European Athletics Championships 2006 / men's hammer throw

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	23 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 9 (qualification) ; August 12 (final)
	Medalist
	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen ( FIN )
	Vadsim Dsevyatousky ( BLR )
	Markus Esser ( GER )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The hammer throw men in the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 9 and 12 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

European champion was the Finnish 2005 World Cup, Olli-Pekka Karjalainen , who finished third . He won against the Belarusian Wadsim Dzewjatouski . Bronze went to the German vice world champion from 2005 Markus Esser .

Existing records

World record	86.74 m	Soviet Union Yuri Sedych	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 30, 1986
European record
EM record

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

doping

Two Belarusian throwers were convicted of doping and disqualified:

In 2014, Iwan Zichan , who had already been convicted of doping several times , was initially the first, and was subsequently disqualified due to another doping offense. All his results between August 22, 2004 and August 21, 2006 were canceled.
Andrei Varantsou , initially last in the final, was tested positive for the first time in 2005 and, as a multiple offender, received a lifelong ban in 2013 after numerous violations of the doping regulations. Many of his achieved results, including the result of these European Championships, have been deleted.

In the end result, the participants moved up by corresponding ranks.

The main victims of this triple doping fraud were five athletes:

Medal winners:
- The Finn Olli-Pekka Karjalainen had to wait many years before he was declared European champion.
- The German Markus Esser was initially fourth and could not take part in the award ceremony before the bronze medal was awarded to him after many years.
Two throwers were denied participation in the final, although they would have been eligible to participate after the doping offender had been disqualified:
- Miloslav Konopka , Slovakia
- Libor Good Friday , Slovakia
One of the finalists would have been in the final of the top eight and would have been entitled to three further throws:
- Nicola Vizzoni , Italy

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

August 9, 2006, 10:05 am

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 77.50 m. Two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the ten next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 74.69 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals. It later emerged that two of the finalists, Iwan Zichan and Andrei Varantsou, had violated the doping regulations.

Group A

Libor Charfreitag should have been in the final with his 74.13 m, but two doping fraudsters were still in front of him
Christophe Épalles 69.12 m were clearly too little for the final

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	annotation
1	Karsten Kobs	Germany Germany	77.52	75.47	75.42	77.52
2	Krisztián Pars	Hungary Hungary	77.20	77.20	-	-
3	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland Poland	76.39	76.39	x	x
4th	Marco Lingua	Italy Italy	74.69	74.69	x	x
5	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia Slovakia	74.13	x	74.13	x	actually qualified for the final
6th	Vadim Khersontsev	Russia Russia	73.24	73.24	x	72.87
7th	David Soderberg	Finland Finland	72.49	72.36	72.49	x
8th	Christophe Épalle	France France	69.12	67.92	x	69.12
9	Vladimír Maška	Czech Republic Czech Republic	68.63	68.63	68.11	68.29
10	Fatih Eryıldırım	Turkey Turkey	67.54	x	x	67.54
DOP	Andrei Varantsou	Belarus Belarus					admitted to the finals
DNS	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine Ukraine

Group B

Lukáš Melich retired with 73.77 in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	annotation
1	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland Finland	79.00	79.00	-	-
2	Vadsim Dsevyatousky	Belarus Belarus	76.87	x	76.86	76.87
3	Markus Esser	Germany Germany	76.67	73.25	76.67	x
4th	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia Slovenia	75.90	x	74.64	75.90
5	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy Italy	75.21	74.32	75.21	74.81
6th	Andras Haklits	Croatia Croatia	74.96	x	74.96	x
7th	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia Slovakia	74.64	71.98	74.64	x	actually qualified for the final
8th	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic Czech Republic	73.77	70.33	73.77	71.90
9	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece Greece	72.94	71.64	72.94	x
10	Eşref Apak	Turkey Turkey	70.17	70.17	x	x
11	Roman Rozna	Moldova Republic Moldova	68.21	x	68.21	x
DOP	Ivan Zichan	Belarus Belarus					admitted to the finals

final

August 12, 2006, 1:45 p.m. - originally scheduled for August 11

After the competition was postponed by one day due to rain showers and the resulting delays in the decathlon , it began to rain again right on time at the beginning of the finals. As a result, the conditions were difficult, the number of failed attempts in this final increased and the quality of the distances suffered.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	annotation
1	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland Finland	80.84	78.89	76.86	76.23	80.84	80.60	x
2	Vadsim Dsevyatousky	Belarus Belarus	80.76	77.44	77.89	78.55	80.76	79.78	75.69
3	Markus Esser	Germany Germany	79.19	74.53	x	76.79	x	77.75	79.19
4th	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland Poland	78.97	x	78.89	78.97	x	x	74.82
5	Krisztián Pars	Hungary Hungary	78.34	38.33	75.60	78.34	x	x	x
6th	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia Slovenia	78.18	77.10	78.18	x	76.07	75.49	77.47
7th	Karsten Kobs	Germany Germany	77.93	76.32	77.79	x	x	77.84	77.93
8th	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy Italy	76.55	76.55	75.51	76.06	not in the final of the eight best throwers			actually entitled to 3 more throws
9	Andras Haklits	Croatia Croatia	74.83	x	74.83	x
10	Marco Lingua	Italy Italy	73.73	x	73.73	73.64
DOP	Ivan Zichan	Belarus Belarus
DOP	Andrei Varantsou	Belarus Belarus

European champion Olli-Pekka Karjalainen, 2005 World Cup third
Vice European champion Wadsim Dzewjatouski - like his two teammates who were disqualified here, he was also later proven to have been doping
With bronze, Markus Esser won one of several medals that were only awarded to him years after the competition because of doping fraudsters placed in front of him
Szymon Ziółkowski, Olympic champion in 2000 and world champion in 2001 , came out fourth without a medal
The fifth-placed Krisztián Pars later won several medals, but was also one of the athletes with a temporary doping-related ban
Primož Kozmus reached sixth place - later he was Olympic champion ( 2008 ) and world champion ( 2009 )
The world champion from 1999 and European Championship third from 1998 Karsten Kobs came in seventh place
Nicola Vizzoni finished eighth