1997 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's long jump

The men's long jump event at the 1997 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Turku, Finland, on 12 and 13 July 1997.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Carlos Calado  Portugal
Silver	Kiril Sosunov  Russia
Bronze	Aleksey Lukasevich  Ukraine

Results

Final

13 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Carlos Calado	Portugal	x	7.85 (w: 0.3 m/s)	8.32 w (w: 2.3 m/s)	8.30 (w: 1.0 m/s)	7.78 (w: -0.5 m/s)	8.12 (w: -0.7 m/s)	8.32 w (w: 2.3 m/s)
	Kiril Sosunov	Russia	8.30 (w: 1.0 m/s)	x	x	x	5.96 (w: 1.4 m/s)	x	8.30 (w: 1.0 m/s)
	Aleksey Lukasevich	Ukraine	7.95 (w: 1.2 m/s)	8.09 w (w: 2.5 m/s)	7.75 (w: 0.4 m/s)	x	x	7.93 w (w: 2.1 m/s)	8.09 w (w: 2.5 m/s)
4	Bogdan Țăruș	Romania	7.93 (w: 1.5 m/s)	7.96 (w: 0.2 m/s)	x	7.92 (w: 1.1 m/s)	7.92 (w: 0.9 m/s)	7.88 (w: 0.4 m/s)	7.96 (w: 0.2 m/s)
5	Roman Shchurenko	Ukraine	7.94 (w: 0.9 m/s)	x	x	x	7.57 (w: 0.7 m/s)	x	7.94 (w: 0.9 m/s)
6	Diego Boschiero	Italy	7.61 (w: 1.6 m/s)	7.54 w (w: 2.7 m/s)	7.50 (w: -0.6 m/s)	7.52 (w: 1.4 m/s)	7.55 (w: 1.2 m/s)	7.53 (w: 0.3 m/s)	7.61 (w: 1.6 m/s)
7	Anastasios Makrynikolas	Greece	7.54 (w: 1.5 m/s)	7.54 (w: 1.9 m/s)	x	7.41 (w: 0.8 m/s)	x	7.15 (w: 0.6 m/s)	7.54 (w: 1.5 m/s)
8	Marko Rajić	Yugoslavia	7.52 w (w: 3.0 m/s)	6.96 (w: 0.2 m/s)	5.70 (w: 1.4 m/s)	x	7.23 (w: -0.3 m/s)	7.49 (w: 0.9 m/s)	7.52 w (w: 3.0 m/s)
9	Grzegorz Marciniszyn	Poland	7.51 (w: 0.4 m/s)	5.62 (w: 1.1 m/s)	7.50 (w: 1.0 m/s)				7.51 (w: 0.4 m/s)
10	Niels Kruller	Netherlands	5.83 w (w: 2.8 m/s)	7.50 (w: 1.4 m/s)	x				7.50 (w: 1.4 m/s)
11	Michael Hessek	Germany	7.10 (w: -0.8 m/s)	7.47 (w: 1.9 m/s)	x				7.47 (w: 1.9 m/s)
	Tomas Bardauskas	Lithuania	x	x	x				NM

Qualifications

12 July
Qualify: first to 12 to the Final

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Carlos Calado	Portugal	7.75 (w: -0.6 m/s)	Q
2	Tomas Bardauskas	Lithuania	7.64 (w: -1.9 m/s)	Q
3	Anastasios Makrynikolas	Greece	7.61 (w: -0.2 m/s)	Q
4	Roman Shchurenko	Ukraine	7.59 (w: -1.3 m/s)	Q
5	Grzegorz Marciniszyn	Poland	7.48 (w: -1.7 m/s)	Q
6	Michael Hessek	Germany	7.48 (w: -1.2 m/s)	Q
7	Diego Boschiero	Italy	7.46 (w: -1.0 m/s)	Q
8	Sergey Zinovyev	Russia	7.22 (w: -1.0 m/s)
	Laurent Sbeghen	France	NM
	Renos Kolokotronis	Cyprus	NM

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Kiril Sosunov	Russia	7.95 (w: -0.6 m/s)	Q
2	Bogdan Țăruș	Romania	7.66 (w: 0.3 m/s)	Q
3	Niels Kruller	Netherlands	7.55 (w: 0.3 m/s)	Q
4	Aleksey Lukasevich	Ukraine	7.51 (w: -0.8 m/s)	Q
5	Marko Rajić	Yugoslavia	7.46 (w: -1.2 m/s)	Q
6	Krzysztof Łuczak	Poland	7.45 (w: -1.3 m/s)
7	Martin Löbel	Austria	7.34 (w: -1.0 m/s)
8	Peter Häggström	Sweden	7.31 (w: -1.5 m/s)
9	Meruzhan Sargisyan	Armenia	7.00 (w: -2.1 m/s)
10	Justin N'Koumazok	France	6.96 (w: -2.1 m/s)
11	Kaloyan Lidanski	Bulgaria	6.79 (w: -1.1 m/s)

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

•  Armenia (1)
•  Austria (1)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  France (2)
•  Germany (1)
•  Greece (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  Poland (2)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Romania (1)
•  Russia (2)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Ukraine (2)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

References

1. European Athletics U23 Championships Ostrava 2011 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK - 1st European Athletics U23 Championships - Turku, Finland 10.7. - 13.7.1997 (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 5–16, retrieved 24 October 2014
2. Gordon, Ed, European Championships for Under 23 (Turku, Finland), athletix.org, archived from the original on 12 November 2007, retrieved 24 October 2014