European Athletics Championships 2006 / men's marathon

discipline	Men's marathon
city	Gothenburg
place	Round trip through Gothenburg
Attendees	54 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 13, 2006
Medalist
gold	Stefano Baldini ( ITA )
silver	Viktor Röthlin ( SUI )
bronze	Julio Rey ( ESP )
Marathon Cup (team ranking) without counting in the medal table
Rank 1	Italy
Rank 2	Portugal
Rank 3	Netherlands

The men's marathon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships took place in Gothenburg , Sweden , on August 13, 2006 .

The Italian Stefano Baldini won the race in 2:11:32 h. Vice European champion was the Swiss Viktor Röthlin ahead of the Spaniard Julio Rey .

For the third time at the European Championships, there was a team classification, the so-called Marathon Cup. For this, the times of the three best runners per nation were added up. However, the evaluation was not part of the official medal table. The team from Italy won ahead of Portugal and the Netherlands.

Existing records

World record	Paul Tergat	2:04:55 h	Berlin Marathon 2003	September 28, 2003
European record	Carlos Lopes	2:07:12 h	Rotterdam Marathon 1985	April 20, 1985
Championship record	Martín Fiz	2:10:31 h	EM in Helsinki	August 14, 1994

Split times

brand	time	Leader	5 km time
5 km	15:20 min	Viktor Röthlin with a group of 17	15:20 min
10 km	30:58 min	Francesco Ingargiola with a group of 25	15:38 min
15 km	46:54 min	Giacomo Leone with a group of 18	15:56 min
20 km	1:02:24 h	Röthlin / Novo 2 s back / 15-man chasing group 13 s back	15:30 min
25 km	1:17:41 h	Jesus, Ingargiola, Baldini, Ziani, Rey, Chaíça, Ornelas, Röthlin, Novo / Maase, Holmén 16 s back	15:17 min
30 km	1:33:57 h	Ingargiola, Burmakin, Jesus, Ziani, Baldini, Chaíça, Ornelas, Rey, Röthlin, Semyonov, Holmén, Maase / Robinson, Krotwaar, Novo 3 s back	16:16 min
35 km	1:49:13 h	Röthlin, Baldini / Rey, Ingargiola 8 p. / Ornelas 19 s e.g. / Burmakin 24 s z. / Novo, Holmen, Chaíça 31 s z. / Krotwaar 34 s z. / Maase, Semyonov 37 s e.g.	15:16 min
40 km	2:04:54 h	Röthlin, Baldini / Ingargiola, Krotwaar, Rey 46 s for. / Chaíça 1:02 min to. / Holmen 1:07 min to. / Semyonov 1:07 min to. / Jesus, Maase 1:17 min to.	15:41 min

Result

European champion Stefano Baldini

Viktor Röthlin, Switzerland - silver medalist

Luc Krotwaar, Netherlands - fourth place

Janne Holmén, Finland - seventh place

Kamiel Maase, Netherlands - ninth place

Grigory Andreev, Russia - seventeenth place

A group of four emerged from a tightening of pace after thirty kilometers, consisting of the Italians Stefano Baldini and Francesco Ingargiolo as well as the Swiss Viktor Röthlin and the Spaniard Julio Rey. Defending champion Janne Holmén from Finland could not follow either. Ingargiolo and Rey were also left behind up to kilometer 35, and the Dutchman Luc Krotwaar caught up with them from behind. Baldini and Röthlin stayed together up to forty kilometers. Finally, the Italian distanced the Swiss by increasing the tempo. For the bronze medal there was a duel between Rey and Krotwaar, which the Spaniard won.

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Stefano Baldini	Italy	2:11:32
	Viktor Röthlin	Switzerland	2:11:50
	Julio Rey	Spain	2:12:37
04th	Luc Krotwaar	Netherlands	2:12:44
05	Francesco Ingargiola	Italy	2:13:04
06th	Dmitriy Semyonov	Russia	2:13:09
07th	Janne Holmén	Finland	2:13:10
08th	Alberto Chaíça	Portugal	2:13:14
09	Kamiel Maase	Netherlands	2:13:46
10	Luís Jesus	Portugal	2:14:15
11	Danilo Goffi	Italy	2:14:45
12	Rafał Wójcik	Poland	2:14:58
13	Dmitriy Burmakin	Russia	2:15:33
14th	Abdelhakim Bagy	France	2:15:54
15th	Hélder Ornelas	Portugal	2:16:03
16	Dan Robinson	Great Britain	2:16:06
17th	Grigory Andreyev	Russia	2:16:36
18th	Seteng Ayele	Israel	2:17:04
19th	Sander Schutgens	Netherlands	2:17:11
20th	Huw Lobb	Great Britain	2:17:17
21st	David Ramard	France	2:17:23
22nd	Hugo van den Broek	Netherlands	2:17:25
23	Toni Bernado	Andorra	2:17:37
24	Leonid Shvetsov	Russia	2:18:49
25th	Asaf Bimro	Israel	2:19:40
26th	Pavel Faschingbauer	Czech Republic	2:19:41
27	Tomas Abyu	Great Britain	2:20:45
28	Francis Kirwa	Finland	2:21:05
29	Said Regraugui	Sweden	2:21:33
30th	Kamal Ziani	Spain	2:21:49
31	Henrik Sandstad	Norway	2:22:10
32	Andrey Chernysov	Russia	2:23:23
33	Kristoffer Österlund	Sweden	2:23:26
34	Wodage Zvadya	Israel	2:24:52
35	Trond Idland	Norway	2:26:23
36	Jaakko Kero	Finland	2:27:45
37	Kristian Algers	Sweden	2:28:27
38	Karl Johan Rasmussen	Norway	2:30:05
39	Trpe Martinovski	Macedonia	2:54:46
40	Tomislav Spasevski	Macedonia	3:04:38
DNF	Dastaho Svench	Israel
	Luís Novo	Portugal
	Ruggero Pertile	Italy
	Paulo Gomes	Portugal
	José Ríos	Spain
	José Manuel Martínez	Spain
	Giacomo Leone	Italy
	Antonio Sousa	Portugal
	Peter Riley	Great Britain
	Ottavio Andriani	Italy
	Kent Claesson	Sweden
	Marek Poszepczynski	Sweden
	Tuomo Lehtinen	Finland
	Benoît Zwierzchiewski	France

Result marathon cup

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Italy	Stefano Baldini Francesco Ingargiola Danilo Goffi	6:39:21
2	Portugal	Alberto Chaíça Luís Jesús Hélder Ornelas	6:43:22
3	Netherlands	Luc Krotwaar Kamiel Maase Sander Schutgens	6:43:41
4th	Russia	Dmitri Semjonow Dmitri Burmakin Grigory Andreyev	6:45:18
5	Great Britain	Dan Robinson Huw Lobb Tomas Abyu	6:54:08
6th	Israel	Ayele Setegne Asaf Bimro Wodage Zvadya	7:01:36
7th	Finland	Janne Holmén Francis Kirwa Jaakko Kero	7:02:00
8th	Sweden	Said Regraugui Kristoffer Österlund Kristian Algers	7:13:26
9	Norway	Henrik Sandstad Trond Idland Karl Johan Rasmussen	7:18:38

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  Sander Schutgens, Netherlands - nineteenth place

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  Hugo van den Broek, Netherlands - 22nd place

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  Toni Bernardo, Andorra - 23rd place

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  Leonid Shvetsov, Russia - 24th place

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  Francis Kirwa, Finland - 28th place

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  Ruggero Pertile, Italy - race not finished

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  Benoît Zwierzchiewski, France - race not finished

Web links and sources

• European Athletics Championships Gothenburg, Sweden. (PDF) Retrieved January 13, 2016 . 
• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on February 12, 2019

Video

• Maraton under EM i Göteborg 2006 on youtube.com, published on August 16, 2010, accessed on February 12, 2019