# 2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

The final of the Men's Hammer Throw event at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden was held on Saturday August 12, 2006. There were a total number of 24 participating athletes. The qualifying rounds were staged three days earlier, on Wednesday August 9, with the mark set in 77.50 metres.
Ivan Tsikhan had originally won the gold medal but later tested for doping and all his results between 22 August 2004 and 21 August 2006 were annulled.

## Medalists

| Gold | Olli-Pekka Karjalainen Finland (FIN) |
| Silver | Vadim Devyatovski Belarus (BLR) |
| Bronze | Markus Esser Germany (GER) |

## Schedule

* All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)
Qualification Round :
| Group A | Group B |
| 09.08.2006 – 10:05h | 09.08.2006 – 11:30h |
| Final Round ||
| 12.08.2006 – 13:45h ||

## Abbreviations

* All results shown are in metres
| Q | automatic qualification |
| q | qualification by rank |
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2006 European Athletics Championships :
| World Record | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 86.74 m | August 30, 1986 | Stuttgart, West Germany |
| Event Record | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 86.74 m | August 30, 1986 | Stuttgart, West Germany |

## Qualification
### Group A

| Rank | Overall | Athlete | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Distance |
| Rank | Overall | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | Distance |
| 1 | 2 | Karsten Kobs (GER) | 75.47 | 75.72 | 77.52 | 77.52 m |
| 2 | 3 | Krisztián Pars (HUN) | 77.20 | — | — | 77.20 m |
| 3 | 6 | Szymon Ziółkowski (POL) | 76.39 | X | X | 76.39 m |
| 4 | 9 | Andrey Vorontsov (BLR) | X | X | 75.15 | 75.15 m |
| 5 | 11 | Marco Lingua (ITA) | 74.69 | X | X | 74.69 m |
| 6 | 13 | Libor Charfreitag (SVK) | X | 74.13 | X | 74.13 m |
| 7 | 15 | Vadim Khersontsev (RUS) | 73.24 | X | 72.87 | 73.24 m |
| 8 | 17 | David Söderberg (FIN) | 72.36 | 72.49 | X | 72.49 m |
| 9 | 19 | Christophe Épalle (FRA) | 67.92 | X | 69.12 | 69.12 m |
| 10 | 20 | Vladimír Maška (CZE) | 68.63 | 68.11 | 68.29 | 68.63 m |
| 11 | 22 | Fatih Eryildirim (TUR) | X | X | 67.54 | 67.54 m |
| — | — | Andriy Skvaruk (UKR) | — | — | — | DNS |

### Group B

| Rank | Overall | Athlete | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Distance |
| Rank | Overall | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | Distance |
| 1 | 1 | Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN) | 79.00 | — | — | 79.00 m |
| 2 | 4 | Vadim Devyatovski (BLR) | X | 76.86 | 76.87 | 76.87 m |
| 3 | 5 | Markus Esser (GER) | 73.25 | 76.67 | X | 76.67 m |
| 4 | 7 | Primož Kozmus (SLO) | X | 74.64 | 75.90 | 75.90 m |
| 5 | 8 | Nicola Vizzoni (ITA) | 74.31 | 75.21 | 74.81 | 75.21 m |
| 6 | 10 | András Haklits (CRO) | X | 74.96 | X | 74.96 m |
| 7 | 12 | Miloslav Konopka (SVK) | 71.98 | 74.64 | X | 74.64 m |
| 8 | 14 | Lukáš Melich (CZE) | 70.33 | 73.77 | 71.90 | 73.77 m |
| 9 | 16 | Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE) | 71.64 | 72.94 | X | 72.94 m |
| 10 | 18 | Eşref Apak (TUR) | 70.17 | X | X | 70.17 m |
| 11 | 21 | Roman Rozna (MDA) | X | 68.21 | X | 68.21 m |
| — | — | Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) | 77.21 | X | 74.40 | 77.21 m |

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Distance | Note |
| Rank | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Distance | Note |
| | Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN) | 78.89 | 76.86 | 76.23 | 80.84 | 80.60 | X | 80.84 m | SB |
| | Vadim Devyatovski (BLR) | 77.44 | 77.89 | 78.55 | 80.76 | 79.78 | 75.69 | 80.76 m | |
| | Markus Esser (GER) | 74.53 | X | 76.79 | X | 77.75 | 79.19 | 79.19 m | |
| 4 | Szymon Ziółkowski (POL) | X | 78.89 | 78.97 | X | X | 74.82 | 78.97 m | |
| 5 | Krisztián Pars (HUN) | 38.33 | 75.60 | 78.34 | X | X | X | 78.34 m | |
| 6 | Primož Kozmus (SLO) | 77.10 | 78.18 | X | 76.07 | 75.49 | 77.47 | 78.18 m | |
| 7 | Karsten Kobs (GER) | 76.32 | 77.69 | X | X | 77.84 | 77.93 | 77.93 m | |
| 8 | Nicola Vizzoni (ITA) | 76.55 | 75.51 | 76.06 | | | | 76.55 m | |
| 9 | András Haklits (CRO) | X | 74.83 | X | | | | 74.83 m | |
| 10 | Marco Lingua (ITA) | X | 73.73 | 73.64 | | | | 73.73 m | |
| — | Andrey Vorontsov (BLR) | X | X | X | | | | NM | |
| — | Ivan Tsikhan (BLR) | 76.39 | 75.51 | 81.11 | 78.98 | X | 80.34 | 81.11 m | DQ |