The 1979
European Athletics Junior Championships
The European Athletics U20 Championships (formerly named the European Athletics Junior Championships up to 2015) are the European championships for athletes who are under-20 athletes, which is the age range recognised by World Athletics as jun ...
was the fifth edition of the biennial
athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competi ...
competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...
, Poland between 16 and 19 August.
European Junior Championships
GBRAthletics. Retrieved on 2013-05-27.
Men's results
Women's results
Medal table
References
;Results
World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2013-05-27.
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Sport in Bydgoszcz
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International athletics competitions hosted by Poland
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History of Bydgoszcz