The 1968 European Junior Games was the third edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was the final edition of the competition under that name and was succeeded by the European Athletics Junior Championships in 1970. The event was held in Leipzig, East Germany, between 23 and 25 August.[1] The competition was mainly between Eastern European countries, with Belgium, Austria, Netherlands and Greece being present from the west.

1968 European Junior Games
LevelUnder 20
Events33
1966
1970

Men's results

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Valeriy Borzov (URS) 10.4   Tamás Szabó (ROM) 10.5   Aleksandr Kornelyuk (URS) 10.6
200 metres   Valeriy Borzov (URS) 21.0   Mikhail Lebedev (URS) 21.5   Michel Mahy (BEL) 21.7
400 metres   Michel Mahy (BEL) 47.5   Aleksandr Kucheryavy (URS) 47.9   Vladimir Nosenko (URS) 48.2
800 metres   Reinhard Dominik (GDR) 1:51.6   Anatoliy Goncharov (URS) 1:52.2   Krzysztof Linkowski (POL) 1:52.4
1500 metres   Uwe Schneider (GDR) 3:53.3   Bernd Exner (GDR) 3:54.0   Milisav Andelov (YUG) 3:54.6
3000 metres   Ion Dima (ROM) 8:13.4   Wilfried Scholz (GDR) 8:15.6   Viktor Kuznetsov (URS) 8:18.0
110 m hurdles   Yevgeniy Mazepa (URS) 14.3   Frank Siebeck (GDR) 14.5   Anatoliy Moshiashvili (URS) 14.7
400 m hurdles   Yevgeniy Gavrilenko (URS) 51.6   Michael Schulze (GDR) 53.1   Dmitriy Stukalov (URS) 53.2
1500 m s'chase   Nikolay Bakhlanov (URS) 4:05.0   Petre Lupan (ROM) 4:05.0   Petko Georgiev (BUL) 4:05.2
10,000 m walk   Joachim Dumke (GDR) 44:48.0   Frank Donner (GDR) 44:50.0   Algis Lebedzhus (URS) 45:31.6
4×100 m relay   Soviet Union (URS)
Aleksandr Kornelyuk
Mikhail Lebedev
Valeriy Borzov
Sergey Korovin
40.4   East Germany (GDR)
Jürgen Rutz
Horst Hauptmann
Gerhard Lühnenschloss
Detlev Beckmann
41.3   Poland (POL)
Witold Fortuniak
Mirosław Muzolf
Wiktor Godlewski
Bogdan Grzejszczak
41.8
4×400 m relay   Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Volchok
Yevgeniy Skakun
Vladimir Nosenko
Aleksandr Kucheryavy
3:12.3   East Germany (GDR)
Jürgen Laser
Lothar Krohn
Andreas Scheibe
Detlef Lindner
3:12.6   Poland (POL)
Jan Pech
Krzysztof Linkowski
Wojciech Brociak
Krzysztof Miros
3:16.0
Pole vault   Yury Isakov (URS) 4.70   Vladimir Kishkun (URS) 4.60   Pawel Iwiński (POL) 4.40
High jump   Aleksandr Shigin (URS) 2.10   Ioánnis Kousoulas (GRE) 2.10   Rustam Akhmetov (URS) 2.04
Long jump   Mikhail Bariban (URS) 7.78   Ulrich Lampe (GDR) 7.44   Laimonis Magone (URS) 7.44
Triple jump   Mikhail Bariban (URS) 15.94   Stanislav Kolesnikov (URS) 15.46 w   Andreas Baraktiaris (GRE) 15.36
Shot put   Hartmut Briesenick (GDR) 18.71   Peter Hlawatschke (GDR) 17.02   Arûnas Vaitkevicius (URS) 16.90
Discus throw   Hans-Jürgen Jacobi (GDR) 54.22   Viktor Zhurba (URS) 51.64   Hartmut Briesenick (GDR) 49.20
Javelin throw
(old model)
  Andrzej Szajda (POL) 68.52   Jonas Dobrila (URS) 68.36   Edmund Berdziński (POL) 68.02
Hammer throw   Peter Przesdzing (GDR) 61.76   Vladimir Tretyak (URS) 61.32   Igor Sovpel (URS) 59.08
Decathlon   Leonid Lytvynenko (URS) 7434   Stefan Junge (GDR) 7319   Manfred Apt (GDR) 7012

Women's results

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Lyudmila Zharkova (URS) 11.5   Renate Meissner (GDR) 11.6   Mariana Goth (ROM) 11.6
200 metres   Lyudmila Zharkova (URS) 23.9   Renate Meissner (GDR) 23.9   Mariana Goth (ROM) 24.0
400 metres   Waltraud Birnbaum (GDR) 54.0   Raisa Nikanorova (URS) 54.4   Mariana Filip (ROM) 55.4
800 metres   Barbara Wieck (GDR) 2:06.3   Waltraud Pöhland (GDR) 2:07.7   Nijole Sabaite (URS) 2:10.1
80 m hurdles   Anneliese Jahns (GDR) 11.1   Emina Pilav (YUG) 11.2   Ewa Balcerzyk (POL) 11.2
4×100 m relay   Soviet Union (URS)
Raisa Nikanorova
Nadezhda Besfamilnaya
Marina Nikiforova
Lyudmila Zharkova
45.3   East Germany (GDR)
Bärbel Schrickel
Renate Meissner
Marion Wagner
Gabriele Zindler
45.8   Poland (POL)
Krystyna Mandecka
Urszula Soszka
Danuta Kopa
Elżbieta Nowak
46.6
High jump   Elke Kalliwoda (GDR) 1.72   Nina Brintseva (URS) 1.72   Katya Lazova (BUL) 1.72
Long jump   Tatyana Bychkova (URS) 6.18   Natalya Kostugina (URS) 6.15   Kristina Ziegler (GDR) 6.07
Shot put   Elvira Syromyatnikova (URS) 15.02   Leana Matthes (GDR) 13.60   Dora Topuskova (BUL) 13.59
Discus throw   Svetlana Vedeneyeva (URS) 45.94   Svetla Bozhkova (BUL) 45.46   Jutta Knobloch (GDR) 45.08
Javelin throw
(old model)
  Serafina Moritz (ROM) 51.10   Cecylia Bajer (POL) 50.78   Marion Steiner (GDR) 48.72
Pentathlon   Burglinde Pollak (GDR) 4717   Tatyana Bychkova (URS) 4582   Cornelia Popescu (ROM) 4460

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union (URS)18121141
2  East Germany (GDR)1115531
3  Romania (ROM)2248
4  Poland (POL)1179
5  Belgium (BEL)1012
6  Bulgaria (BUL)0134
7  Greece (GRE)0112
  Yugoslavia (YUG)0112
Totals (8 entries)33333399


Participation

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References

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  1. ^ European Junior Championships. GBRAthletics. Retrieved on 2013-05-29.
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