The 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships

European Athletics Junior Championships

The European Athletics Junior Championships are the European championships open for those of age. The IAAF defines Junior as athletes who are 19 years of age or under. It is currently organized by the European Athletic Association....

was held in Tampere

Tampere

Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 from 23–27 July 2003. A total of 44 events were contested; 22 by men and 22 by women. Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 had the biggest medal haul with nine golds and a total of 27, closely followed by Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 (also 9 golds but 22 medals in total). Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 was third with 17 medals, while France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 and Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 tied for fourth. Four championship records were set at the competition, although three were as a result of using lighter implements in the men's throwing events.

Nelson Évora

Nelson Évora

Nelson Évora is a Portuguese athlete, of Cape Verdean descent, who specializes in the triple jump and long jump. He is the current triple jump olympic and former world champion. Évora currently competes for Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica...

 was a stand-out performer, having won both the long jump

Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

 and triple jump

Triple jump

The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

. Ivet Lalova

Ivet Lalova

Ivet Lalova is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, the fastest white woman in the world, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career...

 of Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

 did the sprint double in the women's 100 metres

100 metres

The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

 and 200 metres

200 metres

A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

, while Sophie Krauel showed her versatility by taking golds

Gold medal

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 in the 100 metres hurdles

100 metres hurdles

The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

 and the long jump

Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

. The long-distance track event

Long-distance track event

Long-distance track event races require runners to balance their energy. These types of races are predominantly aerobic in nature and at the highest level, exceptional levels of aerobic endurance is required more than anything else...

s also provided opportunities for athletes to double up, as Inna Poluškina

Inna Poluškina

Inna Poluškina is Latvian long-distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres. She has won the Latvian championship in 1500 m, 3000 m, 5000 m, 10,000 m and half marathon...

 and Marius Ionescu both left the competition with a gold and a silver medal

Silver medal

A silver medal is a medal awarded to the second place finisher of contests such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and contests with similar formats....

.

The men's javelin throw

Javelin throw

The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

 offered the chance for the hosts to demonstrate their ability in the country's favourite athletics event – the Finnish men swept the podium through the efforts of Teemu Wirkkala

Teemu Wirkkala

Teemu Sakari Wirkkala is a Finnish javelin thrower. His personal best throw is 87.23 metres, achieved in July 2009 in Joensuu.-Achievements:-References:...

, Tero Järvenpää

Tero Järvenpää

Tero Mikael Järvenpää is a Finnish javelin thrower. He represents Tampereen Pyrintö on club-level and his coach is his father Pentti Järvenpää.His personal best throw is 86.68 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Tampere....

, and Antti Ruuskanen

Antti Ruuskanen

Antti Hermanni Ruuskanen is a Finnish javelin thrower. His personal best throw is 87.33, achieved in 2008 in Kuortane. His coach is Antero Puranen....

. In the women's 2000 m steeplechase, Catalina Oprea set a world record in the rarely competed event, despite falling over mid-race. This was the last time that the women's 2000 metres steeplechase

Steeplechase (athletics)

The steeplechase is an obstacle race in athletics, which derives its name from the steeplechase in horse racing.-Rules:The length of the race is usually 3000 m; junior events are 2000 m, as women's events formerly were. The circuit has four ordinary barriers and one water jump. Over 3000 m, each...

 was held, as it was replaced by a 3000 m version in 2005.

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Magnus Lohse	Shot put Shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....		20.28 m†	CR
Erik Cadée Erik Cadée Erik Cadée is a Dutch discus thrower.Among his first international appearances was a runner-up performance at the 2001 European Youth Olympic Festival...	Discus throw Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...		60.42 m†	CR
Lorenzo Povegliano	Hammer throw Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...		72.72 m†	CR
Catalina Oprea	2000 metres steeplechase		6:21.78	WR, CR

Key:	WR — World record AR — Area record CR — Championship record NR — National record

• † = New mark established with a lighter junior throwing implement (6 kg shot and hammer, 1.75 kg discus)

Men's results

100 m	Leon Baptiste Leon Baptiste Leon Baptiste is an English sprint runner who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres events. He became the 100 m European junior champion in 2004 and won his first major title six years later by taking the 200 m gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi...  United Kingdom	10 s 50	Till Helmke Till Helmke Till Helmke is a male track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Germany.Helmke represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Tobias Unger, Alexander Kosenkow and Martin Keller...  Germany	10 s 52	Monu Miah  United Kingdom	10 s 54
200 m	Sebastian Ernst Sebastian Ernst Sebastian Ernst is a German sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. His personal best time is 20.36 seconds, achieved during the heats at the 2004 Summer Olympics. This ranks him third among German 200 m sprinters, only behind Tobias Unger and Frank Emmelmann...  Germany	20 s 63	Roman Smirnov Roman Smirnov (athlete) Roman Petrovich Smirnov is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. His personal best time is 20.57 seconds, achieved in June 2008 in Chania. He also has 10.38 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Zhukovskiy; and 6.74 seconds in the 60 metres, achieved in December 2005...  Russia	20 s 86	Till Helmke Till Helmke Till Helmke is a male track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Germany.Helmke represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Tobias Unger, Alexander Kosenkow and Martin Keller...  Germany	20 s 86
400 m	Dimítrios Grávalos  Greece	46 s 54	Kamghe Gaba Kamghe Gaba Kamghe Gaba is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He represents LG Eintracht Frankfurt.As a teenager he competed in combined events, finishing fifth in octathlon at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Debrecen.In 2006 he ran in a personal best of 45.47 seconds as he became...  Germany	46 s 63	Piotr Kedzia  Poland	46 s 69
800 m	René Bauschinger  Germany	1 min 46 s 43	David Fiegen David Fiegen David Fiegen is a Luxembourgian middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres.He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, the first ever medal in the history of the championships for an athlete from Luxembourg...  Luxembourg	1 min 49 s 91	Ireneusz Sekretarski  Poland	1 min 49 s 97
1500 m	Bartosz Nowicki Bartosz Nowicki Bartosz Nowicki is a Polish middle distance runner.-Achievements:-Personal bests:Outoors*800m 1:46.81 *1000m 2:21.14 *1500m 3:36.68...  Poland	3 min 45 s 01	Thomas Lancashire  United Kingdom	3 min 45 s 60	Olle Walleräng  Sweden	3 min 46 s 17
5000 m	Anatoliy Rybakov  Russia	14 min 13 s 41	Marius Ionescu  Romania	14 min 16 s 12	Cristinel Irimia  Romania	14 min 17 s 30
10,000 m	Marius Ionescu  Romania	29 min 40 s 41	Alexey Reunkov  Russia	29 min 40 s 80	Mohammed Bashir  Denmark	29 min 42 s 42
3000 m steeplechase	Ruben Schwarz  Germany	8 min 46 s 21	Maricel Ionascu  Romania	8 min 53 s 31	Christoforos Meroussis  Greece	8 min 55 s 69
110 m hurdles	Bano Traore  France	13 s 95	Andreas Kundert  Switzerland	14 s 18	Kai Doskoczynski  Germany	14 s 26
400 m hurdles	Rhys Williams Rhys Williams (athlete) Rhys Williams , is a Welsh professional athlete, specializing in the 400 m hurdles.-Early life:Williams was born in Bridgend, the son of former Welsh international rugby union player J.J. Williams. Rhys studied at Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari from September 1995 until June 2002...  United Kingdom	51 s 15	Mohamed Atig  France	51 s 46	Rupert Gardner  United Kingdom	51 s 83
10 km walk	Vladimir Parvatkin  Russia	41 min 33 s 55	Michal Blazek  Slovakia	41 min 54 s 66	Francisco Arcilla  Spain	42 min 06 s 15
High jump	Jaroslav Baba Jaroslav Bába Jaroslav Bába is a Czech high jumper.At the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships he jumped 2.25 metres and won a joint bronze medal along with Germaine Mason and Ştefan Vasilache...  Czech Republic	2,28 m	Aleksey Dmitrik Aleksey Dmitrik Aleksey Dmitrik is a Russian high jumper. He won the silver medal at the 2009 European Indoor Championships.He was born in Slantsy, Leningrad Oblast...  Russia	2,26 m	Linus Thörnblad Linus Thörnblad Linus Thörnblad is a Swedish athlete competing in high jump. He won the bronze medal at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.Thörnblad started high jumping at age 16 jumping 2.06 m his first year. Two years later he jumped 2.30 m....  Sweden	2,23 m
Pole vault	Vincent Favretto  France	5,50 m	Artem Kuptsov  Russia	5,50 m	Fabian Schulze Fabian Schulze Fabian Schulze is a German pole vaulter.He finished fifth at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Madrid and fourth at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow and the 2006 IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart.His personal best jump is 5.81 metres, achieved in July 2006...  Germany	5,40 m
Long jump	Nelson Évora Nelson Évora Nelson Évora is a Portuguese athlete, of Cape Verdean descent, who specializes in the triple jump and long jump. He is the current triple jump olympic and former world champion. Évora currently competes for Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica...  Portugal	7,83 m	Christian Kaczmarek  Germany	7,81 m	Tim Riedel  Germany	7,65 m
Triple jump	Nelson Évora Nelson Évora Nelson Évora is a Portuguese athlete, of Cape Verdean descent, who specializes in the triple jump and long jump. He is the current triple jump olympic and former world champion. Évora currently competes for Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica...  Portugal	16,43 m	Dmitriy Detsuk  Belarus	16,13 m	Yevgen Semenenko  Ukraine	16,04 m
Shot put	Magnus Lohse  Sweden	20,28 m	Anton Lyuboslavskiy  Russia	20,10 m	Georgi Ivanov Georgi Ivanov (athlete) Georgi Stoyanov Ivanov is an Bulgarian shot putter. His personal best throw is 20.02 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Sofia.He won the gold medals at the 2001 World Youth Championships and the 2004 World Junior Championships, and the bronze medal at the 2003 European Junior Championships...  Bulgaria	19,94 m
Discus throw	Erik Cadée Erik Cadée Erik Cadée is a Dutch discus thrower.Among his first international appearances was a runner-up performance at the 2001 European Youth Olympic Festival...  Netherlands	60,42 m	Martin Marić Martin Marić Martin Marić is a Croatian discus thrower.He was born in Split. He finished thirteenth at the 2001 World Youth Championships and won the silver medal at the 2003 European Junior Championships. As a competitor for the University of Georgia, he attain All-American status in the Javelin by placing...  Croatia	58,59 m	Andreas Porth Andreas Porth Andreas Udvari is a German bobsledder who competed from 2005 to 2007. His best Bobsleigh World Cup finish was second in the two-man event twice in the 2006-07 World Cup season.-References:*...  Germany	58,45 m
Hammer throw	Lorenzo Povegliano  Italy	72,72 m	Kamilius Bethke  Germany	72,60 m	Andrey Azarenkov  Russia	72,10 m
Javelin throw	Teemu Wirkkala Teemu Wirkkala Teemu Sakari Wirkkala is a Finnish javelin thrower. His personal best throw is 87.23 metres, achieved in July 2009 in Joensuu.-Achievements:-References:...  Finland	79,90 m	Tero Järvenpää Tero Järvenpää Tero Mikael Järvenpää is a Finnish javelin thrower. He represents Tampereen Pyrintö on club-level and his coach is his father Pentti Järvenpää.His personal best throw is 86.68 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Tampere....  Finland	73,66 m	Antti Ruuskanen Antti Ruuskanen Antti Hermanni Ruuskanen is a Finnish javelin thrower. His personal best throw is 87.33, achieved in 2008 in Kuortane. His coach is Antero Puranen....  Finland	72,87 m
4×100 metres relay	United Kingdom	40.37	Germany	40.41	France	40.50
4×400 metres relay	Germany	3:08.31	Poland	3:08.62	Russia	3:08.81
Decathlon Decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...	Nicklas Wiberg Nicklas Wiberg Nicklas Robert Wiberg is a male decathlete from Sweden. He set his personal best score in the men's decathlon on August 20, 2009 in Berlin.-Achievements:-References:...  Sweden	7604 pts	Alexey Sysoev  Russia	7531 pts	Steffen Willwacher  Germany	7497 pts

Women's results

100 metres		11.43		11.56		11.60
200 metres		22.88		23.35		23.36
400 metres		52.65		53.62		54.21
800 metres		2:02.76		2:03.40		2:03.42
1500 metres		4:12.57		4:16.91		4:17.56
3000 metres		9:07.85		9:23.10		9:26.01
5000 metres		15:52.20		15:55.69		16:07.26
100 metre hurdles		13.28		13.53		13.59
400 metre hurdles		57.52		57.57		58.30
2000 metres steeplechase		6:21.78		6:36.06		6:36.67
4×100 metre relay	France	44.60	United Kingdom	44.81	Finland	45.00
4×400 metre relay	Russia	3:33.48	France	3:37.78	United Kingdom	3:38.96
10 km walk		47:12.77		47:17.56		47:36.15
High jump		1.88 m		1.86 m		1.86 m
Pole vault		4.15 m		4.15 m		4.15 m
Long jump		6.47 m		6.46 m		6.35 m
Triple jump		13.61 m		13.54 m		13.37 m
Shot put		16.71 m		16.29 m		16.16 m
Discus throw		53.75 m		53.44 m		52.39 m
Hammer throw		66.08 m		65.89 m		65.64 m
Javelin throw		56.96 m		54.74 m		52.76 m
Heptathlon		5748 pts		5631 pts		5605 pts

Medal table

Key:

1	Germany	9	10	8	27
2	Russia	9	8	6	22
3	United Kingdom	4	5	8	17
4=	France	3	4	2	9
4=	Romania	3	4	2	9
6	Sweden	2	1	4	7
7	Poland	2	1	2	5
8=	Bulgaria	2	0	1	3
8=	Portugal	2	0	1	3
10	Italy	2	0	0	2
11	Finland	1	1	2	4
12	Latvia	1	1	1	3
13=	Czech Republic	1	0	1	2
13=	Netherlands	1	0	1	2
13=	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
16	Greece	1	0	0	1
17	Belarus	0	3	0	3
18	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
19=	Croatia	0	1	0	1
19=	Republic of Ireland	0	1	0	1
19=	Luxembourg	0	1	0	1
19=	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
19=	Turkey	0	1	0	1
24	Spain	0	0	2	2
25	Denmark	0	0	1	1
Total		44	44	44	132