title: 2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk
text: # 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 | |
  