Athletics at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

The athletics competition at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held at the Athletics Stadium of Tbilisi in Tbilisi, Georgia between 27 July and 1 August. ^[1] A total of 36 events were held, evenly divided between the sexes, repeating the programme of the previous edition.

The competition was preceded the World Athletics Leaders Seminar, which included European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen and IAAF Vice President Sergey Bubka among its attendees. The games' athletics came ahead of the city's hosting of the 2016 European Athletics Youth Championships – the first edition of the competition, which will be held in the even years between the European Youth Festival's events. ^[2]

French jumper Enzo Hodebar was the most successful athlete in the sport, being the only youth to take two individual titles with his long jump and triple jump wins. Serbia had two double medallists in the 1500 metres and 3000 metres: Elzan Bibić won a gold and a silver in the boys' events while Tamara Mićević was a double runner-up on the girl's side. The overall standard of winning performances was down on previous years, but three games records were set in the girls' section: Viivi Lehikoinen set a time of 57.74 seconds for the 400 metres hurdles, Elizaveta Bondarenko improved the pole vault standard to 4.20 m (13 ft 9+1⁄4 in), and Carolina Visca set a javelin throw games record of 60.09 m (197 ft 1+1⁄2 in). ^[3]

France easily topped the medal table with six gold medals among its haul of twelve – its performance in athletics accounted for most of the medals at the games, in which it placed third in the overall medal table. ^[4] Russian had the next highest number of golds, at four, while the Netherlands had the second-highest total with six medals including three gold. Ukraine ranked third with three golds and two silver medals. In total athletes from thirty nations reached the podium at the competition. The host nation failed to appear on the medal table. ^[3]

Medal summary

Boys

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Henrik Roger Larsson   Sweden	10.72	Lauri Tuomilehto   Finland	10.82	Pol Retamal   Spain	10.92
200 m	Florian Barbier   France	21.52	Matěj Krsek   Czech Republic	21.90	Bryan Pronk   Netherlands	21.93
400 m	Ihar Zubko  [ no ]   Belarus	47.44	Mahsum Korkmaz   Turkey	48.51	Gregor Grahovac   Slovenia	48.56
800 m	Marino Bloudek   Croatia	1:53.76	Eliott Crestan   Belgium	1:54.02	Javier Mirón   Spain	1:54.92
1500 m	Kevin McGrath   Ireland	4:01.11	Elzan Bibić   Serbia	4:01.62	Pierre Proust   France	4:02.35
3000 m	Elzan Bibić   Serbia	8:50.10	Nurkan Dagtekin   Turkey	8:54.91	Tindaro Lisa   Italy	8:56.65
110 metres hurdles (91.4 cm)	Julian Andrianavalona   France	13.84	Luis Salort   Spain	13.85	Cristian Faidiga   Italy	14.11
400 metres hurdles (84.0 cm)	Aleix Porras   Spain	52.52	Tuur Bras   Belgium	53.63	Marc-Antoine Saban   France	53.82
2000 m steeplechase	Stefan Schmid   Austria	6:10.03	Matevz Cimermancic   Slovenia	6:13.66	Timothée Mischler   France	6:15.19
4 × 100 m relay	France Luc Bertrand Simon Boypa Marc-Antoine Saban Florian Barbier	42.11	Spain Luis Salort Alejandro Peiro Jesus Gómez Pol Retamal	42.46	Slovakia Adrián Baran Jakub Benda Simon Rigász Marcel Žilavý	44.29
High jump	Dmytro Nikitin   Ukraine	2.12	Ryan Carthy Walsh   Ireland	2.09	Adonios Merlos   Greece	2.06
Pole vault	Bo Kanda Lita Bähre   Germany	4.92	Taras Shevtsov   Ukraine	4.60	Riccardo Klotz   Austria	4.60
Long jump	Enzo Hodebar   France	7.32	Ioan Bogdan Sitoianu   Romania	6.89	Uladzislau Bulakhau   Belarus	6.88
Triple jump	Enzo Hodebar   France	15.24	Razvan Cristian Grecu   Romania	15.03	Andrea Dallavalle   Italy	14.74
Shot put (5 kg)	Arttu Korkeasalo   Finland	18.98	Ariel Atias   Israel	17.67	Vadzim Charnyshou   Belarus	17.60
Discus (1.5 kg)	Ferenc Aranyi   Hungary	57.45	Giorgios Koniarakis   Cyprus	56.13	Kornel Warszawski   Poland	51.43
Hammer throw (5 kg)	Mykhailo Havryliuk   Ukraine	75.20	Mihaita Andrei Micu   Romania	70.18	Dzmitry Baraukou   Belarus	68.05
Javelin (700 g)	Ilia Tuzov   Russia	69.67	Matīss Velps   Latvia	66.21	Bartul Zemunik   Croatia	65.32

Girls

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Ciara Neville  (IRL)	12.01	Klaudia Adamek  (POL)	12.16	Ingvild Meinseth  (NOR)	12.17
200 metres	Marine Mignon  (FRA)	24.07	Gina Akpe-Moses  (IRL)   Anna Kerbachová  (CZE)	24.49	Not awarded
400 metres	Andrea Miklós  (ROU)	53.68	Yasmin Giger  (SUI)	55.02	Katarina Sekulić  (SRB)	55.09
800 metres	Malin Edland  (NOR)	2:07.43	Lilyana Georgieva  (BUL)	2:07.89	Adrianna Czapla  (POL)	2:08.84
1500 metres	Merel van den Marel  (NED)	4:33.98	Tamara Mićević  (SRB)	4:34.35	Beata Topka  (POL)	4:35.33
3000 metres	Diane van Es  (NED)	9:58.49	Tamara Mićević  (SRB)	9:59.07	Justine Tinck  (BEL)	9:59.81
100 metres hurdles (76.2 cm)	Kristina Kleshcheva  (RUS)	13.75	Paula Sprudzane  (LAT)	13.75	Nika Glojnaric  (SLO)	13.84
400 metres hurdles (76.2 cm)	Viivi Lehikoinen  (FIN)	57.74 CR	Iman Jean  (FRA)	1:00.57	Marie Skjaeggestad  (NOR)	1:01.06
2000 metres steeplechase	Jasmijn Bakker  (NED)	6:48.80	Anastasiia Makhrova  (RUS)	6:50.39	Tira Pavuk  (HUN)	6:52.59
4 × 100 m relay	Norway Live Haugstad Hilton Ida Eikeng Tonje Fjellet Kristiansen Ingvild Meinseth	46.54	France Whitney Tie Sacha Alessandrini Iman Jean Marine Mignon	46.67	Belgium Celine Gautier Laures Bauwens Hanne Vancamp Hanne Claus	46.78
High jump	Ekaterina Prikhodkova  (RUS)	1.80	Maja Nilsson  (SWE)	1.80	Sommer Lecky  (IRL)	1.80
Pole vault	Elizaveta Bondarenko  (RUS)	4.20 CR	Lisa Gunnarsson  (SWE)	4.15	Amalie Svabikova  (CZE)	3.90
Long jump	Maja Bedrac  (SLO)	6.01	Klinta Blusina  (LAT)	5.93	Antonia Kohl  (GER)	5.91
Triple jump	Georgiana Anitei  (ROU)	13.50 w	Sonia Da Konseisao Kussekala  (UKR)	13.30 w	Eva Pepelnak  (SLO)	12.87 w
Shot put (3 kg)	Marharyta Lukashenko  (UKR)	16.30	Jessica Schilder  (NED)	16.05	Emely Gross  (GER)	16.00
Discus throw (1 kg)	Alexandra Emilianov  (MDA)	51.93	Helena Leveelahti  (FIN)	48.06	Dara Obot  (NED)	46.30
Hammer throw (3 kg)	Tatsiana Ramanovich  (BLR)	65.95	Kiira Väänänen  (FIN)	64.24	Dunya Ezgi Sayan  (TUR)	61.61
Javelin throw (500 g)	Carolina Visca  (ITA)	60.09 CR	Jona Aigouy  (FRA)	54.70	Arianne Duarte Morais  (NOR)	52.64

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France  (FRA)	6	3	3	12
2	Russia  (RUS)	4	1	0	5
3	Ukraine  (UKR)	3	2	0	5
4	Netherlands  (NED)	3	1	2	6
5	Finland  (FIN)	2	3	0	5
	Romania  (ROU)	2	3	0	5
7	Ireland  (IRL)	2	2	1	5
8	Belarus  (BLR)	2	0	3	5
	Norway  (NOR)	2	0	3	5
10	Serbia  (SRB)	1	3	1	5
11	Spain  (ESP)	1	2	2	5
12	Sweden  (SWE)	1	2	0	3
13	Slovenia  (SLO)	1	1	3	5
14	Italy  (ITA)	1	0	3	4
15	Germany  (GER)	1	0	2	3
16	Austria  (AUT)	1	0	1	2
	Croatia  (CRO)	1	0	1	2
	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	1	2
19	Moldova  (MDA)	1	0	0	1
20	Latvia  (LAT)	0	3	0	3
21	Belgium  (BEL)	0	2	2	4
22	Czech Republic  (CZE)	0	2	1	3
	Turkey  (TUR)	0	2	1	3
24	Poland  (POL)	0	1	3	4
25	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Cyprus  (CYP)	0	1	0	1
	Israel  (ISR)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	0	1
29	Greece  (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia  (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (30 entries)		36	37	35	108

References

1. European Youth Olympic Festival Tbilisi 2015 Competition Schedule ^{[ permanent dead link ]}. Tbilisi2015. Retrieved on 2015-08-06.
2. Hansen & Karamarinov attend EYOF Opening Ceremony. European Athletics (2015-07-27). Retrieved on 2015-08-06.
3. Athletics Results. Tbilisi2015. Retrieved on 2015-08-06.
4. Medal Table Archived 2015-08-05 at the Wayback Machine . Tbilisi2015. Retrieved on 2015-08-06.

Results

• Athletics Results. Tbilisi2015. Retrieved on 2015-08-06.
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