1979 European Athletics Junior Championships

The 1979 European Athletics Junior Championships was the fifth edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland between 16 and 19 August.^[1]

Men's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Thomas Schröder (GDR)	10.41	(FRG)	10.43	Mike McFarlane (GBR)	10.43
200 metres	Mike McFarlane (GBR)	20.89	Thomas Schröder (GDR)	21.11	(ITA)	21.17
400 metres	Hartmut Weber (FRG)	45.77	Andreas Knebel (GDR)	46.45	(GBR)	46.63
800 metres	Klaus-Peter Nabein (FRG)	1:48.18	(GDR)	1:48.85	(SUI)	1:48.98
1500 metres	Graham Williamson (GBR)	3:38.96	(URS)	3:39.95	Peter Wirz (SUI)	3:42.66
3000 metres	Steve Cram (GBR)	8:05.18	(GDR)	8:05.48	(URS)	8:07.77
5000 metres	Steve Binns (GBR)	13:44.37	(BEL)	13:52.19	António Leitão (POR)	13:54.83
110 m hurdles	(GDR)	14.09	György Bakos (HUN)	14.23	(URS)	14.24
400 m hurdles	Yeoryiós Vamvakas (GRE)	50.67	(URS)	51.31	(FRA)	51.44
2000 m s'chase	(ITA)	5:27.44	Colin Reitz (GBR)	5:29.61	(FRG)	5:32.48
10 000 metres walk	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	41:04.71	Erling Andersen (NOR)	41:12.80	(GDR)	42:31.04
4×100 m relay	West Germany (FRG)	39.86	Great Britain (GBR) Phil Brown Mike McFarlane	40.06	Italy (ITA) Carlo Simionato	40.21
4×400 m relay	West Germany (FRG) Thomas Giessing Edgar Nakladal Uwe Schmitt Hartmut Weber	3:06.73	Soviet Union (URS) Sergey Melnikov Pavel Konovalov	3:06.76	East Germany (GDR) Andreas Knebel	3:07.35
High jump	Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG)	2.24 m	(ITA)	2.24 m	(FRG)	2.18 m
Pole vault	Vladimir Polyakov (URS)	5.40 m	Aleksandr Krupskiy (URS)	5.40 m	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)	5.40 m
Long jump	Andrzej Klimaszewski (POL)	7.83 m	(GDR)	7.72 m	Waldemar Golanko (POL)	7.58 m
Triple jump	(URS)	16.47 m	(URS)	16.45 m	(ROM)	16.15 m
Shot put	Remigius Machura (TCH)	18.34 m	(GDR)	18.30 m	Sergey Kasnauskas (URS)	18.03 m
Discus throw	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	56.18 m	Sergey Kot (URS)	55.44 m	(POL)	54.94 m
Hammer throw	Igor Nikulin (URS)	71.56 m	(URS)	67.18 m	(GDR)	66.24 m
Javelin throw	(GDR)	78.78 m	(URS)	76.92 m	(BUL)	72.66 m
Decathlon	Siegfried Wentz (FRG)	7822 pts	(GDR)	7718 pts	(GDR)	7506 pts

Women's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Kerstin Walther (GDR)	11.57	Kirsten Siemon (GDR)	11.57	(FRG)	11.61
200 metres	Kerstin Walther (GDR)	23.11	Karin Verguts (BEL)	23.41	Natalya Bochina (URS)   (FRG)	23.45
400 metres	Dagmar Rübsam (GDR)	51.55	(URS)	51.68	(GDR)	52.08
800 metres	(GDR)	2:01.21	(GDR)	2:01.90	(BUL)	2:02.72
1500 metres	Irina Nikitina (URS)	4:10.50	(NOR)	4:11.84	Cristieana Cojocaru (ROM)	4:12.14
100 m hurdles	Lena Spoof (FIN)	13.24	(URS)	13.57	Edith Oker (FRG)	13.70
4×100 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Kerstin Walther Undine Hartmann Kirsten Siemon	43.95	Soviet Union (URS) Natalya Bochina	44.59	West Germany (FRG) Edith Oker	44.84
4×400 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Dagmar Rübsam	3:31.68	West Germany (FRG)	3:35.39	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Kiryukhina Marina Ivanova	3:35.47
High jump	Kerstin Dedner (GDR)	1.87 m	(FRG)	1.87 m	Barbara Simmonds (GBR)	1.84 m
Long jump	Helga Radtke (GDR)	6.47 m	Sabine Everts (FRG)	6.46 m	Sue Hearnshaw (GBR)	6.46 m
Shot put	Liane Schmuhl (GDR)	18.33 m	(GDR)	17.12 m	(URS)	16.59 m
Discus throw	Irina Meszynski (GDR)	60.30 m	Silvia Madetzky (GDR)	56.88 m	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)	54.76 m
Javelin throw	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)	58.20 m	(GDR)	58.02 m	Antoaneta Todorova (BUL)	57.76 m
Pentathlon	Sabine Everts (FRG)	4594 pts	(URS)	4424 pts	Anke Vater (GDR)	4322 pts

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	14	11	7	32
2	West Germany (FRG)	7	4	5	16
3	Great Britain (GBR)	5	2	4	11
4	Soviet Union (URS)	4	12	6	22
5	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	0	0	2
6	Italy (ITA)	1	1	2	4
7	Poland (POL)	1	0	2	3
8	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
10	Belgium (BEL)	0	2	0	2
	Norway (NOR)	0	2	0	2
12	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
13	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	4	4
14	Romania (ROU)	0	0	2	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	2	2
16	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		36	35	35	106

References[]

Results

• European Junior Championships 1979. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2013-05-27.