Athletics 2006 European Cup

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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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 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

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

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