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

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competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in

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, Poland between 16 and 19 August.European Junior Championships
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Men's results

Women's results

Medal table

References

;Results

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