2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics

2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Kingston, Jamaica
Nations	159
Athletes	1069
Events	43
Dates	16–21 July
Main venue	National Stadium
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The 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Kingston, Jamaica from July 16 to July 21, 2002.

Men's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Darrel Brown   Trinidad and Tobago	10.09 CR	Marc Burns   Trinidad and Tobago	10.18 PB	Willie Hordge   United States	10.36
	Brown's 10.09 then ranked fifth all-time among juniors. He eventually broke the WJR at the 2003 World Championships.
200 metres details	Usain Bolt   Jamaica	20.61	Brendan Christian   Antigua and Barbuda	20.74	Wes Felix   United States	20.82 PB
	At only 15 years, 332 days, Bolt became the youngest ever junior world champion. He was surpassed by Jacko Gill in the 2010 World Junior Championships.
400 metres details	Darold Williamson   United States	45.37	Jonathan Fortenberry   United States	45.73	Jermaine Gonzales   Jamaica	45.84 PB
800 metres details	Alex Kipchirchir   Kenya	1:46.59	Salem Amer Al-Badri   Qatar	1:46.63 NJR	David Fiegen   Luxembourg	1:46.66
1500 metres details	Yassine Bensghir   Morocco	3:40.72 PB	Abdulrahman Suleiman   Qatar	3:41.72	Samwel Mwera   Tanzania	3:41.75
5000 metres details	Hillary Chenonge   Kenya	13:28.30 CR	Markos Geneti   Ethiopia	13:28.83 SB	Gebregziabher Gebremariam   Ethiopia	13:29.13
10,000 metres details	Gebregziabher Gebremariam   Ethiopia	29:02.71	Sileshi Sihine   Ethiopia	29:03.74	Solomon Bushendich   Kenya	29:05.96
110 metres hurdles details	Antwon Hicks   United States	13.42	Shi Dongpeng   China	13.58	Shamar Sands   Bahamas	13.67
400 metres hurdles details	L. J. van Zyl   South Africa	48.89 CR	Kenneth Ferguson   United States	49.38 PB	Bershawn Jackson   United States	50.00 PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Michael Kipyego   Kenya	8:29.54	David Kirwa   Kenya	8:31.44	Abubaker Ali Kamal   Qatar	8:33.67 NJR
10,000 metres walk details	Vladimir Kanaykin   Russia	41:41.40	Xu Xingde   China	41:44.00	Lu Ronghua   China	41:46.07
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Ashton Collins Wes Felix Ivory Williams Willie Hordge	38.92 WJR	Jamaica Winston Hutton Orion Nicely Yhann Plummer Usain Bolt	39.15 NJR	Trinidad and Tobago Chevon Simpson Marc Burns Kevon Holder Darrel Brown	39.17 NJR
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Kenneth Ferguson Darold Williamson Ashton Collins Jonathan Fortenberry	3:03.71	Jamaica Sekou Clarke Usain Bolt Jermaine Myers Jermaine Gonzales	3:04.06 NJR	Japan Yamauchi Fujio Daisuke Sakai Yuki Yamaguchi Yosuke Inoue	3:05.80 AJR
High jump details	Andra Manson   United States	2.31 WJL	Zhu Wannan   China	2.23 PB	Germaine Mason   Jamaica	2.21
Pole vault details	Maksym Mazuryk   Ukraine	5.55 WLJ	Vladyslav Revenko   Ukraine	5.55 WLJ	Vincent Favretto   France	5.40
Long jump details	Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Waleed   Qatar	7.99 PB	Fabrice Lapierre   Australia	7.74 PB	Trevell Quinley   United States	7.71 PB
Triple jump details	Arnie David Giralt   Cuba	16.68	Li Yanxi   China	16.66 PB	Aleksandr Sergeyev   Russia	16.55
Shot put 6 kg details	Edis Elkasevic   Croatia	21.47 WLJ	Sean Shields   United States	20.54	Mika Vasara   Finland	20.50
Discus throw 1.75 kg details	Wu Tao   China	64.51 WLJ	Dmitriy Sivakov   Belarus	62.00	Michał Hodun   Poland	61.74
Hammer throw 6 kg details	Werner Smit   South Africa	76.43	Ali Al-Zinkawi   Kuwait	73.69	Aliaksandr Kazulka   Belarus	72.72
Javelin throw details	Igor Janik   Poland	74.16	Vladislav Shkurlatov   Russia	74.09 PB	Jung Sang-Jin   South Korea	73.99 PB
Decathlon details	Leonid Andreev   Uzbekistan	7693	Nadir El Fassi   France	7677	Mikko Halvari   Finland	7587
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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Lauryn Williams   United States	11.33 PB	Simone Facey   Jamaica	11.43 PB	Marshevet Hooker   United States	11.48
200 metres details	Vernicha James   Great Britain	22.93 PB	Anneisha McLaughlin   Jamaica	22.94 PB	Sanya Richards   United States	23.09
400 metres details	Monique Henderson   United States	51.10 SB	Sanya Richards   United States	51.49	Sheryl Morgan   Jamaica	52.61
800 metres details	Janeth Jepkosgei   Kenya	2:00.80 WLJ	Lucia Klocová   Slovakia	2:01.73	Juliana Paula de Azevedo   Brazil	2:03.81 PB
1500 metres details	Viola Kibiwot   Kenya	4:12.57 PB	Berhane Herpassa   Ethiopia	4:13.59	Olesya Syreva   Russia	4:14.32 PB
3000 metres details	Meseret Defar   Ethiopia	9:12.61	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli   Morocco	9:16.28 PB	Olesya Syreva   Russia	9:16.58 PB
5000 metres details	Meseret Defar   Ethiopia	15:54.94	Tirunesh Dibaba   Ethiopia	15:55.99	Vivian Cheruiyot   Kenya	15:56.04
100 metres hurdles details	Anay Tejeda   Cuba	12.81	Agnieszka Frankowska   Poland	13.16	Tina Klein   Germany	13.23
400 metres hurdles details	Lashinda Demus   United States	54.70 WJR	Melaine Walker   Jamaica	56.03	Camille Robinson   Jamaica	56.14 PB
10,000 metres walk details	Fumi Mitsumura   Japan	46:01.51 NJR	Liu Siqi   China	46:07.15	Maryna Tsikhanava   Belarus	46:14.67 SB
4 × 100 metres relay details	Jamaica Sherone Simpson Kerron Stewart Anneisha McLaughlin Simone Facey	43.40 CR	United States Lauryn Williams Ashlee Williams Shalonda Solomon Marshevet Hooker	43.66	Great Britain Jade Lucas-Read Jeanette Kwakye Amy Spencer Vernicha James	44.22 PB
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Christina Hardeman Monique Henderson Tiffany Ross Lashinda Demus	3:29.95 NJR	Great Britain Kim Wall Amy Spencer Vernicha James Lisa Miller	3:30.46 NJR	Russia Yelena Mygunova Mariya Dryakhlova Yuliya Gushchina Tatyana Popova	3:34.49
High jump details	Blanka Vlašić   Croatia	1.96 WLJ	Anna Ksok   Poland	1.87	Petrina Price   Australia	1.87
Pole vault details	Floé Kühnert   Germany	4.40 CR	Yuliya Golubchikova   Russia	4.30	Nataliya Belinskaya   Russia	4.20
Long jump details	Adina Anton   Romania	6.46 PB	Wang Lina   China	6.36	Esther Aghatise   Nigeria	6.34
Triple jump details	Mabel Gay   Cuba	14.09	Yarianna Martínez   Cuba	13.74	Keila da Silva Costa   Brazil	13.70
Shot put details	Valerie Adams   New Zealand	17.73 AJR	Zhang Ying   China	16.76	Laura Gerraughty   United States	16.62
Discus throw details	Ma Xuejun   China	58.85 PB	Xu Shaoyang   China	57.87	Seema Antil   India	55.83
Hammer throw details	Ivana Brkljačić   Croatia	65.39	Martina Danišová   Slovakia	63.91	Yuliya Rozenfeld   Russia	60.83 PB
Javelin throw details	Linda Brivule   Latvia	55.35 PB	Ilze Gribule   Latvia	54.16 SB	Urszula Jasińska   Poland	54.06
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft   Sweden	6470 WJR	Olga Alekseyeva   Kazakhstan	5727	Olga Levenkova   Russia	5712
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

With his 200 metres gold medal, Usain Bolt of Jamaica became the youngest World Junior Championships winner at the time.

Blanka Vlašić of Croatia won the high jump.

Sweden's Carolina Klüft set a new world junior record in the heptathlon.

  *   Host nation (Jamaica)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	9	5	7	21
2	Kenya	5	1	2	8
3	Ethiopia	3	4	1	8
4	Cuba	3	1	0	4
5	Croatia	3	0	0	3
6	China	2	8	1	11
7	Jamaica*	2	5	4	11
8	South Africa	2	0	0	2
9	Russia	1	2	7	10
10	Poland	1	2	2	5
11	Qatar	1	2	1	4
12	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
	Trinidad and Tobago	1	1	1	3
14	Latvia	1	1	0	2
	Morocco	1	1	0	2
	Ukraine	1	1	0	2
17	Germany	1	0	1	2
	Japan	1	0	1	2
19	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Romania	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1
23	Slovakia	0	2	0	2
24	Belarus	0	1	2	3
25	Australia	0	1	1	2
	France	0	1	1	2
27	Antigua and Barbuda	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Kuwait	0	1	0	1
30	Brazil	0	0	2	2
	Finland	0	0	2	2
32	Bahamas	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Luxembourg	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Tanzania	0	0	1	1
Totals (37 entries)		43	43	43	129

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, ^[1] 1069 athletes from 159 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. ^[2]

•   Algeria (9)
•   Andorra (1)
•   Anguilla (1)
•   Antigua and Barbuda (2)
•   Argentina (3)
•   Armenia (2)
•   Aruba (1)
•   Australia (45)
•   Austria (3)
•   Azerbaijan (1)
•   Bahamas (6)
•   Bahrain (1)
•   Barbados (3)
•   Belarus (13)
•   Belgium (7)
•   Belize (1)
•   Bolivia (1)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
•   Botswana (5)
•   Brazil (27)
•   British Virgin Islands (1)
•   Bulgaria (6)
•   Burkina Faso (1)
•   Burundi (3)
•   Cameroon (2)
•   Canada (23)
•   Cayman Islands (1)
•   Chile (9)
•   China (22)
•   Chinese Taipei (5)
•   Colombia (3)
•   Cook Islands (1)
•   Costa Rica (1)
• Côte d'Ivoire (1)
•   Croatia (10)
•   Cuba (13)
•   Cyprus (5)
•   Czech Republic (14)
•   Denmark (2)
•   Djibouti (2)
•   Dominica (1)
•   Dominican Republic (1)
•   Ecuador (3)
•   Egypt (6)
•   El Salvador (1)
•   Equatorial Guinea (1)
•   Eritrea (2)
•   Estonia (11)
•   Ethiopia (7)
•   Fiji (2)
•   Finland (16)
•   France (41)
•   Gabon (1)
•   Gambia (2)
•   Georgia (2)
•   Germany (65)
•   Ghana (1)
•   Gibraltar (2)
•   Great Britain (28)
•   Greece (16)
•   Grenada (1)
•   Guam (1)
•   Guatemala (1)
•   Guyana (1)
•   Haiti (1)
•   Honduras (1)
•   Hong Kong (1)
•   Hungary (20)
•   Iceland (2)
•   India (6)
•   Ireland (10)
•   Israel (3)
•   Italy (18)
•   Jamaica (41)
•   Japan (31)
•   Jordan (1)
•   Kazakhstan (4)
•   Kenya (18)
•   Kiribati (1)
•   Kuwait (3)
•   Kyrgyzstan (1)
•   Latvia (3)
•   Lebanon (1)
•   Lesotho (1)
•   Lithuania (3)
•   Luxembourg (2)
•   Macedonia (1)
•   Madagascar (1)
•   Malawi (1)
•   Maldives (1)
•   Mali (1)
•   Mauritius (1)
•   Mexico (11)
•   Micronesia (1)
•   Moldova (2)
•   Morocco (11)
•   Mozambique (1)
•   Myanmar (1)
•   Namibia (1)
•   Netherlands (14)
•   Netherlands Antilles (1)
•   New Zealand (9)
•   Nicaragua (1)
•   Nigeria (6)
•   Norway (5)
•   Oman (1)
•   Pakistan (1)
•   Palestine (1)
•   Panama (2)
•   Papua New Guinea (1)
•   Paraguay (1)
•   Peru (1)
•   Philippines (1)
•   Poland (29)
•   Portugal (7)
•   Puerto Rico (1)
•   Qatar (10)
•   Romania (13)
•   Russia (41)
•   Rwanda (2)
•   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 (6)
•   Seychelles (1)
•   Singapore (4)
•   Slovakia (8)
•   Slovenia (4)
•   Solomon Islands (1)
•   South Africa (19)
•   South Korea (10)
•   Spain (26)
•   Sri Lanka (1)
•   Sudan (4)
•   Swaziland (1)
•   Sweden (13)
•    Switzerland (8)
•   Tajikistan (1)
•   Tanzania (2)
•   Thailand (1)
•   Togo (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (8)
•   Tunisia (3)
•   Turkey (4)
•   Turkmenistan (2)
•   Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
•   Ukraine (10)
•   United States (64)
•   Uruguay (1)
•   U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
•   Uzbekistan (6)
•   Venezuela (5)
•   Yemen (1)
•   Yugoslavia (5)
•   Zambia (2)
•   Zimbabwe (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2002 Kingston JAM Jul 16-21, 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

• Official site (archived)
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• IAAF competition site