2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The Men's 50 km walk event at the 2006 European Championships was held on Thursday August 10, 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with the start at 09:40h.

Medalists edit

Gold   Yohann Diniz
France (FRA)
Silver   Jesús Ángel García
Spain (ESP)
Bronze   Yuriy Andronov
Russia (RUS)

Abbreviations edit

  • All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
WL world leading
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records edit

Standing records prior to the 2006 European Athletics Championships
World Record   Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) 3:35:29 June 13, 2004   Cheboksary, Russia
Event Record   Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 3:36:39 August 8, 2002   Munich, Germany

Results edit

Rank Athlete Time Note
    Yohann Diniz (FRA) 3:41:39 PB
    Jesús Ángel García (ESP) 3:42:48 SB
    Yuriy Andronov (RUS) 3:43:26
4   Trond Nymark (NOR) 3:44:17
5   Mikel Odriozola (ESP) 3:46:34
6   Roman Magdziarczyk (POL) 3:47:37
7   Marco De Luca (ITA) 3:48:08 PB
8   Peter Korčok (SVK) 3:51:16 SB
9   Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) 3:51:51
10   Grzegorz Sudoł (POL) 3:53:33
11   Diego Cafagna (ITA) 3:55:22 SB
12   Fredrik Svensson (SWE) 3:56:15 SB
13   Ingus Janevics (LAT) 3:56:32 PB
14   Jarkko Kinnunen (FIN) 3:56:54 PB
15   David Boulanger (FRA) 3:57:08
16   Andrei Stepanchuk (BLR) 3:57:27
17   Kamil Kalka (POL) 4:01:28
18   Ugis Bruvelis (LAT) 4:02:03
19   Jorge Costa (POR) 4:03:48
20   António Pereira (POR) 4:07:46
21   Miloš Holuša (CZE) 4:12:11
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
  José Alejandro Cambil (ESP) DNF
  Alex Schwazer (ITA) DNF
  Antti Kempas (FIN) DNF
  Pedro Martins (POR) DNF
  Aleksandar Raković (SRB) DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
  Eddy Riva (FRA) DSQ
  Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) DSQ

See also edit

References edit