2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The Men's 50 km walk event at the 2006 European Championships was held on Thursday August 10, 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with the start at 09:40h.

Medalists

Gold	Yohann Diniz France (FRA)
Silver	Jesús Ángel García Spain (ESP)
Bronze	Yuriy Andronov Russia (RUS)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
WL	world leading
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2006 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)	3:35:29	June 13, 2004	Cheboksary, Russia
Event Record	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	3:36:39	August 8, 2002	Munich, Germany

Results

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Yohann Diniz (FRA)	3:41:39	PB
	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	3:42:48	SB
	Yuriy Andronov (RUS)	3:43:26
4	Trond Nymark (NOR)	3:44:17
5	Mikel Odriozola (ESP)	3:46:34
6	Roman Magdziarczyk (POL)	3:47:37
7	Marco De Luca (ITA)	3:48:08	PB
8	Peter Korčok (SVK)	3:51:16	SB
9	Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)	3:51:51
10	Grzegorz Sudoł (POL)	3:53:33
11	Diego Cafagna (ITA)	3:55:22	SB
12	Fredrik Svensson (SWE)	3:56:15	SB
13	Ingus Janevics (LAT)	3:56:32	PB
14	Jarkko Kinnunen (FIN)	3:56:54	PB
15	David Boulanger (FRA)	3:57:08
16	Andrei Stepanchuk (BLR)	3:57:27
17	Kamil Kalka (POL)	4:01:28
18	Ugis Bruvelis (LAT)	4:02:03
19	Jorge Costa (POR)	4:03:48
20	António Pereira (POR)	4:07:46
21	Miloš Holuša (CZE)	4:12:11
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	José Alejandro Cambil (ESP)	DNF
—	Alex Schwazer (ITA)	DNF
—	Antti Kempas (FIN)	DNF
—	Pedro Martins (POR)	DNF
—	Aleksandar Raković (SRB)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Eddy Riva (FRA)	DSQ
—	Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)	DSQ

See also

• 2006 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

• Official results
• Results