2023 European Athletics U23 Championships
Organisers	EAA
Edition	14th
Dates	13–16 July
Host city	Espoo, Finland
Venue	Leppävaara Stadium
Level	Under 23
Type	Outdoor
Events	44
Participation	48 nations
Official website	Espoo 2023
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The 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships were the 14th edition of the biennial athletics competition between European athletes under the age of twenty three. The event was organized by European Athletics Association and held from 13–16 July 2023 in Espoo, Finland.^[1][2] This was the third time that Finland staged European Athletics U23 Championships after previous editions Turku 1997 and Tampere 2013.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	7	3	4	14
2	France (FRA)	6	4	5	15
3	Netherlands (NED)	4	3	2	9
4	Spain (ESP)	4	2	5	11
5	Norway (NOR)	4	2	3	9
6	Italy (ITA)	3	6	2	11
7	Finland (FIN)*	3	3	4	10
8	Germany (GER)	2	4	2	8
9	Turkey (TUR)	2	3	1	6
10	Ukraine (UKR)	2	2	0	4
11	Switzerland (SUI)	1	2	3	6
12	Greece (GRE)	1	1	2	4
13	Belgium (BEL)	1	1	0	2
	Ireland (IRL)	1	1	0	2
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	1	0	2
16	Cyprus (CYP)	1	0	0	1
	Israel (ISR)	1	0	0	1
18	Sweden (SWE)	0	3	2	5
19	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	3	5
20	Estonia (EST)	0	1	1	2
21	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
22	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
23	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Kosovo (KOS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		44	45	43	132

Results

Men

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Jeremiah Azu  Great Britain	10.05	Raphael Bouju  Netherlands	10.17	Pablo Mateo  France	10.18
200 metres details	Blessing Akwasi Afrifah  Israel	20.67	Raphael Bouju  Netherlands	20.68	Timothé Mumenthaler  Switzerland	20.85
400 metres details	Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen  Norway	45.13	Lionel Spitz  Switzerland	45.27 PB	Attila Molnár  Hungary	45.36
800 metres details	Yanis Meziane  France	1:45.92	Ethan Hussey  Great Britain	1:45.95	Paul Anselmini  France	1:45.99
1500 metres details	Stefan Nillessen  Netherlands	3:43.35	Mohamed Attaoui  Spain	3:43.63	Samuel Pihlström  Sweden	3:43.73
5000 metres details	Charles Hicks  Great Britain	13:35.07	Eemil Helander  Finland	13:40.25	Will Barnicoat  Great Britain	13:45.24
10,000 metres details	Rory Leonard  Great Britain	29:08.33	Francesco Guerra  Italy	29:11.86	Miguel Baidal  Spain	29:14.91
110 metres hurdles details	Sasha Zhoya  France	13.31	Lorenzo Ndele Simonelli  Italy	13.36	Erwann Cinna  France	13.47 PB
400 metres hurdles details	İsmail Nezir  Turkey	49.19	Berke Akçam  Turkey	49.48 SB	Oskar Edlund  Sweden	49.57 PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Alejandro Quijada  Spain	8:28.91 PB	Etson Barros  Portugal	8:32.08	Baptiste Guyon  France	8:33.64
20 kilometres walk details	Paul McGrath  Spain	1:21:03 PB	Andrea Cosi  Italy	1:23:02	Jerry Jokinen  Finland	1:24:41 NU23R
4 × 100 metres relay details	Eric Marek Matteo Melluzzo Marco Ricci Junior Tardioli  Italy	38.92 NU23R	Jordan Jalce Hugo Cerra Mohammed Badru Pablo Mateo  France	38.92 SB	Igor Bogaczyński Adam Łukomski Łukasz Żok Patryk Krupa  Poland	39.06
4 × 400 metres relay details	Luca Sito Riccardo Meli Francesco Domenico Rossi Lorenzo Benati  Italy	3:02.49 EU23L	İlyas Çanakçı Kubilay Ençü Berke Akçam İsmail Nezir  Turkey	3:03.04 NU23R	Ethan Brown Brodie Young Samuel Reardon Edward Faulds  Great Britain	3:03.12 SB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

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

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Ali Eren Ünlü  Turkey	2.22	Oleh Doroshchuk  Ukraine Roman Petruk  Ukraine	2.19	No medal awarded
Pole vault details	Juho Alasaari  Finland	5.71 =NU23R	Robin Emig  France	5.66	Pål Haugen Lillefosse  Norway	5.66
Long jump details	Henrik Flåtnes  Norway	7.96 PB	Simon Batz  Germany	7.72	Mátyás Németh  Hungary	7.71
Triple jump details	Simon Gore  France	16.40 SB	Gabriel Wallmark  Sweden	16.24 SB	Batuhan Çakır  Turkey	16.16
Shot put details	Tizian Lauria  Germany	19.80 PB	Eric Maihöfer  Germany	19.44 SB	Muhamet Ramadani  Kosovo	19.20
Discus throw details	Mykolas Alekna  Lithuania	68.34 CR	Marius Karges  Germany	62.56	Yasiel Sotero  Spain	61.69
Javelin throw details	Artur Felfner  Ukraine	83.04 NU23L	Topias Laine  Finland	79.77	Michele Fina  Italy	77.23 PB
Hammer throw details	Mykhaylo Kokhan  Ukraine	77.21 SB	Merlin Hummel  Germany	75.61	Sören Klose  Germany	73.70
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Decathlon details	Markus Rooth  Norway	8608 CR, NR	Sander Skotheim  Norway	8561	Sven Roosen  Netherlands	8128
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	N'Ketia Seedo  Netherlands	11.22	Boglárka Takács  Hungary	11.30	Melissa Gutschmidt  Switzerland	11.33
200 metres details	Delphine Nkansa  Belgium	23.31	Boglárka Takács  Hungary	23.33	Polyniki Emmanouilidou  Greece	23.41
400 metres details	Yemi Mary John  Great Britain	51.04 PB	Henriette Jæger  Norway	51.06 NR	Keely Hodgkinson  Great Britain	51.76 PB
800 metres details	Daniela García  Spain	2:02.96	Veera Mattila  Finland	2:03.14 PB	Georgia-Maria Despollari  Greece	2:04.14
1500 metres details	Sophie O'Sullivan  Ireland	4:07.18 PB	Sarah Healy  Ireland	4:07.36	Shannon Flockhart  Great Britain	4:08.37 PB
5000 metres details	Megan Keith  Great Britain	15:34.33	Maria Forero  Spain	15:43.22	Amina Maatoug  Netherlands	15:50.83
10,000 metres details	Alice Goodall  Great Britain	33:16.45	Sara Nestola  Italy	33:17.51	Aurora Bado  Italy	34:12.75
100 metres hurdles details	Ditaji Kambundji  Switzerland	12.68 CR	Elena Carraro  Italy	12.97	Anna Tóth  Hungary	12.97
400 metres hurdles details	Andrea Rooth  Norway	55.78 EU23L	Louise Maraval  France	55.83 PB	Lena Preßler  Austria	55.94 NR
3000 metres steeplechase details	Olivia Gürth  Germany	9:26.98 CR	Greta Karinauskaitė  Lithuania	9:30.96	Marta Serrano  Spain	9:41.47
20 kilometres walk details	Pauline Stey  France	1:31:17 NU23R	Alexandrina Mihai  Italy	1:32:32 PB	Camille Moutard  France	1:35:40
4 × 100 metres relay details	Cassie-Ann Pemberton Amy Hunt Alyson Bell Aleeya Sibbons  Great Britain	43.04 CR	Hillary Godé Marie-Ange Rimlinger Gémima Joseph Paméra Losange  France	43.39 SB	Nathacha Kouni Iris Caligiuri Léonie Pointet Melissa Gutschmidt  Switzerland	43.59 NU23R
4 × 400 metres relay details	Lea Thery-Demarque Cassandra Delaunay-Belleville Pauline Toriel Louise Maraval  France	3:30.60 EU23L	Michelle Gröbli Lena Wernli Giulia Senn Catia Gubelmann  Switzerland	3:30.62 NU23R	Rocio Arroyo Berta Segura Blanca Hervás Carmen Avilés  Spain	3:31.11 NU23R
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

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

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Elena Kulichenko  Cyprus	1.91	Panagiota Dosi  Greece	1.89 PB	Wiktoria Miąso  Poland	1.87 SB
Pole vault details	Marie-Julie Bonnin  France	4.50 =EU23L	Elien Vekemans  Belgium	4.45	Kitty Friele Faye  Norway	4.40 PB
Long jump details	Larissa Iapichino  Italy	6.93 =EL	Maja Åskag  Sweden	6.73	Tessy Ebosele  Spain	6.63
Triple jump details	María Vicente  Spain	14.21 =EU23L	Maja Åskag  Sweden	13.76	Jessica Kähärä  Finland	13.59
Shot put details	Alida van Daalen  Netherlands	18.32 EU23L	Serena Vincent  Great Britain	16.93 PB	Emilia Kangas  Finland	16.75
Discus throw details	Alida van Daalen  Netherlands	56.77	Özlem Becerek  Turkey	55.38	Lotta Flatum  Norway	54.45
Hammer throw details	Silja Kosonen  Finland	73.71 CR	Charlotte Payne  Great Britain	69.22	Aileen Kuhn  Germany	68.30
Javelin throw details	Elina Tzengko  Greece	60.73	Gedly Tugi  Estonia	57.62	Anni-Linnea Alanen  Finland	56.67
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Heptathlon details	Saga Vanninen  Finland	6317	Sofie Dokter  Netherlands	6256	Pippi Lotta Enok  Estonia	6002
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Entry standards

Participation

1153 athletes from 40 nations are expected to compete at this edition.^[3]