2006 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 x 100 metres relay
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The women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the Ullevi
Ullevi
Ullevi is a stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden. The stadium was built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but since then Ullevi has also hosted the 1995 World Championships in Athletics and the 2006 European Championships in Athletics, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finals in 1983 and 1990, the UEFA Euro 1992...

 on 12 and 13 August.

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze

Yuliya Gushchina
Yuliya Gushchina
Yuliya Aleksandrovna Gushchina is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Gushchina represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round...


Natalia Rusakova
Natalia Rusakova
Nataliya Mikhaylovna Kresova-Rusakova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Russia.She won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....


Irina Khabarova
Irina Khabarova
Irina Sergeyevna Khabarova is a Russian sprinter.She won the silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2004 Olympics and a bronze medal in the same event at both the 2002 and 2006 European Championships.-References:...


Yekaterina Grigoryeva
Yekaterina Grigoryeva
Yekaterina Leshcheva-Grigoryeva is a Russian sprint athlete. She became the Summer Universiade champion in the 200 metres at the 1997 Games. She reached the European podium at the 2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships, taking the silver medal in the women's 200 m. She was given a...


Yekaterina Kondratyeva
Yekaterina Kondratyeva
Yekaterina Kondratyeva is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.She holds the current world indoor record in the rarely contested 4 x 200 metres relay .-Achievements:...


Larisa Kruglova
Larisa Kruglova
Larisa Nikolayevna Kruglova is a Russian sprinter who mainly competes in the 100 metres.Her greatest success has come in relay races, where she has Olympic silver medal to her name.-Achievements:-References:...


Anyika Onuora
Anyika Onuora
Anyika Onuora is a British sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres, and also the 4×100 metres relay.Her first major junior international competition was the 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she finished fifth in the 100 m event and won a silver medal with...


Emma Ania
Emma Ania
Emma Ania is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Great Britain.Ania represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Jeanette Kwakye, Montell Douglas and Emily Freeman...


Emily Freeman
Emily Freeman
Emily Kaye Freeman is a British senior female runner. She is currently associated with the Yorkshire / Wakefield Harriers & AC....


Joice Maduaka
Joice Maduaka
Joice Maduaka is a British athlete who competes over the 100, 200 and occasionally 400 metres. She holds the record for winning the most medals of any athlete at the British Athletics Championships, standing at 19 medals to date, including being the 100m champion 6 times, and the 200m champion...


Laura Turner
Laura Turner
Laura Kate Turner is a British sprinter who represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics, in the 4 x 100m relay and the 100m....




Yulia Nestsiarenka
Natallia Safronnikava
Alena Neumiarzhitskaya
Aksana Drahun



Schedule

Date Time Round
12 August 2006 16:35 Heats
13 August 2006 14:50 Final

Results

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats

First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.
Rank Heat Nation Athlete Time Notes
2 Véronique Mang
Véronique Mang
Véronique Mang is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France.She arrived in France with her mother, brother and sister in 1995. She represented Cameroon until 2003 when she gained French citizenship. She started running at age 12 in France...

, Fabienne Beret-Martinel, Adrianna Lamalle
Adrianna Lamalle
Adrianna Lamalle is a French hurdler born in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe.She finished 8th in the 100m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....

, Muriel Hurtis-Houairi 
43.38 Q
1 Katja Wakan
Katja Wakan
Katja Tengel is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.At the 2003 World Championships she finished seventh in the 4x100 m relay, together with teammates Melanie Paschke, Marion Wagner and Sandra Möller...

, Marion Wagner
Marion Wagner
Marion Wagner is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.31 seconds, achieved in July 2003 in Mals, . She represents the sports club USC Mainz....

, Cathleen Tschirch
Cathleen Tschirch
Cathleen Tschirch is a German sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Her personal best time on the individual distance is 22.97 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Bochum...

, Verena Sailer
Verena Sailer
Verena Sailer is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.10 seconds, achieved when winning the final and taking the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona.Sailer represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...

 
43.49 Q
2 Olena Chebanu
Olena Chebanu
Olena Chebanu is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres.In the 200 metres she finished seventh at the 2006 European Championships and competed without reaching the final at the 2007 World Championships. In the 100 metres she won the silver medal at the 2007 Summer...

, Halyna Tonkovyd, Iryna Shtanhyeyeva
Iryna Shtanhyeyeva
Iryna Shtanhyeyeva is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 200 metres.In individual competition she competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships and the 2007 World Championships without reaching the final, but she won the gold medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade...

, Iryna Shepetyuk
Iryna Shepetyuk
Iryna Lyubomyrivna Shepetyuk is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.She was born in Kolomiya, and represents the club Dynamo Ivano-Frankivska. In the 4 x 400 metres relay she won a bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade...

 
43.62 Q
1 Yekaterina Kondratyeva
Yekaterina Kondratyeva
Yekaterina Kondratyeva is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.She holds the current world indoor record in the rarely contested 4 x 200 metres relay .-Achievements:...

, Natalia Rusakova
Natalia Rusakova
Nataliya Mikhaylovna Kresova-Rusakova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Russia.She won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....

, Irina Khabarova
Irina Khabarova
Irina Sergeyevna Khabarova is a Russian sprinter.She won the silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2004 Olympics and a bronze medal in the same event at both the 2002 and 2006 European Championships.-References:...

, Larisa Kruglova
Larisa Kruglova
Larisa Nikolayevna Kruglova is a Russian sprinter who mainly competes in the 100 metres.Her greatest success has come in relay races, where she has Olympic silver medal to her name.-Achievements:-References:...

 
43.65 Q
1 Hanna Mariën
Hanna Mariën
Hanna Mariën is a Belgian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. Her personal best time on the individual distance is 22.68 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Brussels. She has 11.41 seconds in the 100 metres....

, Frauke Penen, Olivia Borlée
Olivia Borlée
Olivia Borlée is a Belgian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. Her personal best time in the individual distance is 22.98 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Brussels...

, Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert is a former sprint athlete from Belgium.-Career:Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics...

 
43.65 Q
2 Yulia Nestsiarenka, Natallia Safronnikava, Alena Neumiarzhitskaya, Aksana Drahun  43.70 Q
2 Anyika Onuora
Anyika Onuora
Anyika Onuora is a British sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres, and also the 4×100 metres relay.Her first major junior international competition was the 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she finished fifth in the 100 m event and won a silver medal with...

, Emily Freeman
Emily Freeman
Emily Kaye Freeman is a British senior female runner. She is currently associated with the Yorkshire / Wakefield Harriers & AC....

, Laura Turner
Laura Turner
Laura Kate Turner is a British sprinter who represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics, in the 4 x 100m relay and the 100m....

, Joice Maduaka
Joice Maduaka
Joice Maduaka is a British athlete who competes over the 100, 200 and occasionally 400 metres. She holds the record for winning the most medals of any athlete at the British Athletics Championships, standing at 19 medals to date, including being the 100m champion 6 times, and the 200m champion...

 
44.00 q
1 Emma Rienas, Susanna Kallur
Susanna Kallur
Susanna Elisabeth Kallur is a Swedish athlete competing mainly in sprint hurdles. She has won several international medals, including the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2006 European Athletics Championships...

, Jenny Kallur
Jenny Kallur
Jenny Margareta Kallur is a former Swedish track and field athlete who competed in hurdling and sprinting events. Her twin sister Susanna Kallur, whom she is four minutes older than, is also a 100 m hurdler...

, Emma Green
Emma Green
Emma Anna-Maria Green Tregaro is an athlete competing in high jump. She won a bronze medal in the event at the 2005 IAAF World Championships. She represented Sweden at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
44.08 q
2 Hariklia Bouda, Effrosini Patsou, Eleftheria Kobidou, Georgia Kokloni  44.20
10 1 Joanna Gabryelewicz, Daria Onyśko
Daria Korczyńska
Daria Onyśko-Korczyńska is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Poland.She finished eighth in the 100 metres final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, and ninth one month later at the 2006 IAAF World Cup...

, Iwona Dorobisz, Beata Makaruk 
44.27
11 1 Sari Keskitalo, Johanna Manninen, Ilona Ranta, Heidi Hannula  44.32
12 2 Derval O'Rourke
Derval O'Rourke
Derval O'Rourke is an Irish sprint hurdles athlete. She competes internationally in the 60 and 100 metres hurdles, and is the Irish national record holder in both events...

, Joanne Cuddihy
Joanne Cuddihy
Joanne Cuddihy is an Irish sprint athlete. She is the current Irish 400m outdoor women's record holder, having recorded a time of 50.73 seconds at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan - this made her the first Irish woman to have run under 51 seconds at this distance.She won...

, Ailis McSweeney
Ailis McSweeney
Ailis McSweeney is an Irish sprinter who specialises in 60 and 100 metres. She currently holds the Irish record at 100 metres, having posted a time of 11.40 s at an IAAF permit event in Liège, Belgium. She won the silver medal at the 2005 Summer Universiade and Bronze in the 4x100 m Relay...

, Anna Boyle 
44.38 NR
Irish records in athletics
The following are the national records in athletics in Ireland maintained by Athletics Association of Ireland .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:+ = en route to a longer distanceA = affected by altitudea = aided road course according to IAAF rule 260.28...

13 1 Ruth Conde, Belén Recio, Claudia Troppa, Glory Alozie
Glory Alozie
Glory Alozie Oluchi is a Spanish athlete competing mostly in hurdling. The world junior second placer from 1996, she went on to have a successful senior career, although she has never won a major international event...

 
44.85
14 2 Gülay Kirsan-Kiliç, Nevin Yanıt
Nevin Yanıt
Nevin Yanıt, is a Turkish female sprinter competing in hurdling, especially in 100 m hurdles. Currently, she is majoring in Physical Education at Mersin University, and a member of the Fenerbahçe S.K. athletics club...

, Esen Kizildag, Saliha Memis-Özyurt 
46.32
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Iveta Mazáčová
Iveta Mazáčová is a Czech athlete who specialises in the sprint disciplines 60 m, 100 m and 200 metres.At the 2006 European Athletics Championships, Mazáčová finished seventh in her 200 m heat for a 25th place overall result....

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Final

Rank Nation Athletes Time Notes
Yuliya Gushchina
Yuliya Gushchina
Yuliya Aleksandrovna Gushchina is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Gushchina represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round...

, Natalia Rusakova
Natalia Rusakova
Nataliya Mikhaylovna Kresova-Rusakova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Russia.She won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....

, Irina Khabarova
Irina Khabarova
Irina Sergeyevna Khabarova is a Russian sprinter.She won the silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2004 Olympics and a bronze medal in the same event at both the 2002 and 2006 European Championships.-References:...

, Yekaterina Grigoryeva
Yekaterina Grigoryeva
Yekaterina Leshcheva-Grigoryeva is a Russian sprint athlete. She became the Summer Universiade champion in the 200 metres at the 1997 Games. She reached the European podium at the 2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships, taking the silver medal in the women's 200 m. She was given a...

 
42.71
Anyika Onuora
Anyika Onuora
Anyika Onuora is a British sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres, and also the 4×100 metres relay.Her first major junior international competition was the 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she finished fifth in the 100 m event and won a silver medal with...

, Emma Ania
Emma Ania
Emma Ania is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Great Britain.Ania represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Jeanette Kwakye, Montell Douglas and Emily Freeman...

, Emily Freeman
Emily Freeman
Emily Kaye Freeman is a British senior female runner. She is currently associated with the Yorkshire / Wakefield Harriers & AC....

, Joice Maduaka
Joice Maduaka
Joice Maduaka is a British athlete who competes over the 100, 200 and occasionally 400 metres. She holds the record for winning the most medals of any athlete at the British Athletics Championships, standing at 19 medals to date, including being the 100m champion 6 times, and the 200m champion...

 
43.51
Yulia Nestsiarenka, Natallia Safronnikava, Alena Neumiarzhitskaya, Aksana Drahun  43.61
4 Olena Chebanu
Olena Chebanu
Olena Chebanu is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres.In the 200 metres she finished seventh at the 2006 European Championships and competed without reaching the final at the 2007 World Championships. In the 100 metres she won the silver medal at the 2007 Summer...

, Halyna Tonkovyd, Iryna Shtanhyeyeva
Iryna Shtanhyeyeva
Iryna Shtanhyeyeva is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 200 metres.In individual competition she competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships and the 2007 World Championships without reaching the final, but she won the gold medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade...

, Iryna Shepetyuk
Iryna Shepetyuk
Iryna Lyubomyrivna Shepetyuk is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.She was born in Kolomiya, and represents the club Dynamo Ivano-Frankivska. In the 4 x 400 metres relay she won a bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade...

 
43.97
5 Susanna Kallur
Susanna Kallur
Susanna Elisabeth Kallur is a Swedish athlete competing mainly in sprint hurdles. She has won several international medals, including the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2006 European Athletics Championships...

, Carolina Klüft
Carolina Klüft
Carolina Evelyn Klüft is a Swedish athlete competing in triple jump, long jump and formerly in heptathlon and pentathlon. She won the Olympic heptathlon title in 2004...

, Jenny Kallur
Jenny Kallur
Jenny Margareta Kallur is a former Swedish track and field athlete who competed in hurdling and sprinting events. Her twin sister Susanna Kallur, whom she is four minutes older than, is also a 100 m hurdler...

, Emma Green
Emma Green
Emma Anna-Maria Green Tregaro is an athlete competing in high jump. She won a bronze medal in the event at the 2005 IAAF World Championships. She represented Sweden at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
44.16
} ||align=left| ||align=left| Hanna Mariën
Hanna Mariën
Hanna Mariën is a Belgian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. Her personal best time on the individual distance is 22.68 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Brussels. She has 11.41 seconds in the 100 metres....

, Frauke Penen, Olivia Borlée
Olivia Borlée
Olivia Borlée is a Belgian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. Her personal best time in the individual distance is 22.98 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Brussels...

, Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert is a former sprint athlete from Belgium.-Career:Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics...

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| ||align=left| ||align=left| Véronique Mang
Véronique Mang
Véronique Mang is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France.She arrived in France with her mother, brother and sister in 1995. She represented Cameroon until 2003 when she gained French citizenship. She started running at age 12 in France...

, Fabienne Beret-Martinel, Adrianna Lamalle
Adrianna Lamalle
Adrianna Lamalle is a French hurdler born in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe.She finished 8th in the 100m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....

, Muriel Hurtis-Houairi  || || DNF
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| ||align=left| ||align=left| Katja Wakan
Katja Wakan
Katja Tengel is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.At the 2003 World Championships she finished seventh in the 4x100 m relay, together with teammates Melanie Paschke, Marion Wagner and Sandra Möller...

, Marion Wagner
Marion Wagner
Marion Wagner is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.31 seconds, achieved in July 2003 in Mals, . She represents the sports club USC Mainz....

, Cathleen Tschirch
Cathleen Tschirch
Cathleen Tschirch is a German sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Her personal best time on the individual distance is 22.97 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Bochum...

, Verena Sailer
Verena Sailer
Verena Sailer is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.10 seconds, achieved when winning the final and taking the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona.Sailer represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...

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