1992 European Athletics U23 Cup

The 1st European Athletics U23 Cup was held on 18–19 July 1992. The participating teams were classified in two divisions, A and B.

The competition was restricted to athletes that did not complete their 23rd birthday in 1992, i.e. born in 1970 or later (including junior athletes). This rule was interpreted differently by Bulgaria and Greece, sending also athletes born in 1969.^[1]

Division A[]

The contest for division A took place in Gateshead, United Kingdom. The teams from the Commonwealth of Independent States and Poland were withdrawn.^[1]

Team trophies[]

Men[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points 1  Germany 95 2  United Kingdom 75 3  Italy 70 4  Finland 55 5  France 55 6  Spain 47 7  Commonwealth of Independent States DNS  Poland

Women[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points 1  United Kingdom 87 2  Germany 72 3  Romania 69 4  Italy 68 5  Czechoslovakia 67 6  Spain 46 7  Hungary 37 8  Commonwealth of Independent States DNS

Results[]

Winners and results were published.^[1][2][3]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres[nb1] (wind: -3.5 m/s)	Germany	10.92	Andrea Amici  Italy	10.94	Pedro Pablo Nolet  Spain	11.04
200 metres (wind: -2.6 m/s)	Giorgio Marras  Italy	21.17	Germany	21.31	Great Britain	21.31
400 metres	David Grindley  Great Britain	45.57	Germany	46.90	France	47.19
800 metres	Curtis Robb  Great Britain	1:49.46	Davide Cadoni  Italy	1:49.78	Germany	1:49.91
1500 metres	Abdelkader Chékhémani  France	4:03.64	Germany	4:03.90	Italy	4:04.30
5000 metres	Francesco Bennici  Italy	13:31.79	Carsten Eich  Germany	13:32.25	Jon Brown  Great Britain	13:33.06
3000 metres steeplechase	Keith Cullen  Great Britain	8:37.74	Kim Bauermeister  Germany	8:51.02	Spain	8:56.35
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Mike Fenner  Germany	13.94	Antti Haapakoski  Finland	13.97	Laurent Ottoz  Italy	13.97
400 metres hurdles	Italy	50.76	Finland	51.59	France	51.67
4 × 100 metres relay[nb2]	Germany (GER)	39.67	Italy (ITA)	39.96	Spain (ESP) Frutos Feo Luis Turón Pedro Pablo Nolet	40.03
4 × 400 metres relay	Great Britain (GBR) David McKenzie Mark Richardson Du'aine Ladejo	3:01.03	Germany (GER)	3:07.93	France (FRA)	3:08.16
High jump	Steve Smith  Great Britain	2.25 m	Hendrik Beyer  Germany	2.25 m	Spain	2.15 m
Pole vault	Tim Lobinger  Germany	5.50 m	Finland	5.40 m	Gérald Baudouin  France	5.30 m
Long jump	Georg Ackermann  Germany	7.94 m	France	7.62 m	Italy	7.47 m
Triple jump	Julian Golley  Great Britain	16.21 m	Germany	16.03 m	Spain	16.02 m
Shot put	Markus Koistinen  Finland	18.65 m	Germany	18.50 m	Matthew Simson  Great Britain	18.22 m
Discus throw	Glen Smith  Great Britain	57.58 m	Italy	55.08 m	Sven Schwarz  Germany	55.02 m
Hammer throw	Great Britain	71.86 m	Karsten Kobs  Germany	70.16 m	David Chaussinand  France	69.18 m
Javelin throw	Finland	77.26 m	Great Britain	71.36 m	Germany	71.36 m

• ^nb1 : The 100 m event was initially won by Jason Livingston from the United Kingdom (10.72s), but he was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules.
• ^nb2 : The 4 × 100 m relay event was initially won by the United Kingdom (39.11s), but the team was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules by team member Jason Livingston.

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.1 m/s)	Great Britain	11.65	Melanie Paschke  Germany	11.75	Italy	11.95
200 metres (wind: -3.1 m/s)	Great Britain	24.10	Giada Gallina  Italy	24.15	Germany	24.30
400 metres[nb3]	Julia Merino  Spain	52.91	Ionela Târlea  Romania	53.69
800 metres	Fabia Trabaldo  Italy	2:03.91	Birte Bruhns  Germany	2:04.44	Romania	2:04.94
1500 metres	Lisa York  Great Britain	4:09.34	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	4:13.11	Germany	4:17.04
3000 metres	Paula Radcliffe  Great Britain	9:07.69	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	9:12.27	Czechoslovakia	9:12.53
100 metres hurdles (wind: -2.3 m/s)	Keri Maddox  Great Britain	13.63	Giuliana Spada  Italy	13.88	Mona Steigauf  Germany	13.91
400 metres hurdles	Louise Fraser  Great Britain	56.73	Germany	56.87	Italy	57.05
4 × 100 metres relay	Germany (GER)	44.08	Great Britain (GBR) Marcia Richardson Katharine Merry	44.15	Italy (ITA)	45.50
4 × 400 metres relay[nb4]	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3:33.87	Great Britain (GBR) Michelle Thomas Louise Fraser	3:34.46
High jump	Antonella Bevilacqua  Italy	1.92 m	Šárka Nováková  Czechoslovakia	1.92 m	Oana Musunoiu  Romania	1.88 m
Long jump	Monica Toth  Romania	6.36 m w	Yinka Idowu  Great Britain	6.20 m	Italy	6.15 m
Triple jump	Šárka Kašpárková  Czechoslovakia	14.00 m	Concepción Paredes  Spain	13.78 m	Ashia Hansen  Great Britain	13.31 m
Shot put	Germany	17.04 m	Italy	15.89 m	Hungary	15.80 m
Discus throw	Nicoleta Gradinaru  Romania	62.58 m	Anja Gündler  Germany	58.54 m	Czechoslovakia	53.40 m
Javelin throw	Germany	57.78 m	Great Britain	56.74 m	Claudia Isaila  Romania	55.98 m

• ^nb3 The 400 m event was initially won by Manuela Derr from Germany (52.86s), but she was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules.
• ^nb4 The 4 × 400 m relay event was initially won by Germany (3:32.69), but the team was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules by team member Manuela Derr.

Division B[]

The competition for division B took place in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France.

Team scores[]

Men[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points 1  Czechoslovakia 109 2  Sweden 108 3  Hungary 93 4  Greece 73 5  Romania 71 6  Portugal 71 7  Bulgaria 69   Switzerland

Women[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points 1  France 101 2  Finland 87 3  Bulgaria 79 4  Sweden 72.5 5  Portugal 70 6  Netherlands 69 7  Norway 59.5 8  Belgium 36

Results[]

Winners and results were published.^[1]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Georgios Theodoridis  Greece	10.61
200 metres (wind: -0.7 m/s)	Hungary	21.29
400 metres	A Sachov  Bulgaria	46.58
800 metres	Pavel Soukup  Czechoslovakia	1:49.05
1500 metres	Sweden	3:42.77
5000 metres	Claes Nyberg  Sweden	13:59.16
3000 metres steeplechase	Florin Ionescu  Romania	8:53.72
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Claes Albihn  Sweden	13.78
400 metres hurdles	Pedro Rodrigues  Portugal	50.17
4 × 100 metres relay	Hungary (HUN) I Sami	40.47
4 × 400 metres relay	Hungary (HUN) Miklós Gyulai Dusán Kovács	3:10.55
High jump	Tomáš Janků  Czechoslovakia	2.19 m
Pole vault	Martin Eriksson  Sweden	5.40 m
Long jump	Konstadinos Koukodimos  Greece	8.15 m (wind: +0.0 m/s)
Triple jump	Tibor Ordina  Hungary	16.38 m (wind: +1.8 m/s)
Shot put	Miroslav Menc  Czechoslovakia	18.04 m
Discus throw	Romania	57.22 m
Hammer throw	Savas Saritzoglou  Greece	71.88 m
Javelin throw	Joakim Nilsson  Sweden	73.96 m

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.2 m/s)	Lucrécia Jardim  Portugal	11.44	Petya Pendareva  Bulgaria	11.51	Odiah Sidibé  France	11.52
200 metres (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Lucrécia Jardim  Portugal	23.28	Petya Pendareva  Bulgaria	23.31	Anita Mormand  France	23.32
400 metres	Francine Landre  France	52.43	Ester Goossens  Netherlands	53.43	Sweden	54.15
800 metres	Patricia Djaté  France	2:08.08	Portugal	2:08.92	Finland	2:09.15
1500 metres	Malin Ewerlöf  Sweden	4:22.42	France	4:23.09	Bulgaria	4:23.42
3000 metres	Marina Bastos  Portugal	9:14.71	Gunhild Halle  Norway	9:18.04	H Nikkanen  Finland	9:26.13
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.8 m/s)	France	13.60	Finland	13.75	Portugal	13.89
400 metres hurdles	Frida Johansson  Sweden	56.08	Carole Nelson  France	56.61	Norway	58.50
4 × 100 metres relay	France (FRA) Anita Mormand Odiah Sidibé Christine Arron	44.54	Bulgaria (BUL) Petya Pendareva D Petkova Desislava Dimitrova	44.89	Netherlands (NED) Petra Huybrechtse Jacqueline Poelman	45.26
4 × 400 metres relay	France (FRA) Marie-Louise Bévis F Borelys Francine Landre	3:36.12	Sweden (SWE)	3:36.70	Netherlands (NED) Ester Goossens	3:40.47
High jump	Desislava Aleksandrova  Bulgaria	1.87 m	Belgium	1.85 m	Finland	1.82 m
Long jump	Iva Prandzheva  Bulgaria	6.62 m (wind: -1.2 m/s)	Erica Johansson  Sweden	6.58 m (wind: +1.6 m/s)	Portugal	6.28 m (wind: +1.6 m/s)
Triple jump	Caroline Honoré  France	13.37 m w (wind: +2.6 m/s)	Finland	13.18 m (wind: +0.2 m/s)	Norway	12.80 m w (wind: +2.2 m/s)
Shot put	Corrie de Bruin  Netherlands	16.38 m	Marika Tuliniemi  Finland	16.12 m	Sweden	15.96 m
Discus throw	Jacqueline Goormachtigh  Netherlands	58.36 m	Sweden	53.14 m	Atanaska Angelova  Bulgaria	50.50 m
Javelin throw	Heli Rantanen  Finland	60.76 m	Nathalie Teppe  France	54.26 m	Portugal	50.92 m

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