Best Male Inline/Roller: (232 votes) - The Nominees
In this category, Mantia finally won followed by Roger Schneider of Swiss and Kalon Dobbin of New Zealand.

Joey Mantia (USA) - luigino // World Championshops: Silver 1000m track + Gold 15km track + Gold 10km road + Gold 20km road + Gold 42km road

Joey Mantia	40.95 % (95)
Roger Schneider	37.07 % (86)
Kalon Dobbin	17.24 % (40)
Massi Presti	2.16 % (5)
Diego Rosero	1.72 % (4)
Luca Saggiorato	0.86 % (2)

Best Female Inline/Roller: (146 votes) - The Nominees
This category is probably the one with the votes most shared. It is finally Nicole Begg from New Zealand who won in front of the Colombian Cecilia Baena and Argentina Andrea Haritchelhar.

Nicole Begg (NZ) - salomon smartskate // WIC : 2nd overall // SIC Winner // World Championships : Bronze 1000m track + Gold 10k track + Silver 42km road

Nicole Begg	31.51 % (46)
Cecilia Baena	30.14 % (44)
Andrea Haritchelhar	23.29 % (34)
Angèle Vaudan	12.33 % (18)
Nathalie Barbotin	2.74 % (4)

Best Male Long Track: (216 votes) - The Nominees
In this category, we remarked the presence of three american, two dutch and one italian. Two athletes dissociated themselves collecting together more than 65% of the votes. Shani Davis, winner of the world allround championships won the 2006 Speed-Skating.Net award in front of world sprint champion Joey Cheek. Chad Hedrick and Enrico Fabris came equally in third position






Shani Davis (USA) // Gold 1000m and Silver 1500m at Torino Olympics + three gold (1000m), one silver (1500m) and one bronze (1500m) at 2006 world cups + current world record older of 1000m, 1500m and Allround men + Gold at World Allround Championships

Shani Davis	40.28 % (87)
Joey Cheek	26.85 % (58)
Enrico Fabris	10.19 % (22)
Chad Hedrick	10.19 % (22)
Erben Wennemars	6.94 % (15)
Sven Kramer	5.56 % (12)

Best Female Long Track: (153 votes) - The Nominees
Without surprise, Cindy Klassen clearly dominated the poll collecting more than 65% of the votes. Dutch Marianne Timmer and German Anni Friesinger complete the top 3.






Cindy Klassen (CAN) // Gold 1500m, Silver 1000m, Bronze 3000m and 5000m at Torino Olympics + Gold 3000m, Bronze 1500m at 2006 world cups + Gold at World Allround Championships + Current world record older of 1000m, 1500m, 3000m, Sprint, Small Allround and Allround

Cindy Klassen	66.01 % (101)
Marianne Timmer	11.76 % (18)
Anni Friesinger	11.11 % (17)
Ireen Wüst	6.54 % (10)
Svetlana Zhurova	2.61 % (4)
Claudia Pechstein	1.96 % (3)

Best Male Short Track: (265 votes) - The Nominees
Perhaps Apolo Anton Ohno did not have the best results this year, but he clearly has the biggest fan club out there! Apolo won the award in front of Korean Hyun-Soo Ahn and Canadian Charles Hamelin.








Apolo Anton Ohno (USA) // Gold 500m, Bronze 1500m, Bronze 5000m Relay at Torino Olympics

Apolo Anton Ohno	55.47 % (147)
Hyun-Soo Ahn	24.91 % (66)
Charles Hamelin	9.06 % (24)
François-Louis Tremblay	8.68 % (23)
Ho-Suk Lee	1.89 % (5)

Best Female Short Track: (150 votes) - The Nominees
Kalyna did not win any individual medal at Torino games but she demonstrated her enormous talent in recent world cups grabbing two gold and one silver and performing an incredible jump in 3000m Relay Final to avoid crash and win the race. Furthermore, Roberge is still very young and should be a strong contender in following world cups, and Olympics. Korean Sun-Yu Jin and Chinese Meng Wang complete the top 3.







Kalyna Roberge (CAN) // Silver 3000m Relay at Torino Olympics + Gold and Silver 500m, Gold 1000m at 2006 world cups

Kalyna Roberge	63.33 % (95)
Sun-Yu Jin	16.67 % (25)
Meng Wang	10.67 % (16)
Eun-Kyung Choi	9.33 % (14)

Photo: 2006 Speed-Skating.Net Awards Trophee
Credit: Speed-Skating.Net