The athletics competition at the 2005 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held from 3 to 8 July. The events took place at the Stadio Comunale G. Teghil in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. Boys and girls born 1988 or 1989 or later participated 33 track and field events, with similar programmes for the sexes with the exception of no steeplechase event for girls. A girls' and a boys' triple jump were contested for the first time.

The competition preceded the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics, held later that month. While no athlete at this competition went on to win at the event, several of them reached the podium: Kaire Leibak was the world youth triple jump runner-up, Danijela Grgić was second in the 400 m, António Vital e Silva won another discus throw bronze medal, while Matteo Galvan was third in the 200 m.^[1]

Kaire Leibak (the winner of both horizontal jumps) and Melissa Boekelman (shot put and discus throw winner) were the most successful athletes of the competition. Poļina Jeļizarova and Azra Eminović produced close battles in the 1500 m and 3000 m, with Jeļizarova winning the former and Eminović winning the latter event. Clélia Reuse showed versatility by taking the long jump silver before winning the 100 metres hurdles title. No male athlete won more than one individual medal, although 400 m hurdles winner Marius Kranendonk again topped the podium with the Dutch 4×100 metres relay team.

A number of B-finals were held for non-qualifying semi-finalists of some track events – most of these resulted in weaker performances than the final proper, but in the case of the boy's 800 metres the B-final was several seconds faster (indeed, the B-final seventh placer was faster than gold medallist Sören Ludolph). Girls' 800 m B-final winner Lisa Seeger was unfortunate in running a time fast enough for the bronze in the final, but having missed out by placing second in her slow qualifying heat.

Matthias De Zordo and Bohdan Bondarenko—both runner-up here—went on to be world champions in their discipline, with De Zordo winning javelin gold at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and Bondarenko becoming high jump world champion in 2013. Triple jump winner Lyukman Adams was later a world indoor champion and girls' 100 m champion Yelyzaveta Bryzhina won Olympic and European medals.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +3.8 m/s)	Luis Wee (ESP)	10.68 w	Giovanni Codrington (NED)	10.71 w	Julien Klisz (FRA)	10.78 w
200 metres	Matteo Galvan (ITA)	21.86	Reto Schenkel (SUI)	21.88	David Hernández (ESP)	21.93
400 metres	Arnaud Ghislain (BEL)	47.92	Gábor Armuth (HUN)	48.18	Pavel Setin (AZE)	48.24
800 metres	Sören Ludolph (GER)	1:57.99	David McCarthy (IRL)	1:58.26	Jonas Modin Rismyhr (NOR)	1:58.35
1500 metres	James Shane (GBR)	3:52.68	Otmane Belharbazi (FRA)	3:53.30	Ciarán Ó Lionáird (IRL)	3:53.83
3000 metres	Dmitriy Lashin (UKR)	8:24.89	Pavel Abdullin (RUS)	8:25.27	Rafael Quintana (ESP)	8:25.90
110 metres hurdles	Ivan Byzin (RUS)	13.92	João Almeida (POR)	13.94	Thomas Martinot-Lagarde (FRA)	13.96
400 metres hurdles	Marius Kranendonk (NED)	52.41	António Rodrigues (POR)	52.49	Santiago Albero (ESP)	53.93
2000 metres steeplechase	Adem Belir (TUR)	5:58.25	Péter Schubert (HUN)	5:58.38	Eoin Healy (IRL)	6:02.03
4×100 m relay	Netherlands (NED) Giovanni Codrington Michael Anpong Marius Kranendonk Jorén Tromp	41.77	Spain (ESP) Santiago Albero Antonio Lorenzo David Hernández Luis Wee	41.81	France (FRA) Thomas Martinot-Lagarde Nyls Nubret Damien Mech Julien Klisz	41.89
High jump	Riccardo Cecolin (ITA)	2.14 m	Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)	2.12 m	Darius Raminas (LTU)	2.12 m
Pole vault	Yevgeniy Syuremov (RUS)	4.70 m	Svit Pintar (SLO)	4.70 m	Flavien Basson (FRA)	4.60 m
Long jump	Marcos Caldeira (POR)	7.38 m	Ivan Slepov (RUS)	7.34 m	Damian Szade (POL)	7.11 m
Triple jump	Lyukman Adams (RUS)	15.35 m	Fabio Buscella (ITA)	15.08 m	Ruslan Panasenko (AZE)	14.85 m
Shot put	Nikola Kišanić (CRO)	19.55 m	Sergey Bakhar (BLR)	18.45 m	Aleksandr Bolshakov (RUS)	18.29 m
Discus throw	Savvas Arestis (CYP)	56.83 m	Artur Hoppe (GER)	56.29 m	António Vital e Silva (POR)	56.24 m
Javelin throw	Leonardo Gottardo (ITA)	70.79 m	Matthias De Zordo (GER)	70.62 m	Lauris Jelsmanis (LAT)	67.83 m

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +3.1 m/s)	Yelyzaveta Bryzhina (UKR)	11.60 w	Amy Foster (IRL)	11.84 w	Ezinne Okparaebo (NOR)	11.85 w
200 metres	Ebe Reier (EST)	24.37	Vicki Shier (GBR)	24.44	Juliane Stolle (GER)	24.53
400 metres	Danijela Grgić (CRO)	53.12	Lena Schmidt (GER)	54.59	Sjorske Wijnker (NED)	54.96
800 metres	Katsiaryna Shaban (BLR)	2:08.91	Kamila Zglejc (POL)	2:09.26	Machteld Mulder (NED)	2:09.39
1500 metres	Poļina Jeļizarova (LAT)	4:22.01	Azra Eminović (SCG)	4:22.31	Roxana Bârcă (ROU)	4:26.55
3000 metres	Azra Eminović (SCG)	9:22.02	Poļina Jeļizarova (LAT)	9:24.18	Ágnes Kostyál (HUN)	9:24.28
100 metres hurdles	Clélia Reuse (SUI)	13.74	Arna Erega (CRO)	13.76	Julia Förster (GER)	14.04
400 metres hurdles	Fabienne Kohlmann (GER)	58.88	Anastasiya Buldakova (BLR)	60.15	Aneta Pecnová (CZE)	60.39
4×100 m relay	Germany (GER) Isabel Galander Lena Schmidt Julia Förster Fabienne Kohlmann	47.08	Hungary (HUN) Mónika Vágó Kitty Mészáros Kitti Zircher Viktória Nyusa	47.10	France (FRA) Solene Hamelin Emilie Gaydu Karelle Jean Baptiste-Simone Floriane Bernard	47.22
High jump	Jana Kersevan (SLO)	1.84 m	Natalya Gapchuk (UKR)	1.80 m	Hannelore Desmet (BEL)	1.78 m
Pole vault	Rita Obizajeva (LAT)	3.95 m	Yuliya Zhukova (RUS)	3.90 m	Jessica Botter (SUI)	3.90 m
Long jump	Kaire Leibak (EST)	6.40 m	Clélia Reuse (SUI)	6.36 m	Nina Kokot (SLO)	6.22 m
Triple jump	Kaire Leibak (EST)	13.47 m	Ganna Knyazyeva (UKR)	12.86 m	Haykanush Beklaryan (ARM)	12.74 m
Shot put	Melissa Boekelman (NED)	15.95 m	Zhanna Samolyuk (UKR)	14.16 m	Sandra Miseikyte (LTU)	14.10 m
Discus throw	Melissa Boekelman (NED)	51.80 m	Diana Ozolina (LAT)	48.69 m	Anita Márton (HUN)	47.27 m
Javelin throw	Evelien Dekkers (NED)	49.76 m	Raine Kuningas (EST)	48.31 m	Saša Kampic (SLO)	47.62 m