7th European Athletics U23 Championships
Dates	16–19 July 2009
Host city	Kaunas,Lithuania
Venue	S. Dariaus ir S. Girėno stadionas (Darius and Girėnas Stadium)
Level	U23
Type	Outdoor
Events	44
Participation	901 athletes from 42 nations
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The7thEuropean Athletics U23 Championships were held between 16 and 19 July 2009 in theS. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium inKaunas,Lithuania.

Complete results and medal winners were published.^[1][2]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (GBR)	10.15SB	Leevan Yearwood (GBR)	10.26SB	Rion Pierre (GBR)	10.28SB
200 metres details	Toby Sandeman (GBR)	20.37PB	Aleixo-Platini Menga (GER)	20.59	Ihor Bodrov (UKR)	20.61PB
400 metres details	Yannick Fonsat (FRA)	45.68PB	Nigel Levine (GBR)	45.78PB	Jan Ciepiela (POL)	45.81PB
800 metres details	Adam Kszczot (POL)	1:45.81	Marcin Lewandowski (POL)	1:46.52	Robin Schembera (GER)	1:46.63
1500 metres details	Ivan Tukhtachev (RUS)	3:51.19	James Brewer (GBR)	3:51.33	Jakub Holuša (CZE)	3:51.46
5000 metres details	Mohamed Elbendir (ESP)	13:55.10	Noureddine Smaïl (FRA)	13:59.23 SB	David McCarthy (IRL)	14:00.78
10,000 metres details	Selim Bayrak (TUR)	29:47.15	Andrea Lalli (ITA)	29:49.80	Dmytro Lashyn (UKR)	30:08.44
3000 metres steeplechase details	Aleksandr Pavelyev (RUS)	8:40.55	José Luis Galván (ESP)	8:41.53PB	Krystian Zalewski (POL)	8:42.06PB
110 metres hurdles details	Artur Noga (POL)	13.47	Gianni Frankis (GBR)	13.57PB	Callum Priestley (GBR)	13.63PB
400 metres hurdles details	Lloyd Gumbs (GBR)	49.62PB	Stanislav Melnykov (UKR)	49.88	Vincent Vanryckeghem (BEL)	49.90PB
20 kilometres walk details	Miguel Ángel López (ESP)	1:22:23PB	Dzianis Simanovich (BLR)	1:22:57	Matteo Giupponi (ITA)	1:23:00PB
4 × 100 metres relay details	Ryan Scott Toby Sandeman Rion Pierre Leevan Yearwood  Great Britain (GBR)	39.09	Emmanuel Biron Mickael Arminana Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux Teddy Tinmar  France (FRA)	39.26	Kamil Kryński Artur Zaczek Olaf Paruzel Jakub Adamski  Poland (POL)	39.52
4 × 400 metres relay details	Marcin Sobiech Jakub Krzewina Michał Pietrzak Jan Ciepiela Łukasz Krawczuk Sebastian Porządny  Poland (POL)	3:03.74	Marco Vistalli Isalbet Juarez Domenico Fontana Matteo Galvan  Italy (ITA)	3:03.79	Bruno Naprix Mame-Ibra Anne Yoann Décimus Yannick Fonsat Abdesslam Merabet Adrien Clemenceau  France (FRA)	3:04.06
High jump details	Sylwester Bednarek (POL)	2.28PB	Oleksandr Nartov (UKR)	2.26	Andriy Protsenko (UKR)	2.24=SB
Pole vault details	Raphael Holzdeppe (GER)	5.65 SB	Luke Cutts (GBR)	5.60 PB	Dimitrios Patsoukakis (GRE)	5.55PB
Long jump details	Janis Leitis (LAT)	7.90 PB	Pavel Karavayev (RUS)	7.86	Mikko Kivinen (FIN)	7.85=PB
Triple jump details	Daniele Greco (ITA)	17.20 PB	Zhivko Petkov (BUL)	16.81	Aliaksandr Liabedzka (BLR)	16.80 PB
Shot put details	Valeriy Kokoyev (RUS)	20.20 PB	Nick Petersen (DEN)	18.94 PB	Mateusz Mikos (POL)	18.89 PB
Discus throw details	Nikolay Sedyuk (RUS)	60.80SB	Ivan Hryshyn (UKR)	59.61	Martin Wierig (GER)	59.12
Hammer throw details	Yury Shayunou (BLR)	78.16	Anatoliy Pozdnyakov (RUS)	72.42	Alexander Ziegler (GER)	72.32
Javelin throw details	Ari Mannio (FIN)	84.57CR	Petr Frydrych (CZE)	80.53	Spiridon Lebesis (GRE)	79.37PB
Decathlon details	Eelco Sintnicolaas (NED)	8112PB	Mateo Sossah (FRA)	7885	Mihail Dudaš (SRB)	7855PB
WR world record |AR area record |CR championship record |GR games record |NR national record |OR Olympic record |PB personal best |SB season best |WL world leading (in a given season)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Lina Grincikaitė (LTU)	11.37	Nataliya Pohrebnyak (UKR)	11.45	Marika Popowicz (POL)	11.50
200 metres details	Aleksandra Fedoriva (RUS)	22.97SB	Ewelina Ptak (POL)	23.07PB	Marika Popowicz (POL)	23.25
400 metres details	Kseniya Ustalova (RUS)	51.74	Kseniya Zadorina (RUS)	51.76	Anna Sedova (RUS)	52.58
800 metres details	Elena Kofanova (RUS)	1:58.94	Nataliya Lupu (UKR)	2:01.08	Agnieszka Leszczyńska (POL)	2:01.53PB
1500 metres details	Sultan Haydar (TUR)	4:14.12	Kristina Khalayeva (RUS)	4:14.78	Yelena Fesenko (RUS)	4:15.86
5000 metres details	Natalya Popkova (RUS)	15:54.11	Sviatlana Kudzelich (BLR)	16:03.85	Emily Pidgeon (GBR)	16:04.71SB
10,000 metres details	Natalya Popkova (RUS)	33:37.31	Zsofia Erdelyi (HUN)	33:39.89PB	Azra Eminović (SRB)	33:47.19PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Ancuţa Bobocel (ROU)	9:47.90	Julia Hiller (GER)	9:57.44	Susanne Lutz (GER)	10:01.87PB
100 metres hurdles details	Christina Vukicevic (NOR)	12.99	Yekaterina Shtepa (RUS)	13.28	Alina Talay (BLR)	13.30
400 metres hurdles details	Perri Shakes-Drayton (GBR)	55.26PB	Eilidh Child (GBR)	55.32PB	Darya Korableva (RUS)	56.08
20 kilometres walk details	Yelena Shumkina (RUS)	1:33:05	Zuzana Schindlerová (CZE)	1:33:42	Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS)	1:34:13
4 × 100 metres relay details	Annabelle Lewis Joey Duck Lucy Sargent Elaine O'Neill  Great Britain (GBR)	43.89	Agnieszka Ceglarek Marika Popowicz Milena Pędziwiatr Weronika Wedler  Poland (POL)	43.90	Silvija Peseckaitė Lina Andrijauskaitė Sonata Tamošaitytė Lina Grinčikaitė  Lithuania (LTU)	44.09
4 × 400 metres relay details	Anna Sedova Kseniya Zadorina Kseniya Vdovina Kseniya Ustalova Lyudmila Mochalina  Russia (RUS)	3:27.59	Esther Cremer Jill Richards Janin Lindenberg Sorina Nwachukwu Lena Schmidt  Germany (GER)	3:29.21	Maryna Liboza Katsiaryna Mishyna Hanna Tashpulatava Alena Kievich Maryia Kavaliova  Belarus (BLR)	3:30.45
High jump details	Aleksandra Shamsutdinova (RUS)	1.89	Melanie Bauschke (GER)	1.89	Urszula Domel (POL)	1.86PB
Pole vault details	Elisaveta Ryzih (GER)	4.50=PB	Minna Nikkanen (FIN)	4.45=PB	Vanessa Vandy (FIN)	4.35
Long jump details	Melanie Bauschke (GER)	6.83PB	Nastassia Mironchyk (BLR)	6.76	Éloyse Lesueur (FRA)	6.72SB
Triple jump details	Paraskevi Papachristou (GRE)	14.34PB	Cristina Bujin (ROU)	14.26PB	Liliya Kulyk (UKR)	13.88
Shot put details	Denise Hinrichs (GER)	19.18	Irina Tarasova (RUS)	17.90	Alena Kopets (BLR)	17.72
Discus throw details	Eden Francis (GBR)	57.29	Vera Karmishina (RUS)	54.48	Jade Nicholls (GBR)	54.44PB
Hammer throw details	Zalina Marghieva (MDA)	67.67	Katerina Safrankova (CZE)	63.01	Sarah Holt (GBR)	62.55
Javelin throw details	Madara Palameika (LAT)	64.51NR CR	Vira Rebryk (UKR)	61.43	Anna Wessman (SWE)	55.91PB
Heptathlon details	Aiga Grabuste (LAT)	6396NR	Olga Kurban (RUS)	6205	Nadezhda Sergeeva (RUS)	6118PB
WR world record |AR area record |CR championship record |GR games record |NR national record |OR Olympic record |PB personal best |SB season best |WL world leading (in a given season)

  *   Host nation (Lithuania)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	12	8	5	25
2	Great Britain (GBR)	7	6	5	18
3	Germany (GER)	4	4	4	12
4	Poland (POL)	4	3	8	15
5	Latvia (LAT)	3	0	0	3
6	Spain (ESP)	2	1	0	3
7	Turkey (TUR)	2	0	0	2
8	Belarus (BLR)	1	3	4	8
9	France (FRA)	1	3	2	6
10	Italy (ITA)	1	2	1	4
11	Finland (FIN)	1	1	2	4
12	Romania (ROU)	1	1	0	2
13	Greece (GRE)	1	0	2	3
14	Lithuania (LTU)*	1	0	1	2
15	Moldova (MDA)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
18	Ukraine (UKR)	0	6	4	10
19	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	3	1	4
20	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
23	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	2	2
24	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		44	44	44	132

According to an unofficial count, 901 athletes from 42 countries participated in the event.

General

• Butcher, Michael (2009-07-17).European U23 Champs - Day One.IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-17.
• Elbendir claims 5000 gold, Kokoyev wins Shot Put on Day 1 in Kaunas^{[permanent dead link]}.European Athletics (2009-07-16). Retrieved on 2009-07-17.
• Butcher, Michael (2009-07-18).European U23 Champs - Day Two (Archived 2009-07-25).IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
• Aikines-Aryeetey leads GB 1-2-3 in 100m final on Day 2 in Kaunas (Archived 2009-07-25).European Athletics (2009-07-17). Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
• Butcher, Michael (2009-07-19).European U23 Champs - Day Three.IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
• Poland's Kszczot takes gold ahead of Lewandowski in 800 on Day 3 in Kaunas.European Athletics (2009-07-18). Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
• Butcher, Michael (2009-07-20).European U23 Champs, Final Day.IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
• Russia finish top of medal table at European Athletics U23 Championships.European Athletics (2009-07-19). Retrieved on 2009-07-20.

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• 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships
• European Athletics U23 Championships
• 2009 in the sport of athletics
• International athletics competitions hosted by Lithuania
• Sports competitions in Kaunas
• 2009 in Lithuanian sport
• 2009 in youth sport
• July 2009 sports events in Europe
• 21st century in Kaunas
• 2009 in European international sport
• Youth sport in Lithuania

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