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.

Men's Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (GBR)	10.15 SB	Leevan Yearwood (GBR)	10.26 SB	Rion Pierre (GBR)	10.28 SB
200 m	Toby Sandeman (GBR)	20.37 PB	Aleixo Platini Menga (GER)	20.59	Ihor Bodrov (UKR)	20.61 PB
400 m	Yannick Fonsat (FRA)	45.68 PB	Nigel Levine (GBR)	45.78 PB	Jan Ciepiela (POL)	45.81 PB
800 m	Adam Kszczot (POL)	1:45.81	Marcin Lewandowski (POL)	1:46.52	Robin Schembera (GER)	1:46.63
1500 m	Ivan Tukhtachev (RUS)	3:51.19	James Brewer (GBR)	3:51.33	Jakub Holuša (CZE)	3:51.46
5000 m	Mohamed Elbendir (ESP)	13:55.10	Noureddine Smaïl (FRA)	13:59.23 SB	David McCarthy (IRL)	14:00.78
10 000 m	Selim Bayrak (TUR)	29:47.15	Andrea Lalli (ITA)	29:49.80	Dmytro Lashyn (UKR)	30:08.44
3000 m steeplechase	Aleksandr Pavelyev (RUS)	8:40.55	José Luis Galván (ESP)	8:41.53 PB	Krystian Zalewski (POL)	8:42.06 PB
110 m hurdles	Artur Noga (POL)	13.47	Gianni Frankis (GBR)	13.57 PB	Callum Priestley (GBR)	13.63 PB
400 m hurdles	Lloyd Gumbs (GBR)	49.62 PB	Stanislav Melnykov (UKR)	49.88	Vincent Vanryckeghem (BEL)	49.90 PB
20 km walk	Miguel Ángel López (ESP)	1:22:23 PB	Dzianis Simanovich (BLR)	1:22:57	Matteo Giupponi (ITA)	1:23:00 PB
4 x 100 m relay	Ryan Scott Toby Sandeman Rion Pierre Leevan Yearwood Great Britain (GBR)	39.09	Emmanuel Biron Mickael Arminana Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux Teddy Tinmar France (FRA)	39.26	Kamil Krynski Artur Zaczek Olaf Paruzel Jakub Adamski Poland (POL)	39.52
4 x 400 m relay	Marcin Sobiech Jakub Krzewina Michal Pietrzak Jan Ciepiela Lukasz Krawczuk Sebastian Porzadny Poland (POL)	3:03.74	Marco Vistalli Isalbet Juarez Domenico Fontana Matteo Galvan Italy (ITA)	3:03.79	Bruno Naprix Mame-Ibra Anne Yoan Decimus Yannick Fonsat Abdesslam Merabet Adrien Clemenceau France (FRA)	3:04.06
High jump	Sylwester Bednarek (POL)	2.28 PB	Oleksandr Nartov (UKR)	2.26	Andriy Protsenko (UKR)	2.24 =SB
Pole vault	Raphael Holzdeppe (GER)	5.65 SB	Luke Cutts (GBR)	5.60 PB	Dimitrios Patsoukakis (GRE)	5.55 PB
Long jump	Janis Leitis (LAT)	7.90 PB	Pavel Karavayev (RUS)	7.86	Mikko Kivinen (FIN)	7.85 =PB
Triple jump	Daniele Greco (ITA)	17.20 PB	Zhivko Petkov (BUL)	16.81	Aliaksandr Liabedzka (BLR)	16.80 PB
Shot put	Valeriy Kokoyev (RUS)	20.20 PB	Nick Petersen (DEN)	18.94 PB	Mateusz Mikos (POL)	18.89 PB
Discus	Nikolay Sedyuk (RUS)	60.80 SB	Ivan Hryshyn (UKR)	59.61	Martin Wierig (GER)	59.12
Hammer	Yury Shayunou (BLR)	78.16	Anatoliy Pozdnyakov (RUS)	72.42	Alexander Ziegler (GER)	72.32
Javelin	Ari Mannio (FIN)	84.57 CR	Petr Frydrych (CZE)	80.53	Spiridon Lebesis (GRE)	79.37 PB
Decathlon	Eelco Sintnicolaas (NED)	8112 PB	Mateo Sossah (FRA)	7885	Mihail Dudas (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 m	Lina Grincikaitė (LTU)	11.37	Natalia Pohrebniak (UKR)	11.45	Marika Popowicz (POL)	11.50
200 m	Aleksandra Fedoriva (RUS)	22.97 SB	Ewelina Ptak (POL)	23.07 PB	Marika Popowicz (POL)	23.25
400 m	Kseniya Ustalova (RUS)	51.74	Kseniya Zadorina (RUS)	51.76	Anna Sedova (RUS)	52.58
800 m	Yelena Kofanova (RUS)	1:58.94	Nataliya Lupu (UKR)	2:01.08	Agnieszka Leszczynska (POL)	2:01.53 PB
1500 m	Sultan Haydar (TUR)	4:14.12	Kristina Khalayeva (RUS)	4:14.78	Yelena Fesenko (RUS)	4:15.86
5000 m	Natalya Popkova (RUS)	15:54.11	Sviatlana Kudzelich (BLR)	16:03.85	Emily Pidgeon (GBR)	16:04.71 SB
10 000 m	Natalya Popkova (RUS)	33:37.31	Zsofia Erdelyi (HUN)	33:39.89 PB	Azra Eminovic (SRB)	33:47.19 PB
3000 m steeplechase	Ancuţa Bobocel (ROU)	9:47.90	Julia Hiller (GER)	9:57.44	Susanne Lutz (GER)	10:01.87 PB
100 m hurdles	Christina Vukicevic (NOR)	12.99	Yekaterina Shtepa (RUS)	13.28	Alina Talai (BLR)	13.30
400 m hurdles	Perri Shakes-Drayton (GBR)	55.26 PB	Eilidh Child (GBR)	55.32 PB	Darya Korableva (RUS)	56.08
20 km walk	Yelena Shumkina (RUS)	1:33:05	Zuzana Schindlerová (CZE)	1:33:42	Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS)	1:34:13
4 x 100 m relay	Annabelle Lewis Joey Duck Lucy Sargent Elaine O'Neill Great Britain (GBR)	43.89	Agnieszka Ceglarek Marika Popowicz Milena Pedziwiatr Weronika Wedler Poland (POL)	43.90	Silvija Peseckaite Lina Andrijauskaitė Sonata Tamošaitytė Lina Grinčikaitė Lithuania (LTU)	44.09
4 x 400 m relay	Anna Sedova Kseniya Zadorina Kseniya Vdovina Kseniya Ustalova Lyudmila Mochalina Russia (RUS)	3:27.59	Esther Cremer Jill Richards Janin Lindenberg Sorina Nwachukwu Lena Schmidt Germany (GER)	3:29.21	Maryna Liboza Katsiaryna Mishyna Hanna Tashpulatava Alena Kievich Maryia Kavaliova Belarus (BLR)	3:30.45
High jump	Aleksandra Shamsutdinova (RUS)	1.89	Melanie Bauschke (GER)	1.89	Urszula Domel (POL)	1.86 PB
Pole vault	Elisaveta Ryzih (GER)	4.50 =PB	Minna Nikkanen (FIN)	4.45 =PB	Vanessa Vandy (FIN)	4.35
Long jump	Melanie Bauschke (GER)	6.83 PB	Nastassia Mironchyk (BLR)	6.76	Éloyse Lesueur (FRA)	6.72 SB
Triple jump	Paraskevi Papachristou (GRE)	14.34 PB	Cristina Bujin (ROU)	14.26 PB	Liliya Kulyk (UKR)	13.88
Shot put	Denise Hinrichs (GER)	19.18	Irina Tarasova (RUS)	17.90	Alena Kopets (BLR)	17.72
Discus	Eden Francis (GBR)	57.29	Vera Karmishina (RUS)	54.48	Jade Nicholls (GBR)	54.44 PB
Hammer	Zalina Marghieva (MDA)	67.67	Katerina Safrankova (CZE)	63.01	Sarah Holt (GBR)	62.55
Javelin	Madara Palameika (LAT)	64.51 NR CR	Vira Rebryk (UKR)	61.43	Anna Wessman (SWE)	55.91 PB
Heptathlon	Aiga Grabuste (LAT)	6396 NR	Olga Kurban (RUS)	6205	Nadezhda Sergeyeva (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

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
15	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
15	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
20	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
20	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
23	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	2	2
24	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
24	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
24	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Total		44	44	44	132

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. 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

• Official website