The athletics competition at the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

The 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held in Trabzon, Turkey.-Sports:There were nine sports at the 2011 Festival, two branches, table tennis and water polo, less than compared with the 2007 Youth Olympic Festival's programme...

was held from 25 to 29 July 2011. The events took place at the Söğütlü Athletics Stadium

Söğütlü Athletics Stadium

Söğütlü Athletics Stadium is a sports venue for athletics competitions in track and field located in Trabzon, Turkey.It was built 2007 at Söğütlü neighborhood of Akçaabat town in Trabzon Province as a stadium with movable seating to host the 1st Black Sea Games...

 in Trabzon

Trabzon

Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road, became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Iran in the southeast and the Caucasus to the northeast...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. Boys and girls born 1994 or 1995 or later participated 36 track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 events, divided evenly between the sexes.

The five-day competition was preceded by the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics

2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics

The 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics were the seventh edition of the World Youth Championships in Athletics. They were held in Lille Métropole, France, with stadium-based events at Stadium Lille-Métropole in Villeneuve d'Ascq, on 6–10 July, 2011. Eligible athletes were aged 16 or 17 on...

 and a number of athletes participated at both meetings. Bence Pásztor‏ of Hungary set a world youth best of 84.41 metres to win the boy's 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...

, while Yuriy Kushniruk of Ukraine set a European youth best in the 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...

 (his mark of 83.42 m was second only to Argentina's Braian Toledo

Braian Toledo

Braian Ezequiel Toledo is an Argentine javelin thrower who has improved the World Youth Best in boys' javelin throw by more than six meters....

).

Internationally, the championships was evenly matched and no one country dominated as 26 nations had a medal-winning athlete. Three countries each attained a total of ten medals: Great Britain topped the medal table with five gold medal

Gold medal

A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...

s and four silvers

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....

, Ukraine was a close runner-up with five gold and three silvers, while Russia came third with four golds. France and Italy were also strong performers, with totals of nine and eight medals, respectively.

Boys

100 m 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...	Daniel Koelsch  Germany	10.66 PB	Leon Reid  United Kingdom	10.68	Marek Bakalar  Czech Republic	10.75
200 m 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...	Thomas Holligan  United Kingdom	21.46 PB	Ilya Siratsiuk  Belarus	21.55	Marek Bakalar  Czech Republic	21.57 PB
400 m 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...	Clovis Asong  United Kingdom	46.93	Steffen Dale Trenk  Germany	48.74	Aliaksandr Krasouski  Belarus	48.91
800 m 800 metres The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...	Brecht Bertels  Belgium	1:50.90 PB	Nemanja Kojić  Serbia	1:51.55 PB	Karl John Griffin  Republic of Ireland	1:51.64
1500 m 1500 metres The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...	Ruairi Finnegan  Republic of Ireland	3:53.78	Samuele Dini  Italy	3:54.45	James Lamswood  United Kingdom	3:55.02
3000 m 3000 metres The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...	B. Ivan Horodyskyy  Ukraine	8:21.99 PB	Gordon Benson  United Kingdom	8:23.05	Lorenzo Dini  Italy	8:24.20 PB
2000 m St.	Gonzalo Basconcelo  Spain	5:54.60 PB	Italo Quazzola  Italy	5:56.30 PB	Johannes Max. Motschmann  Germany	5:57.37 PB
110 m H 110 metres hurdles The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...  (91.4 cm)	Lorenzo Perini  Italy	13.44 CR	Wilhem Belocian  France	13.50 PB	Thomas Durant  Belgium	13.56 PB
400 m H 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...  (84.0 cm)	Ben Kiely  Republic of Ireland	52.69 PB	Jacob Paul  United Kingdom	52.80 PB	Vladislav Tsygankov  Russia	53.01 PB
4x100m relay	France Jean-Noël Crétinoir Mickael Meba-Zeze Gautier Dautremer Wilhem Belocian	40.90	United Kingdom James Taylor Thomas Holligan Clovis Asong Leon Reid	41.37	Belgium Oumar Diallo Bram Luycx Mathias Broothaerts Lorijn Verbrughhe	41.60
High jump High jump The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....	Gaël Rotardier  France	2.11 m	Falk Henning Wendrich  Germany	2.08 m PB	Pavel Kipra  Belarus	2.08 m
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...	Elliot Safo  United Kingdom	7.38 m PB	Stefano Braga  Italy	7.36 m	Semen Popov  Russia	7.36 m
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...	Robert Clarke  Switzerland	15.50 m PB	Lasha Gulelauri  Georgia (country)	15.49 m	Jean-Noël Crétinoir  France	15.49 m
Pole vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...	Robert Renner  Slovenia	5.31 m CR	Torben Laidig  Germany	5.00 m PB	Georgiy Bykov  Ukraine	4.95 m
Discus 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...  (1.5 kg)	Dominik Kosar  Czech Republic	56.04 m	Vladyslav Chernikov  Ukraine	55.40 m	Martin Pilato  Italy	55.34 m
Javelin 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...  (700 g)	Yuriy Kushniruk  Ukraine	83.42 m WYL	Sebastian Teikari  Finland	75.43 m SB	Povilas Dabasinskas  Lithuania	73.23 m PB
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...  (5 kg)	Bence Pasztor  Hungary	84.41 m WYB	Sergiy Reheda  Ukraine	80.81 m PB	Ozkan Baltaci  Turkey	78.90 m PB
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....  (5 kg)	Vladyslav Chernikov  Ukraine	20.13 m	Matti Sivonen  Finland	19.43 m PB	Mesud Pezer  Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.13 m

Girls

100 m 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...	Sophie Papps  United Kingdom	11.82	Samantha Dagry  Switzerland	11.91 PB	Solenn Compper  France	11.99
200 m 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...	Ekaterina Renzhina  Russia	23.64 CR	Justien Grillet  Belgium	23.94	Anna Hämäläinen  Finland	24.14
400 m 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...	Modesta Morauskaite  Lithuania	54.07 PB	Kimberley Efonye  Belgium	54.30 PB	Barbara Camblor  Spain	55.03
800 m 800 metres The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...	Olena Sidorska  Ukraine	2:05.26 CR	Camilla de Bleecker  Belgium	2:05.74	Luna Udelhoven  Germany	2:07.30 PB
1500 m 1500 metres The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...	Sophie Riches  United Kingdom	4:25.95	Siofra Cleirigh Buttner  Republic of Ireland	4:26.42 PB	Meropi Panayiotou  Cyprus	4:29.13 PB
3000 m 3000 metres The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...	Alena Kudashkina  Russia	9:18.46	Anca Maria Bunea  Romania	9:30.81 PB	Jip Vastenburg  Netherlands	9:39.47
2000 m St.	Dana Elena Loghin  Romania	6:40.93 CR	Johanna Christine Schulz  Germany	6:46.49 PB	Olja Nikolić  Serbia	6:48.05 PB
100 m H 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...  (76.2 cm)	Nadine Visser  Netherlands	13.28 PB	Monika Zapalska  Germany	13.52 PB	Sarah Kate Lavin  Republic of Ireland	13.62 PB
400 m H 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...  (76.2 cm)	Katsiaryna Verameyenka  Belarus	59.57 PB	Emeline Bauwe  France	1:00.42 PB	Megan Kiely  Republic of Ireland	1:00.44 PB
4x100m relay	Netherlands Tessa van Schagen  Sacha van Agt  Naomi Sedney  Nadine Visser	45.93	Belgium Sarah Missinne  Justien Grillet  Orphee Depuydt  Kimberley Efonye	46.12	Russia Anastasia Nikolaeva  Elizaveta Anikienko  Anastasiia Aslanidi  Ekaterina Renzhina	46.58
High jump High jump The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....	Dior Delophont  France	1.85 m PB	Leontia Kallenou  Cyprus	1.79 m	Ligia Damaris Grozav  Romania	1.79 m
Pole vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...	Roberta Bruni  Italy	4.10 m CR	Georgia Stefanidi  Greece	4.10 m	Kristina Bondarenko  Russia	4.10 m
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...	Maryna Bekh  Ukraine	6.25 m	Julia Gerter  Germany	6.14 m	Marina Buchelnikova  Russia	6.11 m
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...	Ana Peleteiro  Spain	13.17 m PB	Sokhna Galle  France	13.11 m	Anna Krasutska  Ukraine	13.00 m
Discus 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...  (1 kg)	Florentia Kalogeraki  Greece	48.31 m	Natalia Shirobokova  Russia	48.31 m	Ozge Yilmaz  Turkey	44.72 m
Javelin 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...  (600 g)	Alina Gerasimchuk  Russia	53.86 m CR	Liveta Jasiunaite  Lithuania	52.00 m PB	Alexie Alais  France	50.94 m
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...  (4 kg)	Hanna Zinchuk  Belarus	59.48 m	Al'ona Shamotina  Ukraine	59.23 m PB	Petra Jakeljic  Croatia	56.35 m
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....  (4 kg)	Natalia Shirobokova  Russia	14.23 m	Charlene Okken  Netherlands	13.84 m PB	Monia Cantarella  Italy	13.67 m

Medal table

Key:

1	United Kingdom	5	4	1	10
2	Ukraine	5	3	2	10
3	Russia	4	1	5	10
4	France	3	3	3	9
5	Italy	2	3	3	8
6	Republic of Ireland	2	1	3	6
7	Belarus	2	1	2	5
8	Netherlands	2	1	1	4
9	Spain	2	0	1	3
10	Germany	1	6	2	9
11	Belgium	1	4	2	7
12	Lithuania	1	1	1	3
13	Greece	1	1	0	2
	Romania	1	1	0	2
	Switzerland	1	1	0	2
16	Czech Republic	1	0	2	3
17	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
19	Finland	0	2	1	2
20	Cyprus	0	1	1	2
	Serbia	0	1	1	2
22	Georgia (country)	0	1	0	1
23	Turkey	0	0	2	2
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Total		36	36	36	108

External links

• Athletics page at official festival website