The 1997 European Athletics Junior Championships were held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on July 24–27.

Men's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Dwain Chambers  Great Britain	10.06	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	10.24	Frédéric Krantz  France	10.35
200 m	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	20.51	Piotr Berestiuk  Poland	20.91	Mark Findlay  Great Britain	20.99
400 m	David Canal  Spain	46.04	Periklis Iakovakis  Greece	46.68	David Naismith  Great Britain	47.11
800 m	Nils Schumann  Germany	1:51.00	Robert Neryng  Poland	1:51.45	Roman Oravec  Czech Republic	1:51.51
1500 m	Gert-Jan Liefers  Netherlands	3:46.91	Benjamin Hetzler  Germany	3:48.15	Gareth Turnbull  Ireland	3:48.16
5000 m	Bouabdellah Tahri  France	14:25.71	Ferenc Békési  Hungary	14:27.87	Juan Carlos Higuero  Spain	14:31.79
10,000 m	Ovidiu Tat  Romania	29:56.35	Mustafa Mohamed  Sweden	30:04.33	Jussi Utriainen  Finland	30:23.02
3000 m steeplechase	Günther Weidlinger  Austria	8:41.54	Roman Usov  Russia	8:48.47	Antonio Martínez  Spain	8:56.60
110 m hurdles	Tomasz Ścigaczewski  Poland	13.55	Stanislavs Olijars  Latvia	13.74	Jan Schindzielorz  Germany	14.10
400 m hurdles	Boris Gorban  Russia	50.95	Aljoscha Nemitz  Germany	51.08	Boris Vazovan  Slovakia	51.26
4×100 metres relay	Great Britain Uvie Ugono Mark Findlay Christian Malcolm Dwain Chambers	39.62	France Vincent Caure Frédéric Krantz Didier Héry Dimitri Demoniere	39.89	Germany Thomas Hüttinger Tim Studzinski Thomas Zeimentz Jirka Zapletal	40.26
4×400 metres relay	Spain Adrián Fernández Luis María Flores Alberto Martínez David Canal	3:08.18	Greece Evággelos Moustakidis Yeóryios Ikonomídis Ioánnis Lessis Periklis Iakovakis	3:08.29	Great Britain Lee Black Michael Parper Mark Rowlands David Naismith	3:08.97
10,000 m walk	Andrea Manfredini  Italy	42:43.75	André Höhne  Germany	43:00.71	Martin Pupiš  Slovakia	43:11.53
High jump	Hennazdy Maroz  Belarus	2.20 m	Ben Challenger  Great Britain	2.20 m	Aleksey Lesnichiy  Belarus	2.17 m
Pole vault	Lars Börgeling  Germany	5.40 m	Pavel Gerasimov  Russia	5.30 m	Christian Linskey  Great Britain	5.00 m
Long jump	Nathan Morgan  Great Britain	7.90 m	Raúl Fernández  Spain	7.90 m	Yann Domenech  France	7.87 m
Triple jump	Viktor Gushchinskiy  Russia	16.78 m	Ionut Punga  Romania	16.43 m	Eduardo Pérez  Spain	16.40 m
Shot put	Ralf Bartels  Germany	18.30 m	Mikuláš Konopka  Slovakia	17.63 m	Peter Sack  Germany	17.23 m
Discus throw	Emeka Udechuku  Great Britain	53.90 m	Patrick Stang  Germany	53.02 m	Zoltán Kővágó  Hungary	52.90 m
Hammer throw	Maciej Pałyszko  Poland	74.12 m	Sergey Martemyanov  Belarus	70.62 m	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen  Finland	69.84 m
Javelin throw	Adrian Markowski  Poland	78.42 m	Juha Aarnio  Finland	77.60 m	Christian Fusenig  Germany	75.86 m
Decathlon	Chiel Warners  Netherlands	7664 pts	Steffen Munz  Germany	7258 pts	Sebastian Knabe  Germany	7218 pts

Women's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Johanna Manninen  Finland	11.39	Agné Visockaité  Lithuania	11.42	Erica Marchetti  Italy	11.47
200 m	Sabrina Mulrain  Germany	23.35	Muriel Hurtis  France	23.36	Johanna Manninen  Finland	23.43
400 m	Kristina Perica  Croatia	53.07	Alina Râpanu  Romania	53.10	Cindy Éga  France	53.17
800 m	Anca Safta  Romania	2:03.47	Aleksandra Dereń  Poland	2:03.70	Miriam Mašeková  Slovakia	2:06.17
1500 m	Natalya Yevdokimova  Ukraine	4:23.34	Małgorzata Bury  Poland	4:24.37	Ljiljana Ćulibrk  Croatia	4:24.75
3000 m	Laura Suffa  Germany	9:13.44	Sonja Stolić  Yugoslavia	9:15.45	Sandra Levenez  France	9:15.61
5000 m	Katalin Szentgyörgyi  Hungary	16:38.73	Tatyana Gerasimova  Russia	16:39.31	Ionela Bungardean  Romania	16:39.97
100 m hurdles	Tatyana Mishakova  Russia	13.49	Éva Miklós  Romania	13.81	Hanna Korell  Finland	13.92
400 m hurdles	Florence Delaune  France	57.91	Thelma Joziasse  Netherlands	58.65	Medina Tudor  Romania	58.85
4×100 metres relay	Germany Anne Reucher Marion Wagner Alice Reuss Sabrina Mulrain	44.24	Great Britain Rebecca Drummond Sarah Wilhelmy Melanie Purkiss Tatum Nelson	45.55	Poland Ewa Klarecka Agnieszka Rysiukiewicz Monika Giemzo Anna Pacholak	45.59
4×400 metres relay	France Katiana Rene Florence Delaune Sylvanie Morandais Cindy Ega	3:33.73	Hungary Enikő Szabó Renata Balazsic Krisztina Doma Barbara Petráhn	3:34.90	Germany Kerstin Seitz Jennifer Vollrath Doreen Harstick Claudia Marx	3:34.94
5000 m walk	Claudia Iovan  Romania	21:15.99	Lyudmila Dedekina  Russia	21:42.21	Lyudmila Yefimkina  Russia	22:04.11
High jump	Linda Horvath  Austria	1.92 m	Marina Kuptsova  Russia	1.90 m	Svetlana Lapina  Russia	1.90 m
Pole vault	Annika Becker  Germany	4.00 m	Vala Flosadóttir  Iceland	4.00 m	Monika Erlach  Austria	3.95 m
Long jump	Aurélie Félix  France	6.52 m	Sandra Stube  Germany	6.50 m	Olivia Wöckinger  Austria	6.47 m
Triple jump	Adelina Gavrilă  Romania	13.58 m	Marija Martinović  Yugoslavia	13.54 m	Diana Nikitina  Estonia	13.45 m
Shot put	Yelena Ivanenko  Belarus	17.05 m	Nadine Banse  Germany	16.60 m	Assunta Legnante  Italy	16.18 m
Discus throw	Lacramioara Ionescu  Romania	52.54 m	Satu Järvenpää  Finland	51.48 m	Philippa Roles  Great Britain	50.62 m
Hammer throw	Kamila Skolimowska  Poland	59.72 m	Sini Pöyry  Finland	59.42 m	Susanne Keil  Germany	59.22 m
Javelin throw	Nikolett Szabó  Hungary	61.86 m	Sarah Walter  France	57.34 m	Bina Ramesh  France	55.78 m
Heptathlon	Saskia Meijer  Netherlands	5882 pts	Yelena Chernyavskaya  Russia	5827 pts	Sonja Kesselschläger  Germany	5753 pts

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	7	7	8	22
2	Great Britain (GBR)	5	3	5	13
3	Romania (ROM)	5	3	2	10
4	Poland (POL)	4	4	1	9
5	France (FRA)	4	3	5	12
6	Russia (RUS)	3	6	2	11
7	Netherlands (NED)	3	1	0	4
8	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	1	5
9	Spain (ESP)	2	1	3	6
10	Belarus (BLR)	2	1	1	4
11	Austria (AUT)	2	0	2	4
12	Finland (FIN)	1	3	4	8
13	Italy (ITA)	1	0	2	3
14	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	1	2
15	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
16	Greece (GRE)	0	2	0	2
	Yugoslavia (FR Yugoslavia)	0	2	0	2
18	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	3	4
19	Iceland (ISL)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
23	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		43	43	43	129

References

• Results - GBR Athletics
• Results - GBR Athletics