2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw

Men's discus throw at the European Athletics Championships

The men's discus throw at the 2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the Ullevi on August 10 and August 12.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania	Gerd Kanter Estonia	Aleksander Tammert Estonia

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 10, 2006	10:30	Qualification
August 12, 2006	16:30	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 63.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	x	61.49	66.71	66.71	Q
2	B	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	57.25	x	64.53	64.53	Q
3	A	Piotr Małachowski	Poland	61.75	63.76		63.76	Q
4	A	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	60.58	63.53		63.53	Q
5	A	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	63.51			63.51	Q
6	B	Lars Riedel	Germany	63.36			63.36	q
7	B	Mario Pestano	Spain	63.08	62.42	62.05	63.08	q
8	A	Roland Varga	Hungary	x	61.01	60.79	61.01	q
9	A	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	x	58.42	60.62	60.62	q
10	B	Gábor Máté	Hungary	60.53	x	x	60.53	q
11	A	Sergiu Ursu	Romania	60.50	x	58.39	60.50	q
12	A	Andrzej Krawczyk	Poland	60.11	59.78	58.66	60.11	q
13	B	Robert Harting	Germany	59.24	59.38	59.87	59.87
14	B	Märt Israel	Estonia	x	59.30	59.80	59.80
15	A	Gerhard Mayer	Austria	55.59	x	59.54	59.54
16	B	Olgierd Stański	Poland	x	x	59.30	59.30
17	B	Bogdan Pishchalnikov	Russia	58.77	x	56.34	58.77
18	A	Mikko Kyyrö	Finland	57.82	58.59	x	58.59
19	A	Stanislav Alekseyev	Russia	56.91	x	55.71	56.91
20	B	Hannes Kirchler	Italy	x	x	56.78	56.78
21	B	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden	x	x	56.62	56.62
22	A	Cristiano Andrei	Italy	54.82	54.42	54.74	54.82
23	B	Mika Loikkanen	Finland	56.08	53.98	x	56.08
	B	Dmitriy Shevchenko	Russia	x	x	x	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	68.67	67.63	67.34	67.37	67.33	66.57	68.67
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	61.04	x	68.03	x	x	x	68.03
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	62.02	65.32	66.14	65.59	65.29	60.72	66.14
4	Mario Pestano	Spain	63.80	64.84	62.66	63.54	64.26	62.52	64.84
5	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	x	64.82	64.75	62.89	62.00	-	64.82
6	Piotr Małachowski	Poland	61.81	64.57	62.52	61.83	63.77	x	64.57
7	Rutger Smith	Netherlands	63.52	63.33	64.06	62.14	62.61	64.46	64.46
8	Lars Riedel	Germany	64.11	x	59.88	64.07	59.56	58.43	64.11
9	Sergiu Ursu	Romania	58.14	62.48	x				62.48
10	Andrzej Krawczyk	Poland	x	59.77	61.56				61.56
11	Roland Varga	Hungary	x	x	60.52				60.52
12	Gábor Máté	Hungary	56.52	57.35	x				57.35

External links

• Results
• Results European Championships Athletic 1934-2010 Archived 2010-09-05 at the Wayback Machine