The

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competition at the

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was held at the Athletics Stadium of Tbilisi in

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between 27 July and 1 August. A total of 36 events were held, evenly divided between the sexes, repeating the programme of the previous edition. The competition was preceded the World Athletics Leaders Seminar, which included

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president Svein Arne Hansen and IAAF Vice President

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among its attendees. The games' athletics came ahead of the city's hosting of the 2016 European Athletics Youth Championships – the first edition of the competition, which will be held in the even years between the European Youth Festival's events. French jumper Enzo Hodebar was the most successful athlete in the sport, being the only youth to take two individual titles with his

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and

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wins. Serbia had two double medallists in the

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and

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won a gold and a silver in the boys' events while Tamara Mićević was a double runner-up on the girl's side. The overall standard of winning performances was down on previous years, but three games records were set in the girls' section: Viivi Lehikoinen set a time of 57.74 seconds for the

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, Elizaveta Bondarenko improved the

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standard to , and Carolina Visca set a

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games record of .Athletics Results
Tbilisi2015. Retrieved on 2015-08-06. France easily topped the medal table with six

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among its haul of twelve – its performance in athletics accounted for most of the medals at the games, in which it placed third in the overall medal table.Medal Table
. Tbilisi2015. Retrieved on 2015-08-06. Russian had the next highest number of golds, at four, while the Netherlands had the second-highest total with six medals including three gold. Ukraine ranked third with three golds and two silver medals. In total athletes from thirty nations reached the podium at the competition. The host nation failed to appear on the medal table.

Medal summary

Boys

Girls

Medal table

References

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