The men's 10,000 metres at the
2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the
Ullevi
Ullevi, sometimes known as Nya Ullevi (, ''New Ullevi''), is a multi-purpose stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but since then has also hosted the World Allround Speed Skating Championships six times; the ...
on August 8.
After an attempted breakaway started by Swiss
Christian Belz with one and a half laps to go, Martínez and de la Ossa caught up with him, with German Fitschen falling away but catching up again before the final curve. He then outsprinted the two Spaniards to take a "shock" gold.
Fitschen takes shock 10,000m gold
from BBC, retrieved 10 August 2006
Medalists
Schedule
Results
Final
References
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Results
{{DEFAULTSORT:2006 European Athletics Championships - Men's 10, 000 Metres
10000
10,000 (ten thousand) is the natural number following 9,999 and preceding 10,001.
Name
Many languages have a specific word for this number: in Ancient Greek it is (the etymological root of the word myriad in English), in Aramaic , in Hebrew ...
10,000 metres at the European Athletics Championships
Marathons in Sweden