European Athletics Championships 2006/800 m men

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	27 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary) August 11th (semi-finals) August 13th (final)
Medalist Bram Som ( NED )   David Fiegen ( LUX )   Sam Ellis ( GBR )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The 800-meter race of the men at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was from 10 to 13 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

European champion was the Dutchman Bram Som . David Fiegen from Luxembourg won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Briton Sam Ellis .

Existing records

World record	1: 41.11 min	Wilson Kipketer	Cologne , Germany	August 24, 1997
European record
Championship record	1: 43.84 min	Olaf Beyer	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 31, 1978

These European Championships survived the since 1978 existing EM -record one more time.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

August 10, 2006, 11:55 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Florent Lacasse	France	1: 47.22
2	David Fiegen	Luxembourg	1: 47.41
3	Miguel Quesada	Spain	1: 47.70
4th	Sam Ellis	Great Britain	1: 47.72
5	Mattias Claesson	Sweden	1: 47.82
6th	Selahattin Çobanoğlu	Turkey	1: 49.07
7th	Efthímios Papadópoulos	Greece	1: 49.36

Forward 2

August 10, 2006, 12:03 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Michael Rimmer	Great Britain	1: 47.10
2	Bram Som	Netherlands	1: 47.26
3	Mirosław Formela	Poland	1: 47.39
4th	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 47.40
5	Ramil Aritkulov	Russia	1: 47.69
6th	Dave Campbell	Ireland	1: 47.70
7th	Bjorn Margeirsson	Iceland	1: 47.91

Forward 3

René Herms had no chance as sixth of his heat

August 10, 2006, 12:11 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Dmitrijs Miļkevičs	Latvia	1: 47.84
2	Juan de Dios Jurado	Spain	1: 47.89
3	Grzegorz Krzosek	Poland	1: 48.08
4th	Maurizio Bobbato	Italy	1: 48.21
5	Ivan Nesterov	Russia	1: 48.22
6th	René Herms	Germany	1: 48.67
DNS	Mehdi Baala	France

Forward 4

August 10, 2006, 12:22 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Manuel Olmedo	Spain	1: 49.54
2	Jozef Repčík	Slovakia	1: 49.63
3	Thomas Matthys	Belgium	1: 49.76
4th	Dmitry Bogdanov	Russia	1: 49.85
5	Thomas Chamney	Ireland	1: 50.12
6th	Richard Hill	Great Britain	1: 50.26
7th	Lee Taylor	Gibraltar	1: 56.06

Semifinals

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

Run 1

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  Manuel Olmedo was eliminated in the semifinals despite his fourth place due to the time rule - the second semifinal race was significantly faster

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  Jozef Repčík (here in third place) finished eighth and last in his semi-finals

August 11, 2006, 7:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Florent Lacasse	France	1: 49.12
2	Bram Som	Netherlands	1: 49.15
3	Sam Ellis	Great Britain	1: 49.23
4th	Manuel Olmedo	Spain	1: 49.37
5	Thomas Matthys	Belgium	1: 49.65
6th	Mirosław Formela	Poland	1: 49.70
7th	Juan de Dios Jurado	Spain	1: 50.11
8th	Jozef Repčík	Slovakia	1: 50.89

Run 2

August 11, 2006, 7:14 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Miguel Quesada	Spain	1: 47.12
2	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 47.20
3	Dmitrijs Miļkevičs	Latvia	1: 47.35
4th	David Fiegen	Luxembourg	1: 47.50
5	Michael Rimmer	Great Britain	1: 47.82
6th	Grzegorz Krzosek	Poland	1: 48.11
7th	Mattias Claesson	Sweden	1: 48.27
8th	Ramil Aritkulov	Russia	1: 48.42

final

August 13, 2006, 3:10 p.m.

In the final spurt there had been jostling. After a protest, it was checked whether Bram Som should be disqualified for disability. Therefore the announcement of the result was delayed. But after the protest was rejected, Bram Som had won the first runner's gold for a Dutchman since 1982 . David Fiegen won the first ever European Championship medal for Luxembourg.

After a rejected protest, Bram Som was officially named European champion

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Bram Som	Netherlands	1: 46.56
2	David Fiegen	Luxembourg	1: 46.59
3	Sam Ellis	Great Britain	1: 46.64
4th	Dmitrijs Miļkevičs	Latvia	1: 46.70
5	Miguel Quesada	Spain	1: 46.91
6th	Florent Lacasse	France	1: 46.95
7th	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 47.11
8th	Michael Rimmer	Great Britain	1: 47.66

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  Florent Lacasse came in fourth

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  Michael Rimmer (in this photo in the center) came in eighth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on November 15, 2019
• Men 800m European Championship 2006 Göteborg on todor66.com, accessed November 15, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 15, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 800m European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 490 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 15, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, 800 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on November 15, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 15, 2019

Video

• 2006 European Championship 800m men Final Goteborg 06 on youtube.com (Spanish), accessed on November 15, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed November 16, 2019