European Athletics Championships 2006/100 m men

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	44 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary / intermediate runs) August 8th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Francis Obikwelu ( POR )   Andrei Jepishin ( RUS )   Matic Osovnikar ( SLO )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The 100-meter race of the men at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was to 8th August 2006 at 7 Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

European champion was the Portuguese defending champion and Olympic runner-up in 2004, Francis Obikwelu , who two days later also won the title over 200 meters . The Russian Andrei Jepishin took second place. Bronze went to the Slovenian Matic Osovnikar .

Records

Existing records

World record	9.77 s	Asafa Powell	Athens , Greece	June 14, 2005
			Gateshead , UK	June 11, 2006
European record	9.86 s	Francis Obikwelu	Athens , Greece	August 22, 2004
Championship record	10.04 s	Darren Campbell	EM Budapest , Hungary	August 19, 1998

Record improvement

European champion Francis Obikwelu improved the existing EM record in the final on August 8th by five hundredths of a second to 9.99 seconds. He was the first runner to break the ten-second mark at European Championships.  

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in six runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the eight fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the intermediate round.

Forward 1

August 7, 2006, 10:40 am

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tyrone Edgar	Great Britain	10.32
2	Łukasz Chyła	Poland	10.42
3	Ronny Ostwald	Germany	10.42
4th	Alexander Smirnov	Russia	10.51
5	Gergely Németh	Hungary	10.52
6th	Andreas Baumann	Switzerland	10.58
7th	Naum Mitreski	Macedonia	11.12
DSQ	Kostyantyn Vasyukov	Ukraine

Forward 2

August 7, 2006, 10:48 a.m.

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ronald Pognon	France	10.26
2	Anatoly Dowhal	Ukraine	10.33
3	Nghi Tran	Finland	10.50
4th	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	10.52
5	Luca Verdecchia	Italy	10.57
6th	Matjaž Borovina	Slovenia	10.74
7th	Valley Mor	Israel	10.78

Forward 3

August 7, 2006, 10:56 am

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.37
2	Marcin Jędrusiński	Poland	10.45
3	Jarkko Ruostekivi	Finland	10.47
4th	Jan Žumer	Slovenia	10.50
5	Martin Rypdal	Norway	10.52
6th	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	10.55
7th	İsmail Aslan	Turkey	10.71
8th	Darren Gilford	Malta	10.73

Forward 4

August 7, 2006, 11:04 am

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.24
2	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	10.29
3	Orkatz Beitia	Spain	10.43
4th	Daniel Abenzoar-Foule	Luxembourg	10.50
5	Markus Lüthi	Switzerland	10.51
6th	Dimitri Demonière	France	10.51
7th	Valentinos Athanasiou	Cyprus	11.25

Forward 5

John Ertzgaard was eliminated in sixth place in his preliminary run

August 7, 2006, 11:21:20 am

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Andrei Yepishin	Russia	10.36
2	Dariusz Kuć	Poland	10.37
3	Simo Sipilä	Finland	10.40
4th	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain	10.57
5	Neophytos Michael	Cyprus	10.60
6th	John Ertzgaard	Norway	10.62
7th	Maurizio Checcucci	Italy	10.62

Forward 6

Sixth place in 10.66 s was not enough for Daniel Persson (center) to move into the second round

August 7, 2006, 11:20 am

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	10.25
2	Roland Németh	Hungary	10.39
3	Oudéré Kankarafou	France	10.40
4th	Mikhail Yegorchev	Russia	10.47
5	Iván Mocholí	Spain	10.53
6th	Daniel Persson	Sweden	10.66
7th	Vojtěch Šulc	Czech Republic	10.67

Intermediate round

From the four intermediate runs, the first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Intermediate run 1

August 7, 2006, 6:35 p.m.

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dariusz Kuć	Poland	10.32
2	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain	10.32
3	Anatoly Dowhal	Ukraine	10.37
4th	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.39
5	Markus Lüthi	Switzerland	10.47
6th	Jarkko Ruostekivi	Finland	10.48
7th	Mikhail Yegorchev	Russia	10.62
8th	Martin Rypdal	Norway	10.66

Intermediate run 2

August 7, 2006, 6:43 pm

Massimiliano Donati (second from left) missed the semi-finals by one place

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ronald Pognon	France	10.19
2	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.33
3	Łukasz Chyła	Poland	10.42
4th	Ronny Ostwald	Germany	10.48
5	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	10.52
6th	Gergely Németh	Hungary	10.63
7th	Alexander Smirnov	Russia	10.65
8th	Nghi Tran	Finland	10.67

Intermediate run 3

August 7, 2006, 6:51 pm

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	10.28
2	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	10.37
3	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	10.49
4th	Orkatz Beitia	Spain	10.53
5	Roland Németh	Hungary	10.55
6th	Luca Verdecchia	Italy	10.58
7th	Dimitri Demonière	France	10.59
8th	Simo Sipilä	Finland	10.73

Intermediate run 4

August 7, 2006, 6:59 pm

Wind: -1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Andrei Yepishin	Russia	10.40
2	Oudéré Kankarafou	France	10.45
3	Marcin Jędrusiński	Poland	10.47
4th	Jan Žumer	Slovenia	10.48
5	Tyrone Edgar	Great Britain	10.51
6th	Daniel Abenzoar-Foule	Luxembourg	10.59
7th	Andreas Baumann	Switzerland	10.65
8th	Iván Mocholí	Spain	10.67

Semifinals

The first three athletes from each of the two semi-finals qualified for the final - highlighted in light blue.

Semi-final run 1

In seventh place in his semifinal
race, Ángel David Rodríguez did not reach the final

August 8, 2006, 6:10 p.m.

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Andrei Yepishin	Russia	10.12
2	Ronald Pognon	France	10.14
3	Dariusz Kuć	Poland	10.23
4th	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.25
5	Anatoly Dowhal	Ukraine	10.27
6th	Łukasz Chyła	Poland	10.30
7th	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain	10.33
8th	Jan Žumer	Slovenia	10.43

Semi-final run 2

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  Marcin Jędrusiński was three hundredths of a second missing to make it to the final

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  Erik Wijmeersch (left) retired as seventh of his run in the semifinals

August 8, 2006, 6:20 pm

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	10.19
2	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	10.23
3	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.30
4th	Ronny Ostwald	Germany	10.40
5	Marcin Jędrusiński	Poland	10.43
6th	Oudéré Kankarafou	France	10.43
7th	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	10.47
8th	Orkatz Beitia	Spain	10.52

final

Francis Obikwelu defended his title and two days later also won the 200 meters

August 8, 2006, 7:40 p.m.

Wind: +1.3 m / s

Francis Obikwelu, who was subsequently declared European Champion 2002 in 2006 , did not have to give everything in any of the four races in order to still win each time with aplomb. In the finals he was the first runner to stay under ten seconds at the European Championships.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	09.99 CR
2	Andrei Yepishin	Russia	10.10 NO
3	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	10.14
4th	Ronald Pognon	France	10.16
5	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.16
6th	Dariusz Kuć	Poland	10.21
7th	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.24
8th	Ronny Ostwald	Germany	10.38

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  Bronze medalist Matic Osovnikar

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  Ronald Pognon came in fourth

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  Mark Lewis-Francis finished fifth

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  Dwain Chambers, 1999 World Cup -Dritter and 1998 EM -Second, finished seventh in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 2006 Göteborg on todor66.com, accessed on November 14, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 14, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 100m European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 489f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on November 14, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 14, 2019

Video

• 2006 European Championships Men's 100m on youtube.com (English), accessed on November 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m men , accessed November 14, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 7 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on November 14, 2019