Athletics EAA Under 23 European Championships 2025

[Grassmarket 4,300]

 guy just collapsed in the Race Walk - it is hot out there.

 

And apparently 2 DQFs for shoe rule violations in the Triple Jump.

 

 guy crosses the line in the Walk, celebrates the gold.....but has to get up & do another lap.   take the gold.

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[Werloc 3,191]

Following Miklyčiūtė is always a funny experience

 

Another shared silver medal for her, she can come back in two years time, since she is born in 2005.

 

With some nice Lithuanian athletes born in 2006/2007 as well, should be a pretty solid team if everyone is healthy, and we might continue our medal streak in the U23 scene

[Grassmarket 4,300]

Ondrova  sets 3 new PBs to take Gold in the Vault!  

[Werloc 3,191]

Just now, Grassmarket said:

Ondrova  sets 3 new PBs to take Gold in the Vault!  

She should have just kept going until the World Championship qualifying mark

 

5cm at a time

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[Grassmarket 4,300]

15 minutes ago, Werloc said:

She should have just kept going until the World Championship qualifying mark

 

5cm at a time

Wondering if she's doing FISU also, Czechs usually send a good team.

 

 Delgado takes the Triple Jump Gold - does not seem to be from 

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[Grassmarket 4,300]

Wow,  Schärfe just set an absolute NU23 record in heptathlon jav!  That is so rare!

 

And as soon as I post this, I find out that Kate O'Connor  also did it as recently as 2019.

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[Grassmarket 4,300]

Megier takes the Men's Steeple!

[Makedonas 2,263]

Very disappointing championships for us so far! Just one bronze medal from Emmanouilidou.

 

And now we just lost Mantzouranis in the men's hammer throw with 3 fouls in the final! He has 78.61 this year (9 meets this year over 75m), was first in qualifying and the massive favourite for gold. He did the same thing in 2023 at the European U20s where he was first in qualifying and had NM in the final. Very, very disapppointing!

 

We still have two other Greeks in the final plus a Cypriot, all are currently in the top 4 (and were originally top 4 favourites) so a good chance to hear our national anthem played and possibly even a podium sweep but now much less likely with Mantzouranis out...

[Makedonas 2,263]

We had so many athletes who were top 3 this year and came nowhere close to the podium. Retsa, Mita, Franks, Stamatonikolos, now Mantzouranis! Hopefully Korakidis will not join that list, he's currently 3rd after 4 rounds. And of course some others like Pavlidis who at least came close (I think he was 5th) but still a big disappointment that they didn't win medals.

 

We also had two returning medalists from 2023 that didn't defend their medals - Emmanouilidou in the women's 200m (though she did win a medal in the 100m this time), and Despollari in the women's 800m (she finished 4th with a U23NR so still a solid showing).

 

We also had U23NRs in the women's 400m hurdles, women's 4x400m (three of the same girls from 2023 where the previous U23NR was set, they smashed it by 6 seconds), men's 10km walk...should've had one in the women's 3000 steeplechase but Kallimogianni fell in the last hurdle/pool in the final and still was very close to the U23NR despite that. And it looks like we will probably get a U23NR in the heptathlon but probably with 4th place instead of a medal but let's see what happens in the 800m!

[Makedonas 2,263]

33 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

Very disappointing championships for us so far! Just one bronze medal from Emmanouilidou.

 

And now we just lost Mantzouranis in the men's hammer throw with 3 fouls in the final! He has 78.61 this year (9 meets this year over 75m), was first in qualifying and the massive favourite for gold. He did the same thing in 2023 at the European U20s where he was first in qualifying and had NM in the final. Very, very disapppointing!

 

We still have two other Greeks in the final plus a Cypriot, all are currently in the top 4 (and were originally top 4 favourites) so a good chance to hear our national anthem played and possibly even a podium sweep but now much less likely with Mantzouranis out...

They finished 1-2-3!

 

 Kesidis,  Papanastasiou,  Korakidis

 

We still get to hear our national anthem