germany win the men's 15-km freestyle to capture his third gold medal in Turin. Tomasz Sikora of Poland wins the silver and Ole Einar Bjørndalen the bronze. (CBC)
  • Short track speed skating:
    • American Apolo Anton Ohno wins the men's 500m, earning his second career gold medal. Canada's François-Louis Tremblay wins the silver, while Ahn Hyun-Soo of South Korea is denied of his third individual gold medal of the Olympics, settling for the bronze and his third career Olympic medal. (Reuters), (CBC)
    • South Korea's Jin Sun-Yu wins her third gold of the Games in the women's 1000m. Chinese women Wang Meng and Yang Yang take the silver and bronze respectively. (CBC)
    • South Korea wins the gold medal in the men's 5000m relay. Ahn wins his third gold medal of the Games, bringing his total number of medal in Turin to four. Canada takes the silver, while the United States gets bronze. (CBC)
  • Alpine skiing:
    • The Austrian team takes all three medals in the men's slalom: Gold for Benjamin Raich, silver for Reinfried Herbst, bronze for Rainer Schönfelder. (CBC)
  • Ice hockey: men's bronze medal game
    • Czech Republic 3 — Russia 0 (CBC)
  • Bobsleigh:
    • The German bob driven by André Lange wins gold in the 4-man event 0.13 seconds ahead of the Russian bob driven by Alexandre Zoubkov and 0.41 seconds ahead of Martin Annen's Swiss sleigh. Pierre Lueders pilots his Canada 1 sleigh to a fourth-place finish, missing the podium by 0.09 seconds. (CBC)
• Lacrosse:
  • 2006 NLL All Star Game
    • West Division All Star Team 14–13 East Division All Star Team
• Rugby union:
  • 2006 Six Nations – Round 3
    • France 37–12 Italy
      • The scoreline flatters an error-riddled France team, which had to come back from a 12–8 halftime deficit in front of their home fans.
    • Scotland 18–12 England
      • In a tight match which saw no tries by either side, Chris Paterson's five penalties lead the Scots to a win over their Auld Enemy, claiming the Calcutta Cup for the first time since 2000 and sending the Murrayfield crowd home delirious.
  • 2006 Super 14 – Round 3.
    • Crusaders defeat Sharks (1 BP) 22–20 in Timaru
      • The Crusaders got home in a tight match with a Daniel Carter drop goal with six and a half minutes remaining. The Sharks led most of the game before this, with Percy Montgomery intercepting a Carter pass early in the match. The overall officiating of the match was poor, with two Crusaders tries disallowed when television replays proved differently.
    • Reds (1 BP) loss to Blues 20–21 in Brisbane
      • The Blues held on to a one point win late in the game. The win was the first for the Blues this season while the Reds are 13th on the table (out of 14) on two points. The Reds are yet to win a game.
• Cricket: West Indies in New Zealand
  • Game Three in the Five match One Day International series.
    • New Zealand defeat the West Indies by 21 runs in Christchurch and win the series.
      • New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat, with some late hitting by Nathan Astle bringing his score up to 118 not out and New Zealand to 276–6 with three sixes of the last three balls of the innings. Ian Bradshaw was the pick of the West Indian bowlers, with 3–41 off 8 overs. In reply the West Indies were all out at the end of 49 overs. Astle was named Man of the Match. Cricinfo
• NCAA College Basketball:
  • Men's:
    • Duke player J. J. Redick breaks the Atlantic Coast Conference career scoring record that was previously held by Dickie Hemric and has stood since 1955. Scoring 11 points against Temple, Redick upped his career total to 2,590 points, surpassing Hemric's record of 2,587.
  • Women's:
    • (2) North Carolina 77, (1) Duke 65: Ivory Latta scores 18 points, and Erlana Larkins and La'Tangela Atkinson both rack up double-doubles, as the Tar Heels score their fifth consecutive win over the Blue Devils, likely returning them to #1 in the polls. This was the first advance sellout ever for the women's team at Carmichael Auditorium.