1968 European Junior Games

Host City Leipzig
Country GDR
Held 23 – 25 August 1968
Competitors 109
Countries 8

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
100 m Men — Medal 3 2
200 m Men — Medal 3 2
400 m Men — Medal 3 2
800 m Men — Medal 3 3
1,500 m Men — Medal 3 2
3,000 m Men — Medal 3 3
110 m Hurdles Men — Medal 3 2
400 m Hurdles Men — Medal 3 2
1,500 m Steeplechase Men — Medal 3 3
4 x 100 m Relay Men — Medal 12 3
4 x 400 m Relay Men — Medal 12 3
10 km Walk Men — Medal 3 2
High Jump Men — Medal 3 2
Pole Vault Men — Medal 3 2
Long Jump Men — Medal 3 2
Triple Jump Men — Medal 3 2
Shot Put Men — Medal 3 2
Discus Throw Men — Medal 3 2
Hammer Throw Men — Medal 3 2
Javelin Throw Men — Medal 3 2
Decathlon Men — Medal 3 2
100 m Women — Medal 3 3
200 m Women — Medal 3 3
400 m Women — Medal 3 3
800 m Women — Medal 3 2
80 m Hurdles Women — Medal 3 3
4 x 100 m Relay Women — Medal 12 3
High Jump Women — Medal 3 3
Long Jump Women — Medal 3 2
Shot Put Women — Medal 3 3
Discus Throw Women — Medal 3 3
Javelin Throw Women — Medal 3 3
Pentathlon Women — Medal 3 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 18 12 11 41
2 East Germany GDR 11 15 5 31
3 Romania ROU 2 2 4 8
4 Poland POL 1 1 7 9
5 Belgium BEL 1 0 1 2
6 Bulgaria BUL 0 1 3 4
7 Greece GRE 0 1 1 2
= Yugoslavia YUG 0 1 1 2

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
100 m, Men Valery Borzov URS Tamas Szabo ROU Aleksandr Kornelyuk URS
200 m, Men Valery Borzov URS Mikhail Lebedev URS Michel Mahy BEL
400 m, Men Michel Mahy BEL Aleksandr Kucheravy URS Vladimir Nosenko URS
800 m, Men Reinhard Dominik GDR Anatoly Goncharov URS Krzysztof Linkowski POL
1,500 m, Men Uwe Schneider GDR Bernd Exner GDR Milisav Andjelov YUG
3,000 m, Men Ion Dima ROU Wilfried Scholz GDR Viktor Kuznetsov URS
110 m Hurdles, Men Yevgeny Mazepa URS Frank Siebeck GDR Anatoly Moshiashvili URS
400 m Hurdles, Men Yevgeny Gavrilenko URS Michael Schulze GDR Dmitry Stukalov URS
1,500 m Steeplechase, Men Nikolay Baklanov URS Petre Lupan ROU Petko Georgiev BUL
4 x 100 m Relay, Men Soviet Union URS East Germany GDR Poland POL
4 x 400 m Relay, Men Soviet Union URS East Germany GDR Poland POL
10 km Walk, Men Joachim Dumke GDR Frank Donner GDR Algis Lebedzius URS
High Jump, Men Aleksandr Shigin URS Ioannis Kousoulas GRE Rustam Akhmetov URS
Pole Vault, Men Yury Isakov URS Vladimir Kishkun URS Paweł Iwiński POL
Long Jump, Men Mikhail Bariban URS Ulrich Lampe GDR Lajmonis Magone URS
Triple Jump, Men Mikhail Bariban URS Stanislav Kolesnikov URS Andreas Baraktiaris GRE
Shot Put, Men Hartmut Briesenick GDR Peter Hlawatschke GDR Arunas Vitkevicius URS
Discus Throw, Men Hans-Jürgen Jacobi GDR Viktor Zhurba URS Hartmut Briesenick GDR
Hammer Throw, Men Peter Przesdzing GDR Vladimir Tretyak URS Igor Sovpel URS
Javelin Throw, Men Andrzej Szajda POL Jonas Dabrila URS Edmund Berdziński POL
Decathlon, Men Leonid Lytvynenko URS Stefan Junge GDR Manfred Apt GDR
100 m, Women Lyudmila Zharkova URS Renate Meißner GDR Mariana Goth ROU
200 m, Women Lyudmila Zharkova URS Renate Meißner GDR Mariana Goth ROU
400 m, Women Waltraud Birnbaum GDR Raisa Nikanorova URS Mariana Filip ROU
800 m, Women Barbara Wieck GDR Waltraud Pöhland GDR Nijolė Sabaitė URS
80 m Hurdles, Women Annelie Ehrhardt GDR Emina Pilav YUG Ewa Balcerzyk POL
4 x 100 m Relay, Women Soviet Union URS East Germany GDR Poland POL
High Jump, Women Elke Kalliwoda GDR Nina Bryntseva URS Katya Lazova BUL
Long Jump, Women Tatyana Bychkova URS Nataliya Kostygina URS Kristina Ziegler GDR
Shot Put, Women Elvira Syromyatkinova URS Leana Matthes GDR Dora Popuskova BUL
Discus Throw, Women Svetlana Vedeneyeva URS Svetla Bozhkova BUL Jutta Knobloch GDR
Javelin Throw, Women Serafina Moritz ROU Cecylia Bajer POL Marion Becker GDR
Pentathlon, Women Burglinde Pollak GDR Tatyana Bychkova URS Cornelia Popescu ROU