1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics

1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The host stadium in Annecy (shown during a football match).
Host city	Annecy, France
Nations	169
Athletes	1156
Events	43
Dates	28 July – 2 August
Main venue	Parc des Sports
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The 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 1998 edition of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Annecy, France from July 28 to August 2.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	10.12 WJL	Amar Johnson  United States	10.34 PB	Dwight Thomas   Jamaica	10.40
200 metres details	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	20.44 WJL	Jairo Duzant   Netherlands Antilles	20.92 NJR	Russell Frye  United States	20.94
400 metres details	Nduka Awazie   Nigeria	45.54 PB	Casey Vincent  Australia	45.55 PB	Fawzi Al Shammari   Kuwait	45.89 NJR
800 metres details	William Chirchir   Kenya	1:47.23	Wilfred Bungei   Kenya	1:47.53	Paskar Owor   Uganda	1:48.20 PB
1500 metres details	Adil Kaouch   Morocco	3:42.43	Benjamin Kipkurui   Kenya	3:42.67	Robert Witt   Poland	3:43.47
5000 metres details	Million Wolde   Ethiopia	13:47.49	Kipchumba Mitei   Kenya	13:49.60	Reuben Kiyara Kamzee   Kenya	13:51.22 1
10,000 metres details	Benson Barus   Kenya	29:24.28	Salim Kipsang   Kenya	29:36.80	Alene Emere   Ethiopia	29:47.60
110 metres hurdles details	Staņislavs Olijars   Latvia	13.51	Sharif Paxton  United States	14.10	Florian Seibold  Germany	14.21
400 metres hurdles details	Periklis Iakovakis   Greece	49.82 WJL	Osiris Martínez   Cuba	50.17 PB	Peter Bate  Australia	50.83
3000 metres steeplechase details	Reuben Kosgei   Kenya	8:23.76 WJL	Abraham Cherono   Kenya	8:32.24	El Moustapha Mellour   Morocco	8:34.91 PB
10,000 metres walk details	Roman Rasskazov  Russia	41:55.95	Liu Yunfeng   China	42:01.11	Mario Iván Flores  Mexico	42:04.55
4 × 100 metres relay details	Jamaica Steve Slowly Thomas Collin Paul Thompson Roy Bailey	39.70 WJL	United States Casey Combest Dashaun McCullough Amar Johnson Russell Frye	39.71	Germany Tobias Unger Stefan Holz Zapletal Jirka Kevin Kuske	39.99
4 × 400 metres relay details	Australia Daniel McFarlane Daniel Batman Aaron Russell Casey Vincent	3:04.74 WJL	United States Tony Berrian Kevin Baker Brian Swarn Andrew Pierce	3:05.06	Jamaica Sanjay Ayre Leroy Colquhoun Omar Henry Dwayne Miller	3:05.31
High jump details	Alfredo Deza   Peru	2.21	Yin Xueli   China	2.21 PB	Aleksandr Veryutin   Belarus	2.21 PB
Pole vault details	Pavel Gerasimov  Russia	5.55 PB	Lars Börgeling  Germany	5.50	Paul Burgess  Australia Adam Ptacek   Czech Republic Giuseppe Gibilisco  Italy	5.20
Long jump details	Petar Dachev   Bulgaria	8.14 NJR	Abdel Rahmane Al-Nubi   Qatar	8.11 AJR	Luis Felipe Méliz   Cuba	7.91
Triple jump details	Ionut Punga   Romania	16.94 WJL	Ivaylo Russinov   Bulgaria	16.65 PB	Gregory Yeldell  United States	16.44 PB
Shot put details	Mikulas Konopka   Slovakia	18.50	Janus Robberts   South Africa	18.15	Carl Myerscough  Great Britain	18.12
Discus throw details	Zoltán Kővágó   Hungary	59.36	Emeka Udechuku  Great Britain	57.99	Gabor Mate   Hungary	56.96
Hammer throw details	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen   Finland	72.40 CR	Yuriy Voronkin  Russia	69.66	Wojciech Kondratowicz   Poland	68.93
Javelin throw details	David Parker  Great Britain	72.85	Gerhardus Pienaar   South Africa	71.16 PB	Yukifumi Murakami  Japan	70.72
Decathlon details	Aki Heikkinen   Finland	7476	Thomas Poge  Germany	7332 PB	Jaakko Ojaniemi   Finland	7246 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)

¹ Ahmed Baday of Morocco originally won the bronze medal in 13:49.86, but he was disqualified after it was discovered he was 24 years old at the time of the Championships. ^[1]

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Shakedia Jones  United States	11.19	Angela Williams  United States	11.27	Joan Uduak Ekah   Nigeria	11.50
200 metres details	Muriel Hurtis  France	23.22	Shakedia Jones  United States	23.39	Sarah Wilhelmy  Great Britain	23.56
400 metres details	Natalya Nazarova  Russia	52.02	Nakiya Johnson  United States	52.09 PB	Yupalis Díaz   Cuba	52.39 NJR
800 metres details	Olga Mikayeva  Russia	2:05.34	Jebet Langat   Kenya	2:05.43	Naomi Misoi   Kenya	2:05.77
1500 metres details	Lan Lixin   China	4:10.05	Yemenashu Taye   Ethiopia	4:11.97 PB	Bouchra Benthami   Morocco	4:12.76
3000 metres details	Yin Lili   China	8:57.09 PB	Yemenashu Taye   Ethiopia	9:01.70	Edna Kiplagat   Kenya	9:05.46
5000 metres details	Yin Lili   China	15:29.65 CR	Faith Jemutai   Kenya	15:34.48 PB	Meryma Hashim   Kenya	15:39.57 PB
100 metres hurdles details	Julie Pratt  Great Britain	13.75	Sun Hong Wei   China	13.75	Susanna Kallur   Sweden	13.77
400 metres hurdles details	Li Yu Lian   China	55.93	Allison Beckford   Jamaica	57.19 NJR	Sun Hong Wei   China	57.43
5000 metres walk details	Sabine Zimmer  Germany	21:14.39	Jolanta Dukure   Latvia	21:17.89 NJR	Xue Ailing   China	21:28.57 PB
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Angela Williams Keyon Soley Myra Combs Shakedia Jones	43.52 WJL	France Celine Thelamon Muriel Hurtis Nadia Imalouan Anne Carole Rapp	44.07 NJR	Jamaica Tulia Robinson Aleen Bailey Melaine Walker Lisa Sharpe	44.61
4 × 400 metres relay details	Jamaica Patricia Hall Peta-Gaye Gayle Keasha Downer Allison Beckford	3:32.29 WJL	Russia Svetlana Pospelova Olga Mikayeva Olesya Zykina Natalya Nazarova	3:32.35	United States Mikele Barber Myra Combs Demetria Washington Nakiya Johnson	3:32.85
High jump details	Marina Kuptsova  Russia	1.88	Marie Norrman   Sweden	1.88 PB	Tatyana Efimenko   Kyrgyzstan Nevena Lendjel   Croatia	1.84
Pole vault details	Monika Gotz  Germany	4.20	María Mar Sánchez  Spain Monika Pyrek   Poland	4.10 NJR 4.10 NJR	None awarded	None awarded
Long jump details	Peng Fengmei   China	6.59	Lu Xin   China	6.57	Maria Chiara Baccini  Italy	6.55 NJR
Triple jump details	Baya Rahouli   Algeria	14.04 AJR	Maria Solomon  Russia	13.75 PB	Marija Martinovic   Yugoslavia	13.47
Shot put details	Nadzeya Astapchuk   Belarus	18.23 WJL	Du Xianhui   China	17.69 PB	Nadine Banse  Germany	16.94
Discus throw details	Liu Fengying   China	60.66	Mélina Robert-Michon  France	55.01	Lacramioara Ionescu   Romania	54.64
Hammer throw details	Bianca Achilles  Germany	61.79	Sini Pöyry   Finland	61.76 NJR	Maureen Griffin  United States	60.14
Javelin throw details	Osleidys Menéndez   Cuba	68.17 WJL	Liang Lili   China	61.72 PB	Wei Jianhua   China	59.10
Heptathlon details	Shen Shengfei   China	5815	Susanna Rajamäki   Finland	5721	Viorica Țigău   Romania	5720 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

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	7	6	3	16
2	Russia	5	2	0	7
3	Great Britain	4	1	2	7
4	Kenya	3	7	2	12
5	Germany	3	2	3	8
6	United States	2	7	4	13
7	Finland	2	2	1	5
8	Jamaica	2	1	3	6
9	Ethiopia	1	2	2	5
10	France*	1	2	0	3
11	Australia	1	1	2	4
	Cuba	1	1	2	4
	Romania	1	1	2	4
14	Bulgaria	1	1	0	2
	Latvia	1	1	0	2
16	Morocco	1	0	3	4
17	Belarus	1	0	1	2
	Hungary	1	0	1	2
	Nigeria	1	0	1	2
20	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Peru	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
24	South Africa	0	2	0	2
25	Poland	0	1	2	3
26	Sweden	0	1	1	2
27	Netherlands Antilles	0	1	0	1
	Qatar	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
30	Italy	0	0	2	2
31	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Uganda	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (38 entries)		43	44	45	132

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, ^[2] 1156 athletes from 169 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. ^[3]

•   Albania (1)
•   Algeria (12)
•   Anguilla (1)
•   Antigua and Barbuda (1)
•   Argentina (6)
•   Armenia (2)
•   Australia (51)
•   Austria (7)
•   Azerbaijan (1)
•   Bahamas (5)
•   Bahrain (1)
•   Bangladesh (1)
•   Barbados (2)
•   Belarus (16)
•   Belgium (8)
•   Benin (1)
•   Bermuda (1)
•   Bhutan (1)
•   Bolivia (1)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina (3)
•   Botswana (2)
•   Brazil (12)
•   British Virgin Islands (1)
•   Bulgaria (8)
•   Burkina Faso (1)
•   Burundi (6)
•   Cambodia (1)
•   Cameroon (2)
•   Canada (11)
•   Cape Verde (1)
•   Cayman Islands (1)
•   Central African Republic (1)
•   Chile (2)
•   China (31)
•   Chinese Taipei (10)
•   Colombia (4)
•   Congo (1)
•   Cook Islands (1)
•   Costa Rica (2)
•   Ivory Coast (1)
•   Croatia (13)
•   Cuba (11)
•   Cyprus (3)
•   Czech Republic (17)
•   Dominica (1)
•   Ecuador (4)
•   Egypt (2)
•   El Salvador (1)
•   Equatorial Guinea (1)
•   Estonia (6)
•   Ethiopia (13)
•   Fiji (2)
•   Finland (27)
•   France (63)
•   Gabon (1)
•   Gambia (1)
•   Georgia (1)
•   Germany (69)
•   Ghana (1)
•   Great Britain (48)
•   Greece (23)
•   Grenada (2)
•   Guam (1)
•   Guatemala (1)
•   Guinea (1)
•   Guyana (1)
•   Haiti (1)
•   Hong Kong (1)
•   Hungary (17)
•   Iceland (2)
•   India (4)
•   Ireland (7)
•   Israel (2)
•   Italy (31)
•   Jamaica (30)
•   Japan (32)
•   Kazakhstan (5)
•   Kenya (18)
•   Kuwait (2)
•   Kyrgyzstan (2)
•   Laos (1)
•   Latvia (6)
•   Lebanon (1)
•   Lesotho (2)
•   Liberia (1)
•   Lithuania (6)
•   Luxembourg (2)
•   North Macedonia (1)
•   Madagascar (1)
•   Malawi (1)
•   Malaysia (1)
•   Maldives (1)
•   Mali (1)
•   Malta (1)
•   Mauritania (1)
•   Mauritius (2)
•   Mexico (6)
•   Monaco (1)
•   Mongolia (1)
•   Morocco (16)
•   Myanmar (1)
•   Namibia (2)
•   Netherlands (7)
•   Netherlands Antilles (1)
•   New Zealand (15)
•   Nicaragua (1)
•   Niger (1)
•   Nigeria (4)
•   Norfolk Island (1)
•   Norway (7)
•   Palestine (1)
•   Panama (1)
•   Papua New Guinea (1)
•   Paraguay (1)
•   Peru (2)
•   Philippines (1)
•   Poland (31)
•   Portugal (13)
•   Puerto Rico (1)
•   Qatar (9)
•   Romania (19)
•   Russia (39)
•   Rwanda (2)
•   Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)
•   Saint Lucia (1)
•   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•   Samoa (1)
•   San Marino (1)
•   São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
•   Saudi Arabia (1)
•   Senegal (1)
•   Seychelles (1)
•   Sierra Leone (1)
•   Singapore (1)
•   Slovakia (7)
•   Slovenia (15)
•   Solomon Islands (1)
•   South Africa (37)
•   South Korea (10)
•   Spain (30)
•   Sri Lanka (1)
•   Sudan (1)
•   Eswatini (1)
•   Sweden (19)
•    Switzerland (3)
•   Syria (1)
•   Tajikistan (1)
•   French Polynesia (1)
•   Tanzania (2)
•   Togo (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (3)
•   Tunisia (1)
•   Turkey (5)
•   Turkmenistan (2)
•   Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
•   Uganda (4)
•   Ukraine (8)
•   United Arab Emirates (1)
•   United States (62)
•   Uruguay (2)
•   U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
•   Uzbekistan (2)
•   Vanuatu (1)
•   Venezuela (8)
•   Vietnam (1)
•   Yemen (1)
•   Yugoslavia (5)
•   Zambia (1)
•   Zimbabwe (2)

References

1. 14th IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Barcelona 2012 Facts & Figures Archived 2016-01-31 at the Wayback Machine , page 15
2. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1998 Annecy FRA Jul 28-Aug 2, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 3 December 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
3. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, p. 5, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• Official site (archived)
• Official results