1979 European Junior Championships

Host City	Bydgoszcz
Country	POL
Held	16 – 19 August 1979
Competitors	124
Countries	17

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	GDR	14	12	6	32
2	Germany	GER	7	4	6	17
3	Great Britain	GBR	5	2	4	11
4	Soviet Union	URS	4	12	6	22
5	Czechoslovakia	TCH	2	0	0	2
6	Italy	ITA	1	1	2	4
7	Poland	POL	1	0	2	3
8	Finland	FIN	1	0	0	1
=	Greece	GRE	1	0	0	1
10	Belgium	BEL	0	2	0	2
=	Norway	NOR	0	2	0	2
12	Hungary	HUN	0	1	0	1
13	Bulgaria	BUL	0	0	4	4
14	France	FRA	0	0	2	2
=	Romania	ROU	0	0	2	2
=	Switzerland	SUI	0	0	2	2
17	Portugal	POR	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
100 m, Men	Thomas Schröder	GDR	Werner Zaske	GER	Mike McFarlane	GBR
200 m, Men	Mike McFarlane	GBR	Thomas Schröder	GDR	Francesco Tiziani	ITA
400 m, Men	Hartmut Weber	GER	Andreas Knebel	GDR	Mel Fowell	GBR
800 m, Men	Klaus-Peter Nabein	GER	Andreas Hauck	GDR	Dieter Elmer	SUI
1,500 m, Men	Graham Williamson	GBR	Leonid Bruk	URS	Peter Wirz	SUI
3,000 m, Men	Steve Cram	GBR	Jürgen Mattern	GDR	Aleksandr Kuznetsov	URS
5,000 m, Men	Steve Binns	GBR	Eddy De Pauw	BEL	António Leitão	POR
110 m Hurdles, Men	Frank Rossland	GDR	György Bakos	HUN	Georgy Shabanov	URS
400 m Hurdles, Men	Georgios Vamvakas	GRE	Sergey Chizhikov	URS	Serge Guillen	FRA
2,000 m Steeplechase, Men	Gaetano Erba	ITA	Colin Reitz	GBR	Michael Längler	GER
4 x 100 m Relay, Men	Germany	GER	Great Britain	GBR	Italy	ITA
4 x 400 m Relay, Men	Germany	GER	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR
10 km Walk, Men	Jozef Pribilinec	TCH	Erling Andersen	NOR	Jörg Pasemann	GDR
High Jump, Men	Dietmar Mögenburg	GER	Roberto Cerri	ITA	Harald Ehlke	GER
Pole Vault, Men	Vladimir Polyakov	URS	Aleksandr Krupsky	URS	Thierry Vigneron	FRA
Long Jump, Men	Andrzej Klimaszewski	POL	Michael Rentz	GDR	Waldemar Golanko	POL
Triple Jump, Men	Aleksandr Beskrovny	URS	Viktor Gerasimenya	URS	Mihai Ene	ROU
Shot Put, Men	Remigius Machura	TCH	Andreas Horn	GDR	Sergey Kasnauskas	URS
Discus Throw, Men	Jürgen Schult	GDR	Sergey Kot	URS	Ryszard Idziak	POL
Hammer Throw, Men	Igor Nikulin	URS	Yury Pastukhov	URS	Klaus Streckenbach	GDR
Javelin Throw, Men	Joachim Lange	GDR	Yury Zhirov	URS	Mitko Pavlov	BUL
Decathlon, Men	Siggi Wentz	GER	Dietmar Jentsch	GDR	Peter Hummel	GDR
100 m, Women	Kerstin Walther	GDR	Kirsten Siemon	GDR	Elke Vollmer	GER
200 m, Women	Kerstin Walther	GDR	Karin Verguts	BEL	Nataliya Bochina Elke Vollmer	URS GER
400 m, Women	Dagmar Rübsam	GDR	Liliya Tuznikova	URS	Marion Heilmann	GDR
800 m, Women	Marion Hübner	GDR	Birgit Brudel	GDR	Rositsa Ekova	BUL
1,500 m, Women	Irina Nikitina	URS	Gunvor Hilde	NOR	Cristieana Cojocaru	ROU
100 m Hurdles, Women	Leena Spoof	FIN	Silva Oja-Rahnel	URS	Edith Oker	GER
4 x 100 m Relay, Women	East Germany	GDR	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER
4 x 400 m Relay, Women	East Germany	GDR	Germany	GER	Soviet Union	URS
High Jump, Women	Kerstin Dedner	GDR	Katrin Buck	GER	Barbara Simmonds	GBR
Long Jump, Women	Helga Radtke	GDR	Sabine Everts	GER	Sue Hearnshaw	GBR
Shot Put, Women	Liane Schmuhl	GDR	Simone Rüdrich	GDR	Yelena Kozlova	URS
Discus Throw, Women	Irina Meszynski	GDR	Silvia Madetzki	GDR	Tsvetanka Hristova	BUL
Javelin Throw, Women	Fatima Whitbread	GBR	Katrin Strobel	GDR	Antoaneta Todorova	BUL
Pentathlon, Women	Sabine Everts	GER	Silva Oja-Rahnel	URS	Anke Behmer	GDR