2009 European Athletics U23 Championships

7th European Athletics U23 Championships
Host city Kaunas, Lithuania
Date(s) 16 - 19 July 2009
Main stadium S. Dariaus ir S. Girėno stadionas (Darius and Girėnas Stadium)
Level U23
Type Outdoor
Participation 901 athletes from
42 nations
Events 44


2009 European Athletics U23 Championships

The 7th European Athletics U23 Championships were held between 16 and 19 July 2009 in the S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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

Men's results

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (GBR) 10.15 SB  Leevan Yearwood (GBR) 10.26 SB  Rion Pierre (GBR) 10.28 SB
200 metres
 Toby Sandeman (GBR) 20.37 PB  Aleixo-Platini Menga (GER) 20.59  Ihor Bodrov (UKR) 20.61 PB
400 metres
 Yannick Fonsat (FRA) 45.68 PB  Nigel Levine (GBR) 45.78 PB  Jan Ciepiela (POL) 45.81 PB
800 metres
 Adam Kszczot (POL) 1:45.81  Marcin Lewandowski (POL) 1:46.52  Robin Schembera (GER) 1:46.63
1500 metres
 Ivan Tukhtachev (RUS) 3:51.19  James Brewer (GBR) 3:51.33  Jakub Holuša (CZE) 3:51.46
5000 metres
 Mohamed Elbendir (ESP) 13:55.10  Noureddine Smaïl (FRA) 13:59.23 SB  David McCarthy (IRL) 14:00.78
10,000 metres
 Selim Bayrak (TUR) 29:47.15  Andrea Lalli (ITA) 29:49.80  Dmytro Lashyn (UKR) 30:08.44
3000 metres steeplechase
 Aleksandr Pavelyev (RUS) 8:40.55  José Luis Galván (ESP) 8:41.53 PB  Krystian Zalewski (POL) 8:42.06 PB
110 metres hurdles
 Artur Noga (POL) 13.47  Gianni Frankis (GBR) 13.57 PB  Callum Priestley (GBR) 13.63 PB
400 metres hurdles
 Lloyd Gumbs (GBR) 49.62 PB  Stanislav Melnykov (UKR)49.88  Vincent Vanryckeghem (BEL) 49.90 PB
20 kilometres walk
 Miguel Ángel López (ESP) 1:22:23 PB  Dzianis Simanovich (BLR) 1:22:57  Matteo Giupponi (ITA) 1:23:00 PB
4 × 100 metres relay
Ryan Scott
Toby Sandeman
Rion Pierre
Leevan Yearwood
 Great Britain (GBR)
39.09 Emmanuel Biron
Mickael Arminana
Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux
Teddy Tinmar
 France (FRA)
39.26 Kamil Kryński
Artur Zaczek
Olaf Paruzel
Jakub Adamski
 Poland (POL)
39.52
4 × 400 metres relay
Marcin Sobiech
Jakub Krzewina
Michał Pietrzak
Jan Ciepiela
Łukasz Krawczuk
Sebastian Porządny
 Poland (POL)
3:03.74 Marco Vistalli
Isalbet Juarez
Domenico Fontana
Matteo Galvan
 Italy (ITA)
3:03.79 Bruno Naprix
Mame-Ibra Anne
Yoann Décimus
Yannick Fonsat
Abdesslam Merabet
Adrien Clemenceau
 France (FRA)
3:04.06
High jump
 Sylwester Bednarek (POL) 2.28 PB  Oleksandr Nartov (UKR)2.26  Andriy Protsenko (UKR) 2.24 =SB
Pole vault
 Raphael Holzdeppe (GER) 5.65 SB  Luke Cutts (GBR)5.60 PB  Dimitrios Patsoukakis (GRE) 5.55 PB
Long jump
 Janis Leitis (LAT) 7.90 PB  Pavel Karavayev (RUS)7.86  Mikko Kivinen (FIN) 7.85 =PB
Triple jump
 Daniele Greco (ITA) 17.20 PB  Zhivko Petkov (BUL)16.81  Aliaksandr Liabedzka (BLR) 16.80 PB
Shot put
 Valeriy Kokoyev (RUS) 20.20 PB  Nick Petersen (DEN)18.94 PB  Mateusz Mikos (POL) 18.89 PB
Discus throw
 Nikolay Sedyuk (RUS) 60.80 SB  Ivan Hryshyn (UKR) 59.61  Martin Wierig (GER) 59.12
Hammer throw
 Yury Shayunou (BLR) 78.16  Anatoliy Pozdnyakov (RUS)72.42  Alexander Ziegler (GER) 72.32
Javelin throw
 Ari Mannio (FIN) 84.57 CR  Petr Frydrych (CZE) 80.53  Spiridon Lebesis (GRE) 79.37 PB
Decathlon
 Eelco Sintnicolaas (NED) 8112 PB  Mateo Sossah (FRA) 7885  Mihail Dudaš (SRB) 7855 PB

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
 Lina Grincikaitė (LTU) 11.37  Nataliya Pohrebnyak (UKR)11.45  Marika Popowicz (POL) 11.50
200 metres
 Aleksandra Fedoriva (RUS) 22.97 SB  Ewelina Ptak (POL) 23.07 PB  Marika Popowicz (POL) 23.25
400 metres
 Kseniya Ustalova (RUS)51.74  Kseniya Zadorina (RUS)51.76  Anna Sedova (RUS) 52.58
800 metres
 Elena Kofanova (RUS) 1:58.94  Nataliya Lupu (UKR) 2:01.08  Agnieszka Leszczyńska (POL) 2:01.53 PB
1500 metres
 Sultan Haydar (TUR) 4:14.12  Kristina Khalayeva (RUS) 4:14.78  Yelena Fesenko (RUS) 4:15.86
5000 metres
 Natalya Popkova (RUS) 15:54.11  Sviatlana Kudzelich (BLR)16:03.85  Emily Pidgeon (GBR) 16:04.71 SB
10,000 metres
 Natalya Popkova (RUS) 33:37.31  Zsofia Erdelyi (HUN)33:39.89 PB  Azra Eminović (SRB) 33:47.19 PB
3000 metres steeplechase
 Ancuţa Bobocel (ROU) 9:47.90  Julia Hiller (GER)9:57.44  Susanne Lutz (GER) 10:01.87 PB
100 metres hurdles
 Christina Vukicevic (NOR) 12.99  Yekaterina Shtepa (RUS) 13.28  Alina Talay (BLR) 13.30
400 metres hurdles
 Perri Shakes-Drayton (GBR)55.26 PB  Eilidh Child (GBR)55.32 PB  Darya Korableva (RUS) 56.08
20 kilometres walk
 Yelena Shumkina (RUS) 1:33:05  Zuzana Schindlerová (CZE) 1:33:42  Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS) 1:34:13
4 × 100 metres relay
Annabelle Lewis
Joey Duck
Lucy Sargent
Elaine O'Neill
 Great Britain (GBR)
43.89 Agnieszka Ceglarek
Marika Popowicz
Milena Pędziwiatr
Weronika Wedler
 Poland (POL)
43.90 Silvija Peseckaitė
Lina Andrijauskaitė
Sonata Tamošaitytė
Lina Grinčikaitė
 Lithuania (LTU)
44.09
4 × 400 metres relay
Anna Sedova
Kseniya Zadorina
Kseniya Vdovina
Kseniya Ustalova
Lyudmila Mochalina
 Russia (RUS)
3:27.59 Esther Cremer
Jill Richards
Janin Lindenberg
Sorina Nwachukwu
Lena Schmidt
 Germany (GER)
3:29.21 Maryna Liboza
Katsiaryna Mishyna
Hanna Tashpulatava
Alena Kievich
Maryia Kavaliova
 Belarus (BLR)
3:30.45
High jump
 Aleksandra Shamsutdinova (RUS) 1.89  Melanie Bauschke (GER) 1.89  Urszula Domel (POL) 1.86 PB
Pole vault
 Elisaveta Ryzih (GER) 4.50 =PB  Minna Nikkanen (FIN) 4.45 =PB  Vanessa Vandy (FIN) 4.35
Long jump
 Melanie Bauschke (GER) 6.83 PB  Nastassia Mironchyk (BLR) 6.76  Éloyse Lesueur (FRA) 6.72 SB
Triple jump
 Paraskevi Papachristou (GRE)14.34 PB  Cristina Bujin (ROU)14.26 PB  Liliya Kulyk (UKR) 13.88
Shot put
 Denise Hinrichs (GER)19.18  Irina Tarasova (RUS)17.90  Alena Kopets (BLR) 17.72
Discus throw
 Eden Francis (GBR) 57.29  Vera Karmishina (RUS) 54.48  Jade Nicholls (GBR) 54.44 PB
Hammer throw
 Zalina Marghieva (MDA) 67.67  Katerina Safrankova (CZE) 63.01  Sarah Holt (GBR) 62.55
Javelin throw
 Madara Palameika (LAT) 64.51 NR CR  Vira Rebryk (UKR) 61.43  Anna Wessman (SWE)55.91 PB
Heptathlon
 Aiga Grabuste (LAT) 6396 NR  Olga Kurban (RUS) 6205  Nadezhda Sergeyeva (RUS)6118 PB

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

      Host nation

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Russia (RUS) 12 8 5 25
2  Great Britain (GBR) 7 6 5 18
3  Germany (GER) 4 4 4 12
4  Poland (POL) 4 3 8 15
5  Latvia (LAT) 3 0 0 3
6  Spain (ESP) 2 1 0 3
7  Turkey (TUR) 2 0 0 2
8  Belarus (BLR) 1 3 4 8
9  France (FRA) 1 3 2 6
10  Italy (ITA) 1 2 1 4
11  Finland (FIN) 1 1 2 4
12  Romania (ROU) 1 1 0 2
13  Greece (GRE) 1 0 2 3
14  Lithuania (LTU) 1 0 1 2
15  Moldova (MDA) 1 0 0 1
15  Netherlands (NED) 1 0 0 1
15  Norway (NOR) 1 0 0 1
18  Ukraine (UKR) 0 6 4 10
19  Czech Republic (CZE) 0 3 1 4
20  Bulgaria (BUL) 0 1 0 1
20  Denmark (DEN) 0 1 0 1
20  Hungary (HUN) 0 1 0 1
23  Serbia (SRB) 0 0 2 2
24  Belgium (BEL) 0 0 1 1
24  Ireland (IRL) 0 0 1 1
24  Sweden (SWE) 0 0 1 1
Total 44 44 44 132

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 901 athletes from 42 countries participated in the event.

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