2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics

2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Santiago, Chile
Nations	151
Athletes	1122
Events	43
Dates	17–22 October
Main venue	Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos
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The 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Santiago, Chile between 17 and 22 October 2000.

Host stadium in Chile.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Mark Lewis-Francis   Great Britain	10.12 CR	Salem Mubarak Al-Yami   Saudi Arabia	10.38	Marc Burns   Trinidad and Tobago	10.40 PB
200 metres details	Paul Gorries   South Africa	20.64	Marcin Jędrusiński   Poland	20.87	Timothy Benjamin   Great Britain	20.94
400 metres details	Hamdan Obah Al-Bishi   Saudi Arabia	44.66 CR	Brandon Simpson   Jamaica	45.73 PB	Shinji Ishikawa   Japan	45.77 NJR
800 metres details	Nicholas Wachira   Kenya	1:47.16	Florent Lacasse   France	1:47.61	Antonio Manuel Reina   Spain	1:47.90
1500 metres details	Cornelius Chirchir   Kenya	3:38.80	Wolfram Müller   Germany	3:39.37	Philemon Kibet   Kenya	3:40.77 PB
5000 metres details	Gordon Mugi   Kenya	13:44.93	Kenenisa Bekele   Ethiopia	13:45.43	Cyrus Kataron   Kenya	13:46.12
10,000 metres details	Robert Kipkorir Kipchumba   Kenya	28:54.37	Duncan Lebo   Kenya	28:58.39	Abraha Hadush   Ethiopia	29:44.65
110 metres hurdles details	Yuniel Hernández   Cuba	13.60 WLJ	Thomas Blaschek   Germany	13.80	Ladji Doucouré   France	13.84
400 metres hurdles details	Marek Plawgo   Poland	49.23 WLJ	Pieter de Villiers   South Africa	50.52	Ockert Cilliers   South Africa	50.58
3000 metres steeplechase details	Raymond Yator   Kenya	8:16.34 CR	David Chemweno   Kenya	8:31.95 PB	Abdelatif Chemlal   Morocco	8:43.57
10,000 metres walk details	Cristián David Berdeja   Mexico	40:56.47 SB	Yevgeniy Demkov   Russia	40:56.53	Viktor Burayev   Russia	40:56.57
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain Tyrone Edgar Dwayne Grant Timothy Benjamin Mark Lewis-Francis	39.05 CR	France Ronald Pognon Fabrice Calligny Ladji Doucouré Leslie Djhone	39.33 NJR	Japan Takashi Mogi Kazuya Kitamura Yusuke Omae Hisashi Miyazaki	39.47 NJR
4 × 400 metres relay details	Jamaica Sekou Clarke Aldwyn Sappleton Pete Coley Brandon Simpson	3:06.06 WLJ	Germany Sebastian Gatzka Christian Duma Steffen Hönig Bastian Swillims	3:06.79	Poland Rafał Wieruszewski Karol Terejlis Adrian Galaszewski Marek Plawgo	3:07.05 SB
High jump details	Jacques Freitag   South Africa	2.24	Germaine Mason   Jamaica	2.24 NJR	Tomasz Śmiałek   Poland	2.21 PB
Pole vault details	Aleksey Khanafin   Russia	5.30	Aleksandr Korchmyd   Ukraine	5.30	Rocky Danners   United States	5.20
Long jump details	Cai Peng   China	7.88	Vladimir Zyuskov   Ukraine	7.84 PB	Yoelmis Pacheco   Cuba	7.71
Triple jump details	Marian Oprea   Romania	16.41	Yoandri Betanzos   Cuba	16.34	Mohammed Hamdi Awadh   Qatar	16.29
Shot put details	Rutger Smith   Netherlands	19.48 CR	Ivan Yushkov   Russia	19.06	Tomasz Chrzanowski   Poland	19.00 NJR
Discus throw details	Hannes Hopley   South Africa	59.51 NJR	Niklas Arrhenius   Sweden	59.19 PB	Rutger Smith   Netherlands	58.70
Javelin throw details	Gerhardus Pienaar   South Africa	78.11 NJR	Andreas Thorkildsen   Norway	76.34 NJR	Park Jae-Myong   South Korea	72.36
Hammer throw details	Eşref Apak   Turkey	69.97 NJR	Dylan Armstrong   Canada	67.50	Aaron Fish   Australia	67.44
Decathlon details	Dennis Leyckes   Germany	7897 CR	David Gómez   Spain	7772 NJR	André Niklaus   Germany	7712 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)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Veronica Campbell   Jamaica	11.12 CR	Katchi Habel   Germany	11.39 PB	Fana Ashby   Trinidad and Tobago	11.47
200 metres details	Veronica Campbell   Jamaica	22.87 CR	Sina Schielke   Germany	23.20	Vida Anim   Ghana	23.81
400 metres details	Jana Pittman   Australia	52.45	Aneta Lemiesz   Poland	52.78 NJR	Norma González   Colombia	53.30
800 metres details	Jebet Langat   Kenya	2:01.51	Georgie Clarke   Australia	2:02.28	Lucia Klocová   Slovakia	2:04.00 PB
1500 metres details	Abebech Negussie   Ethiopia	4:19.93	Rose Kosgei   Kenya	4:20.16	Georgie Clarke   Australia	4:20.21
3000 metres details	Beatrice Jepchumba   Kenya	9:08.80	Jane Chepkoech   Kenya	9:10.05	Etalemahu Kidane   Ethiopia	9:11.55 PB
5000 metres details	Dorcus Inzikuru   Uganda	16:21.32	Meseret Defar   Ethiopia	16:23.69	Sharon Cherop   Kenya	16:23.73
100 metres hurdles details	Susanna Kallur   Sweden	13.02 WLJ	Fanny Gérance   France	13.21 PB	Adrianna Lamalle   France	13.27
400 metres hurdles details	Jana Pittman   Australia	56.27	Marjolein de Jong   Netherlands	56.50	Melaine Walker   Jamaica	56.96 NJR
10,000 metres walk details	Lyudmila Yefimkina   Russia	44:07.74	Tatyana Kozlova   Russia	44:24.43 PB	Sabine Zimmer   Germany	46:49.97 NJR
4 × 100 metres relay details	Germany Christa Kaufmann Sina Schielke Kerstin Grötzinger Katchi Habel	43.91 WLJ	Jamaica Veronica Campbell Nadine Palmer Kerron Stewart Nolle Graham	44.05 SB	Sweden Emma Rienas Jenny Kallur Susanna Kallur Linda Fernström	44.78 NJR
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain Kim Wall Jenny Meadows Helen Thieme Lisa Miller	3:33.82 WLJ	Jamaica Sheryl Morgan Kareen Gayle Anneisha McLaughlin Melaine Walker	3:33.99 SB	Romania Adela Diana Marchis Liliana Barbulescu Maria Rus Alina Ripanu	3:34.49
High jump details	Blanka Vlašić   Croatia	1.91	Marina Kuptsova   Russia	1.88	Marizca Gertenbach   South Africa	1.88 PB
Pole vault details	Yelena Isinbayeva   Russia	4.20 CR	Annika Becker   Germany	4.10	Vanessa Boslak   France Fanni Juhász   Hungary	4.10 4.10 SB
Long jump details	Concepción Montaner   Spain	6.47	Zhou Yangxia   China	6.45	Kumiko Ikeda   Japan	6.43 NJR
Triple jump details	Anastasiya Ilyina   Russia	14.24	Anna Pyatykh   Russia	14.18 PB	Dana Veldáková   Slovakia	13.92 NJR
Shot put details	Kathleen Kluge   Germany	17.37 PB	Li Meiju   China	16.57	Natallia Kharaneka   Belarus	16.40
Discus throw details	Xu Shaoyang   China	54.41	Jana Tucholke   Germany	53.97 PB	Olga Goncharenko   Belarus	53.64
Javelin throw details	Jarmila Klimešová   Czech Republic	54.82	Inga Kožarenoka   Latvia	54.64	Halina Kakhava   Belarus	54.26
Hammer throw details	Ivana Brkljacic   Croatia	62.22 CR	Virginia Balut   Romania	60.23 PB	Yunaika Crawford   Cuba	59.98
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft   Sweden	6056 WLJ	Lidiya Bashlykova   Russia	5898	Sanna Saarman   Finland	5707
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

Rutger Smith of the Netherlands won the shot put gold and discus bronze.

Veronica Campbell won a sprint double for Jamaica.

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	7	4	3	14
2	Russia	4	6	1	11
3	South Africa	4	1	2	7
4	Germany	3	7	2	12
5	Jamaica	3	4	1	8
6	Great Britain	3	0	1	4
7	China	2	2	0	4
8	Australia	2	1	2	5
9	Sweden	2	1	1	4
10	Croatia	2	0	0	2
11	Poland	1	2	3	6
12	Ethiopia	1	2	2	5
13	Cuba	1	1	2	4
14	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
	Romania	1	1	1	3
	Spain	1	1	1	3
17	Saudi Arabia	1	1	0	2
18	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	Mexico	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
	Uganda	1	0	0	1
22	France	0	3	3	6
23	Ukraine	0	2	0	2
24	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
27	Japan	0	0	3	3
28	Belarus	0	0	2	2
	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	2	2
31	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Ghana	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
–	Chile*	0	0	0	0
Totals (38 entries)		43	43	43	129

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, ^[1] 1122 athletes from 151 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. ^[2]

•   Algeria (8)
•   Andorra (1)
•   Anguilla (1)
•   Argentina (12)
•   Armenia (2)
•   Australia (50)
•   Austria (6)
•   Azerbaijan (2)
•   Bahamas (4)
•   Barbados (4)
•   Belarus (11)
•   Belgium (6)
•   Bolivia (1)
•   Botswana (5)
•   Brazil (24)
•   Bulgaria (7)
•   Burkina Faso (1)
•   Burundi (1)
•   Cameroon (1)
•   Canada (10)
•   Cape Verde (1)
•   Cayman Islands (1)
•   Central African Republic (1)
•   Chad (1)
•   Chile (31)
•   China (21)
•   Chinese Taipei (8)
•   Colombia (6)
•   Cook Islands (1)
•   Costa Rica (1)
• Côte d'Ivoire (2)
•   Croatia (12)
•   Cuba (10)
•   Cyprus (2)
•   Czech Republic (14)
•   Denmark (1)
•   Djibouti (1)
•   Dominican Republic (2)
•   Ecuador (2)
•   Egypt (2)
•   El Salvador (4)
•   Equatorial Guinea (1)
•   Estonia (4)
•   Ethiopia (12)
•   Fiji (1)
•   Finland (16)
•   France (51)
•   Gabon (1)
•   Gambia (1)
•   Georgia (2)
•   Germany (62)
•   Ghana (3)
•   Great Britain (41)
•   Greece (22)
•   Grenada (1)
•   Guam (1)
•   Guatemala (1)
•   Guinea (1)
•   Guyana (1)
•   Honduras (1)
•   Hong Kong (2)
•   Hungary (16)
•   Iceland (2)
•   India (6)
•   Indonesia (1)
•   Ireland (11)
•   Israel (7)
•   Italy (22)
•   Jamaica (29)
•   Japan (30)
•   Kazakhstan (9)
•   Kenya (20)
•   Kiribati (1)
•   Kuwait (1)
•   Latvia (11)
•   Liberia (1)
•   Lithuania (6)
•   Macedonia (1)
•   Madagascar (2)
•   Malawi (1)
•   Malaysia (2)
•   Maldives (1)
•   Mali (1)
•   Malta (1)
•   Mauritania (1)
•   Mauritius (1)
•   Mexico (9)
•   Micronesia (1)
•   Moldova (3)
•   Monaco (1)
•   Mongolia (2)
•   Morocco (9)
•   Namibia (2)
•     Nepal (2)
•   Netherlands (9)
•   Netherlands Antilles (1)
•   New Zealand (19)
•   Northern Mariana Islands (1)
•   Norway (8)
•   Palau (1)
•   Panama (2)
•   Papua New Guinea (1)
•   Paraguay (1)
•   Peru (4)
•   Philippines (1)
•   Poland (33)
•   Portugal (12)
•   Puerto Rico (2)
•   Qatar (21)
•   Romania (20)
•   Russia (25)
•   Rwanda (1)
•   Saint Kitts and Nevis (2)
•   Saint Lucia (1)
•   Samoa (1)
•   San Marino (1)
•   São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
•   Saudi Arabia (9)
•   Senegal (3)
•   Singapore (1)
•   Slovakia (11)
•   Slovenia (4)
•   Solomon Islands (1)
•   South Africa (26)
•   South Korea (9)
•   Spain (26)
•   Sri Lanka (1)
•   Sudan (1)
•   Suriname (1)
•   Swaziland (1)
•   Sweden (21)
•    Switzerland (7)
•   Tajikistan (1)
• Tahiti (1)
•   Tanzania (1)
•   Thailand (1)
•   Togo (1)
•   Tonga (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (10)
•   Turkey (5)
•   Turkmenistan (1)
•   Uganda (2)
•   Ukraine (20)
•   United States (40)
•   Uruguay (2)
•   U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
•   Uzbekistan (2)
•   Venezuela (14)
•   Yugoslavia (7)
•   Zambia (1)
•   Zimbabwe (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, World Junior Championships 2000, World Junior Athletics History, archived from the original on 3 December 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF World Junior Championships - Eugene 2014 - Facts & Figures (PDF), IAAF, p. 5, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• Official site (archived)
• Official results