# 1981 European Athletics Junior Championships

The 1981 European Athletics Junior Championships was the sixth edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Utrecht, Netherlands between 20 and 23 August.

## Men's results

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Thomas Schröder (GDR) | 10.14 | Rolf Kistner (FRG) | 10.33 | Pierfrancesco Pavoni (ITA) | 10.39 |
| 200 metres | Thomas Schröder (GDR) | 20.69 | Sergey Sokolov (URS) | 20.79 | Kimmo Saaristo (FIN) | 20.83 |
| 400 metres | Todd Bennett (GBR) | 47.18 | Jens Carlowitz (GDR) | 47.40 | Jörg Vaihinger (FRG) | 47.48 |
| 800 metres | József Bereczki (HUN) | 1:46.17 | István Szalai (HUN) | 1:46.94 | Chris McGeorge (GBR) | 1:47.43 |
| 1500 metres | Steffen Ohme (GDR) | 3:44.24 | Didier Poirier (FRA) | 3:44.49 | Anatoliy Legeda (URS) | 3:44.66 |
| 3000 metres | Rainer Wachenbrunner (GDR) | 7:57.18 | Frank Heine (GDR) | 7:59.05 | Jean-Pierre N'dayisenga (BEL) | 8:01.30 |
| 5000 metres | Gábor Szabó (HUN) | 13:56.42 | Salvatore Antibo (ITA) | 14:03.73 | Axel Krippschock (GDR) | 14:05.02 |
| 110 m hurdles | Holger Pohland (GDR) | 13.80 | Andreas Oschkenat (GDR) | 13.85 | Viktor Batrachenko (URS) | 14.10 |
| 400 m hurdles | Krasimir Demirev (BUL) | 50.45 | Olivier Gui (FRA) | 50.63 | Hans-Jürgen Ende (GDR) | 50.75 |
| 2000 m s'chase | Paul Davies-Hale (GBR) | 5:31.12 | Gilbert Jüchert (GDR) | 5:38.02 | Lev Glinskikh (URS) | 5:38.61 |
| 10,000 m walk | Ralf Kowalski (GDR) | 39:56.23 | Aleksandr Potashov (URS) | 41:39.35 | Viktor Mostovik (URS) | 41:46.56 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | East Germany (GDR) Karsten Weller Steffen Bringmann Andreas Oschkenat Thomas Schröder | 39.88 | Soviet Union (URS) Sergey Polishchuk Sergey Sokolov Aleksandr Sivchenko Ivan Svyatnenko | 40.21 | Finland (FIN) Juha Pyy Jouni Törrönen Ilari Jauro Kimmo Saaristo | 40.58 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | East Germany (GDR) Uwe Preusche Frank Löper Eckard Trylus Jens Carlowitz | 3:04.58 | Great Britain (GBR) John Weston Eugene Gilkes Paul Dunn Todd Bennett | 3:07.49 | West Germany (FRG) Markus Söhnge Matthias Kaulin Heiko Emde Jörg Vaihinger | 3:07.91 |
| High jump | Krzysztof Krawczyk (POL) | 2.26 m | William Motti (FRA) | 2.19 m | Oleg Azizmuradov (URS) | 2.19 m |
| Pole vault | Frantisek Jansa (TCH) | 5.35 m | Pierre Quinon (FRA) | 5.30 m | Olaf Kasten (GDR) | 5.25 m |
| Long jump | André Reichelt (GDR) | 7.76 m | Sergey Rodin (URS) | 7.73 m | Andreas Zwanzig (GDR) | 7.70 m |
| Triple jump | Sergey Akhvlediani (URS) | 16.76 m | Aleksandr Leonov (URS) | 16.54 m | Mike Makin (GBR) | 15.95 m |
| Shot put | Andreas Horn (GDR) | 18.71 m | Ulf Timmermann (GDR) | 18.45 m | Karsten Stolz (FRG) | 17.77 m |
| Discus throw | Kamen Dimitrov (BUL) | 56.62 m | Thomas Christel (GDR) | 56.12 m | Erik de Bruin (NED) | 55.88 m |
| Hammer throw | Christoph Sahner (FRG) | 68.92 m | Sergey Dorozhon (URS) | 68.48 m | Vyacheslav Korovin (URS) | 68.36 m |
| Javelin throw | Uwe Hohn (GDR) | 86.56 m | Roald Bradstock (GBR) | 79.18 m | Fabio Michielon (ITA) | 75.26 m |
| Decathlon | Mikhail Romanyuk (URS) | 7918 pts | Torsten Voss (GDR) | 7912 pts | Sven Reintak (URS) | 7497 pts |

## Women's results

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Katrin Böhme (GDR) | 11.33 | Shirley Thomas (GBR) | 11.43 | Carola Beuster (GDR) | 11.50 |
| 200 metres | Sabine Rieger (GDR) | 22.91 | Valentina Bozhina (URS) | 23.13 | Carola Beuster (GDR) | 23.31 |
| 400 metres | Irina Zhdanova (URS) | 53.21 | Heike Bohne (GDR) | 53.54 | Linsey MacDonald (GBR) | 54.24 |
| 800 metres | Ines Vogelgesang (GDR) | 2:02.65 | Anna Rybicka (POL) | 2:03.83 | Lyubov Kiryukhina (URS) | 2:04.33 |
| 1500 metres | Betty Van Steenbroeck (BEL) | 4:15.75 | Melena Malykhina (URS) | 4:17.31 | Kirsti Voldnes (NOR) | 4:18.72 |
| 3000 metres | Lyudmila Sudak (URS) | 8:58.30 | Birgit Mauer (GDR) | 9:20.01 | Uta Möckel (GDR) | 9:22.00 |
| 100 m hurdles | Katrin Böhme (GDR) | 13.20 | Gloria Kovarik (GDR) | 13.27 | Anne Piquereau (FRA) | 13.76 |
| 400 m hurdles | Sylvia Kirschner (GDR) | 56.41 | Anita Lauvensteins (URS) | 56.93 | Margarita Ponomaryova (URS) | 57.45 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | East Germany (GDR) Silke Gladisch Sabine Rieger Kathrin Böhme Carola Beuster | 43.77 | France (FRA) Véronique Ponchot Marie-Christine Cazier Laurence Bily Marie-France Loval | 44.61 | West Germany (FRG) Andrea Niggemann Anne Griese Andrea Hannemann Andrea Bersch | 45.11 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | East Germany (GDR) Cornelia Feuerbach Carola Witzel Ines Vogelgesang Heike Bohne | 3:30.39 | Soviet Union (URS) Irina Zakharova Lyubov Kiryukhina Margarita Ponomaryova Irina Zhdanova | 3:31.41 | West Germany (FRG) Anne Griese Sylvia Nagel Kirsten Fuhrken Silke Kondziella | 3:36.90 |
| High jump | Andrea Breder (FRG) | 1.90 m | Alessandra Fossati (ITA) | 1.88 m | Larissa Kossytsina (URS) | 1.86 m |
| Long jump | Heike Daute (GDR) | 7.02 m | Yelena Lugovaya (URS) | 6.43 m | Joyce Oladapo (GBR) | 6.36 m |
| Shot put | Konstanze Simm (GDR) | 17.21 m | Gabriele Reinsch (GDR) | 17.03 m | Svetla Mitkova (BUL) | 16.50 m |
| Discus throw | Diana Sachse (GDR) | 57.30 m | Svetla Mitkova (BUL) | 55.60 m | Larisa Mikhalchenko (URS) | 53.38 m |
| Javelin throw | Antoaneta Todorova (BUL) | 64.12 m | Antje Kempe (GDR) | 60.60 m | Karin Bergdahl (SWE) | 58.40 m |
| Heptathlon | Anke Tröger (GDR) | 6032 pts | Ilona Dietze (GDR) | 5991 pts | Tatyana Stoycheva (BUL) | 5764 pts |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 22 | 13 | 7 | 42 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 4 | 11 | 11 | 26 |
| 3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | West Germany (FRG) | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | France (FRA) | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 11 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 12 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 38 | 38 | 38 | 114 |