1964 European Junior Games

The host stadium in Warsaw

The 1964 European Junior Games was the first edition of what would become the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was an unofficial competition without sanction from the European Athletic Association. The event was held at the 10th-Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, between 18 and 20 September. The success of the competition eventually led to the creation of the official European Athletics Junior Championships in 1970.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	(BUL)	10.6	(URS)	10.8	Tadeusz Cuch (POL)	10.8
200 m	Gérard Fenouil (FRA)	21.6	Tadeusz Jaworski (POL)	21.9	(HUN)	21.9
400 m	(FRG)	48.9	Stanisław Grędziński (POL)	48.9	(URS)	49.0
800 m	Franz-Josef Kemper (FRG)	1:51.9	Oleg Rayko (URS)	1:53.2	Jean-Pierre Dufresne (FRA)	1:55.1
1500 m	Jürgen Haase (GDR)	3:52.4	Oleg Rayko (URS)	3:52.7	Ulf Högberg (SWE)	3:53.6
3000 m	Jürgen Haase (GDR)	8:25.4	(GDR)	8:31.6	(YUG)	8:32.2
110 metres hurdles	(URS)	14.5	(POL)	15.0	(FRA)	15.0
400 metres hurdles	(POL)	51.9	Stanisław Grędziński (POL)	52.3	(GDR)	53.8
1500 m steeplechase	Anders Gärderud (SWE)	4:08.0	(ITA)	4:13.1	(ROM)	4:13.2
4×100 m relay	Poland (POL) Tadeusz Jaworski Tadeusz Cuch	41.6	Soviet Union (URS)	41.8	East Germany (GDR)	42.1
Sprint medley relay	Soviet Union (URS)	1:55.8	Poland (POL) Tadeusz Cuch Tadeusz Jaworski Stanisław Grędziński	1:55.9	Hungary (HUN)	1:56.1
High jump	(URS)	2.04	(SWE)	2.01	(URS)	1.98
Pole vault	John-Erik Blomqvist (SWE)	4.40	(POL)	4.35	(URS)	4.30
Long jump	Jan Kobuszewski (POL)	7.48	Viktor Saneyev (URS)	7.42	(POL)	7.18
Triple jump	(URS)	15.72	Viktor Saneyev (URS)	15.71	(GDR)	15.37
Shot put	Géza Fejér (HUN)	17.05	(POL)	15.95	(ITA)	15.66
Discus throw	Géza Fejér (HUN)	51.50	(POL)	50.84	Iosif Naghi (ROM)	50.54
Hammer throw	(ROM)	62.12	(ROM)	56.46	(TCH)	56.19
Javelin throw (old model)	(POL)	74.59	(URS)	69.09	Åke Nilsson (SWE)	68.50

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Ewa Kłobukowska (POL)	11.6	Galina Bukharina (URS)	12.0	(GDR)	12.0
200 m	Irena Kirszenstein (POL)	23.5	Natalya Burda (URS)	24.4	(GDR)	24.8
600 m	(SWE)	1:32.3	(ROM)	1:32.6	(GDR)	1:32.6
80 m hurdles	Elżbieta Bednarek (POL)	11.2	(URS)	11.3	Gerda Mittenzwei (GDR)	11.3
4×100 m relay	Poland (POL) Elżbieta Bednarek Irena Kirszenstein	46.6	Soviet Union (URS) Natalya Burda Lyudmila Gaponova Galina Bukharina	46.8	East Germany (GDR) Gerda Mittenzwei	47.6
High jump	Rita Gildemeister (GDR)	1.67	Jaroslava Králová (TCH)	1.64	Dagmar Melzer (GDR)	1.61
Long jump	Irena Kirszenstein (POL)	6.19	(FRG)	5.83	(BUL)	5.78
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	16.60	(BUL)	13.17	(BUL)	12.23
Discus throw	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	45.86	Gabriele Trepschek (GDR)	45.71	(POL)	45.31
Javelin throw (old model)	Mihaela Peneș (ROM)	54.54	(URS)	52.33	(GDR)	50.27

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Poland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland (POL)*	9	8	3	20
2	Soviet Union (URS)	6	12	3	21
3	East Germany (GDR)	3	2	10	15
4	Sweden (SWE)	3	1	2	6
5	Romania (ROU)	2	2	2	6
6	West Germany (FRG)	2	1	0	3
7	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	2	4
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	2	4
9	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
10	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
12	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		29	29	29	87

References[]

• European Junior Championships 1964 Results. World Junior Athletics History . retrieved on 2013-10-06.