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

The women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the Ullevi on 12 and 13 August.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Russia Svetlana Pospelova Natalia Ivanova Olga Zaytseva Tatyana Veshkurova Yelena Migunova Tatyana Firova	Belarus Yulyana Zhalniaruk Sviatlana Usovich Anna Kozak Ilona Usovich Ekaterina Bobrik Iryna Khliustava	Poland Monika Bejnar Grażyna Prokopek Ewelina Sętowska Anna Jesień Marta Chrust-Rożej

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
12 August 2006	15:05	Heats
13 August 2006	16:15	Final

Results

KEY:

Q

Automatic qualifiers

q

Non-automatic qualifiers

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
1	1	Russia	Yelena Migunova, Natalia Ivanova, Tatyana Firova, Svetlana Pospelova	3:25.86	Q
2	1	Belarus	Ekaterina Bobrik, Iryna Khliustava, Anna Kozak, Sviatlana Usovich	3:26.71	Q
3	2	United Kingdom	Jenny Meadows, Emma Duck, Marilyn Okoro, Lee McConnell	3:27.92	Q
4	2	Germany	Korinna Fink, Anja Pollmächer, Claudia Hoffmann, Claudia Marx	3:28.01	Q
5	1	Ukraine	Kseniya Karandyuk, Oksana Ilyushkina, Oksana Shcherbak, Nataliya Pyhyda	3:28.14	Q
6	2	Poland	Grażyna Prokopek, Ewelina Sętowska, Marta Chrust-Rożej, Anna Jesień	3:29.71	Q
7	1	France	Phara Anacharsis, Thélia Sigère, Anita Mormand, Solene Desert	3:30.00	q
8	2	Bulgaria	Monika Gachevska, Mariyana Dimitrova, Teodora Kolarova, Nedyalka Nedkova	3:30.36	q
9	1	Sweden	Beatrice Dahlgren, Lena Aruhn, Emma Björkman, Erica Mårtensson	3:31.40
10	2	Czech Republic	Jitka Bartoničková, Alena Rücklová, Zuzana Bergrová, Zuzana Hejnová	3:34.47
11	2	Lithuania	Edita Lingytė, Jekaterina Šakovič, Aina Valatkevičiūtė, Jūratė Kudirkaitė	3:37.68

Final

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Russia	Svetlana Pospelova, Natalia Ivanova, Olga Zaytseva, Tatyana Veshkurova	3:25.12
	Belarus	Yulyana Zhalniaruk, Sviatlana Usovich, Anna Kozak, Ilona Usovich	3:27.69
	Poland	Monika Bejnar, Grażyna Prokopek, Ewelina Sętowska, Anna Jesień	3:27.77
4	United Kingdom	Lee McConnell, Emma Duck, Marilyn Okoro, Nicola Sanders	3:28.17
5	Germany	Korinna Fink, Claudia Hoffmann, Anja Pollmächer, Claudia Marx	3:28.18
6	Ukraine	Kseniya Karandyuk, Oksana Ilyushkina, Oksana Shcherbak, Nataliya Pyhyda	3:30.95
7	France	Phara Anacharsis, Thélia Sigère, Anita Mormand, Solene Desert	3:32.38
8	Bulgaria	Monika Gachevska, Mariyana Dimitrova, Teodora Kolarova, Nedyalka Nedkova	3:33.75

External links

• Results