European Athletics Championships 2006/200 m men

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	40 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 9 (preliminary / intermediate runs) August 10 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist Francis Obikwelu ( POR )   Johan Wissman ( SWE )   Marlon Devonish ( GBR )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The 200-meter race of the men at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 9 and 10 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

The European champion was the Portuguese European Championship runner-up in 2002, Francis Obikwelu , who was even more successful in the 100 meter field and had already won the 100 meter title two days earlier. The Swede Johan Wissman took second place . Like four years ago, bronze went to the Briton Marlon Devonish .

Existing records

World record	19.32 s	Michael Johnson	Olympic Games Atlanta , USA	August 1, 1996
European record	19.72 s	Pietro Mennea	Mexico City , Mexico	September 12, 1979
Championship record	19.85 s	Konstantinos Kenteris	EM Munich , Germany	August 9, 2002

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

Preliminary round

August 16, 2006, 5:35 pm

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

Koura Kaba Fantoni (far right) was eliminated in sixth place in his heat

Marco Cribari did not reach the next round with his 21.16 seconds

August 9, 2006, 11:10 a.m.

Wind: +1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	David Alerte	France	20.58
2	Kristof Beyens	Belgium	20.61
3	Ruslan Abbasov	Azerbaijan	20.86
4th	Morten Jensen	Denmark	20.94
5	Panayiótis Sarrís	Greece	20.99
6th	Koura Kaba Fantoni	Italy	21.14
7th	Marco Cribari	Switzerland	21.16

Forward 2

August 9, 2006, 11:19 a.m.

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	20.53
2	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	20.67
3	Eddy De Lépine	France	20.70
4th	Paul Brizzel	Ireland	20.84
5	Marcin Urbaś	Poland	20.87
6th	Dmytro Hlushchenko	Ukraine	21.00
7th	Tommi Hartonen	Finland	21.22

Forward 3

August 9, 2006, 11:28 am

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ivan Tyoplych	Russia	20.71
2	Yordan Ilinov	Bulgaria	20.80
3	Rikki Fifton	Great Britain	21.02
4th	Stefano Anceschi	Italy	21.04
5	Patrick van Luijk	Netherlands	21.05
6th	Johan Engberg	Sweden	21.12
DNS	Ronald Pognon	France

Forward 4

August 9, 2006, 11:37 a.m.

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anastásios Goúsis	Greece	20.64
2	Paul Hession	Ireland	20.81
3	Alessandro Cavallaro	Italy	20.82
4th	Caimin Douglas	Netherlands	20.97
5	Marc Schneeberger	Switzerland	21.06
6th	Vojtěch Šulc	Czech Republic	21.07

Forward 5

August 9, 2006, 11:46 am

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	20.78
2	Roman Smirnov	Russia	20.92
3	Guus Hoogmoed	Netherlands	20.93
4th	Tim Abeyie	Great Britain	21.03
5	Josué Mena	Spain	21.09
6th	Jan Schiller	Czech Republic	21.12
7th	Gary Ryan	Ireland	21.14

Forward 6

Florin Suciu (center) was sixth in his prelim and was eliminated

August 9, 2006, 11:55 a.m.

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.66
2	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	20.90
3	Daniel Schnelting	Germany	20.90
4th	Jiří Vojtík	Czech Republic	20.91
5	Daniel Abenzoar-Foule	Luxembourg	20.93
6th	Florin Suciu	Romania	21.10
7th	Josip Šoprek	Croatia	21.55

Intermediate round

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

Intermediate run 1

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  For Panayiótis Sarrís it was not enough in the semifinals with 21.04 seconds

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  21.39 seconds were not enough for Marcin Urbaś to make it to the semifinals

• 

  Stefano Anceschi was disqualified in the first intermediate run

August 9, 2006, 7:35 pm

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	20.67
2	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	20.71
3	Yordan Ilinov	Bulgaria	20.76
4th	Guus Hoogmoed	Netherlands	20.76
5	Roman Smirnov	Russia	20.93
6th	Panayiótis Sarrís	Greece	21.04
7th	Marcin Urbaś	Poland	21.39
DSQ	Stefano Anceschi	Italy

Intermediate run 2

August 9, 2006, 7:42 pm

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	David Alerte	France	20.68
2	Kristof Beyens	Belgium	20.70
3	Paul Hession	Ireland	20.80
4th	Jiří Vojtík	Czech Republic	20.90
5	Daniel Abenzoar-Foule	Luxembourg	20.96
6th	Ruslan Abbasov	Azerbaijan	20.98
7th	Tim Abeyie	Great Britain	21.17
DNS	Marc Schneeberger	Switzerland

Intermediate run 3

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  Patrick van Luijk retired with 21.46 s in the intermediate run

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  Morten Jensen was unable to advance to the semi-finals with 21.46 seconds

August 9, 2006, 7:49 pm

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.68
2	Rikki Fifton	Great Britain	20.72
3	Ivan Tyoplych	Russia	20.82
4th	Eddy De Lépine	France	21.00
5	Dmytro Hlushchenko	Ukraine	21.07
6th	Patrick van Luijk	Netherlands	21.46
7th	Morten Jensen	Denmark	21.56
DNS	Daniel Schnelting	Germany

Intermediate run 4

Caimin Douglas scored 21.18 s in his intermediate run and was eliminated

August 9, 2006, 7:56 pm

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	20.58
2	Anastásios Goúsis	Greece	20.68
3	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	20.85
4th	Alessandro Cavallaro	Italy	20.91
5	Josué Mena	Spain	21.09
6th	Caimin Douglas	Netherlands	21.18
7th	Vojtěch Šulc	Czech Republic	21.24
DNF	Paul Brizzel	Ireland

Semifinals

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

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  As fifth in his semi-final race, Guus Hoogmoed missed the final by one place

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  Rikki Fifton came in sixth place in the first semifinal and was eliminated

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  Matic Osovnikar, over 100 meters in the final, failed here in the semifinals

Run 1

August 10, 2006, 7:15 pm

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	20.36
2	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.38
3	Eddy De Lépine	France	20.70
4th	Anastásios Goúsis	Greece	20.76
5	Guus Hoogmoed	Netherlands	20.80
6th	Rikki Fifton	Great Britain	20.85
7th	Yordan Ilinov	Bulgaria	21.00
8th	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	21.08

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  Jiří Vojtík was missing a hundredth of a second to reach the final

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  Sebastian Ernst finished sixth in the second semifinal and was eliminated

Run 2

August 10, 2006, 7:25 pm

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	20.60
2	Kristof Beyens	Belgium	20.62
3	David Alerte	France	20.69
4th	Ivan Tyoplych	Russia	20.82
5	Jiří Vojtík	Czech Republic	20.83
6th	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	21.04
7th	Paul Hession	Ireland	21.09
8th	Alessandro Cavallaro	Italy	21.19

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  For Paul Hession, seventh of his run in the semifinals was the final destination

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  Alessandro Cavallaro finished eighth in the second semifinals

final

Francis Obikwelu, double European champion over 100 and 200 meters

August 10, 2006, 8:45 p.m.

Wind: +1.6 m / s

Francis Obikwelu was the first sprinter in 28 years to become European champion both over 100 and 200 meters . Pietro Mennea was last successful in 1978 in Prague . While the Swede Johan Wissman surpassed himself in front of his home crowd and twice improved the national record, Marlon Devonish managed to repeat his third place from 2002 .

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	20.01 NO
2	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.38 NO
3	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	20.54
4th	Kristof Beyens	Belgium	20.57
5	Ivan Tyoplych	Russia	20.76
6th	Eddy De Lépine	France	20.77
7th	David Alerte	France	20.93
8th	Anastásios Goúsis	Greece	20.94

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  Vice European Champion Johan Wissman

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  Marlon Devonish won the bronze medal like four years earlier

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  Kristof Beyens finished fourth, only three hundredths of a second behind bronze

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  David Alerte came in seventh

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  Anastásios Goúsis was eighth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• Men 200m European Championship 2006 Göteborg on todor66.com, accessed November 16, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 16, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 200m European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 490 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 16, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, 200 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on November 16, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 16, 2019

Video

• 2006 European Championships Men's 200m on youtube.com (English), accessed on November 16, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m men , accessed November 16, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 9 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on November 16, 2019