European Athletics Championships 2006 / men's pole vault

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Attendees	27 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 10 (qualification) August 13 (final)
Medalist
gold	Alexander Awerbuch ( ISR )
silver	Tim Lobinger ( GER ) Romain Mesnil ( FRA )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The pole vault men at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 10 and 13 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

The Israeli defending champion Alexander Awerbuch was European champion , also third in the 1999 World Cup and vice world champion in 2001 . Second place was shared between the German Vice European Champion from 1998 and European Championship third from 2002 Tim Lobinger and the Frenchman Romain Mesnil .

Existing records

World record	6.14 m	Serhiy Bubka	Sestriere , Italy	July 31, 1994
European record
EM record	6.00 m	Rodion Gataullin	EM in Helsinki , Finland	August 12, 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
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

Kevin Rans was already eliminated with a skipped 5.35 m at the time of the cancellation

Konstadínos Filippídis was eliminated with 5.35 m before the competition was canceled

Denys Yurchenko remained without a valid attempt

August 9, 2006, 10:10 am

27 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.70 m. None of the athletes approached this height after only six jumpers had jumped the previous 5.60 m. Due to the weather conditions, it was impossible to continue the competition. There was a thunderstorm and lightning had struck the stadium. So the organizers decided to abandon the competition. All twenty athletes still in competition were admitted to the final (highlighted in light green). Finally, 5.45 m was sufficient for qualification - provided the participant had not already been eliminated.

Group A

August 9, 2006, 10:10 am

space	Surname	nation	Best height (m)	5.35 m	5.45 m	5.55 m	5.60 m
1	Buhalov spas	Bulgaria	5.60	-	O	-	xo
	Oleksandr Kortschmid	Ukraine	5.60	-	O	-	xo
3	Damiel Dossévi	France	5.55	xo	-	O	xx
	Laurens Looije	Netherlands	5.55	O	xo	O	xx
5	Gustaf Hultgren	Sweden	5.55	O	O	xo	x
	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.55	-	O	xo
7th	Vincent Favretto	France	5.55	O	xo	xxo	xx
8th	Richard Spiegelburg	Germany	5.45	-	O	-	xx
	Alexander Awerbuch	Israel	5.45	-	O	-	xx
10	Sergei Kucheryanu	Russia	5.45	xo	O	xxx
11	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy	5.45	-	xo	xxx
12	Kevin Rans	Belgium	5.35	O	-	xxx
13	Adam Ptáček	Czech Republic	5.35	xo	xxx

Group B

August 9, 2006, 10:10 am

space	Surname	nation	Best height (m)	5.35 m	5.45 m	5.55 m	5.60 m
1	Lars Börgeling	Germany	5.60	-	O	-	O
2	Romain Mesnil	France	5.60	xo	-	O	O
	Przemysław Czerwiński	Poland	5.60	O	-	xo	O
4th	Alhaji Jeng	Sweden	5.60	-	xxo	xo	O
5	Maksym Masuryk	Ukraine	5.55	O	O	O	xx–
6th	Igor Alekseev	Belarus	5.55	O	xxo	O	xx–
7th	Matti Mononen	Finland	5.55	-	xo	xxo	xx
8th	Christian Tamminga	Netherlands	5.45	O	O	xxx
9	Ilian Efremov	Bulgaria	5.45	-	xo	-	xx
10	Dmitri Starodubtsev	Russia	5.45	xo	xo	xxx
	Jesper Fritz	Sweden	5.45	xo	xo	xxx
12	Štěpán Janáček	Czech Republic	5.35	xo	-	xxx
13	Konstadínos Filippídis	Greece	5.35	xxo	xxx
NM	Denys Yurchenko	Ukraine	ogV	xx–	x

final

Alexander Awerbuch, who was third in the 1999 World Cup and vice-world champion in 2001 , successfully defended his title under adverse conditions

Vice European Champion Tim Lobinger, he was 1998 EM -Second and 2002 EM -Dritter

August 13, 2006, 12:45 p.m.

As in the qualification, it rained in the final, so reaching great heights was not possible. The Israeli Alexander Awerbuch was able to successfully defend his title from Munich in 2002 . Tim Lobinger won his third medal at the European Championships after silver in 1998 and bronze in 2002.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.60 m	5.65 m	5.70 m	5.75 m	5.80 m
1	Alexander Awerbuch	Israel	5.70	-	O	-	-	O	-	xxx
2	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.65	-	O	-	O	-	xxx
	Romain Mesnil	France	5.65	-	O	-	O	x–	xx
4th	Matti Mononen	Finland	5.65	-	xo	-	O	x–	xx
5	Przemysław Czerwiński	Poland	5.65	O	xo	xo	O	xx–	x
6th	Oleksandr Kortschmid	Ukraine	5.60	-	xo	xxo	-	xxx
7th	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy	5.50	-	O	-	x–	x–	x
8th	Laurens Looije	Netherlands	5.50	xo	O	xxx
	Maksym Masuryk	Ukraine	5.50	xo	O	xxx
10	Vincent Favretto	France	5.50	xo	xo	xxx
	Gustaf Hultgren	Sweden	5.50	xo	xo	xxx
	Sergei Kucheryanu	Russia	5.50	xo	xo	xxx
13	Richard Spiegelburg	Germany	5.40	O	-	xxx
	Ilian Efremov	Bulgaria	5.40	O	xxx
15th	Damiel Dossévi	France	5.40	xo	-	xxx
	Christian Tamminga	Netherlands	5.40	xo	xxx
17th	Igor Alekseev	Belarus	5.40	xxo	xxx
NM	Alhaji Jeng	Sweden	ogV	-	-	xxx
	Lars Börgeling	Germany		-	xxx
	Buhalov spas	Bulgaria		xxx

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  Romain Mesnil came in second place

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  Matti Mononen reached fourth place

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  Przemysław Czerwiński took fifth place

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  Oleksandr Kortschmid came in sixth

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  The world champion from 2005 and Olympic third from 2004 Giuseppe Gibilisco had to be satisfied with seventh place

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  Laurens Looije - in shared eighth place

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  Maksym Masuryk - shared eighth place

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  Vincent Favretto - one of three tithe

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  Richard Spiegelburg - on the shared thirteenth place

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  Damiel Dossévi - shared fifteenth place

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  Christian Tamminga - on the shared fifteenth place

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  Lars Börgeling, Vice European Champion from 2002 and candidate for a medal, remained without a valid attempt

Videos

• 2006 European Championships Men's Pole Vault - 2nd Tim Lobinger on youtube.com (English), accessed on November 20, 2019
• 2006 European Championships Men's Pole Vault - 2nd Romain Mesnil on youtube.com (English), accessed on November 20, 2019

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on November 20, 2019
• European Championship 2006 Göteborg, Men Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed November 20, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 20, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole Vault European Championship 2006 Göteborg, p. 492 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006, pole vault men on sportschau.de, accessed on November 20, 2019
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on November 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed November 20, 2019
2. ^ "Danger of life during a thunderstorm" , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung August 10, 2006, accessed on November 20, 2019