2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

The final of the Men's Hammer Throw event at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden was held on Saturday August 12, 2006. There were a total number of 24 participating athletes. The qualifying rounds were staged three days earlier, on Wednesday August 9, with the mark set in 77.50 metres.

2006 European
Athletics Championships
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
5000 mmenwomen
10,000 mmenwomen
100 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmenwomen
3000 m
steeplechase		menwomen
4×100 m relaymenwomen
4×400 m relaymenwomen
Road events
Marathonmenwomen
20 km walkmenwomen
50 km walkmen
Field events
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmenwomen
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmenwomen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmenwomen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Combined events
Heptathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

Ivan Tsikhan had originally won the gold medal but later tested for doping and all his results between 22 August 2004 and 21 August 2006 were annulled. [1]

Medalists
Gold Olli-Pekka Karjalainen
Finland (FIN)
Silver Vadim Devyatovski
Belarus (BLR)
Bronze Markus Esser
Germany (GER)

Schedule
Qualification Round
Group A Group B
09.08.2006 – 10:05h 09.08.2006 – 11:30h
Final Round
12.08.2006 – 13:45h

Abbreviations
  • All results shown are in metres
Qautomatic qualification
qqualification by rank
DNSdid not start
NMno mark
WRworld record
ARarea record
NRnational record
PBpersonal best
SBseason best

Records
Standing records prior to the 2006 European Athletics Championships
World Record Yuriy Sedykh (URS)86.74 m August 30, 1986 Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record Yuriy Sedykh (URS)86.74 m August 30, 1986 Stuttgart, West Germany

Qualification

Group A
Rank Overall Athlete Attempts Distance
1 2 3
12 Karsten Kobs (GER)75.4775.7277.5277.52 m
23 Krisztián Pars (HUN)77.20——77.20 m
36 Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)76.39XX76.39 m
49 Andrey Vorontsov (BLR)XX75.1575.15 m
511 Marco Lingua (ITA)74.69XX74.69 m
613 Libor Charfreitag (SVK)X74.13X74.13 m
715 Vadim Khersontsev (RUS)73.24X72.8773.24 m
817 David Söderberg (FIN)72.3672.49X72.49 m
919 Christophe Épalle (FRA)67.92X69.1269.12 m
1020 Vladimír Maška (CZE)68.6368.1168.2968.63 m
1122 Fatih Eryildirim (TUR)XX67.5467.54 m
—— Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)———DNS

Group B
Rank Overall Athlete Attempts Distance
1 2 3
11 Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)79.00——79.00 m
24 Vadim Devyatovski (BLR)X76.8676.8776.87 m
35 Markus Esser (GER)73.2576.67X76.67 m
47 Primož Kozmus (SLO)X74.6475.9075.90 m
58 Nicola Vizzoni (ITA)74.3175.2174.8175.21 m
610 András Haklits (CRO)X74.96X74.96 m
712 Miloslav Konopka (SVK)71.9874.64X74.64 m
814 Lukáš Melich (CZE)70.3373.7771.9073.77 m
916 Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)71.6472.94X72.94 m
1018 Eşref Apak (TUR)70.17XX70.17 m
1121 Roman Rozna (MDA)X68.21X68.21 m
—— Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)77.21 X 74.40 77.21 m

Final
Rank Athlete Attempts Distance Note
1 2 3 4 5 6
 Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)78.8976.8676.2380.8480.60X80.84 m SB
 Vadim Devyatovski (BLR)77.4477.8978.5580.7679.7875.6980.76 m
 Markus Esser (GER)74.53X76.79X77.7579.1979.19 m
4 Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)X78.8978.97XX74.8278.97 m
5 Krisztián Pars (HUN)38.3375.6078.34XXX78.34 m
6 Primož Kozmus (SLO)77.1078.18X76.0775.4977.4778.18 m
7 Karsten Kobs (GER)76.3277.69XX77.8477.9377.93 m
8 Nicola Vizzoni (ITA)76.5575.5176.0676.55 m
9 András Haklits (CRO)X74.83X74.83 m
10 Marco Lingua (ITA)X73.7373.6473.73 m
— Andrey Vorontsov (BLR)XXXNM
— Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)76.39 75.51 81.11 78.98 X 80.34 81.11 m DQ

See also
  • 2006 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

References
  1. "Revision of results following sanctions of Tsikhan and Ostapchuk". IAAF. 27 April 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2014.


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