European Athletics Championships 2006/400 m hurdles for women

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	32 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 8th (semi-finals) August 9th (final)
Medalists Yevgenia Issakova ( RUS )   Faní Halkiá ( GRE )   Tetjana Tereschchuk-Antipowa ( UKR )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The 400-meter hurdles for women in the 2006 European Athletics Championships was to 9 August 2006 of 7 Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

European champion was the Russian Jewgenija Issakowa . The Greek Olympic champion from 2004 Faní Halkiá won the silver medal. Bronze went to Tetjana Tereschchuk-Antipowa from the Ukraine, who won the Olympic Games in 2004 .

Existing records

World record	52.34 s	Julia Pechonkina	Tula , Russia	August 8, 2003
European record
EM record	53.32 s	Marina Stepanova	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 30, 1986

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

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

August 7, 2006, 11:40 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Ukraine	55.47
2	Anastasia Trifonova	Russia	56.10
3	Zuzana Hejnová	Czech Republic	56.29
4th	Hristína Hantzí-Neag	Greece	56.80
5	Cora Olivero	Spain	57.08
6th	Sara Orešnik	Slovenia	57.50
7th	Dora Jémaa	France	57.94
8th	Özge Gürler	Turkey	58.39

Forward 2

August 7, 2006, 11:48 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Faní Halkiá	Greece	55.42
2	Natalia Ivanova	Russia	55.55
3	Andri Sialou	Cyprus	55.87
4th	Lee McConnell	Great Britain	56.02
5	Erica Mårtensson	Sweden	56.75
6th	Agnieszka Karpiesiuk	Poland	57.65
7th	Nikolina Horvat	Croatia	57.95
8th	Martina Naef	Switzerland	58.08

Forward 3

• 

  Zuzana Bergrová was seventh in her run and was eliminated

• 

  Ilona Ranta (left) did not reach the finish in her run

August 7, 2006, 11:56 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgenia Isakova	Russia	55.21
2	Tasha Danvers-Smith	Great Britain	55.64
3	Angela Moroșanu	Romania	55.74
4th	Marta Chrust-Rożej	Poland	56.90
5	Michelle Carey	Ireland	57.61
6th	Nadja Petersen	Sweden	57.90
7th	Zuzana Bergrová	Czech Republic	58.64
DNF	Ilona Ranta	Finland

Forward 4

August 7, 2006, 12:04 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anna Jesień	Poland	55.46
2	Anastasija Rabchenyuk	Ukraine	55.76
3	Claudia Marx	Germany	56.04
4th	Alena Rücklová	Czech Republic	56.44
5	Benedetta Ceccarelli	Italy	57.12
6th	Laia Forcadell	Spain	57.81
7th	Anneli Melin	Sweden	58.00
8th	Emma Duck	Great Britain	58.03

Semifinals

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

Run 1

Lee McConnell did not reach the final as the fifth of her semi-final run

August 8, 2006, 7:15 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Faní Halkiá	Greece	54.57
2	Claudia Marx	Germany	54.80
3	Anna Jesień	Poland	54.87
4th	Anastasija Rabchenyuk	Ukraine	55.25
5	Lee McConnell	Great Britain	55.61
6th	Andri Sialou	Cyprus	55.75
7th	Anastasia Trifonova	Russia	56.02
8th	Alena Rücklová	Czech Republic	56.24

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  Zuzana Hejnová missed the final by five hundredths of a second in fifth of her semifinal race

• 

  Angela Moroșanu was eliminated as eighth of her semi-final run

Run 2

August 8, 2006, 7:23 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgenia Isakova	Russia	54.17
2	Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Ukraine	54.39
3	Tasha Danvers-Smith	Great Britain	55.14
4th	Natalia Ivanova	Russia	55.34
5	Zuzana Hejnová	Czech Republic	56.39
6th	Erica Mårtensson	Sweden	56.91
7th	Hristína Hantzí-Neag	Greece	57.31
8th	Angela Moroșanu	Romania	57.78

• 

  The World Cup fourth in 2005 Anna Jesień (right) finished sixth

• 

  Tasha Danvers, watch this finale

final

August 9, 2006, 8:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgenia Isakova	Russia	53.93
2	Faní Halkiá	Greece	54.02
3	Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova	Ukraine	54.55
4th	Claudia Marx	Germany	54.99
5	Natalia Ivanova	Russia	55.04
6th	Anna Jesień	Poland	55.16
7th	Tasha Danvers-Smith	Great Britain	55.56
8th	Anastasija Rabchenyuk	Ukraine	55.74

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on November 29, 2019
• Women 400m Hurdles European Championship 2006 Göteborg on todor66.com, accessed on November 29, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 29, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m Hurdles European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 494 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 29, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, 400 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 29, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 29, 2019

Video

• 2006 European Championships Women's 400m Hurdles on youtube.com, accessed November 29, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 56 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on November 29, 2019