European Athletics U20 Championships

The European Athletics U20 Championships (formerly named the European Athletics Junior Championships up to 2015) are the European championships for athletes who are under-20 athletes, which is the age range recognised by World Athletics as junior athletes. The event is currently organized by the European Athletic Association.

European Athletics U20 Championships
Status	active
Genre	sports event
Date(s)	midyear
Frequency	biennial
Inaugurated	1970
Organised by	European Athletic Association
Website	www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-athletics-u20-championships/
2025

History

Women's 800 meter in heptathlon at the 2015 Championships

The history of the biennial athletics competition stems from the European Junior Games, which was first held in 1964, 1970 to 2015 European Junior Championships and since 2017 European U20 Championships. The event was first sanctioned by the continental governing body, the European Athletic Association at the following edition in 1966 and after a third edition under the games moniker it was renamed to its current title.^[1][2]

Editions

Edition	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	Events	Medals Winner
European Junior Games
—	1964	Warsaw	Poland	18–20 September	10th-Anniversary Stadium	29	Poland
—	1966	Odesa	Soviet Union	24–25 September	Central Stadium Chornomorets	33	Soviet Union
—	1968	Leipzig	East Germany	23–25 August	Zentralstadion	33	Soviet Union
European Junior Championships
1	1970	Paris	France	11–13 September	Stade Olympique de Colombes	35	East Germany
2	1973	Duisburg	Germany	24–26 August	Wedaustadion	36	East Germany
3	1975	Athens	Greece	22–24 August	Karaiskakis Stadium	36	East Germany
4	1977	Donetsk	Soviet Union	19–21 August	RSC Olimpiyskiy	36	East Germany
5	1979	Bydgoszcz	Poland	16–19 August	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium	36	East Germany
6	1981	Utrecht	Netherlands	20–23 August	Atletiekbaan Overvecht	38	East Germany
7	1983	Schwechat	Austria	25–28 August	Rudolf-Tonn-Stadion	38	East Germany
8	1985	Cottbus	East Germany	22–25 August	Max-Reimann-Stadion	39	East Germany
9	1987	Birmingham	United Kingdom	6–9 August	Alexander Stadium	41	East Germany
10	1989	Varaždin	Yugoslavia	24–27 August	Stadion ŠC Sloboda	41	East Germany
11	1991	Thessaloniki	Greece	8–11 August	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	42	Soviet Union
12	1993	San Sebastián	Spain	29 July – 1 August	Anoeta Stadium	41	Great Britain
13	1995	Nyíregyháza	Hungary	27–30 July	Városi Stadion	41	France
14	1997	Ljubljana	Slovenia	24–27 July	Bežigrad Stadium	43	Germany
15	1999	Riga	Latvia	5–8 August	Daugava Stadium	43	Germany
16	2001	Grosseto	Italy	19–22 July	Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini	44	Russia
17	2003	Tampere	Finland	23–27 July	Tampere Stadium	44	Germany
18	2005	Kaunas	Lithuania	21–24 July	S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium	44	Germany
19	2007	Hengelo	Netherlands	19–22 July	Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion	44	Russia
20	2009	Novi Sad	Serbia	23–26 July	Karađorđe Stadium	44	Germany
21	2011	Tallinn	Estonia	21–24 July	Kadriorg Stadium	44	Russia
22	2013	Rieti	Italy	18–21 July	Stadio Raul Guidobaldi	44	Great Britain
23	2015	Eskilstuna	Sweden	16–19 July	Ekängens Friidrottsarena	44	Great Britain
European U20 Championships
24	2017	Grosseto	Italy	20–23 July	Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini	44	Germany
25	2019	Borås	Sweden	18–21 July	Ryavallen	44	Great Britain
26	2021	Tallinn	Estonia	15–18 July	Kadriorg Stadium	44	Great Britain
27	2023	Jerusalem	Israel	7–10 August	Givat Ram Stadium	44	Germany
28	2025	Tampere	Finland	7–10 August	Tampere Stadium	44	Italy
29	2027	Bydgoszcz	Poland	15–18 July	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium	44

Men's Championship records

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Ref.
100 m	10.04 (+0.2 m/s)	Christophe Lemaitre	France	24 July 2009	2009	Novi Sad, Serbia	[3]
200 m	20.33	Ramil Guliyev	Azerbaijan	24 July 2009	2009	Novi Sad, Serbia
400 m	45.36	Roger Black	Great Britain	24 August 1985	1985	Cottbus, East Germany
800 m	1:45.90	Roberto Parra	Spain	29 July 1995	1995	Nyíregyháza, Hungary
1500 m	3:38.96	Graham Williamson	Great Britain	16 August 1979	1979	Bydgoszcz, Poland
3000 m	7:57.18	Rainer Wachenbrunner	East Germany	23 August 1981	1981	Utrecht, Netherlands
5000 m	13:44.37	Steve Binns	Great Britain	18 August 1979	1979	Bydgoszcz, Poland
10,000 m	28:31.16	Ali Kaya	Turkey	18 July 2013	2013	Rieti, Italy	[4]
110 m hurdles (99.0 cm)	13.05 (+0.2 m/s)	Sasha Zhoya	France	17 July 2021	2021	Tallinn, Estonia	[5]
400 m hurdles	48.78	Michal Rada	Czech Republic	9 August 2025	2025	Tampere, Finland
3000 m steeplechase	8:37.94	Ilgizar Safiullin	Russia	24 July 2011	2011	Tallinn, Estonia	[6]
High jump	2.33 m	Maksim Nedasekau	Belarus	22 July 2017	2017	Grosseto, Italy	[7]
Pole vault	5.65 m	Armand Duplantis	Sweden	23 July 2017	2017	Grosseto, Italy	[8]
Long jump	8.23 m (−0.2 m/s)	Mattia Furlani	Italy	8 August 2023	2023	Jerusalem, Israel	[9]
Triple jump	17.04 m (+1.5 m/s)	Nazim Babayev	Azerbaijan	19 July 2015	2015	Eskilstuna, Sweden	[10]
Shot put (6 kg)	22.62 m	Konrad Bukowiecki	Poland	16 July 2015	2015	Eskilstuna, Sweden	[11]
Discus throw (1.75 kg)	68.02 m	Bartłomiej Stój	Poland	19 July 2015	2015	Eskilstuna, Sweden	[12]
Hammer throw (6 kg)	84.73 m	Mykhaylo Kokhan	Ukraine	19 July 2019	2019	Borås, Sweden	[13]
Javelin throw	81.53 m	Zigismunds Sirmais	Latvia	23 July 2011	2011	Tallinn, Estonia	[14]
Decathlon	8514 pts WU20R	Hubert Troscianka	Poland	7–8 August 2025	2025	Tampere, Finland
	100m Long jump Shot put High jump 400m 110m H Discus Pole vault Javelin 1500m 10.74 (−0.7 m/s) 7.26 m (+0.3 m/s) 15.48 m 1.94 m 46.21 14.23 (−2.0 m/s) 43.36 m 4.80 m 68.87 m 4:28:59
10,000 m walk (track)	39:10.04	Joan Querol Serrano	Spain	10 August 2025	2025	Tampere, Finland
4 × 100 m relay	39.24	Tyrone Edgar Dwayne Grant Tim Benjamin Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	22 July 2001	2001	Grosseto, Italy
4 × 400 m relay	3:04.58	Uwe Preusche Frank Löper Eckard Trylus Jens Carlowitz	East Germany	23 August 1981	1981	Utrecht, Netherlands

Decathlon disciplines best

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Championships	Place	Ref.
100 m	10.31 (+3.5 m/s)	Roko Farkaš	Croatia	9 August 2023	2023	Jerusalem, Israel
Long jump	7.73 m (+1.8 m/s)	Ladji Doucouré	France	19 July 2001	2001	Grosseto, Italy
Shot put	16.68 m	Ludovic Besson [fr]	France	22 July 2017	2017	Grosseto, Italy
High jump	2.17 m	Mauri Kaattari [fi]	Finland	21 July 2005	2005	Kaunas, Lithuania
400 m	46.21	Hubert Troscianka	Poland	7 August 2025	2025	Tampere, Finland
110 m hurdles	13.57 (−0.1 m/s)	Simon Ehammer	Switzerland	20 July 2019	2019	Borås, Sweden
Discus throw	54.75 m	Jan Doležal	Czech Republic	19 July 2015	2015	Eskilstuna, Sweden
Pole vault	5.10 m	Amadeus Gräber	Germany	10 August 2023	2023	Jerusalem, Israel
Javelin throw	68.87	Hubert Troscianka	Poland	8 August 2025	2025	Tampere, Finland
1500 m	4:09.09	Benjamin Fenrich	France	24 July 2009	2009	Novi Sad, Serbia

Women's championship records

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Ref.
100 m	11.18 (+0.5 m/s)	Jodie Williams	Great Britain	22 July 2011	2011	Tallinn, Estonia	[15]
200 m	22.85	Bärbel Eckert	East Germany	26 August 1973	1973	Duisburg, West Germany
400 m	51.27	Christina Brehmer	East Germany	23 August 1975	1975	Athens, Greece
800 m	2:00.25	Katrin Wühn	East Germany	27 August 1983	1983	Schwechat, Austria
1500 m	4:07.47	Inger Knutsson	Sweden	26 August 1973	1973	Duisburg, West Germany
3000 m	8:46.39	Innes FitzGerald	United Kingdom	10 August 2025	2025	Tampere, Finland
5000 m	15:03.85	Agate Caune	Latvia	10 August 2023	2023	Jerusalem, Israel	[16]
100 m hurdles	13.09	Olena Ovcharova	Ukraine	28 July 1995	1995	Nyíregyháza, Hungary
400 m hurdles	55.55	Alexandra Stefania Uta	Romania	9 August 2025	2025	Tampere, Finland
3000 m steeplechase	9:43.69	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway	26 July 2009	2009	Novi Sad, Serbia
High jump	1.95 m	Yelena Yelesina	Soviet Union	27 August 1989	1989	Varaždin, Yugoslavia
		Maria Kuchina	Russia	24 July 2011	2011	Tallinn, Estonia	[17]
Pole vault	4.57 m	Angelica Bengtsson	Sweden	23 July 2011	2011	Tallinn, Estonia	[18]
Long jump	6.80 m (+0.3 m/s)	Darya Klishina	Russia	24 July 2009	2009	Novi Sad, Serbia	[3]
Triple jump	14.24 m (±0.0 m/s)	Erika Saraceni	Italy	8 August 2025	2025	Tampere, Finland
Shot put	19.53 m	Astrid Kumbernuss	East Germany	25 August 1989	1989	Varaždin, Yugoslavia
Discus throw	70.58 m	Ilke Wyludda	East Germany	8 August 1987	1987	Birmingham, United Kingdom
Hammer throw	71.06 m	Silja Kosonen	Finland	17 July 2021	2021	Tallinn, Estonia	[5]
Javelin throw	61.52	Nikolett Szabo	Hungary	8 August 1999	1999	Riga, Latvia
Heptathlon	6465 pts	Sybille Thiele	East Germany	28 August 1983	1983	Schwechat, Austria
	100m H High jump Shot put 200m Long jump Javelin 800m 13.49 1.90 m 14.63 m 24.07 6.65 m 36.22 m 2:18.36
10,000 m walk (track)	42:59.48	Elena Lashmanova	Russia	21 July 2011	2011	Tallinn, Estonia	[19]
4 × 100 m relay	43.27 WJR	Katrin Fehm Keshia Kwadwo Sophia Junk Jennifer Montag	Germany	23 July 2017	2017	Grosseto, Italy	[20]
4 × 400 m relay	3:30.39	Cornelia Feuerbach Carola Witzel Ines Vogelgesang Heike Böhme	East Germany	23 August 1981	1981	Utrecht, Netherlands

Heptathlon disciplines best

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Championships	Place	Ref.
100m hurdles
High jump	1.92	Jana Koscak	Croatia	9 August 2025	2025	Tampere, Finland
Shot put
200m
Long jump
Javelin
800m	2:09.80

All-time medal table

European U20/Junior Championships Medal table includes 1970–2025 Championships. Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1  East Germany (GDR) 146 90 60 296 2  Great Britain (GBR) 140 107 122 369 3  Germany (GER) 106 105 100 311 4  Soviet Union (URS) 83 102 88 273 5  Russia (RUS) 80 77 61 218 6  France (FRA) 58 74 82 214 7  Poland (POL) 54 61 69 184 8  Italy (ITA) 41 45 68 154 9  Romania (ROU) 38 42 31 111 10  Spain (ESP) 37 29 54 120 11  West Germany (FRG) 31 47 42 120 12  Sweden (SWE) 30 25 25 80 13  Ukraine (UKR) 29 22 26 77 14  Finland (FIN) 28 36 35 99 15  Netherlands (NED) 25 31 24 80 16  Hungary (HUN) 19 24 23 66 17  Turkey (TUR) 18 20 15 53 18  Czech Republic (CZE) 17 14 22 53 19  Belarus (BLR) 16 25 21 62 20  Belgium (BEL) 16 15 19 50 21  Bulgaria (BUL) 15 27 26 68 22  Norway (NOR) 14 19 12 45 23  Switzerland (SUI) 14 14 13 41 24  Croatia (CRO) 11 7 8 26 25  Ireland (IRL) 10 8 7 25 26  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 10 5 11 26 27  Greece (GRE) 9 11 12 32 28  Latvia (LAT) 8 9 9 26 29  Portugal (POR) 7 9 7 23 30  Serbia (SRB) 6 6 3 15 –  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) 6 3 3 12 31  Denmark (DEN) 5 6 10 21 32  Estonia (EST) 5 2 8 15 33  Austria (AUT) 4 5 10 19 34  Azerbaijan (AZE) 4 4 1 9 35  Slovenia (SLO) 3 7 2 12 36  Yugoslavia (YUG) 2 8 7 17 37  Lithuania (LTU) 2 4 2 8 38  Cyprus (CYP) 2 2 1 5 39  Slovakia (SVK) 1 3 6 10 40  Iceland (ISL) 1 1 2 4 41  Moldova (MDA) 1 1 1 3 42  Israel (ISR) 1 0 1 2 43  Armenia (ARM) 1 0 0 1  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) 1 0 0 1  Kosovo (KOS) 1 0 0 1 46  Montenegro (MNE) 0 2 1 3 47  Albania (ALB) 0 2 0 2 48  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) 0 1 1 2 49  Luxembourg (LUX) 0 1 0 1 Totals (49 entries) 1,156 1,158 1,151 3,465 Source:

European Junior Games Medal table includes 1964–1968 Championships. Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1  Soviet Union (URS) 35 31 19 85 2  East Germany (GDR) 20 21 19 60 3  Poland (POL) 10 11 16 37 4  West Germany (FRG) 5 9 0 14 5  Romania (ROU) 4 5 9 18 6  Sweden (SWE) 4 2 3 9 7  France (FRA) 3 3 4 10 8  Hungary (HUN) 3 1 5 9 9  Yugoslavia (YUG) 2 2 4 8 10  Finland (FIN) 2 1 1 4  Italy (ITA) 2 1 1 4 12  Switzerland (SUI) 2 0 0 2 13  Bulgaria (BUL) 1 3 5 9  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 1 3 5 9 15  Belgium (BEL) 1 0 1 2 16  Greece (GRE) 0 1 1 2  Netherlands (NED) 0 1 1 2 18  Denmark (DEN) 0 0 1 1 Totals (18 entries) 95 95 95 285

See also

• IAAF World U20 Championships