2006 European Cup (athletics)

The 2006 Spar European Cup (the 27th) took place in Málaga, Spain and attracted over 2000 athletes from 49 countries. The mascot for the 2006 games was "Manolito" the Octopus, it was chosen from the drawings submitted in a contest aimed at Andalusian schoolchildren, the winner was Eva Simancas Rubio, aged 11 from ‘Julio Caro Baroja’. The top two teams for both men and women qualified for the 2006 IAAF World Cup.

2006 European Cup

Logo of the 2006 Superleague
Host city	Málaga, Spain (Super League)
Dates	28–29 June 2006
Main venue	Estadio Ciudad de Málaga (Super League)

Super League

Main article: 2006 European Cup Super League

Stadium

The Athletics Stadium Ciudad de Málaga is located in the city's western area, and is easily accessible by road, not far from the airport and in front of the 'José María Martín Carpena' Sports Hall. It also has 9 lanes on the track which allows a 9th team to be able to compete.

Team standings

Men Pos Country Pts 1 France 118 2 Russia 116 3 Great Britain 109 4 Poland 107 5 Ukraine 103 6 Spain 99.5 7 Italy 93 8 Germany 86.5 9 Finland 65 Finland, Italy & Spain relegated, Germany saved as they were to host the 2007 competition. Belgium & Greece both promoted to the Superleague for 2007 from League 1.

Women Pos Country Pts 1 Russia 155 2 Poland 115.5 3 Ukraine 99 4 France 98 5 Germany 93 6 Spain 90 7 Great Britain 85 8 Sweden 81 9 Romania 76.5 Great Britain & NI, Sweden & Romania all relegated to League 1. Belarus & Greece, both promoted from League 1 for the 2007 cup.

Relegation to 1st League

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +2.6 m/s)	Ronald Pognon France	10.13w	Dwain Chambers Great Britain	10.19w	Andrey Yepishin Russia	10.19w
200 m (Wind: +1.8 m/s)	Christian Malcolm Great Britain	20.29	Ronald Pognon France	20.37	Marcin Urbaś Poland	20.55
400 m	Marc Raquil France	45.89	Vladislav Frolov Russia	46.13	Daniel Dąbrowski Poland	46.37
800 m	Juan de Dios Jurado Spain	1:46.00	Ivan Heshko Ukraine	1:46.24	Florent Lacasse France	1:46.44
1500 m	Ivan Heshko Ukraine	3:50.34	Juan Carlos Higuero Spain	3:50.85	Aleksandr Krivchonkov Russia	3:51.96
3000 m	Sergio Gallardo Spain	8:27.78	Mo Farah Great Britain	8:27.91	Driss Maazouzi France	8:28.64
5000 m	Sergey Lebid Ukraine	14:16.83	Juan Carlos de la Ossa Spain	14:17.65	Sergey Ivanov Russia	14:18.14
3000 m steeplechase	Antonio Jiménez Spain	8:25.59	Vincent Le Dauphin France	8:28.77	Jukka Keskisalo Finland	8:30.45
110 m hurdles (Wind: -1.5 m/s)	Ladji Doucouré France	13.27	Andy Turner Great Britain	13.47	Igor Peremota Russia	13.50
400 m hurdles	Naman Keïta France	50.20	Aleksandr Derevyagin Russia	50.35	Gianni Carabelli Italy	50.45
4 × 100 m	Poland Dariusz Kuć Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Marcin Urbaś	39.07	Italy Luca Verdecchia Stefano Anceschi Massimiliano Donati Francesco Scuderi	39.14	Great Britain Tim Abeyie Marlon Devonish Christian Malcolm Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	39.31
4 × 400 m	France Leslie Djhone Brice Panel Naman Keïta Marc Raquil	3:03.59	Poland Rafał Wieruszewski Piotr Klimczak Marcin Marciniszyn Daniel Dąbrowski	3:03.86	Italy Andrew Howe Gianni Carabelli Luca Galletti Andrea Barberi	3:04.27
High jump	Andrey Silnov Russia	2.31	Giulio Ciotti Italy	2.29	Germaine Mason Great Britain	2.27
Pole vault	Romain Mesnil France	5.70	Giuseppe Gibilisco Italy	5.65	Mikko Latvala Finland	5.45
Long jump	Andrew Howe Italy	8.29	Salim Sdiri France	8.15	Marcin Starzak Poland	8.09
Triple jump	Fabrizio Donato Italy	16.99	Viktor Yastrebov Ukraine	16.91	Julien Kapek France	16.80
Shot put	Pavel Sofin Russia	20.59	Manuel Martínez Spain	20.58	Ralf Bartels Germany	20.43
Discus throw	Piotr Małachowski Poland	66.21	Lars Riedel Germany	63.47	Mario Pestano Spain	62.35
Hammer throw	Szymon Ziółkowski Poland	79.31	Andrey Skvaruk Ukraine	78.71	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen Finland	77.08
Javelin throw	Tero Pitkämäki Finland	85.30	Sergey Makarov Russia	82.43	Igor Janik Poland	79.30
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 events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +2.4 m/s)	Yuliya Gushchina Russia	11.13w	Joice Maduaka Great Britain	11.29w	Fabienne Beret-Martinel France	11.35w
200 m (Wind: +0.6 m/s)	Olga Zaytseva Russia	22.73	Angela Moroșanu Romania	22.91	Monika Bejnar Poland	22.97
400 m	Svetlana Pospelova Russia	50.77	Nicola Sanders Great Britain	51.92	Claudia Hoffmann Germany	52.81
800 m	Svetlana Klyuka Russia	2:01.99	Monika Gradzki Germany	2:04.13	Mayte Martínez Spain	2:04.16
1500 m	Yuliya Chizhenko Russia	4:14.39	Latifa Essarokh France	4:14.76	Natalya Tobias Ukraine	4:15.36
3000 m	Joanne Pavey Great Britain	8:52.54	Olesya Syreva Russia	8:58.27	Justyna Lesman Poland	9:02.64
5000 m	Liliya Shobukhova Russia	16:18.23	Marta Domínguez Spain	16:25.21	Natalya Berkut Ukraine	16:26.12
3000 m steeplechase	Yelena Sidorchenkova Russia	9:45.73	Rosa María Morató Spain	9:49.81	Katarzyna Kowalska Poland	9:56.10
100 m hurdles (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Susanna Kallur Sweden	12.69	Kirsten Bolm Germany	12.74	Adrianna Lamalle France	12.90
400 m hurdles	Natasha Danvers-Smith Great Britain	55.65	Yevgeniya Isakova Russia	55.82	Tatyana Tereshchuk Ukraine	55.87
4 × 100 m	Russia Natalya Rusakova Yuliya Gushchina Yekaterina Kondratyeva Larisa Kruglova	43.71	France Adrianna Lamalle Fabienne Beret-Martinel Céline Distel Carima Louami	43.75	Ukraine Olena Chebanu Olena Sinyavina Iryna Shtanhyeyeva Oksana Shcherbak	43.86
4 × 400 m	Russia Yelena Migunova Olga Zaytseva Tatyana Veshkurova Natalya Antyukh	3:23.51	Poland Zuzanna Radecka Monika Bejnar Małgorzata Pskit Grażyna Prokopek	3:26.60	Great Britain Helen Karagounis Nicola Sanders Melanie Purkiss Lee McConnell	3:26.98
High jump	Kajsa Bergqvist Sweden	1.97	Ruth Beitia Spain	1.95	Anna Chicherova Russia	1.92
Pole vault	Monika Pyrek Poland	4.75 CR	Vanessa Boslak France	4.70	Nastja Ryshich Germany	4.55
Long jump	Tatyana Kotova Russia	6.67	Eunice Barber France	6.61	Daniela Lincoln-Saavedra Sweden	6.55
Triple jump	Olga Saladukha Ukraine	14.10	Viktoriya Gurova Russia	14.06	Adelina Gavrilă Romania	14.00
Shot put	Petra Lammert Germany	19.36	Irina Khudoroshkina Russia	18.29	Krystyna Zabawska Poland	17.78
Discus throw	Franka Dietzsch Germany	65.54	Darya Pishchalnikova Russia	64.24	Nicoleta Grasu Romania	61.91
Hammer throw	Tatyana Lysenko Russia	76.50 CR	Kamila Skolimowska Poland	68.16	Irina Sekachova Ukraine	67.96
Javelin throw	Barbara Madejczyk Poland	64.08	Felicia Moldovan Romania	60.49	Mercedes Chilla Spain	60.22
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)

First League

The First League was held on 17 and 18 June

Men

Group A
Held in Prague, Czech Republic

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Belgium	120
2	Sweden	115
3	Czech Republic	104
4	Belarus	88
5	Switzerland	79
6	Estonia	78
7	Norway	72
8	Austria	63

Group B
Held in Thessaloniki, Greece

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Greece	122
2	Netherlands	108
3	Portugal	102
4	Romania	102
5	Slovenia	83
6	Hungary	80
7	Croatia	62
8	Turkey	56

Women

Group A
Held in Prague, Czech Republic

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Belarus	126.5
2	Italy	107
3	Czech Republic	91
4	Ireland	84
5	Finland	80
6	Belgium	79
7	Switzerland	77
8	Latvia	76

Group B
Held in Thessaloniki, Greece

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Greece	136
2	Bulgaria	109
3	Netherlands	100
4	Portugal	98.5
5	Slovenia	85
6	Hungary	81
7	Turkey	67.5
8	Lithuania	42

Second League

The Second League was held on 17 and 18 June

Men

Group A
Held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Slovakia	129.5
2	Ireland	109
3	Israel	108
4	Denmark	108
5	Latvia	80
6	Moldova	75.5
7	Iceland	67
8	Andorra	40

Group B
Held in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Serbia and Montenegro	199
2	Bulgaria	190
3	Lithuania	183
4	Cyprus	177
5	Luxembourg	141
6	Azerbaijan	130
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	128
5	Georgia	98
6	Armenia	91
7	Albania	87
8	Macedonia	47
9	AASSE	43

Women

Group A
Held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Norway	124
2	Slovakia	120
3	Croatia	117
4	Israel	88
5	Denmark	87
6	Moldova	86.5
7	Iceland	68.5
8	Andorra	26

Group B
Held in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Cyprus	186.5
2	Serbia and Montenegro	179
3	Austria	176.5
4	Estonia	174
5	Bosnia and Herzegovina	108.5
6	AASSE	106
7	Georgia	80.5
8	Albania	80
9	Armenia	79
10	Azerbaijan	72
11	Macedonia	49

External links

• Final Standings
• European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
• European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics