2017 IAAF World U18 Championships

2017 World U18 Championships in Athletics

Host city	Nairobi, Kenya
Events	40
Dates	12–16 July
Main venue	Moi International Sports Centre
←  2015 Cali

The 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships was the tenth and last edition of the biennial international athletics competition for youth (under-18) athletes. ^[1] The five-day competition took place between 12 and 16 July at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. ^[2] Eligible athletes were aged 16 or 17 on 31 December 2017 (born in 2000 or 2001).

South Africa topped the medals table with 11 medals, five of them gold, while host nation Kenya finished fourth with four gold and 15 medals in total.

Boycott

The United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Italy decided not to take part in the championships for organizational, logistical, and health and safety reasons (concerning athletes still underage). ^{[3] [4]}

Medal summary

Boys

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Tshenolo Lemao   South Africa	10.57	Retshidisitswe Mlenga   South Africa	10.61	Tyreke Wilson   Jamaica	10.65
200 metres details	Retshidisitswe Mlenga   South Africa	21.03	Tshenolo Lemao   South Africa	21.12 PB	Luis Brander   Germany	21.23 PB
400 metres details	Antonio Watson   Jamaica	46.59 PB	Daniel Williams   Guyana	46.72 PB	Colby Jennings   Turks and Caicos Islands	46.77 NR
800 metres details	Melese Nberet   Ethiopia	1:47.12 WU18L	Tolesa Bodena   Ethiopia	1:47.16 PB	Japhet Kibiwott Toroitich   Kenya	1:47.82 PB
1500 metres details	George Manangoi   Kenya	3:47.53	Abebe Dessassa   Ethiopia	3:48.65 PB	Belete Mekonen   Ethiopia	3:50.64
3000 metres details	Selemon Barega   Ethiopia	7:47.16 PB	Edward Zakayo   Kenya	7:49.17 PB	Stanley Mburu   Kenya	7:50.64 PB
110 metres hurdles details	De'Jour Russell   Jamaica	13.04 CR	Lu Hao-hua   Chinese Taipei	13.41	Thomas Wanaverbecq   France	13.55
400 metres hurdles details	Sokwakhana Zazini   South Africa	49.27	Moitalel Naadokila   Kenya	52.06 PB	Baptiste Christophe   France	52.21 PB
2000 metres steeplechase details	Leonard Bett   Kenya	5:32.52	Cleophas Meyan   Kenya	5:33.07 PB	Alemu Kitessa   Ethiopia	5:42.10
10,000 metres walk details	Zhang Yao   China	41:12.01 WU18L	Salavat Ilkaev Independent Athletes	41:24.17 PB	Dominic Ndingiti   Kenya	41:25.78 PB
High jump details	Breyton Poole   South Africa	2.24 WU18L	Chima Ihenetu   Germany	2.14 PB	Vladyslav Lavskyy   Ukraine	2.11 PB
Pole vault details	Matthias Orban   France	5.00	Christos Tamanis   Cyprus	4.85 PB	Illya Kravchenko   Ukraine	4.70 PB
Long jump details	Maikel Vidal   Cuba	7.88 WU18L	Lester Lescay   Cuba	7.79 PB	Andreas Samuel Bucsa   Romania	7.47
Triple jump details	Jordan Díaz   Cuba	17.30 WU18B	Frixon Chila   Ecuador	15.92 PB	Arnovis Dalmero   Colombia	15.89 PB
Shot put details	Timo Northoff   Germany	20.72 WU18L	Mikhail Samuseu   Belarus	19.99	Jonathan de Lacey Lacey   South Africa	19.93 PB
Discus throw details	Claudio Romero   Chile	64.33 WU18L	Oleksiy Kyrylin   Ukraine	63.98 PB	Morne Brandon   South Africa	58.34
Hammer throw details	Mykhaylo Kokhan   Ukraine	82.31	Damneet Singh   India	74.20 PB	Raphael Winkelvoss   Germany	71.78
Javelin throw details	Liu Zhekai   China	77.54 PB	Johannes Schlebusch   South Africa	75.68 PB	Song Qingshu   China	73.64
Decathlon details	Steven Fauvel-Clinch   France	7559 WU18L	Olegs Kozakovs   Latvia	7377 PB	Leo Neugebauer   Germany	7204

Girls

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Mizgin Ay   Turkey	11.62	Magdalena Stefanowicz   Poland	11.62 PB	Kevona Davis   Jamaica	11.67
200 metres details	Talea Prepens   Germany	23.51 PB	Jaël Bestué   Spain	23.61 PB	Mizgin Ay   Turkey	23.76 PB
400 metres details	Barbora Malíková   Czech Republic	52.74 PB	Mary Moraa   Kenya	53.31 PB	Giovana Rosália dos Santos   Brazil	53.57 PB
800 metres details	Jackline Wambui   Kenya	2:01.46 WU18L	Lydia Jeruto Lagat   Kenya	2:02.06 PB	Hirut Meshesha   Ethiopia	2:06.32
1500 metres details	Lemlem Hailu   Ethiopia	4:20.80	Sindu Girma   Ethiopia	4:22.14	Edina Jebitok   Kenya	4:23.16
3000 metres details	Abersh Minsewo   Ethiopia	9:24.62	Emmaculate Chepkirui   Kenya	9:24.69	Yitayish Mekonene   Ethiopia	9:28.46
100 metres hurdles details	Britany Anderson   Jamaica	12.72	Cyrena Samba-Mayela   France	12.80	Daszay Freeman   Jamaica	13.09
400 metres hurdles details	Zeney van der Walt   South Africa	58.23	Sanique Walker   Jamaica	58.27	Gisèle Wender   Germany	59.17 PB
2000 metres steeplechase details	Caren Chebet   Kenya	6:24.80 WU18L	Mercy Chepkurui   Kenya	6:26.10 PB	Etalemahu Sintayehu   Ethiopia	6:35.79
5000 metres walk details	Glenda Morejón   Ecuador	22:32.30	Meryem Bekmez   Turkey	22:32.79	Elvira Khasanova Independent Athletes	22:35.72
High jump details	Yaroslava Mahuchikh   Ukraine	1.92 CR	Martyna Lewandowska   Poland	1.82	Lavinja Jürgens   Germany	1.79 SB
Pole vault details	Niu Chunge   China	4.20 PB	Leni Freyja Wildgrube   Germany	4.15 PB	Anna Airault   France	4.10 PB
Long jump details	Gong Luying   China	6.37 PB	Lea-Sophie Klik   Germany	6.30	Diane Mouillac   France	6.28 PB
Triple jump details	Tan Qiujiao   China	13.64 WU18L	Aleksandra Nacheva   Bulgaria	13.54 PB	Zulia Hernández   Cuba	13.29 PB
Shot put details	Selina Dantzler   Germany	17.64	Yu Tianxiao   China	17.62 PB	Yue Sun   China	17.59 PB
Discus throw details	Silinda Morales   Cuba	52.89	Leia Braunagel   Germany	51.29	Liu Quantong   China	50.10
Hammer throw details	Amanda Almendáriz   Cuba	71.12 WU18L	Yaritza Martínez   Cuba	69.75	Katsiaryna Valadkevich   Belarus	68.17
Javelin throw details	Marisleisys Duarthe   Cuba	62.92 CR	Qing Cai   China	57.01	Dai Qianqian   China	54.96
Heptathlon details	María Vicente   Spain	5612	Johanna Seibler   Germany	5602	Urtė Bačianskaitė   Lithuania	5467

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 x 400 metres relay details	Brazil Bruno Benedito da Silva Giovana Rosália dos Santos Jéssica Moreira Alison dos Santos	3:21.71	Jamaica Shaquena Foote Anthony Cox Sanique Walker Antonio Watson Joanne Reid* Tyrese Reid*	3:22.23	South Africa Gontse Morake Retshidisitswe Mlenga Zeney van der Walt Sokwakhana Zazini	3:24.45

* Medalists who participated in heats only.

Medal table

  Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa  (RSA)	5	3	3	11
2	China  (CHN)	5	2	4	11
3	Cuba  (CUB)	5	2	1	8
4	Kenya  (KEN)*	4	7	4	15
5	Ethiopia  (ETH)	4	3	5	12
6	Germany  (GER)	3	5	5	13
7	Jamaica  (JAM)	3	2	3	8
8	France  (FRA)	2	1	4	7
9	Ukraine  (UKR)	2	1	2	5
10	Turkey  (TUR)	1	1	1	3
11	Ecuador  (ECU)	1	1	0	2
	Spain  (ESP)	1	1	0	2
13	Brazil  (BRA)	1	0	1	2
14	Chile  (CHI)	1	0	0	1
	Czech Republic  (CZE)	1	0	0	1
16	Poland  (POL)	0	2	0	2
17	Belarus  (BLR)	0	1	1	2
–	Independent Athletes [1]	0	1	1	2
18	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Chinese Taipei  (TPE)	0	1	0	1
	Cyprus  (CYP)	0	1	0	1
	Guyana  (GUY)	0	1	0	1
	India  (IND)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia  (LAT)	0	1	0	1
24	Colombia  (COL)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania  (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Romania  (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Turks and Caicos Islands  (TCA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		39	39	39	117

Source: ^[5]

Notes

^[1] Independent Athletes were not included in the official medal table. ^[5]

See also

• 2017 Asian Youth Championships in Athletics
• 2017 African Youth Championships in Athletics

References

1. "World Youth Championships cancelled starting from 2018, latest IAAF Council in Rio decided". Track Arena. August 21, 2016.
2. "IAAF: World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017 website". iaaf.org. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
3. "Non ci sarà una rappresentativa italiana ai Mondiali U18 di Nairobi 2017" (in Italian). sportfair.it. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
4. "Is Nairobi 2017 snub case of double standards by teams?". standardmedia.co.ke. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
5. "IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017 Medal Table". World Athletics.

External links

• Official 2017 World U18 Championships website at IAAF
• Official website