European Athletics Championships 2006 / Women's Shot Put

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	17 athletes from 10 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 11th (qualification) August 12th (final)
Medalists Natallja Charaneka ( BLR )   Petra Lammert ( GER )   Olga Ryabinkina ( RUS )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The shot put women at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 11 and 12 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

The European champion was the Belarusian Natallja Charaneka . The German Petra Lammert won the silver medal. Bronze went to the reigning world champion Olga Rjabinkina from Russia.

Existing records

World record	22.63 m	Natalia Lisovskaya	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 7, 1987
European record
EM record	21.69 m	Wita Pavlysch	EM in Budapest , Hungary	August 20, 1998

The existing EM record was never in danger at these European championships.

doping

With the Russian Nadseja Astaptschuk there was a doping case in this discipline. The athlete was convicted of doping fraud several times in her career, with corresponding consequences, including the withdrawal of results. These included her title at the 2005 World Championships , her second place at the European Championships here in Gothenburg and her Olympic victory in 2012 .

The main victims were three athletes:

• Olga Rjabinkina , Russia - She received her medal significantly late and was not present at the actual award ceremony after the competition.
• Laurence Manfrédi , France - She had acquired the right to participate in the final as twelfth in qualifying, but was not allowed to take part because she was initially classified as thirteenth because of doping fraud that had not yet been punished.
• Krystyna Zabawska , Poland - When she was actually eighth in the preliminaries in the final, she would have allowed three more attempts.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

August 11, 2006, 10:10 am

Although only seventeen athletes were registered, a qualification took place, but it was not held in two groups. All the shot putters competed together and determined the twelve best for the final on the following day. The qualifying distance for direct entry into the final was 17.75 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next three participants to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 17.15 m had to be achieved for the final. The finalists also included the Russian Nadseja Astaptschuk, who was later disqualified for doping fraud and who took the place in the final from one of these athletes, the French Laurence Manfrédi.

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	annotation
1	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.75	18.75	-	-
2	Olga Ryabinkina	Russia	18.45	18.45	-	-
3	Krystyna Zabawska	Poland	18.20	18.20	-	-
4th	Natallja Charaneka	Belarus	18.14	18.14	-	-
5	Chiara Rosa	Italy	18.05	18.05	-	-
6th	Petra Lammert	Germany	18.02	18.02	-	-
7th	Assunta Legnante	Italy	17.64	17.64	x	17.24
8th	Irina Khudoroschkina	Russia	17.58	17.29	17.58	17.09
9	Magdalena Sobieszek	Poland	17.54	16.97	17.54	x
10	Cristiana Checchi	Italy	17.48	x	17.48	x
11	Oksana Gaus	Russia	17.15	17.06	16.95	17.15
12	Laurence Manfrédi	France	16.95	16.94	16.74	16.95	actually qualified for the final
13	Denise Kemkers	Netherlands	15.98	15.32	15.47	15.98
14th	Jana Kárníková	Czech Republic	15.79	15.69	x	15.79
15th	Filiz Kadoğan	Turkey	15.78	15.26	15.78	15.09
16	Helena Engman	Sweden	15.77	15.60	x	15.77
DOP	Nadsey Astaptchuk	Belarus					admitted to the finals

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  Laurence Manfrédi - with 16.95 m initially thirteenth, she could actually have participated in the final after the disqualification of the doping offender Nadseja Astaptschuk

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  15.98 m was not enough for Denise Kemkers to be in the final

final

August 12, 2006, 1:35 p.m.

In the first attempt, Nadine Kleinert took the lead, but could not improve afterwards. Petra Lammert took the lead with 19.06 m in the second round. In the final battle she was overtaken by the reigning indoor world champion Natallja Charaneka from Belarus, but she maintained silver until the end. Nadine Kleinert finally came in fifth. In a competition with few highlights - which was certainly also due to the weather - only the fourth-placed Italian Assunta Legnante exceeded her personal best of the year.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Natallja Charaneka	Belarus	19.43	18.43	18.86	18.65	19.43	x	x
2	Petra Lammert	Germany	19.17	18.45	19.06	18.26	x	18.31	19.17
3	Olga Ryabinkina	Russia	19.02	x	18.44	18.25	x	19.02	x
4th	Assunta Legnante	Italy	18.83	18.32	18.10	x	18.67	18.51	18.83
5	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.47	18.47	18.35	x	18.14	x	x
6th	Irina Khudoroschkina	Russia	18.44	17.81	17.79	18.44	x	x	18.01
7th	Chiara Rosa	Italy	18.23	18.15	18.10	18.23	x	x	17.85
8th	Krystyna Zabawska *	Poland	17.99	x	17.99	17.77	not in the final of the eight best athletes
9	Oksana Gaus	Russia	17.59	17.59	16.97	17.57
10	Cristiana Checchi	Italy	17.42	x	17.42	x
11	Magdalena Sobieszek	Poland	16.17	x	x	16.17
DOP	Nadsey Astaptchuk	Belarus

• Krystyna Zabawska would have conceded three more kicks in the final

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  Petra Lammert - surprising silver medalist

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  Assunta Legnante came in fourth

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  Nadine Kleinert, 2004 Olympic silver medalist 1999 / 2001 World silver medalist, 2005 World Championship -Third, finished fifth - she won twice World Cup -Silver ( 2007 / 2009 ) and was 2012 European Champion

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  Chiara Rosa came in seventh

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  Krystyna Zabawska reached eighth place - she would have allowed three more attempts in the final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 at european-athletics.org, accessed on December 4, 2019
• European Championship 2006 Göteborg, Women Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed on December 4, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on December 4, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Shot Put European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 498 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on December 4, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, women's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on December 4, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on December 4, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed December 4, 2019
2. ↑ Olympics 2012: Nadzeya Ostapchuk Loses Gold Medal Following Failed Doping Test on bleacherreport.com, August 13, 2012, accessed on December 4, 2019