European Athletics Championships 2006 / Men's Shot Put

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification / final)
	Medalist
	Ralf Bartels ( GER )
	Joachim Olsen ( DEN )
	Rutger Smith ( NED )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The shot put men at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on August 7, 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

The European champion was the German Ralf Bartels , who had won bronze at the European Championships in 2002 and the World Championships in 2005 . He won ahead of the Danish Vice European Champion from 2002 and the Olympic runner-up in 2004 Joachim Olsen . The Dutch runner-up in 2005, Rutger Smith , came third .

Existing records

World record	23.12 m	United States Randy Barnes	Los Angeles , USA	May 20, 1990
European record	23.06 m	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 Ulf Timmermann	Chania - Crete , Greece	May 22, 1988
EM record	22.22 m	Switzerland Werner Günthör	EM Stuttgart , Germany	August 28, 1986

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

doping

There were three doping cases in this competition:

Because of repeated doping offenses, all results of Belarusian Andrej Michnewitsch - here his second place - have been canceled since August 2005.
The Ukrainian Jurij Bilonoh was initially sixth. He was banned from August 18, 2004 to August 17, 2006. All results including the Olympic victory in 2004 and the EM result have been deleted.
The third doping offender was the Finn Ville Tiisanoja , who originally came in eleventh. He admitted to taking testosterone , was banned for two years and fined 50,000 euros.

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

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

The Dutchman Rutger Smith received his bronze medal only after Michnewitsch had been deprived of his second place, and thus could not take part in the award ceremony of the top three.
Three shot putters were denied entry to the final, although they would have been eligible to participate after the doping offenders were disqualified:
- Mikuláš Konopka , Slovakia
- Milan Jovanović , Serbia
- Nedžad Mulabegović , Croatia
Two finalists would have been in the final of the top eight and would each have been entitled to three more hits:
- Manuel Martínez , Spain
- Pavel Lyschyn , Belarus

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

August 7, 2006, 10:05 am

32 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 20.20 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.46 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

However, three of the finalists were subsequently disqualified for doping fraud.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	annotation
1	Joachim Olsen	Denmark Denmark	20.32	19.79	20.32	-
2	Pavel Sofjin	Russia Russia	20.15	x	19.77	20.15
3	Andy Dittmar	Germany Germany	19.68	19.43	19.29	19.68
4th	Milan Jotanović	Serbia Serbia	19.53	18.68	18.53	19.53	actually qualified for the final
5	Carl Myerscough	United Kingdom Great Britain	19.52	19.52	x	19.02
6th	Milan Haborák	Slovakia Slovakia	19.38	19.09	18.98	19.38
7th	Conny Karlsson	Finland Finland	19.18	18.92	x	19.18
8th	Raigo Toompuu	Estonia Estonia	19.11	18.95	19.11	x
9	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania Romania	19.00	x	x	19.00
10	Gaëtan Bucki	France France	18.94	18.85	18.94	x
11	Galin Kostadinov	Bulgaria Bulgaria	18.43	18.04	18.43	18.27
12	Jimmy Nordin	Sweden Sweden	18.35	18.26	18.28	18.35
13	Hamza Alić	Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina	18.15	x	18.15	x
14th	Ivan Emilianov	Moldova Republic Moldova	18.04	18.04	17.78	17.65
DOP	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus Belarus					admitted to the finals
DOP	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine Ukraine					admitted to the finals

Carl Myerscough retired with 19.52 m in qualification
Milan Haborák achieved 19.38 m, which was not enough for the final
With 18.94 m Gaëtan Bucki had no chance of participating in the final
18.35 m was far too little for Jimmy Nordin to be in the final

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	annotation
1	Ralf Bartels	Germany Germany	20.58	20.58	-	-
2	Rutger Smith	Netherlands Netherlands	20.39	20.39	-	-
3	Manuel Martínez	Spain Spain	20.37	19.60	19.84	20.37
4th	Anton Lyuboslawski	Russia Russia	20.22	18.89	19.09	20.22
5	Tomasz Majewski	Poland Poland	19.74	18.80	19.74	19.61
6th	Pavel Lyschyn	Belarus Belarus	19.71	x	19.37	19.71
7th	Mikuláš Konopka	Slovakia Slovakia	19.65	19.65	19.40	x	actually qualified for the final
8th	Nedžad Mulabegović	Croatia Croatia	19.48	17.59	18.88	19.48	actually qualified for the final
9	Mika Vasara	Finland Finland	18.95	x	18.95	x
10	Yves Niaré	France France	18.70	18.70	x	x
11	Taavi Peetre	Estonia Estonia	18.67	18.67	x	18.53
12	Māris Urtāns	Latvia Latvia	18.40	18.40	17.84	x
13	Remigius Machura	Czech Republic Czech Republic	18.02	17.90	17.92	18.02
14th	Danilo Ristić	Montenegro Montenegro	15.29	15.29	x	x
NM	Luka Rujevic	Serbia Serbia	ogV	x	x	x
DOP	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland Finland					admitted to the finals

Yves Niaré failed with 18.70 m in qualification
Māris Urtāns - 18.40 m and eliminated
The EM -third from 1982 and World Cup -third from 1983 Remigius Machura didn't get beyond the qualification

final

August 7, 2006, 6:55 pm

After a constant series in which all five attempts were valid and were over twenty meters, Ralf Bartels was able to improve his best performance up to then in this competition from 20.57 m to 21.13 m and moved from fourth to first place increase. The Dane Joachim Olsen won the silver medal with a width of 21.09 m. Bronze went to Rutger Smith from the Netherlands.

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	Ralf Bartels	Germany Germany	21.13	20.08	20.45	20.57	20.46	20.23	21.13
2	Joachim Olsen	Denmark Denmark	21.09	20.06	21.09	20.95	x	20.79	21.04
3	Rutger Smith	Netherlands Netherlands	20.90	19.76	20.73	20.90	20.63	x	20.18
4th	Pavel Sofjin	Russia Russia	20.55	20.39	20.55	20.22	20.49	x	20.40
5	Andy Dittmar	Germany Germany	19.95	19.62	19.59	19.93	x	19.61	19.95
6th	Tomasz Majewski	Poland Poland	19.85	19.52	19.85	x	x	x	x
7th	Manuel Martínez	Spain Spain	19.68	x	19.68	19.18	not in the final of the eight best athletes			actually entitled to 3 more hits
8th	Pavel Lyschyn	Belarus Belarus	19.51	x	19.51	19.49				actually entitled to 3 more hits
9	Anton Lyuboslawski	Russia Russia	19.44	19.44	x	x
DOP	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus Belarus
	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine Ukraine
	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland Finland

After the EM bronze in 2002 and the WM bronze in 2005 , Ralf Bartels has now become European champion
The 2004 Olympic runner-up, Joachim Olsen, repeated his EM placement from 2002 with second place
Rutger Smith, vice world champion in 2005, won the bronze medal

Tomasz Majewski reached number six - his great success with, among other things, two Olympic gold medals ( 2012 / 2016 ) and the EM -Titel 2010 he had yet to come
Seventh-placed Manuel Martínez would actually have been entitled to three more attempts in the final
Pavel Lyschyn finished ninth - he too would have been entitled to three more shots in the final