European Athletics Championships 2006 / Men's discus throw

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 13 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 10th (qualification) ; August 12th (final)
	Medalist
	Virgilijus Alekna ( LTU )
	Gerd Kanter ( EST )
	Aleksander Tammert ( EST )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The discus throw men at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 10 and 12 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

In this competition, the throwers from Estonia won two medals, silver and bronze. European champion became the best discus thrower of those years with the Lithuanian Virgilijus Alekna . He had two Olympic gold medals ( 2000 / 2004 ), two world titles ( 2003 / 2005 won) and was at the last two European Championships Second ( 2002 ) and Third ( 1998 become). Second place went to the 2005 vice world champion, Gerd Kanter . Bronze went to the 2004 Olympic third-placed Aleksander Tammert .

Existing records

World record	74.08 m	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 Jürgen Schult	Neubrandenburg GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
European record
EM record	68.83 m	Hungary Róbert Fazekas	EM Munich , Germany	August 11, 2002

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved. European champion Virgilijus Alekna only missed the record by sixteen centimeters. Lithuania 1989

doping

The eleventh-placed Hungarian Roland Varga was convicted of the doping rule violation in 2007 on the basis of a trial on July 22, 2006. He was banned for two years and his results since the sampling were canceled. Varga's compatriot Gábor Máté , who initially finished twelfth, moved up one place.

The main victim of the doping fraud was the German Robert Harting , who should actually have started in the final as twelfth in the qualification.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

August 10, 2006, 10:30 a.m.

24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 63.50 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the seven next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.11 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals. It later emerged that Roland Varga had violated the doping regulations as one of the finalists.

Group A

Gerhard Mayer achieved 59.54 m, but had no final chance with a distance of less than sixty meters

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	annotation
1	Gerd Kanter	Estonia Estonia	66.71	x	61.49	66.71
2	Piotr Małachowski	Poland Poland	63.76	61.75	63.76	-
3	Rutger Smith	Netherlands Netherlands	63.53	60.58	63.53	-
4th	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia Estonia	63.51	63.51	-	-
5	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany Germany	60.62	x	58.42	60.62
6th	Sergiu Urzu	Romania Romania	60.50	60.50	x	58.39
7th	Andrzej Krawczyk	Poland Poland	60.11	60.11	59.78	58.66
8th	Gerhard Mayer	Austria Austria	59.54	55.59	x	59.54
9	Mikko Kyyrö	Finland Finland	58.59	58.59	57.82	x
10	Stanislav Alekseyev	Russia Russia	56.91	56.91	x	55.71
11	Cristiano Andrei	Italy Italy	54.82	54.82	54.42	54.74
DOP	Roland Varga	Hungary Hungary					admitted to the finals

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	annotation
1	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania 1989 Lithuania	64.53	57.25	x	64.53
2	Lars Riedel	Germany Germany	63.36	63.36	-	-
3	Mario Pestano	Spain Spain	63.08	63.08	62.42	62.05
4th	Gábor Máté	Hungary Hungary	60.53	60.53	x	x
5	Robert Harting	Germany Germany	59.87	59.24	59.38	59.87	actually qualified for the final
6th	Mark Israel	Estonia Estonia	59.80	x	59.30	59.80
7th	Olgierd Stański	Poland Poland	59.30	x	x	59.30
8th	Bogdan Pishchalnikov	Russia Russia	58.77	58.77	x	56.34
9	Hannes Kirchler	Italy Italy	56.78	x	x	56.78
10	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden Sweden	56.62	x	x	56.62
11	Mika Loikkanen	Finland Finland	56.08	56.08	53.98	x
NM	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia Russia	ogV	x	x	x

As it turned out too late, Robert Harting could have taken part in the final with 59.87 m as twelfth overall in the qualification
Märt Israel missed 31 centimeters with his 59.80 m for the final participation
Hannes Kirchler was eliminated from the qualification with 56.78 m
For Niklas Arrhenius (here as a shot putter) the competition ended with 56.62 m after qualifying

final

August 12, 2006, 4:30 p.m.

After bronze in 1998 and silver in 2002 , Virgilijus Alekna finally won the first ever gold medal for Lithuania at European Championships in 2006. The two Estonians Gerd Kanter and Aleksander Tammert on the squares and the Latvian Staņislavs Olijars in the hurdles made the penultimate day of the European Championships 2006 the Day of the Balts.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania 1989 Lithuania	68.67	68.67	67.36	67.34	67.37	67.33	66.57
2	Gerd Kanter	Estonia Estonia	68.03	61.04	x	68.03	x	x	x
3	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia Estonia	66.14	62.02	65.32	66.14	65.59	65.29	60.72
4th	Mario Pestano	Spain Spain	64.84	63.80	64.84	62.86	63.54	64.26	62.52
5	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany Germany	64.82	x	64.82	64.75	62.89	62.00	-
6th	Piotr Małachowski	Poland Poland	64.57	61.81	64.57	62.52	61.83	63.77	x
7th	Rutger Smith	Netherlands Netherlands	64.46	63.52	63.33	64.06	62.14	62.61	64.46
8th	Lars Riedel	Germany Germany	64.11	64.11	x	59.88	64.07	59.56	58.43
9	Sergiu Urzu	Romania Romania	62.84	58.14	62.84	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Andrzej Krawczyk	Poland Poland	61.56	x	59.77	61.56
11	Gábor Máté	Hungary Hungary	57.35	56.52	57.35	x
DOP	Roland Varga	Hungary Hungary

Virgilijus Alekna, the world's best discus thrower in recent years, became European champion
Aleksander Tammert - bronze for the 2004 Olympic third party
Mario Pestano finished fourth
Michael Möllenbeck, WM -Dritter of 2001 /2005 and EM -Dritter 2002, reached number five
The sixth-placed Piotr Malachowski was later able to collect numerous medals, including two-time European champion ( 2010 / 2016 ), world champion in 2015 and more
Rutger Smith, third in the shot put , finished seventh
Lars Riedel, one of the most successful discus throwers of all time, came in eighth