European Athletics Championships 2006/100 m women

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 8th (preliminary) August 9th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Kim Gevaert ( BEL )   Ekaterina Grigoryeva ( RUS )   Irina Khabarova ( RUS )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The 100-meter race of women in the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 8 and 9 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

The Russian sprinters won two medals in this competition, silver and bronze. The European champion was the Belgian Vice European Champion from 2002 Kim Gevaert , who also won the title in the 200 meters two days later . Ekaterina Grigoryeva took second place ahead of Irina Khabarova .

Existing records

World record	10.49 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Indianapolis , USA	July 16, 1988
European record	10.73 s	Christine Arron	EM Budapest , Hungary	August 18, 1998
EM record

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 three 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 8, 2006, 11:50 a.m.

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.19
2	Ekaterina Grigoryeva	Russia	11.27
3	Anyika Onuora	Great Britain	11.38
4th	Daria Onyśko	Poland	11.45
5	Anna Boyle	Ireland	11.60
6th	Heidi Hannula	Finland	11.64
7th	Kristina Žumer	Slovenia	11.69

As fourth of her heat, Ksenija Balta was two hundredths of a second missing from the semi-finals

Carima Louami reached fifth place in her preliminary run and was eliminated

Diane Borg had no chance as eighth of the second heat

Forward 2

August 8, 2006, 11:58 am

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	11.24
2	Alena Neumjarschyzkaja	Belarus	11.28
3	Merlene Ottey	Slovenia	11.41
4th	Ksenija Balta	Estonia	11.47
5	Carima Louami	Italy	11.48
6th	Katja Wakan	Germany	11.54
7th	Aleksandra Vojneska	Macedonia	12.15
8th	Diane Borg	Malta	12.42

Forward 3

August 8, 2006, 12:06 p.m.

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Julia Gushchina	Russia	11.29
2	Véronique Mang	France	11.31
3	Emma Ania	Great Britain	11.41
4th	Pia Tajnikar	Slovenia	11.45
5	Bettina Müller-Weissina	Austria	11.61
6th	Audra Dagelyte	Lithuania	11.74
7th	Emma Rienas	Sweden	11.76

Forward 4

August 8, 2006, 12:14 p.m.

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sylviane Félix	France	11.26
2	Irina Khabarova	Russia	11.27
3	Yeoryía Koklóni	Greece	11.29
4th	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	11.33
5	Verena Sailer	Germany	11.45
6th	Belén Recio	Spain	11.48
7th	Dorota Dydo	Poland	11.61
DNS	Emily Maher	Ireland

Semifinals

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

Run 1

August 9, 2006, 6:15 p.m.

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	11.32
2	Irina Khabarova	Russia	11.33
3	Sylviane Félix	France	11.38
4th	Daria Onyśko	Poland	11.41
5	Merlene Ottey	Slovenia	11.44
6th	Alena Neumjarschyzkaja	Belarus	11.45
7th	Anyika Onuora	Great Britain	11.45
8th	Verena Sailer	Germany	11.61

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  Merlene Ottey - now starting for Slovenia - missed the final by one place

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  Alena Neumjarschyzkaja was fifth in her semi-final run, four hundredths of a second missing from reaching the final

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  Anyika Onuora finished seventh in the first semifinals, and she was also just behind a qualifying place

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  Verena Sailer was eliminated in eighth place in the first semi-final race

Run 2

August 9, 2006, 6:24 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.19
2	Julia Gushchina	Russia	11.25
3	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	11.28
4th	Ekaterina Grigoryeva	Russia	11.28
5	Yeoryía Koklóni	Greece	11.29
6th	Emma Ania	Great Britain	11.49
7th	Véronique Mang	France	11.49
8th	Pia Tajnikar	Slovenia	11.61

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  Emma Ania (left) finished sixth in her semifinal race and was eliminated

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  Véronique Mang failed in sixth place in the second run in the semifinals

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  Pia Tajnikar finished eighth in her race in the semifinals

final

First European Championship title for the Vice European Champion from 2002 Kim Gevaert - two days later also winner of the 200 meters

August 9, 2006, 8:25 pm

Wind: +0.8 m / s

Kim Gevaert looked so confident from the preliminary to the semifinals that she went into the final as the clear favorite. She lived up to this role and won superiorly. Kim Gevaert won the first gold medal at European Championships for Belgium since 1971 .

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.06
2	Ekaterina Grigoryeva	Russia	11.22
3	Irina Khabarova	Russia	11.22
4th	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	11.24
5	Julia Gushchina	Russia	11.31
6th	Julia Neszjarenka	Belarus	11.34
7th	Sylviane Félix	France	11.40
8th	Daria Onyśko	Poland	11.43

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  Joice Maduaka (here in 2010 with the number 4) reached fourth place

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  Yulia Gushchina came in fifth place

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  Julija Neszjarenka, 2004 Olympic champion, had to be satisfied with sixth place here

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  Daria Onyśko was eighth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 25, 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 2006 Göteborg on todor66.com, accessed November 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 25, 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 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 25, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 25, 2019

Video

• european championship w100 2006 on youtube.com (English), accessed on November 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed November 25, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 48 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on November 25, 2019