2009 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's long jump
# 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's long jump

The men's long jump event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Girėno stadionas (Darius and Girėnas Stadium) on 16 and 17 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Jānis Leitis Latvia |
| - | - |
| Silver | Pavel Karavayev Russia |
| Bronze | Mikko Kivinen Finland |

## Results

### Final

17 July

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Result | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Result | Notes |
| | Jānis Leitis | Latvia | 7.46 (w: -0.8 m/s) | 7.69 (w: 0.2 m/s) | 7.67 (w: -0.1 m/s) | x | 7.75 (w: 0.1 m/s) | 7.90 (w: 0.2 m/s) | 7.90 (w: 0.2 m/s) | |
| | Pavel Karavayev | Russia | x | x | 7.81 (w: 0.3 m/s) | x | 7.86 (w: 0.0 m/s) | x | 7.86 (w: 0.0 m/s) | |
| | Mikko Kivinen | Finland | 7.62 (w: 0.2 m/s) | 7.47 (w: -0.8 m/s) | 7.62 (w: -0.3 m/s) | 7.74 (w: 0.5 m/s) | x | 7.85 (w: -0.1 m/s) | 7.85 (w: -0.1 m/s) | |
| 4 | Dániel Ecseki | Hungary | 7.55 (w: 0.2 m/s) | 7.80 (w: 0.0 m/s) | 7.65 (w: -0.2 m/s) | 7.72 (w: -0.2 m/s) | 7.78 (w: 0.0 m/s) | x | 7.80 (w: 0.0 m/s) | |
| 5 | Mario Kral | Germany | 7.79 (w: 0.3 m/s) | 7.67 (w: -0.6 m/s) | x | x | x | 7.66 (w: 0.2 m/s) | 7.79 (w: 0.3 m/s) | |
| 6 | Sergey Slepukhin | Russia | 7.60 (w: 0.7 m/s) | 7.62 (w: 0.4 m/s) | 7.79 (w: -0.2 m/s) | 7.47 (w: 0.7 m/s) | 7.55 (w: -0.2 m/s) | 7.48 (w: 0.2 m/s) | 7.79 (w: -0.2 m/s) | |
| 7 | Jean Marie Okutu | Spain | 7.53 (w: 0.3 m/s) | 7.65 (w: 0.2 m/s) | 7.78 (w: 0.0 m/s) | x | 7.70 (w: 0.0 m/s) | 7.76 (w: 0.2 m/s) | 7.78 (w: 0.0 m/s) | |
| 8 | Marcos Chuva | Portugal | 7.29 (w: -0.6 m/s) | 6.41 (w: -0.6 m/s) | 7.67 (w: -0.1 m/s) | 7.51 (w: 0.2 m/s) | 7.62 (w: 0.1 m/s) | 5.25 (w: +0.2 m/s) | 7.67 (w: -0.1 m/s) | |
| 9 | Dzmitry Astrouski | Belarus | 7.61 (w: 0.4 m/s) | 7.43 (w: 0.0 m/s) | 6.84 (w: -0.3 m/s) | | | | 7.61 (w: 0.4 m/s) | |
| 10 | Emmanuel Biron | France | 7.54 (w: -0.5 m/s) | x | 7.54 (w: 0.3 m/s) | | | | 7.54 (w: -0.5 m/s) | |
| 11 | Darius Aučyna | Lithuania | 7.39 (w: 0.3 m/s) | x | x | | | | 7.39 (w: 0.3 m/s) | |
| | Mihail Mertzanidis-Despoteris | Greece | x | x | x | | | | NM | |

### Qualifications

16 July Qualifying 7.65 or 12 best to the Final

**Group A**

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Emmanuel Biron | France | 7.73 (w: 1.1 m/s) | Q |
| 2 | Mihail Mertzanidis-Despoteris | Greece | 7.71 (w: 1.7 m/s) | Q |
| 3 | Sergey Slepukhin | Russia | 7.70 w (w: 2.3 m/s) | Q |
| 4 | Dzmitry Astrouski | Belarus | 7.69 (w: 0.8 m/s) | Q |
| 5 | Otto Kilpi | Finland | 7.64 (w: -1.2 m/s) | |
| 6 | Marcos Caldeira | Portugal | 7.63 (w: 1.0 m/s) | |
| 7 | Timo Kirchenberger | Germany | 7.53 w (w: 2.4 m/s) | |
| 8 | Tomasz Dula | Poland | 7.50 (w: 1.7 m/s) | |
| 9 | Marko Prugovečki | Croatia | 7.43 (w: 0.9 m/s) | |
| 10 | Sergey Mikhailovskiy | Russia | 7.23 (w: 2.0 m/s) | |

**Group B**

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Pavel Karavayev | Russia | 7.97 (w: 1.3 m/s) | Q |
| 2 | Mario Kral | Germany | 7.80 (w: 1.7 m/s) | Q |
| 3 | Darius Aučyna | Lithuania | 7.78 (w: 1.9 m/s) | Q |
| 4 | Dániel Ecseki | Hungary | 7.76 (w: 1.2 m/s) | Q |
| 5 | Marcos Chuva | Portugal | 7.76 (w: 1.2 m/s) | Q |
| 6 | Mikko Kivinen | Finland | 7.75 (w: 1.3 m/s) | Q |
| 7 | Jean Marie Okutu | Spain | 7.68 (w: 0.8 m/s) | Q |
| 8 | Jānis Leitis | Latvia | 7.67 (w: 0.7 m/s) | Q |
| 9 | Benoît Maxwell | France | 7.43 (w: 1.7 m/s) | |
| 10 | Łukasz Mateusiak | Poland | 7.31 (w: 0.8 m/s) | |
| 11 | Mattheos Volou | Cyprus | 7.13 (w: -2.0 m/s) | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

* Belarus (1)
* Croatia (1)
* Cyprus (1)
* Finland (2)
* France (2)
* Germany (2)
* Greece (1)
* Hungary (1)
* Latvia (1)
* Lithuania (1)
* Poland (2)
* Portugal (2)
* Russia (3)
* Spain (1)
