2009 European Athletics U23 Championships

7th European Athletics U23 Championships
Dates	16–19 July 2009
Host city	Kaunas, Lithuania
Venue	S. Dariaus ir S. Girėno stadionas (Darius and Girėnas Stadium)
Level	U23
Type	Outdoor
Events	44
Participation	901 athletes from 42 nations
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2009 European Athletics U23 Championships

The 7th European Athletics U23 Championships were held between 16 and 19 July 2009 in the S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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

Men's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (GBR)	10.15 SB	(GBR)	10.26 SB	(GBR)	10.28 SB
200 metres details	Toby Sandeman (GBR)	20.37 PB	Aleixo-Platini Menga (GER)	20.59	Ihor Bodrov (UKR)	20.61 PB
400 metres details	Yannick Fonsat (FRA)	45.68 PB	Nigel Levine (GBR)	45.78 PB	Jan Ciepiela (POL)	45.81 PB
800 metres details	Adam Kszczot (POL)	1:45.81	Marcin Lewandowski (POL)	1:46.52	Robin Schembera (GER)	1:46.63
1500 metres details	Ivan Tukhtachev (RUS)	3:51.19	(GBR)	3:51.33	Jakub Holuša (CZE)	3:51.46
5000 metres details	(ESP)	13:55.10	Noureddine Smaïl (FRA)	13:59.23 SB	David McCarthy (IRL)	14:00.78
10,000 metres details	Selim Bayrak (TUR)	29:47.15	Andrea Lalli (ITA)	29:49.80	(UKR)	30:08.44
3000 metres steeplechase details	(RUS)	8:40.55	(ESP)	8:41.53 PB	Krystian Zalewski (POL)	8:42.06 PB
110 metres hurdles details	Artur Noga (POL)	13.47	Gianni Frankis (GBR)	13.57 PB	Callum Priestley (GBR)	13.63 PB
400 metres hurdles details	(GBR)	49.62 PB	Stanislav Melnykov (UKR)	49.88	(BEL)	49.90 PB
20 kilometres walk details	Miguel Ángel López (ESP)	1:22:23 PB	Dzianis Simanovich (BLR)	1:22:57	Matteo Giupponi (ITA)	1:23:00 PB
4 × 100 metres relay details	Ryan Scott Toby Sandeman  Great Britain (GBR)	39.09	Emmanuel Biron Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux Teddy Tinmar  France (FRA)	39.26	Kamil Kryński Artur Zaczek  Poland (POL)	39.52
4 × 400 metres relay details	Jakub Krzewina Michał Pietrzak Jan Ciepiela Łukasz Krawczuk  Poland (POL)	3:03.74	Marco Vistalli Isalbet Juarez Matteo Galvan  Italy (ITA)	3:03.79	Mame-Ibra Anne Yoann Décimus Yannick Fonsat  France (FRA)	3:04.06
High jump details	Sylwester Bednarek (POL)	2.28 PB	Oleksandr Nartov (UKR)	2.26	Andriy Protsenko (UKR)	2.24 =SB
Pole vault details	Raphael Holzdeppe (GER)	5.65 SB	Luke Cutts (GBR)	5.60 PB	Dimitrios Patsoukakis (GRE)	5.55 PB
Long jump details	Janis Leitis (LAT)	7.90 PB	(RUS)	7.86	(FIN)	7.85 =PB
Triple jump details	Daniele Greco (ITA)	17.20 PB	(BUL)	16.81	(BLR)	16.80 PB
Shot put details	(RUS)	20.20 PB	(DEN)	18.94 PB	(POL)	18.89 PB
Discus throw details	Nikolay Sedyuk (RUS)	60.80 SB	(UKR)	59.61	Martin Wierig (GER)	59.12
Hammer throw details	Yury Shayunou (BLR)	78.16	(RUS)	72.42	(GER)	72.32
Javelin throw details	Ari Mannio (FIN)	84.57 CR	Petr Frydrych (CZE)	80.53	Spiridon Lebesis (GRE)	79.37 PB
Decathlon details	Eelco Sintnicolaas (NED)	8112 PB	(FRA)	7885	Mihail Dudaš (SRB)	7855 PB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Lina Grincikaitė (LTU)	11.37	Nataliya Pohrebnyak (UKR)	11.45	Marika Popowicz (POL)	11.50
200 metres details	Aleksandra Fedoriva (RUS)	22.97 SB	Ewelina Ptak (POL)	23.07 PB	Marika Popowicz (POL)	23.25
400 metres details	Kseniya Ustalova (RUS)	51.74	Kseniya Zadorina (RUS)	51.76	(RUS)	52.58
800 metres details	Elena Kofanova (RUS)	1:58.94	Nataliya Lupu (UKR)	2:01.08	(POL)	2:01.53 PB
1500 metres details	Sultan Haydar (TUR)	4:14.12	(RUS)	4:14.78	(RUS)	4:15.86
5000 metres details	Natalya Popkova (RUS)	15:54.11	Sviatlana Kudzelich (BLR)	16:03.85	Emily Pidgeon (GBR)	16:04.71 SB
10,000 metres details	Natalya Popkova (RUS)	33:37.31	Zsofia Erdelyi (HUN)	33:39.89 PB	(SRB)	33:47.19 PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Ancuţa Bobocel (ROU)	9:47.90	(GER)	9:57.44	(GER)	10:01.87 PB
100 metres hurdles details	Christina Vukicevic (NOR)	12.99	(RUS)	13.28	Alina Talay (BLR)	13.30
400 metres hurdles details	Perri Shakes-Drayton (GBR)	55.26 PB	Eilidh Child (GBR)	55.32 PB	(RUS)	56.08
20 kilometres walk details	(RUS)	1:33:05	Zuzana Schindlerová (CZE)	1:33:42	Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS)	1:34:13
4 × 100 metres relay details	Annabelle Lewis  Great Britain (GBR)	43.89	Agnieszka Ceglarek Marika Popowicz Weronika Wedler  Poland (POL)	43.90	Lina Andrijauskaitė Sonata Tamošaitytė Lina Grinčikaitė  Lithuania (LTU)	44.09
4 × 400 metres relay details	Kseniya Zadorina Kseniya Vdovina Kseniya Ustalova  Russia (RUS)	3:27.59	Esther Cremer Janin Lindenberg Sorina Nwachukwu  Germany (GER)	3:29.21	Alena Kievich  Belarus (BLR)	3:30.45
High jump details	(RUS)	1.89	Melanie Bauschke (GER)	1.89	(POL)	1.86 PB
Pole vault details	Elisaveta Ryzih (GER)	4.50 =PB	Minna Nikkanen (FIN)	4.45 =PB	Vanessa Vandy (FIN)	4.35
Long jump details	Melanie Bauschke (GER)	6.83 PB	Nastassia Mironchyk (BLR)	6.76	Éloyse Lesueur (FRA)	6.72 SB
Triple jump details	Paraskevi Papachristou (GRE)	14.34 PB	Cristina Bujin (ROU)	14.26 PB	Liliya Kulyk (UKR)	13.88
Shot put details	Denise Hinrichs (GER)	19.18	Irina Tarasova (RUS)	17.90	Alena Kopets (BLR)	17.72
Discus throw details	Eden Francis (GBR)	57.29	Vera Karmishina (RUS)	54.48	Jade Nicholls (GBR)	54.44 PB
Hammer throw details	Zalina Marghieva (MDA)	67.67	Katerina Safrankova (CZE)	63.01	Sarah Holt (GBR)	62.55
Javelin throw details	Madara Palameika (LAT)	64.51 NR CR	Vira Rebryk (UKR)	61.43	Anna Wessman (SWE)	55.91 PB
Heptathlon details	Aiga Grabuste (LAT)	6396 NR	Olga Kurban (RUS)	6205	Nadezhda Sergeeva (RUS)	6118 PB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Lithuania)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	12	8	5	25
2	Great Britain (GBR)	7	6	5	18
3	Germany (GER)	4	4	4	12
4	Poland (POL)	4	3	8	15
5	Latvia (LAT)	3	0	0	3
6	Spain (ESP)	2	1	0	3
7	Turkey (TUR)	2	0	0	2
8	Belarus (BLR)	1	3	4	8
9	France (FRA)	1	3	2	6
10	Italy (ITA)	1	2	1	4
11	Finland (FIN)	1	1	2	4
12	Romania (ROU)	1	1	0	2
13	Greece (GRE)	1	0	2	3
14	Lithuania (LTU)*	1	0	1	2
15	Moldova (MDA)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
18	Ukraine (UKR)	0	6	4	10
19	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	3	1	4
20	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
23	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	2	2
24	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 nations)		44	44	44	132

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 901 athletes from 42 countries participated in the event.

References[]

General

• Butcher, Michael (2009-07-17). European U23 Champs - Day One. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-17.
• Elbendir claims 5000 gold, Kokoyev wins Shot Put on Day 1 in Kaunas^{[permanent dead link]}. European Athletics (2009-07-16). Retrieved on 2009-07-17.
• Butcher, Michael (2009-07-18). European U23 Champs - Day Two (Archived 2009-07-25). IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
• Aikines-Aryeetey leads GB 1-2-3 in 100m final on Day 2 in Kaunas (Archived 2009-07-25). European Athletics (2009-07-17). Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
• Butcher, Michael (2009-07-19). European U23 Champs - Day Three. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
• Poland's Kszczot takes gold ahead of Lewandowski in 800 on Day 3 in Kaunas. European Athletics (2009-07-18). Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
• Butcher, Michael (2009-07-20). European U23 Champs, Final Day. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
• Russia finish top of medal table at European Athletics U23 Championships. European Athletics (2009-07-19). Retrieved on 2009-07-20.

Specific

External links[]

• Results