1997 European Athletics Junior Championships

The 1997 European Athletics Junior Championships were held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on July 24–27.

Men's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Dwain Chambers  Great Britain	10.06	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	10.24	Frédéric Krantz  France	10.35
200 m	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	20.51	Poland	20.91	Great Britain	20.99
400 m	David Canal  Spain	46.04	Periklis Iakovakis  Greece	46.68	Great Britain	47.11
800 m	Nils Schumann  Germany	1:51.00	Poland	1:51.45	Roman Oravec  Czech Republic	1:51.51
1500 m	Gert-Jan Liefers  Netherlands	3:46.91	Germany	3:48.15	Gareth Turnbull  Ireland	3:48.16
5000 m	Bouabdellah Tahri  France	14:25.71	Hungary	14:27.87	Juan Carlos Higuero  Spain	14:31.79
10,000 m	Romania	29:56.35	Mustafa Mohamed  Sweden	30:04.33	Jussi Utriainen  Finland	30:23.02
3000 m steeplechase	Günther Weidlinger  Austria	8:41.54	Roman Usov  Russia	8:48.47	Spain	8:56.60
110 m hurdles	Tomasz Ścigaczewski  Poland	13.55	Stanislavs Olijars  Latvia	13.74	Germany	14.10
400 m hurdles	Boris Gorban  Russia	50.95	Germany	51.08	Slovakia	51.26
4×100 metres relay	Great Britain Christian Malcolm Dwain Chambers	39.62	France Frédéric Krantz Dimitri Demoniere	39.89	Germany	40.26
4×400 metres relay	Spain David Canal	3:08.18	Greece Yeóryios Ikonomídis Periklis Iakovakis	3:08.29	Great Britain	3:08.97
10,000 m walk	Italy	42:43.75	André Höhne  Germany	43:00.71	Slovakia	43:11.53
High jump	Hennazdy Maroz  Belarus	2.20 m	Ben Challenger  Great Britain	2.20 m	Aleksey Lesnichiy  Belarus	2.17 m
Pole vault	Lars Börgeling  Germany	5.40 m	Pavel Gerasimov  Russia	5.30 m	Great Britain	5.00 m
Long jump	Nathan Morgan  Great Britain	7.90 m	Raúl Fernández  Spain	7.90 m	Yann Domenech  France	7.87 m
Triple jump	Viktor Gushchinskiy  Russia	16.78 m	Ionut Punga  Romania	16.43 m	Spain	16.40 m
Shot put	Ralf Bartels  Germany	18.30 m	Mikuláš Konopka  Slovakia	17.63 m	Peter Sack  Germany	17.23 m
Discus throw	Emeka Udechuku  Great Britain	53.90 m	Germany	53.02 m	Zoltán Kővágó  Hungary	52.90 m
Hammer throw	Maciej Pałyszko  Poland	74.12 m	Belarus	70.62 m	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen  Finland	69.84 m
Javelin throw	Poland	78.42 m	Finland	77.60 m	Germany	75.86 m
Decathlon	Chiel Warners  Netherlands	7664 pts	Germany	7258 pts	Sebastian Knabe  Germany	7218 pts

Women's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Johanna Manninen  Finland	11.39	Lithuania	11.42	Italy	11.47
200 m	Sabrina Mulrain  Germany	23.35	Muriel Hurtis  France	23.36	Johanna Manninen  Finland	23.43
400 m	Kristina Perica  Croatia	53.07	Alina Râpanu  Romania	53.10	France	53.17
800 m	Romania	2:03.47	Poland	2:03.70	Slovakia	2:06.17
1500 m	Natalya Yevdokimova  Ukraine	4:23.34	Poland	4:24.37	Croatia	4:24.75
3000 m	Germany	9:13.44	Sonja Stolić  FR Yugoslavia	9:15.45	Sandra Levenez  France	9:15.61
5000 m	Katalin Szentgyörgyi  Hungary	16:38.73	Russia	16:39.31	Romania	16:39.97
100 m hurdles	Russia	13.49	Romania	13.81	Finland	13.92
400 m hurdles	France	57.91	Netherlands	58.65	Romania	58.85
4×100 metres relay	Germany Marion Wagner Sabrina Mulrain	44.24	Great Britain Sarah Wilhelmy Melanie Purkiss	45.55	Poland Agnieszka Rysiukiewicz Anna Pacholak	45.59
4×400 metres relay	France Sylvanie Morandais	3:33.73	Hungary Enikő Szabó Barbara Petráhn	3:34.90	Germany Claudia Marx	3:34.94
5000 m walk	Claudia Iovan  Romania	21:15.99	Russia	21:42.21	Russia	22:04.11
High jump	Linda Horvath  Austria	1.92 m	Marina Kuptsova  Russia	1.90 m	Svetlana Lapina  Russia	1.90 m
Pole vault	Annika Becker  Germany	4.00 m	Vala Flosadóttir  Iceland	4.00 m	Austria	3.95 m
Long jump	Aurélie Félix  France	6.52 m	Germany	6.50 m	Austria	6.47 m
Triple jump	Adelina Gavrilă  Romania	13.58 m	Marija Martinović  FR Yugoslavia	13.54 m	Estonia	13.45 m
Shot put	Belarus	17.05 m	Germany	16.60 m	Assunta Legnante  Italy	16.18 m
Discus throw	Romania	52.54 m	Finland	51.48 m	Philippa Roles  Great Britain	50.62 m
Hammer throw	Kamila Skolimowska  Poland	59.72 m	Sini Pöyry  Finland	59.42 m	Susanne Keil  Germany	59.22 m
Javelin throw	Nikolett Szabó  Hungary	61.86 m	Sarah Walter  France	57.34 m	Bina Ramesh  France	55.78 m
Heptathlon	Netherlands	5882 pts	Russia	5827 pts	Sonja Kesselschläger  Germany	5753 pts

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	7	7	8	22
2	Great Britain (GBR)	5	3	5	13
3	Romania (ROM)	5	3	2	10
4	Poland (POL)	4	4	1	9
5	France (FRA)	4	3	5	12
6	Russia (RUS)	3	6	2	11
7	Netherlands (NED)	3	1	0	4
8	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	1	5
9	Spain (ESP)	2	1	3	6
10	Belarus (BLR)	2	1	1	4
11	Austria (AUT)	2	0	2	4
12	Finland (FIN)	1	3	4	8
13	Italy (ITA)	1	0	2	3
14	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	1	2
15	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
16	FR Yugoslavia (FR Yugoslavia)	0	2	0	2
	Greece (GRE)	0	2	0	2
18	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	3	4
19	Iceland (ISL)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
23	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 nations)		43	43	43	129

References[]

• Results - GBR Athletics
• Results - GBR Athletics