# 1991 European Athletics Junior Championships

The 1991 European Athletics Junior Championships was the eleventh edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Thessaloniki, Greece between 8 and 11 August.

## Men's results

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m | Darren Campbell (GBR) | 10.46 | Konstantin Gromadskiy (URS) | 10.55 | Alessandro Orlandi (ITA) | 10.55 |
| 200 m | Darren Campbell (GBR) | 20.61 | Oganes Mkrtchyan (URS) | 21.00 | Gerald Aust (GER) | 21.12 |
| 400 m | David Grindley (GBR) | 45.41 | Mark Richardson (GBR) | 45.53 | Florian Hennig (GER) | 46.42 |
| 800 m | Curtis Robb (GBR) | 1:48.23 | Aleksey Oleynikov (URS) | 1:48.63 | Vaclav Hrich (TCH) | 1:49.19 |
| 1500 m | Mateo Cañellas (ESP) | 3:53.11 | Andrey Bulkovskiy (URS) | 3:53.61 | Claus Wittekindt (GER) | 3:53.66 |
| 5000 m | Marc Carroll (IRL) | 14:19.48 | Cyrille Ballester (FRA) | 14:21.33 | Juan Luis Gomez (ESP) | 14:21.77 |
| 10,000 m | Danilo Goffi (ITA) | 30:18.62 | Yuriy Chizhkov (URS) | 30:21.97 | Antonio Roman (ESP) | 30:54.55 |
| 3000 m s'chase | Georgios Loukaides (CYP) | 8:49.24 | Steffen Brandis (GER) | 8:50.01 | Jim Svenøy (NOR) | 8:50.02 |
| 110 m hurdles | Sven Gohler (GER) | 13.95 | Yevgeniy Pechenkin (URS) | 14.06 | Claude Edorh (GER) | 14.26 |
| 400 m hurdles | Aleksandr Belikov (URS) | 50.29 | Ashraf Saber (ITA) | 51.21 | Daniel Blochwitz (GER) | 51.25 |
| 10,000 m walk | Ilya Markov (URS) | 41:11.22 | Grzegorz Muller (POL) | 41:13.00 | Michele Didoni (ITA) | 42:16.68 |
| 20 km run | Juan Franc Sanchez (ESP) | 1:06:19 | Marco Orsi (ITA) | 1:06:45 | Vladimir Radiletskiy (URS) | 1:06:53 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Soviet Union (URS) Alex Porkhomovskiy Serhiy Osovych Vitaliy Semyonov Konstantin Gromadskiy | 39.79 | Great Britain (GBR) David Jackson Mark Richardson Jamie Baulch Darren Campbell | 39.86 | France (FRA) Willy Seymour Sébastien Carrat Sébastien Sayé Stéphane Cali | 40.03 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Great Britain (GBR) Kent Ulyatt Adrian Patrick Mark Richardson David Grindley | 3:07.22 | Poland (POL) Dariusz Zielenkiewicz Tomasz Czubak Artur Gąsiewski Paweł Januszewski | 3:08.18 | Soviet Union (URS) Vitaliy Sviridenko Andrey Inozemtsev Inguns Sviklins Aleksandr Belikov | 3:10.34 |
| High jump | Steve Smith (GBR) | 2.29 m | Sergey Klyugin (URS) | 2.27 m | Petar Malešev (YUG) | 2.25 m |
| Pole vault | Gerald Baudouin (FRA) | 5.50 m | Aleksandr Korchagin (URS) | 5.30 m | Tim Lobinger (GER) | 5.20 m |
| Long jump | Steve Phillips (GBR) | 7.91 m | Matias Ghansah (SWE) | 7.82 m | Georg Ackermann (GER) | 7.74 m |
| Triple jump | Tosi Fasinro (GBR) | 16.68 m | Karsten Richter (GER) | 16.34 m | Yaroslav Ivanov (BUL) | 16.34 m |
| Shot put | Aleksey Shidlovskiy (URS) | 18.40 m | Aleksey Shapran (URS) | 17.61 m | Ralf Kahles (GER) | 17.12 m |
| Discus throw | Vladimir Dubrovshchik (URS) | 60.58 m | Johannes Kerala (FIN) | 54.86 m | Gennadiy Barsegyan (URS) | 53.50 m |
| Hammer throw | Ruslan Dikiy (URS) | 70.06 m | Marcel Kunkel (GER) | 68.94 m | Balázs Kiss (HUN) | 68.40 m |
| Javelin throw | Aleksey Shchepin (URS) | 75.20 m | Jarkko Heimonen (FIN) | 75.00 m | Aki Parviainen (FIN) | 74.70 m |
| Decathlon | Vitaliy Kolpakov (URS) | 7813 pts | Tomáš Dvořák (TCH) | 7748 pts | Jarkko Finni (FIN) | 7479 pts |

## Women's results

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m | Zhanna Tarnopolskaya (URS) | 11.35 | Marcia Richardson (GBR) | 11.62 | Bettina Zipp (GER) | 11.64 |
| 200 m | Zhanna Tarnopolskaya (URS) | 23.56 | Giada Gallina (ITA) | 23.83 | Katharine Merry (GBR) | 23.84 |
| 400 m | Donna Fraser (GBR) | 52.54 | Anja Rucker (GER) | 52.73 | Wiebke Steffen (GER) | 53.42 |
| 800 m | Aurica Rautu (ROM) | 2:04.18 | Fabia Trabaldo (ITA) | 2:04.75 | Severine Foulon (FRA) | 2:05.07 |
| 1500 m | Malin Ewerlof (SWE) | 4:15.43 | Fabia Trabaldo (ITA) | 4:15.58 | Olga Yegorova (URS) | 4:17.09 |
| 3000 m | Gabriela Szabo (ROM) | 9:19.28 | Gunhild Halle (NOR) | 9:22.48 | Milka Mikhailova (BUL) | 9:23.56 |
| 10,000 m | Dorte Koster (GER) | 35:10.30 | Inna Kozina (URS) | 35:23.68 | Ana Nanu (ROM) | 35:24.24 |
| 100 m hurdles | Keri Maddox (GBR) | 13.39 | Petra Huybrechtse (NED) | 13.44 | Samantha Baker (GBR) | 13.61 |
| 400 m hurdles | Nelli Voronkova (URS) | 56.89 | Christina Sonderegger (SUI) | 58.06 | Åsa Carlsson (SWE) | 58.23 |
| 5000 m walk | Yuliya Korolyova (URS) | 21:57.60 | Susana Feitor (POR) | 22:00.98 | Natalya Trofimova (URS) | 22:11.52 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Germany (GER) Katharina Gaus Gabi Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier Silke Lichtenhagen | 44.46 | Great Britain (GBR) Lisa Armstrong Marcia Richardson Donna Fraser Katharine Merry | 44.57 | Italy (ITA) Elena Barangani Nadia Guarino Giancarla Marinelli Giada Gallina | 45.01 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Germany (GER) Andrea Bornscheuer Silvia Steimle Wiebke Steffen Anja Rücker | 3:35.24 | Soviet Union (URS) Anna Kozak Natalya Sharova Zhanna Tarnopolskaya Nelli Voronkova | 3:37.30 | Romania (ROM) Georgeta Petrea Laura Itcu Mariana Florea Maria Magdalena Nedelcu | 3:38.45 |
| High jump | Manuela Aigner (GER) | 1.91 m | Venelina Veneva (BUL) | 1.91 m | Viktoriya Fyodorova (URS) | 1.91 m |
| Long jump | Oluyinka Idowu (GBR) | 6.60 m | Lyudmila Galkina (URS) | 6.54 m | Iva Prandzheva (BUL) | 6.50 m |
| Triple jump | Lyudmila Galkina (URS) | 13.67 m | Tatyana Matyashova (URS) | 13.49 m | Elena Dumitrascu (ROM) | 13.31 m |
| Shot put | Anja Gündler (GER) | 16.80 m | Ilona Gersdorff (GER) | 16.09 m | Olga Iliyna (URS) | 16.06 m |
| Discus throw | Anja Gündler (GER) | 60.38 m | Natalya Koptyukh (URS) | 56.44 m | Olena Antonova (URS) | 54.30 m |
| Javelin throw | Christine Gast (GER) | 56.30 m | Nikola Tomečková (TCH) | 55.34 m | Steffi Nerius (GER) | 54.60 m |
| Heptathlon | Natallia Sazanovich (URS) | 5896 pts | Nathalie Teppe (FRA) | 5868 pts | Astrid Retzke (GER) | 5694 pts |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 14 | 14 | 8 | 36 |
| 2 | Great Britain (GBR) | 11 | 4 | 2 | 17 |
| 3 | Germany (GER) | 8 | 5 | 12 | 25 |
| 4 | Romania (ROM) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | Spain (ESP) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | France (FRA) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 8 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Cyprus (CYP) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Ireland (IRL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 15 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Portugal (POR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (20 entries) | Totals (20 entries) | 42 | 42 | 42 | 126 |