1968 European Junior Games

The 1968 European Junior Games was the third edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was the final edition of the competition under that name and was succeeded by the European Athletics Junior Championships in 1970. The event was held in Leipzig, East Germany, between 23 and 25 August.^[1] The competition was mainly between Eastern European countries, with Belgium, Austria, Netherlands and Greece being present from the west.

Men's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	10.4	(ROM)	10.5	Aleksandr Kornelyuk (URS)	10.6
200 metres	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	21.0	(URS)	21.5	(BEL)	21.7
400 metres	(BEL)	47.5	(URS)	47.9	(URS)	48.2
800 metres	(GDR)	1:51.6	(URS)	1:52.2	Krzysztof Linkowski (POL)	1:52.4
1500 metres	(GDR)	3:53.3	(GDR)	3:54.0	(YUG)	3:54.6
3000 metres	(ROM)	8:13.4	(GDR)	8:15.6	(URS)	8:18.0
110 m hurdles	(URS)	14.3	Frank Siebeck (GDR)	14.5	Anatoliy Moshiashvili (URS)	14.7
400 m hurdles	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko (URS)	51.6	(GDR)	53.1	Dmitriy Stukalov (URS)	53.2
1500 m s'chase	(URS)	4:05.0	Petre Lupan (ROM)	4:05.0	(BUL)	4:05.2
10,000 m walk	(GDR)	44:48.0	(GDR)	44:50.0	(URS)	45:31.6
4×100 m relay	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Kornelyuk Valeriy Borzov	40.4	East Germany (GDR)	41.3	Poland (POL) Bogdan Grzejszczak	41.8
4×400 m relay	Soviet Union (URS)	3:12.3	East Germany (GDR)	3:12.6	Poland (POL) Jan Pech Krzysztof Linkowski	3:16.0
Pole vault	Yury Isakov (URS)	4.70	Vladimir Kishkun (URS)	4.60	(POL)	4.40
High jump	(URS)	2.10	(GRE)	2.10	Rustam Akhmetov (URS)	2.04
Long jump	Mikhail Bariban (URS)	7.78	(GDR)	7.44	(URS)	7.44
Triple jump	Mikhail Bariban (URS)	15.94	(URS)	15.46 w	(GRE)	15.36
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	18.71	(GDR)	17.02	(URS)	16.90
Discus throw	Hans-Jürgen Jacobi (GDR)	54.22	Viktor Zhurba (URS)	51.64	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	49.20
Javelin throw (old model)	(POL)	68.52	(URS)	68.36	(POL)	68.02
Hammer throw	(GDR)	61.76	(URS)	61.32	(URS)	59.08
Decathlon	Leonid Lytvynenko (URS)	7434	Stefan Junge (GDR)	7319	(GDR)	7012

Women's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lyudmila Zharkova (URS)	11.5	Renate Meissner (GDR)	11.6	(ROM)	11.6
200 metres	Lyudmila Zharkova (URS)	23.9	Renate Meissner (GDR)	23.9	(ROM)	24.0
400 metres	Waltraud Birnbaum (GDR)	54.0	(URS)	54.4	Mariana Filip (ROM)	55.4
800 metres	Barbara Wieck (GDR)	2:06.3	Waltraud Pöhland (GDR)	2:07.7	Nijole Sabaite (URS)	2:10.1
80 m hurdles	Anneliese Jahns (GDR)	11.1	(YUG)	11.2	(POL)	11.2
4×100 m relay	Soviet Union (URS) Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Marina Nikiforova Lyudmila Zharkova	45.3	East Germany (GDR) Bärbel Schrickel Renate Meissner	45.8	Poland (POL)	46.6
High jump	(GDR)	1.72	(URS)	1.72	Katya Lazova (BUL)	1.72
Long jump	(URS)	6.18	(URS)	6.15	(GDR)	6.07
Shot put	(URS)	15.02	(GDR)	13.60	(BUL)	13.59
Discus throw	(URS)	45.94	Svetla Bozhkova (BUL)	45.46	(GDR)	45.08
Javelin throw (old model)	(ROM)	51.10	(POL)	50.78	Marion Steiner (GDR)	48.72
Pentathlon	Burglinde Pollak (GDR)	4717	(URS)	4582	Cornelia Popescu (ROM)	4460

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	18	12	11	41
2	East Germany (GDR)	11	15	5	31
3	Romania (ROM)	2	2	4	8
4	Poland (POL)	1	1	7	9
5	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	1	2
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	3	4
7	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	1	2
Totals (8 nations)		33	33	33	99

Participation[]

References[]

Results

• European Junior Championships 1968. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2013-05-29.