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.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Simeon Williamson  Great Britain	10.10	Craig Pickering  Great Britain	10.14	Martial Mbandjock  France	10.27
200 metres details	Visa Hongisto  Finland	20.84	Vojtech Šulc  Czech Republic	20.91	Rikki Fifton  Great Britain	21.02
400 metres details	Denis Alekseyev  Russia	45.69	Željko Vincek  Croatia	45.69	Kacper Kozłowski  Poland	45.86
800 metres details	Marcin Lewandowski  Poland	1:49.94	Oleksandr Osmolovych  Ukraine	1:50.21	Abdesslam Merabet  France	1:50.31
1500 metres details	Álvaro Rodriguez  Spain	3:44.00	Yohan Durand  France	3:44.38	Barnabás Bene  Hungary	3:44.47
5000 metres details	Noureddine Smaïl  France	13:53.15	Andrey Safronov  Russia	13:54.04	Kemal Koyuncu  Turkey	13:54.32
10,000 metres details	Anatoliy Rybakov  Russia	29:09.89	Michel Butter  Netherlands	29:12.95	Daniele Meucci  Italy	29:18.26
110 metres hurdles details	Konstadinos Douvalidis  Greece	13.49	Adrien Deghelt  Belgium	13.59	Emanuele Abate  Italy	13.66
400 metres hurdles details	Dai Greene  Great Britain	49.58	Fadil Bellaabouss  France	49.58	Milan Kotur  Croatia	50.14
3000 metres steeplechase details	Mahiedine Mekhissi  France	8:33.91	Ildar Minshin  Russia	8:34.27	Balázs Ott  Hungary	8:35.04
20 kilometres walk details	Valeriy Borchin  Russia	1:20:43	Andrey Krivov  Russia	1:21:51	Sergey Bakulin  Russia	1:23:33
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	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 details	Linus Thörnblad  Sweden	2.24 m	Benjamin Lauckner  Germany	2.21 m	Jussi Viita  Finland	2.21 m
Pole vault details	Pavel Prokopenko  Russia	5.75 m	Jesper Fritz  Sweden	5.70 m	Denys Fedas  Ukraine	5.65 m
Long jump details	Michał Rosiak  Poland	7.94 m	Petteri Lax  Finland	7.89 m	Roman Novotný  Czech Republic	7.87 m
Triple jump details	Gary White  Great Britain	16.33 m	Adrian Świderski  Poland	16.29 m	Yuriy Zhuravlyev  Russia	16.22 m
Shot put details	Jakub Giża  Poland	19.87 m	Luka Rujevic  Serbia	19.55 m	Aleksandr Grekov  Russia	19.13 m
Discus throw details	Martin Wierig  Germany	61.10 m	Jan Marcell  Czech Republic	58.48 m	Apostolos Parellis  Cyprus	58.16 m
Hammer throw details	Yury Shayunou  Belarus	74.92 m	Kristóf Németh  Hungary	72.56 m	Marcel Lomnicky  Slovakia	72.17 m
Javelin throw details	Alexander Vieweg  Germany	79.56 m	Karlis Alainis  Latvia	76.83 m	Oleksandr Pyatnytsya  Ukraine	76.28 m
Decathlon details	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 details	Verena Sailer  Germany	11.66	Montell Douglas  Great Britain	11.66	Myriam Soumaré  France	11.68
200 metres details	Yuliya Chermoshanskaya  Russia	23.19	Nelly Banco  France	23.36	Marta Jeschke  Poland	23.42
400 metres details	Lyudmila Litvinova  Russia	51.25	Olga Shulikova  Russia	51.57	Kseniya Zadorina  Russia	51.78
800 metres details	Mariya Shapayeva  Russia	2:00.86	Élodie Guégan  France	2:01.26	Vanja Perisic  Croatia	2:01.34
1500 metres details	Abby Westley  Great Britain	4:15.48	Lizi Brathwaite  Great Britain	4:16.45	Tatyana Beltyukova  Russia	4:16.49
5000 metres details	Laura Kenney  Great Britain	16:22.28	Volha Minina  Belarus	16:27.31	Marta Romo  Spain	16:29.56
10,000 metres details	Volha Minina  Belarus	33:06.37	Irina Sergeyeva  Russia	33:08.69	Alina Alekseyeva  Russia	33:09.63
100 metres hurdles details	Nevin Yanit  Turkey	12.90	Christina Vukicevic  Norway	13.08	Jessica Ennis  Great Britain	13.09
400 metres hurdles details	Angela Moroșanu  Romania	54.50	Irina Obedina  Russia	55.19	Zuzana Hejnova  Czech Republic	55.93
3000 metres steeplechase details	Katarzyna Kowalska  Poland	9:39.40	Ancuta Bobocel  Romania	9:41.84	Sara Moreira  Portugal	9:42.47
20 kilometres walk details	Tatyana Shemyakina  Russia	1:28:48	Svetlana Solovyova  Russia	1:33:58	Olga Mikhaylova  Russia	1:34:41
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	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 details	Svetlana Shkolina  Russia	1.92 m	Adonía Steryiou  Greece	1.92 m	Ebba Jungmark  Sweden	1.89 m
Pole vault details	Aleksandra Kiryashova  Russia	4.50 m	Anna Schultze  Germany	4.35 m	Anna Battke  Germany	4.35 m
Long jump details	Anna Nazarova  Russia	6.81 m	Denisa Ščerbová  Czech Republic	6.80 m	Yelena Sokolova  Russia	6.71 m
Triple jump details	Liliya Kulyk  Ukraine	14.39 m	Yekaterina Kayukova  Russia	14.11 m	Anastasiya Taranova  Russia	13.99 m
Shot put details	Irina Tarasova  Russia	18.26 m	Denise Hinrichs  Germany	17.56 m	Anna Avdeyeva  Russia	17.47 m
Discus throw details†	Kateryna Karsak  Ukraine	64.40 m	Veronika Watzek  Austria	57.15 m	Svetlana Saykina  Russia	56.92 m
Hammer throw details	Maryia Smaliachkova  Belarus	69.34 m	Lenka Ledvinova  Czech Republic	67.63 m	Nataliya Zolotukhina  Ukraine	67.00 m
Javelin throw details	Linda Stahl  Germany	62.17 m	Annika Suthe  Germany	57.86 m	Madara Palameika  Latvia	57.07 m
Heptathlon details	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.^[9]

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

1. European Athletics U23 Championships Ostrava 2011 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK - 5th European Athletics U23 Championships - Debrecen, Hungary - 12.7.-15.7.2007 (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 69–83, retrieved 24 October 2014
2. 6th European Athletics U23 Championships - Debrecen HUN 12–15 July, European Athletics Association, archived from the original on 2014-10-21, retrieved 10 November 2014
3. European Athletics U23 Championships - Debrecen, Hungary 12 - 15 July 2007 - Results (Men) (PDF), European Athletics Association, retrieved 11 November 2014
4. European Athletics U23 Championships - Debrecen, Hungary 12 - 15 July 2007 - Results (Women) (PDF), European Athletics Association, retrieved 11 November 2014
5. 6th European Athletics U23 Championships, Debreceni Sportcentrum Athletics Stadium - Debrecen HUN 12–15 July (Men: 100 m ... 400 m hurdles), sportfieber.pytalhost.com, archived from the original on 2014-11-10, retrieved 10 November 2014
6. 6th European Athletics U23 Championships, Debreceni Sportcentrum Athletics Stadium - Debrecen HUN 12–15 July (Men: High jump ... 4 x 400 m), sportfieber.pytalhost.com, archived from the original on 10 November 2014, retrieved 10 November 2014
7. 6th European Athletics U23 Championships, Debreceni Sportcentrum Athletics Stadium - Debrecen HUN 12–15 July (Women: 100 m ... High jump), sportfieber.pytalhost.com, archived from the original on 11 November 2014, retrieved 10 November 2014
8. 6th European Athletics U23 Championships, Debreceni Sportcentrum Athletics Stadium - Debrecen HUN 12–15 July (Women: Pole vault ... 4 x 400 m), sportfieber.pytalhost.com, archived from the original on 11 November 2014, retrieved 10 November 2014
9. Seven Russians handed doping bans, BBC, October 20, 2008, retrieved November 10, 2014

General

• Complete medal table

External links

• Official site
• Results