1997 European Athletics U23 Championships

The 1st European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Turku, Finland on 10–13 July 1997. The competition succeeded the European Athletics U23 Cup, which had been held in 1992 and 1994.

1st European Athletics U23 Championships
Dates	10–13 July 1997
Host city	Turku, Finland
Level	U23
Type	Outdoor
Events	43
Participation	652 athletes from 37 nations
← 1994 Ostrava / Lillehammer 1999 Göteborg →

Complete results and medal winners were published.^[1][2][3][4]

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Angelos Pavlakakis  Greece	10.18	Carlos Calado  Portugal	10.29	Marlon Devonish  Great Britain	10.32
200 metres details	Julian Golding  Great Britain	20.46	Alessandro Attene  Italy	20.68	Ryszard Pilarczyk  Poland	20.87
400 metres details	Mark Hylton  Great Britain	45.71	Piotr Haczek  Poland	45.72	Kjell Provost  Belgium	45.99
800 metres details	Andrea Longo  Italy	1:46.49	André Bucher  Switzerland	1:47.13	Grzegorz Krzosek  Poland	1:47.45
1500 metres details	Reyes Estévez  Spain	3:42.37	Carlos García  Spain	3:43.24	Alexandru Vasile  Romania	3:43.36
5000 metres details	Simone Zanon  Italy	13:45.90	Rachid Berradi  Italy	13:47.08	Sergey Lukin  Russia	13:48.04
10,000 metres details	Rachid Berradi  Italy	28:31.12	Serhiy Lebid  Ukraine	28:39.71	Simone Zanon  Italy	28:56.33
110 metres hurdles details	Frank Busemann  Germany	13.54	Sven Pieters  Belgium	13.56	Andrey Kislykh  Russia	13.56
400 metres hurdles details	Lukáš Souček  Czech Republic	49.08	Marcel Schelbert  Switzerland	49.43	Xavier Ravenet  France	49.63
3000 metres steeplechase details	Luciano Di Pardo  Italy	8:34.24	Vincent Le Dauphin  France	8:36.92	Konstantin Tomskiy  Russia	8:37.81
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain (GBR) Dan Money Marlon Devonish Jamie Henthorn Julian Golding	38.99	Poland (POL) Marcin Krzywański Dariusz Adamczyk Piotr Balcerzak Ryszard Pilarczyk	39.27	Germany (GER) Alexander Kosenkow Eduard Martin Patrik Weimer Uwe Eisenbeis	39.45
4 × 400 metres relay details	Poland (POL) Ryszard Pilarczyk Piotr Długosielski Jacek Bocian Piotr Haczek	3:03.07	Czech Republic (CZE) David Nikodým Lukáš Souček Jan Štejfa Jiří Mužík	3:04.13	Germany (GER) Thomas Goller Maik Liebe Lars Figura Carlos Gachanja	3:04.32
20 kilometres walk details	Aigars Fadejevs  Latvia	1:19:58	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	1:21:59	Artur Meliashkevich  Belarus	1:22:26
High jump details	Staffan Strand  Sweden	2.28	Martin Buß  Germany	2.24	Marcin Kaczocha  Poland	2.24
Pole vault details	Yevgeniy Smiryagin  Russia	5.70	Montxu Miranda  Spain	5.50	Petr Špaček  Czech Republic	5.50
Long jump details	Carlos Calado  Portugal	8.32	Kirill Sosunov  Russia	8.30	Olexiy Lukashevych  Ukraine	8.09
Triple jump details	Vyacheslav Taranov  Russia	16.95	Marat Safiullin  Russia	16.29	Tayo Erogbobgo  Great Britain	16.28
Shot put details	Conny Karlsson  Finland	19.48	Gunnar Pfingsten  Germany	19.11	Andreas Gustafsson  Sweden	19.09
Discus throw details	Andrzej Krawczyk  Poland	59.54	Timo Sinervo  Finland	57.20	Kiril Chuprinin  Ukraine	56.78
Hammer throw details	Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus	77.46	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland	73.68	Nikolay Avlasevich  Belarus	72.40
Javelin throw details	Pietari Skyttä  Finland	81.58	Matti Närhi  Finland	80.72	Christian Nicolay  Germany	78.18
Decathlon details	Klaus Isekenmeier  Germany	7926	Oleksandr Yurkov  Ukraine	7888	Pierre-Alexandre Vial  France	7866

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Nora Ivanova  Bulgaria	11.50	Esther Möller  Germany	11.53	Marie-Joelle Dogbo  France	11.54
200 metres details	Hana Benešová  Czech Republic	22.57	Shanta Ghosh  Germany	22.80	Katia Benth  France	23.19
400 metres details	Allison Curbishley  Great Britain	50.85	Hana Benešová  Czech Republic	51.82	Claudia Angerhausen  Germany	53.45
800 metres details	Irina Nedelenko  Ukraine	2:01.72	Dorota Fiut  Poland	2:02.44	Lyudmila Goncharova  Russia	2:02.72
1500 metres details	Andrea Šuldesová  Czech Republic	4:13.92	Lidia Chojecka  Poland	4:14.70	Natalya Chernyshova  Ukraine	4:15.43
5000 metres details	Oksana Zheleznyak  Russia	15:45.22	Cristina Iloc  Romania	15:46.59	Marta Domínguez  Spain	15:49.96
10,000 metres details	Olivera Jevtić  Serbia and Montenegro	32:44.22	Annemari Sandell  Finland	32:48.57	Stine Larsen  Norway	33:11.09
100 metres hurdles details	Irina Korotya  Russia	12.97	Diane Allahgreen  Great Britain	13.03	Johanna Halkoaho  Finland	13.35
400 metres hurdles details	Rikke Rønholt  Denmark	57.22	Vicki Jamison  Great Britain	57.43	Małgorzata Pskit  Poland	57.68
4 × 100 metres relay details	Germany (GER) Esther Möller Shanta Ghosh Nancy Kette Silke Eichmann	43.94	Russia (RUS) Yelena Tishkova Irina Korotya Olga Maksimova Yuliya Vertyanova	44.41	Italy (ITA) Elena Apollonio Elena Sordelli Manuela Grillo Manuela Levorato	44.73
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain (GBR) Vicki Jamison Jo Sloane Jeina Mitchell Allison Curbishley	3:32.81	Germany (GER) Nicole Marahrens Shanta Ghosh Claudia Gesell Claudia Angerhausen	3:33.77	Czech Republic (CZE) Jitka Burianová Eva Kasalová Andrea Šuldesová Hana Benešová	3:33.83
10 kilometres walk details	Olga Panfyorova  Russia	43:33	María Vasco  Spain	44:01	Susana Feitor  Portugal	44:26
High jump details	Yuliya Lyakhova  Russia	1.97	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	1.93	Daniela Rath  Germany	1.91
Pole vault details	Eszter Szemerédi  Hungary	4.10	Janet Zach  Germany	4.05	Sabine Schulte  Germany Monique de Wilt  Netherlands	3.80
Long jump details	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	6.57	Cristina Nicolau  Romania	6.43	Sofia Schulte  Germany	6.39
Triple jump details	Cristina Nicolau  Romania	14.22	Anja Valant  Slovenia	13.98	Heli Koivula  Finland	13.88
Shot put details	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	18.27	Corrie de Bruin  Netherlands	18.06	Yanina Karolchyk  Belarus	13.98
Discus throw details	Corrie de Bruin  Netherlands	57.72	Kathleen Hering  Germany	56.78	Yanina Karolchyk  Belarus	56.36
Hammer throw details	Mihaela Melinte  Romania	70.26	Simone Mathes  Germany	64.38	Lyn Sprules  Great Britain	61.70
Javelin throw details	Taina Uppa  Finland	56.48	Alina Serdyuk  Belarus	55.56	Merja Pitkänen  Finland	55.24
Heptathlon details	Kathleen Gutjahr  Germany	6130	Yuliya Akulenko  Ukraine	6117	Diana Koritskaya  Russia	6014

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	7	3	5	15
2	Germany	5	8	7	20
3	Great Britain	5	2	3	10
4	Italy	4	2	2	8
5	Finland*	3	3	3	9
6	Czech Republic	3	2	2	7
7	Poland	2	5	4	11
8	Romania	2	2	1	5
9	Spain	1	4	1	6
10	Ukraine	1	3	3	7
11	Belarus	1	1	4	6
12	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
	Portugal	1	1	1	3
	Sweden	1	1	1	3
15	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
	Denmark	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Latvia	1	0	0	1
	Serbia and Montenegro	1	0	0	1
21	Switzerland	0	2	0	2
22	France	0	1	4	5
23	Belgium	0	1	1	2
24	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
25	Norway	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		43	43	44	130

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 652 athletes from 37 countries participated in the event.

•  Albania (2)
•  Armenia (1)
•  Austria (6)
•  Belarus (25)
•  Belgium (10)
•  Bulgaria (6)
•  Croatia (3)
•  Cyprus (5)
•  Czech Republic (22)
•  Denmark (3)
•  Estonia (4)
•  Finland (34)
•  France (47)
•  Germany (55)
•  Great Britain (31)
•  Greece (12)
•  Hungary (27)
•  Iceland (2)
•  Ireland (10)
•  Israel (3)
•  Italy (48)
•  Latvia (7)
•  Lithuania (4)
•  Netherlands (11)
•  Norway (15)
•  Poland (39)
•  Portugal (10)
•  Romania (18)
•  Russia (60)
•  Slovakia (3)
•  Slovenia (9)
•  Spain (36)
•  Sweden (30)
•   Switzerland (10)
•  Turkey (10)
•  Ukraine (27)
•  Yugoslavia (7)