1997 European Athletics U23 Championships

The 1st European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Turku, Finland on 10–13 July 1997. The competition succeeded the European Athletics U23 Cup, which had been held in 1992 and 1994.

Complete results and medal winners were published.^[1][2][3][4]

Results[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Angelos Pavlakakis  Greece	10.18	Carlos Calado  Portugal	10.29	Marlon Devonish  Great Britain	10.32
200 metres details	Julian Golding  Great Britain	20.46	Alessandro Attene  Italy	20.68	Ryszard Pilarczyk  Poland	20.87
400 metres details	Mark Hylton  Great Britain	45.71	Piotr Haczek  Poland	45.72	Belgium	45.99
800 metres details	Andrea Longo  Italy	1:46.49	André Bucher  Switzerland	1:47.13	Grzegorz Krzosek  Poland	1:47.45
1500 metres details	Reyes Estévez  Spain	3:42.37	Carlos García  Spain	3:43.24	Romania	3:43.36
5000 metres details	Simone Zanon  Italy	13:45.90	Rachid Berradi  Italy	13:47.08	Russia	13:48.04
10,000 metres details	Rachid Berradi  Italy	28:31.12	Serhiy Lebid  Ukraine	28:39.71	Simone Zanon  Italy	28:56.33
110 metres hurdles details	Frank Busemann  Germany	13.54	Sven Pieters  Belgium	13.56	Andrey Kislykh  Russia	13.56
400 metres hurdles details	Czech Republic	49.08	Marcel Schelbert  Switzerland	49.43	France	49.63
3000 metres steeplechase details	Luciano Di Pardo  Italy	8:34.24	Vincent Le Dauphin  France	8:36.92	Russia	8:37.81
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain (GBR) Dan Money Marlon Devonish Julian Golding	38.99	Poland (POL) Marcin Krzywański Dariusz Adamczyk Piotr Balcerzak Ryszard Pilarczyk	39.27	Germany (GER) Alexander Kosenkow Eduard Martin	39.45
4 × 400 metres relay details	Poland (POL) Ryszard Pilarczyk Piotr Długosielski Jacek Bocian Piotr Haczek	3:03.07	Czech Republic (CZE) Jiří Mužík	3:04.13	Germany (GER) Thomas Goller Lars Figura	3:04.32
20 kilometres walk details	Aigars Fadejevs  Latvia	1:19:58	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	1:21:59	Artur Meliashkevich  Belarus	1:22:26
High jump details	Staffan Strand  Sweden	2.28	Martin Buß  Germany	2.24	Poland	2.24
Pole vault details	Yevgeniy Smiryagin  Russia	5.70	Montxu Miranda  Spain	5.50	Czech Republic	5.50
Long jump details	Carlos Calado  Portugal	8.32	Kirill Sosunov  Russia	8.30	Olexiy Lukashevych  Ukraine	8.09
Triple jump details	Russia	16.95	Russia	16.29	Great Britain	16.28
Shot put details	Conny Karlsson  Finland	19.48	Germany	19.11	Sweden	19.09
Discus throw details	Andrzej Krawczyk  Poland	59.54	Finland	57.20	Ukraine	56.78
Hammer throw details	Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus	77.46	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland	73.68	Belarus	72.40
Javelin throw details	Finland	81.58	Matti Närhi  Finland	80.72	Christian Nicolay  Germany	78.18
Decathlon details	Klaus Isekenmeier  Germany	7926	Oleksandr Yurkov  Ukraine	7888	Pierre-Alexandre Vial  France	7866

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Nora Ivanova  Bulgaria	11.50	Germany	11.53	France	11.54
200 metres details	Hana Benešová  Czech Republic	22.57	Shanta Ghosh  Germany	22.80	Katia Benth  France	23.19
400 metres details	Allison Curbishley  Great Britain	50.85	Hana Benešová  Czech Republic	51.82	Germany	53.45
800 metres details	Irina Nedelenko  Ukraine	2:01.72	Poland	2:02.44	Russia	2:02.72
1500 metres details	Andrea Šuldesová  Czech Republic	4:13.92	Lidia Chojecka  Poland	4:14.70	Ukraine	4:15.43
5000 metres details	Oksana Zheleznyak  Russia	15:45.22	Cristina Iloc  Romania	15:46.59	Marta Domínguez  Spain	15:49.96
10,000 metres details	Olivera Jevtić  Serbia and Montenegro	32:44.22	Annemari Sandell  Finland	32:48.57	Stine Larsen  Norway	33:11.09
100 metres hurdles details	Irina Korotya  Russia	12.97	Diane Allahgreen  Great Britain	13.03	Johanna Halkoaho  Finland	13.35
400 metres hurdles details	Rikke Rønholt  Denmark	57.22	Great Britain	57.43	Małgorzata Pskit  Poland	57.68
4 × 100 metres relay details	Germany (GER) Shanta Ghosh	43.94	Russia (RUS) Irina Korotya	44.41	Italy (ITA) Elena Sordelli Manuela Grillo Manuela Levorato	44.73
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain (GBR) Allison Curbishley	3:32.81	Germany (GER) Shanta Ghosh Claudia Gesell	3:33.77	Czech Republic (CZE) Jitka Burianová Andrea Šuldesová Hana Benešová	3:33.83
10 kilometres walk details	Olga Panfyorova  Russia	43:33	María Vasco  Spain	44:01	Susana Feitor  Portugal	44:26
High jump details	Yuliya Lyakhova  Russia	1.97	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	1.93	Daniela Rath  Germany	1.91
Pole vault details	Hungary	4.10	Germany	4.05	Germany Monique de Wilt|NED}}	3.80
Long jump details	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	6.57	Cristina Nicolau  Romania	6.43	Sofia Schulte  Germany	6.39
Triple jump details	Cristina Nicolau  Romania	14.22	Anja Valant  Slovenia	13.98	Heli Koivula  Finland	13.88
Shot put details	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	18.27	Corrie de Bruin  Netherlands	18.06	Yanina Karolchyk  Belarus	13.98
Discus throw details	Corrie de Bruin  Netherlands	57.72	Kathleen Hering  Germany	56.78	Yanina Karolchyk  Belarus	56.36
Hammer throw details	Mihaela Melinte  Romania	70.26	Simone Mathes  Germany	64.38	Lyn Sprules  Great Britain	61.70
Javelin throw details	Taina Uppa  Finland	56.48	Belarus	55.56	Finland	55.24
Heptathlon details	Germany	6130	Yuliya Akulenko  Ukraine	6117	Diana Koritskaya  Russia	6014

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	7	3	5	15
2	Germany	5	8	7	20
3	Great Britain	5	2	3	10
4	Italy	4	2	2	8
5	Finland*	3	3	3	9
6	Czech Republic	3	2	2	7
7	Poland	2	5	4	11
8	Romania	2	2	1	5
9	Spain	1	4	1	6
10	Ukraine	1	3	3	7
11	Belarus	1	1	4	6
12	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
	Portugal	1	1	1	3
	Sweden	1	1	1	3
15	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
	Denmark	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Latvia	1	0	0	1
	Serbia and Montenegro	1	0	0	1
21	Switzerland	0	2	0	2
22	France	0	1	4	5
23	Belgium	0	1	1	2
24	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
25	Norway	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 nations)		43	43	44	130

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 652 athletes from 37 countries participated in the event.

References[]

External links[]

• Results (archived)