The

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), competitio ...

competition at the

2009 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival The 2009 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held in Tampere, Finland. Sports Mascot The mascot for the 2009 European Youth Olympic Festival is Finx, a Eurasian lynx. Venues Eight venues were used in this edition of European Youth Olym ...

was held from 20 to 24 July. The events took place at the

Tampere Stadium Tampere Stadium (), also known as Ratina Stadium (), designed by architect Timo Penttilä and completed in 1965, is a multi-purpose stadium in Tampere, Finland, with a seating capacity of 16,800 people, and up to 32,000 people for concerts. In ...

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, Finland. Boys and girls born 1992 or 1993 or later participated 36

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

events, divided evenly between the sexes. The event was held shortly after the

2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics The 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics is the sixth edition of the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics. They were held at Brixen-Bressanone Sport Arena in Bressanone, Italy from 8–12 July 2009. Athletes had to be aged 16 or ...

Vera Rudakova Vera Viktorovna Rudakova (; born 20 March 1992) is a Russian athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Summer Olympics, Olympic Sport of athletics, at ...

(

400 m hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once ar ...

), Barbara Špiler (

hammer throw The hammer throw (HT for short) is one of the four throwing events in regular outdoor track-and-field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and Javelin throw, javelin. The hammer used in this sport is not like any of the tools a ...

) and

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

ers

Dmitriy Kroyter Dmitry (Dima) Kroyter (, ; born 18 February 1993) is an Israeli Olympic high jumper. He is a former World Youth Champion and Youth Olympics Champion. Early life Born in Siberia, Kroyter and his family emigrated to Israel in 1999. He grew up i ...

and

Alessia Trost Alessia Trost (born 8 March 1993) is an Italian female high jumper. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in High jump. She won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Bressanone. She was the bronze medallist at the 2018 IAAF Wor ...

were the four world youth champions to win at this European competition.2009 World Youth Championships
World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2014-11-22. The most successful athletes of the tournament were Jennie Batten, who did a

100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at ...

200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400-metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slight ...

double, and

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, who won both

shot put The shot put is a track-and-field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical Ball (sports), ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the Olympic Games, modern Olympics since their 1896 Summer Olym ...

and

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

events. Sprinter

Julien Watrin Julien Watrin (born 27 June 1992) is a Belgian Sprint (running), sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. In 2023, he won his first individual major senior medal, with silver at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships, European Indoor C ...

and middle-distance runner

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each won one gold and one silver, while

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000 m sho ...

champion

Amela Terzić Amela Terzić (Serbian Cyrillic: Амела Терзић, born 2 January 1993) is a Serbian middle-distance runner. She won two gold medals at 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships in Tallinn and was the junior champion at the 2012 Europe ...

also made the

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1500-metre run is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilomet ...

podium.

Medal summary

Men

Women

References

;Results
2009 European Youth Games
World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2014-11-22.

External links

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International athletics competitions hosted by Finland