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.
| 7th European Athletics U23 Championships | |
|---|---|
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| Dates | 16–19 July 2009 |
| Host city | Kaunas, Lithuania |
| Venue | S. Dariaus ir S. Girėno stadionas (Darius and Girėnas Stadium) |
| Level | U23 |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Events | 44 |
| Participation | 901 athletes from 42 nations |
Men's results
edit| 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)
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Women's results
edit| 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 Sergeeva (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
edit* Host nation (Lithuania)
| 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 |
| Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 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 |
| Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 23 | Serbia (SRB) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 24 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (26 entries) | 44 | 44 | 44 | 132 | |
Participation
editAccording to an unofficial count, 901 athletes from 42 countries participated in the event.
Armenia (2)
Austria (8)
Azerbaijan (1)
Belarus (31)
Belgium (17)
Bulgaria (9)
Croatia (8)
Cyprus (9)
Czech Republic (22)
Denmark (11)
Estonia (15)
Finland (36)
France (72)
Germany (59)
Great Britain (48)
Greece (22)
Hungary (22)
Ireland (14)
Israel (6)
Italy (56)
Latvia (23)
Lithuania (39)
Luxembourg (1)
Macedonia (1)
Malta (1)
Moldova (4)
Monaco (1)
Netherlands (28)
Norway (15)
Poland (67)
Portugal (16)
Romania (28)
Russia (61)
San Marino (1)
Serbia (3)
Slovakia (8)
Slovenia (6)
Spain (50)
Sweden (23)
Switzerland (13)
Turkey (16)
Ukraine (28)
References
edit- General
- Butcher, Michael (2009-07-17). European U23 Champs - Day One. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-17.
- Elbendir claims 5000 gold, Kokoyev wins Shot Put on Day 1 in Kaunas[permanent dead link]. European Athletics (2009-07-16). Retrieved on 2009-07-17.
- Butcher, Michael (2009-07-18). European U23 Champs - Day Two (Archived 2009-07-25). IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
- Aikines-Aryeetey leads GB 1-2-3 in 100m final on Day 2 in Kaunas (Archived 2009-07-25). European Athletics (2009-07-17). Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
- Butcher, Michael (2009-07-19). European U23 Champs - Day Three. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
- Poland's Kszczot takes gold ahead of Lewandowski in 800 on Day 3 in Kaunas. European Athletics (2009-07-18). Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
- Butcher, Michael (2009-07-20). European U23 Champs, Final Day. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
- Russia finish top of medal table at European Athletics U23 Championships. European Athletics (2009-07-19). Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
- Specific
- ^ European Athletics U23 Championships Ostrava 2011 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK - 7th European Athletics U23 Championships - Kaunas, Lithuania 16.-19.7.2009 (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 84–99, retrieved 24 October 2014
- ^ 7th European Athletics U23 Championships - Kaunas LTU 16–19 July, European Athletics Association, archived from the original on 2014-10-21, retrieved 14 November 2014