2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

2006 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the Ullevi on August 12 and August 13.

France and Great Britain both overtook the Polish team in the home straight to finish 1st and 2nd respectively.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Idrissa M'barke Naman Keïta Marc Raquil Brice Panel* Abdrahim El Haouzy *	Timothy Benjamin	Poland Daniel Dąbrowski Piotr Kędzia Piotr Rysiukiewicz Rafał Wieruszewski Marcin Marciniszyn*

*Athletes who competed in heats only

Schedule

Results

Heats

First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	2	United Kingdom	Timothy Benjamin	3:02.51	Q
2	1	Germany	Kamghe Gaba, Florian Seitz, Ruwen Faller, Bastian Swillims	3:03.25	Q
3	1	Poland	Piotr Kędzia, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Marcin Marciniszyn, Daniel Dąbrowski	3:03.49	Q
4	2	Russia	Konstantin Svechkar, Ivan Buzolin, Aleksandr Larin, Yevgeniy Lebedev	3:03.73	Q
5	2	France	Idrissa M'barke, Abdrahim El Haouzy, Naman Keïta	3:03.87	Q
6	1	Romania	Catalin Cîmpeanu, Ioan Vieru	3:04.23	Q, NR
7	2	Ireland	David McCarthy	3:04.59	q
8	1	Spain	Santiago Ezquerro	3:04.71	q
8	2	Ukraine	Yevheniy Zyukov	3:04.71	q
10	1	Italy	Claudio Licciardello, Edoardo Vallet, Luca Galletti, Gianni Carabelli	3:05.53
11	1	Greece	Dimitrios Gravalos, Dimitrios Regas, Padeleimon Melahrinoudis, Periklis Iakovakis	3:05.59
12	1	Czech Republic	Filip Klvana, Jiří Vojtík, Vojtech Šulc, Michal Uhlík	3:06.14
13	2	Norway	Morten Sand, Lars Eric Sæther, Quincy Douglas, Steffen Kjønnås	3:07.65
14	2	Sweden	Joni Jaako, Andreas Mokdasi, Thomas Nikitin, Fredrik Johansson	3:07.73

Final

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	France	Idrissa M'barke, Naman Keïta, Marc Raquil	3:01.10
	United Kingdom	Timothy Benjamin	3:01.63
	Poland	Daniel Dąbrowski, Piotr Kędzia, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Rafał Wieruszewski	3:01.73
4	Germany	Kamghe Gaba, Florian Seitz, Ruwen Faller, Bastian Swillims	3:02.83
5	Ukraine	Yevheniy Zyukov	3:04.33
6	Romania	Catalin Cîmpeanu, Ioan Vieru	3:04.53
7	Russia	Konstantin Svechkar, Yevgeniy Lebedev, Aleksandr Larin, Vladislav Frolov	3:04.73
8	Spain	Santiago Ezquerro	3:04.98
9	Ireland	David McCarthy	3:05.57

External links

• Results