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	Piotr Berestiuk Poland	20.91	Mark Findlay Great Britain	20.99
400 m	David Canal Spain	46.04	Periklis Iakovakis Greece	46.68	David Naismith Great Britain	47.11
800 m	Nils Schumann Germany	1:51.00	Robert Neryng Poland	1:51.45	Roman Oravec Czech Republic	1:51.51
1500 m	Gert-Jan Liefers Netherlands	3:46.91	Benjamin Hetzler Germany	3:48.15	Gareth Turnbull Ireland	3:48.16
5000 m	Bouabdellah Tahri France	14:25.71	Ferenc Békési Hungary	14:27.87	Juan Carlos Higuero Spain	14:31.79
10,000 m	Ovidiu Tat 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	Antonio Martínez Spain	8:56.60
110 m hurdles	Tomasz Ścigaczewski Poland	13.55	Stanislavs Olijars Latvia	13.74	Jan Schindzielorz Germany	14.10
400 m hurdles	Boris Gorban Russia	50.95	Aljoscha Nemitz Germany	51.08	Boris Vazovan Slovakia	51.26
4×100 metres relay	Great Britain Uvie Ugono Mark Findlay Christian Malcolm Dwain Chambers	39.62	France Vincent Caure Frédéric Krantz Didier Héry Dimitri Demoniere	39.89	Germany Thomas Hüttinger Tim Studzinski Thomas Zeimentz Jirka Zapletal	40.26
4×400 metres relay	Spain Adrián Fernández Luis María Flores Alberto Martínez David Canal	3:08.18	Greece Evággelos Moustakidis Yeóryios Ikonomídis Ioánnis Lessis Periklis Iakovakis	3:08.29	Great Britain Lee Black Michael Parper Mark Rowlands David Naismith	3:08.97
10,000 m walk	Andrea Manfredini Italy	42:43.75	André Höhne Germany	43:00.71	Martin Pupiš 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	Christian Linskey 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	Eduardo Pérez 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	Patrick Stang Germany	53.02 m	Zoltán Kővágó Hungary	52.90 m
Hammer throw	Maciej Pałyszko Poland	74.12 m	Sergey Martemyanov Belarus	70.62 m	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen Finland	69.84 m
Javelin throw	Adrian Markowski Poland	78.42 m	Juha Aarnio Finland	77.60 m	Christian Fusenig Germany	75.86 m
Decathlon	Chiel Warners Netherlands	7664 pts	Steffen Munz Germany	7258 pts	Sebastian Knabe Germany	7218 pts

Women's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Johanna Manninen Finland	11.39	Agné Visockaité Lithuania	11.42	Erica Marchetti 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	Cindy Éga France	53.17
800 m	Anca Safta Romania	2:03.47	Aleksandra Dereń Poland	2:03.70	Miriam Mašeková Slovakia	2:06.17
1500 m	Natalya Yevdokimova Ukraine	4:23.34	Małgorzata Bury Poland	4:24.37	Ljiljana Ćulibrk Croatia	4:24.75
3000 m	Laura Suffa Germany	9:13.44	Sonja Stolić Yugoslavia	9:15.45	Sandra Levenez France	9:15.61
5000 m	Katalin Szentgyörgyi Hungary	16:38.73	Tatyana Gerasimova Russia	16:39.31	Ionela Bungardean Romania	16:39.97
100 m hurdles	Tatyana Mishakova Russia	13.49	Éva Miklós Romania	13.81	Hanna Korell Finland	13.92
400 m hurdles	Florence Delaune France	57.91	Thelma Joziasse Netherlands	58.65	Medina Tudor Romania	58.85
4×100 metres relay	Germany Anne Reucher Marion Wagner Alice Reuss Sabrina Mulrain	44.24	Great Britain Rebecca Drummond Sarah Wilhelmy Melanie Purkiss Tatum Nelson	45.55	Poland Ewa Klarecka Agnieszka Rysiukiewicz Monika Giemzo Anna Pacholak	45.59
4×400 metres relay	France Katiana Rene Florence Delaune Sylvanie Morandais Cindy Ega	3:33.73	Hungary Enikő Szabó Renata Balazsic Krisztina Doma Barbara Petráhn	3:34.90	Germany Kerstin Seitz Jennifer Vollrath Doreen Harstick Claudia Marx	3:34.94
5000 m walk	Claudia Iovan Romania	21:15.99	Lyudmila Dedekina Russia	21:42.21	Lyudmila Yefimkina 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	Monika Erlach Austria	3.95 m
Long jump	Aurélie Félix France	6.52 m	Sandra Stube Germany	6.50 m	Olivia Wöckinger Austria	6.47 m
Triple jump	Adelina Gavrilă Romania	13.58 m	Marija Martinović Yugoslavia	13.54 m	Diana Nikitina Estonia	13.45 m
Shot put	Yelena Ivanenko Belarus	17.05 m	Nadine Banse Germany	16.60 m	Assunta Legnante Italy	16.18 m
Discus throw	Lacramioara Ionescu Romania	52.54 m	Satu Järvenpää 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	Saskia Meijer Netherlands	5882 pts	Yelena Chernyavskaya 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	Greece (GRE)	0	2	0	2
	Yugoslavia (FR Yugoslavia)	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 entries)		43	43	43	129

References

• Results - GBR Athletics
• Results - GBR Athletics