2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

2006 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m		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

The men's 1500 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the Ullevi stadium on August 7 and August 9, 2006.

Baala won gold, successfully defending his 2002 title, while Heshko pipped Higuero on the final stretch.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mehdi Baala  France	Ivan Heshko  Ukraine	Juan Carlos Higuero  Spain

First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Mehdi Baala	France	3:39.74	Q
2	2	Mykola Labovskyi	Ukraine	3:40.10	Q
3	2	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3:40.97	Q
4	2	Christian Obrist	Italy	3:41.32	Q
5	2	Mirosław Formela	Poland	3:41.38	q
6	2	Rizak Dirshe	Sweden	3:41.67	q
7	2	Andrew Baddeley	United Kingdom	3:41.92	q
8	2	Liam Reale	Ireland	3:41.97	q
9	2	Manuel Damião	Portugal	3:42.56
10	2	Carsten Schlangen	Germany	3:42.62
11	2	Aleksandr Krivchonkov	Russia	3:43.03
12	2	Daniel Spitzl	Austria	3:46.08
13	1	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	3:47.12	Q
14	1	Arturo Casado	Spain	3:47.16	Q
15	1	Sergio Gallardo	Spain	3:47.82	Q
16	1	Michal Šneberger	Czech Republic	3:47.96	Q
17	1	Abdelkader Bakhtache	France	3:48.09
18	1	Sergey Ivanov	Russia	3:48.27
19	1	Mounir Yemmouni	France	3:48.34
20	1	Bob Winter	Netherlands	3:48.35
21	1	Tim Clerbout	Belgium	3:48.43
22	1	Joel Bodén	Sweden	3:48.54
23	1	Stephen Davies	United Kingdom	3:48.64
24	1	Christian Neunhäuserer	Italy	3:49.34
25	1	Bård Kvalheim	Norway	3:49.55
26	1	James Nolan	Ireland	3:49.94
27	2	Matthieu Vandiest	Belgium	3:50.28
28	1	Michael East	United Kingdom	4:11.89
	2	Jonas Hamm	Finland		DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mehdi Baala	France	3:39.02
	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	3:39.50
	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3:39.62
4	Arturo Casado	Spain	3:40.86
5	Sergio Gallardo	Spain	3:41.24
6	Andrew Baddeley	United Kingdom	3:42.31
7	Christian Obrist	Italy	3:42.59
8	Liam Reale	Ireland	3:42.65
9	Rizak Dirshe	Sweden	3:42.87
10	Mirosław Formela	Poland	3:43.16
11	Mykola Labovskyi	Ukraine	3:43.47
12	Michal Šneberger	Czech Republic	3:45.99

• Results