1997 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres event at the 1997 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Turku, Finland, on 10 and 11 July 1997.

Medalists

Gold	Ángelos Pavlakakis Greece
Silver	Carlos Calado Portugal
Bronze	Marlon Devonish Great Britain

Results

Final

11 July
Wind: 2.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ángelos Pavlakakis	Greece	10.18 w
	Carlos Calado	Portugal	10.29 w
	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	10.32 w
4	Gábor Dobos	Hungary	10.36 w
5	Patrik Lövgren	Sweden	10.42 w
6	Jamie Henthorn	Great Britain	10.46 w
7	Marcin Krzywański	Poland	10.57 w
8	Ivan Šlehobr	Czech Republic	10.59 w

Semifinals

10 July
Qualified: first 4 in each to the Final

Semifinal 1

Wind: 1.5 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ángelos Pavlakakis	Greece	10.35	Q
2	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	10.36	Q
3	Gábor Dobos	Hungary	10.40	Q
4	Marcin Krzywański	Poland	10.47	Q
5	David Patros	France	10.50
6	Patrick Weimer	Germany	10.51
7	Mário Barbosa	Portugal	10.63
8	Petko Yankov	Bulgaria	16.16

Semifinal 2

Wind: 3.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Carlos Calado	Portugal	10.25 w	Q
2	Patrik Lövgren	Sweden	10.31 w	Q
3	Jamie Henthorn	Great Britain	10.32 w	Q
4	Ivan Šlehobr	Czech Republic	10.36 w	Q
5	Leonard Koryukov	Russia	10.39 w
6	Jérôme Éyana	France	10.43 w
7	Piotr Balcerzak	Poland	10.44 w
8	Cédric Grand	Switzerland	10.47 w

Heats

10 July
Qualified: first 3 in each heat and 4 best to the Semifinal

Heat 1

Wind: 0.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Carlos Calado	Portugal	10.32	Q
2	Piotr Balcerzak	Poland	10.42	Q
3	Patrik Lövgren	Sweden	10.46	Q
4	Leonard Koryukov	Russia	10.50	q
5	Diego Santos	Spain	10.71
6	Tommy Kafri	Israel	10.77
7	Francesco Scuderi	Italy	10.78
8	Vegar Hollas	Norway	10.96

Heat 2

Wind: -1.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	10.43	Q
2	Patrick Weimer	Germany	10.47	Q
3	Marcin Krzywański	Poland	10.55	Q
4	Jérôme Éyana	France	10.61	q
5	Niklas Sjöstrand	Sweden	10.68
6	Gabriele Carubini	Italy	10.72
7	Hans-Peter Welz	Austria	10.95
8	Christos Magos	Greece	11.36

Heat 3

Wind: 0.6 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gábor Dobos	Hungary	10.50	Q
2	Ángelos Pavlakakis	Greece	10.53	Q
3	Cédric Grand	Switzerland	10.57	Q
4	Mário Barbosa	Portugal	10.60	q
5	Martin Duda	Czech Republic	10.62
6	Gabriel Burtea	Romania	10.62
7	Thomas Mellin-Olsen	Norway	10.69
8	Uwe Eisenbeis	Germany	10.70

Heat 4

Wind: -0.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ivan Šlehobr	Czech Republic	10.50	Q
2	Jamie Henthorn	Great Britain	10.52	Q
3	David Patros	France	10.54	Q
4	Petko Yankov	Bulgaria	10.56	q
5	José Illán	Spain	10.61
6	Vitaly Seniv	Ukraine	10.72
	Sergey Slukin	Russia	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

• Austria (1)
• Bulgaria (1)
• Czech Republic (2)
• France (2)
• Germany (2)

• Great Britain (2)
• Greece (2)
• Hungary (1)
• Israel (1)
• Italy (2)

• Norway (2)
• Poland (2)
• Portugal (2)
• Romania (1)
• Russia (2)

• Spain (2)
• Sweden (2)
• Switzerland (1)
• Ukraine (1)