2001 European Athletics Junior Championships

Template:Infobox Athletics Championships The 2001 European Athletics Junior Championships was an athletics competition for athletes under-20 which was held at the Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini in Grosseto, Italy from 19 – 22 July 2001. A total of 44 events were contested, 22 by male and 22 by female athletes. Two new events were introduced into the programme: the women's 2000 metres steeplechase and the women's 10,000 m track walk (replacing the 5000 m walk event). Five new championships records were recorded over the four-day competition, in addition to the two marks set in the newly introduced events.

Russia topped the medals table with eight golds and shared the honour of the greatest medal haul (17) with second placed Great Britain which won six gold medals. Poland came third with five golds, although fourth placed Germany had a larger medal total (15) but with one less gold medal.

Two British sprinters were nominated as the best athletes of the tournament: Vernicha James won the women's award for her 200 metres and 4×400 metres relay gold medals, as well as a 4×400 metres relay bronze. Mark Lewis-Francis took the men's award for his 100 metres gold and for anchoring the men's sprint relay to the team title. Russian Anastasiya Ilyina won the gold in the long jump and triple jump, setting a championship record in the latter event. Former Ethiopian Elvan Abeylegesse did the 3000/5000 metres double for Turkey, breaking the championship record in the 5000 m. Michał Hodun of Poland took the shot put and discus gold medals, while Belgian athlete Kevin Rans completed an unusual silver medal double at the competition in the 200 m and the pole vault.

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Mark Lewis-Francis won the 100 m and helped set a new relay record.

Among the athletes who won medals at the competition were Carolina Klüft, Yelena Isinbayeva and Andreas Thorkildsen – all of whom went on to become 2004 Olympic gold medallists. Elvan Abeylegesse, Anna Chicherova and Marian Oprea also went on to win Olympic medals. The decathlon junior champion Ladji Doucouré successfully changed focus to the 110 metres hurdles, becoming the 2005 World Champion.

Records

File:Kevin Rans Doha 2010.jpg

Kevin Rans won Belgium's only medals with silvers in the 200 m and pole vault.

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Alexandr Ivanov	Men's javelin throw		80.18	CR
Tyrone Edgar Dwayne Grant Tim Benjamin Mark Lewis-Francis	Men's 4×100 metres relay		39.24	CR
Elvan Abeylegesse	Women's 5000 metres		15:21.12	CR
Anastasiya Ilyina	Women's triple jump		14.12	CR
Yelena Isinbayeva	Women's pole vault		4.40	CR
Key:0000WR — World record  • AR — Area record  • CR — Championship record  • NR — National record

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: 2.4 m/s)	Template:Flagathlete	10.09	Template:Flagathlete	10.18	Template:Flagathlete	10.31
200 m	Template:Flagathlete	20.80	Template:Flagathlete	20.89	Template:Flagathlete	20.92
400 m	Template:Flagathlete	46.43	Template:Flagathlete	46.81	Template:Flagathlete	46.88
800 m	Template:Flagathlete	1:46.98	Template:Flagathlete	1:48.02	Template:Flagathlete	1:48.43
1500 m	Template:Flagathlete	3:48.49	Template:Flagathlete	3:48.66	Template:Flagathlete	3:48.76
5000 m	Template:Flagathlete	14:09.91	Template:Flagathlete	14:11.65	Template:Flagathlete	14:12.43
10,000 m	Template:Flagathlete	30:43.19	Template:Flagathlete	30:46.37	Template:Flagathlete	31:00.36
110 m hurdles	Template:Flagathlete	13.81	Template:Flagathlete	13.83	Template:Flagathlete	14.16
400 m hurdles	Template:Flagathlete	50.26	Template:Flagathlete	50.76	Template:Flagathlete	51.00
3000 m steeplechase	Template:Flagathlete	8:46.36	Template:Flagathlete	8:49.76	Template:Flagathlete	8:51.87
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Tyrone Edgar Dwayne Grant Timothy Benjamin Mark Lewis-Francis	39.24 CR	Steve Bonvard Ronald Pognon Xavier Guillaume Ladji Doucouré	39.76	Mariusz Latkowski Marcin Świerczyński Krzysztof Koczoń Paweł Ptak	39.96
4 × 400 metres relay	Marcin Marciniszyn Michał Matyjaszczyk Piotr Kędzia Karol Grzegorczyk	3:06.12	Robert Tobin Russell Nicholls Sam Ellis Tim Benjamin	3:06.21	David Melo Diego Ruiz Jairo Vera Jorge Artal	3:07.47
10,000 m walk	Template:Flagathlete	43:34.12	Template:Flagathlete	43:39.46	Template:Flagathlete	43:44.87
High jump	Template:Flagathlete	2.23 m	Template:Flagathlete	2.21 m	Template:Flagathlete	2.19 m
Pole vault	Template:Flagathlete	5.55 m	Template:Flagathlete	5.50 m	Template:Flagathlete	5.35 m
Long jump	Template:Flagathlete	7.98 m (w)	Template:Flagathlete	7.72 m (w)	Template:Flagathlete	7.72 m
Triple jump	Template:Flagathlete	16.65 m	Template:Flagathlete	16.43 m	Template:Flagathlete	16.43 m
Shot put	Template:Flagathlete	18.23 m	Template:Flagathlete	17.96 m	Template:Flagathlete	17.86 m
Discus throw	Template:Flagathlete	57.95 m	Template:Flagathlete	54.46 m	Template:Flagathlete	54.23 m
Hammer throw	Template:Flagathlete	69.42 m	Template:Flagathlete	68.32 m	Template:Flagathlete	67.56 m
Javelin throw	Template:Flagathlete	80.18 m CR	Template:Flagathlete	76.98 m	Template:Flagathlete	76.98 m
Decathlon	Template:Flagathlete	7747 pts	Template:Flagathlete	7683 pts	Template:Flagathlete	7497 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 2.1 m/s)	Template:Flagathlete	11.24 w	Template:Flagathlete	11.50 w	Template:Flagathlete	11.59 w
200 metres	Template:Flagathlete	22.93	Template:Flagathlete	23.38	Template:Flagathlete	23.60
400 metres	Template:Flagathlete	52.94	Template:Flagathlete	53.29	Template:Flagathlete	53.52
800 metres	Template:Flagathlete	2:03.76	Template:Flagathlete	2:03.99	Template:Flagathlete	2:04.15
1500 metres	Template:Flagathlete	4:13.13	Template:Flagathlete	4:13.51	Template:Flagathlete	4:14.48
3000 metres	Template:Flagathlete	8:53.42	Template:Flagathlete	9:02.64	Template:Flagathlete	9:07.35
5000 metres	Template:Flagathlete	15:21.12 CR	Template:Flagathlete	16:11.55	Template:Flagathlete	16:16.39
100 metres hurdles (wind: 2.1 m/s)	Template:Flagathlete	13.04 w	Template:Flagathlete	13.08 w	Template:Flagathlete	13.30 w
400 metres hurdles	Template:Flagathlete	57.78	Template:Flagathlete	57.93	Template:Flagathlete	58.83
2000 metres steeplechase	Template:Flagathlete	6:34.89	Template:Flagathlete	6:36.06	Template:Flagathlete	6:36.67
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagteam Nadine Hentschke Christa Kaufmann Kerstin Grötzinger Katchi Habel	44.16	Template:Flagteam Amélie Huyghes Cecile Sellier Gwladys Belliard Adriana Lamalle	44.37	Template:Flagteam Danielle Norville Eleanor Caney Amy Spencer Vernicha James	44.66
4 × 400 metres relay	Template:Flagteam Kim Wall Olivia Hines Vernicha James Lisa Miller	3:34.63	Template:Flagteam Eileen Müller Claudia Hoffmann Nadine Balkow Larissa Kettenis	3:36.20	Template:Flagteam Diana Koroszi Liliana Barbulescu Norica Manafu Maria Rus	3:41.12
10,000 m track walk	Template:Flagathlete	46:22.67	Template:Flagathlete	46:29.20	Template:Flagathlete	46:49.81
High jump	Template:Flagathlete	1.92 m	Template:Flagathlete	1.90 m	Template:Flagathlete	1.90 m
Pole vault	Template:Flagathlete	4.40 m CR	Template:Flagathlete	4.15 m	Template:Flagathlete	4.15 m
Long jump	Template:Flagathlete	6.38 m	Template:Flagathlete	6.32 m	Template:Flagathlete	6.26 m
Triple jump	Template:Flagathlete	14.12 m CR	Template:Flagathlete	13.73 m (w)	Template:Flagathlete	13.68 m
Shot put	Template:Flagathlete	16.92 m	Template:Flagathlete	16.02 m	Template:Flagathlete	15.82 m
Discus throw	Template:Flagathlete	56.69 m	Template:Flagathlete	55.02 m	Template:Flagathlete	54.49 m
Hammer throw	Template:Flagathlete	64.18 m	Template:Flagathlete	61.97 m	Template:Flagathlete	61.04 m
Javelin throw	Template:Flagathlete	55.40 m	Template:Flagathlete	55.40 m	Template:Flagathlete	53.71 m
Heptathlon	Template:Flagathlete	6022 pts	Template:Flagathlete	5956 pts	Template:Flagathlete	5745 pts

Medal table

File:Elvan Abeylegesse 2010 European Team Championships.jpg

Elvan Abeylegesse helped Turkey with her 3000/5000 m wins.

File:Isinbayeva Berlin 2009.jpg

Yelena Isinbayeva set a championship record in the pole vault.

Key

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

See also

• 2001 in athletics (track and field)

References

General

• Russi, Nicholas (2006-06-14). 16th European Junior Championships 2001 - Blue sky, blue track and a lot of Italian enthusiasm. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-07-19.

Results

• European Junior Championships Statistics database. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-07-19.
• European Junior Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-07-19.
• European Junior Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-07-19.