2006 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres explained

Event:	Women's 400 metres
Competition:	European Athletics Championships

The women's 400 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the Ullevi on 8, 9 and 10 August.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Vania Stambolova	Tatyana Veshkurova	Olga Zaytseva

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
8 August 2006	10:55	Round 1
9 August 2006	19:05	Semifinals
10 August 2006	18:50	Final

Results

Round 1

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2			50.39	Q
	1			50.89	Q
	4			51.01	Q
	2			51.34	Q
	1			51.41	Q
	3			51.69	Q
	4			51.80	Q
	2			51.98	Q
	1			52.02	Q, PB
10	3			52.04	Q
11	2			52.07	q, PB
12	4			52.15	Q
13	2			52.21	q, SB
14	1			52.30	q
15	3			52.32	Q
16	3			52.55	q
17	4			52.64	PB
18	2			52.86	NR
19	1			52.91	PB
20	3			53.24
21	1			53.28
22	3			53.34
23	1			53.43
24	2			53.52
24	4			53.52
26	4			53.69

Semifinals

First 4 of each Semifinal will be directly qualified (Q) for the Final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	React	Time	Notes
1	6			0.232	49.69	Q, EL
2	4			0.181	50.74	Q, NR
3	5			0.136	50.96	Q
4	3			0.182	51.25	Q
5	2			0.213	52.13
6	7			0.191	52.27
7	1			0.291	52.36
8	8			0.186	53.06

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	React	Time	Notes
1	3			0.187	50.49	Q
2	4			0.221	50.87	Q
3	5			0.204	51.09	Q, PB
4	6			0.184	51.23	Q
5	1			0.181	52.00
6	7			0.180	52.46
7	2			0.276	52.66
8	8			0.173	52.94

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			49.85
	3			50.15
	6			50.28
4	7			50.64	PB
5	5			50.69	NR
6	2			50.87
7	8			50.90
8	1			51.46

External links

• Results