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

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

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France and Great Britain both overtook the Polish team in the home straight to finish 1st and 2nd respectively.

Date	Time	Round
August 12, 2006	15:30	Heats
August 13, 2006	17:10	Final

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	2	United Kingdom	Robert Tobin, Rhys Williams, Graham Hedman, Timothy Benjamin	3:02.51	Q
2	1	Germany	Kamghe Gaba, Florian Seitz, Ruwen Faller, Bastian Swillims	3:03.25	Q
3	1	Poland	Piotr Kędzia, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Marcin Marciniszyn, Daniel Dąbrowski	3:03.49	Q
4	2	Russia	Konstantin Svechkar, Ivan Buzolin, Aleksandr Larin, Yevgeniy Lebedev	3:03.73	Q
5	2	France	Brice Panel, Idrissa M'Barke, Abderrahim El Haouzy, Naman Keïta	3:03.87	Q
6	1	Romania	Vasile Bobos, Florin Suciu, Catalin Cîmpeanu, Ioan Vieru	3:04.23	Q, NR
7	2	Ireland	Paul McKee, Brian Doyle, David Gillick, David McCarthy	3:04.59	q
8	1	Spain	David Melo, David Testa, Salvador Rodríguez, Santiago Ezquerro	3:04.71	q
8	2	Ukraine	Oleksiy Rachkovsky, Andriy Tverdostup, Vitaliy Dubonosov, Yevheniy Zyukov	3:04.71	q
10	1	Italy	Claudio Licciardello, Edoardo Vallet, Luca Galletti, Gianni Carabelli	3:05.53
11	1	Greece	Dimitrios Gravalos, Dimitrios Regas, Padeleimon Melahrinoudis, Periklis Iakovakis	3:05.59
12	1	Czech Republic	Filip Klvana, Jiří Vojtík, Vojtech Šulc, Michal Uhlík	3:06.14
13	2	Norway	Morten Sand, Lars Eric Sæther, Quincy Douglas, Steffen Kjønnås	3:07.65
14	2	Sweden	Joni Jaako, Andreas Mokdasi, Thomas Nikitin, Fredrik Johansson	3:07.73

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time
	France	Leslie Djhone, Idrissa M'Barke, Naman Keïta, Marc Raquil	3:01.10
	United Kingdom	Robert Tobin, Rhys Williams, Graham Hedman, Timothy Benjamin	3:01.63
	Poland	Daniel Dąbrowski, Piotr Kędzia, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Rafał Wieruszewski	3:01.73
4	Germany	Kamghe Gaba, Florian Seitz, Ruwen Faller, Bastian Swillims	3:02.83
5	Ukraine	Oleksiy Rachkovsky, Andriy Tverdostup, Vitaliy Dubonosov, Yevheniy Zyukov	3:04.33
6	Romania	Vasile Bobos, Florin Suciu, Catalin Cîmpeanu, Ioan Vieru	3:04.53
7	Russia	Konstantin Svechkar, Yevgeniy Lebedev, Aleksandr Larin, Vladislav Frolov	3:04.73
8	Spain	David Melo, David Testa, Salvador Rodríguez, Santiago Ezquerro	3:04.98
9	Ireland	Paul McKee, Brian Doyle, David Gillick, David McCarthy	3:05.57

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