European Athletics Championships 2006 / Women's hammer throw

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Women
Attendees	40 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification) August 8th (final)
Medalists Tatjana Lysenko ( RUS )   Gulfija Chanafejewa ( RUS )   Kamila Skolimowska ( POL )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The hammer throw women at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 7 and 8 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

In this competition there was a Russian double victory. European champion was the world record holder Tatjana Lyssenko . Second place went to Gulfija Chanafejewa , who was the world record holder for twelve days ahead of Tatjana Lysenko. The Polish Olympic Champion from 2000 and Vice European Champion from 2002 Kamila Skolimowska won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	77.41 m	Tatiana Lysenko	Zhukovsky , Russia	June 24, 2006
European record
Championship record	72.94 m	Olga Kusenkova	EM Munich , Germany	August 9, 2002

Record improvements

European champion Tatjana Lyssenko improved the existing EM record three times:

• 73.23 m - qualification on August 7th, 1st attempt
• 74.4856 m - final on August 8, 1st attempt
• 76.67 m - final on August 8, 3rd attempt

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

Forty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. This large number of athletes in this still young discipline hammer throw was very high, especially compared to the other throwing disciplines. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the finals was 70.00 m. Two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight next-placed throwers to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 66.81 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

August 7, 2006, 10:15 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	68.92	x	66.75	68.92
2	Iryna Sekacheva	Ukraine	68.81	68.81	x	68.31
3	Wolha Zander	Belarus	67.54	67.54	65.72	x
4th	Gulfija Hanafejewa	Russia	67.53	x	67.53	x
5	Amélie Perrin	France	67.28	66.10	59.83	67.28
6th	Alexándra Papayeoryíou	Greece	66.81	65.37	x	66.81
7th	Susanne Keil	Germany	66.45	65.90	66.45	x
8th	Sini Pöyry	Finland	65.72	64.12	62.24	65.72
9	Cecilia Nilsson	Sweden	65.23	64.64	x	65.23
10	Eileen O'Keeffe	Ireland	65.07	62.36	65.07	x
11	Ester Balassini	Italy	64.20	64.20	63.84	x
12	Aksana Myankova	Belarus	62.85	x	62.85	x
13	Mona Holm	Norway	62.65	x	62.65	x
14th	Eva Orbán	Hungary	62.55	60.64	62.55	60.27
15th	Dolores Pedrares	Spain	61.69	x	61.69	60.68
16	Lenka Ledvinová	Czech Republic	60.85	60.85	60.47	x
17th	Vânia Silva	Portugal	60.51	59.29	59.96	60.51
18th	Shirley Webb	Great Britain	60.30	59.84	x	60.30
19th	Maris Rõngelep	Estonia	60.10	x	56.09	60.10
20th	Vanessa Steen Mortensen	Denmark	55.68	55.33	55.68	x

• 

  With her 62.85 m Aksana Myankova was eliminated

• 

  Mona Holm achieved 62.65 m, which was not enough for the final

• 

  62.55 m was not enough for Eva Orbán to be in the final

Group B

August 7, 2006, 12:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Tatiana Lysenko	Russia	73.23 CR	73.23 CR	-	-
2	Betty Heidler	Germany	71.40	71.40	-	-
3	Maryna Smalyachkova	Belarus	69.19	67.58	69.19	x
4th	Clarissa Claretti	Italy	69.02	68.43	67.33	69.02
5	Nataliya Zolotuhina	Ukraine	68.65	65.78	64.56	68.65
6th	Kathrin Klaas	Germany	67.59	66.78	67.59	x
7th	Stéphanie Falzon	France	65.71	x	65.53	65.71
8th	Katarzyna day care center	Poland	64.77	64.77	x	x
9	Mihaela Melinte	Romania	63.96	63.96	x	63.48
10	Ivana Brkljačić	Croatia	63.31	63.31	56.66	x
11	Ekaterina Koroshik	Russia	62.97	x	x	62.97
12	Martina Danišová	Slovakia	62.39	x	x	62.39
13	Silvia Salis	Italy	61.69	57.60	x	61.69
14th	Vanda Nickl	Hungary	61.64	61.64	57.70	56.88
15th	Katalin Divós	Hungary	60.91	57.86	60.91	x
16	Merja Korpela	Finland	60.86	55.76	60.86	60.64
17th	Lucie Vrbenská	Czech Republic	59.94	55.83	59.94	x
18th	Berta Castells	Spain	58.93	x	x	58.93
19th	Tracey Andersson	Sweden	58.77	x	58.77	x
20th	Zoe Derham	Great Britain	56.94	56.94	x	x

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  Ivana Brkljačić scored 63.31 m and was eliminated

• 

  61.69 m was not enough for Silvia Salis for the final

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  Merja Korpela did not survive the qualification with her 60.86 m

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  With 58.83 m, Berta Castells had no chance of participating in the final

final

August 8, 2006, 7:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Tatiana Lysenko	Russia	76.67 CR	74.85 CR	73.00	76.67 CR	72.35	73.37	x
2	Gulfija Hanafejewa	Russia	74.50	70.40	x	71.04	68.47	74.50	73.94
3	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	72.58	72.58	67.35	67.73	x	x	x
4th	Maryna Smalyachkova	Belarus	71.87	69.27	71.54	69.10	69.40	71.87	71.80
5	Betty Heidler	Germany	70.89	x	70.89	69.61	70.12	70.11	65.55
6th	Kathrin Klaas	Germany	70.59	68.81	70.59	64.29	x	x	66.06
7th	Clarissa Claretti	Italy	69.78	64.27	68.47	66.76	69.00	x	69.78
8th	Iryna Sekacheva	Ukraine	69.08	67.51	x	68.50	69.08	65.36	68.97
9	Alexándra Papayeoryíou	Greece	67.95	x	x	67.95	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Nataliya Zolotuhina	Ukraine	65.30	65.30	63.56	x
11	Amélie Perrin	France	62.36	62.36	x	x
NM	Wolha Zander	Belarus	ogV	x	x	x

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  After her world record in June, she is now European champion: Tatjana Lyssenko - later she was stripped of several titles for violating the doping regulations, most recently she was banned for eight years

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  Bronze went to the 2000 Olympic champion and 2002 vice European champion Kamila Skolimowska - she died of a pulmonary embolism in a training camp in 2009

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  Betty Heidler finished fifth - she still had great successes ahead of her, including becoming world champion in 2007 and European champion in 2010

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  Kathrin Klaas came in sixth place

Videos

• 2006 European Championships Women's Hammer - 1st Tatyana Lysenko on youtube.com (English), accessed December 7, 2019
• 2006 European Championships Women's Hammer - 3rd Kamila Skolimowska on youtube.com (English), accessed December 7, 2019

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 at european-athletics.org, accessed December 7, 2019
• European Championship 2006 Göteborg, Women Hammer Throw on todor66.com, accessed December 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed December 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Hammer Throw European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 498 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on December 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, hammer throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on December 7, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on December 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Women , accessed December 7, 2019
2. ↑ CAS bans twelve Russian athletes on sportschau.de February 1, 2019, accessed on December 7, 2019