2006 European Cup (athletics)

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.

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)

The First League was held on 17 and 18 June

Men

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 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

The Second League was held on 17 and 18 June

Men

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 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

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