European Athletics Championships 2006/50 km men's walking

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19th European Athletics Championships
Logo of the 19th European Athletics Championships
discipline 50 km walk
gender Men
Attendees 28 athletes from 14 countries
venue SwedenSweden Gothenburg
Competition location Round trip through Gothenburg
Competition phase August 10
Medalist
gold medal Yohann Diniz ( FRA ) FranceFrance 
Silver medal Jesús Ángel García ( ESP ) SpainSpain 
Bronze medal Yuri Andronov ( RUS ) RussiaRussia 
View of Gothenburg from Liseberg from

The men's 50 km walk at the 2006 European Athletics Championships took place on August 10, 2006 in the streets of Gothenburg .

The French Yohann Diniz became European champion . The second place went to the Spanish Vice World Champion in 1997 and 2001 and European Championship -Third of 2002 Jesús Ángel García . Bronze went to the Russian Yuri Andronow .

Existing records

World record 3:35:29 h RussiaRussia Denis Nischegorodov Cheboksary , Russia June 14, 2004
European best time
EM record 3:40:55 h Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Hartwig Gauder EM in Stuttgart , BR Germany August 31, 1986

Note:
Actually, the previously existing practice of not setting records in marathon running and street walking due to the different track conditions with the exception of championship records has not been used since 2003. However, because of the route, this did not apply to Nischegorodov's performance. The official world record was Robert Korzeniowski with 3:36:03 hours on 27 August 2003 at the world championships in Paris situated. PolandPoland 

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

execution

There was no preliminary round, all 28 walkers went to the final together.

Result

Yohann Diniz won his first of three European Championship titles - in 2007 he became vice world champion
Vice European Champion Jesús Ángel García, 1997 and 2001 , respectively Vice-World Champion and EM -Dritter of 2002 - 2009 again with WM rewarded -Bronze

August 10, 2006 , 9:40 a.m.

The Norwegian Trond Nymark set a fast pace and the field quickly fell apart. The Norwegian held the lead until a few kilometers from the finish, but was then overtaken one after the other by the three later medal winners. With his victory, Yohann Diniz secured the first ever gold medal for a French walker.

space Surname nation Time (h)
1 Yohann Diniz FranceFrance France 3:41:39
2 Jesús Ángel García SpainSpain Spain 3:42:48
3 Yuri Andronov RussiaRussia Russia 3:43:26
4th Trond Nymark NorwayNorway Norway 3:44:17
5 Mikel Odriozola SpainSpain Spain 3:46:34
6th Roman Magdziarczyk PolandPoland Poland 3:47:37
7th Marco De Luca ItalyItaly Italy 3:48:08
8th Peter Korčok SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia 3:51:16
9 Vladimir Kanaikin RussiaRussia Russia 3:51:51
10 Grzegorz Sudoł PolandPoland Poland 3:53:33
11 Diego Cafagna ItalyItaly Italy 3:55:22
12 Fredrik Svensson SwedenSweden Sweden 3:56:15
13 Ingus Janevičs LatviaLatvia Latvia 3:56:32
14th Jarkko Kinnunen FinlandFinland Finland 3:56:54
15th David Boulanger FranceFrance France 3:57:08
16 Andrei Stsepanchuk Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 3:57:27
17th Kamil Kalka PolandPoland Poland 4:01:28
18th Uģis Brūvelis LatviaLatvia Latvia 4:02:03
19th Jorge Costa PortugalPortugal Portugal 4:03:48
20th Antonio Pereira PortugalPortugal Portugal 4:07:46
21st Miloš Holuša Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 4:12:11
DNF José Alejandro Cambil SpainSpain Spain
Alex Schwazer ItalyItaly Italy
Antti Kempas FinlandFinland Finland
Pedro Martins PortugalPortugal Portugal
Aleksandar Raković SerbiaSerbia Serbia
DSQ Eddy Riva FranceFrance France
Denis Nischegorodov RussiaRussia Russia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b IAAF world records. 50k men's walk , accessed November 19, 2019