2003 European Athletics Junior Championships

Template:Infobox Athletics Championships The 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships was held in Tampere, Finland from 23 to 27 July 2003. A total of 44 events were contested; 22 by men and 22 by women. Germany had the biggest medal haul with nine golds and a total of 26, closely followed by Russia (also 9 golds but 24 medals in total). Great Britain was third with 17 medals, while Romania was fourth with ten medals. Four championship records were set at the competition, although three were as a result of using lighter implements in the men's throwing events.

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Host stadium in Tampere.

Nelson Évora was a stand-out performer, having won both the long jump and triple jump. Ivet Lalova of Bulgaria did the sprint double in the women's 100 metres and 200 metres, while Sophie Krauel showed her versatility by taking golds in the 100 metres hurdles and the long jump. The long-distance track events also provided opportunities for athletes to double up, as Inna Poluškina and Marius Ionescu both left the competition with a gold and a silver medal.

The men's javelin throw 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, Tero Järvenpää, and Antti Ruuskanen. 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 was held, as it was replaced by a 3000 m version in 2005.

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Magnus Lohse	Shot put		20.28 m†	CR
Erik Cadée	Discus throw		60.42 m†	CR
Lorenzo Povegliano	Hammer throw		72.72 m†	CR
Catalina Oprea	2000 metres steeplechase		6:21.78	WR, CR

Key:0000	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)

Medal summary

Men

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Nelson Évora completed a long jump/triple jump double

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Leon Baptiste Template:Flagcountry	10.50	Till Helmke Template:Flagcountry	10.52	Monu Miah Template:Flagcountry	10.54
200 m	Sebastian Ernst Template:Flagcountry	20.63	Roman Smirnov Template:Flagcountry	20.86	Till Helmke Template:Flagcountry	20.86
400 m	Dimítrios Gravalos Template:Flagcountry	46.54	Kamghe Gaba Template:Flagcountry	46.63	Piotr Kedzia Template:Flagcountry	46.69
800 m	René Bauschinger Template:Flagcountry	1:46.43	David Fiegen Template:Flagcountry	1:49.91	Ireneusz Sekretarski Template:Flagcountry	1:49.97
1500 m	Bartosz Nowicki Template:Flagcountry	3:45.01	Thomas Lancashire Template:Flagcountry	3:45.60	Olle Walleräng Template:Flagcountry	3:46.17
5000 m	Anatoliy Rybakov Template:Flagcountry	14:13.41	Marius Ionescu Template:Flagcountry	14:16.12	Cristinel Irimia Template:Flagcountry	14:17.30
10,000 m	Marius Ionescu Template:Flagcountry	29:40.41	Alexey Reunkov Template:Flagcountry	29:40.80	Mohammed Bashir Template:Flagcountry	29:42.42
3000 m steeplechase	Ruben Schwarz Template:Flagcountry	8:46.21	Maricel Ionascu Template:Flagcountry	8:53.31	Christoforos Meroussis Template:Flagcountry	8:55.69
110 m hurdles	Bano Traore Template:Flagcountry	13.95	Andreas Kundert Template:Flagcountry	14.18	Kai Doskoczynski Template:Flagcountry	14.26
400 m hurdles	Rhys Williams Template:Flagcountry	51.15	Mohamed Atig Template:Flagcountry	51.46	Rupert Gardner Template:Flagcountry	51.83
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Andrew Matthews Laurence Oboh Monu Miah Leon Baptiste	40.37	Template:Flagcountry Martin Lohmann Kai Doskoczynski Sebastian Ernst Till Helmke	40.41	Template:Flagcountry Cédric Fagris Jean-Paul Fernandez Guillaume Wallard Eddy De Lépine	40.50
4 × 400 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Lars Förster Thomas Wilhelm Christoph Gernand Kamghe Gaba	3:08.31	Template:Flagcountry Łukasz Pryga Karol Grzegorczyk Rafał Błocian Piotr Kędzia	3:08.62	Template:Flagcountry Konstantin Svechkar Maksim Aleksandrenko Ivan Kozhukhar Dmitriy Shubin	3:08.81
10 km walk	Vladimir Parvatkin Template:Flagcountry	41:33.55	Michal Blazek Template:Flagcountry	41:54.66	Francisco Arcilla Template:Flagcountry	42:06.15
High jump	Jaroslav Baba Template:Flagcountry	2.28 m	Aleksey Dmitrik Template:Flagcountry	2.26 m	Linus Thörnblad Template:Flagcountry	2.23 m
Pole vault	Vincent Favretto Template:Flagcountry	5.50 m	Artyom Kuptsov Template:Flagcountry	5.50 m	Fabian Schulze Template:Flagcountry	5.40 m
Long jump	Nelson Évora Template:Flagcountry	7.83 m	Christian Kaczmarek Template:Flagcountry	7.81 m	Tim Riedel Template:Flagcountry	7.65 m
Triple jump	Nelson Évora Template:Flagcountry	16.43 m	Dmitriy Detsuk Template:Flagcountry	16.13 m	Yevgen Semenenko Template:Flagcountry	16.04 m
Shot put	Magnus Lohse Template:Flagcountry	20.28 m	Anton Lyuboslavskiy Template:Flagcountry	20.10 m	Georgi Ivanov Template:Flagcountry	19.94 m
Discus throw	Erik Cadée Template:Flagcountry	60.42 m	Martin Marić Template:Flagcountry	58.59 m	Andreas Porth Template:Flagcountry	58.45 m
Hammer throw	Lorenzo Povegliano Template:Flagcountry	72.72 m	Kamilius Bethke Template:Flagcountry	72.60 m	Andrey Azarenkov Template:Flagcountry	72.10 m
Javelin throw	Teemu Wirkkala Template:Flagcountry	79.90 m	Tero Järvenpää Template:Flagcountry	73.66 m	Antti Ruuskanen Template:Flagcountry	72.87 m
Decathlon	Nicklas Wiberg Template:Flagcountry	7604 pts	Alexey Sysoev Template:Flagcountry	7531 pts	Steffen Willwacher Template:Flagcountry	7497 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Template:Flagathlete	11.43	Template:Flagathlete	11.56	Template:Flagathlete	11.60
200 metres	Template:Flagathlete	22.88	Template:Flagathlete	23.35	Template:Flagathlete	23.36
400 metres	Template:Flagathlete	52.65	Template:Flagathlete	53.62	Template:Flagathlete	54.21
800 metres	Template:Flagathlete	2:02.76	Template:Flagathlete	2:03.40	Template:Flagathlete	2:03.42
1500 metres	Template:Flagathlete	4:12.57	Template:Flagathlete	4:16.91	Template:Flagathlete	4:17.56
3000 metres	Template:Flagathlete	9:07.85	Template:Flagathlete	9:23.10	Template:Flagathlete	9:26.01
5000 metres	Template:Flagathlete	15:52.20	Template:Flagathlete	15:55.69	Template:Flagathlete	16:07.26
100 metre hurdles	Template:Flagathlete	13.28	Template:Flagathlete	13.53	Template:Flagathlete	13.59
400 metre hurdles	Template:Flagathlete	57.52	Template:Flagathlete	57.57	Template:Flagathlete	58.30
2000 metres steeplechase	Template:Flagathlete	6:21.78 WJR	Template:Flagathlete	6:32.03	Template:Flagathlete	6:35.11
4 × 100 metre relay	Template:Flagteam Natacha Vouaux Lina Jacques-Sébastien Aurélie Kamga Véronique Mang	44.60	Template:Flagteam Anyika Onuora Kadi-Ann Thomas Amy Spencer Jade Lucas-Read	44.81	Template:Flagteam Siina Pylkkä Elina Korjansalo Sari Keskitalo Elisa Hakamäki	45.00
4 × 400 metre relay	Template:Flagteam Tatyana Popova Yekaterina Kostetskaya Yelena Migunova Mariya Dryakhlova	3:33.48	Template:Flagteam Dora Jemaa Thélia Sigère Rose Ndje Virginie Michanal	3:37.78	Template:Flagteam Christine Ohuruogu Sian Scott Victoria Griffiths Gemma Nicol	3:38.96
10 km walk	Template:Flagathlete	47:12.77	Template:Flagathlete	47:17.56	Template:Flagathlete	47:36.15
High jump	Template:Flagathlete	1.88 m	Template:Flagathlete	1.86 m	Template:Flagathlete	1.86 m
Pole vault	Template:Flagathlete	4.15 m	Template:Flagathlete	4.15 m	Template:Flagathlete	4.15 m
Long jump	Template:Flagathlete	6.47 m	Template:Flagathlete	6.46 m	Template:Flagathlete	6.35 m
Triple jump	Template:Flagathlete	13.61 m	Template:Flagathlete	13.54 m	Template:Flagathlete	13.37 m
Shot put	Template:Flagathlete	16.71 m	Template:Flagathlete	16.29 m	Template:Flagathlete	16.16 m
Discus throw	Template:Flagathlete	53.75 m	Template:Flagathlete	53.44 m	Template:Flagathlete	52.39 m
Hammer throw	Template:Flagathlete	66.08 m	Template:Flagathlete	65.89 m	Template:Flagathlete	65.64 m
Javelin throw	Template:Flagathlete	56.96 m	Template:Flagathlete	54.74 m	Template:Flagathlete	52.76 m
Heptathlon	Template:Flagathlete	5748 pts	Template:Flagathlete	5631 pts	Template:Flagathlete	5605 pts

Medal table

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Sprinter Ivet Lalova won both of Bulgaria's gold medals

File:Teemu Wirkkala Osaka07.jpg

Teemu Wirkkala took the host's sole gold in the javelin

See also

• 2003 in athletics (track and field)

References

Results

• European Junior Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-06-04.
• European Junior Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-06-04.
• Full results (archived)