Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
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 (in 2003) was won by Marit Bjørgen. Julija Tchepalova is defending Olympic champion. The most recent free style sprint event in the World Cup however was won by the Russian Alena Sidko at 30 December 2005.