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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 final of the: Men's Hammer Throw event at the——2006 European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden was held on Saturday August 12, "2006." There were a total number of 24 participating athletes. The qualifying rounds were staged three days earlier, "on Wednesday August 9," with the "mark set in 77."50 metres.

Ivan Tsikhan had originally won the gold medal. But later tested for doping. And all his results between 22 August 2004 and "21 August 2006 were annulled."

Medalists※

Gold	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen Finland (FIN)
Silver	Vadim Devyatovski Belarus (BLR)
Bronze	Markus Esser Germany (GER)

Schedule※

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Abbreviations※

• All results shown are in metres

Records※

Standing records prior——to the 2006 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany

Qualification※

Group A※

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	2	Karsten Kobs (GER)	75.47	75.72	77.52	77.52 m
2	3	Krisztián Pars (HUN)	77.20	—	—	77.20 m
3	6	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	76.39	X	X	76.39 m
4	9	Andrey Vorontsov (BLR)	X	X	75.15	75.15 m
5	11	Marco Lingua (ITA)	74.69	X	X	74.69 m
6	13	Libor Charfreitag (SVK)	X	74.13	X	74.13 m
7	15	Vadim Khersontsev (RUS)	73.24	X	72.87	73.24 m
8	17	David Söderberg (FIN)	72.36	72.49	X	72.49 m
9	19	Christophe Épalle (FRA)	67.92	X	69.12	69.12 m
10	20	Vladimír Maška (CZE)	68.63	68.11	68.29	68.63 m
11	22	Fatih Eryildirim (TUR)	X	X	67.54	67.54 m
—	—	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)	—	—	—	DNS

Group B※

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)	79.00	—	—	79.00 m
2	4	Vadim Devyatovski (BLR)	X	76.86	76.87	76.87 m
3	5	Markus Esser (GER)	73.25	76.67	X	76.67 m
4	7	Primož Kozmus (SLO)	X	74.64	75.90	75.90 m
5	8	Nicola Vizzoni (ITA)	74.31	75.21	74.81	75.21 m
6	10	András Haklits (CRO)	X	74.96	X	74.96 m
7	12	Miloslav Konopka (SVK)	71.98	74.64	X	74.64 m
8	14	Lukáš Melich (CZE)	70.33	73.77	71.90	73.77 m
9	16	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)	71.64	72.94	X	72.94 m
10	18	Eşref Apak (TUR)	70.17	X	X	70.17 m
11	21	Roman Rozna (MDA)	X	68.21	X	68.21 m
—	—	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	77.21	X	74.40	77.21 m

Final※

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)	78.89	76.86	76.23	80.84	80.60	X	80.84 m	SB
	Vadim Devyatovski (BLR)	77.44	77.89	78.55	80.76	79.78	75.69	80.76 m
	Markus Esser (GER)	74.53	X	76.79	X	77.75	79.19	79.19 m
4	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	X	78.89	78.97	X	X	74.82	78.97 m
5	Krisztián Pars (HUN)	38.33	75.60	78.34	X	X	X	78.34 m
6	Primož Kozmus (SLO)	77.10	78.18	X	76.07	75.49	77.47	78.18 m
7	Karsten Kobs (GER)	76.32	77.69	X	X	77.84	77.93	77.93 m
8	Nicola Vizzoni (ITA)	76.55	75.51	76.06				76.55 m
9	András Haklits (CRO)	X	74.83	X				74.83 m
10	Marco Lingua (ITA)	X	73.73	73.64				73.73 m
—	Andrey Vorontsov (BLR)	X	X	X				NM
—	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	76.39	75.51	81.11	78.98	X	80.34	81.11 m	DQ

See also※

• 2006 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

References※

• todor66
• hammerthrow.wz
• Official results