2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk
# 2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The Men's 20 km walk event at the 2006 European Championships was held on Tuesday August 8, 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with the start at 17:15h.

## Medalists

| Gold | Paquillo Fernández Spain (ESP) |
| - | - |
| Silver | Valeriy Borchin Russia (RUS) |
| Bronze | João Vieira Portugal (POR) |

## Abbreviations

* All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

| DNS | did not start |
| - | - |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| WL | world leading |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2006 European Athletics Championships :

| World Record | Jefferson Pérez (ECU) | 1:17.21 | August 23, 2003 | Paris, France |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Event Record | Paquillo Fernández (ESP) | 1:18.37 | August 6, 2002 | Munich, Germany |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Paquillo Fernández (ESP) | 1:19:09 | |
| | Valeriy Borchin (RUS) | 1:20:00 | PB |
| | João Vieira (POR) | 1:20:09 | NR |
| 4 | Viktor Burayev (RUS) | 1:20:12 | |
| 5 | Sergey Bakulin (RUS) | 1:20:50 | |
| 6 | Matej Tóth (SVK) | 1:21:39 | SB |
| 7 | Erik Tysse (NOR) | 1:22:13 | |
| 8 | Giorgio Rubino (ITA) | 1:22:34 | |
| 9 | Siarhei Charnou (BLR) | 1:23:03 | |
| 10 | Denis Langlois (FRA) | 1:24:06 | SB |
| 11 | André Höhne (GER) | 1:24:35 | |
| 12 | Predrag Filipović (SRB) | 1:25:16 | |
| 13 | Benjamín Sánchez (ESP) | 1:25:58 | |
| 14 | Andriy Yurin (UKR) | 1:26:20 | |
| 15 | Silviu Casandra (ROM) | 1:26:36 | |
| 16 | Recep Çelik (TUR) | 1:27:18 | |
| 17 | Ivano Brugnetti (ITA) | 1:27:42 | |
| DISQUALIFIED (DSQ) ||||
| — | Juan Manuel Molina (ESP) | DSQ | |
| — | Andrei Talashka (BLR) | DSQ | |
