European Athletics Championships 2006/20 km walking men

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	20 km walk
gender	Men
Attendees	19 athletes from 13 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Round trip through Gothenburg
Competition phase	8th August
Medalist Francisco Javier Fernández ( ESP )   Valery Borchin ( RUS )   João Vieira ( POR )

View of Gothenburg from Liseberg from

The men's 20 km walk at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was held on August 8, 2006 in the streets of Gothenburg .

European champion was the Spanish defending champion, Olympic silver medalist from 2004 and two-time runner-up ( 2003 / 2005 ) Francisco Javier Fernández . He won ahead of the Russian Valeri Borchin . Bronze went to the Portuguese João Vieira .

Existing records

World record	1:17:21 h	Jefferson Perez	World Cup Paris , France	August 23, 2003
European best time	1:17:22 h	Francisco Javier Fernández	Turku , Finland	April 28, 2002
EM record	1:18:45 h	Mikhail Shchennikov	EM in Helsinki , Finland	August 7, 1994

Note:
The previously existing practice of not keeping records in marathon running and street walking due to the different track conditions with the exception of championship records was no longer used from 2003 onwards. Since then there have also been official records in these road competitions. However, the fastest time of a European in 20 km walking had been achieved before 2003, so that this performance was not considered a record, but the best time.

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

execution

There was no preliminary round, all 19 walkers went to the final together.

Result

Francisco Javier Fernández, 2004 Olympic silver medalist and two-time runner-up ( 2003 / 2005 ), defended his title confidently - he was later a confessed doping offenders with a two-year ban

August 8, 2006, 5:15 p.m.

Defending champion Francisco Javier Fernández pulled away from the rest of the field early on and marched confidently to another victory. For a long time the chasing group consisted only of the three participating Russians, but the Portuguese João Vieira was able to catch up with this group and finally won the bronze medal with a new national record.

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
1	Francisco Javier Fernández	Spain	1:19:09
2	Valery Borchin	Russia	1:20:00
3	João Vieira	Portugal	1:20:09 NO
4th	Viktor Burayev	Russia	1:20:12
5	Sergei Bakulin	Russia	1:20:50
6th	Matej Tóth	Slovakia	1:21:39
7th	Erik Tysse	Norway	1:22:13
8th	Giorgio Rubino	Italy	1:22:34
9	Siarhei Charnou	Belarus	1:23:03
10	Denis Langlois	France	1:24:04
11	André Höhne	Germany	1:24:35
12	Predrag Filipović	Serbia	1:25:16
13	Benjamin Sánchez	Spain	1:25:58
14th	Andriy Yurin	Ukraine	1:26:20
15th	Silviu Casandra	Romania	1:26:36
16	Recep Çelik	Turkey	1:27:18
17th	Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	1:27:42
DSQ	Juan Manuel Molina	Spain
	Andrei Talashka	Belarus

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  Vice European Champion Valery Bortschin - he was later banned for eight years in connection with doping abuse

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  Bronze medalist João Vieira

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  Sergei Bakulin reached fifth place

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  Matej Tóth came in sixth place

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  Erik Tysse (red jersey) finished seventh

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  Giorgio Rubino finished eighth

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  Eleventh placed André Höhne

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  Benjamín Sánchez came in thirteenth place

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  Ivano Brugnetti reached seventeenth place

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  Juan Manuel Molina was disqualified

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on November 19, 2019
• Men 20km Walk European Championship 2006 Göteborg on todor66.com, accessed November 19, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 19, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 20km Walk European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 493 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 19, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, 20 km walking men on sportschau.de, accessed on November 19, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 19, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km walking men , accessed November 19, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 20 km Walk Men , Spanish / English, p. 41 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on November 19, 2019
3. ↑ Doping scandal in Spain: Geher makes confession , Focus February 11, 2010, accessed on November 19, 2019
4. ↑ Spanish Police Smash Doping Network , World November 25, 2009, accessed November 19, 2019
5. ↑ [1] on rusada.ru January 20, 2015 (English), accessed on November 19, 2019