1997 European Athletics U23 Championships

The 1st European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Turku, Finland on 10–13 July 1997.

Complete results and medal winners were published.^[1][2][3][4]

Men's Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Angelos Pavlakakis  Greece	10.18	Carlos Calado  Portugal	10.29	Marlon Devonish  Great Britain	10.32
200 metres	Julian Golding  Great Britain	20.46	Alessandro Attene  Italy	20.68	Ryszard Pilarczyk  Poland	20.87
400 metres	Mark Hylton  Great Britain	45.71	Piotr Haczek  Poland	45.72	Kjell Provost  Belgium	45.99
800 metres	Andrea Longo  Italy	1:46.49	André Bucher   Switzerland	1:47.13	Grzegorz Krzosek  Poland	1:47.45
1500 metres	Reyes Estévez  Spain	3:42.37	Carlos García  Spain	3:43.24	Alexandru Vasile  Romania	3:43.36
5000 metres	Simone Zanon  Italy	13:45.90	Rachid Berradi  Italy	13:47.08	Sergey Lukin  Russia	13:48.04
10,000 metres	Rachid Berradi  Italy	28:31.12	Serhiy Lebid  Ukraine	28:39.71	Simone Zanon  Italy	28:56.33
110 metres hurdles	Frank Busemann  Germany	13.54	Sven Pieters  Belgium	13.56	Andrey Kislykh  Russia	13.56
400 metres hurdles	Lukáš Souček  Czech Republic	49.08	Marcel Schelbert   Switzerland	49.43	Xavier Ravenet  France	49.63
3000 metres steeplechase	Luciano Di Pardo  Italy	8:34.24	Vincent Le Dauphin  France	8:36.92	Konstantin Tomskiy  Russia	8:37.81
20 kilometres walk	Aigars Fadejevs  Latvia	1:19:58	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	1:21:59	Artur Meleshkevich  Belarus	1:22:26
High jump	Staffan Strand  Sweden	2.28	Martin Buß  Germany	2.24	Marcin Kaczocha  Poland	2.24
Pole vault	Yevgeniy Smiryagin  Russia	5.70	Montxu Miranda  Spain	5.50	Petr Špaček  Czech Republic	5.50
Long jump	Carlos Calado  Portugal	8.32	Kirill Sosunov  Russia	8.30	Olexiy Lukashevych  Ukraine	8.09
Triple jump	Vyacheslav Taranov  Russia	16.95	Marat Safiullin  Russia	16.29	Tayo Erogbobgo  Great Britain	16.28
Shot put	Conny Karlsson  Finland	19.48	Gunnar Pfingsten  Germany	19.11	Andreas Gustafsson  Sweden	19.09
Discus throw	Andrzej Krawczyk  Poland	59.54	Timo Sinervo  Finland	57.20	Kiril Chuprinin  Ukraine	56.78
Hammer throw	Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus	77.46	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland	73.68	Nikolay Avlasevich  Belarus	72.40
Javelin throw	Pietari Skyttä  Finland	81.58	Matti Närhi  Finland	80.72	Christian Nicolay  Germany	78.18
4 × 100 metres relay	Great Britain Dan Money Marlon Devonish Jamie Henthorn Julian Golding	38.99	Poland Marcin Krzywański Dariusz Adamczyk Piotr Balcerzak Ryszard Pilarczyk	39.27	Germany Alexander Kosenkow Eduard Martin Patrik Weimer Uwe Eisenbeis	39.45
4 × 400 metres relay	Poland Ryszard Pilarczyk Piotr Długosielski Jacek Bocian Piotr Haczek	3:03.07	Czech Republic David Nikodým Lukáš Souček Jan Štejfa Jiří Mužík	3:04.13	Germany Thomas Goller Maik Liebe Lars Figura Carlos Gachanja	3:04.32
Decathlon	Klaus Isekenmeier  Germany	7926	Oleksandr Yurkov  Ukraine	7888	Pierre-Alexandre Vial  France	7866

Women's Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Nora Ivanova  Bulgaria	11.50	Esther Möller  Germany	11.53	Marie-Joelle Dogbo  France	11.54
200 metres	Hana Benešová  Czech Republic	22.57	Shanta Ghosh  Germany	22.80	Katia Benth  France	23.19
400 metres	Allison Curbishley  Great Britain	50.85	Hana Benešová  Czech Republic	51.82	Claudia Angerhausen  Germany	53.45
800 metres	Irina Nedelenko  Ukraine	2:01.72	Dorota Fiut  Poland	2:02.44	Lyudmila Goncharova  Russia	2:02.72
1500 metres	Andrea Šuldesová  Czech Republic	4:13.92	Lidia Chojecka  Poland	4:14.70	Natalya Chernyshova  Ukraine	4:15.43
5000 metres	Oksana Zheleznyak  Russia	15:45.22	Cristina Iloc  Romania	15:46.59	Marta Domínguez  Spain	15:49.96
10,000 metres	Olivera Jevtić  Yugoslavia	32:44.22	Annemari Sandell  Finland	32:48.57	Stine Larsen  Norway	33:11.09
100 metres hurdles	Irina Korotya  Russia	12.97	Diane Allahgreen  Great Britain	13.03	Johanna Halkoaho  Finland	13.35
400 metres hurdles	Rikke Rønholt  Denmark	57.22	Vicki Jamison  Great Britain	57.43	Małgorzata Pskit  Poland	57.68
10 kilometres walk	Olga Panfyorova  Russia	43:33	María Vasco  Spain	44:01	Susana Feitor  Portugal	44:26
High jump	Yuliya Lyakhova  Russia	1.97	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	1.93	Daniela Rath  Germany	1.91
Pole vault	Eszter Szemerédi  Hungary	4.10	Janet Zach  Germany	4.05	Sabine Schulte  Germany Monique de Wilt  Netherlands	3.80
Long jump	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	6.57	Cristina Nicolau  Romania	6.43	Sofia Schulte  Germany	6.39
Triple jump	Cristina Nicolau  Romania	14.22	Anja Valant  Slovenia	13.98	Heli Koivula  Finland	13.88
Shot put	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	18.27	Corrie de Bruin  Netherlands	18.06	Yanina Karolchyk  Belarus	13.98
Discus throw	Corrie de Bruin  Netherlands	57.72	Kathleen Hering  Germany	56.78	Yanina Karolchyk  Belarus	56.36
Hammer throw	Mihaela Melinte  Romania	70.26	Simone Mathes  Germany	64.38	Lyn Sprules  Great Britain	61.70
Javelin throw	Taina Uppa  Finland	56.48	Alina Serdyuk  Belarus	55.56	Merja Pitkänen  Finland	55.24
4 × 100 metres relay	Germany Esther Möller Shanta Ghosh Nancy Kette Silke Eichmann	43.94	Russia Yelena Tishkova Irina Korotya Olga Maksimova Yuliya Vertyanova	44.41	Italy Elena Apollonio Elena Sordelli Manuela Grillo Manuela Levorato	44.73
4 × 400 metres relay	Great Britain Vicki Jamison Jo Sloane Jeina Mitchell Allison Curbishley	3:32.81	Germany Nicole Marahrens Shanta Ghosh Claudia Gesell Claudia Angerhausen	3:33.77	Czech Republic Jitka Burianová Eva Kasalová Andrea Šuldesová Hana Benešová	3:33.83
Heptathlon	Kathleen Gutjahr  Germany	6130	Yuliya Akulenko  Ukraine	6117	Diana Koritskaya  Russia	6014

Medals table

  Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	7	3	5	15
2	Germany	5	8	7	20
3	Great Britain	5	2	3	10
4	Italy	4	2	2	8
5	Finland	3	3	3	9
6	Czech Republic	3	2	2	7
7	Poland	2	5	4	11
8	Romania	2	2	1	5
9	Spain	1	4	1	6
10	Ukraine	1	3	3	7
11	Belarus	1	1	4	6
12	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
12	Portugal	1	1	1	3
12	Sweden	1	1	1	3
15	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
15	Denmark	1	0	0	1
15	Greece	1	0	0	1
15	Hungary	1	0	0	1
15	Latvia	1	0	0	1
15	Yugoslavia	1	0	0	1
21	Switzerland	0	2	0	2
22	France	0	1	4	5
23	Belgium	0	1	1	2
24	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
25	Norway	0	0	1	1
25	Total	43	43	44	130

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 652 athletes from 37 countries participated in the event.

References

External links

• Results (archived)