European Athletics Championships 2006 / men's javelin
19th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 24 athletes from 15 countries | ||||||||
venue | Gothenburg | ||||||||
Competition location | Ullevi Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 7th (qualification) August 9th (final) |
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The javelin men in the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 7 and 9 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.
European champion was the Norwegian Olympic champion from 2004 and vice world champion from 2005 Andreas Thorkildsen . The Finn Tero Pitkämäki won the silver medal. For the second time bronze after 1994 won the triple Olympic champion ( 1992 / 1996 / 2000 ) and three-time world champion ( 1993 / 1995 / 2001 ) Jan Železný from the Czech Republic, who was also a world record holder and to this day - November 24, 2019 - is.
Existing records
World record | 98.48 m | Jan Železný | Jena , Germany | May 25, 1996 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 89.72 m | Steve Backley | EM Budapest , Hungary | 23rd August 1994 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
Legend
Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:
- | waived |
x | invalid |
qualification
August 7, 2006, 6:30 p.m.
24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 81.00 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 79.24 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Best width (m) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) |
1 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Norway | 86.55 | 74.25 | 86.55 | - |
2 | Alexander Ivanov | Russia | 81.57 | 72.88 | 81.57 | - |
3 | Jan Železný | Czech Republic | 80.60 | 80.60 | x | x |
4th | Nick Nieland | Great Britain | 80.40 | 80.40 | x | x |
5 | Ēriks Rags | Latvia | 79.24 | 76.70 | 78.54 | 79.24 |
6th | Teemu Wirkkala | Finland | 79.05 | 79.05 | x | 77.85 |
7th | Christian Nicolay | Germany | 77.94 | 77.94 | 75.29 | 72.60 |
8th | Daniel Ragnvaldsson | Sweden | 76.71 | 76.71 | 73.13 | x |
9 | Yeóryios Íltsios | Greece | 75.88 | 75.88 | 74.00 | x |
10 | Felix Loretz | Switzerland | 70.83 | 67.50 | 65.13 | 70.83 |
11 | Francesco Pignata | Italy | 70.37 | 69.84 | x | 70.37 |
12 | Vadim Bavikin | Israel | 66.93 | 66.67 | 66.93 | x |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | Best width (m) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) |
1 | Ainārs Kovals | Latvia | 85.95 | 79.03 | 76.36 | 85.95 |
2 | Vadim's Vasiļevskis | Latvia | 84.68 | 84.68 | - | - |
3 | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | 83.78 | 83.78 | - | - |
4th | Peter Esenwein | Germany | 82.71 | 82.71 | - | - |
5 | Stefan Wenk | Germany | 80.90 | 80.90 | x | 77.54 |
6th | Magnus Arvidsson | Sweden | 80.45 | 80.45 | 75.59 | - |
7th | Stefan Müller | Switzerland | 80.43 | 78.64 | 75.45 | 80.43 |
8th | Tero Järvenpää | Finland | 75.21 | 75.21 | x | 72.38 |
9 | Tomas Intas | Lithuania | 74.76 | 74.76 | 73.19 | 72.10 |
10 | Risto Mätas | Estonia | 74.58 | 74.58 | x | 73.87 |
11 | Marián Bokor | Slovakia | 72.54 | 71.80 | x | 72.54 |
12 | Ronny Nilsen | Norway | 71.37 | 71.37 | 70.58 | 67.10 |
final
August 9, 2006, 7:10 p.m.
After the resignation of four-time European champion Steve Backley , Andreas Thorkildsen, a current Olympic champion, was able to win the javelin throw for the first time since 1971 . Jan Železný took third place again twenty years after his first European Championship participation. The Swiss Stefan Müller again set a national record in the final after he had already surpassed the old record in qualifying.
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | 4th attempt (m) | 5th attempt (m) | 6th attempt (m) |
1 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Norway | 88.78 | 82.84 | 87.37 | 85.30 | 87.35 | 86.39 | 88.78 |
2 | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland | 86.44 | 86.44 | 81.44 | 82.87 | 82.68 | x | 84.71 |
3 | Jan Železný | Czech Republic | 85.92 | 85.92 | x | x | x | x | x |
4th | Vadim's Vasiļevskis | Latvia | 83.21 | 76.21 | 83.21 | x | x | x | 81.13 |
5 | Ainārs Kovals | Latvia | 81.65 | 81.65 | 79.19 | 78.23 | 79.56 | 77.31 | 79.75 |
6th | Peter Esenwein | Germany | 81.11 | 81.11 | 76.46 | x | 73.73 | 76.45 | 80.45 |
7th | Stefan Müller | Switzerland | 80.87 | 80.87 | 78.38 | 78.16 | 75.72 | 76.08 | 75.52 |
8th | Alexander Ivanov | Russia | 80.09 | 78.68 | 80.09 | 77.99 | x | 76.61 | 73.99 |
9 | Ēriks Rags | Latvia | 79.51 | 79.51 | x | x | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
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10 | Magnus Arvidsson | Sweden | 78.53 | 78.53 | 73.94 | x | |||
11 | Nick Nieland | Great Britain | 76.92 | 75.66 | x | 76.92 | |||
12 | Stefan Wenk | Germany | 75.71 | x | 75.71 | 75.00 |
Silver medalist Tero Pitkämäki - he was world champion in 2007 , Olympic knight in 2008 , in 2010 there was an EM bronze and in 2015 there was a World Championship bronze
Videos
- Javelin Throw in Goteborg 2006 on youtube.com, accessed November 24, 2019
- Men's Javelin Throw / European Championships / 2006 Part 1 on youtube.com, accessed November 24, 2019
- Men's Javelin Throw / European Championships 2006 / Part 2 on youtube.com, accessed November 24, 2019
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on November 24, 2019
- European Championship 2006 Göteborg, Men Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed on November 24, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 24, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Javelin Throw European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 493 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 24, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, javelin men on sportschau.de, accessed on November 24, 2019
- 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 24, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved November 24, 2019