title: 2006 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
text: # 2006 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
  
  The women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the Ullevi on 12 and 13 August.
  
  ## Medalists
  
  | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - |
  | Russia Svetlana Pospelova Natalia Ivanova Olga Zaytseva Tatyana Veshkurova Yelena Migunova Tatyana Firova | Belarus Yulyana Zhalniaruk Sviatlana Usovich Anna Kozak Ilona Usovich Ekaterina Bobrik Iryna Khliustava | Poland Monika Bejnar Grażyna Prokopek Ewelina Sętowska Anna Jesień Marta Chrust-Rożej |
  
  ## Schedule
  
  | Date | Time | Round |
  | - | - | - |
  | 12 August 2006 | 15:05 | Heats |
  | 13 August 2006 | 16:15 | Final |
  
  ## Results
  
  | KEY: | Q | Automatic qualifiers | q | Non-automatic qualifiers | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  
  ### Heats
  
  First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.
  
  | Rank | Heat | Nation | Athlete | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 1 | Russia | Yelena Migunova, Natalia Ivanova, Tatyana Firova, Svetlana Pospelova | 3:25.86 | Q |
  | 2 | 1 | Belarus | Ekaterina Bobrik, Iryna Khliustava, Anna Kozak, Sviatlana Usovich | 3:26.71 | Q |
  | 3 | 2 | United Kingdom | Jenny Meadows, Emma Duck, Marilyn Okoro, Lee McConnell | 3:27.92 | Q |
  | 4 | 2 | Germany | Korinna Fink, Anja Pollmächer, Claudia Hoffmann, Claudia Marx | 3:28.01 | Q |
  | 5 | 1 | Ukraine | Kseniya Karandyuk, Oksana Ilyushkina, Oksana Shcherbak, Nataliya Pyhyda | 3:28.14 | Q |
  | 6 | 2 | Poland | Grażyna Prokopek, Ewelina Sętowska, Marta Chrust-Rożej, Anna Jesień | 3:29.71 | Q |
  | 7 | 1 | France | Phara Anacharsis, Thélia Sigère, Anita Mormand, Solene Desert | 3:30.00 | q |
  | 8 | 2 | Bulgaria | Monika Gachevska, Mariyana Dimitrova, Teodora Kolarova, Nedyalka Nedkova | 3:30.36 | q |
  | 9 | 1 | Sweden | Beatrice Dahlgren, Lena Aruhn, Emma Björkman, Erica Mårtensson | 3:31.40 | |
  | 10 | 2 | Czech Republic | Jitka Bartoničková, Alena Rücklová, Zuzana Bergrová, Zuzana Hejnová | 3:34.47 | |
  | 11 | 2 | Lithuania | Edita Lingytė, Jekaterina Šakovič, Aina Valatkevičiūtė, Jūratė Kudirkaitė | 3:37.68 | |
  
  ### Final
  
  | Rank | Nation | Athletes | Time |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Russia | Svetlana Pospelova, Natalia Ivanova, Olga Zaytseva, Tatyana Veshkurova | 3:25.12 |
  | | Belarus | Yulyana Zhalniaruk, Sviatlana Usovich, Anna Kozak, Ilona Usovich | 3:27.69 |
  | | Poland | Monika Bejnar, Grażyna Prokopek, Ewelina Sętowska, Anna Jesień | 3:27.77 |
  | 4 | United Kingdom | Lee McConnell, Emma Duck, Marilyn Okoro, Nicola Sanders | 3:28.17 |
  | 5 | Germany | Korinna Fink, Claudia Hoffmann, Anja Pollmächer, Claudia Marx | 3:28.18 |
  | 6 | Ukraine | Kseniya Karandyuk, Oksana Ilyushkina, Oksana Shcherbak, Nataliya Pyhyda | 3:30.95 |
  | 7 | France | Phara Anacharsis, Thélia Sigère, Anita Mormand, Solene Desert | 3:32.38 |
  | 8 | Bulgaria | Monika Gachevska, Mariyana Dimitrova, Teodora Kolarova, Nedyalka Nedkova | 3:33.75 |
  