1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was the inaugural 1986 edition of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Athens, Greece on 16–20 July.

1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Athens, Greece
Nations	142
Athletes	1135
Events	41
Dates	16–20 July
Main venue	Athens Olympic Stadium
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Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Derrick Florence   United States	10.17	Stanley Kerr   United States	10.23	Jamie Henderson   Great Britain	10.34
200 metres details	Stanley Kerr   United States	20.74	Derrick Florence   United States	21.12	Steve McBain   Australia	21.21
400 metres details	Miles Murphy   Australia	45.64	Roberto Hernández   Cuba	45.64	Edgar Itt   West Germany	45.72
800 metres details	David Sharpe   Great Britain	1:48.32	Manuel Balmaceda   Chile	1:48.91	Andrey Sudnik   Soviet Union	1:48.93
1500 metres details	Wilfred Kirochi   Kenya	3:44.62	Peter Rono   Kenya	3:45.62	Johan Boakes   Great Britain	3:45.80
5000 metres details	Peter Chumba   Kenya	13:55.25	Alejandro Gómez   Spain	13:55.94	Feyisa Melese   Ethiopia	13:56.45
10,000 metres details	Peter Chumba   Kenya	28:44.00	Juma Munyampanda   Tanzania	28:45.14	Debebe Demisse   Ethiopia	28:49.09
20 kilometres road run details	Tadesse Gebre   Ethiopia	1:01:32	Juma Munyampanda   Tanzania	1:01:45	Negash Dube   Ethiopia	1:04:23
110 metres hurdles details	Colin Jackson   Great Britain	13.44	Jon Ridgeon   Great Britain	13.91	Emilio Valle   Cuba	14.00
400 metres hurdles details	Emilio Valle   Cuba	50.02	Hiroshi Kakimori   Japan	50.09	Pascal Maran   France	50.39
2000 metres steeplechase details	Jon Azkueta   Spain	5:28.56	Johnstone Kipkoech   Kenya	5:29.56	Jens Volkmann   West Germany	5:29.60
10,000 metres walk details	Mikhail Shchennikov   Soviet Union	40:38.01	Salvatore Cacia   Italy	40:40.73	Ricardo Pueyo   Spain	40:41.05
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain Jamie Henderson Phil Goedluck David Kirton Jon Ridgeon	39.80	West Germany Matthias Schlicht Frank Kobor Oliver Schmidt Ingo Todt	39.81	Poland Jarosław Kaniecki Tomasz Jędrusik Jacek Konopka Marek Parjaszewski	39.98
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Clifton Campbell Chip Rish Percy Waddle William Reed	3:01.90	Cuba Luis Cadogan Eulogio Mordoche Ramiro González Roberto Hernández	3:04.22	Jamaica Anthony Christie Thomas Mason Howard Davis Lyndale Patterson	3:05.16
High jump details	Javier Sotomayor   Cuba	2.25	Hollis Conway   United States	2.22	Thomas Müller   East Germany	2.22
Pole vault details	Igor Potapovich   Soviet Union	5.50	Delko Lesev   Bulgaria	5.40	Mike Thiede   East Germany	5.30
Long jump details	Dietmar Haaf   West Germany	7.93	Ivo Krsek   Czechoslovakia	7.87	Thomas Wolf   East Germany	7.77
Triple jump details	Igor Parygin   Soviet Union	16.97	Zdravko Dimitrov   Bulgaria	16.13	Du Benghong   China	16.00
Shot put details	Aleksejs Lukašenko   Soviet Union	18.90	Vyacheslav Lykho   Soviet Union	18.71	Radoslav Despotov   Bulgaria	18.17
Discus throw details	Vasil Baklarov   Bulgaria	60.60	Werner Reiterer   Australia	58.64	Vasiliy Kaptyukh   Soviet Union	58.22
Hammer throw details	Vitaliy Alisevich   Soviet Union	72.00	Valeriy Gubkin   Soviet Union	71.78	Sabin Khristov   Bulgaria	68.96
Javelin throw details	Uladzimir Sasimovich   Soviet Union	78.84	Mark Roberson   Great Britain	74.24	Gavin Lovegrove   New Zealand	74.22
Decathlon details	Petri Keskitalo   Finland	7623	Mike Smith   Canada	7523	Nikolay Zayats   Soviet Union	7509
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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Tina Iheagwam   Nigeria	11.34	Caryl Smith   United States	11.46	Maicel Malone   United States	11.49
200 metres details	Falilat Ogunkoya   Nigeria	23.11	Mary Onyali   Nigeria	23.30	Katrin Krabbe   East Germany	23.31
400 metres details	Susann Sieger   East Germany	52.02	Olga Pesnopevtseva   Soviet Union	52.17	Sandie Richards   Jamaica	52.23
800 metres details	Selina Chirchir   Kenya	2:01.40	Gabriela Sedláková   Czechoslovakia	2:01.49	Adriana Dumitru   Romania	2:01.93
1500 metres details	Ana Padurean   Romania	4:14.63	Selina Chirchir   Kenya	4:15.59	Snežana Pajkić   Yugoslavia	4:16.03
3000 metres details	Cleopatra Palacian   Romania	9:02.91	Philippa Mason   Great Britain	9:03.35	Dorina Calenic   Romania	9:06.94
10,000 metres details	Katrin Kley   East Germany	33:19.67	Nora Maraga   Kenya	33:57.99	Marleen Renders   Belgium	33:59.36
100 metres hurdles details	Heike Tillack   East Germany	13.10	Aliuska López   Cuba	13.14	Tanya Davis   United States	13.46
400 metres hurdles details	Claudia Bartl   East Germany	56.76	Kellie Roberts   United States	56.80	Svetlana Lukashevich   Soviet Union	57.92
5000 metres walk details	Wang Yan   China	22:03.65	Natalya Zykova   Soviet Union	22:17.76	Jin Bingjie   China	22:17.83
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Carlette Guidry Caryl Smith Denise Liles Maicel Malone	43.78	East Germany Ina Morgenstern Katrin Krabbe Britta Beisbier Heike Tillack	43.97	Nigeria Tina Iheagwam Caroline Nwajei Falilat Ogunkoya Mary Onyali	44.13
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Gisele Harris Kandice Princhett Tasha Downing Janeene Vickers	3:30.45	East Germany Heike Böckmann Claudia Bartl Katja Prochnow Susanne Sieger	3:30.90	Soviet Union Svetlana Lukashevich Marina Khripankova Tatyana Chebykina Olga Pesnopevtseva	3:32.35
High jump details	Karen Scholz   East Germany	1.92	Galina Astafei   Romania	1.90	Yelena Obukhova   Soviet Union	1.88
Long jump details	Patricia Bille   East Germany	6.70	Anu Kaljurand   Soviet Union	6.46	Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan   Soviet Union	6.39
Shot put details	Heike Rohrmann   East Germany	18.39	Stephanie Storp   West Germany	18.20	Ines Wittich   East Germany	18.19
Discus throw details	Ilke Wyludda   East Germany	64.02	Franka Dietzsch   East Germany	60.26	Min Chunfeng   China	54.00
Javelin throw details	Xiomara Rivero   Cuba	62.86	Anja Reiter   East Germany	60.24	Alexandra Beck   East Germany	59.92
Heptathlon details	Svetla Dimitrova   Bulgaria	6041	Marina Shcherbina   Soviet Union	5953	Anke Schmidt   East Germany	5900
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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	8	4	7	19
2	Soviet Union	6	6	7	19
3	United States	5	5	2	12
4	Kenya	4	4	1	9
5	Great Britain	3	3	2	8
6	Cuba	3	3	1	7
7	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	2	2	6
8	Romania (ROM)	2	1	2	5
9	Nigeria	2	1	1	4
10	West Germany	1	2	2	5
11	Australia	1	1	1	3
	Spain	1	1	1	3
13	China	1	0	3	4
14	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	0	2	3
15	Finland	1	0	0	1
16	Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	2
	Tanzania	0	2	0	2
18	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Chile	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
22	Jamaica	0	0	2	2
23	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		41	41	41	123

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[1] 1135 athletes from 142 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[2]

•   Afghanistan (1)
•   Albania (2)
•   Algeria (5)
•   Angola (2)
•   Anguilla (1)
•   Antigua and Barbuda (3)
•   Argentina (4)
•   Australia (40)
•   Austria (15)
•   Bahamas (5)
•   Bahrain (3)
•   Bangladesh (1)
•   Barbados (4)
•   Belgium (9)
•   Belize (1)
•   Bermuda (2)
•   Bolivia (3)
•   Botswana (2)
•   Brazil (8)
•   British Virgin Islands (2)
•   Bulgaria (24)
•   Burkina Faso (1)
•   Cambodia (1)
•   Cameroon (2)
•   Canada (65)
•   Cayman Islands (1)
•   Chad (1)
•   Chile (5)
•   China (8)
•   Chinese Taipei (3)
•   Colombia (6)
•   Comoros (1)
•   Congo (2)
•   Cook Islands (1)
•   Costa Rica (2)
•   Côte d'Ivoire (4)
•   Cuba (27)
•   Cyprus (7)
•   Czechoslovakia (15)
•   Denmark (4)
•   Djibouti (4)
•   Dominican Republic (5)
•   East Germany (41)
•   Ecuador (3)
•   Egypt (7)
•   El Salvador (2)
•   Ethiopia (8)
•   Fiji (1)
•   Finland (14)
•   France (30)
•   Gambia (3)
•   Ghana (5)
•   Gibraltar (1)
•   Great Britain (38)
•   Greece (41)
•   Grenada (1)
•   Guatemala (2)
•   Guinea (1)
•   Guyana (3)
•   Hong Kong (2)
•   Hungary (19)
•   Iceland (4)
•   India (11)
•   Indonesia (6)
•   Iraq (1)
•   Ireland (1)
•   Israel (5)
•   Italy (35)
•   Jamaica (9)
•   Japan (28)
•   Kenya (12)
•   Kuwait (3)
•   Lebanon (3)
•   Lesotho (3)
•   Liberia (1)
•   Liechtenstein (1)
•   Madagascar (2)
•   Malawi (1)
•   Malaysia (2)
•   Malta (2)
•   Mauritania (1)
•   Mauritius (4)
•   Mexico (8)
•   Montserrat (1)
•   Morocco (6)
•   Nauru (1)
•     Nepal (1)
•   Netherlands (8)
•   Netherlands Antilles (1)
•   New Zealand (11)
•   Nicaragua (2)
•   Nigeria (20)
•   North Yemen (2)
•   Norway (8)
•   Oman (1)
•   Pakistan (2)
•   Palestine (3)
•   Panama (3)
•   Papua New Guinea (2)
•   Paraguay (3)
•   Peru (3)
•   Philippines (2)
•   Poland (23)
•   Portugal (8)
•   Puerto Rico (6)
•   Romania (18)
•   Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)
•   Saint Lucia (2)
•   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•   San Marino (2)
•   Saudi Arabia (8)
•   Senegal (4)
•   Seychelles (3)
•   Sierra Leone (2)
•   Singapore (4)
•   Somalia (2)
•   South Korea (3)
•   South Yemen (1)
•   Soviet Union (69)
•   Spain (30)
•   Sri Lanka (1)
•   Sudan (3)
•   Suriname (1)
•   Swaziland (3)
•   Sweden (19)
•    Switzerland (5)
•   Tanzania (3)
•   Thailand (5)
•   Togo (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (5)
•   Tunisia (4)
•   United Arab Emirates (6)
•   United States (75)
•   Uruguay (3)
•   U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
•   Vanuatu (1)
•   Venezuela (3)
•   West Germany (42)
•   Yugoslavia (15)
•   Zaire (1)
•   Zambia (2)
•   Zimbabwe (2)

See also

• 1986 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, , WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 26 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, p. 5, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• Medalists at GBRathletics.com
• Official results