1968 European Junior Games

1968 European Junior Games
1968 European Junior Games
Level	Under 20
Events	33
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The 1968 European Junior Games was the third edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was the final edition of the competition under that name and was succeeded by the European Athletics Junior Championships in 1970. The event was held in Leipzig, East Germany, between 23 and 25 August.^[1] The competition was mainly between Eastern European countries, with Belgium, Austria, Netherlands and Greece being present from the west.

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	10.4	Tamás Szabó (ROM)	10.5	Aleksandr Kornelyuk (URS)	10.6
200 metres	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	21.0	Mikhail Lebedev (URS)	21.5	Michel Mahy (BEL)	21.7
400 metres	Michel Mahy (BEL)	47.5	Aleksandr Kucheryavy (URS)	47.9	Vladimir Nosenko (URS)	48.2
800 metres	Reinhard Dominik (GDR)	1:51.6	Anatoliy Goncharov (URS)	1:52.2	Krzysztof Linkowski (POL)	1:52.4
1500 metres	Uwe Schneider (GDR)	3:53.3	Bernd Exner (GDR)	3:54.0	Milisav Andelov (YUG)	3:54.6
3000 metres	Ion Dima (ROM)	8:13.4	Wilfried Scholz (GDR)	8:15.6	Viktor Kuznetsov (URS)	8:18.0
110 m hurdles	Yevgeniy Mazepa (URS)	14.3	Frank Siebeck (GDR)	14.5	Anatoliy Moshiashvili (URS)	14.7
400 m hurdles	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko (URS)	51.6	Michael Schulze (GDR)	53.1	Dmitriy Stukalov (URS)	53.2
1500 m s'chase	Nikolay Bakhlanov (URS)	4:05.0	Petre Lupan (ROM)	4:05.0	Petko Georgiev (BUL)	4:05.2
10,000 m walk	Joachim Dumke (GDR)	44:48.0	Frank Donner (GDR)	44:50.0	Algis Lebedzhus (URS)	45:31.6
4 × 100 m relay	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Kornelyuk Mikhail Lebedev Valeriy Borzov Sergey Korovin	40.4	East Germany (GDR) Jürgen Rutz Horst Hauptmann Gerhard Lühnenschloss Detlev Beckmann	41.3	Poland (POL) Witold Fortuniak Mirosław Muzolf Wiktor Godlewski Bogdan Grzejszczak	41.8
4 × 400 m relay	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Volchok Yevgeniy Skakun Vladimir Nosenko Aleksandr Kucheryavy	3:12.3	East Germany (GDR) Jürgen Laser Lothar Krohn Andreas Scheibe Detlef Lindner	3:12.6	Poland (POL) Jan Pech Krzysztof Linkowski Wojciech Brociak Krzysztof Miros	3:16.0
Pole vault	Yury Isakov (URS)	4.70	Vladimir Kishkun (URS)	4.60	Pawel Iwiński (POL)	4.40
High jump	Aleksandr Shigin (URS)	2.10	Ioánnis Kousoulas (GRE)	2.10	Rustam Akhmetov (URS)	2.04
Long jump	Mikhail Bariban (URS)	7.78	Ulrich Lampe (GDR)	7.44	Laimonis Magone (URS)	7.44
Triple jump	Mikhail Bariban (URS)	15.94	Stanislav Kolesnikov (URS)	15.46 w	Andreas Baraktiaris (GRE)	15.36
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	18.71	Peter Hlawatschke (GDR)	17.02	Arûnas Vaitkevicius (URS)	16.90
Discus throw	Hans-Jürgen Jacobi (GDR)	54.22	Viktor Zhurba (URS)	51.64	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	49.20
Javelin throw (old model)	Andrzej Szajda (POL)	68.52	Jonas Dobrila (URS)	68.36	Edmund Berdziński (POL)	68.02
Hammer throw	Peter Przesdzing (GDR)	61.76	Vladimir Tretyak (URS)	61.32	Igor Sovpel (URS)	59.08
Decathlon	Leonid Lytvynenko (URS)	7434	Stefan Junge (GDR)	7319	Manfred Apt (GDR)	7012

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lyudmila Zharkova (URS)	11.5	Renate Meissner (GDR)	11.6	Mariana Goth (ROM)	11.6
200 metres	Lyudmila Zharkova (URS)	23.9	Renate Meissner (GDR)	23.9	Mariana Goth (ROM)	24.0
400 metres	Waltraud Birnbaum (GDR)	54.0	Raisa Nikanorova (URS)	54.4	Mariana Filip (ROM)	55.4
800 metres	Barbara Wieck (GDR)	2:06.3	Waltraud Pöhland (GDR)	2:07.7	Nijole Sabaite (URS)	2:10.1
80 m hurdles	Anneliese Jahns (GDR)	11.1	Emina Pilav (YUG)	11.2	Ewa Balcerzyk (POL)	11.2
4 × 100 m relay	Soviet Union (URS) Raisa Nikanorova Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Marina Nikiforova Lyudmila Zharkova	45.3	East Germany (GDR) Bärbel Schrickel Renate Meissner Marion Wagner Gabriele Zindler	45.8	Poland (POL) Krystyna Mandecka Urszula Soszka Danuta Kopa Elżbieta Nowak	46.6
High jump	Elke Kalliwoda (GDR)	1.72	Nina Brintseva (URS)	1.72	Katya Lazova (BUL)	1.72
Long jump	Tatyana Bychkova (URS)	6.18	Natalya Kostugina (URS)	6.15	Kristina Ziegler (GDR)	6.07
Shot put	Elvira Syromyatnikova (URS)	15.02	Leana Matthes (GDR)	13.60	Dora Topuskova (BUL)	13.59
Discus throw	Svetlana Vedeneyeva (URS)	45.94	Svetla Bozhkova (BUL)	45.46	Jutta Knobloch (GDR)	45.08
Javelin throw (old model)	Serafina Moritz (ROM)	51.10	Cecylia Bajer (POL)	50.78	Marion Steiner (GDR)	48.72
Pentathlon	Burglinde Pollak (GDR)	4717	Tatyana Bychkova (URS)	4582	Cornelia Popescu (ROM)	4460

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	18	12	11	41
2	East Germany (GDR)	11	15	5	31
3	Romania (ROM)	2	2	4	8
4	Poland (POL)	1	1	7	9
5	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	1	2
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	3	4
7	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
7	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	1	2
Totals (8 entries)		33	33	33	99

1968 European Junior Games

Men's results

Women's results

Medal table

Participation

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