4th European Athletics U23 Championships
Dates	17–20 July 2003
Host city	Bydgoszcz, Poland
Venue	Zawisza Stadion
Level	U23
Type	Outdoor
Events	44
Participation	815 athletes from 46 nations
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The 4th European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Bydgoszcz, Poland at the Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium between 17 and 20 July 2003.

Results

Complete results and medal winners were published.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Men's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Ronald Pognon  France	10.19	Argo Golberg  Estonia	10.28 (NR)	Fabrice Calligny  France	10.34
200 metres details	Chris Lambert  Great Britain	20.34	Marcin Jędrusiński  Poland	20.39	Johan Wissman  Sweden	20.43
400 metres details	Leslie Djhone  France	45.04	Timothy Benjamin  Great Britain	45.86	Rafał Wieruszewski  Poland	45.87
800 metres details	René Herms  Germany	1:46.26	Florent Lacasse  France	1:46.47	Manuel Olmedo  Spain	1:46.83
1500 metres details	Mounir Yemmouni  France	3:44.02	Xavier Areny  Spain	3:44.65	Lorenzo Perrone  Italy	3:45.05
5000 metres details	Christopher Thompson  Great Britain	13:58.62	Mo Farah  Great Britain	13:58.88	Robert Connolly  Ireland	14:03.75
10,000 metres details	Ioannis Kanelopoulos  Greece	29:00.78	Vasyl Matviychuk  Ukraine	29:01.29	Paweł Ochal  Poland	29:17.41
110 metres hurdles details	Ladji Doucouré  France	13.25	Philip Nossmy  Sweden	13.50	Gregory Sedoc  Netherlands	13.55
400 metres hurdles details	Marek Plawgo  Poland	48.45	Christian Duma  Germany	49.53	Thomas Kortbeek  Netherlands	49.68
3000 metres steeplechase details	Martin Pröll  Austria	8:25.86	Radosław Popławski  Poland	8:27.95	Jukka Keskisalo  Finland	8:28.53
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain Tyrone Edgar Chris Lambert Darren Chin Dwayne Grant	39.31	France Daniel Adolia Fabrice Calligny David Socrier Leslie Dhjone	39.38	Belgium Pieter-Jan Vereecke François Gourmet Kristof Beyens Xavier de Baerdemacker	39.54
4 × 400 metres relay details	Poland Rafał Wieruszewski Kacper Skalski Daniel Dąbrowski Marek Plawgo	3:03.32	Germany Sebastian Gatzka Christian Duma Steffen Staffelmaier Bastian Swillims	3:03.36	Russia Roman Matveyev Dmitriy Petrov Aleksandr Borshchenko Andrey Polukeyev	3:04.18
20 kilometres walk details	Benjamin Kuciński  Poland	1:22:07	Sergey Lystsov  Russia	1:24:04	Andrey Talashko  Belarus	1:24:28
High jump details	Aleksander Waleriańczyk  Poland	2.36	Andrey Tereshin  Russia	2.27	Wojciech Borysiewicz  Poland	2.27
Pole vault details	Oleksandr Korchmid  Ukraine	5.50	Marvin Osei-Tutu  Germany	5.50	Maksym Mazuryk  Ukraine	5.45
Long jump details	Louis Tsatoumas  Greece	8.24	Volodymyr Zyuskov  Ukraine	8.22	Danut Simion  Romania	8.09
Triple jump details	Dmitrij Valukevic  Belarus	17.57	Marian Oprea  Romania	17.28	Rudolf Helpling  Germany	16.66
Shot put details	Pavel Lyzhyn  Belarus	20.43	Pavel Sofin  Russia	20.33	Rutger Smith  Netherlands	20.18
Discus throw details	Rutger Smith  Netherlands	59.90	Dmitriy Sivakov  Belarus	58.00	Bogdan Pishchalnikov  Russia	56.88
Hammer throw details	Krisztián Pars  Hungary	77.25	Eşref Apak  Turkey	76.52	Aleksandr Vashchyla  Belarus	71.91
Javelin throw details	Alexandr Ivanov  Russia	82.59	Igor Janik  Poland	82.54	Tero Pitkämäki  Finland	78.84
Decathlon details	André Niklaus  Germany	7983	Indrek Turi  Estonia	7864	Atis Vaisjuns  Latvia	7681

Women's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Georgia Kokloni  Greece	11.33	Daria Onyśko  Poland	11.46	Aksana Drahun  Belarus	11.48
200 metres details	Maryna Maydanova  Ukraine	22.82	Maja Nose  Slovenia	23.09	Dorota Dydo  Poland	23.34
400 metres details	Helen Karagounis  Great Britain	51.78	Solene Désert  France	52.05	Tatyana Firova  Russia	52.14
800 metres details	Becky Lyne  Great Britain	2:04.66	Lucia Klocová  Slovakia	2:05.02	Esther Desviat  Spain	2:05.38
1500 metres details†	Olesya Chumakova  Russia	4:11.75	Lisa Dobriskey  United Kingdom	4:12.95	Ingvill Måkestad  Norway	4:13.58
5000 metres details	Elvan Abeylegesse  Turkey	15:16.79	Tatyana Petrova  Russia	16:02.79	Sonia Bejarano  Spain	16:17.81
10,000 metres details	Krisztina Papp  Hungary	33:23.02	Valentina Levushkina  Russia	33:28.73	Louise Damen  Great Britain	33:29.82
100 metres hurdles details	Susanna Kallur  Sweden	12.88	Nadine Hentschke  Germany	12.89	Mariya Koroteyeva  Russia	12.95
400 metres hurdles details	Oksana Gulumyan  Russia	56.23	Irena Zauna  Latvia	56.47	Maria Rus  Romania	57.01
3000 metres steeplechase details	Lyubov Ivanova  Russia	9:41.16	Michaela Mannová  Czech Republic	9:42.01	Sigrid Vanden Bempt  Belgium	9:42.04
4 × 100 metres relay details	Ukraine Nataliya Pyhyda Iryna Shepetyuk Olena Chebanu Maryna Maydanova	44.29	Poland Anna Radoszewska Daria Onyśko Dorota Dydo Małgorzata Fleiszar	44.51	Germany Tanja Kuckelkorn Lisa Schorr Katja Wakan Nadine Hentschke	44.59
4 × 400 metres relay details	Russia Yuliya Gushchina Natalya Ivanova Oksana Gulumyan Tatyana Firova	3:29.25	Great Britain Jenny Meadows Danielle Halsall Kim Wall Helen Karagounis	3:30.44	Germany Eillen Müller Katharina Gröb Tina Kron Claudia Hoffmann	3:33.59
20 kilometres walk details	Athanasia Tsoumeleka  Greece	1:33:55	Vera Santos  Portugal	1:35:18	Sabine Zimmer  Germany	1:35:56
High jump details	Blanka Vlašić  Croatia	1.98	Yelena Slesarenko  Russia	1.96	Anna Ksok  Poland	1.92
Pole vault details	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.65	Vanessa Boslak  France	4.40	Anna Rogowska  Poland	4.35
Long jump details	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	6.86	Irina Simagina  Russia	6.70	Ineta Radēviča  Latvia	6.70
Triple jump details	Viktoriya Gurova  Russia	14.37	Simona La Mantia  Italy	14.31	Ineta Radēviča  Latvia	14.04
Shot put details	Natalia Khoroneko  Belarus	17.66	Kathleen Kluge  Germany	17.09	Filiz Kadoğan  Turkey	16.72
Discus throw details	Natalya Fokina  Ukraine	59.30	Jana Tucholke  Germany	58.24	Olga Chernogorova  Belarus	56.57
Hammer throw details	Kamila Skolimowska  Poland	71.38	Aksana Miankova  Belarus	67.58	Gulfiya Khanafeyeva  Russia	66.98
Javelin throw details	Jarmila Klimešová  Czech Republic	60.54	Irina Kharun  Ukraine	58.28	Mariya Yakovenko  Russia	57.52
Heptathlon details	Jennifer Oeser  Germany	5901	Yvonne Wisse  Netherlands	5895	Vasiliki Delinikola  Greece	5863

^†: In the 1500 metres event, Rasa Drazdauskaitė from Lithuania ranked initially 2nd (4:12.16), but was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules.^[8]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Poland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	7	7	6	20
2	Poland (POL)*	5	5	6	16
3	Great Britain (GBR)	5	4	1	10
4	France (FRA)	4	4	1	9
5	Ukraine (UKR)	4	3	1	8
6	Greece (GRE)	4	0	1	5
7	Germany (GER)	3	6	4	13
8	Belarus (BLR)	3	2	4	9
9	Sweden (SWE)	2	1	1	4
10	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	0	2
11	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	3	5
12	Turkey (TUR)	1	1	1	3
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	0	2
14	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
16	Estonia (EST)	0	2	0	2
17	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	3	4
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	3	4
19	Romania (ROU)	0	1	2	3
20	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
21	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
24	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	2	2
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	2	2
26	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 nations)		44	44	44	132

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 816 athletes from 46 countries participated in the event.