2007 European Athletics U23 Championships

The 6th European Athletics U23 Championships were held between 12 and 15 July 2007 in the Gyulai István Athletic Stadium in Debrecen, Hungary.

6th European Athletics U23 Championships
Dates	12–15 July 2007
Host city	Debrecen, Hungary
Venue	Gyulai István Atlétikai Stadion
Level	U23
Type	Outdoor
Events	44
Participation	748 athletes from 41 nations
← 2005 Erfurt 2009 Kaunas →

Results

Complete results and medal winners were published.

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Simeon Williamson Great Britain	10.10	Craig Pickering Great Britain	10.14	Martial Mbandjock France	10.27
200 metres	Visa Hongisto Finland	20.84	Vojtech Šulc Czech Republic	20.91	Rikki Fifton Great Britain	21.02
400 metres	Denis Alekseyev Russia	45.69	Željko Vincek Croatia	45.69	Kacper Kozłowski Poland	45.86
800 metres	Marcin Lewandowski Poland	1:49.94	Oleksandr Osmolovych Ukraine	1:50.21	Abdesslam Merabet France	1:50.31
1500 metres	Álvaro Rodriguez Spain	3:44.00	Yohan Durand France	3:44.38	Barnabás Bene Hungary	3:44.47
5000 metres	Noureddine Smaïl France	13:53.15	Andrey Safronov Russia	13:54.04	Kemal Koyuncu Turkey	13:54.32
10,000 metres	Anatoliy Rybakov Russia	29:09.89	Michel Butter Netherlands	29:12.95	Daniele Meucci Italy	29:18.26
110 metres hurdles	Konstadinos Douvalidis Greece	13.49	Adrien Deghelt Belgium	13.59	Emanuele Abate Italy	13.66
400 metres hurdles	Dai Greene Great Britain	49.58	Fadil Bellaabouss France	49.58	Milan Kotur Croatia	50.14
3000 metres steeplechase	Mahiedine Mekhissi France	8:33.91	Ildar Minshin Russia	8:34.27	Balázs Ott Hungary	8:35.04
20 kilometres walk	Valeriy Borchin Russia	1:20:43	Andrey Krivov Russia	1:21:51	Sergey Bakulin Russia	1:23:33
4 × 100 metres relay	Great Britain Ryan Scott Craig Pickering Rikki Fifton James Ellington	38.95	Portugal Dany Gonçalves Arnaldo Abrantes Ricardo Martins Yazaldes Nascimento	39.37	Finland Hannu Hämäläinen Visa Hongisto Rami Jokinen Jonathan Åstrand	39.53
4 × 400 metres relay	Russia Maksim Dyldin Denis Alekseyev Artem Sergeyenkov Anton Kokorin	3:02.13	Poland Grzegorz Klimczyk Patryk Baranowski Piotr Dąbrowski Kacper Kozłowski	3:04.76	Germany Jonas Plass Florian Schwalm Matthias Bos Martin Grothkopp	3:05.25
High jump	Linus Thörnblad Sweden	2.24 m	Benjamin Lauckner Germany	2.21 m	Jussi Viita Finland	2.21 m
Pole vault	Pavel Prokopenko Russia	5.75 m	Jesper Fritz Sweden	5.70 m	Denys Fedas Ukraine	5.65 m
Long jump	Michał Rosiak Poland	7.94 m	Petteri Lax Finland	7.89 m	Roman Novotný Czech Republic	7.87 m
Triple jump	Gary White Great Britain	16.33 m	Adrian Świderski Poland	16.29 m	Yuriy Zhuravlyev Russia	16.22 m
Shot put	Jakub Giża Poland	19.87 m	Luka Rujevic Serbia	19.55 m	Aleksandr Grekov Russia	19.13 m
Discus throw	Martin Wierig Germany	61.10 m	Jan Marcell Czech Republic	58.48 m	Apostolos Parellis Cyprus	58.16 m
Hammer throw	Yury Shayunou Belarus	74.92 m	Kristóf Németh Hungary	72.56 m	Marcel Lomnicky Slovakia	72.17 m
Javelin throw	Alexander Vieweg Germany	79.56 m	Karlis Alainis Latvia	76.83 m	Oleksandr Pyatnytsya Ukraine	76.28 m
Decathlon	Andrei Krauchanka Belarus	8,492 pts	Pascal Behrenbruch Germany	8,239 pts	Arkadiy Vasilyev Russia	8,179 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Verena Sailer Germany	11.66	Montell Douglas Great Britain	11.66	Myriam Soumaré France	11.68
200 metres	Yuliya Chermoshanskaya Russia	23.19	Nelly Banco France	23.36	Marta Jeschke Poland	23.42
400 metres	Lyudmila Litvinova Russia	51.25	Olga Shulikova Russia	51.57	Kseniya Zadorina Russia	51.78
800 metres	Mariya Shapayeva Russia	2:00.86	Élodie Guégan France	2:01.26	Vanja Perisic Croatia	2:01.34
1500 metres	Abby Westley Great Britain	4:15.48	Lizi Brathwaite Great Britain	4:16.45	Tatyana Beltyukova Russia	4:16.49
5000 metres	Laura Kenney Great Britain	16:22.28	Volha Minina Belarus	16:27.31	Marta Romo Spain	16:29.56
10,000 metres	Volha Minina Belarus	33:06.37	Irina Sergeyeva Russia	33:08.69	Alina Alekseyeva Russia	33:09.63
100 metres hurdles	Nevin Yanit Turkey	12.90	Christina Vukicevic Norway	13.08	Jessica Ennis Great Britain	13.09
400 metres hurdles	Angela Moroșanu Romania	54.50	Irina Obedina Russia	55.19	Zuzana Hejnova Czech Republic	55.93
3000 metres steeplechase	Katarzyna Kowalska Poland	9:39.40	Ancuta Bobocel Romania	9:41.84	Sara Moreira Portugal	9:42.47
20 kilometres walk	Tatyana Shemyakina Russia	1:28:48	Svetlana Solovyova Russia	1:33:58	Olga Mikhaylova Russia	1:34:41
4 × 100 metres relay	Russia Yuna Mekhti-Zade Kseniya Vdovina Natalya Murinovich Yuliya Chermoshanskaya	43.67	Germany Anne-Kathrin Elbe Verena Sailer Mareike Peters Anne Möllinger	43.75	Poland Paulina Siemieniako Ewelina Klocek Marta Jeschke Iwona Brzezińska	43.78
4 × 400 metres relay	Russia Olga Shulikova Ksenia Zadorina Yelena Novikova Lyudmila Litvinova	3:26.58	France Marie-Angélique Lacordelle Symphora Béhi Virginie Michanol Thélia Sigère	3:30.56	Ukraine Hanna Platitsyna Kseniya Karandyuk Yuliya Irhina Oleksandra Peycheva	3:33.90
High jump	Svetlana Shkolina Russia	1.92 m	Adonía Steryiou Greece	1.92 m	Ebba Jungmark Sweden	1.89 m
Pole vault	Aleksandra Kiryashova Russia	4.50 m	Anna Schultze Germany	4.35 m	Anna Battke Germany	4.35 m
Long jump	Anna Nazarova Russia	6.81 m	Denisa Ščerbová Czech Republic	6.80 m	Yelena Sokolova Russia	6.71 m
Triple jump	Liliya Kulyk Ukraine	14.39 m	Yekaterina Kayukova Russia	14.11 m	Anastasiya Taranova Russia	13.99 m
Shot put	Irina Tarasova Russia	18.26 m	Denise Hinrichs Germany	17.56 m	Anna Avdeyeva Russia	17.47 m
Discus throw †	Kateryna Karsak Ukraine	64.40 m	Veronika Watzek Austria	57.15 m	Svetlana Saykina Russia	56.92 m
Hammer throw	Maryia Smaliachkova Belarus	69.34 m	Lenka Ledvinova Czech Republic	67.63 m	Nataliya Zolotukhina Ukraine	67.00 m
Javelin throw	Linda Stahl Germany	62.17 m	Annika Suthe Germany	57.86 m	Madara Palameika Latvia	57.07 m
Heptathlon	Viktorija Zemaityte Lithuania	6,219 pts	Jolanda Keizer Netherlands	6,219 pts	Julia Mächtig Germany	6,151 pts

^†: In discus throw, Darya Pishchalnikova from Russia ranked initially 2nd (64.15m), but was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	15	8	11	34
2	Great Britain (GBR)	6	3	2	11
3	Germany (GER)	4	6	3	13
4	Poland (POL)	4	2	3	9
5	Belarus (BLR)	4	1	0	5
6	France (FRA)	2	5	3	10
7	Ukraine (UKR)	2	1	5	8
8	Finland (FIN)	1	1	2	4
9	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
10	Greece (GRE)	1	1	0	2
	Romania (ROM)	1	1	0	2
12	Spain (ESP)	1	0	1	2
	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	1	2
14	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	0	1
15	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	4	2	6
16	Netherlands (NED)	0	2	0	2
17	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	2	3
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	2	3
19	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	1	2
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	1	2
21	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Serbia (SRB)	0	1	0	1
25	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
26	Cyprus (CYP)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		44	44	44	132

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 851 athletes from 44 countries participated in the event.

• Armenia (1)
• Austria (4)
• Azerbaijan (1)
• Belarus (23)
• Belgium (13)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
• Bulgaria (9)
• Croatia (8)
• Cyprus (10)
• Czech Republic (27)
• Denmark (8)
• Estonia (11)
• Finland (24)
• France (65)
• Germany (60)
• Great Britain (46)
• Greece (25)
• Hungary (39)
• Iceland (3)
• Ireland (6)
• Israel (14)
• Italy (44)
• Latvia (14)
• Lithuania (23)
• Luxembourg (2)
• Macedonia (1)
• Malta (1)
• Moldova (6)
• Montenegro (1)
• Netherlands (18)
• Norway (17)
• Poland (59)
• Portugal (19)
• Romania (21)
• Russia (72)
• San Marino (1)
• Serbia (4)
• Slovakia (8)
• Slovenia (7)
• Spain (44)
• Sweden (28)
• Switzerland (9)
• Turkey (10)
• Ukraine (44)

References

General

• Complete medal table

External links

• Official site
• Results