19th European Athletics Championships
Dates	7 August – 13 August
Host city	Gothenburg, Sweden
Venue	Ullevi Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	47 (men: 24; women: 23)
Participation	1,288 athletes from 48 nations
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The 19th European Athletics Championships were held in Gothenburg, Sweden, between 7 August and 13 August 2006. The competition arena was the Ullevi Stadium and the official motto "Catch the Spirit". Gothenburg also hosted the 1995 World Championships in Athletics, and Stockholm, Sweden's capital, hosted 1958 European Athletics Championships.

Men's results

Track

1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Francis Obikwelu  Portugal	9.99 CR	Andrey Yepishin  Russia	10.10 NR	Matic Osovnikar  Slovenia	10.14 NR
200 m details	Francis Obikwelu  Portugal	20.01 NR	Johan Wissman  Sweden	20.38 NR	Marlon Devonish  Great Britain	20.54
400 m details	Marc Raquil  France	45.02	Vladislav Frolov  Russia	45.09 PB	Leslie Djhone  France	45.40
800 m details	Bram Som  Netherlands	1:46.56	David Fiegen  Luxembourg	1:46.59	Sam Ellis  Great Britain	1:46.64
1500 m details	Mehdi Baala  France	3:39.02	Ivan Heshko  Ukraine	3:39.50	Juan Carlos Higuero  Spain	3:39.62
5000 m details	Jesús España  Spain	13:44.70	Mo Farah  Great Britain	13:44.79	Juan Carlos Higuero  Spain	13:46.48
10,000 m details	Jan Fitschen  Germany	28:10.94 PB	José Manuel Martínez  Spain	28:12.06 SB	Juan Carlos de la Ossa  Spain	28:13.73
Marathon details	Stefano Baldini  Italy	2:11:32	Viktor Röthlin   Switzerland	2:11:50	Julio Rey  Spain	2:12:37
110 metres hurdles details	Staņislavs Olijars  Latvia	13.24	Thomas Blaschek  Germany	13.46	Andy Turner  Great Britain	13.56
400 metres hurdles details	Periklis Iakovakis  Greece	48.46	Marek Plawgo  Poland	48.71 SB	Rhys Williams  Great Britain	49.12
3000 metres steeplechase details	Jukka Keskisalo  Finland	8:24.89	José Luis Blanco  Spain	8:26.22	Bouabdellah Tahri  France	8:27.15
20 kilometres walk details	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	1:19:09	Valeriy Borchin  Russia	1:20:00	João Vieira  Portugal	1:20:09 NR
50 kilometres walk details	Yohann Diniz  France	3:41:39 PB	Jesús Ángel García  Spain	3:42:48 SB	Yuriy Andronov  Russia	3:43:26
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain Dwain Chambers Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Mark Lewis-Francis	38.91	Poland Przemysław Rogowski Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Dariusz Kuć	39.05	France Oudéré Kankarafou Ronald Pognon Fabrice Calligny David Alerte	39.07
4 × 400 metres relay details	France Leslie Djhone Idrissa M'Barke Naman Keïta Marc Raquil	3:01.10	Great Britain Robert Tobin Rhys Williams Graham Hedman Tim Benjamin	3:01.63	Poland Daniel Dąbrowski Piotr Kędzia Piotr Rysiukiewicz Rafał Wieruszewski	3:01.73
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Andrey Silnov  Russia	2.36 CR WL	Tomáš Janků  Czech Republic	2.34 PB	Stefan Holm  Sweden	2.34 SB
Long jump details	Andrew Howe  Italy	8.20	Greg Rutherford  Great Britain	8.13	Olexiy Lukashevych  Ukraine	8.12
Pole vault details	Aleksandr Averbukh  Israel	5.70	Tim Lobinger  Germany Romain Mesnil  France	5.65
Triple jump details	Christian Olsson  Sweden	17.67 EL	Nathan Douglas  Great Britain	17.21	Marian Oprea  Romania	17.18
Shot put[1] details	Ralf Bartels  Germany	21.13	Joachim Olsen  Denmark	21.09	Rutger Smith  Netherlands	20.90
Discus throw details	Virgilijus Alekna  Lithuania	68.67	Gerd Kanter  Estonia	68.03	Aleksander Tammert  Estonia	66.14
Javelin throw details	Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway	88.78	Tero Pitkämäki  Finland	86.44	Jan Železný  Czech Republic	85.92
Hammer throw[2] details	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen  Finland	80.84 SB	Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus	80.76	Markus Esser  Germany	79.19
Decathlon details	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	8526 SB	Attila Zsivoczky  Hungary	8356	Aleksey Drozdov  Russia	8350 PB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results

Track

1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Kim Gevaert  Belgium	11.06	Yekaterina Grigoryeva  Russia	11.22 (SB)	Irina Khabarova  Russia	11.22
200 metres details	Kim Gevaert  Belgium	22.68	Yuliya Gushchina  Russia	22.93	Natalya Rusakova  Russia	23.09
400 metres details	Vanya Stambolova  Bulgaria	49.85	Tatyana Veshkurova  Russia	50.15	Olga Zaytseva  Russia	50.28
800 metres details	Olga Kotlyarova  Russia	1:57.38	Svetlana Klyuka  Russia	1:57.48	Rebecca Lyne  Great Britain	1:58.45
1500 metres details	Tatyana Tomashova  Russia	3:56.91 (CR)	Yuliya Chizhenko  Russia	3:57.61	Daniela Yordanova  Bulgaria	3:59.37 (SB)
5000 metres details	Marta Domínguez  Spain	14:56.18 (CR)	Liliya Shobukhova  Russia	14:56.57 (SB)	Elvan Abeylegesse  Turkey	14:59.29 (SB)
10,000 metres details	Inga Abitova  Russia	30:31.42	Susanne Wigene  Norway	30:32.36	Lidiya Grigoryeva  Russia	30:32.72
Marathon details	Ulrike Maisch  Germany	2:30:01 (PB)	Olivera Jevtić  Serbia	2:30:27	Irina Permitina  Russia	2:30:53
100 metres hurdles details	Susanna Kallur  Sweden	12.59	Derval O'Rourke  Ireland Kirsten Bolm  Germany	12.72 (NR Ireland)
400 metres hurdles details	Yevgeniya Isakova  Russia	53.93 (PB)	Fani Chalkia  Greece	54.02	Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova  Ukraine	54.55
3000 metres steeplechase details	Alesia Turava  Belarus	9:26.05 (SB)	Tatyana Petrova  Russia	9:28.05	Wioletta Janowska  Poland	9:31.62
20 kilometres walk details	Ryta Turava  Belarus	1:27:08	Olga Kaniskina  Russia	1:28:35	Elisa Rigaudo  Italy	1:28:37
4 × 100 metres relay details	Russia Yuliya Gushchina Natalya Rusakova Irina Khabarova Yekaterina Grigoryeva	42.71	Great Britain Anyika Onuora Emma Ania Emily Freeman Joice Maduaka	43.51	Belarus Yulia Nestsiarenka Natallia Safronnikava Alena Neumiarzhitskaya Aksana Drahun	43.61
4 × 400 metres relay details	Russia Svetlana Pospelova Natalya Ivanova Olga Zaytseva Tatyana Veshkurova	3:25.12	Belarus Yulyana Zhalniaruk Sviatlana Usovich Anna Kozak Ilona Usovich	3:27.69	Poland Monika Bejnar Grażyna Prokopek Ewelina Sętowska Anna Jesień	3:27.77
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Tia Hellebaut  Belgium	2.03 (CR/NR)	Venelina Veneva  Bulgaria	2.03 (CR)	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	2.01
Pole vault details	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.80 (CR)	Monika Pyrek  Poland	4.65	Tatyana Polnova  Russia	4.65 (SB)
Long jump details	Lyudmila Kolchanova  Russia	6.93	Naide Gomes  Portugal	6.84	Oksana Udmurtova  Russia	6.69
Triple jump details	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	15.15	Hrysopiyi Devetzi  Greece	15.05	Anna Pyatykh  Russia	15.02
Shot put[3] details	Natallia Kharaneka  Belarus	19.43	Petra Lammert  Germany	19.17	Olga Ryabinkina  Russia	19.02
Discus throw details	Darya Pishchalnikova  Russia	65.55 (PB)	Franka Dietzsch  Germany	64.35	Nicoleta Grasu  Romania	63.58
Hammer throw details	Tatyana Lysenko  Russia	76.67 (CR)	Gulfiya Khanafeyeva  Russia	74.50	Kamila Skolimowska  Poland	72.58
Javelin throw details	Steffi Nerius  Germany	65.82 (SB)	Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic	65.64	Mercedes Chilla  Spain	61.98 (SB)
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	6740 (CR)	Karin Ruckstuhl  Netherlands	6423 (NR)	Lilli Schwarzkopf  Germany	6420 (PB)
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	12	12	11	35
2	Germany	4	5	2	11
3	France	4	1	3	8
4	Spain	3	3	5	11
5	Belarus	3	2	1	6
6	Sweden	3	1	2	6
7	Belgium	3	0	0	3
8	Portugal	2	1	1	4
9	Finland	2	1	0	3
10	Italy	2	0	1	3
11	Great Britain	1	5	5	11
12	Czech Republic	1	2	1	4
13	Greece	1	2	0	3
14	Bulgaria	1	1	1	3
	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
16	Norway	1	1	0	2
17	Israel	1	0	0	1
	Latvia	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
20	Poland	0	3	4	7
21	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
22	Estonia	0	1	1	2
23	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Luxembourg	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
29	Romania	0	0	2	2
30	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 entries)		47	49	45	141

Participants

Trivia

• The official song of the contest is Heroes by Helena Paparizou - winner Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with song „My number one" in Kyiv, Ukraine. Song „Heroes" used in opening ceremony (performed by Helena Paparizou and in an instrumental form during an artistic and pyrotechnic show) and tv intro that event make by public broadcaster SVT. The intro of the event, prepared by the Swedish public broadcaster, presented ice cubes with the logo of the organizing broadcaster, the names of the participating countries and a map of Europe with a focus on the locations of the city of Gothenburg. The dice appeared on the background of athletic competitors and the background itself was gray. The following part presents the organizing city, its inhabitants and the arena of the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. At the end of the intro, the event logo was formed. The musical setting of the intro was a melody from the official anthem of the event, recorded as an instrumental.
• The BBC have chosen to use Carola Häggkvist's 2006 Eurovision Song Contest entry Invincible in instrumental form as the title music for their coverage. They have also used various pop songs including Lena Philipsson's "Lena Anthem" and Lev livet by Magnus Carlsson also in instrumental form.
• Merlene Ottey, at the age of 46 and representing Slovenia, is fifth in the 100 m semifinals, failing to qualify for the finals.
• Olivera Jevtić won Serbia's first athletics medal as an independent country, a silver in women's marathon.