1997 European Athletics U23 Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

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

Medalists

Gold	Pietami Skyttä  Finland
Silver	Matti Närhi  Finland
Bronze	Christian Nicolay  Germany

Results

Final

13 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Pietami Skyttä	Finland	78.72	78.00	x	81.58	x	x	81.58
	Matti Närhi	Finland	79.64	x	x	80.72	x	79.46	80.72
	Christian Nicolay	Germany	x	74.80	72.16	75.16	78.18	76.56	78.18
4	Ēriks Rags	Latvia	70.98	73.48	76.46	75.54	78.12	74.82	78.12
5	Igor Lisovskiy	Belarus	x	77.36	77.72	74.86	71.98	75.70	77.72
6	Laurent Dorique	France	74.84	74.14	70.18	74.56	x	72.32	74.84
7	Dominique Pausé	France	x	66.16	73.70	x	x	x	73.70
8	Stuart Faben	Great Britain	72.96	72.10	71.58	72.84	x	x	72.96
9	Vladimir Chizhov	Russia	69.36	72.60	71.72				72.60
10	Mats Nilsson	Sweden	71.76	x	69.36				71.76
11	Daniel Daub	Germany	70.72	70.68	68.72				70.72
12	Gergely Horváth	Hungary	66.84	70.02	69.36				70.02
13	Andrey Khodasevich	Belarus	x	x	67.86				67.86
14	Daniel Gustafsson	Sweden	65.68	66.48	66.54				66.54
15	Gürbüz Çam	Turkey	62.58	62.08	59.40				62.58

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 15 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

References