European Athletics Championships 2006 / Men's discus throw
19th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 24 athletes from 13 countries | ||||||||
venue | Gothenburg | ||||||||
Competition location | Ullevi Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 10th (qualification) August 12th (final) |
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The discus throw men at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 10 and 12 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.
In this competition, the throwers from Estonia won two medals, silver and bronze. European champion became the best discus thrower of those years with the Lithuanian Virgilijus Alekna . He had two Olympic gold medals ( 2000 / 2004 ), two world titles ( 2003 / 2005 won) and was at the last two European Championships Second ( 2002 ) and Third ( 1998 become). Second place went to the 2005 vice world champion, Gerd Kanter . Bronze went to the 2004 Olympic third-placed Aleksander Tammert .
Existing records
World record | 74.08 m | Jürgen Schult | Neubrandenburg GDR (now Germany ) | June 6, 1986 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 68.83 m | Róbert Fazekas | EM Munich , Germany | August 11, 2002 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved. European champion Virgilijus Alekna only missed the record by sixteen centimeters.
doping
The eleventh-placed Hungarian Roland Varga was convicted of the doping rule violation in 2007 on the basis of a trial on July 22, 2006. He was banned for two years and his results since the sampling were canceled. Varga's compatriot Gábor Máté , who initially finished twelfth, moved up one place.
The main victim of the doping fraud was the German Robert Harting , who should actually have started in the final as twelfth in the qualification.
Legend
Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:
- | waived |
x | invalid |
qualification
August 10, 2006, 10:30 a.m.
24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 63.50 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the seven next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.11 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals. It later emerged that Roland Varga had violated the doping regulations as one of the finalists.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Best width (m) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | annotation |
1 | Gerd Kanter | Estonia | 66.71 | x | 61.49 | 66.71 | |
2 | Piotr Małachowski | Poland | 63.76 | 61.75 | 63.76 | - | |
3 | Rutger Smith | Netherlands | 63.53 | 60.58 | 63.53 | - | |
4th | Aleksander Tammert | Estonia | 63.51 | 63.51 | - | - | |
5 | Michael Möllenbeck | Germany | 60.62 | x | 58.42 | 60.62 | |
6th | Sergiu Urzu | Romania | 60.50 | 60.50 | x | 58.39 | |
7th | Andrzej Krawczyk | Poland | 60.11 | 60.11 | 59.78 | 58.66 | |
8th | Gerhard Mayer | Austria | 59.54 | 55.59 | x | 59.54 | |
9 | Mikko Kyyrö | Finland | 58.59 | 58.59 | 57.82 | x | |
10 | Stanislav Alekseyev | Russia | 56.91 | 56.91 | x | 55.71 | |
11 | Cristiano Andrei | Italy | 54.82 | 54.82 | 54.42 | 54.74 | |
DOP | Roland Varga | Hungary | admitted to the finals |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | Best width (m) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | annotation |
1 | Virgilijus Alekna | Lithuania | 64.53 | 57.25 | x | 64.53 | |
2 | Lars Riedel | Germany | 63.36 | 63.36 | - | - | |
3 | Mario Pestano | Spain | 63.08 | 63.08 | 62.42 | 62.05 | |
4th | Gábor Máté | Hungary | 60.53 | 60.53 | x | x | |
5 | Robert Harting | Germany | 59.87 | 59.24 | 59.38 | 59.87 | actually qualified for the final |
6th | Mark Israel | Estonia | 59.80 | x | 59.30 | 59.80 | |
7th | Olgierd Stański | Poland | 59.30 | x | x | 59.30 | |
8th | Bogdan Pishchalnikov | Russia | 58.77 | 58.77 | x | 56.34 | |
9 | Hannes Kirchler | Italy | 56.78 | x | x | 56.78 | |
10 | Niklas Arrhenius | Sweden | 56.62 | x | x | 56.62 | |
11 | Mika Loikkanen | Finland | 56.08 | 56.08 | 53.98 | x | |
NM | Dmitri Shevchenko | Russia | ogV | x | x | x |
final
August 12, 2006, 4:30 p.m.
After bronze in 1998 and silver in 2002 , Virgilijus Alekna finally won the first ever gold medal for Lithuania at European Championships in 2006. The two Estonians Gerd Kanter and Aleksander Tammert on the squares and the Latvian Staņislavs Olijars in the hurdles made the penultimate day of the European Championships 2006 the Day of the Balts.
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | 4th attempt (m) | 5th attempt (m) | 6th attempt (m) |
1 | Virgilijus Alekna | Lithuania | 68.67 | 68.67 | 67.36 | 67.34 | 67.37 | 67.33 | 66.57 |
2 | Gerd Kanter | Estonia | 68.03 | 61.04 | x | 68.03 | x | x | x |
3 | Aleksander Tammert | Estonia | 66.14 | 62.02 | 65.32 | 66.14 | 65.59 | 65.29 | 60.72 |
4th | Mario Pestano | Spain | 64.84 | 63.80 | 64.84 | 62.86 | 63.54 | 64.26 | 62.52 |
5 | Michael Möllenbeck | Germany | 64.82 | x | 64.82 | 64.75 | 62.89 | 62.00 | - |
6th | Piotr Małachowski | Poland | 64.57 | 61.81 | 64.57 | 62.52 | 61.83 | 63.77 | x |
7th | Rutger Smith | Netherlands | 64.46 | 63.52 | 63.33 | 64.06 | 62.14 | 62.61 | 64.46 |
8th | Lars Riedel | Germany | 64.11 | 64.11 | x | 59.88 | 64.07 | 59.56 | 58.43 |
9 | Sergiu Urzu | Romania | 62.84 | 58.14 | 62.84 | x | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
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10 | Andrzej Krawczyk | Poland | 61.56 | x | 59.77 | 61.56 | |||
11 | Gábor Máté | Hungary | 57.35 | 56.52 | 57.35 | x | |||
DOP | Roland Varga | Hungary |
Michael Möllenbeck, WM -Dritter of 2001 /2005 and EM -Dritter 2002, reached number five
Rutger Smith, third in the shot put , finished seventh
Videos
- 2006 European Championships Men's Discus - 1st Virgilijus Alekna on youtube.com, accessed on November 23, 2019
- 2006 European Championships Men's Discus - 2nd Gerd Kanter on youtube.com, accessed on November 23, 2019
- 2006 European Championships Men's Discus - 3rd Aleksander Tammert on youtube.com, accessed November 23, 2019
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on November 23, 2019
- European Championship 2006 Göteborg, Men Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed on November 23, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 23, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Discus Throw European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 493 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 23, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on November 23, 2019
- 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 23, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed November 23, 2019