2006 European Athletics Championships

19th European Athletics Championships
Dates	7 August – 13 August
Host city	Gothenburg, Sweden
Venue	Ullevi Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	47 (men: 24; women: 23)
Participation	1,288 athletes from 48 nations
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The 19th European Athletics Championships were held in Gothenburg, Sweden, between 7 August and 13 August 2006. The competition arena was the Ullevi Stadium and the official motto "Catch the Spirit". Gothenburg also hosted the 1995 World Championships in Athletics, and Stockholm, Sweden's capital, hosted 1958 European Athletics Championships.

Men's results

Track

1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Francis Obikwelu   Portugal	9.99 CR	Andrey Yepishin   Russia	10.10 NR	Matic Osovnikar   Slovenia	10.14 NR
200 m details	Francis Obikwelu   Portugal	20.01 NR	Johan Wissman   Sweden	20.38 NR	Marlon Devonish   Great Britain	20.54
400 m details	Marc Raquil   France	45.02	Vladislav Frolov   Russia	45.09 PB	Leslie Djhone   France	45.40
800 m details	Bram Som   Netherlands	1:46.56	David Fiegen   Luxembourg	1:46.59	Sam Ellis   Great Britain	1:46.64
1500 m details	Mehdi Baala   France	3:39.02	Ivan Heshko   Ukraine	3:39.50	Juan Carlos Higuero   Spain	3:39.62
5000 m details	Jesús España   Spain	13:44.70	Mo Farah   Great Britain	13:44.79	Juan Carlos Higuero   Spain	13:46.48
10,000 m details	Jan Fitschen   Germany	28:10.94 PB	José Manuel Martínez   Spain	28:12.06 SB	Juan Carlos de la Ossa   Spain	28:13.73
Marathon details	Stefano Baldini   Italy	2:11:32	Viktor Röthlin    Switzerland	2:11:50	Julio Rey   Spain	2:12:37
110 metres hurdles details	Staņislavs Olijars   Latvia	13.24	Thomas Blaschek   Germany	13.46	Andy Turner   Great Britain	13.56
400 metres hurdles details	Periklis Iakovakis   Greece	48.46	Marek Plawgo   Poland	48.71 SB	Rhys Williams   Great Britain	49.12
3000 metres steeplechase details	Jukka Keskisalo   Finland	8:24.89	José Luis Blanco   Spain	8:26.22	Bouabdellah Tahri   France	8:27.15
20 kilometres walk details	Paquillo Fernández   Spain	1:19:09	Valeriy Borchin   Russia	1:20:00	João Vieira   Portugal	1:20:09 NR
50 kilometres walk details	Yohann Diniz   France	3:41:39 PB	Jesús Ángel García   Spain	3:42:48 SB	Yuriy Andronov   Russia	3:43:26
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain Dwain Chambers Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Mark Lewis-Francis	38.91	Poland Przemysław Rogowski Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Dariusz Kuć	39.05	France Oudéré Kankarafou Ronald Pognon Fabrice Calligny David Alerte	39.07
4 × 400 metres relay details	France Leslie Djhone Idrissa M'Barke Naman Keïta Marc Raquil	3:01.10	Great Britain Robert Tobin Rhys Williams Graham Hedman Tim Benjamin	3:01.63	Poland Daniel Dąbrowski Piotr Kędzia Piotr Rysiukiewicz Rafał Wieruszewski	3:01.73
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Andrey Silnov   Russia	2.36 CR WL	Tomáš Janků   Czech Republic	2.34 PB	Stefan Holm   Sweden	2.34 SB
Long jump details	Andrew Howe   Italy	8.20	Greg Rutherford   Great Britain	8.13	Olexiy Lukashevych   Ukraine	8.12
Pole vault details	Aleksandr Averbukh   Israel	5.70	Tim Lobinger   Germany Romain Mesnil   France	5.65
Triple jump details	Christian Olsson   Sweden	17.67 EL	Nathan Douglas   Great Britain	17.21	Marian Oprea   Romania	17.18
Shot put [1] details	Ralf Bartels   Germany	21.13	Joachim Olsen   Denmark	21.09	Rutger Smith   Netherlands	20.90
Discus throw details	Virgilijus Alekna   Lithuania	68.67	Gerd Kanter   Estonia	68.03	Aleksander Tammert   Estonia	66.14
Javelin throw details	Andreas Thorkildsen   Norway	88.78	Tero Pitkämäki   Finland	86.44	Jan Železný   Czech Republic	85.92
Hammer throw [2] details	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen   Finland	80.84 SB	Vadim Devyatovskiy   Belarus	80.76	Markus Esser   Germany	79.19
Decathlon details	Roman Šebrle   Czech Republic	8526 SB	Attila Zsivoczky   Hungary	8356	Aleksey Drozdov   Russia	8350 PB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results

Track

1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Kim Gevaert   Belgium	11.06	Yekaterina Grigoryeva   Russia	11.22 (SB)	Irina Khabarova   Russia	11.22
200 metres details	Kim Gevaert   Belgium	22.68	Yuliya Gushchina   Russia	22.93	Natalya Rusakova   Russia	23.09
400 metres details	Vanya Stambolova   Bulgaria	49.85	Tatyana Veshkurova   Russia	50.15	Olga Zaytseva   Russia	50.28
800 metres details	Olga Kotlyarova   Russia	1:57.38	Svetlana Klyuka   Russia	1:57.48	Rebecca Lyne   Great Britain	1:58.45
1500 metres details	Tatyana Tomashova   Russia	3:56.91 (CR)	Yuliya Chizhenko   Russia	3:57.61	Daniela Yordanova   Bulgaria	3:59.37 (SB)
5000 metres details	Marta Domínguez   Spain	14:56.18 (CR)	Liliya Shobukhova   Russia	14:56.57 (SB)	Elvan Abeylegesse   Turkey	14:59.29 (SB)
10,000 metres details	Inga Abitova   Russia	30:31.42	Susanne Wigene   Norway	30:32.36	Lidiya Grigoryeva   Russia	30:32.72
Marathon details	Ulrike Maisch   Germany	2:30:01 (PB)	Olivera Jevtić   Serbia	2:30:27	Irina Permitina   Russia	2:30:53
100 metres hurdles details	Susanna Kallur   Sweden	12.59	Derval O'Rourke Ireland Kirsten Bolm   Germany	12.72 (NR Ireland)
400 metres hurdles details	Yevgeniya Isakova   Russia	53.93 (PB)	Fani Chalkia   Greece	54.02	Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova   Ukraine	54.55
3000 metres steeplechase details	Alesia Turava   Belarus	9:26.05 (SB)	Tatyana Petrova   Russia	9:28.05	Wioletta Janowska   Poland	9:31.62
20 kilometres walk details	Ryta Turava   Belarus	1:27:08	Olga Kaniskina   Russia	1:28:35	Elisa Rigaudo   Italy	1:28:37
4 × 100 metres relay details	Russia Yuliya Gushchina Natalya Rusakova Irina Khabarova Yekaterina Grigoryeva	42.71	Great Britain Anyika Onuora Emma Ania Emily Freeman Joice Maduaka	43.51	Belarus Yulia Nestsiarenka Natallia Safronnikava Alena Neumiarzhitskaya Aksana Drahun	43.61
4 × 400 metres relay details	Russia Svetlana Pospelova Natalya Ivanova Olga Zaytseva Tatyana Veshkurova	3:25.12	Belarus Yulyana Zhalniaruk Sviatlana Usovich Anna Kozak Ilona Usovich	3:27.69	Poland Monika Bejnar Grażyna Prokopek Ewelina Sętowska Anna Jesień	3:27.77
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Tia Hellebaut   Belgium	2.03 (CR/NR)	Venelina Veneva   Bulgaria	2.03 (CR)	Kajsa Bergqvist   Sweden	2.01
Pole vault details	Yelena Isinbayeva   Russia	4.80 (CR)	Monika Pyrek   Poland	4.65	Tatyana Polnova   Russia	4.65 (SB)
Long jump details	Lyudmila Kolchanova   Russia	6.93	Naide Gomes   Portugal	6.84	Oksana Udmurtova   Russia	6.69
Triple jump details	Tatyana Lebedeva   Russia	15.15	Hrysopiyi Devetzi   Greece	15.05	Anna Pyatykh   Russia	15.02
Shot put [3] details	Natallia Kharaneka   Belarus	19.43	Petra Lammert   Germany	19.17	Olga Ryabinkina   Russia	19.02
Discus throw details	Darya Pishchalnikova   Russia	65.55 (PB)	Franka Dietzsch   Germany	64.35	Nicoleta Grasu   Romania	63.58
Hammer throw details	Tatyana Lysenko   Russia	76.67 (CR)	Gulfiya Khanafeyeva   Russia	74.50	Kamila Skolimowska   Poland	72.58
Javelin throw details	Steffi Nerius   Germany	65.82 (SB)	Barbora Špotáková   Czech Republic	65.64	Mercedes Chilla   Spain	61.98 (SB)
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft   Sweden	6740 (CR)	Karin Ruckstuhl   Netherlands	6423 (NR)	Lilli Schwarzkopf   Germany	6420 (PB)
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	12	12	11	35
2	Germany	4	5	2	11
3	France	4	1	3	8
4	Spain	3	3	5	11
5	Belarus	3	2	1	6
6	Sweden	3	1	2	6
7	Belgium	3	0	0	3
8	Portugal	2	1	1	4
9	Finland	2	1	0	3
10	Italy	2	0	1	3
11	Great Britain	1	5	5	11
12	Czech Republic	1	2	1	4
13	Greece	1	2	0	3
14	Bulgaria	1	1	1	3
	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
16	Norway	1	1	0	2
17	Israel	1	0	0	1
	Latvia	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
20	Poland	0	3	4	7
21	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
22	Estonia	0	1	1	2
23	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Luxembourg	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
29	Romania	0	0	2	2
30	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 entries)		47	49	45	141

Participants

Albania Andorra Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia & Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia

Germany Gibraltar Great Britain and Northern Ireland Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg F.Y.R Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco

Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine

Trivia

• The official song of the contest is Heroes by Helena Paparizou - winner Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with song „My number one" in Kyiv, Ukraine. Song „Heroes" used in opening ceremony (performed by Helena Paparizou and in an instrumental form during an artistic and pyrotechnic show) and tv intro that event make by public broadcaster SVT. The intro of the event, prepared by the Swedish public broadcaster, presented ice cubes with the logo of the organizing broadcaster, the names of the participating countries and a map of Europe with a focus on the locations of the city of Gothenburg. The dice appeared on the background of athletic competitors and the background itself was gray. The following part presents the organizing city, its inhabitants and the arena of the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. At the end of the intro, the event logo was formed. The musical setting of the intro was a melody from the official anthem of the event, recorded as an instrumental.
• The BBC have chosen to use Carola Häggkvist's 2006 Eurovision Song Contest entry Invincible in instrumental form as the title music for their coverage. They have also used various pop songs including Lena Philipsson's "Lena Anthem" and Lev livet by Magnus Carlsson also in instrumental form.
• Merlene Ottey, at the age of 46 and representing Slovenia, is fifth in the 100 m semifinals, failing to qualify for the finals.
• Olivera Jevtić won Serbia's first athletics medal as an independent country, a silver in women's marathon.

References

1. Andrei Mikhnevich had originally won the silver medal but all his results from August 2005 were annulled due to a doping offense. "Andrei MIKHNEVICH (BLR) – results annulled from August 2005". IAAF. 31 July 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
2. Ivan Tsikhan had originally won the gold medal but later tested for doping and all his results between 22 August 2004 and 21 August 2006 were annulled. "Revision of results following sanctions of Tsikhan and Ostapchuk". IAAF. 27 April 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
3. Nadzeya Astapchuk had originally won the silver medal but later tested for doping and all her results between 13 August 2005 and 12 August 2007 were annulled. "Revision of results following sanctions of Tsikhan and Ostapchuk". IAAF. 27 April 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

External links

• Official website of Gothenburg 2006 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-12-10)
• EAA Official Website