European Athletics Championships 2006/110 m hurdles for men

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 11th (preliminary) August 12th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Staņislavs Olijars ( LAT )   Thomas Blaschek ( GER )   Andrew Turner ( GBR )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The 110-meter hurdles of the men at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 11 and 12 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

The European champion was the Latvian European Championship runner-up from 2002 Staņislavs Olijars . The German Thomas Blaschek won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Briton Andrew Turner .

Existing records

World record	12.88 s	Liu Xiang	Lausanne , Switzerland	July 17, 2006
European record	12.91 s	Colin Jackson	WM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 20, 1993
Championship record	13.02 s		EM Budapest , Hungary	August 22, 1998

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

William Sharman's fourth place in the first run was not enough for the semi-finals

August 11, 2006, 11:25 am

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.52
2	Ladji Doucouré	France	13.65
3	Dániel Kiss	Hungary	13.72
4th	William Sharman	Great Britain	13.85
5	Yevgeny Borisov	Russia	13.97
6th	Theópistos Mavrídis	Greece	14.09
7th	Miroslav Novaković	Serbia	14.40

Forward 2

With his 14.04s, Emanuele Abate (blue jersey) was eliminated in the lead

August 11, 2006, 11:35 a.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Andrew Turner	Great Britain	13.52
2	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands	13.67
3	Felipe Vivancos	Spain	13.75
4th	Marko Ritola	Finland	13.82
5	Emanuele Abate	Italy	14.04
DNS	Andreas Kundert	Switzerland

Forward 3

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  Marcel van der Westen missed a hundredth of a second to reach the semifinals with his 13.73 seconds

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  Elmar Lichtenegger (here in 2013) scored 13.86 s in his lead, which meant that he did not make it to the next round

August 11, 2006, 11:45 a.m.

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Thomas Blaschek	Germany	13.65
2	Cédric Lavanne	France	13.70
3	Marcel van der Westen	Netherlands	13.73
4th	Tarmo Jallai	Estonia	13.89
5	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.89
6th	Juha Sonck	Finland	13.91
7th	Elton Bitincka	Albania	14.32

Forward 4

August 11, 2006, 11:55 am

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Igor Peremota	Russia	13.48
2	Jens Werrmann	Germany	13.60
3	David Hughes	Great Britain	13.66
4th	Ivan Bitzi	Switzerland	13.69
5	Iban Maiza	Spain	13.90
6th	Damir Haračič	Bosnia and Herzegovina	14.25
DNF	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium

Forward 5

August 11, 2006, 12:05 pm

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.25
2	Serhiy Demydyuk	Ukraine	13.47
3	Alexandru Mihăilescu	Romania	13.65
4th	Andrea Giaconi	Italy	13.68
5	Stanislav Sajdok	Czech Republic	13.68
6th	Olli Talsi	Finland	13.87

Semifinals

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

August 12, 2006, 3:55 pm

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Igor Peremota	Russia	13.46
2	Serhiy Demydyuk	Ukraine	13.46
3	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.56
4th	Jens Werrmann	Germany	13.60
5	Cédric Lavanne	France	13.63
6th	Stanislav Sajdok	Czech Republic	13.71
7th	Alexandru Mihăilescu	Romania	13.79
8th	David Hughes	Great Britain	13.87

Run 2

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  The reigning world champion Ladji Doucouré missed the final by one place

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  Gregory Sedoc was disqualified in his semifinal run

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  Andrea Giaconi was also disqualified in the second semi-final race

August 12, 2006, 4:05 pm

Wind: +3.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.25
2	Thomas Blaschek	Germany	13.27
3	Andrew Turner	Great Britain	13.36
4th	Dániel Kiss	Hungary	13.68
5	Ladji Doucouré	France	13.87
DNF	Ivan Bitzi	Switzerland
DSQ	Gregory Sedoc	Netherlands
	Andrea Giaconi	Italy

final

European champion was Staņislavs Olijars, silver medalist in  2002

August 12, 2006, 5:40 pm

Wind: −1.0 m / s

At the first European championships in 1934 , the Latvian walker Jānis Daliņš became European champion. The Olijars gold medal was the second gold for Latvia at European championships after 72 years. Olijars also succeeded four-time European champion Colin Jackson through his victory . The final was held with a headwind of 1.0 m / s.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.24
2	Thomas Blaschek	Germany	13.56
3	Andrew Turner	Great Britain	13.52
4th	Igor Peremota	Russia	13.55
5	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	13.57
6th	Jens Werrmann	Germany	13.63
7th	Dániel Kiss	Hungary	13.77
8th	Serhiy Demydyuk	Ukraine	13.96

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  Vice European Champion Thomas Blaschek

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  Bronze medalist Andrew Turner

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  Robert Kronberg came in fifth

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  Dániel Kiss finished seventh

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  The eighth placed Serhiy Demydyuk

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on November 17, 2019
• Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 2006 Göteborg on todor66.com, accessed on November 17, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 17, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 491f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 17, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on November 17, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 17, 2019

Video

• 2006 European Championships Men's 110m Hurdles on youtube.com (English), accessed on November 17, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed November 17, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 110 m Hurdles Men , Spanish / English, p. 17 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on November 17, 2019