2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics

2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Host city Poland Bydgoszcz, Poland
Nations participating 165
Athletes participating 1408
Events 44
Dates 8–13 July
Main venue Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium
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The 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 2008 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Bydgoszcz in Poland at the Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium between 8 and 13 July 2008. Previously Bydgoszcz hosted the 1999 World Youth Championships.

Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium, the host venue of the Championships.

The United States topped the medal table with 17 medals overall, including 11 golds, ahead of Germany and Kenya.

Men's results

Track

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
 Dexter Lee
 Jamaica 		10.40 Wilhelm van der Vyver
 South Africa 		10.42 Terrell Wilks
 United States		10.45
200 metres
Christophe Lemaitre
 France 		20.83
PB 		Nickel Ashmeade
 Jamaica 		20.84 Robert Hering
 Germany 		20.96
400 metres
Marcus Boyd
 United States 		45.53
WJL 		Kirani James
 Grenada		 45.70
NJ 		O'Neal Wilder
 United States 		45.76
800 metres
Abubaker Kaki
 Sudan		 1:45.60 Geoffrey Kibet
 Kenya		 1:46.23
PB 		André Olivier
 South Africa		 1:47.57
1500 metres
Imad Touil
 Algeria 		3:47.40 James Kiplagat Magut
 Kenya		 3:47.51Demma Daba
 Ethiopia		3:47.65
5000 metres
Abreham Cherkos
 Ethiopia 		13:08.57
CR 		Mathew Kipkoech Kisorio
 Kenya 		13:11.57
PB 		Dejen Gebremeskel
 Ethiopia 		13:11.97
10,000 metres
Josphat Kipkoech Bett
 Kenya		27:30.85
CR 		Titus Kipjumba Mbishei
 Kenya		27:31.65
PB 		Ibrahim Jeilan
 Ethiopia		28:07.98
110 metres hurdles 99.0 cm
Konstantin Shabanov
 Russia 		13.27
WJL 		Booker Nunley
 United States 		13.45 Keiron Stewart
 Jamaica 		13.51
400 metres hurdles
Jeshua Anderson
 United States 		48.68
PB 		Johnny Dutch
 United States 		49.25 Amaurys R. Valle
 Cuba 		49.56
NJ
3000 metres steeplechase
Jonathan Muia Ndiku
 Kenya 		8:17.28
PB 		Benjamin Kiplagat
 Uganda 		8:19.24 Patrick Kipyegon Terer
 Kenya 		8:25.14
PB
4 × 100 metres relay
 United States
Dante Sales
Antonio Sales
Marquise Goodwin
Terrell Wilks 		38.98
WJL 		 Jamaica
Oshane Bailey
Dexter Lee
Nickel Ashmeade
Yohan Blake 		39.25
SB 		 South Africa
Johannes Mosala
Roscoe Engel
Patrick Vosloo
Wilhelm van der Vyver 		39.70
4 × 400 metres relay
 United States
Marcus Boyd
Bryan Miller
O'Neal Wilder
Jeshua Anderson 		3:03.86
WJL 		 Great Britain
Louis Persent
Robert Davis
Nigel Levine
Jordan McGrath 		3:05.82
SB		 Germany
Niklas Zender
Alexander Juretzko
Marc-John Dombrowski
Pascal Nabow 		3:06.47
SB
10,000 metres walk
Stanislav Emelyanov
 Russia 		39:35.01
CR 		Chen Ding
 China 		39:47.20
AJ 		Lluís Torlá
 Spain 		40:29.57
PB

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
Bohdan Bondarenko
 Ukraine 		2.26
WJL 		Sylwester Bednarek
 Poland 		2.24
SB 		Miguel Ángel Sancho
 Spain 		2.21
Pole vault
Raphael Holzdeppe
 Germany 		5.50 Paweł Wojciechowski
 Poland 		5.40
PB 		Karsten Dilla
 Germany 		5.30
Long jump
Marquise Goodwin
 United States		7.74
PB 		Dzmitry Astrouski
 Belarus		7.64 Eusebio Cáceres
 Spain		7.59
Triple jump
Teddy Tamgho
 France 		17.33 Osviel Hernández
 Cuba 		16.90Mohamed Yusuf Salman
 Bahrain 		16.59
Shot put 6 kg
David Storl
 Germany		21.08
WJL 		Aleksandr Bulanov
 Russia		20.14 Marin Premeru
 Croatia		19.93
PB
Discus throw 1.75 kg
Gordon Wolf
 Germany 		62.00
PB 		Marin Premeru
 Croatia 		61.85 Mykyta Nesterenko
 Ukraine 		61.01
Hammer throw 6 kg
Walter Henning
 United States 		76.92
AJ 		Conor McCullough
 United States 		75.88
PB		Aleh Dubitski
 Belarus		 75.42
Javelin throw
Robert Szpak
 Poland 		78.01
WJL		Ihab Al Sayed Abdelrahman
 Egypt 		76.20
NJ 		Ansis Bruns
 Latvia 		75.31
PB
Decathlon Junior
 Jan Felix Knobel
 Germany 		7896
WJL 		Eduard Mikhan
 Belarus 		7894
NJ 		Mihail Dudaš
 Serbia 		7663
NJ

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results

Track

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
 Jeneba Tarmoh
 United States 		11.37 Ashleigh Nelson
 Great Britain 		11.49 Sheniqua Ferguson
 Bahamas		11.52
200 metres
Sheniqua Ferguson
 Bahamas		23.24 Meritzer Williams
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 		23.40Janelle Redhead
 Grenada 		23.52
400 metres
Folashade Abugan
 Nigeria 		51.84 Jessica Beard
 United States 		52.09 Susana A. Clement
 Cuba 		52.36
800 metres
Elena Mirela Lavric
 Romania 		2:00.06
CR 		Merve Aydin
 Turkey 		2:00.92
NJ 		Machteld Anna Mulder
 Netherlands 		2:02.05
PB
1500 metres
Stephanie Twell
 Great Britain 		4:15.09 Kalkidan Gezahegne
 Ethiopia 		4:16.58Emma Pallant
 Great Britain 		4:17.06
3000 metres
Mercy Cherono
 Kenya 		8:58.07
SB 		Bizunesh Urgesa
 Ethiopia 		8:58.90 Frethiwat Goshu
 Ethiopia 		9:03.76
PB
5000 metres
Sule Utura
 Ethiopia 		16:15.59Genzebe Dibaba
 Ethiopia 		16:16.75 Nelly Chebet
 Kenya		16:17.96
100 metres hurdles
 Teona Rodgers
 United States		13.40 Shermaine Williams
 Jamaica 		13.48 Belkis Milanés
 Cuba 		13.49
400 metres hurdles
 Takecia Jameson
 United States 		56.29
WJL 		Janeil Bellille
 Trinidad and Tobago 		56.84
NJ 		Meghan Beesley
 Great Britain 		57.08
PB
3000 metres steeplechase
Christine Kambua Muyanga
 Kenya 		9:31.35
CR 		Elizabeth Mueni
 Kenya 		9:36.50
PB 		Korahubish Itaa
 Ethiopia 		9:37.81
NJ
4 × 100 metres relay
 United States
Jeneba Tarmoh
Shayla Mahan
Gabrielle Glenn
Tiffany Townsend		43.66
WJL 		 Jamaica
Shawna Anderson
Kaycea Jones
Gayon Evans
Jura Levy		43.98
SB		 Brazil
Barbara de Oliveira
Bárbara Leôncio
Luana Correa
Rosângela Santos 		44.61
4 × 400 metres relay
 United States
Lanie Whittaker
Jessica Beard
Erica Alexander
Takecia Jameson		3:30.19  Ukraine
Olha Zemlyak
Yuliya Krasnoshchok
Hanna Yaroshchuk
Yuliya Baraley 		3:34.20
NJ 		 Australia
Brittney McGlone
Trychelle Kingdom
Olivia Tauro
Angeline Blackburn 		3:34.23
SB
10,000 metres walk
 Tatyana Mineeva
 Russia		43:24.72
CR 		Elmira Alembekova
 Russia 		43:45.16
PB 		Li Yanfei
 China		 44:24.10
PB

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
Kimberly Jess
 Germany 		1.86 Mirela Demireva
 Bulgaria 		1.86
SB 		Lesyani Mayor
 Cuba
Hannelore Desmet
 Belgium 		1.86
PB
1.86
PB
Pole vault
Valeriya Volik
 Russia 		4.40
CR 		Ekaterina Kolesova
 Russia 		4.40
CR 		Ekaterini Stefanidi
 Greece 		4.25
SB
Long jump
Ivana Španović
 Serbia 		6.61 Nastassia Mironchyk
 Belarus 		6.46 Dailenys Alcántara
 Cuba 		6.41
PB
Triple jump
Dailenys Alcántara
 Cuba 		14.25
WJL 		Josleidy Ribalta
 Cuba 		13.85 Paraskevi Papahristou
 Greece 		13.74
Shot put
Natalia Ducó
 Chile 		17.23 Melissa Boekelman
 Netherlands		16.60 Ma Qiao
 China 		16.55
SB
Discus throw
Shangxue Xi
 China 		54.96
SB		Julia Fischer
 Germany 		54.69 Sandra Perkovic
 Croatia 		54.24
Hammer throw
Bianca Perie
 Romania 		67.95
CR 		Katerina Šafránková
 Czech Republic 		63.13 Jenny Ozorai
 Hungary 		60.80
Javelin throw
Vira Rebryk
 Ukraine		63.01
WJ 		Li Lingwei
 China 		59.25
PB 		Tatjana Jelaca
 Serbia 		58.77
NR
Heptathlon
Carolin Schäfer
 Germany 		5833
PB 		Yana Maksimava
 Belarus 		5766 Grit Šadeiko
 Estonia		 5765
PB

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Christine Kambua Muyanga
Imad Touil
  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States 11 4 2 17
2  Germany 6 1 3 10
3  Kenya 4 5 2 11
4  Russia 4 3 0 7
5  Ethiopia 2 3 5 10
6  Ukraine 2 1 1 4
7  France 2 0 0 2
 Romania 2 0 0 2
9  Jamaica 1 4 1 6
10  Cuba 1 2 5 8
11  United Kingdom 1 2 2 5
 China 1 2 2 5
13  Poland 1 2 0 3
14  Serbia 1 0 2 3
15  Bahamas 1 0 1 2
16  Algeria 1 0 0 1
 Chile 1 0 0 1
 Nigeria 1 0 0 1
 Sudan 1 0 0 1
20  Belarus 0 4 1 5
21  Croatia 0 1 2 3
 South Africa 0 1 2 3
23  Grenada 0 1 1 2
 Netherlands 0 1 1 2
25  Bulgaria 0 1 0 1
 Czech Republic 0 1 0 1
 Egypt 0 1 0 1
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 1 0 1
 Trinidad and Tobago 0 1 0 1
 Turkey 0 1 0 1
 Uganda 0 1 0 1
32  Spain 0 0 3 3
33  Greece 0 0 2 2
34  Australia 0 0 1 1
 Bahrain 0 0 1 1
 Belgium 0 0 1 1
 Brazil 0 0 1 1
 Estonia 0 0 1 1
 Hungary 0 0 1 1
 Latvia 0 0 1 1
Total 44 44 45 133

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,[1] 1408 athletes from 165 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2008 Bydgoszcz POL Jul 8-13, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
  2. ↑ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, p. 5, retrieved 13 June 2015

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