Day 1 (Aug 7) of European Athletics Championships in Göteborg Special report by Peter Larsson (SWE) Men 100m 6 Andreas Baumann 79 SUI 10.58 q 7 Naum Mitreski 85 MKD 11.12 Quarterfinal 1 wind: +0.8 - Kostyantyn Vasyukov 81 UKR dq 1 Dariusz Kuc 86 POL 10.32 Q Heat 2 wind: +0.6 2 Ángel David Rodriguez 80 ESP 10.32 Q 1 Ronald Pognon 82 FRA 10.26 Q 3 Anatoliy Dovhal 76 UKR 10.37 Q 2 Anatoliy Dovhal 76 UKR 10.33 Q 4 Dwain Chambers 78 GBR 10.39 Q 3 Nipa Tran 78 FIN 10.50 Q 5 Markus Lühti 80 SUI 10.47 4 Erik Wijmeersch 70 BEL 10.55 Q 6 Jarkko Ruostekivi 85 FIN 10.48 5 Luca Verdecchia 78 ITA 10.57 q 7 Mikhail Yegorychev 77 RUS 10.62 6 Matjaz Borovina 82 SLO 10.74 8 Martin Rypdal 80 NOR 10.66 7 Tal Mor 82 ISR 10.78 Quarterfinal 2 wind: -0.2 Heat 3 wind: +0.6 1 Ronald Pognon 82 FRA 10.19 Q 1 Mark Lewis-Francis 82 GBR 10.37 Q 2 Mark Lewis-Francis 82 GBR 10.33 Q 2 Marcin Jedrusinski 81 POL 10.45 Q 3 Lukasz Chyla 81 POL 10.42 Q 3 Jarkko Ruostekivi 85 FIN 10.47 Q 4 Ronny Ostwald 74 GER 10.48 Q 4 Jan Zumer 82 SLO 10.50 Q 5 Massimiliano Donati 79 ITA 10.52 5 Martin Rypdal 80 NOR 10.52 q 6 Gergely Németh 81 HUN 10.63 6 Massimiliano Donati 79 ITA 10.55 q 7 Aleksandr Smirnov 74 RUS 10.65 7 Ismail Aslan 81 TUR 10.71 8 Nipa Tran 78 FIN 10.67 8 Darren Gilford 82 MLT 10.73 Quarterfinal 3 wind: -0.5 Heat 4 wind: +1.3 1 Francis Obikwelu 78 POR 10.28 Q 1 Dwain Chambers 78 GBR 10.24 Q 2 Matic Osovnikar 80 SLO 10.37 Q 2 Matic Osovnikar 80 SLO 10.29 Q 3 Erik Wijmeersch 70 BEL 10.49 Q 3 Orkatz Beitia 79 ESP 10.43 Q 4 Orkatz Beitia 79 ESP 10.53 Q 4 Daniel Abenzoar-Foule 81 LUX 10.50 Q 5 Roland Németh 74 HUN 10.55 5 Markus Lühti 80 SUI 10.51 q 6 Luca Verdecchia 78 ITA 10.58 6 Dimitri Demonière 79 FRA 10.51 q 7 Dimitri Demonière 79 FRA 10.59 7 Valentinos Athansiou 86 CYP 11.25 8 Simo Sipilä 83 FIN 10.73 Heat 5 wind: +0.1 Quarterfinal 4 wind: -1.3 1 Andrey Yepishin 81 RUS 10.36 Q 1 Andrey Yepishin 81 RUS 10.40 Q 2 Dariusz Kuc 86 POL 10.37 Q 2 Oudere Kankarafou 83 FRA 10.45 Q 3 Simo Sipilä 83 FIN 10.50 Q 3 Marcin Jedrusinski 81 POL 10.47 Q 4 Ángel David Rodriguez 80 ESP 10.57 Q 4 Jan Zumer 82 SLO 10.48 Q 5 Neophytos Michael 81 CYP 10.60 5 Tyrone Edgar 82 GBR 10.51 6 John Ertzgaard 77 NOR 10.62 6 Daniel Abenzoar-Foule 81 LUX 10.59 7 Maurizio Checcucci 74 ITA 10.62 7 Andreas Baumann 79 SUI 10.65 Heat 6 wind: +0.9 8 Iván Mocholí 83 ESP 10.67 1 Francis Obikwelu 78 POR 10.25 Q 2 Roland Németh 74 HUN 10.39 Q Heat 1 wind: +0.7 3 Oudere Kankarafou 83 FRA 10.40 Q 1 Tyrone Edgar 82 GBR 10.32 Q 4 Mikhail Yegorychev 77 RUS 10.47 Q 2 Lukasz Chyla 81 POL 10.42 Q 5 Iván Mocholí 83 ESP 10.53 q 3 Ronny Ostwald 74 GER 10.42 Q 6 Daniel Persson 82 SWE 10.66 4 Aleksandr Smirnov 74 RUS 10.51 Q 7 Vojtech Sulc 86 CZE 10.67 5 Gergely Németh 81 HUN 10.52 q --1-- 400m 8 Peter Znava 82 SVK 47.38 Heat 1 Heat 3 1 Daniel Dabrowski 83 POL 45.58 Q 1 Vladislav Frolov 80 RUS 45.73 Q 2 Leslie Djhone 81 FRA 45.67 Q 2 Andrea Barberi 79 ITA 45.81 Q 3 Claudio Licciardello 86 ITA 46.24 Q 3 Cédric van Branteghem 79 BEL 45.95 Q 4 Zeljko Vincek 86 CRO 46.48 4 Rafal Wieruszzewski 81 POL 46.05 q 5 Paul McKee 77 IRL 46.48 5 Robert Tobin 83 GBR 46.10 q 6 Dimítrios Grávalos 84 GRE 46.68 6 Karel Bláha 75 CZE 46.60 7 Vasile Bobos 85 ROM 46.77 7 Brice Panel 83 FRA 46.98 8 Ivano Bucci 86 SMR 48.86 8 Youssef El Rhalfioui 83 NED 47.12 9 Florent Battistel 82 MON 50.75 Heat 4 Heat 2 1 Marc Raquil 77 FRA 45.65 Q 1 Tim Benjamin 82 GBR 46.10 Q 2 Dimítrios Régas 86 GRE 45.81 Q 2 David Gillick 83 IRL 46.16 Q 3 Graham Hedman 79 GBR 46.02 Q 3 Kamghe Gaba 84 GER 46.55 Q 4 Ioan Vieru 79 ROM 46.10 q 4 Pierre Lavanchy 82 SUI 46.71 5 Marcin Marciniszyn 82 POL 46.36 q 5 Thomas Nikitin 82 SWE 46.72 6 David McCarthy 83 IRL 46.53 6 Catalin Cîmpeanu 85 ROM 47.16 7 Sebastian Gatzka 82 GER 46.55 7 Padeleímon Melahrinoúdis85 GRE 47.22 8 David Testa 84 ESP 47.29 1500m Semifinal 1 Semifinal 2 1 Ivan Heshko 79 UKR 3:47.12 Q 1 Mehdi Baala 78 FRA 3:39.74 Q 2 Arturo Casado 83 ESP 3:47.16 Q 2 Mykola Labosvky 83 UKR 3:40.10 Q 3 Sergio Gallardo 79 ESP 3:47.82 Q 3 Juan Carlos Higuero 78 ESP 3:40.97 Q 4 Michal Sneberger 78 CZE 3:47.96 Q 4 Christian Obrist 80 ITA 3:41.32 Q 5 Abdelkader Bakhtache 82 FRA 3:48.09 5 Miroslaw Formela 78 POL 3:41.38 q 6 Sergey Ivanov 79 RUS 3:48.27 6 Rizak Dirshe 72 SWE 3:41.67 q 7 Mounir Yemmouni 83 FRA 3:48.34 7 Andy Baddeley 82 GBR 3:41.92 q 8 Bob Winter 77 NED 3:48.35 8 Liam Reale 83 IRL 3:41.97 q 9 Tim Clerbout 81 BEL 3:48.43 9 Manuel Damião 78 POR 3:42.56 10 Joel Bodén 83 SWE 3:48.54 10 Carsten Schlangen 80 GER 3:42.62 11 Stephen Davies 84 GBR 3:48.64 11 Aleksandr Krivchonkov 83 RUS 3:43.03 12 Christian Neunhäiserer 78 ITA 3:49.34 12 Daniel Spitzl 83 AUT 3:46.08 13 Bård Kvalheim 73 NOR 3:49.55 13 Matthieu Vandiest 81 BEL 3:50.28 14 James Nolan 77 IRL 3:49.94 - Jonas Hamm 80 FIN dnf 15 Michael East 78 GBR 4:11.89 --2-- High jump Qualification Pool A 1= Nicola Ciotti 76 ITA 2.26 q 1= Linus Thörnblad 85 SWE 2.26 q 1= Tomás Janku 74 CZE 2.26 q 4 Niki Palli 87 ISR 2.26 q 5 Andrey Silnov 84 RUS 2.26 q 6= Ivan Ukhov 86 RUS 2.23 q 6= Andrea Bettinelli 78 ITA 2.23 q 8 Martyn Bernard 84 GBR 2.23 9 Germaine Mason 83 GBR 2.19 10 Heikki Taneli 80 FIN 2.19 11 Osku Torro 79 FIN 2.15 12 Jan-Peter Larsen 79 NED 2.05 Name Result 2.05 2.15 2.19 2.23 2.26 Niki Palli 2.26 O O O O XO Martyn Bernard 2.23 O XXO XO XXX Heikki Taneli 2.19 XO O XXX Ivan Ukhov 2.23 0 - Andrea Bettinelli 2.23 O O O XXX Andrey Silnov 2.26 O O O XXO Nicola Ciotti 2.26 O O O O Linus Thörnblad 2.26 O O O O Tomás Janku 2.26 O O O O Germaine Mason 2.19 O O XXX Jan-Peter Larsen 2.05 O XXX Osku Torro 2.15 X0 X- XX Pool B 1= Oskari Frösén 76 FIN 2.26 q 1= Stefan Holm 76 SWE 2.26 q 1= Svatoslav Ton 78 CZE 2.26 q 4 Yaroslav Rybakov 80 RUS 2.26 q 5 Giulio Ciotti 76 ITA 2.26 q 6 Wilbert Pennings 75 NED 2.23 q 7= Petr Horák 83 SVK 2.23 7= Normunds Pupols 84 LAT 2.23 9 Rozle Prezelj 79 SLO 2.19 10 Andriy Sokolovsky 78 UKR 2.19 11 Mickaël Hanany 83 FRA 2.19 12 Javier Bermejo 78 ESP 2.15 - Adam Scarr 85 GBR nh Name Result 2.05 2.15 2.19 2.23 2.05 Javier Bermejo 2.15 O O XXX Rozle Prezelj 2.19 O O O XXX Yaroslav Rybakov 2.26 O O O XO Oskari Frösén 2.26 O O O O Petr Horák 2.23 O O XXO XXX Giulio Ciotti 2.26 X XO O XO Stefan Holm 2.26 O O O O Normunds Pupols 2.23 O O XXO XXX Svatoslav Ton 2.26 O O O O Andriy Sokolovsky 2.19 XO O XXX Adam Scarr nh XXX Mickaël Hanany 2.19 XO XO XXX Wilbert Pennings 2.23 O O O XXX --3-- Long jump Qualification (limit 7.95) Group A 1 Viktor Kuznetsov 86 UKR 8.25/+2.5 Q 2 Loúis Tsáoumas 82 GRE 8.09/-0.3 Q 3 Greg Rutherford 86 GBR 8.07/+1.0 Q 4 Nelson Évora 84 POR 7.93/+2.1 q 5 Salim Sdiri 78 FRA 7.87/+1.4 q 6 Ruslan Gataullin 79 RUS 7.85/+0.1 q 7 Dmytro Bilotserkivsky 85 UKR 7.83/+2.0 8 Arturs Abolins 84 LAT 7.77/+1.2 9 Nicola Trentin 74 ITA 7.66/+0.5 10 Vytautas Seliukas 82 LTU 7.58/+1.5 11 Admir Bregu 81 ALB 7.53/+1.2 12 Morten Jensen 82 DEN 7.42/+1.9 13 Oliver Koenig 81 GER 7.36/+0.3 .