Day 3 Highlights | European Athletics U18 Championships | Banska Bystrica 2024

20 July 2024 - The middle distance races took centre stage in the morning of Day 3. Rising Czech prospect, 16-year old Filip Toul completed the first part of a potential distance running double, winning the men’s 1500m with a tactically astute run. There was a thrilling finish in the women’s 3000m where Katie Pye just got the better of Germany’s Julia Ehrle in the race to the line. Astrid Cecilie Berntsen of Norway took gold in the women’s 2000m steeplechase with a personal best.
It was a day of surprises in the field events. Ștefan Alexandru Ciobanu won Romania’s first gold medal of the championships, winning the men’s shot put. Italy’s Pietro Villa caused a sensation in the men’s javelin, winning gold ahead of Poland’s world U18 leader Roch Krukowski. Thomas Williams became the first ever Irish male athlete to win gold at the European Athletics U18 Championships when he won the men’s hammer. The women’s high jump went with the form book as Hungary’s Lilianna Bátori leapt to gold with 1.84m. Mathias Urbanczyk secured Belgium’s first medal of Banska Bystrica, winning gold in the men’s pole vault with a personal best 5.10m.
Reminiscent of Rome just a few weeks ago, it turned into another Super Saturday for the Italian contingent. In the women’s 200m, Elisa Valensin and her 15-year-old Italian teammate Margherita Castellani made it an Italian gold and silver. In the men’s 200m, Diego Nappi became the new champion.
The future of Polish 400m running looks in good hands, after Stanisław Strzelecki and Anastazja Kus landed a one lap double.
The overnight leader in the men’s decathlon is Portugal’s Denis Hrabar. Estonia’s European U18 leader Tristan Konso maintained his medal push and France’s Kilian Trochain can also look back on a good day’s work.
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