# 1979 European Athletics Junior Championships

The 1979 European Athletics Junior Championships was the fifth edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland between 16 and 19 August.

## Men's results

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Thomas Schröder (GDR) | 10.41 | Werner Zaske (FRG) | 10.43 | Mike McFarlane (GBR) | 10.43 |
| 200 metres | Mike McFarlane (GBR) | 20.89 | Thomas Schröder (GDR) | 21.11 | Francesco Tiziani (ITA) | 21.17 |
| 400 metres | Hartmut Weber (FRG) | 45.77 | Andreas Knebel (GDR) | 46.45 | Melvin Fowell (GBR) | 46.63 |
| 800 metres | Klaus-Peter Nabein (FRG) | 1:48.18 | Andreas Hauck (GDR) | 1:48.85 | Dieter Elmer (SUI) | 1:48.98 |
| 1500 metres | Graham Williamson (GBR) | 3:38.96 | Leonid Bruk (URS) | 3:39.95 | Peter Wirz (SUI) | 3:42.66 |
| 3000 metres | Steve Cram (GBR) | 8:05.18 | Jürgen Mattern (GDR) | 8:05.48 | Aleksandr Kuznetsov (URS) | 8:07.77 |
| 5000 metres | Steve Binns (GBR) | 13:44.37 | Eddy De Pauw (BEL) | 13:52.19 | António Leitão (POR) | 13:54.83 |
| 110 m hurdles | Frank Rossland (GDR) | 14.09 | György Bakos (HUN) | 14.23 | Georgiy Shabanov (URS) | 14.24 |
| 400 m hurdles | Yeoryiós Vamvakas (GRE) | 50.67 | Sergey Chizhikov (URS) | 51.31 | Serge Guillen (FRA) | 51.44 |
| 2000 m s'chase | Gaetano Erba (ITA) | 5:27.44 | Colin Reitz (GBR) | 5:29.61 | Michael Längler (FRG) | 5:32.48 |
| 10 000 metres walk | Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) | 41:04.71 | Erling Andersen (NOR) | 41:12.80 | Jörg Pasemann (GDR) | 42:31.04 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | West Germany (FRG) Hans Fritzsche Dieter Daniels Herbert Mutschler Werner Zaske | 39.86 | Great Britain (GBR) Philip Cooke Michael Powell Phil Brown Mike McFarlane | 40.06 | Italy (ITA) Alessandro Angelini Francesco Tiziani Ermanno Colombo Carlo Simionato | 40.21 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | West Germany (FRG) Thomas Giessing Edgar Nakladal Uwe Schmitt Hartmut Weber | 3:06.73 | Soviet Union (URS) Valeriy Lagutyenok Sergey Melnikov Fedor Vakhitov Pavel Konovalov | 3:06.76 | East Germany (GDR) Frank Hübner Enrico Becker Andreas Neuber Andreas Knebel | 3:07.35 |
| High jump | Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) | 2.24 m | Roberto Cerri (ITA) | 2.24 m | Harald Ehlke (FRG) | 2.18 m |
| Pole vault | Vladimir Polyakov (URS) | 5.40 m | Aleksandr Krupskiy (URS) | 5.40 m | Thierry Vigneron (FRA) | 5.40 m |
| Long jump | Andrzej Klimaszewski (POL) | 7.83 m | Michael Rentz (GDR) | 7.72 m | Waldemar Golanko (POL) | 7.58 m |
| Triple jump | Aleksandr Beskrovnyi (URS) | 16.47 m | Viktor Gerassimenya (URS) | 16.45 m | Mihai Ene (ROM) | 16.15 m |
| Shot put | Remigius Machura (TCH) | 18.34 m | Andreas Horn (GDR) | 18.30 m | Sergey Kasnauskas (URS) | 18.03 m |
| Discus throw | Jürgen Schult (GDR) | 56.18 m | Sergey Kot (URS) | 55.44 m | Ryszard Idziak (POL) | 54.94 m |
| Hammer throw | Igor Nikulin (URS) | 71.56 m | Yuriy Pastukhov (URS) | 67.18 m | Klaus Streckenbach (GDR) | 66.24 m |
| Javelin throw | Joachim Lange (GDR) | 78.78 m | Yuriy Zhirov (URS) | 76.92 m | Mitko Pavlov (BUL) | 72.66 m |
| Decathlon | Siegfried Wentz (FRG) | 7822 pts | Dietmar Jentsch (GDR) | 7718 pts | Peter Hummel (GDR) | 7506 pts |

## Women's results

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Kerstin Walther (GDR) | 11.57 | Kirsten Siemon (GDR) | 11.57 | Elke Vollmer (FRG) | 11.61 |
| 200 metres | Kerstin Walther (GDR) | 23.11 | Karin Verguts (BEL) | 23.41 | Natalya Bochina (URS) Elke Vollmer (FRG) | 23.45 |
| 400 metres | Dagmar Rübsam (GDR) | 51.55 | Liliya Tuznikova (URS) | 51.68 | Marion Heilmann (GDR) | 52.08 |
| 800 metres | Marion Hübner (GDR) | 2:01.21 | Birgit Brudel (GDR) | 2:01.90 | Rossitsa Ekova (BUL) | 2:02.72 |
| 1500 metres | Irina Nikitina (URS) | 4:10.50 | Gunvor Hilde (NOR) | 4:11.84 | Cristieana Cojocaru (ROM) | 4:12.14 |
| 100 m hurdles | Lena Spoof (FIN) | 13.24 | Silva Oja (URS) | 13.57 | Edith Oker (FRG) | 13.70 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | East Germany (GDR) Cornelia Kirsten Kerstin Walther Undine Hartmann Kirsten Siemon | 43.95 | Soviet Union (URS) Yelena Malakhova Galina Mikheyeva Alla Kozlovskaya Natalya Bochina | 44.59 | West Germany (FRG) Edith Oker Elke Vollmer Anke Köninger Friedericke Vombohr | 44.84 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | East Germany (GDR) Kerstin Cattus Marion Hübner Marion Heilmann Dagmar Rübsam | 3:31.68 | West Germany (FRG) Petra Krützmann Anke Zelgert Friedericke Vombohr Rita Daimer | 3:35.39 | Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Kiryukhina Aldona Mendzoryte Marina Ivanova Liliya Tuznikova | 3:35.47 |
| High jump | Kerstin Dedner (GDR) | 1.87 m | Katrin Buck (FRG) | 1.87 m | Barbara Simmonds (GBR) | 1.84 m |
| Long jump | Helga Radtke (GDR) | 6.47 m | Sabine Everts (FRG) | 6.46 m | Sue Hearnshaw (GBR) | 6.46 m |
| Shot put | Liane Schmuhl (GDR) | 18.33 m | Simone Rudrich (GDR) | 17.12 m | Yelena Kozlova (URS) | 16.59 m |
| Discus throw | Irina Meszynski (GDR) | 60.30 m | Silvia Madetzky (GDR) | 56.88 m | Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL) | 54.76 m |
| Javelin throw | Fatima Whitbread (GBR) | 58.20 m | Katrin Strobel (GDR) | 58.02 m | Antoaneta Todorova (BUL) | 57.76 m |
| Pentathlon | Sabine Everts (FRG) | 4594 pts | Silva Oja (URS) | 4424 pts | Anke Vater (GDR) | 4322 pts |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 14 | 11 | 7 | 32 |
| 2 | West Germany (FRG) | 7 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 4 | Soviet Union (URS) | 4 | 12 | 6 | 22 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 14 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | Portugal (POR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 36 | 35 | 35 | 106 |