The athletics competition at the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held from 25 to 29 July 2011. The events took place at the Söğütlü Athletics Stadium in Trabzon, Turkey. Boys and girls born 1994 or 1995 or later participated 36 track and field events, divided evenly between the sexes.^[1]

The five-day competition was preceded by the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics and a number of athletes participated at both meetings. Bence Pásztor of Hungary set a world youth best of 84.41 metres to win the boy's hammer throw,^[2] while Yuriy Kushniruk of Ukraine set a European youth best in the javelin throw (his mark of 83.42 m was second only to Argentina's Braian Toledo).^[3]

Internationally, the championships was evenly matched and no one country dominated as 26 nations had a medal-winning athlete. Three countries each attained a total of ten medals: Great Britain topped the medal table with five gold medals and four silvers, Ukraine was a close runner-up with five gold and three silvers, while Russia came third with four golds. France and Italy were also strong performers, with totals of nine and eight medals, respectively.

Medal summary

Boys

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m[4]	Daniel Kölsch  Germany	10.66 PB	Leon Reid  Great Britain	10.68	Marek Bakalar  Czech Republic	10.75
200 m[5]	Thomas Holligan  Great Britain	21.46 PB	Ilya Siratsiuk  Belarus	21.55	Marek Bakalar  Czech Republic	21.57 PB
400 m[6]	Clovis Asong  Great Britain	46.93	Steffen Dale Trenk  Germany	48.74	Aliaksandr Krasouski  Belarus	48.91
800 m[7]	Brecht Bertels  Belgium	1:50.90 PB	Nemanja Kojić  Serbia	1:51.55 PB	Karl John Griffin  Ireland	1:51.64
1500 m[8]	Ruairi Finnegan  Ireland	3:53.78	Samuele Dini  Italy	3:54.45	James Lamswood  Great Britain	3:55.02
3000 m[9]	Bohdan-Ivan Horodyskyi  Ukraine	8:21.99 PB	Gordon Benson  Great Britain	8:23.05	Lorenzo Dini  Italy	8:24.20 PB
2000 m St.[10]	Gonzalo Basconcelo  Spain	5:54.60 PB	Italo Quazzola  Italy	5:56.30 PB	Johannes Max. Motschmann  Germany	5:57.37 PB
110 m H (91.4 cm)[11]	Lorenzo Perini  Italy	13.44 CR	Wilhem Belocian  France	13.50 PB	Thomas Durant  Belgium	13.56 PB
400 m H (84.0 cm)[12]	Ben Kiely  Ireland	52.69 PB	Jacob Paul  Great Britain	52.80 PB	Vladislav Tsygankov  Russia	53.01 PB
4 × 100 m relay[13]	France Jean-Noël Crétinoir Mickaël Zézé Gautier Dautremer Wilhem Belocian	40.90	Great Britain James Taylor Thomas Holligan Clovis Asong Leon Reid	41.37	Belgium Oumar Diallo Bram Luycx Mathias Broothaerts Lorijn Verbrughhe	41.60
High jump[14]	Gaël Rotardier  France	2.11 m	Falk Wendrich  Germany	2.08 m PB	Pavel Kipra  Belarus	2.08 m
Long jump[15]	Elliot Safo  Great Britain	7.38 m PB	Stefano Braga  Italy	7.36 m	Semen Popov  Russia	7.36 m
Triple jump[16]	Robert Clarke   Switzerland	15.50 m PB	Lasha Gulelauri  Georgia	15.49 m	Jean-Noël Crétinoir  France	15.49 m
Pole vault[17]	Robert Renner  Slovenia	5.31 m CR	Torben Laidig  Germany	5.00 m PB	Georgiy Bykov  Ukraine	4.95 m
Shot put (5 kg)[18]	Vladyslav Chernikov  Ukraine	20.13 m	Matti Sivonen  Finland	19.43 m PB	Mesud Pezer  Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.13 m
Discus (1.5 kg)[19]	Dominik Kosar  Czech Republic	56.04 m	Vladyslav Chernikov  Ukraine	55.40 m	Martin Pilato  Italy	55.34 m
Hammer throw (5 kg)[20]	Bence Pásztor  Hungary	84.41 m WYB	Sergiy Reheda  Ukraine	80.81 m PB	Ozkan Baltaci  Turkey	78.90 m PB
Javelin (700 g)[21]	Yuriy Kushniruk  Ukraine	83.42 m WYL	Sebastian Teikari  Finland	75.43 m SB	Povilas Dabasinskas  Lithuania	73.23 m PB
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)

Girls

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m[22]	Sophie Papps  Great Britain	11.82	Samantha Dagry   Switzerland	11.91 PB	Solenn Compper  France	11.99
200 m[23]	Ekaterina Renzhina  Russia	23.64 CR	Justien Grillet  Belgium	23.94	Anna Hämäläinen  Finland	24.14
400 m[24]	Modesta Morauskaite  Lithuania	54.07 PB	Kimberley Efonye  Belgium	54.30 PB	Barbara Camblor  Spain	55.03
800 m[25]	Olena Sidorska  Ukraine	2:05.26 CR	Camilla de Bleecker  Belgium	2:05.74	Luna Udelhoven  Germany	2:07.30 PB
1500 m[26]	Sophie Riches  Great Britain	4:25.95	Síofra Cléirigh Büttner  Ireland	4:26.42 PB	Meropi Panayiotou  Cyprus	4:29.13 PB
3000 m[27]	Alena Kudashkina  Russia	9:18.46	Anca Maria Bunea  Romania	9:30.81 PB	Jip Vastenburg  Netherlands	9:39.47
2000 m St.[28]	Dana Elena Loghin  Romania	6:40.93 CR	Johanna Christine Schulz  Germany	6:46.49 PB	Olja Nikolić  Serbia	6:48.05 PB
100 m H (76.2 cm)[29]	Nadine Visser  Netherlands	13.28 PB	Monika Zapalska  Germany	13.52 PB	Sarah Kate Lavin  Ireland	13.62 PB
400 m H (76.2 cm)[30]	Katsiaryna Verameyenka  Belarus	59.57 PB	Emeline Bauwe  France	1:00.42 PB	Megan Kiely  Ireland	1:00.44 PB
4 × 100 m relay[31]	Netherlands Tessa van Schagen Sacha van Agt Naomi Sedney Nadine Visser	45.93	Belgium Sarah Missinne Justien Grillet Orphee Depuydt Kimberley Efonye	46.12	Russia Anastasia Nikolaeva Elizaveta Anikienko Anastasiia Aslanidi Ekaterina Renzhina	46.58
High jump[32]	Dior Delophont  France	1.85 m PB	Leontia Kallenou  Cyprus	1.79 m	Ligia Damaris Grozav  Romania	1.79 m
Pole vault[33]	Roberta Bruni  Italy	4.10 m CR	Georgia Stefanidi  Greece	4.10 m	Kristina Bondarenko  Russia	4.10 m
Long jump[34]	Maryna Bekh  Ukraine	6.25 m	Julia Gerter  Germany	6.14 m	Marina Buchelnikova  Russia	6.11 m
Triple jump[35]	Ana Peleteiro  Spain	13.17 m PB	Sokhna Galle  France	13.11 m	Anna Krasutska  Ukraine	13.00 m
Shot put (4 kg)[36]	Natalia Shirobokova  Russia	14.23 m	Charlene Okken  Netherlands	13.84 m PB	Monia Cantarella  Italy	13.67 m
Discus (1 kg)[37]	Florentia Kalogeraki  Greece	48.31 m	Natalia Shirobokova  Russia	48.31 m	Ozge Yilmaz  Turkey	44.72 m
Hammer throw (4 kg)[38]	Hanna Zinchuk  Belarus	59.48 m	Alyona Shamotina  Ukraine	59.23 m PB	Petra Jakeljić  Croatia	56.35 m
Javelin (600 g)[39]	Alina Gerasimchuk  Russia	53.86 m CR	Liveta Jasiunaite  Lithuania	52.00 m PB	Alexie Alaïs  France	50.94 m
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)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	5	4	1	10
2	Ukraine	5	3	2	10
3	Russia	4	1	5	10
4	France	3	3	3	9
5	Italy	2	3	3	8
6	Ireland	2	1	3	6
7	Belarus	2	1	2	5
8	Netherlands	2	1	1	4
9	Spain	2	0	1	3
10	Germany	1	6	2	9
11	Belgium	1	4	2	7
12	Lithuania	1	1	1	3
	Romania	1	1	1	3
14	Greece	1	1	0	2
	Switzerland	1	1	0	2
16	Czech Republic	1	0	2	3
17	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
19	Finland	0	2	1	3
20	Cyprus	0	1	1	2
	Serbia	0	1	1	2
22	Georgia	0	1	0	1
23	Turkey*	0	0	2	2
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		36	36	36	108