European Athletics Championships 2006 / men's javelin

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification) ; August 9th (final)
	Medalist
	Andreas Thorkildsen ( NOR )
	Tero Pitkämäki ( FIN )
	Jan Železný ( CZE )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The javelin men in the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 7 and 9 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

European champion was the Norwegian Olympic champion from 2004 and vice world champion from 2005 Andreas Thorkildsen . The Finn Tero Pitkämäki won the silver medal. For the second time bronze after 1994 won the triple Olympic champion ( 1992 / 1996 / 2000 ) and three-time world champion ( 1993 / 1995 / 2001 ) Jan Železný from the Czech Republic, who was also a world record holder and to this day - November 24, 2019 - is.

Existing records

World record	98.48 m	Czech Republic Jan Železný	Jena , Germany	May 25, 1996
European record
Championship record	89.72 m	United Kingdom Steve Backley	EM Budapest , Hungary	23rd August 1994

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

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

August 7, 2006, 6:30 p.m.

24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 81.00 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 79.24 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Teemu Wirkkala was only nineteen centimeters short of the final with his 79.05 m

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway Norway	86.55	74.25	86.55	-
2	Alexander Ivanov	Russia Russia	81.57	72.88	81.57	-
3	Jan Železný	Czech Republic Czech Republic	80.60	80.60	x	x
4th	Nick Nieland	United Kingdom Great Britain	80.40	80.40	x	x
5	Ēriks Rags	Latvia Latvia	79.24	76.70	78.54	79.24
6th	Teemu Wirkkala	Finland Finland	79.05	79.05	x	77.85
7th	Christian Nicolay	Germany Germany	77.94	77.94	75.29	72.60
8th	Daniel Ragnvaldsson	Sweden Sweden	76.71	76.71	73.13	x
9	Yeóryios Íltsios	Greece Greece	75.88	75.88	74.00	x
10	Felix Loretz	Switzerland Switzerland	70.83	67.50	65.13	70.83
11	Francesco Pignata	Italy Italy	70.37	69.84	x	70.37
12	Vadim Bavikin	Israel Israel	66.93	66.67	66.93	x

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Ainārs Kovals	Latvia Latvia	85.95	79.03	76.36	85.95
2	Vadim's Vasiļevskis	Latvia Latvia	84.68	84.68	-	-
3	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland Finland	83.78	83.78	-	-
4th	Peter Esenwein	Germany Germany	82.71	82.71	-	-
5	Stefan Wenk	Germany Germany	80.90	80.90	x	77.54
6th	Magnus Arvidsson	Sweden Sweden	80.45	80.45	75.59	-
7th	Stefan Müller	Switzerland Switzerland	80.43	78.64	75.45	80.43
8th	Tero Järvenpää	Finland Finland	75.21	75.21	x	72.38
9	Tomas Intas	Lithuania 1989 Lithuania	74.76	74.76	73.19	72.10
10	Risto Mätas	Estonia Estonia	74.58	74.58	x	73.87
11	Marián Bokor	Slovakia Slovakia	72.54	71.80	x	72.54
12	Ronny Nilsen	Norway Norway	71.37	71.37	70.58	67.10

With 75.21 m Tero Järvenpää was eliminated from the qualification
Risto Mätas did not reach the final with 74.58 m

final

August 9, 2006, 7:10 p.m.

After the resignation of four-time European champion Steve Backley , Andreas Thorkildsen, a current Olympic champion, was able to win the javelin throw for the first time since 1971 . Jan Železný took third place again twenty years after his first European Championship participation. The Swiss Stefan Müller again set a national record in the final after he had already surpassed the old record in qualifying.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway Norway	88.78	82.84	87.37	85.30	87.35	86.39	88.78
2	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland Finland	86.44	86.44	81.44	82.87	82.68	x	84.71
3	Jan Železný	Czech Republic Czech Republic	85.92	85.92	x	x	x	x	x
4th	Vadim's Vasiļevskis	Latvia Latvia	83.21	76.21	83.21	x	x	x	81.13
5	Ainārs Kovals	Latvia Latvia	81.65	81.65	79.19	78.23	79.56	77.31	79.75
6th	Peter Esenwein	Germany Germany	81.11	81.11	76.46	x	73.73	76.45	80.45
7th	Stefan Müller	Switzerland Switzerland	80.87	80.87	78.38	78.16	75.72	76.08	75.52
8th	Alexander Ivanov	Russia Russia	80.09	78.68	80.09	77.99	x	76.61	73.99
9	Ēriks Rags	Latvia Latvia	79.51	79.51	x	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Magnus Arvidsson	Sweden Sweden	78.53	78.53	73.94	x
11	Nick Nieland	United Kingdom Great Britain	76.92	75.66	x	76.92
12	Stefan Wenk	Germany Germany	75.71	x	75.71	75.00

Andreas Thorkildsen - after Olympic victory ( 2004 ) and Vice World Championship ( 2005 ) now the European Championship title
Silver medalist Tero Pitkämäki - he was world champion in 2007 , Olympic knight in 2008 , in 2010 there was an EM bronze and in 2015 there was a World Championship bronze
The old master and world record holder Jan Železný received bronze after his numerous victories and medals in recent years