African junior records in athletics

African Junior Records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA). Athletics records comprise the best performance of an athlete before the year of their 20th birthday. Technically, in all under 20 age divisions, the age is calculated "on December 31 of the year of competition"^[1] to avoid age group switching during a competitive season.

Outdoor

Men

Key:       Awaiting ratification

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref	Video
100 m	10.05	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	3 January 1990		Bauchi, Nigeria
200 m	20.16	Riaan Drempers	South Africa	7 April 1995		Germiston, South Africa
400 m	45.15	Riaan Drempers	South Africa	6 May 1994		Secunda, South Africa
800 m	1:41.73	Nigel Amos	Botswana	9 August 2012	Olympic Games	London, Great Britain	18 years, 147 days	[2]
1000 m	2:13.93	Abubaker Kaki	Sudan	22 July 2008	DN Galan	Stockholm, Sweden	19 years, 31 days
1000 m	2:15.00	Benjamin Kipkurui	Kenya	17 July 1999		Nice, France	18 years, 201 days
1500 m	3:28.81	Ronald Kwemoi	Kenya	18 July 2014	Herculis	Fontvieille, Monaco	18 years, 302 days	[3]
Mile	3:49.29	William Biwott Tanui	Kenya	3 July 2009	Bislett Games	Oslo, Norway	19 years, 120 days
2000 m	4:56.25	Tesfaye Cheru	Ethiopia	5 July 2011	Pro Athlé Tour Meeting de Reims Champagne-Ardenne	Reims, France		[4][5]
3000 m	7:28.78	Augustine Choge	Kenya	13 May 2005		Doha, Qatar	18 years, 112 days
5000 m	12:47.53	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia	6 July 2012	Meeting Areva	Paris, France	18 years, 56 days	[6]
5000 m	12:52.61	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya	27 June 2003	Bislett Games	Oslo, Norway	18 years, 234 days
10,000 m	26:41.75	Samuel Wanjiru	Kenya	26 August 2005	Memorial Van Damme	Brussels, Belgium	18 years, 289 days
10 km (road)	27:32+	Tilahun Regassa	Ethiopia	9 November 2008		New Dehli, India	18 years, 296 days
15 km (road)	42:08+	Samuel Wanjiru	Kenya	11 September 2005	Rotterdam Half Marathon	Rotterdam, Netherlands	18 years, 305 days
20 km (road)	56:18+	Samuel Wanjiru	Kenya	11 September 2005	Rotterdam Half Marathon	Rotterdam, Netherlands	18 years, 305 days
Half marathon	59:16	Samuel Wanjiru	Kenya	11 September 2005	Rotterdam Half Marathon	Rotterdam, Netherlands	18 years, 305 days
25 km (road)	1:14:19+	Bazu Worku	Ethiopia	5 April 2009	Paris Marathon	Paris, France	18 years, 202 days
	1:13:21+ [7]	Tsegaye Mekonnen	Ethiopia	24 January 2014	Dubai Marathon	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	18 years, 223 days
30 km (road)	1:29:25+	Bazu Worku	Ethiopia	5 April 2009	Paris Marathon	Paris, France	18 years, 202 days
Marathon	2:06:15	Bazu Worku	Ethiopia	5 April 2009	Paris Marathon	Paris, France	18 years, 202 days
2000 m steeplechase	5:20.44 #	Ronald Kipchumba	Kenya	13 May 2005		Doha, Qatar	17 years, 217 days
3000 m steeplechase	7:58.66	Stephen Cherono	Kenya	24 August 2001	Memorial Van Damme	Brussels, Belgium	18 years, 313 days
110 m hurdles (99 cm)	13.38 (+0.5 m/s)	Welington Zaza	Liberia	20 January 1995	World Junior Championships	Eugene, United States	18 years, 251 days	[8]
110 m hurdles (106.7 cm)
400 m hurdles
High jump
Pole vault
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put (6 kg)	21.79 m	Ahmed Hassan	Egypt	23 April 2014		Cairo, Egypt	18 years, 128 days
Shot put (7.26 kg)	20.39 m	Janus Robberts	South Africa	7 March 1998		Germiston, South Africa	18 years, 362 days
Discus throw (1.75 kg)
Discus throw (2 kg)
Hammer throw (6 kg)
Hammer throw (6 kg)
Hammer throw (7.26 kg)
Javelin throw (800 g)
Decathlon	7730 pts A	Friedrich Pretorius	South Africa	15–16 March 2014	Athletic Gauteng North Championships	Pretoria, South Africa	19 years, 74 days	[9]
	(100 m), m (long jump), m (shot put), m (high jump), (400 m) / (110 m hurdles), m (discus), m (pole vault), m (javelin), (1500 m)
10,000 m walk (track)
10 km walk (road)
20,000 m walk (track)
20 km walk (road)
50 km walk (road)
4×100 m relay
4×400 m relay

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref	Video
100 m	11.11	Joan Uduak Ekah	Nigeria	2 July 1999	Athletissima	Lausanne, Switzerland
200 m	22.52	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	3 September 2007	Golden Gala	Rome, Italy
400 m	50.59	Fatima Yusuf	Nigeria	5 August 1990		Budapest, Hungary
800 m	1:54.01	Pamela Jelimo	Kenya	29 August 2008	Weltklasse Zürich	Zürich, Switzerland	18 years, 268 days
1000 m	2:37.47	Shura Hotesa	Ethiopia	12 July 1996		Bellinzona, Switzerland
1500 m	3:56.98	Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon	Kenya	10 May 2013	Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix	Doha, Qatar	19 years, 120 days	[10]
Mile
2000 m
3000 m	8:35.89	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	16 August 1997	Herculis	Monaco
Two miles
5000 m	14:30.88	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	11 June 2004		Bergen, Norway	18 years, 254 days
10,000 m	30:26.50	Linet Masai	Kenya	15 August 2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	18 years, 254 days
10 km (road)	31.27 a	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	21 April 1996		Vancouver, Canada	18 years, 33 days
15 km (road)	47.39+	Everline Kimwei	Kenya	19 November 2006		Kobe, Japan	19 years, 86 days
20 km (road)	1:05.04+	Everline Kimwei	Kenya	19 November 2006		Kobe, Japan	19 years, 86 days
Half marathon	1:07.57	Abebu Gelan	ETH	20 February 2009	Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon	Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates	19 years, 33 days
Marathon	2:20:59	Shure Demise	Ethiopia	23 January 2015	Dubai Marathon	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	19 years, 2 days	[11]
100 m hurdles	13.06 A (+1.4 m/s)	Oluwatobiloba Amusan	Nigeria	26 March 2016	UTEP Springtime Invitational	El Paso, United States	18 years, 338 days	[12]
	12.83 A (+0.4 m/s) # [13]			30 April 2016	UTEP Invitational	El Paso, United States	19 years, 7 days	[14]
400 m hurdles	56.09	Muizat Ajoke Odumosu	Nigeria	09 June 2006		Sacramento, California, United States
2000 m steeplechase	6:11.83	Korahubish Itaa	Ethiopia	10 July 2009	World Youth Championships	Brixen, Italy	17 years, 132 days
3000 m steeplechase	9:20.37	Birtukan Adamu	Ethiopia	26 May 2011	Golden Gala	Rome, Italy	19 years, 27 days	[15][16]
High jump	1.94 m	Hestrie Cloete	South Africa	22 July 1997		Tatra, Poland
Pole vault	4.10 m	Syrine Balti	Tunisia	20 September 2002		Madrid, Spain
Long jump	6.68 m	Ese Brume	Nigeria	22 June 2014	Nigerian Athletics Championships	Calabar, Nigeria
Triple jump	14.13 m	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	19 May 2007		Lagos, Nigeria
Shot put	16.95 m	Simoné du Toit	South Africa	15 June 2006	World Junior Championships	Beijing, China
Discus throw	53.07 m	Simoné du Toit	South Africa	3 February 2006		Roodepoort, South Africa
Hammer throw	61.01 m	Rana Taha Ibrahim	Egypt	20 March 2009		Maadi, Egypt
Javelin throw	58.33 m	Sunette Viljoen	South Africa	7 December 2002		Potchefstroom, South Africa
Heptathlon
(100 m hurdles), m (high jump), m (shot put), (200 m) / m (long jump), m (javelin), (800 m)
5 km walk (road)	23:01+	Chahinez Nasri	Tunisia	4 May 2014	IAAF World Race Walking Cup	Taicang, China	17 years, 335 days	[17]
10000 m walk (track)
10 km walk (road)	46:43	Chahinez Nasri	Tunisia	4 May 2014	IAAF World Race Walking Cup	Taicang, China	17 years, 335 days	[18]
20000 m walk (track)
20 km walk (road)
4×100 metres relay	43.44	Beatrice Utondu Tina Iheagwam Mary Onyali Falilat Ogunkoya	Nigeria	9 August 1987		Nairobi, Kenya
4×400 metres relay	3:30.84	Folasade Abugan Muizat Ajoke Odumosu Joy Eze Sekinat Adesanya	Nigeria	20 August 2006	World Junior Championships	Beijing, China

Indoor

Men

Key:'       Awaiting ratification

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref	Video
50 m
60 m
200 m
400 m
800 m
1000 m	2:15.77	Abubaker Kaki	Sudan	21 February 2008		Stockholm, Sweden	18 years, 245 days
1500 m	3:36.37	Michael Too	Kenya	3 February 2002		Stuttgart, Germany	18 years, 184 days
Mile
2000 m	4:59.02	Remi Limo	Kenya	17 February 2007		Birmingham, United Kingdom	19 years, 14 days
3000 m	7:32.89	Isaiah Kiplangat Koech	Kenya	14 February 2012	Meeting Pas de Calais	Liévin, France	18 years, 57 days	[19]
5000 m	12:53.29	Isaiah Kiplangat Koech	Kenya	11 February 2011	PSD Bank Meeting	Düsseldorf, Germany	17 years, 54 days	[20][21]
50 m hurdles
60 m hurdles
High jump
Pole vault
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put (6 kg)
Shot put (7.26 kg)
Heptathlon (Junior)
	(60 m), m (long jump), m (shot put), m (high jump) / m (60 m hurdles), m (pole vault), (1000 m)
Heptathlon (Senior)
	(60 m), m (long jump), m (shot put), m (high jump) / m (60 m hurdles), m (pole vault), (1000 m)
5000 m walk (track)
4 × 200m relay
4 × 400m relay
4 × 800m relay

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref
50 m
60 m	7.09	Joan Uduak Ekah	Nigeria	7 March 1999	World Championships	Maebashi, Japan	18 years, 81 days
200 m
400 m
800 m	2:01.03	Meskerem Legesse	Ethiopia	14 February 2004		Fayetteville, United States	17 years, 139 days
1000 m
1500 m	4:01.81	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	20 February 2016	Glasgow Grand Prix	Glasgow, Great Britain	19 years, 28 days	[22]
Mile	4:24.10	Kalkidan Gezahegne	Ethiopia	20 February 2010	Aviva Indoor Grand Prix	Birmingham, United Kingdom	18 years, 288 days
2000 m	5:35.46	Dawit Seyaum	Ethiopia	7 February 2015	New Balance Indoor Grand Prix	Boston, United States	18 years, 195 days	[23]
3000 m	8:33.56	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	20 February 2004	Aviva Indoor Grand Prix	Birmingham, United Kingdom	18 years, 142 days
5000 m	14:53.99	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	31 January 2004	Boston Indoor Games	Boston, United States	18 years, 122 days
50 m hurdles (84 cm)
60 m hurdles
High jump
Pole vault
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put
Pentathlon
	(60 m hurdles), (high jump), m (shot put), m (long jump), (800 m)
3000 m walk (track)
5000 m walk (track)
4 × 400m relay
4 × 800m relay

a = automatic timing
+ = en route to longer distance
# = not officially ratified by IAAF

References

General

• African Juniors records Men. Confederation of African Athletics (2014-01-01). Retrieved on 2014-08-03.
• African Juniors records Women. Confederation of African Athletics (2014-01-01). Retrieved on 2014-08-03.

Specific

1. "Technical Regulations for IAAF World Athletics Series" (PDF). IAAF. 2011-01-31. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
2. "800 Metres Results". IAAF. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
3. "IAAF Diamond League - 1500m Results". www.diamondleague-monaco.com. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
4. "Pro Athlé Tour Meeting Reims-Champagne-Ardenne 2011 Complete Results". EAA. 5 July 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
5. Pierre Jean Vazel (6 July 2011). "Robles' 13.16 the highlight in Reims". IAAF. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
6. Bob Ramsak (6 July 2012). "Rudisha's 1:41.54 one of five world leads in Paris - Report - Samsung Diamond League". IAAF. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
7. not timed officially
8. "110m Hurdles Results". IAAF. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
9. "Athletic Gauteng North Championships, Pretoria (South Africa) 14-16/03/2014 Results". www.africathle.com. 16 March 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
10. "1500 Metres Results" (PDF). Samsung Diamond League. Omega Timing. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
11. Jörg Wenig (23 January 2015). "Berhanu surprises while Mergia makes magnificent marathon comeback in Dubai". IAAF. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
12. Yemi Olus (29 March 2016). "Tobi Amusan runs 4th fastest time in the world!". makingofchamps.com. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
13. unratified due to no doping control
14. Jon Mulkeen (1 May 2016). "Continental U20 records for Amusan and Bukowiecki". IAAF. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
15. "3000 Metres Steeplechase Results". www.diamondleague-rome.com. 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
16. Dave Martin (2011-05-26). "Bolt's late surge just heads-off Powell – 9.91 to 9.93 – in front of over 47,000 spectators in Rome – Samsung Diamond League". IAAF. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
17. "10 Kilometres Race Walk Splits". IAAF. 4 May 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
18. "10 Kilometres Race Walk Results". IAAF. 4 May 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
19. "3000 Metres Results" (PDF). www.meeting-pasdecalais.com. 14 February 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
20. "PSD Bank Meeting 2011 Complete Results". www.psdbankmeeting.com. 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
21. Jörg Wenig (2011-02-12). "Isaiah Koech storms to amazing 5000m time in Düsseldorf". IAAF. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
22. Steven Mills (20 February 2016). "1500m world lead for Iguider in Glasgow, world U20 indoor record for Tsegay". IAAF. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
23. Parker Morse (8 February 2015). "Willis mile win leads the string of indoor superlatives in Boston". IAAF. Retrieved 8 February 2015.

External links

• CAA web site