1977 European Athletics Junior Championships

The 1977 European Athletics Junior Championships was the fourth edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union between 19 and 21 August.^[1]

Men's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Hermann Panzo (FRA)	10.40	Olaf Prenzler (GDR)	10.53	Bernhard Hoff (GDR)	10.53
200 m	Bernhard Hoff (GDR)	20.59	(FRG)	21.05	Pascal Barré (FRA)	21.12
400 m	Roberto Tozzi (ITA)	47.18	(URS)	47.32	(GBR)	47.50
800 m	Andreas Busse (GDR)	1:47.8	Detlef Wagenknecht (GDR)	1:48.2	(BEL)	1:48.6
1500 m	Ari Paunonen (FIN)	3:41.6	(GBR)	3:44.6	Pierre Délèze (SUI)	3:45.0
3000 m	José Manuel Abascal (ESP)	7:58.3	Werner Schildhauer (GDR)	8:01.0	Hansjörg Kunze (GDR)	8:01.2
5000 m	Nathaniel Muir (GBR)	13:49.1	(FRG)	13:51.0	(GBR)	13:53.3
110 m hurdles	Arto Bryggare (FIN)	13.84	Mark Holtom (GBR)	14.29	(GDR)	14.39
400 m hurdles	(GDR)	50.61	(POL)	51.23	Gary Oakes (GBR)	51.33
2000 m s'chase	Vesa Laukkanen (FIN)	5:30.2	Domingo Ramón (ESP)	5:34.1	(FRG)	5:34.8
10,000 m walk	Mykola Vynnychenko (URS)	41:31.6	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	42:56.7	Bengt Simonsen (SWE)	43:29.3
4×100 m relay	France (FRA) Hermann Panzo Patrick Barré Pascal Barré	39.99	East Germany (GDR) Klaus Thiele Bernhard Hoff	40.25	Poland (POL) Krzysztof Zwoliński	40.66
4×400 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Bernhard Hoff Detlef Wagenknecht	3:07.8	Soviet Union (URS) Mikhail Linge Nikolay Chernetskiy	3:08.5	Great Britain (GBR) Daley Thompson Andrew Kerr	3:09.5
Pole vault	Viktor Spasov (URS)	5.30 m	Felix Bohni (SUI)	5.20 m	Atanas Tarev (BUL)	5.10 m
High jump	Vladimir Yashchenko (URS)	2.30 m	Andre Schneider-Laub [de] (FRG)	2.20 m	Alessandro Brogini (ITA)	2.14 m
Long jump	Stanisław Jaskułka (POL)	7.77 m	Ivan Tuparov (BUL)	7.63 m	Aleksandr Kozlov (URS)	7.59 m
Triple jump	Gennadiy Valyukevich (URS)	16.60 m	Vasiliy Grishchenkov (URS)	16.31 m	Klaus Kübler (FRG)	16.22 m
Shot put	(GDR)	18.87 m	Roland Steuk (GDR)	17.61 m	(URS)	17.50 m
Discus throw	Yuriy Dumchev (URS)	53.30 m	(HUN)	53.14 m	Werner Hartmann (FRG)	52.24 m
Javelin throw	Klaus Tafelmeier (FRG)	84.14 m	Arto Härkönen (FIN)	82.98 m	(POL)	82.56 m
Hammer throw	Roland Steuk (GDR)	70.78 m	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	68.76 m	(URS)	67.60 m
Decathlon	Daley Thompson (GBR)	7647 pts	(GDR)	7564 pts	Jürgen Hingsen (FRG)	7524 pts

Women's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	(GDR)	11.48	(GDR)	11.60	Kathy Smallwood (GBR)	11.71
200 m	(GDR)	23.12	Karin Verguts (BEL)	23.37	Kathy Smallwood (GBR)	23.53
400 m	Gaby Bussmann (FRG)	52.33	(GDR)	52.99	(GDR)	53.29
800 m	Martina Kämpfert (GDR)	2:01.7	Hildegard Ullrich (GDR)	2:02.3	(GBR)	2:03.4
1500 m	Dorthe Rasmussen (DEN)	4:20.9	(GDR)	4:21.7	(URS)	4:22.6
100 m hurdles	Kerstin Claus (GDR)	13.32	(GDR)	13.33	(URS)	13.71
4×100 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Kerstin Claus	44.17	West Germany (FRG) Claudia Steger	44.63	Great Britain (GBR) Heather Hunte Kathy Smallwood Michelle Probert	44.71
4×400 m relay	West Germany (FRG) Gaby Bussmann Claudia Steger	3:32.8	East Germany (GDR)	3:34.7	Soviet Union (URS)	3:39.5
High jump	Kristine Nitzsche (GDR)	1.88 m	(FRG)	1.86 m	(FRG)  Danuta Bułkowska (POL)	1.81 m
Long jump	(URS)	6.35 m	(FRG)	6.34 m	(GDR)	6.30 m
Shot put	(GDR)	18.10 m	(GDR)	18.00 m	(URS)	15.78 m
Discus throw	Ines Reichenbach (GDR)	52.06 m	Gisela Beyer (GDR)	51.36 m	(URS)	50.72 m
Javelin throw	(FRG)	61.96 m	Petra Felke (GDR)	57.68 m	(GDR)	55.08 m
Pentathlon	Kristine Nitzsche (GDR)	4409 pts	(FRG)	4152 pts	(FRG)	4116 pts

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	15	16	6	37
2	Soviet Union (URS)	6	4	8	18
3	West Germany (FRG)	4	7	6	17
4	Finland (FIN)	3	1	0	4
5	Great Britain (GBR)	2	2	8	12
6	France (FRA)	2	0	1	3
7	Poland (POL)	1	1	3	5
8	Spain (ESP)	1	1	0	2
9	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
10	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	1	2
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland (CHE)	0	1	1	2
14	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
15	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		36	36	37	109

References[]

Results

• European Junior Championships 1977. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2013-05-29.