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
v t e

The men's long jump event at the 1997 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Turku, Finland, on 12 and 13 July 1997.^[1][2]

Gold	Carlos Calado  Portugal
Silver	Kiril Sosunov  Russia
Bronze	Aleksey Lukasevich  Ukraine

13 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Carlos Calado	Portugal	x	7.85 (w: 0.3 m/s)	8.32 w (w: 2.3 m/s)	8.30 (w: 1.0 m/s)	7.78 (w: -0.5 m/s)	8.12 (w: -0.7 m/s)	8.32 w (w: 2.3 m/s)
	Kiril Sosunov	Russia	8.30 (w: 1.0 m/s)	x	x	x	5.96 (w: 1.4 m/s)	x	8.30 (w: 1.0 m/s)
	Aleksey Lukasevich	Ukraine	7.95 (w: 1.2 m/s)	8.09 w (w: 2.5 m/s)	7.75 (w: 0.4 m/s)	x	x	7.93 w (w: 2.1 m/s)	8.09 w (w: 2.5 m/s)
4	Bogdan Țăruș	Romania	7.93 (w: 1.5 m/s)	7.96 (w: 0.2 m/s)	x	7.92 (w: 1.1 m/s)	7.92 (w: 0.9 m/s)	7.88 (w: 0.4 m/s)	7.96 (w: 0.2 m/s)
5	Roman Shchurenko	Ukraine	7.94 (w: 0.9 m/s)	x	x	x	7.57 (w: 0.7 m/s)	x	7.94 (w: 0.9 m/s)
6	Diego Boschiero	Italy	7.61 (w: 1.6 m/s)	7.54 w (w: 2.7 m/s)	7.50 (w: -0.6 m/s)	7.52 (w: 1.4 m/s)	7.55 (w: 1.2 m/s)	7.53 (w: 0.3 m/s)	7.61 (w: 1.6 m/s)
7	Anastasios Makrynikolas	Greece	7.54 (w: 1.5 m/s)	7.54 (w: 1.9 m/s)	x	7.41 (w: 0.8 m/s)	x	7.15 (w: 0.6 m/s)	7.54 (w: 1.5 m/s)
8	Marko Rajić	Yugoslavia	7.52 w (w: 3.0 m/s)	6.96 (w: 0.2 m/s)	5.70 (w: 1.4 m/s)	x	7.23 (w: -0.3 m/s)	7.49 (w: 0.9 m/s)	7.52 w (w: 3.0 m/s)
9	Grzegorz Marciniszyn	Poland	7.51 (w: 0.4 m/s)	5.62 (w: 1.1 m/s)	7.50 (w: 1.0 m/s)				7.51 (w: 0.4 m/s)
10	Niels Kruller	Netherlands	5.83 w (w: 2.8 m/s)	7.50 (w: 1.4 m/s)	x				7.50 (w: 1.4 m/s)
11	Michael Hessek	Germany	7.10 (w: -0.8 m/s)	7.47 (w: 1.9 m/s)	x				7.47 (w: 1.9 m/s)
	Tomas Bardauskas	Lithuania	x	x	x				NM

12 July
Qualify: first to 12 to the Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Carlos Calado	Portugal	7.75 (w: -0.6 m/s)	Q
2	Tomas Bardauskas	Lithuania	7.64 (w: -1.9 m/s)	Q
3	Anastasios Makrynikolas	Greece	7.61 (w: -0.2 m/s)	Q
4	Roman Shchurenko	Ukraine	7.59 (w: -1.3 m/s)	Q
5	Grzegorz Marciniszyn	Poland	7.48 (w: -1.7 m/s)	Q
6	Michael Hessek	Germany	7.48 (w: -1.2 m/s)	Q
7	Diego Boschiero	Italy	7.46 (w: -1.0 m/s)	Q
8	Sergey Zinovyev	Russia	7.22 (w: -1.0 m/s)
	Laurent Sbeghen	France	NM
	Renos Kolokotronis	Cyprus	NM

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Kiril Sosunov	Russia	7.95 (w: -0.6 m/s)	Q
2	Bogdan Țăruș	Romania	7.66 (w: 0.3 m/s)	Q
3	Niels Kruller	Netherlands	7.55 (w: 0.3 m/s)	Q
4	Aleksey Lukasevich	Ukraine	7.51 (w: -0.8 m/s)	Q
5	Marko Rajić	Yugoslavia	7.46 (w: -1.2 m/s)	Q
6	Krzysztof Łuczak	Poland	7.45 (w: -1.3 m/s)
7	Martin Löbel	Austria	7.34 (w: -1.0 m/s)
8	Peter Häggström	Sweden	7.31 (w: -1.5 m/s)
9	Meruzhan Sargisyan	Armenia	7.00 (w: -2.1 m/s)
10	Justin N'Koumazok	France	6.96 (w: -2.1 m/s)
11	Kaloyan Lidanski	Bulgaria	6.79 (w: -1.1 m/s)

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.