2006 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the Ullevi on August 9 and August 11.

Finland's Keskisalo takes surprise gold after two injury-filled years. He ran behind the whole pack until the last lap, during which he sprinted on the back straight to take the win ahead of Spain's José Luis Blanco and France's Bouabdellah Tahri.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jukka Keskisalo  Finland	José Luis Blanco  Spain	Bouabdellah Tahri  France

First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Antonio David Jiménez	Spain	8:24.12	Q
2	2	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8:24.38	Q
3	2	Itai Maggidi	Israel	8:25.04	Q, NR
4	2	Radosław Popławski	Poland	8:25.54	Q
5	2	Mustafa Mohamed	Sweden	8:26.66	q
6	2	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	8:27.53	q
7	2	Jukka Keskisalo	Finland	8:29.06	q
8	1	Simon Vroemen	Netherlands	8:29.62	Q
9	1	José Luis Blanco	Spain	8:30.26	Q
10	1	César Pérez	Spain	8:30.52	Q
11	1	Martin Pröll	Austria	8:31.34	Q
12	1	Pavel Potapovich	Russia	8:32.78	q
13	2	Pieter Desmet	Belgium	8:32.93
14	2	Andrey Kozhevnikov	Russia	8:33.00
15	1	Ion Luchianov	Moldova	8:34.86
16	2	Adam Bowden	United Kingdom	8:35.79
17	2	Andrey Farnosov	Russia	8:36.94
18	1	Tomasz Szymkowiak	Poland	8:37.00
19	1	Matteo Villani	Italy	8:39.66
20	1	Jermaine Mays	United Kingdom	8:41.70
21	2	Vadym Slobodenyuk	Ukraine	8:42.55
22	1	Mário Teixeira	Portugal	8:43.14
23	1	Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen	Norway	8:53.93
24	1	Mohamed-Khaled Belabbas	France	9:01.62
25	2	Boštjan Buč	Slovenia	9:13.90
	1	Vincent Le Dauphin	France	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jukka Keskisalo	Finland	8:24.89
	José Luis Blanco	Spain	8:26.22
	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8:27.15
4	Mustafa Mohamed	Sweden	8:27.79
5	Antonio David Jiménez	Spain	8:28.78
6	Radosław Popławski	Poland	8:29.33
7	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	8:29.54
8	César Pérez	Spain	8:30.40
9	Martin Pröll	Austria	8:35.69
10	Pavel Potapovich	Russia	8:38.19
11	Itai Maggidi	Israel	8:52.69
	Simon Vroemen	Netherlands		DNS

• Results