2005 European Athletics Junior Championships
Dates	21–24 July
Host city	Kaunas, Lithuania
Venue	Darius and Girėnas Stadium
Level	Under 20
Events	44
Records set	1 WJR, 5 CRs
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The 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships was the 18th edition of the biennial athletics competition for European under-20 athletes, which was held in Kaunas, Lithuania on 21–24 July.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Craig Pickering  Great Britain	10.51	Simeon Williamson  Great Britain	10.52	Alexander Nelson  Great Britain	10.60
200 metres	Daniel Schnelting  Germany	21.12	Julian Thomas  Great Britain	21.17	Wade Bennett-Jackson  Great Britain	21.41
400 metres	Željko Vincek  Croatia	46.14	Martyn Rooney  Great Britain	46.56	Dimítrios Régas  Greece	46.79 PB
800 metres	Mattias Claesson  Sweden	1:49.58	Lukas Rifesser  Italy	1:50.79	Steve Fennell  Great Britain	1:50.85
1500 metres	Colin Costello  Ireland	3:45.25 PB	Danny Darcy  Ireland	3:46.07	Adrian Danilewicz  Poland	3:47.22 (SB)
5000 metres	Barnabás Bene  Hungary	14:22.30	Dušan Markešević  Serbia and Montenegro	14:24.04 PB	László Tóth  Hungary	14:25.46
10,000 metres	Mugdat Öztürk  Turkey	30:10.60 PB	Stepan Rogovtsev  Belarus	30:12.76 PB	Carlos Gazapo  Spain	30:24.18
110 metres hurdles	Garfield Darien  France	13.77	Konstadinos Douvalidis  Greece	13.99	Alexander John  Germany	14.10
400 metres hurdles	Milan Kotur  Croatia	50.15 NJR	Dai Greene  Great Britain	51.14 PB	Fadil Bellaabouss  France	51.31
3000 metres steeplechase	Marcin Chabowski  Poland	8:40.88 CR	Albert Minczér  Hungary	8:45.82 PB	Andrzej Pasternak  Poland	8:52.31 PB
4×100 metres relay	Germany Marius Sewald Christian Blum Nils Müller Daniel Schnelting	39.90	Poland Mikołaj Lewański Dariusz Kuć Radosław Drapała Karol Sienkiewicz	40.03	Finland Teemu Vilén Visa Hongisto Timo Salonen Niko Viiala	40.29 NJR
4×400 metres relay	United Kingdom Richard Buck Set Osho Richard Strachan Martyn Rooney	3:06.67	Russia Aleksandr Sigalovskiy Dmitriy Buryak Anton Kokorin Artyom Sergiyenkov	3:07.19 NJR	Poland Patryk Baranowski Paweł Dobek Ziemowit Ryś Kacper Kozłowski	3:09.75
10,000 m walk (track)	Andrey Ruzavin  Russia	39:28.45 CR	Aleksandr Prokhorov  Russia	40:43.67 PB	Giorgio Rubino  Italy	40:46.95 PB
High jump	Ivan Ukhov  Russia	2.23 m	Wojciech Theiner  Poland	2.21 m	Niki Palli  Israel	2.19 m
Pole vault	Dmitriy Starodubtsev  Russia	5.50 m	Konstadinos Filippidis  Greece	5.45 m	Mikhail Golovtsov  Russia	5.45 m
Long jump	Greg Rutherford  Great Britain	8.14 m NJR	Sebastian Bayer  Germany	7.73 m	Mihail Mertzanidis-Despoteris  Greece	7.63 m
Triple jump	Stevens Marie-Sainte  France	16.29 m	Zhivko Petkov  Bulgaria	15.98 m	Dmitriy Nikonov  Russia	15.84 m
Shot put (6 kg)	Remigius Machura, Jr.  Czech Republic	20.09 m NJR	Lajos Kürthy  Hungary	19.65 m	Maksim Sidorov  Russia	19.32 m
Discus throw (1.75 kg)	Margus Hunt  Estonia	62.19 m CR, NJR	Lajos Kürthy  Hungary	59.75 m	Martin Wierig  Germany	59.04 m
Hammer throw (6 kg)	Kristóf Németh  Hungary	78.85 m CR	Yevgeniy Aydamirov  Russia	76.73 m	Yury Shayunou  Belarus	74.78 m
Javelin throw (800 g)	Ioannis-Georgios Smalios  Greece	77.25 m	Alexander Vieweg  Germany	75.85 m	Ari Mannio  Finland	72.47 m
Decathlon (junior implements)	Andrei Krauchanka (BLR)	7997 pts	Arthur Abele (GER)	7634 pts	Mauri Kaattari (FIN)	7427 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Iwona Brzezińska  Poland	11.67 PB	Lina Grinčikaitė  Lithuania	11.69	Eleni Artymata  Cyprus	11.74
200 metres	Yuliya Chermoshanskaya  Russia	23.21	Jala Gangnus  Germany	23.57	Angela Moroșanu  Romania	23.71
400 metres	Danijela Grgić  Croatia	52.42	Ksenia Zadorina  Russia	53.39	Angela Moroșanu  Romania	53.48
800 metres	Nataliia Lupu  Ukraine	2:02.78 PB	Mariya Shapayeva  Russia	2:03.00	Olga Cristea  Moldova	2:03.08
1500 metres	Morag McLarty  United Kingdom	4:15.12 PB	Yekaterina Martynova  Russia	4:15.46 PB	Azra Eminovic  Serbia and Montenegro	4:15.77 PB
3000 metres	Adelina De Soccio (ITA)	9:20.89	Susan Kuijken (NED)	9:28.45	Barbara Maveau (BEL)	9:29.78
5000 metres	Emily Pidgeon (GBR)	16:14.71	Tatyana Azorkina (RUS)	16:18.60	Svetlana Kudelich (BLR)	16:33.07
100 metres hurdles	Eline Berings (BEL)	13.41	Christina Vukicevic (NOR)	13.56	Cindy Billaud (FRA)	13.65
400 metres hurdles	Zuzana Hejnová (CZE)	55.89	Yekaterina Kostetskaya (RUS)	55.89	Yuliya Bychkova (RUS)	58.12
3000 metres steeplechase	Polina Jelizarova (LAT)	10:12.82	Ancuta Bobocel (ROM)	10:14.29	Susi Lutz (GER)	10:14.96
4×100 metres relay	Poland (POL) Agnieszka Ceglarek Marika Popowicz Marta Jeschke Iwona Brzezińska	44.65	Russia (RUS) Yuna Mekhti-Zade Natalya Dashina Yuliya Kashina Yuliya Chermoshanskaya	44.70	France (FRA) Christelle Monne Nelly Banco Symphora Behi Céline Distel	44.79
4×400 metres relay	Russia (RUS) Ksenia Kuznetsova Ksenia Zadorina Nadezhda Shlyapnikova Yekaterina Kostetskaya	3:32.63	Germany (GER) Wiebke Ullmann Désirée Meyer Julia Müller-Foell Janin Lindenberg	3:36.63	Ukraine (UKR) Aleksandra Peycheva Anzhelika Shevchenko Natalya Lupu Kseniya Karandyuk	3:36.64
10000 m walk (track)	Vera Sokolova  Russia	43:11.34 WJR CR	Olga Mikhaylova  Russia	45:31.49 PB	Martina Gabrielli  Italy	46:38.53 NJR PB
High jump	Svetlana Shkolina  Russia	1.91 m	Julia Hartmann  Germany	1.87 m	Iryna Kovalenko  Ukraine	1.85 m
Pole vault	Silke Spiegelburg  Germany	4.35 m	Svetlana Makarevich  Belarus	4.20 m NJR	Elena Scarpellini  Italy	4.15 m NJR
Long jump	Denisa Ščerbová  Czech Republic	6.57 m	Amy Harris  Great Britain	6.35 m	Anna Nazarova  Russia	6.31 m
Triple jump	Tetyana Dyachenko  Ukraine	14.04 m NJR	Cristina Bujin  Romania	13.72 m	Liliya Kulyk  Ukraine	13.42 m
Shot put (4 kg)	Denise Hinrichs  Germany	17.55 m	Irina Tarasova  Russia	16.53 m	Magdalena Sobieszek  Poland	16.24 m
Discus throw (1 kg)	Kristina Gehrig  Germany	50.60 m	Liliana Cá  Portugal	49.69 m	Marina Yakimova  Belarus	49.31 m
Hammer throw (4 kg)	Noémi Németh  Hungary	63.70 m	Valentina Srša  Croatia	63.12 m	Laura Gibilisco  Italy	62.58 m
Javelin throw (600 g)	Mariya Abakumova  Russia	57.11 m	Maria Zerva  Greece	56.47 m	Sandra Schaffarzik  Germany	55.49 m
Heptathlon (junior implements)	Jessica Ennis (GBR)	5891 pts	Julia Mächtig (GER)	5830 pts	Ksenija Balta (EST)	5747 pts

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	7	12	3	22
2	Great Britain (GBR)	6	5	3	14
3	Germany (DEU)	5	7	4	16
4	Hungary (HUN)	3	3	1	7
5	Poland (POL)	3	2	3	8
6	Croatia (CRO)	3	1	0	4
7	Czech Republic (CZE)	3	0	0	3
8	France (FRA)	2	0	3	5
	Ukraine (UKR)	2	0	3	5
10	Greece (GRC)	1	3	2	6
11	Belarus (BLR)	1	2	2	5
12	Italy (ITA)	1	1	4	6
13	Ireland (IRL)	1	1	0	2
14	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	1	2
	Estonia (EST)	1	0	1	2
16	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	0	1
19	Romania (ROU)	0	2	2	4
20	Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)	0	1	1	2
21	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
24	Finland (FIN)	0	0	2	2
25	Cyprus (CYP)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (28 entries)		43	43	39	125