2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics

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.

2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Bydgoszcz, Poland
Nations participating	165
Athletes participating	1408
Events	44
Dates	8–13 July
Main venue	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium
← 2006 Beijing 2010 Moncton →

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 details	Dexter Lee   Jamaica	10.40	Wilhelm van der Vyver   South Africa	10.42	Terrell Wilks   United States	10.45
200 metres details	Christophe Lemaitre   France	20.83 PB	Nickel Ashmeade   Jamaica	20.84	Robert Hering   Germany	20.96
400 metres details	Marcus Boyd   United States	45.53 WJL	Kirani James   Grenada	45.70 NJ	O'Neal Wilder   United States	45.76
800 metres details	Abubaker Kaki   Sudan	1:45.60	Geoffrey Kibet   Kenya	1:46.23 PB	André Olivier   South Africa	1:47.57
1500 metres details	Imad Touil   Algeria	3:47.40	James Kiplagat Magut   Kenya	3:47.51	Demma Daba   Ethiopia	3:47.65
5000 metres details	Abreham Cherkos   Ethiopia	13:08.57 CR	Mathew Kipkoech Kisorio   Kenya	13:11.57 PB	Dejen Gebremeskel   Ethiopia	13:11.97
10,000 metres details	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 details	Konstantin Shabanov   Russia	13.27 WJL	Booker Nunley   United States	13.45	Keiron Stewart   Jamaica	13.51
400 metres hurdles details	Jeshua Anderson   United States	48.68 PB	Johnny Dutch   United States	49.25	Amaurys R. Valle   Cuba	49.56 NJ
3000 metres steeplechase details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	Bohdan Bondarenko   Ukraine	2.26 WJL	Sylwester Bednarek   Poland	2.24 SB	Miguel Ángel Sancho   Spain	2.21
Pole vault details	Raphael Holzdeppe   Germany	5.50	Paweł Wojciechowski   Poland	5.40 PB	Karsten Dilla   Germany	5.30
Long jump details	Marquise Goodwin   United States	7.74 PB	Dzmitry Astrouski   Belarus	7.64	Eusebio Cáceres   Spain	7.59
Triple jump details	Teddy Tamgho   France	17.33	Osviel Hernández   Cuba	16.90	Mohamed Yusuf Salman   Bahrain	16.59
Shot put 6 kg details	David Storl   Germany	21.08 WJL	Aleksandr Bulanov   Russia	20.14	Marin Premeru   Croatia	19.93 PB
Discus throw 1.75 kg details	Gordon Wolf   Germany	62.00 PB	Marin Premeru   Croatia	61.85	Mykyta Nesterenko   Ukraine	61.01
Hammer throw 6 kg details	Walter Henning   United States	76.92 AJ	Conor McCullough   United States	75.88 PB	Aleh Dubitski   Belarus	75.42
Javelin throw details	Robert Szpak   Poland	78.01 WJL	Ihab Al Sayed Abdelrahman   Egypt	76.20 NJ	Ansis Bruns   Latvia	75.31 PB
Decathlon Junior details	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 details	Jeneba Tarmoh   United States	11.37	Ashleigh Nelson   Great Britain	11.49	Sheniqua Ferguson   Bahamas	11.52
200 metres details	Sheniqua Ferguson   Bahamas	23.24	Meritzer Williams   Saint Kitts and Nevis	23.40	Janelle Redhead   Grenada	23.52
400 metres details	Folashade Abugan   Nigeria	51.84	Jessica Beard   United States	52.09	Susana A. Clement   Cuba	52.36
800 metres details	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 details	Stephanie Twell   Great Britain	4:15.09	Kalkidan Gezahegne   Ethiopia	4:16.58	Emma Pallant   Great Britain	4:17.06
3000 metres details	Mercy Cherono   Kenya	8:58.07 SB	Bizunesh Urgesa   Ethiopia	8:58.90	Frethiwat Goshu   Ethiopia	9:03.76 PB
5000 metres details	Sule Utura   Ethiopia	16:15.59	Genzebe Dibaba   Ethiopia	16:16.75	Nelly Chebet   Kenya	16:17.96
100 metres hurdles details	Teona Rodgers   United States	13.40	Shermaine Williams   Jamaica	13.48	Belkis Milanés   Cuba	13.49
400 metres hurdles details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	Valeriya Volik   Russia	4.40 CR	Ekaterina Kolesova   Russia	4.40 CR	Ekaterini Stefanidi   Greece	4.25 SB
Long jump details	Ivana Španović   Serbia	6.61	Nastassia Mironchyk   Belarus	6.46	Dailenys Alcántara   Cuba	6.41 PB
Triple jump details	Dailenys Alcántara   Cuba	14.25 WJL	Josleidy Ribalta   Cuba	13.85	Paraskevi Papahristou   Greece	13.74
Shot put details	Natalia Ducó   Chile	17.23	Melissa Boekelman   Netherlands	16.60	Ma Qiao   China	16.55 SB
Discus throw details	Shangxue Xi   China	54.96 SB	Julia Fischer   Germany	54.69	Sandra Perkovic   Croatia	54.24
Hammer throw details	Bianca Perie   Romania	67.95 CR	Katerina Šafránková   Czech Republic	63.13	Jenny Ozorai   Hungary	60.80
Javelin throw details	Vira Rebryk   Ukraine	63.01 WJ	Li Lingwei   China	59.25 PB	Tatjana Jelaca   Serbia	58.77 NR
Heptathlon details	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

  *   Host nation (Poland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	11	4	2	17
2	Germany (GER)	6	1	3	10
3	Kenya (KEN)	4	5	2	11
4	Russia (RUS)	4	3	0	7
5	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	3	5	10
6	Ukraine (UKR)	2	1	1	4
7	France (FRA)	2	0	0	2
	Romania (ROM)	2	0	0	2
9	Jamaica (JAM)	1	4	1	6
10	Cuba (CUB)	1	2	5	8
11	China (CHN)	1	2	2	5
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	2	2	5
13	Poland (POL)*	1	2	0	3
14	Serbia (SRB)	1	0	2	3
15	Bahamas (BAH)	1	0	1	2
16	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	0	1
	Chile (CHI)	1	0	0	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	1	0	0	1
	Sudan (SUD)	1	0	0	1
20	Belarus (BLR)	0	4	1	5
21	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	2	3
	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	2	3
23	Grenada (GRN)	0	1	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	1	2
25	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)	0	1	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
	Uganda (UGA)	0	1	0	1
32	Spain (ESP)	0	0	3	3
33	Greece (GRE)	0	0	2	2
34	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Bahrain (BHR)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (40 entries)		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]

•   Afghanistan (2)
•   Algeria (11)
•   American Samoa (1)
•   Andorra (1)
•   Anguilla (1)
•   Argentina (2)
•   Armenia (1)
•   Australia (28)
•   Austria (8)
•   Azerbaijan (1)
•   Bahamas (12)
•   Bahrain (2)
•   Barbados (9)
•   Belarus (24)
•   Belgium (9)
•   Bermuda (2)
•   Bolivia (2)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
•   Botswana (5)
•   Brazil (14)
•   British Virgin Islands (1)
•   Bulgaria (8)
•   Burkina Faso (1)
•   Cambodia (1)
•   Cameroon (1)
•   Canada (33)
•   Cape Verde (1)
•   Cayman Islands (1)
•   Chile (5)
•   China (14)
•   Chinese Taipei (14)
•   Colombia (8)
•   Comoros (2)
•   Cook Islands (1)
•   Costa Rica (1)
•   Croatia (8)
•   Cuba (12)
•   Cyprus (4)
•   Czech Republic (22)
•   Denmark (5)
•   Dominica (1)
•   Dominican Republic (3)
•   Ecuador (1)
•   Egypt (6)
•   El Salvador (1)
•   Estonia (13)
•   Ethiopia (23)
•   Fiji (1)
•   Finland (25)
•   France (55)
•   French Polynesia (1)
•   Gambia (1)
•   Georgia (3)
•   Germany (65)
•   Ghana (1)
•   Gibraltar (1)
•   Great Britain (40)
•   Greece (12)
•   Grenada (3)
•   Guam (1)
•   Guatemala (2)
•   Guyana (1)
•   Honduras (1)
•   Hong Kong (3)
•   Hungary (22)
•   Iceland (3)
•   India (8)
•   Indonesia (1)
•   Ireland (21)
•   Israel (3)
•   Italy (34)
•   Jamaica (29)
•   Japan (27)
•   Jordan (1)
•   Kazakhstan (12)
•   Kenya (23)
•   Kiribati (1)
•   Kuwait (3)
•   Kyrgyzstan (2)
•   Laos (1)
•   Latvia (11)
•   Lebanon (1)
•   Lesotho (2)
•   Lithuania (16)
•   Macau (1)
•   Macedonia (1)
•   Madagascar (1)
•   Malaysia (1)
•   Maldives (1)
•   Mali (1)
•   Malta (3)
•   Mexico (12)
•   Moldova (4)
•   Monaco (1)
•   Montenegro (1)
•   Montserrat (1)
•   Morocco (7)
•   Myanmar (1)
•   Nauru (1)
•     Nepal (1)
•   Netherlands (14)
•   Netherlands Antilles (1)
•   New Zealand (5)
•   Nicaragua (1)
•   Niger (1)
•   Nigeria (12)
•   Norfolk Island (1)
•   Northern Mariana Islands (1)
•   Norway (18)
•   Oman (1)
•   Pakistan (1)
•   Palau (1)
•   Palestine (1)
•   Panama (2)
•   Papua New Guinea (1)
•   Paraguay (1)
•   Peru (1)
•   Poland (63)
•   Portugal (12)
•   Puerto Rico (7)
•   Qatar (2)
•   Romania (24)
•   Russia (51)
•   Saint Kitts and Nevis (4)
•   Saint Lucia (1)
•   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•   Samoa (1)
•   São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
•   Saudi Arabia (9)
•   Senegal (5)
•   Serbia (12)
•   Singapore (2)
•   Slovakia (7)
•   Slovenia (13)
•   Solomon Islands (1)
•   South Africa (25)
•   South Korea (10)
•   Spain (35)
•   Sri Lanka (2)
•   Sudan (6)
•   Suriname (1)
•   Swaziland (1)
•   Sweden (37)
•   Switzerland (12)
•   Syria (1)
•   Tajikistan (2)
•   Tanzania (1)
•   Thailand (9)
•   Togo (1)
•   Tonga (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (17)
•   Tunisia (3)
•   Turkey (18)
•   Turkmenistan (2)
•   Uganda (6)
•   Ukraine (41)
•   United Arab Emirates (1)
•   United States (76)
•   Uruguay (1)
•   U.S. Virgin Islands (3)
•   Uzbekistan (6)
•   Vanuatu (1)
•   Venezuela (4)
•   Yemen (1)
•   Zambia (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, , WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 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

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