European Athletics Championships 2006/800 m women

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 8th (preliminary) August 9th (semi-finals) August 10th (final)
Medalists Olga Kotlyarova ( RUS )   Svetlana Kljuka ( RUS )   Rebecca Lyne ( GBR )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The 800-meter race of women in the 2006 European Athletics Championships was to 10 August 2006 of 8 Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

The Russian runners achieved a double victory in this competition. European champion was Olga Kotlyarova . Second place went to Svetlana Kljuka . The British Rebecca Lyne won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	1: 53.28 min	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Munich , FR Germany	July 26, 1983
European record
EM record	1: 55.41 min	Olga Mineeva	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

The European Championship record, which has existed since 1982 , was not achieved at these European championships either.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in four runs. It was planned that the first three athletes per run (highlighted in light blue) as well as the four fastest runners (highlighted in light green) qualify for the semifinals. In the fourth and final race, the Portuguese Maria Carmo Tavares was handicapped and subsequently disqualified. At the same time, the two disadvantaged runners Elisa Cusma and Amanda Pritchard in fourth and sixth place were given the right to start the final (light brown background), although they had not qualified according to the rules. In addition, there were seventeen instead of sixteen participants in the semifinals, so that nine athletes were at the start in one of the two semifinals.

Forward 1

Monika Gradzki was eliminated in sixth of her preliminary run

August 7, 2006, 5:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Mayte Martínez	Spain	2: 01.71
2	Svetlana Cherkassova	Russia	2: 01.82
3	Teodora Kolarova	Bulgaria	2: 01.94
4th	Aneta Lemiesz	Poland	2: 02.11
5	Mihaela Neacşu	Romania	2: 03.42
6th	Monika Gradzki	Germany	2: 03.64
7th	Anny Christofidou	Greece	2: 11.70

Forward 2

August 7, 2006, 6:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Rebecca Lyne	Great Britain	2: 01.87
2	Tetiana Petlyuk	Ukraine	2: 01.90
3	Ewelina Sętowska	Poland	2: 02.43
4th	Rikke Rønholt	Denmark	2: 02.68
5	Elisabeth Grousselle	France	2: 02.69
6th	Sandra Teixeira	Portugal	2: 04.73

Forward 3

August 7, 2006, 6:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	2: 01.01
2	Jolanda Čeplak	Poland	2: 01.08
3	Jemma Simpson	Great Britain	2: 01.55
4th	Liliana Popescu	Romania	2: 01.87
5	Vanja Perišić	Croatia	2: 03.53
6th	Virginie Fouquet	France	2: 05.62

Forward 4

August 7, 2006, 6:20 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Svetlana Kljuka	Russia	2: 02.92
2	Brigita Langerholc	Slovenia	2: 03.04
3	Lucia Klocová	Slovakia	2: 03.17
4th	Elisa Cusma	Italy	2: 06.37
5	Esther Desviat	Spain	2: 07.11
6th	Amanda Pritchard	Great Britain	2: 12.32
DSQ	Maria Carmo Tavares	Portugal	IAAF Rule 163.2 - Disability

Semifinals

In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

August 8, 2006, 5:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	2: 00.03
2	Svetlana Cherkassova	Russia	2: 00.05
3	Mayte Martínez	Spain	2: 00.59
4th	Ewelina Sętowska	Poland	2: 00.60
5	Lucia Klocová	Slovakia	2: 00.63
6th	Jemma Simpson	Great Britain	2: 01.12
7th	Elisa Cusma	Italy	2: 01.17
8th	Rikke Rønholt	Denmark	2: 01.17
9	Jolanda Čeplak	Poland	2: 02.59

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  Ewelina Sętowska did not reach the final as fourth of her semi-final run

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  Lucia Klocová's fifth place in the first semifinals was not enough to make it into the final

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  Jemma Simpson finished sixth in her semi-final race and was eliminated

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  Elisa Cusma, later Elisa Piccione, did not reach the final as seventh in the first semifinal

Run 2

August 8, 2006, 5:55 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Svetlana Kljuka	Russia	1: 58.80
2	Rebecca Lyne	Great Britain	1: 59.11
3	Brigita Langerholc	Slovenia	1: 59.45
4th	Tetiana Petlyuk	Ukraine	1: 59.84
5	Teodora Kolarova	Bulgaria	2: 00.42
6th	Aneta Lemiesz	Poland	2: 01.25
7th	Liliana Popescu	Romania	2: 01.52
DNF	Elisabeth Grousselle	France
DNS	Amanda Pritchard	Great Britain

final

August 10, 2006, 8:05 pm

According to the list of the best before the European Championships, the Russians were registered with the fastest times and only had to fear a slow race because then the sprint force of the Spanish Mayte Martínez had to be taken into account. Svetlana Cherkassova sacrificed her own chances and gave the pacemaker. In the end she fell back to last place, but her teammates won gold and silver. The winner Olga Kotlyarova, a member of successful Russian 4 x 400 meter relay teams for years , came to her first major individual title after switching to the 800 meter distance .

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	1: 57.38
2	Svetlana Kljuka	Russia	1: 57.45
3	Rebecca Lyne	Great Britain	1: 58.45
4th	Tetiana Petlyuk	Ukraine	1: 58.65
5	Brigita Langerholc	Slovenia	1: 59.30
6th	Teodora Kolarova	Bulgaria	2:00.00
7th	Mayte Martínez	Spain	2: 00.10
8th	Svetlana Cherkassova	Russia	2: 00.43

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  Tetjana Petljuk reached fourth place

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  Brigita Langerholc came in fifth

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  The 2002 Vice European Champion Mayte Martínez had to be satisfied with seventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 26, 2019
• Women 800m European Championship 2006 Göteborg on todor66.com, accessed November 26, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 26, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 800m European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 495f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 26, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, 800 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 26, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 26, 2019

Video

• 2006 European Championships Women's 800m on youtube.com (Spanish), accessed November 26, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed November 2, 2019
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 88 , accessed on November 26, 2019