2006 European Cup (athletics)

The 2006 Spar European Cup (the 27th) took place in Málaga, Spain and attracted over 2000 athletes from 49 countries. The mascot for the 2006 games was "Manolito" the Octopus, it was chosen from the drawings submitted in a contest aimed at Andalusian schoolchildren, the winner was Eva Simancas Rubio, aged 11 from ‘Julio Caro Baroja’. The top two teams for both men and women qualified for the 2006 IAAF World Cup.

2006 European Cup

Logo of the 2006 Superleague
Host city	Málaga, Spain (Super League)
Dates	28–29 June 2006
Main venue	Estadio Ciudad de Málaga (Super League)
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Super League

Main article: 2006 European Cup Super League

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.

Relegation to 1st League

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)

First League

The First League was held on 17 and 18 June

Men

Group A Held in Prague, Czech Republic Pos. Nation Points 1  Belgium 120 2  Sweden 115 3  Czech Republic 104 4 Belarus 88 5   Switzerland 79 6  Estonia 78 7  Norway 72 8  Austria 63

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 A Held in Prague, Czech Republic Pos. Nation Points 1 Belarus 126.5 2  Italy 107 3  Czech Republic 91 4  Ireland 84 5  Finland 80 6  Belgium 79 7   Switzerland 77 8  Latvia 76

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

Second League

The Second League was held on 17 and 18 June

Men

Group A Held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Pos. Nation Points 1  Slovakia 129.5 2  Ireland 109 3  Israel 108 4  Denmark 108 5  Latvia 80 6  Moldova 75.5 7  Iceland 67 8  Andorra 40

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 A Held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Pos. Nation Points 1  Norway 124 2  Slovakia 120 3  Croatia 117 4  Israel 88 5  Denmark 87 6  Moldova 86.5 7  Iceland 68.5 8  Andorra 26

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

External links

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