European Athletics Championships 2006/1500 m for women

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 11th (preliminary) August 13th (final)
Medalists Tatiana Tomaschowa ( RUS )   Julija Chischenko ( RUS )   Daniela Jordanowa ( BUL )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The 1500 Meters of women in the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 11 and 13 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

The Russian runners also achieved a double victory in the second middle distance . European Champion, the double world champion (was 2003 / 2005 ), Olympic silver medalist from 2004 and EM -Third of 2002 Tatjana Tomaschowa . She won ahead of Julija Tschischenko . Bronze went to Daniela Jordanowa from Bulgaria .

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 50.46 min	Qu Yunxia	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 11, 1993
European record	3: 52.47 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Zurich , Switzerland	August 13, 1980
EM record	3: 57.80 min	Olga Dwirna	EM Athens , Greece	September 11, 1982

Record improvement

European champion Tatjana Tomaschowa improved the existing EM record in the final on August 13th by 89 hundredths of a second to 3: 56.91 min.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first four 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

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  Núria Fernández missed the final by almost four tenths of a second

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  Elisa Cusma, later Elisa Piccione, did not finish her advance

August 11, 2006, 10:45 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Julia Chischenko	Russia	4: 05.74
2	Tatiana Tomaschowa	Russia	4: 05.81
3	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4: 06.10
4th	Corina Dumbrăvean	Romania	4: 06.37
5	Natalija Tobias	Ukraine	4: 06.82
6th	Maria Martins	France	4: 08.07
7th	Tetiana Holovchenko	Ukraine	4: 08.56
8th	Núria Fernández	Spain	4: 08.91
9	Ragnhild Kvarberg	Norway	4: 12.85
10	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4: 13.59
11	Eva Arias	Spain	4: 15.29
12	Anny Christofidou	Cyprus	4: 19.03
12	Sandra Teixeira	Portugal	4: 20.63
DNF	Elisa Cusma	Italy
DNS	Rebecca Lyne	Great Britain

Forward 2

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  Lisa Dobriskey's seventh place in her preliminary run was not enough for the final

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  Adriënne Herzog was ninth in the second run and was eliminated

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  Isabel Macías had no chance in fifteenth and last of her run

August 11, 2006, 10:56 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Daniela Jordanova	Bulgaria	4: 05.72
2	Elena Soboleva	Russia	4: 05.81
3	Hind Dehiba	France	4: 06.63
4th	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4: 06.84
5	Helen Clitheroe	Great Britain	4: 07.28
6th	Eleonora Berlanda	Italy	4: 08.81
7th	Lisa Dobriskey	Great Britain	4: 09.47
8th	Justyna Lesman	Poland	4: 10.01
9	Adriënne Duke	Netherlands	4: 11.16
10	Svyatlana Klimkovich	Belarus	4: 12.80
11	Sonja Stolić	Serbia	4: 13.19
12	Irina Krakoviak	Lithuania	4: 13.47
13	Anna Jakubczak	Poland	4: 14.40
14th	Aoife Byrne	Ireland	4: 16.07
15th	Isabel Macías	Spain	4: 20.76

final

European champion Tatjana Tomaschowa, 2003 and 2005 world champion, 2004 Olympic runner-up , 2002 European championship third

August 13, 2006, 3:55 pm

As in almost all women's races, the pace was accelerated from the start in this decision. The two-time world champion Tatjana Tomaschowa was able to win European championship gold after bronze in Munich in 2002 . Bulgarian Daniela Jordanowa, fifth in Munich 2002, took third place in the final sprint and prevented a Russian triple victory.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tatiana Tomaschowa	Russia	3: 56.91 CR
2	Julia Chischenko	Russia	3: 57.61
3	Daniela Jordanova	Bulgaria	3: 59.37
4th	Elena Soboleva	Russia	4: 00.36
5	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4: 01.43
6th	Corina Dumbrăvean	Romania	4: 02.24
7th	Natalija Tobias	Ukraine	4: 02.71
8th	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4: 04.98
9	Hind Dehiba	France	4: 05.46
10	Tetiana Holovchenko	Ukraine	4: 05.53
11	Helen Clitheroe	Great Britain	4: 09.73
12	Maria Martins	France	4: 13.62

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  Vice European Champion Julija Tschischenko (right)

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  Bronze medalist Daniela Jordanowa (right)

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  Jelena Sobolewa reached fourth place

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  Lidia Chojecka came in fifth

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  Natalija Tobias (right) came in seventh

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  Iryna Lishchynska finished eighth

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  The ninth place Hind Dehiba

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 27, 2019
• Women 1500m European Championship 2006 Göteborg on todor66.com, accessed November 27, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 27, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 1500m European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 496 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 27, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, 1500 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 27, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 27, 2019

Video

• 2006 European Championships Women's 1500m on youtube.com (Spanish), accessed November 27, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m women , accessed November 27, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 53 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on November 27, 2019