1981 European Athletics Junior Championships

The 1981 European Athletics Junior Championships was the sixth edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Utrecht, Netherlands between 20 and 23 August.^[1]

Men's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Thomas Schröder (GDR)	10.14	(FRG)	10.33	Pierfrancesco Pavoni (ITA)	10.39
200 metres	Thomas Schröder (GDR)	20.69	(URS)	20.79	(FIN)	20.83
400 metres	Todd Bennett (GBR)	47.18	Jens Carlowitz (GDR)	47.40	Jörg Vaihinger (FRG)	47.48
800 metres	(HUN)	1:46.17	(HUN)	1:46.94	(GBR)	1:47.43
1500 metres	(GDR)	3:44.24	(FRA)	3:44.49	(URS)	3:44.66
3000 metres	(GDR)	7:57.18	(GDR)	7:59.05	(BEL)	8:01.30
5000 metres	(HUN)	13:56.42	Salvatore Antibo (ITA)	14:03.73	(GDR)	14:05.02
110 m hurdles	Holger Pohland (GDR)	13.80	Andreas Oschkenat (GDR)	13.85	(URS)	14.10
400 m hurdles	(BUL)	50.45	(FRA)	50.63	(GDR)	50.75
2000 m s'chase	Paul Davies-Hale (GBR)	5:31.12	(GDR)	5:38.02	(URS)	5:38.61
10,000 m walk	(GDR)	39:56.23	Aleksandr Potashov (URS)	41:39.35	Viktor Mostovik (URS)	41:46.56
4×100 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Steffen Bringmann Andreas Oschkenat Thomas Schröder	39.88	Soviet Union (URS)	40.21	Finland (FIN)	40.58
4×400 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Jens Carlowitz	3:04.58	Great Britain (GBR) Eugene Gilkes Todd Bennett	3:07.49	West Germany (FRG) Jörg Vaihinger	3:07.91
High jump	Krzysztof Krawczyk (POL)	2.26 m	William Motti (FRA)	2.19 m	(URS)	2.19 m
Pole vault	Frantisek Jansa (TCH)	5.35 m	Pierre Quinon (FRA)	5.30 m	(GDR)	5.25 m
Long jump	(GDR)	7.76 m	(URS)	7.73 m	(GDR)	7.70 m
Triple jump	(URS)	16.76 m	(URS)	16.54 m	Mike Makin (GBR)	15.95 m
Shot put	(GDR)	18.71 m	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	18.45 m	Karsten Stolz (FRG)	17.77 m
Discus throw	Kamen Dimitrov (BUL)	56.62 m	(GDR)	56.12 m	Erik de Bruin (NED)	55.88 m
Hammer throw	Christoph Sahner (FRG)	68.92 m	(URS)	68.48 m	Vyacheslav Korovin (URS)	68.36 m
Javelin throw	Uwe Hohn (GDR)	86.56 m	Roald Bradstock (GBR)	79.18 m	(ITA)	75.26 m
Decathlon	(URS)	7918 pts	Torsten Voss (GDR)	7912 pts	(URS)	7497 pts

Women's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(GDR)	11.33	Shirley Thomas (GBR)	11.43	(GDR)	11.50
200 metres	Sabine Rieger (GDR)	22.91	(URS)	23.13	(GDR)	23.31
400 metres	(URS)	53.21	(GDR)	53.54	Linsey MacDonald (GBR)	54.24
800 metres	(GDR)	2:02.65	(POL)	2:03.83	Lyubov Kiryukhina (URS)	2:04.33
1500 metres	(BEL)	4:15.75	(URS)	4:17.31	Kirsti Voldnes (NOR)	4:18.72
3000 metres	(URS)	8:58.30	(GDR)	9:20.01	(GDR)	9:22.00
100 m hurdles	(GDR)	13.20	Gloria Kovarik (GDR)	13.27	Anne Piquereau (FRA)	13.76
400 m hurdles	(GDR)	56.41	(URS)	56.93	Margarita Ponomaryova (URS)	57.45
4×100 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Silke Gladisch Sabine Rieger	43.77	France (FRA) Marie-Christine Cazier Laurence Bily Marie-France Loval	44.61	West Germany (FRG) Andrea Bersch	45.11
4×400 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Cornelia Feuerbach	3:30.39	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Kiryukhina Margarita Ponomaryova	3:31.41	West Germany (FRG)	3:36.90
High jump	Andrea Breder (FRG)	1.90 m	Alessandra Fossati (ITA)	1.88 m	(URS)	1.86 m
Long jump	Heike Daute (GDR)	7.02 m	(URS)	6.43 m	Joyce Oladapo (GBR)	6.36 m
Shot put	(GDR)	17.21 m	Gabriele Reinsch (GDR)	17.03 m	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)	16.50 m
Discus throw	Diana Sachse (GDR)	57.30 m	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)	55.60 m	Larisa Mikhalchenko (URS)	53.38 m
Javelin throw	Antoaneta Todorova (BUL)	64.12 m	Antje Kempe (GDR)	60.60 m	(SWE)	58.40 m
Heptathlon	(GDR)	6032 pts	(GDR)	5991 pts	(BUL)	5764 pts

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	22	13	7	42
2	Soviet Union (URS)	4	11	11	26
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	3	1	2	6
4	Great Britain (GBR)	2	3	4	9
5	West Germany (FRG)	2	1	5	8
6	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	0	3
7	Poland (POL)	1	1	0	2
8	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	1	2
9	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
10	France (FRA)	0	5	1	6
11	Italy (ITA)	0	2	2	4
12	Finland (FIN)	0	0	2	2
13	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		38	38	38	114

References[]

Results

• European Junior Championships 1981. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2013-05-27.