Athletics at the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

The athletics competition at the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held from 25 to 29 July 2011.

The events took place at the Söğütlü Athletics Stadium in Trabzon, Turkey.

Boys and girls born 1994 or 1995 or later participated 36 track and field events, divided evenly between the sexes.

Bence Pásztor of Hungary set a world youth best of 84.41 metres to win the boy's hammer throw,[2] while Yuriy Kushniruk of Ukraine set a European youth best in the javelin throw (his mark of 83.42 m was second only to Argentina's Braian Toledo).

[3] Internationally, the championships was evenly matched and no one country dominated as 26 nations had a medal-winning athlete.