Junior European Championship

Junior European Championship

[Combined with Senior European Championship from 1996 onwards]

Year	Venue	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1967	Balatonfüred, Hungary	Serge Maury, F	Andreas von Eicken, G	G. Chabaud, F
1968	Maubisson, France	Fritz Geis, G	Luciano Lievi, I	Andreas van Eicken, G
1969	Lake Garda, Campione, Italy	Guy Liljegren, S	Ryszard Skarbinski, PZ	Luciano Lievi, I
1970	Lake Orava, CSSR	Luciano Lievi, I	Petr Chlebek, CZ	Leo Lolic, Y
1971	Athens, Greece	Anastas Boudouris, GR	Jean Grandchamp, F	Jevgenij Belousov, SR
1972	Neusiedl, Austria	Ryszard Blaszka, PZ	Claudio Biekarck, BL	Romould Knasiecki, PZ
1973	Wladislawowo, Poland	Vitali Zaroslav, SR	Chris Law, K	Ath Papaioannou, GR
1974	Port Camargue, France	Jochen Schümann, DDR	Patrice Charee, F	R. Güldenpfening, DDR
1975	Port Barcares, Perpignon, France	Jochen Schumann, DDR	R. Güldenpfening, DDR	Josef Senkyr, CZ
1976	Port Barcares, Perpignon, France	A. Mudrichenko, SR	Boris Zakhorow, SR	A. Güldenpfening, DDR
1977	Balatonfüred, Hungary	Serge Khoretski, SR	Patrick Spängs, S	Nicolai Korichkin, SR
1978	Nessebar, Bulgaria	Viktor Soliviev, SR	Alexander Avdeev, SR	Mario Turazza, I
1979	Athens, Greece	Frank Butzmann, DDR	Wolfgang Mayrhofer, OE	Luc Choley, F
1980	Vilasar de Mar, Barcelona, Spain	Francisco de Angelis, I	Mats Nyberg, S	Joaquin Blanco, E
1981	Hoorn Ijsselmeer, Holland	Tinu Tootsy, SR	Jacek Sobkowiak, PZ	Paolo Semeraro, I
1982	Malmö, Sweden	Andrei Nikandrov, SR	V. Gurov, SR	Tom Jungell, L
1983	Porto San Giorgio, Italy	Peter Vilby, D	Heiko Birke, DDR	Andre Nikandrov, SR
1984	Helsinki, Finland	Björn Österreich, DDR	Dirk Löwe, DDR	Henry Herrman, DDR
1985	Vilassa de Mar, Spain	Juri Tokovoi, SR	Dirk Löwe, DDR	Peter Peet, H
1986	Balatonfüred, Hungary	Hans Spitzauer, OE	Armando Ortolano, GR	Michael Luschan, OE
1987	Çesme, Turkey	Imre Taveter, SR	Tammo Otasoo, SR	Ingo Khon, DDR
1988	Athens, Greece	Philipp Malte, DDR	Kico Villalonga, E	Matthias Mierm, DDR
1989	Club Nautico Arenal, Spain	J Knuth, DDR	Malte Philipp, DDR	Xavier Rohart, F
1990	Quiberon, France	Fredrik Lööf, S	Xavier Garcia, E	Uwe Thielemann, DDR
1991	Gdansk, Poland	Xavier Garcia, E	Carl Akerson, S	Sebastien Godefroid, B
1992	Caprilo, Italy	Sebastien Godefroid, B	Emilios Papathanasiou, GR	Diego Negri, I
1993	L’Estartit, Spain	Dominik Zycki, POL	Andreas Buchert, GER	Simone Cercello, ITA
1994	Çesme, Turkey	Ali Kemal Tüfekçi, TUR	Michal Hruby, CZE	Odysseas Papadopoulos, GRE
1995	Lake Balaton, Hungary	Mateusz Kusznierewicz, POL	Misura Bartul, CRO
1996	Hospitalet, Spain (with Seniors)	Mateusz Kusznierewicz, POL	Balazs Hadju, HUN	Manolis Marselos, GRE
1997	Split, Croatia	Manolis Marselos, GRE	Georg Kodogouris, GRE	Rafal Szukiel, POL
1998	Vilamoura, Portugal	Clifton Webb, NZL	Vladislav Aleinikov, RUS	David Burrows, IRL
1999	Oostende, Belgium	Stefan de Vries, NED	George Kontogouris, GRE	Clifton Webb, NZL
2000	Palma, Spain	Charlie Cumbley, GBR	Chris Brittle, GBR	Stefan de Vries, NED
2001	Malcesine. Italy	Chris Brittle, GBR	Kristian Aderman, SWE	Charlie Cumbley, GBR
2002	Cesme, Turkey	Chris Brittle, GBR	Jonas Hoegh-Christensen, DEN	Marin Misura, CRO
2003	Marstrand, Sweden	Marin Misura, CRO	Edward Grieg, GBR	Vannes Van Laer, BEL
2004	La Rochelle, France	Oleksiy Borysov, UKR	Tapio Nirkko, FIN	Lei Gong, CHN
2005	Kalmar, Sweden	Ian Klakovic Gaspic, CRO	Zach Riley, USA	Norbert Wilandt, POL
2006	Palamos, Spain	Mark Andrews, GBR	Henry Bagnall, GBR	Krzysztof Dabkowski, POL
2007	Balatonfured, Hungary	Michal Struinski, POL	Frederico Melo, POR	Piotr Kula, POL
2008	Scarlino, Italy	Jan Kurfeld, GER	Piotr Kula, POL	Tomas Vika, CZE

HISTORY OF THE JUNIOR EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP

The idea of a Junior Championship was born at the 1966 IFA AGM. The Council was discussing the problem that eastern European countries were willing to pay IFA Fees, able to collect funds in local currencies, but unable or hampered to transfer these funds to the IFA account in a capitalist bank. Hungary proposed to use up the credit already accumulated for the organisation of IFA regattas and added that substantial financial support can be expected from the corresponding state organisations, if such regattas are earmarked as ‘Junior Events’ limited to competitors up to the age of 21 years. So the 1966 AGM decided to create the ‘Junior European Championship’ and delegated the organisation of the first event to Hungary as an experiment. As far as the main intention was concerned - to transfer funds from one economic system to another circumventing the official difficulties - the idea did not work out. However as a sporting and social event these Junior European Championships turned out to be very successful and therefore the tradition was kept up.