European Junior Games 1968

3rd European Junior Games The converted stadium
city	Leipzig , GDR
Stadion	Central Stadium Leipzig
participating countries	12
Participating athletes
Competitions	33
opening	23rd August 1968
Closing ceremony	August 25, 1968
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The 3rd European Junior Games from 23rd to 25th August 1968 in the central stadium of the Sportforum in Leipzig ( GDR , today Federal Republic of Germany ) were the last with this name. They continued with the 1st European Junior Athletics Championships in the French city of Colombes , about ten kilometers northwest of Paris city ​​center in the Hauts-de-Seine department .

The competition results can be found under web links.

Attendees

Athletes came from twelve countries: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, GDR, Greece, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union and Turkey. After the USSR invaded Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, the German Athletics Association (DLV) withdrew its team on August 22, 1968.

Medal table

Medal table (final score after 33 decisions)
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Soviet Union	18th	12	11	41
2	German Democratic Republic	11	15th	5	31
3	Romania	2	2	4th	8th
4th	Poland	1	1	7th	9
5	Belgium	1	0	1	2
6th	Bulgaria	0	1	3	4th
7th	Greece	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
	total	33	33	33	99

Web links

• Competition results on wjah.co.uk, accessed September 17, 2013
• Results (Women) (PDF; 122 kB) Results women on european-athletics.org, accessed September 12, 2013
• Results (Men) (PDF; 132 kB) Results men on european-athletics.org, accessed September 12, 2013

Footnotes

1. ↑ The European Athletics Junior Championship in Novi Sad: History on nacionalnarevija.com, accessed September 17, 2013
2. ↑ Successes of Oberhausen athletes: International assignments 1968 (PDF; 20 kB) on Leichtathletik-in-oberhausen.de, accessed September 17, 2013