NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics

10.42

Remaldo Rose, bronze medalist in 2004, finished fourth. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Liberia, Ecuador, Azerbaijan, Cayman Islands, Serbia, Kiribati and the Northern Mariana Islands.

200 m

Marek Niit
Estonia

20.96 NJ

Brian Barnett

Canada

21.00

Alexander Nelson

Great Britain

21.14

The original winner, Dmytro Ostrovsky of Ukraine, was disqualified for stepping in another lane. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Gibraltar and Ecuador.

400 m

Renny Quow

Trinidad and Tobago

45.74 PB

Justin Oliver

45.78 PB

45.87

David Rudisha

1:47.40

Jackson Kivuna

1:47.64

Abraham Chepkirwok

Uganda

1:47.79

1500 m

Remmy Ndiwa

3:40.44 SB

Abdelati Iguider

Morocco

3:40.73

Belal Mansoor Ali

Qatar

3:41.36

Iguider was the reigning champion and championship record holder. Tsegai Tewelde of Eritrea, who finished fifth, established national junior records twice during the competition.

5000 m

Tariku Bekele

Ethiopia

13:31.34

Abreham Cherkos Feleke

Ethiopia

13:35.95

Joseph Ebuya

13:42.93

Tariku Bekele, the younger brother of World and Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele, won a bronze medal in 2004. Ebuya already had a silver medal from the 10 000 m.

10 000 m

Ibrahim Jeilan

28:53.29

Joseph Ebuya

28:53.46 PB

Aadam Ismaeel Khamis
Bahrain

28:54.30 NJ

National junior records were also established for Eritrea and Burundi.

110 m H

Artur Noga
Poland

13.23 CR

Samuel Coco-Viloin

France

13.35 NJ

Konstadinos Douvalidis

Greece

13.39 NJ

The hurdle height had been reduced from 106.7 cm to 99.0 cm, thus allowing championship records in all three rounds of the competition. The world's fasters juniors in 2006, Dennis Martin and Darius Reed of the United States, failed to succeed.

400 m H

Chris Carter

50.08

Bandar Shraheli

Saudi Arabia

50.34 PB

Stanislav Melnykov

50.43 PB

Carter took the only individual gold medal for the United States. During the competition, national junior records were set for Togo and the Netherlands.

3000 m St.

Willy Komen

8:14.00 CR

Tareq Mubarak Taher
Bahrain

8:16.64

Bisluke Kiplagat

8:18.11 PB

Komen beat the previous championship record by 2.34 minutes. Abdelghani Aït Bahmad in fourth set a national junior record for Morocco.

10000 m track walk

Bo Xiangdong
China

42:50.26

Huang Zhengyu
China

43:13.29 PB

Yusuke Suzuki
Japan

43:45.62

4 X 100 m

Jamaica
Winston Barnes
Remaldo Rose
Cawayne Jervis
Yohan Blake

39.05 WJL

United States
Evander Wells
Gordon McKenzie
Willie Perry
Brandon Myers

39.21 SB

United Kingdom
Rion Pierre
Alexander Nelson
Wade Bennett-Jackson
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey

39.24 SB

National junior records for Canada, Cayman Islands, Chinese Taipei and Singapore in the initial heats. Germany and Nigeria fumbled in the final and did not finish; however neither were ever in medal position.

4 X 400 m

United States
Quentin Summers
Justin Oliver
Bryshon Nellum
Chris Carter

3:03.76 WJL

Russia
Maksim Dyldin
Dmitriy Buryak
Vyacheslav Sakaev
Anton Kokorin

3:05.13 NJ

United Kingdom
Chris Clarke
Grant Baker
Kris Robertson
Martyn Rooney

3:05.49 SB

Kenya in fourth set a national junior record of 3:05.54 minutes, with 800 metres medalists Kivuna and Rudisha on the last two laps, thereby improving their own record from the heats. Belgium and Czech Republic too set new NJs in the heats.

High jump

Huang Haiqiang
China

2.32 WJL

Niki Palli

Israel

2.29

Bohdan Bondarenko

2.26 PB

Huang, helped by an enthusiastic home crowd, improved his personal best by 4 cm to overcome pre-event favorite Palli. Oleksandr Nartov of Ukraine, a medal prospect with a personal best of 2.26 m, exited at 2.10 in the qualification round.

Pole vault

Germán Chiaraviglio

Argentina

5.71 CR

Yang Yansheng
China

5.54 PB

Leonid Kivalov
Russia

5.42

Chiaraviglio, the reigning silver medalist, improved the championship record by 6 cm. The athletes who placed from 4th to 9th all failed to clear 5.36 m.

Long jump

Robert Crowther

Australia

8.00 AJ

Antone Belt

7.95 PB

Zhang Xiaoyi
China

7.86

Zhang was the world junior leader in 2006 with 8.17 metres. Mohammad Arzandeh of Iran, who set a national record, briefly held a medal position. Medal contenders such as Konstantin Safronov and Chris Noffke failed to qualify for the final.

Triple jump

Benjamin Compaoré

France

16.61 WJL

Hugo Chila

Ecuador

16.49

Zhong Minwei
China

16.29

Shot put 6 kg

Margus Hunt
Estonia

20.53 WJL

Mostafa Abdul El-Moaty

Egypt

20.14

Guo Yanxiang
China

19.97

Discus throw gold medalist Hunt emerged as a complete surprise, having a personal best of 18.61 metres before the competition. He became the first athlete to win the gold both in shot and discus, after Rutger Smith won a gold and a bronze in 2000. Pre-event favorites such as Carlos Véliz, Sourabh Vij and Jan Petrus Hoffman all failed to break the 20-metre barrier in the final. National records were established for Kuwait and Uzbekistan.

Discus 1,75 kg

Margus Hunt
Estonia

67.32 WJ

Mohammad Samimi

Iran

63.00 NJ

Martin Wierig

62.17 PB

Hunt had established a new world junior record of 66.35 metres at 9:00 AM on the opening day. In the final, he improved it to 66.68 and then 67.32. It was the first WJC gold medal for Estonia. With 63.00 m in the final round, Samimi skipped from fourth to second, improving the result of Ehsan Hadadi who won a gold medal for Iran with 62.14 m in 2004. The qualification round saw a national junior record for Samoa.

Hammer 6 kg

Yevgeniy Aydamirov
Russia

78.42 CR

Kristóf Németh

Hungary

78.39

Marcel Lomnický
Slovakia

77.06 NJ

In the qualification round Yury Shayunou of Belarus set a new championship record with 76.76 metres, beating 76.43 m from 2002. Aydamirov however, with a personal best of 82.60 metres, improved this record in the final but was seriously threatened by Németh who trailed 3 centimetres behind from the second round on. Shayunou eventually finished fourth in 76.95 metres, a national junior record, and Turkmenistan and China too got new national junior records.

Javelin

John Robert Oosthuizen

South Africa

83.07 CR

Ari Mannio
Finland

77.26

Roman Avramenko

76.01 PB

Oosthuizen broke the championship record from 1996 of 79.78 metres in his second throw, and went unchallenged through the competition. New national junior records were also established for Tunisia, Serbia, Fiji (twice) and Paraguay.

Decathlon

Arkadiy Vasilyev
Russia

8059

Yordani García

Cuba

7850

Jordan Vandermade

New Zealand

7807

Vasilyev set a championship record as the 99.0 cm hurdles were used for the very first time. Interestingly, García finished behind his personal best in the tougher men's decathlon event, where he has 7880 points.

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Image File history File links Flag_of_Bahrain_(bordered). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Kenya. ... Mens 20 km walk during the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan_(bordered). ... The 4 Ã— 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 meters each. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Jamaica. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The 4 x 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 metres or 1 lap. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Russia_(bordered). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Gold medal winner Ethel Catherwood of Canada scissors over the bar at the 1928 Summer Olympics. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Israel. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Ukraine. ... Pole vaulting is an athletics event where competitors use a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar, similar to the high jump, but at much greater heights. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Argentina. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Russia_(bordered). ... Long jumper at the GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, July 2005. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Australia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... The triple jump is an athletics (track and field) event, previously also known as hop, skip and jump, whose various names describe the actions a competitor takes. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Ecuador. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... Shot put The shot put is an athletics (track and field) event involving putting (throwing in a pushing motion) a heavy metal ball, also called the shot, as far as possible. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Estonia_(bordered). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Egypt. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... Rutger Smith (born July 9, 1981) is a Dutch athlete competing in shot put and discus throw. ... Statue of discus thrower in Botanic Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark For alternate meanings, see Discus. ... 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Women

Event:

Gold:

Silver:

Bronze:

100 m

Tezdzhan Naimova
Bulgaria

11.28

Gabby Mayo

11.42

Carrie Russell

11.42

World junior leader Alexandria Anderson finished sixth. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Singapore, Chad and the Marshall Islands.

200 m

Tezdzhan Naimova
Bulgaria

22.99 PB

Vanda Gomes

Brazil

23.59 SB

Ewelina Klocek
Poland

23.63 PB

Naimova, taking her second gold medal at the Championships, was virtually unchallenged. World junior leader Gabby Mayo finished sixth.

400 m

Danijela Grgic

Croatia

50.78 WJL

Sonita Sutherland

51.42

Nawal El Jack

Sudan

51.67 SB

Sutherland was also the silver medalist of the 2004 edition. Two Zambian junior records were established in the qualifying rounds.

800 m

Olga Cristea

Moldova

2:04.52 SB

Winny Chebet

2:04.59 PB

Rebekah Noble

2:04.90

Cristea won the first World Championships title of any kind for Moldova.

1500 m

Irene Jelagat

4:08.88 PB

Mercy Kosgei

4:12.48

Yuriko Kobayashi
Japan

4:12.88

During the competition, national junior records were set for Serbia (twice) and Eritrea.

3000 m

Veronica Wanjiru

9:02.90 SB

Pauline Korikwiang

9:05.21

Song Liwei
China

9:06.35 PB

5000 m

Xue Fei
China

15:31.61 PB

Florence Kiplagat

15:32.34 PB

Mary Ngugi

15:36.82 PB

100 m H

Yekaterina Shtepa
Russia

13.33 WJL

Christina Vukicevic

Norway

13.34 NJ

Tiffany Ofili

13.37 PB

400 m H

Kaliese Spencer

55.11 WJL

Nicole Leach

55.55

Sherene Pinnock

56.67 PB

Pinnock was also the bronze medalist in the 2004 edition.

10,000 m track walk

Liu Hong
China

45:12.84 PB

Tatyana Shemyakina
Russia

45:34.41

Anamaria Greceanu

Romania

46:45.67 PB

4 X 100 m

United States
Jeneba Tarmoh
Alexandria Anderson
Elizabeth Olear
Gabby Mayo

43.49

France
Johanna Danois
Emilie Gaydu
Joellie Baflan
Cèline Distel

44.20

Jamaica
Naffene Briscoe
Anasthasia Leroy
Carrie Russell
Schillonie Calvert

44.22 SB

The American team equalled their winning result from 2004. Calvert won her second bronze medal for Jamaica, having competed on the relay team in 2004 as well. National junior records for Norway and Slovenia as well as a South American junior record by Brazil were established in the heats.

4 X 400 m

United States
Jessica Beard
Brandi Cross
Sa'de Williams
Nicole Leach

3:29.01 WJL

Nigeria
Folashade Abugan
Ajoke Odumosu
Joy Eze
Sekinat Adesanya

3:30.84 AJ

Jamaica
Latoya McDermott
Sherene Pinnock
Sonita Sutherland
Kaliese Spencer

3:31.62 SB

Both Pinnock and Sutherland won relay bronze medals in 2004. The Nigerian team had already set an African junior record in the heats with 3:33.00 minutes after a sprint duel with Jamaica. The final also saw an Asian junior record by the Chinese team in fourth place.

High jump

Svetlana Radzivil

Uzbekistan

1.91 NJ

Zheng Xingjuan
China

1.88

Annett Engel

Germany
Yekaterina Yevseyeva

Kazakhstan

1.84

Five athletes, among them a medal favorite Viktoria Leks, ended at 1.84 metres, two of whom shared the podium for the bronze medal.

Pole vault

Zhou Yang
China

4.30 PB

Tina Šutej
Slovenia

4.25 NJ

Vicky Parnov

Australia

4.20

Reigning champion and favorite Lisa Ryzih exited early in the final after failing all three attempts at her opening height of 4.00 metres. The 2006 world junior leader, Valeriya Volik of Russia, finished fourth.

Long jump

Rhonda Watkins

Trinidad and Tobago

6.46

Anika Leipold

6.42

Zhang Yuan
China

6.41

Triple jump

Kaire Leibak
Estonia

14.43 WJL

Sha Li
China

14.01 PB

Liliya Kulyk

14.01 PB

Before the competition Leibak held the world junior leading mark with 13.96 metres, which was improved by Sha Li with 13.97 m in the qualification round. Leibak was in the lead throughout the final, but with 14.05 metres from the fourth round she was threatened by Sha and Kulyk, who both jumped 14.01 m in the fifth round. In the sixth round, however, both challengers failed to improve while Leibak jumped 14.43 metres, only 9 centimetres behind the world junior record. Patricia Mamona in fourth place established a Portuguese junior record with 13.37 metres; a new Spanish junior record was also set in the final.

Shot put

Melissa Boekelman

Netherlands

17.66 PB

Denise Hinrichs

17.35

Irina Tarasova
Russia

17.11 PB

The shot put was the first final of the Championships. Simoné du Toit in fourth established a new African junior record with 16.95 metres.

Discus

Dani Samuels

Australia

60.63 WJL

Pan Saili
China

57.40 SB

Tan Jian
China

56.09

With 60.22 metres from the first round, Samuels went unthreatened throughout the competition. Annelies Peetroons in fourth place set a new Belgian junior record.

Hammer

Bianca Perie

Romania

67.38 CR

Anna Bulgakova
Russia

65.73

Hao Shuai
China

64.26

Perie became the first World Youth champion from 2005 to win a gold medal in Beijing. The new championships record was an improvement of Marina Smolyachkova's 66.81 metres from 2004. Zalina Marghiev of Moldova was in bronze medal position until the final round.

Javelin

Sandra Schaffarzik

60.45 CR

Vira Rebryk

57.79 NJ

Marharyta Dorozhon

57.68 PB

Reigning champion Vivian Zimmer, who held the previous championship record with 58.50 metres, finished in seventh place. Like in the men's javelin competition, the winner was never challenged.

Heptathlon

Tatyana Chernova
Russia

6227 WJL

Ida Marcussen

Norway

6020 NJ

Yana Panteleyeva
Russia

5979

A close competition for the silver and bronze medals saw Marcussen prevail despite finishing behind Iryna Ilkevych of Ukraine in the 800 metres race. Ilkevych ended in fourth place with a national junior record of 5952 points. The winning score of 5868 from 2004 would only have been good enough for a fifth place in 2006.

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Medals table

Medal count

Country

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

China

Russia

France

Romania

Great Britain

Poland

Argentina

Croatia

Moldova

The Netherlands

South Africa

Uzbekistan

Canada

Norway