European Athletics Championships 2006 / men's javelin

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19th European Athletics Championships
Logo of the 19th European Athletics Championships
discipline Javelin throw
gender Men
Attendees 24 athletes from 15 countries
venue SwedenSweden Gothenburg
Competition location Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase August 7th (qualification)
August 9th (final)
Medalist
gold medal Andreas Thorkildsen ( NOR ) NorwayNorway 
Silver medal Tero Pitkämäki ( FIN ) FinlandFinland 
Bronze medal Jan Železný ( CZE ) Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

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 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jan Železný Jena , Germany May 25, 1996
European record
Championship record 89.72 m United KingdomUnited Kingdom 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:

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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

Teemu Wirkkala was only nineteen centimeters short of the final with his 79.05 m
space Surname nation Best width (m) 1st attempt (m) 2. attempt (m) 3rd attempt (m)
1 Andreas Thorkildsen NorwayNorway Norway 86.55 74.25 86.55 -
2 Alexander Ivanov RussiaRussia Russia 81.57 72.88 81.57 -
3 Jan Železný Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 80.60 80.60 x x
4th Nick Nieland United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 80.40 80.40 x x
5 Ēriks Rags LatviaLatvia Latvia 79.24 76.70 78.54 79.24
6th Teemu Wirkkala FinlandFinland Finland 79.05 79.05 x 77.85
7th Christian Nicolay GermanyGermany Germany 77.94 77.94 75.29 72.60
8th Daniel Ragnvaldsson SwedenSweden Sweden 76.71 76.71 73.13 x
9 Yeóryios Íltsios GreeceGreece Greece 75.88 75.88 74.00 x
10 Felix Loretz SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 70.83 67.50 65.13 70.83
11 Francesco Pignata ItalyItaly Italy 70.37 69.84 x 70.37
12 Vadim Bavikin IsraelIsrael 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 LatviaLatvia Latvia 85.95 79.03 76.36 85.95
2 Vadim's Vasiļevskis LatviaLatvia Latvia 84.68 84.68 - -
3 Tero Pitkämäki FinlandFinland Finland 83.78 83.78 - -
4th Peter Esenwein GermanyGermany Germany 82.71 82.71 - -
5 Stefan Wenk GermanyGermany Germany 80.90 80.90 x 77.54
6th Magnus Arvidsson SwedenSweden Sweden 80.45 80.45 75.59 -
7th Stefan Müller SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 80.43 78.64 75.45 80.43
8th Tero Järvenpää FinlandFinland Finland 75.21 75.21 x 72.38
9 Tomas Intas Lithuania 1989Lithuania Lithuania 74.76 74.76 73.19 72.10
10 Risto Mätas EstoniaEstonia Estonia 74.58 74.58 x 73.87
11 Marián Bokor SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia 72.54 71.80 x 72.54
12 Ronny Nilsen NorwayNorway 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 NorwayNorway Norway 88.78 82.84 87.37 85.30 87.35 86.39 88.78
2 Tero Pitkämäki FinlandFinland Finland 86.44 86.44 81.44 82.87 82.68 x 84.71
3 Jan Železný Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 85.92 85.92 x x x x x
4th Vadim's Vasiļevskis LatviaLatvia Latvia 83.21 76.21 83.21 x x x 81.13
5 Ainārs Kovals LatviaLatvia Latvia 81.65 81.65 79.19 78.23 79.56 77.31 79.75
6th Peter Esenwein GermanyGermany Germany 81.11 81.11 76.46 x 73.73 76.45 80.45
7th Stefan Müller SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 80.87 80.87 78.38 78.16 75.72 76.08 75.52
8th Alexander Ivanov RussiaRussia Russia 80.09 78.68 80.09 77.99 x 76.61 73.99
9 Ēriks Rags LatviaLatvia Latvia 79.51 79.51 x x not in the final of the
eight best throwers
10 Magnus Arvidsson SwedenSweden Sweden 78.53 78.53 73.94 x
11 Nick Nieland United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 76.92 75.66 x 76.92
12 Stefan Wenk GermanyGermany Germany 75.71 x 75.71 75.00

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References and comments

  1. IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved November 24, 2019