European Athletics Championships 2006 / Men's discus throw

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19th European Athletics Championships
Logo of the 19th European Athletics Championships
discipline Discus throw
gender Men
Attendees 24 athletes from 13 countries
venue SwedenSweden Gothenburg
Competition location Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase August 10th (qualification)
August 12th (final)
Medalist
gold medal Virgilijus Alekna ( LTU ) Lithuania 1989Lithuania 
Silver medal Gerd Kanter ( EST ) EstoniaEstonia 
Bronze medal Aleksander Tammert ( EST ) EstoniaEstonia 
The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

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 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Jürgen Schult Neubrandenburg GDR (now Germany ) June 6, 1986
European record
EM record 68.83 m HungaryHungary 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. Lithuania 1989Lithuania 

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:

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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

Gerhard Mayer achieved 59.54 m, but had no final chance with a distance of less than sixty meters
space Surname nation Best width (m) 1st attempt (m) 2. attempt (m) 3rd attempt (m) annotation
1 Gerd Kanter EstoniaEstonia Estonia 66.71 x 61.49 66.71
2 Piotr Małachowski PolandPoland Poland 63.76 61.75 63.76 -
3 Rutger Smith NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 63.53 60.58 63.53 -
4th Aleksander Tammert EstoniaEstonia Estonia 63.51 63.51 - -
5 Michael Möllenbeck GermanyGermany Germany 60.62 x 58.42 60.62
6th Sergiu Urzu RomaniaRomania Romania 60.50 60.50 x 58.39
7th Andrzej Krawczyk PolandPoland Poland 60.11 60.11 59.78 58.66
8th Gerhard Mayer AustriaAustria Austria 59.54 55.59 x 59.54
9 Mikko Kyyrö FinlandFinland Finland 58.59 58.59 57.82 x
10 Stanislav Alekseyev RussiaRussia Russia 56.91 56.91 x 55.71
11 Cristiano Andrei ItalyItaly Italy 54.82 54.82 54.42 54.74
DOP Roland Varga HungaryHungary 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 1989Lithuania Lithuania 64.53 57.25 x 64.53
2 Lars Riedel GermanyGermany Germany 63.36 63.36 - -
3 Mario Pestano SpainSpain Spain 63.08 63.08 62.42 62.05
4th Gábor Máté HungaryHungary Hungary 60.53 60.53 x x
5 Robert Harting GermanyGermany Germany 59.87 59.24 59.38 59.87 actually qualified for the final
6th Mark Israel EstoniaEstonia Estonia 59.80 x 59.30 59.80
7th Olgierd Stański PolandPoland Poland 59.30 x x 59.30
8th Bogdan Pishchalnikov RussiaRussia Russia 58.77 58.77 x 56.34
9 Hannes Kirchler ItalyItaly Italy 56.78 x x 56.78
10 Niklas Arrhenius SwedenSweden Sweden 56.62 x x 56.62
11 Mika Loikkanen FinlandFinland Finland 56.08 56.08 53.98 x
NM Dmitri Shevchenko RussiaRussia 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 1989Lithuania Lithuania 68.67 68.67 67.36 67.34 67.37 67.33 66.57
2 Gerd Kanter EstoniaEstonia Estonia 68.03 61.04 x 68.03 x x x
3 Aleksander Tammert EstoniaEstonia Estonia 66.14 62.02 65.32 66.14 65.59 65.29 60.72
4th Mario Pestano SpainSpain Spain 64.84 63.80 64.84 62.86 63.54 64.26 62.52
5 Michael Möllenbeck GermanyGermany Germany 64.82 x 64.82 64.75 62.89 62.00 -
6th Piotr Małachowski PolandPoland Poland 64.57 61.81 64.57 62.52 61.83 63.77 x
7th Rutger Smith NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 64.46 63.52 63.33 64.06 62.14 62.61 64.46
8th Lars Riedel GermanyGermany Germany 64.11 64.11 x 59.88 64.07 59.56 58.43
9 Sergiu Urzu RomaniaRomania Romania 62.84 58.14 62.84 x not in the final of the
eight best throwers
10 Andrzej Krawczyk PolandPoland Poland 61.56 x 59.77 61.56
11 Gábor Máté HungaryHungary Hungary 57.35 56.52 57.35 x
DOP Roland Varga HungaryHungary Hungary

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  1. IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed November 23, 2019