2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the European Athletics Championships

The Men's 20 km walk event at the 2006 European Championships was held on Tuesday August 8, 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with the start at 17:15h.

Medalists

Gold Spain Paquillo Fernández
Spain (ESP)
Silver Russia Valeriy Borchin
Russia (RUS)
Bronze Portugal João Vieira
Portugal (POR)

Abbreviations

  • 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

Standing records prior to the 2006 European Athletics Championships
World Record  Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1:17.21 August 23, 2003 France Paris, France
Event Record  Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 1:18.37 August 6, 2002 Germany Munich, Germany

Results

Rank Athlete Time Note
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 1:19:09
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Valeriy Borchin (RUS) 1:20:00 PB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  João Vieira (POR) 1:20:09 NR
4  Viktor Burayev (RUS) 1:20:12
5  Sergey Bakulin (RUS) 1:20:50
6  Matej Tóth (SVK) 1:21:39 SB
7  Erik Tysse (NOR) 1:22:13
8  Giorgio Rubino (ITA) 1:22:34
9  Siarhei Charnou (BLR) 1:23:03
10  Denis Langlois (FRA) 1:24:06 SB
11  André Höhne (GER) 1:24:35
12  Predrag Filipović (SRB) 1:25:16
13  Benjamín Sánchez (ESP) 1:25:58
14  Andriy Yurin (UKR) 1:26:20
15  Silviu Casandra (ROM) 1:26:36
16  Recep Çelik (TUR) 1:27:18
17  Ivano Brugnetti (ITA) 1:27:42
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
 Juan Manuel Molina (ESP) DSQ
 Andrei Talashka (BLR) DSQ

See also

References