2006 European Cup (athletics) explained

2006 European Cup
Host City:	Málaga, Spain (Super League)
Dates:	28–29 June 2006
Stadium:	Estadio Ciudad de Málaga (Super League)
Previous:	2005 Florence

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.

Super League

See 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		118
2		116
3		109
4		107
5		103
6		99.5
7		93
8		86.5
9		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		155
2		115.5
3		99
4		98
5		93
6		90
7		85
8		81
9		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

100 m (Wind: +2.6 m/s)	Ronald Pognon	10.13w	Dwain Chambers	10.19w	Andrey Yepishin	10.19w
200 m (Wind: +1.8 m/s)	Christian Malcolm	20.29	Ronald Pognon	20.37	Marcin Urbaś	20.55
400 m	Marc Raquil	45.89	Vladislav Frolov	46.13	Daniel Dąbrowski	46.37
800 m	Juan de Dios Jurado	1:46.00	Ivan Heshko	1:46.24	Florent Lacasse	1:46.44
1500 m	Ivan Heshko	3:50.34	Juan Carlos Higuero	3:50.85	Aleksandr Krivchonkov	3:51.96
3000 m	Sergio Gallardo	8:27.78	Mo Farah	8:27.91	Driss Maazouzi	8:28.64
5000 m	Sergey Lebid	14:16.83	Juan Carlos de la Ossa	14:17.65	Sergey Ivanov	14:18.14
3000 m steeplechase	Antonio Jiménez	8:25.59	Vincent Le Dauphin	8:28.77	Jukka Keskisalo	8:30.45
110 m hurdles (Wind: -1.5 m/s)	Ladji Doucouré	13.27	Andy Turner	13.47	Igor Peremota	13.50
400 m hurdles	Naman Keïta	50.20	Aleksandr Derevyagin	50.35	Gianni Carabelli	50.45
4 × 100 m	Dariusz Kuć Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Marcin Urbaś	39.07	Luca Verdecchia Stefano Anceschi Massimiliano Donati Francesco Scuderi	39.14	Tim Abeyie Marlon Devonish Christian Malcolm Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	39.31
4 × 400 m	Leslie Djhone Brice Panel Naman Keïta Marc Raquil	3:03.59	Rafał Wieruszewski Piotr Klimczak Marcin Marciniszyn Daniel Dąbrowski	3:03.86	Andrew Howe Gianni Carabelli Luca Galletti Andrea Barberi	3:04.27
High jump	Andrey Silnov	2.31	Giulio Ciotti	2.29	Germaine Mason	2.27
Pole vault	Romain Mesnil	5.70	Giuseppe Gibilisco	5.65	Mikko Latvala	5.45
Long jump	Andrew Howe	8.29	Salim Sdiri	8.15	Marcin Starzak	8.09
Triple jump	Fabrizio Donato	16.99	Viktor Yastrebov	16.91	Julien Kapek	16.80
Shot put	Pavel Sofin	20.59	Manuel Martínez	20.58	Ralf Bartels	20.43
Discus throw	Piotr Małachowski	66.21	Lars Riedel	63.47	Mario Pestano	62.35
Hammer throw	Szymon Ziółkowski	79.31	Andrey Skvaruk	78.71	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	77.08
Javelin throw	Tero Pitkämäki	85.30	Sergey Makarov	82.43	Igor Janik	79.30

Women's events

100 m (Wind: +2.4 m/s)	Yuliya Gushchina	11.13w	Joice Maduaka	11.29w	Fabienne Beret-Martinel	11.35w
200 m (Wind: +0.6 m/s)	Olga Zaytseva	22.73	Angela Moroșanu	22.91	Monika Bejnar	22.97
400 m	Svetlana Pospelova	50.77	Nicola Sanders	51.92	Claudia Hoffmann	52.81
800 m	Svetlana Klyuka	2:01.99	Monika Gradzki	2:04.13	Mayte Martínez	2:04.16
1500 m	Yuliya Chizhenko	4:14.39	Latifa Essarokh	4:14.76	Natalya Tobias	4:15.36
3000 m	Joanne Pavey	8:52.54	Olesya Syreva	8:58.27	Justyna Lesman	9:02.64
5000 m	Liliya Shobukhova	16:18.23	Marta Domínguez	16:25.21	Natalya Berkut	16:26.12
3000 m steeplechase	Yelena Sidorchenkova	9:45.73	Rosa María Morató	9:49.81	Katarzyna Kowalska	9:56.10
100 m hurdles (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Susanna Kallur	12.69	Kirsten Bolm	12.74	Adrianna Lamalle	12.90
400 m hurdles	Natasha Danvers-Smith	55.65	Yevgeniya Isakova	55.82	Tatyana Tereshchuk	55.87
4 × 100 m	Natalya Rusakova Yuliya Gushchina Yekaterina Kondratyeva Larisa Kruglova	43.71	Adrianna Lamalle Fabienne Beret-Martinel Céline Distel Carima Louami	43.75	Olena Chebanu Olena Sinyavina Iryna Shtanhyeyeva Oksana Shcherbak	43.86
4 × 400 m	Yelena Migunova Olga Zaytseva Tatyana Veshkurova Natalya Antyukh	3:23.51	Zuzanna Radecka Monika Bejnar Małgorzata Pskit Grażyna Prokopek	3:26.60	Helen Karagounis Nicola Sanders Melanie Purkiss Lee McConnell	3:26.98
High jump	Kajsa Bergqvist	1.97	Ruth Beitia	1.95	Anna Chicherova	1.92
Pole vault	Monika Pyrek	4.75 CR	Vanessa Boslak	4.70	Nastja Ryshich	4.55
Long jump	Tatyana Kotova	6.67	Eunice Barber	6.61	Daniela Lincoln-Saavedra	6.55
Triple jump	Olga Saladukha	14.10	Viktoriya Gurova	14.06	Adelina Gavrilă	14.00
Shot put	Petra Lammert	19.36	Irina Khudoroshkina	18.29	Krystyna Zabawska	17.78
Discus throw	Franka Dietzsch	65.54	Darya Pishchalnikova	64.24	Nicoleta Grasu	61.91
Hammer throw	Tatyana Lysenko	76.50 CR	Kamila Skolimowska	68.16	Irina Sekachova	67.96
Javelin throw	Barbara Madejczyk	64.08	Felicia Moldovan	60.49	Mercedes Chilla	60.22

First League

The First League was held on 17 and 18 June

Men

Group A
Held in Prague, Czech Republic

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		120
2		115
3		104
4	Belarus	88
5		79
6		78
7		72
8		63

Group B
Held in Thessaloniki, Greece

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		122
2		108
3		102
4		102
5		83
6		80
7		62
8		56

Women

Group A
Held in Prague, Czech Republic

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Belarus	126.5
2		107
3		91
4		84
5		80
6		79
7		77
8		76

Group B
Held in Thessaloniki, Greece

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		136
2		109
3		100
4		98.5
5		85
6		81
7		67.5
8		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		129.5
2		109
3		108
4		108
5		80
6		75.5
7		67
8		40

Group B
Held in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		199
2		190
3		183
4		177
5		141
6		130
4		128
5		98
6		91
7		87
8		47
9	AASSE	43

Women

Group A
Held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		124
2		120
3		117
4		88
5		87
6		86.5
7		68.5
8		26

Group B
Held in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		186.5
2		179
3		176.5
4		174
5		108.5
6	AASSE	106
7		80.5
8		80
9		79
10		72
11		49

External links

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