1973 European Athletics Junior Championships

The 1973 European Athletics Junior Championships was the second edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Duisburg, West Germany between 24 and 26 August.^[1]

Men's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat (GDR)	10.42	Petar Petrov (BUL)	10.49	(POL)	10.57
200 metres	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat (GDR)	21.01	Petar Petrov (BUL)	21.12	(POL)	21.20
400 metres	Fons Brijdenbach (BEL)	45.86	(GDR)	46.73	(GDR)	46.81
800 metres	Steve Ovett (GBR)	1:47.53	Willi Wülbeck (FRG)	1:47.57	(GDR)	1:47.83
1500 metres	Gheorghe Ghipu (ROM)	3:45.78	(ROM)	3:46.07	(SUI)	3:46.70
3000 metres	Hans-Jürgen Orthmann (FRG)	8:03.4	(GDR)	8:03.6	(URS)	8:04.6
5000 metres	Fernando Cerrada (ESP)	14:01.8	Enn Sellik (URS)	14:11.8	(URS)	14:16.0
110 m hurdles	(URS)	14.42	(FRG)	14.43	Gus McKenzie (GBR)	14.46
400 m hurdles	Jerzy Pietrzyk (POL)	50.07	(GDR)	50.88	(URS)	51.10
2000 m s'chase	Frank Baumgartl (GDR)	5:28.14	(BUL)	5:28.36	(SWE)	5:32.66
10,000 m walk	Hartwig Gauder (GDR)	44:13.6	(BUL)	44:41.6	(ITA)	45:31.4
4×100 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt Klaus-Dieter Kurrat	40.03	France (FRA)	40.26	West Germany (FRG)	40.66
4×400 m relay	East Germany (GDR)	3:06.77	Poland (POL) Jerzy Pietrzyk	3:07.09	Great Britain (GBR) Roger Jenkins Glen Cohen	3:07.29
Pole vault	(URS)	5.00 m	(FRA)	4.80 m	(SWE)   (ITA)	4.65 m
High jump	Franck Bonnet (FRA)	2.14 m	Serhiy Senyukov (URS)	2.14 m	Giordano Ferrari (ITA)	2.12 m
Long jump	Frank Wartenberg (GDR)	7.85 m	Jochen Verschl (FRG)	7.59 m	(FRA)	7.54 m
Triple jump	(GDR)	16.29 m	Ramón Cid (ESP)	16.06 m	(FRA)	15.82 m
Shot put	Udo Beyer (GDR)	19.65 m	Wolfgang Schmidt (GDR)	18.45 m	(POL)	17.42 m
Discus throw	Wolfgang Schmidt (GDR)	58.16 m	Kenth Gardenkrans (SWE)	56.84 m	Nikolay Vikhor (URS)	56.84 m
Javelin throw	(GDR)	75.86 m	Gheorghe Megelea (ROM)	74.68 m	(DEN)	73.46 m
Hammer throw	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	67.32 m	(URS)	63.58 m	(GDR)	62.06 m
Decathlon	(URS)	7554 pts	(FRG)	7371 pts	Claus Marek (FRG)	7370 pts

Women's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Sonia Lannaman (GBR)	11.73	(FRA)	11.77	(GDR)	11.80
200 metres	Bärbel Eckert (GDR)	22.85	Ildikó Szabó (HUN)	23.62	(FRG)	23.66
400 metres	(GDR)	53.28	Ann Larsson (SWE)	53.34	Rosine Wallez (BEL)	53.68
800 metres	Anita Barkusky (GDR)	2:03.30	(GBR)	2:03.66	(URS)	2:03.83
1500 metres	Inger Knutsson (SWE)	4:07.47	Doris Gluth (GDR)	4:16.96	(GDR)	4:17.32
100 m hurdles	Bärbel Eckert (GDR)	13.14	Chantal Réga (FRA)	13.38	Gudrun Berend (GDR)	13.43
4×100 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Bärbel Eckert Gudrun Berend	44.37	West Germany (FRG)	45.27	Great Britain (GBR) Barbara Martin Donna Murray Sonia Lannaman	45.38
4×400 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Anita Barkusky	3:34.35	Great Britain (GBR) Ruth Kennedy Susan Pettett	3:36.98	Poland (POL) Genowefa Nowaczyk	3:37.03
High jump	Ellen Mundinger (FRG)	1.82 m	(NED)  Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG)	1.80 m	Not awarded
Long jump	(GDR)	6.36 m	(FRG)	6.28 m	Doina Spinu (ROM)	6.28 m
Shot put	Ilona Schoknecht (GDR)	17.05 m	(GDR)	16.97 m	(BUL)	16.21 m
Discus throw	Evelin Schlaak (GDR)	60.00 m	Ilona Schoknecht (GDR)	52.92 m	(POL)	51.12 m
Javelin throw	(BUL)	54.84 m	(GDR)	52.94 m	(POL)	50.44 m
Pentathlon	(GDR)	4519 pts	Sue Mapstone (GBR)	4105 pts	(FRG)	4067 pts

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	21	9	5	35
2	Soviet Union (URS)	4	3	5	12
3	West Germany (FRG)	2	7	4	13
4	Great Britain (GBR)	2	2	3	7
5	France (FRA)	1	4	2	7
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	4	1	6
7	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	2	5
8	Romania (ROU)	1	2	1	4
9	Poland (POL)	1	1	6	8
10	Spain (ESP)	1	1	0	2
11	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	1	2
12	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
14	Italy (ITA)	0	0	3	3
15	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		36	37	35	108

References[]

Results

• European Junior Championships 1973. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2013-05-29.