2018 European Athletics U18 Championships

2nd European Athletics Youth Championships
2nd European Athletics Youth Championships
Dates	5–8 July 2018
Host city	Győr, Hungary
Venue	Olympic Sport Park
Level	Youth
Type	Outdoor
Events	40
Participation	1135 athletes from ; 50 nations
	← 2016 Tbilisi 2022 Jerusalem →

The 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships was the second edition of the biennial, continental athletics competition for European athletes aged fifteen to seventeen. It was held in Győr, Hungary from 5 to 8 July at the Olympic Sport Park.^[1]

Medal summary

Legend

WYB (World U18 Best), WYL (World U18 Leader), EYB (European U18 Best), EYL (European U18 Leader), CR (Championship Record), NYB (National U18 Record), PB (Personal Best), SB (Season Best)

Boys

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Raphael Bouju Netherlands	10.64	Dominik Illovszky [de] Hungary	10.70	Pål Haugen Lillefosse Norway	10.72
200 metres	Alexander Czysch Germany	21.15 =CR	Daniel Regenfuß Germany	21.19	Jiří Pechar Czech Republic	21.31
400 metres	Lorenzo Benati Italy	46.85 CR NYB	Ethan Brown Great Britain	46.87 PB	Ludovic Oucéni France	47.01 PB
800 metres	Max Burgin Great Britain	1:47.36 CR	Eric Guzmán Spain	1:49.19 PB	João Miguel Peixoto Portugal	1:49.42 NYB
1500 metres	Kane Elliott Great Britain	3:55.26 CR	Bence Apáti Hungary	3:55.53	Andrej Paulíny Slovakia	3:55.58 NYB
3000 metres	Thomas Keen Great Britain	8:27.38	Ömer Amaçtan Turkey	8:28.04 PB	Ryan Oosting Netherlands	8:28.22 PB
110 metres hurdles	Sam Bennett Great Britain	13.19 CR	Kenny Fletcher France	13.49	Nick Rüegg Switzerland	13.74
400 metres hurdles	Martin Fraysse France Dániel Huller [de] Hungary	50.630 CR	Not awarded		Karl Johnson Great Britain	50.90 NYB
2000 metres steeplechase	Baptiste Guyon France	5:43.92 CR	Pol Oriach [es] Spain	5:46.81 PB	Etson Barros [es] Portugal	5:49.79 NYB
Medley relay	Italy Federico Manini Federico Guglielmi [es] Francesco Domenico Rossi Lorenzo Benati Luca Pierani*	1:53.01 EYL	Turkey Konuralp Tiritoğlu Kaan Gacar Kubilay Ençu İlyas Çanakçı [de] Tibet Sancak*	1:53.84	Poland Rafał Łupiński Adam Łukomski Jakub Pająk Mikołaj Kotyra Szymon Szachniewicz* Patryk Grzegorzewicz*	1:53.97
10,000 metres walk	Davide Finocchietti Italy	45:01.33	Aldo Andrei Italy	45:03.50	Özgür Topsakal Turkey	45:09.22 PB

* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Dominic Ogbechie [no] Great Britain	2.16 =PB	Oleh Doroshchuk Ukraine	2.13	Nikola Mujanović Serbia	2.10
Pole vault	Pål Haugen Lillefosse Norway	5.46 CR	Baptiste Thiery France	5.30 PB	Eerik Haamer [de] Estonia	5.10 NYB
Long jump	Nick Schmahl Germany	7.60	Davide Favro Italy	7.29	Bryan Mucret [es] France	7.22
Triple jump	Batuhan Çakır [de] Turkey	15.62	Carl af Forselles Sweden	15.36 PB	Rustam Məmmədov [de] Azerbaijan	15.16 PB
Shot put	Aliaksei Aleksandrovich Belarus	20.97 NYB	Carmelo Musci Italy	20.37 PB	Piotr Goździewicz [es] Poland	18.88
Discus throw	Yasiel Brayan Sotero [es] Spain	64.31 CR	Fabian Weinberg Norway	58.84	Gracjan Kozak [es] Poland	57.76
Hammer throw	Myhaylo Kokhan Ukraine	87.82 WYB	Valentin Andreev Bulgaria	81.41 NYB	Tomasz Ratajczyk Poland	76.01 PB
Javelin throw	Marek Mucha [pl] Poland	80.01 CR	Gerasimos Kalogerakis Greece	77.45 PB	Topias Laine [es] Finland	75.83 PB

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Decathlon	Aleksandr Komarov Authorised Neutral Athletes	7703	Oļegs Kozjakovs Latvia	7663	Sven Jansons Netherlands	7604

Girls

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Guðbjörg Jóna Bjarnadóttir Iceland	11.741	Pamera Losange France Boglárka Takács Hungary	11.747	Not awarded
200 metres	Rhasidat Adeleke Ireland	23.52 EYL	Gemima Joseph France	23.60 NYB	Guðbjörg Jóna Bjarnadóttir Iceland	23.73 NYB
400 metres	Barbora Malíková Czech Republic	52.66 CR	Marie Scheppan Germany	52.82 PB	Olesya Soldatova Authorised Neutral Athletes	53.09 PB
800 metres	Keely Hodgkinson Great Britain	2:04.84 CR	Sophie O'Sullivan Ireland	2:06.05	Gaël de Coninck Sweden	2:06.14
1500 metres	Sarah Healy Ireland	4:18.71 CR	Emily Williams Great Britain	4:22.11	Klaudia Kazimierska Poland	4:22.90
3000 metres	Sarah Healy Ireland	9:18.05 CR	İnci Kalkan Turkey	9:24.01 PB	Alessia Zarbo France	9:25.25 PB
100 metres hurdles	Martine Hjørnevik Norway	13.26 EYL	Zoë Sedney Netherlands	13.34	Johanna Plank Austria	13.40 NYB
400 metres hurdles	Gisèle Wender Germany	58.88 PB	Emma Silvestri Italy	59.04 PB	Lena Pressler Austria	59.11 NYB
2000 metres steeplechase	Léna Lebrun France	6:35.41 WYL	Claire Palou France	6:39.20	Paula Schneiders Germany	6:40.00 PB
Medley relay	Italy Rebecca Menchini Noemi Cavalleri Alessia Cappabianca Chiara Gherardi Eleonora Foudraz*	2:07.46 CR NYB	Czech Republic Tereza Marková Barbora Šplechtnová Veronika Milotová Barbora Malíková Barbora Hůlková* Denisa Folková*	2:09.41	Romania Bianca Toader Vanessa Balaci Maria Scrob Adina Cîrciogel	2:09.99
5000 metres walk	Hanna Zubkova Belarus	22:45.47 CR	Olga Fiaska Greece	23:39.12	Simona Bertini Italy	24:18.80 PB

* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Yaroslava Mahuchikh Ukraine	1.94 CR	Jessica Kähärä Finland	1.83 PB	Maria Kochanova Authorised Neutral Athletes	1.83
Pole vault	Leni Wildgrube Germany	4.26 CR	Emma Brentel France	4.16 NYB	Krystsina Kantsavienka Belarus	4.00
Long jump	Tilde Johansson Sweden	6.33	Emma Piffaretti Switzerland	6.25	Spyridoula Karydi Greece	6.23 NYB
Triple jump	María Vicente Spain	13.95 CR	Aleksandra Nacheva Bulgaria	13.88	Jessica Kähärä Finland	13.29 NYB
Shot put	Lizaveta Dorts Belarus	17.34	Nina Capațina Moldova	17.27	Alida van Daalen Netherlands	17.08
Discus throw	Violetta Ignatyeva Authorised Neutral Athletes	54.56 PB	Alida van Daalen Netherlands	52.93 PB	Özlem Becerek Turkey	51.93
Hammer throw	Valeriya Ivanenko Ukraine	73.25	Sara Killinen Finland	69.52 PB	Stavroula Kosmidou Greece	65.98
Javelin throw	Aliaksandra Konshyna Belarus	56.71 PB	Münevver Hancı Turkey	56.28	Gedly Tugi [pl] Estonia	55.28 NYB

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Heptathlon	María Vicente Spain	6221 WYB, CR	Kristīne Blaževiča Latvia	5629 PB	Chiara-Belinda Schuler Austria	5615 PB

Medal table

* Host nation (Hungary)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	6	2	1	9
2	Italy (ITA)	4	4	1	9
3	Germany (GER)	4	2	1	7
4	Belarus (BLR)	4	0	1	5
5	France (FRA)	3	6	3	12
6	Spain (ESP)	3	2	0	5
7	Ireland (IRL)	3	1	0	4
7	Ukraine (UKR)	3	1	0	4
9	Norway (NOR)	2	1	1	4
–	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)^[1]	2	0	2	4
10	Turkey (TUR)	1	4	2	7
11	Hungary (HUN)*	1	3	0	4
12	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	3	6
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	1	3
13	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
15	Poland (POL)	1	0	5	6
16	Iceland (ISL)	1	0	1	2
17	Finland (FIN)	0	2	2	4
17	Greece (GRE)	0	2	2	4
19	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	0	2
19	Latvia (LAT)	0	2	0	2
21	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
22	Moldova (MLD)	0	1	0	1
23	Austria (AUT)	0	0	3	3
24	Estonia (EST)	0	0	2	2
24	Portugal (POR)	0	0	2	2
26	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		41	40	39	120

Notes

^[1] Medals won by athletes competing as Authorised Neutral Athletes were not included in the official medal table.^[2]

Participating nations

1135 competitors (538 boys and 597 girls) from 50 countries are expected to compete.^[3]

Albania (1)
Andorra (2)
Armenia (2)
Austria (31)
Authorised Neutral Athletes (16)
Azerbaijan (4)
Belarus (43)
Belgium (11)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (5)
Bulgaria (12)
Croatia (21)
Cyprus (8)
Czech Republic (48)
Denmark (5)
Estonia (23)
Finland (38)
France (42)
Georgia (5)
Germany (66)
Gibraltar (3)
Great Britain (40)
Greece (22)
Hungary (78) (host)
Iceland (5)
Ireland (25)
Israel (16)
Italy (54)
Kosovo (1)
Latvia (25)
Lithuania (27)
Luxembourg (9)
Macedonia (3)
Malta (3)
Moldova (3)
Monaco (1)
Montenegro (1)
Netherlands (22)
Norway (37)
Poland (53)
Portugal (18)
Romania (27)
San Marino (2)
Serbia (17)
Slovakia (24)
Slovenia (17)
Spain (50)
Sweden (22)
Switzerland (46)
Turkey (52)
Ukraine (49)

Records

Under-18 World Best Performances

Athlete	Nation	Event	Result	Round	Date
María Vicente	Spain	Girls' heptathlon	6221 pts	Final	6 July
Myhaylo Kokhan	Ukraine	Boys' hammer throw	87.82 m	Final	7 July

Championship Records

Athlete	Nation	Event	Result	Round	Date
Hanna Zubkova	Belarus	Girls' 5000m race walk	22:45.47	Final	5 July
Sara Killinen	Finland	Girls' hammer throw	67.25 m	Qualification
Valeriya Ivanenko	Ukraine	Girls' hammer throw	74.36 m	Qualification
Patience Jumbo-Gula	Ireland	Girls' 100m	11.59 (+0.7 m/s)	Semifinals
María Vicente	Spain	Girls' long jump	6.37 (+1.8 m/s)	Heptathlon	6 July
Sam Bennett	Great Britain	Boys' 110m hurdles	13.33 (+1.7 m/s)	Heats
Kenny Fletcher	France	Boys' 110m hurdles	13.30 (+2.0 m/s)	Heats
Myhaylo Kokhan	Ukraine	Boys' hammer throw	82.42 m	Qualification
Sarah Healy	Ireland	Girls' 3000m	9:18.05	Final
Yasiel Brayan Sotero	Spain	Boys' discus throw	64.31 m	Final
Gaël de Coninck	Sweden	Girls' 800m	2:06.51	Semifinals
Pol Oriach	Spain	Boys' 2000m steeplechase	5:52.56	Heats
Leni Wildgrube	Germany	Girls' pole vault	4.26 m	Final	7 July
Lorenzo Benati	Italy	Boys' 400m	46.85	Final
Barbora Malíková	Czech Republic	Girls' 400m	52.66	Final
Kane Elliott	Great Britain	Boys' 1500m	3:55.26	Final
Marek Mucha	Poland	Boys' javelin throw	80.01 m	Final
Alexander Czysch	Germany	Boys' 200m	21.15	Final
Aleksandra Nacheva	Bulgaria	Girls' triple jump	13.32 m (+1.8 m/s)	Qualification
Sam Bennett	Great Britain	Boys' 110m hurdles	13.19 (+0.8 m/s)	Final
Keely Hodgkinson	Great Britain	Girls' 800m	2:04.84	Final
Martin Fraysse	France	Boys' 400m hurdles	50.63	Final	8 July
Dániel Huller	Hungary	Boys' 400m hurdles	50.63	Final
Max Burgin	Great Britain	Boys' 800m	1:47.36	Final
Sarah Healy	Ireland	Girls' 1500m	4:18.71	Final
Baptiste Guyon	France	Boys' 2000m steeplechase	5:43.92	Final
María Vicente	Spain	Girls' triple jump	13.95 m (+1.1 m/s)	Final
Pål Haugen Lillefosse	Norway	Boys' pole vault	5.46 m	Final
Rebecca Menchini Noemi Cavalleri Alessia Cappabianca Chiara Gherardi	Italy	Girls' medley relay	2:07.46	Final
Yaroslava Mahuchikh	Ukraine	Girls' high jump	1.94 m	Final

References

^ "Györ set to welcome Europe's top U18 prospects". EAA. 16 May 2017. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
^ "Competitions - European Athletics". Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-08.
^ "Final Entries - Athletes List by event" (PDF). EAA. 28 June 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.

External links

Official web site
Results book (archived)

[1] "Györ set to welcome Europe's top U18 prospects". EAA. 16 May 2017. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.

[2] "Competitions - European Athletics". Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-08.

[3] "Final Entries - Athletes List by event" (PDF). EAA. 28 June 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.

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