European Athletics Championships 2006/100 m hurdles for women

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Participants	37 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary) August 11th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Susanna Kallur ( SWE )
silver	Kirsten Bolm ( GER ) Derval O'Rourke ( IRL )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The 100-meter hurdles for women in the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 10 and 11 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

The Swedish Susanna Kallur became the European champion . Since no different entry of the second or third placed hurdler was recognizable on the finish photo, the silver medal was awarded twice. The German Kirsten Bolm . and the Irish Derval O'Rourke took second place together.

Existing records

World record	12.21 s	Jordanka Donkova	Stara Sagora , Bulgaria	20th August 1988
European record
EM record	12.38 s		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 1986

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 - and the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

August 10, 2006, 10:45 a.m.

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	12.70
2	Tatiana Pawli	Russia	13.06
3	Sarah Claxton	Great Britain	13.39
4th	Edit Vári	Hungary	13.42
5	Victoria Writing Ice	Austria	13.54
6th	Arantza Loureiro	Spain	13.56
7th	Alexándra Kómnou	Greece	13.76

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  Johanna Halkoaho did not reach the next round as the fifth of her preliminary run

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  Andrea Ivančević was eliminated in the preliminary round in eighth place

Forward 2

August 10, 2006, 10:52 am

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alexandra Antonova	Russia	12.94
2	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	13.03
3	Margaret Macchiut	Italy	13.27
4th	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	13.34
5	Johanna Halkoaho	Finland	13.47
6th	Radmila Vukmirovič	Slovenia	13.49
7th	Mirjam Liimask	Estonia	13.54
8th	Andrea Ivančević	Croatia	13.60

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  Lucie Martincová, later Lucie Škrobáková (center) , was fourth in her heat and did not make it to the semi-finals

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  Nevin Yanıt did not finish in the third heat - four years later she was European champion

Forward 3

August 10, 2006, 10:59 am

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Adrianna Lamalle	France	13.07
2	Flóra Redoúmi	Greece	13.28
3	Gemma Bennett	Great Britain	13.40
4th	Lucie Martincová	Czech Republic	13.45
5	Irina Lenskiy	Israel	13.47
6th	Aliuska López	Spain	13.73
DNF	Nevin Yanıt	Turkey

Forward 4

For Marina Tomić (left) , seventh in the fourth heat, the competition was over after the preliminary round

August 10, 2006, 11:06 am

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kirsten Bolm	Germany	12.83
2	Jenny Kallur	Sweden	12.92
3	Esen Kızıldağ	Turkey	13.15
4th	Olga Korsunova	Russia	13.21
5	Sara McGreavy	Great Britain	13.30
6th	Petra Seidlová	Czech Republic	13.41
7th	Marina Tomić	Slovenia	13.79

Forward 5

Eline Bering's sixth place in her preliminary was not enough to advance

August 10, 2006, 11:13 a.m.

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Aurelia Trywiańska	Poland	12.96
2	Glory alozie	Spain	12.98
3	Reina-Flor Okori	France	13.07
4th	Micol Cattaneo	Italy	13.15
5	Piia Roslund	Finland	13.35
6th	Eline Berings	Belgium	13.42
7th	Marie-Elisabeth Maurer	Austria	13.54
8th	Barbara Rustignoli	San Marino	16.05

Semifinals

August 17, 2006, 5:35 pm

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

Run 1

Reïna-Flor Okori missed the final by one place or three hundredths of a second

August 11, 2006, 6:10 p.m.

Wind: -1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kirsten Bolm	Germany	12.85
2	Glory alozie	Spain	12.89
3	Alexandra Antonova	Russia	12.98
4th	Jenny Kallur	Sweden	13.04
5	Reïna-Flor Okori	France	13.08
6th	Flóra Redoúmi	Greece	13.15
7th	Olga Korsunova	Russia	13.29
8th	Margaret Macchiut	Italy	13.31

Run 2

August 11, 2006, 6:20 pm

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	12.76
2	Adrianna Lamalle	France	12.93
3	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	12.94
4th	Aurelia Trywiańska	Poland	12.98
5	Tatiana Pawli	Russia	13.00
6th	Esen Kızıldağ	Turkey	13.24
7th	Micol Cattaneo	Italy	13.38
8th	Sara McGreavy	Great Britain	13.67

final

After finishing seventh four years ago, Susanna Kallur became European champion

August 11, 2006, 7:50 pm

Wind: +0.5 m / s

Susanna Kallur won the first gold for a Swedish runner since Ann-Louise Skoglund won the 400 meter hurdles in 1982 . Since Susanna Kallur's twin sister Jenny was only seventh, the Kallur sisters could not repeat the success of the brothers Mirosław Wodzyński and Leszek Wodzyński , who had won two medals as siblings in the 110-meter hurdles at the 1974 European Championships .

First, the Irish Derval O'Rourke was led with a national record as the sole runner-up. After evaluating the two target photos , the German team filed a protest, which was granted. Kirsten Bolm also received silver.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	12.59
2	Kirsten Bolm	Germany	12.72
	Derval O'Rourke	Ireland	12.72 NO
4th	Glory alozie	Spain	12.86
5	Aurelia Trywiańska	Poland	12.90
6th	Alexandra Antonova	Russia	12.93
7th	Jenny Kallur	Sweden	12.94
8th	Adrianna Lamalle	France	12.99

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  Kirsten Bolm, one of two silver medalists

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  Derval O'Rourke also took silver - she repeated this success four years later

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  Jenny Kallur, twin sister of the winner Susanna Kallur, finished seventh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on November 28, 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 2006 Göteborg on todor66.com, accessed on November 28, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 28, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 494 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 28, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, 100 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 28, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 28, 2019

Video

• 2006 European Championships Women's 100m Hurdles on youtube.com, accessed on November 28, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women , accessed on November 28, 2019