Sasha Cohen of the United States. She had been a favorite to win, and had a slim lead after the short program, but Sasha is notorious for never being able to skate a clean competition; she usually skates one program beautifully, and makes mistakes in the other, and she did so at the 2006 Olympics. She and Russia's Irina Slutskaya both made mistakes in their free skate, which allowed Shizuka Arakawa to come from third place to win Japan's first gold medal in women's figure skating.
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Current Olympic Champions
Men's: Evan Lysacek
Ladies: Kim Yu-Na
Pairs: Shen/Zhou
Ice Dance: Virtue/Moir
Current World Champions
Men's: Daisuke Takahashi
Ladies: Mao Asada
Pairs: Pang/Tong
Ice Dance: Virtue/Moir
The gold medal in Ladies Singles in the 2006 Winter Olympics was won by Shizuka Arakawa of Japan.