2011 European Athletics U23 Championships
Dates	14–17 July 2011
Host city	Ostrava, Czech Republic
Venue	Městský stadion
Level	Under 23
Type	Outdoor
Events	44
Participation	899 athletes from 42 nations
Records set	6 CRs
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The 8th European Athletics U23 Championships were held on 14–17 July 2011 in the Městský stadion in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Russia topped the medal table with 20 medals in total, including 9 golds (after revision), before Great Britain, also with 20 medals, and Germany.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	James Alaka  Great Britain	10.45	Michael Tumi  Italy	10.47	Andrew Robertson  Great Britain	10.52
200 metres details	Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas  Greece	20.56 PB	James Alaka  Great Britain	20.60	Pavel Maslák  Czech Republic	20.67
400 metres details	Nigel Levine  Great Britain	46.10	Brian Gregan  Ireland	46.12 PB	Luke Lennon-Ford  Great Britain	46.22
800 metres details	Adam Kszczot  Poland	1:46.71	Kevin López  Spain	1:46.93	Mukhtar Mohammed  Great Britain	1:48.01
1500 metres details	Florian Carvalho  France	3:50.42	James Shane  Great Britain	3:50.58	David Bustos  Spain	3:50.59
5000 metres details	Sindre Buraas  Norway	14:22.69	Ross Millington  Great Britain	14:22.78	Jesper van der Wielen  Netherlands	14:23.31
10,000 metres details	Sondre Nordstad Moen  Norway	28:41.66 PB	Ahmed El Mazoury  Italy	28:46.97 PB	Musa Roba-Kinkal  Germany	28:57.91 SB
110 metres hurdles details	Sergey Shubenkov  Russia	13.56	Balázs Baji  Hungary	13.58 PB	Lawrence Clarke  Great Britain	13.62
400 metres hurdles details	Jack Green  Great Britain	49.13	Nathan Woodward  Great Britain	49.28	Emir Bekrić  Serbia	49.61 NR
3000 metres steeplechase details	Sebastián Martos  Spain	8:35.35	Abdelaziz Merzougui  Spain	8:36.21	Alexandru Ghinea  Romania	8:38.51
4 × 100 metres relay details	Michael Tumi Francesco Basciani Davide Manenti Delmas Obou  Italy	39.05	Andrew Robertson Kieran Showler-Davis Richard Kilty Daniel Talbot  Great Britain	39.10	Florian Hübner Maximilian Kessler Robin Erewa Felix Göltl  Germany	39.19
4 × 400 metres relay details	Nigel Levine Thomas Phillips Jamie Bowie Luke Lennon-Ford  Great Britain	3:03.53	Michał Pietrzak Jakub Krzewina Łukasz Krawczuk Mateusz Fórmanski  Poland	3:03.62	Aleksey Kenig Anton Volobuev Artem Vazhov Vladimir Krasnov  Russia	3:04.01
20 km walk details	Dawid Tomala  Poland	1:24:21	Denis Strelkov  Russia	1:24:25	Valeriy Filipchuk  Russia	1:24:30
High jump details	Bohdan Bondarenko  Ukraine	2.30 PB	Sergey Mudrov  Russia	2.30 PB	Miguel Ángel Sancho  Spain	2.21 =SB
Pole vault details	Paweł Wojciechowski  Poland	5.70 PB	Karsten Dilla  Germany	5.60	Dmitriy Zhelyabin  Russia	5.55 PB
Long jump details	Aleksandr Menkov  Russia	8.08	Marcos Chuva  Portugal	7.94	Guillaume Victorin  France	7.86 PB
Triple jump details	Sheryf El-Sheryf  Ukraine	17.72 CR	Aleksey Fyodorov  Russia	16.85	Yuriy Kovalyov  Russia	16.82
Shot put details	David Storl  Germany	20.45 CR	Dmytro Savytskyy  Ukraine	19.18 PB	Marin Premeru  Croatia	18.83
Discus throw details	Lawrence Okoye  Great Britain	60.70	Mykyta Nesterenko  Ukraine	59.67	Fredrik Amundgård  Norway	59.42 SB
Hammer throw details	Paweł Fajdek  Poland	78.54 PB	Javier Cienfuegos  Spain	73.03	Aleh Dubitski  Belarus	72.52
Javelin throw details	Till Wöschler  Germany	84.38 PB	Fatih Avan  Turkey	84.11	Dmitry Tarabin  Russia	83.18
Decathlon details	Thomas Van der Plaetsen  Belgium	8157 NR PB	Eduard Mikhan  Belarus	8152 PB	Mihail Dudaš  Serbia	8117 NR PB

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres * details	Andreea Ograzeanu  Romania	11.65	Leena Günther  Germany	11.75	Anna Kiełbasińska  Poland	11.77
200 metres * details	Anna Kiełbasińska  Poland	23.23 PB	Moa Hjelmer  Sweden	23.24	Marit Dopheide  Netherlands	23.32
400 metres details	Olga Topilskaya  Russia	51.45	Yuliya Terekhova  Russia	52.63	Lena Schmidt  Germany	52.66
800 metres ** details	Merve Aydin  Turkey	2:00.46 SB	Lynsey Sharp  Great Britain	2:00.65 PB	Aleksandra Bulanova  Russia	2:01.40
1500 metres ** details	Tuğba Karakaya  Turkey	4:20.80	Corinna Harrer  Germany	4:21.52	Katarzyna Broniatowska  Poland	4:22.06
5000 metres details	Layes Abdullayeva  Azerbaijan	15:29.47 NR	Yekaterina Gorbunova  Russia	15:45.14	Stevie Stockton  Great Britain	15:58.51 PB
10,000 metres details	Layes Abdullayeva  Azerbaijan	32:18.05 CR	Lyudmyla Kovalenko  Ukraine	33:35.36	Catarina Ribeiro  Portugal	34:10.39 PB
100 metres hurdles details	Alina Talay  Belarus	12.91 SB	Lisa Urech   Switzerland	13.00	Cindy Roleder  Germany	13.10
400 metres hurdles details	Hanna Yaroshchuk  Ukraine	54.77 PB	Hanna Titimets  Ukraine	54.91	Meghan Beesley  Great Britain	55.69 PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Gülcan Mingir  Turkey	9:47.83	Jana Sussmann  Germany	9:48.01	Mariya Shatalova  Ukraine	9:48.22 SB
4 × 100 metres relay * details	Yekaterina Filatova Alena Tamkova Yekaterina Kuzina Nina Argunova  Russia	44.14	Yariatou Toure Sarah Goujon Orlann Ombissa Cornnelly Calydon  France	44.26	Annabelle Lewis Emily Diamond Torema Thompson Asha Philip  Great Britain	44.34
4 × 400 metres relay details	Yevgeniya Subbotina Yekaterina Yefimova Yuliya Terekheva Olga Topilskaya  Russia	3:27.72	Kateryna Plyashechuk Alina Lohvynenko Hanna Yaroshchuk Yuilya Olishevska  Ukraine	3:30.13	Clemence Sorgnard Marie Gayot Elea-Mariama Diarra Floria Gueï  France	3:31.73
20 km walk details	Julia Takács  Spain	1:31:55	Antonella Palmisano  Italy	1:36:26	Eleonora Giorgi  Italy	1:38:41
High jump details	Esthera Petre  Romania	1.98 =CR	Oksana Okuneva  Ukraine	1.94 PB	Burcu Ayhan  Turkey	1.94 NR
Pole vault details	Holly Bleasdale  Great Britain	4.55	Katerina Stefanidi  Greece	4.45 PB	Annika Roloff  Germany	4.40 PB
Long jump details	Darya Klishina  Russia	7.05 CR	Ivana Španović  Serbia	6.74 SB	Sosthene Moguenara  Germany	6.74 PB
Triple jump details	Paraskevi Parahristou  Greece	14.40	Carmen Toma  Romania	13.92	Anna Jagaciak  Poland	13.86
Shot put details	Yevgeniya Kolodko  Russia	18.87	Sophie Kleeberg  Germany	17.92 PB	Melissa Boekelman  Netherlands	17.88
Discus throw details	Julia Fischer  Germany	59.60 PB	Nastassia Kashtanava  Belarus	56.25	Anita Márton  Hungary	54.14
Hammer throw details	Bianca Perie  Romania	71.59 CR	Joanna Fiodorow  Poland	70.06 PB	Sophie Hitchon  Great Britain	69.59 NR
Javelin throw details	Sarah Mayer  Germany	59.29 PB	Vira Rebryk  Ukraine	58.95	Oona Sormunen  Finland	58.54
Heptathlon details	Grit Šadeiko  Estonia	6134 PB	Kateřina Cachová  Czech Republic	6123 PB	Yana Maksimava  Belarus	6075

Notes: Darya Pizhankova of Ukraine originally won three medals in 100 m, 200 m and 4 x 100 m relay but was later disqualified for doping and stripped of medals. Ulyana Lepska who also ran in the winning relay was found guilty of the same offence.^[1] Elena Arzhakova of Russia originally won two gold medals in the 800 m and 1500 m, but was later disqualified for doping and stripped of medals.^[2] The medal standings and record have been updated to reflect the reallocation of those medals.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Czech Republic)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	9	5	6	20
2	Great Britain	6	6	8	20
3	Germany	4	4	7	15
4	Poland	4	3	3	10
5	Ukraine	3	7	1	11
6	Romania	3	1	1	5
	Turkey	3	1	1	5
8	Greece	2	1	0	3
9	Norway	2	0	1	3
10	Azerbaijan	2	0	0	2
11	Spain	1	3	3	7
12	Belarus	1	2	2	5
13	Italy	1	2	0	3
14	France	1	0	3	4
15	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	Estonia	1	0	0	1
17	Serbia	0	1	2	3
18	Czech Republic*	0	1	1	2
	Hungary	0	1	1	2
	Portugal	0	1	1	2
21	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
24	Netherlands	0	0	3	3
25	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		44	42	46	132

Participating nations

According to an unofficial count, 899 athletes from 42 countries participated in the event.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}