1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 1st World Junior Championships in Athletics was the 1986 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Athens

Athens

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Men

100 m 100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...	Derrick Florence United States	10.17	Stanley Kerr United States	10.23	Jamie Henderson United Kingdom	10.34
200 m 200 metres A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...	Stanley Kerr United States	20.74	Derrick Florence United States	21.12	Steve McBain Australia	21.21
400 m 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...	Miles Murphy Australia	45.64	Roberto Hernández Roberto Hernández (track athlete) Roberto Hernández Prendes is a retired Cuban sprints athlete who specialized in the 400 metres.Hernández' personal best for the 400 metres is 44.14 seconds, set in Seville, Spain in May 1990. For many years, this was the fastest time by anyone not from the USA... Cuba	45.64	Edgar Itt Edgar Itt Edgar Itt was a West German athlete who competed for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Norbert Dobeleit, Jörg Vaihinger and Ralf Lübke. He finished in eight position in the final of the... West Germany	45.72
800 m 800 metres The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...	David Sharpe United Kingdom	1:48.32	Manuel Balmaceda Chile	1:48.91	Andrey Sudnik Soviet Union	1:48.93
1500 m 1500 metres The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...	Wilfred Kirochi Wilfred Kirochi Wilfred Kirochi is a former Kenyan middle distance runner who won a silver medal at the 1991 World Championships' final in Tokyo in the 1500 m event... Kenya	3:44.62	Peter Rono Peter Rono Peter Kipchumba Rono is a former Kenyan athlete, who won the 1,500 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics.... Kenya	3:45.62	Johan Boakes United Kingdom	3:45.80
5000 m 5000 metres The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...	Peter Chumba Kenya	13:55.25	Alejandro Gómez Alejandro Gómez (athlete) Alejandro Gómez Cabral is a retired Spanish long-distance runner who specialized in the marathon and cross-country running.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*1500 metres - 3:39.18 min... Spain	13:55.94	Feyisa Melese Ethiopia	13:56.45
10 000 m	Peter Chumba Kenya	28:44.00	Juma Munyampanda Tanzania	28:45.14	Debebe Demisse Debebe Demisse -Achievements:-References:*... Ethiopia	28:49.09
20 km road race	Tadesse Gebre Ethiopia	1:02:32	Juma Munyampanda Tanzania	1:01:45	Negash Dube Kenya	1:04:23
110 m H 110 metres hurdles The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...	Colin Jackson Colin Jackson Colin Ray Jackson CBE is a British former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. Over his career representing Great Britain and Wales he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion three times, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and... United Kingdom	13.44	Jon Ridgeon Jon Ridgeon Jonathan Peter Ridgeon is a retired British hurdling athlete who won the silver medal in the 110 metres hurdles at the 1987 World Championships.- Biography :... United Kingdom	13.91	Emilio Valle Emilio Valle Emilio Valle is a retired Cuban hurdler.His personal best time was 13.18 seconds, achieved in the semi final at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The result places him third among Cuban 110 m hurdlers, behind Anier García and Dayron Robles.-Achievements:-References:* at Sporting Heroes... Cuba	14.00
400 m H 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...	Emilio Valle Emilio Valle Emilio Valle is a retired Cuban hurdler.His personal best time was 13.18 seconds, achieved in the semi final at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The result places him third among Cuban 110 m hurdlers, behind Anier García and Dayron Robles.-Achievements:-References:* at Sporting Heroes... Cuba	50.02	Hiroshi Kakimori Japan	50.09	Pascal Maran Early Modern France	50.39
2000 m St. Steeplechase (athletics) The steeplechase is an obstacle race in athletics, which derives its name from the steeplechase in horse racing.-Rules:The length of the race is usually 3000 m; junior events are 2000 m, as women's events formerly were. The circuit has four ordinary barriers and one water jump. Over 3000 m, each...	Jon Azkueta Spain	5:28.56	Johnstone Kipkoech Kenya	5:29.56	Jens Volkmann West Germany	5:29.60
10000 m track walk Race walking Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance athletic event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times...	Mikhail Shchennikov Mikhail Shchennikov Mikhail Anatolyevich Shchennikov is a Russian race walker.He was born in Sverdlovsk. His son Georgi Shchennikov is a professional footballer for PFC CSKA Moscow.-Achievements:-External links:... Soviet Union	40:38.01	Salvatore Cacia Italy	40:40.73	Ricardo Pueyo Spain	40:41.05
4 X 100 m Relay race During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...	United Kingdom	39.80	West Germany	39.81	Poland	39.98
4 X 400 m Relay race During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...	United States	3:01.90	Cuba	3:04.22	Jamaica	3:05.16
High jump High jump The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....	Javier Sotomayor Javier Sotomayor Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. The 1992 Olympic champion, he was the dominant high jumper of the 1990s; he is the only person ever to have cleared 8 feet . He is widely regarded as the... Cuba	2.25	Hollis Conway Hollis Conway Hollis Conway is a track and field All-American and two-time Olympic medalist. Conway was the top-ranked high jumper in the U.S. seven straight years from 1988–94 and in the world for two of those years... United States	2.22	Thomas Müller German Democratic Republic	2.22
Pole vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...	Igor Potapovich Igor Potapovich Igor Potapovich is a former pole vault athlete from Kazakhstan. Potapovich won first World Junior Championship in 1986. He won World Cup in 1992. Finished second at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships and became indoor World Champion two years later in 1997.Potapovich also won the Asian... Soviet Union	5.50	Delko Lesev Delko Lesev Delko Lesev is a retired Bulgarian pole vaulter.His personal best jump was 5.70 metres, achieved in June 1991 in Plovdiv. This ranks him fourth among Bulgarian pole vaulters, behind Spas Bukhalov, Atanas Tarev, Nikolay Nikolov, and joint with Stanimir Penchev and Iliyan... Kingdom of Bulgaria	5.40	Mike Thiede German Democratic Republic	5.30
Long jump Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...	Dietmar Haaf Dietmar Haaf Dietmar Haaf is a former German long jumper.-Career:He won the gold medal at the 1990 European Championships in Split in a personal best jummp of 8.25 metres. The following year he won the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Seville... West Germany	7.93	Ivo Krsek Czechoslovakia	7.87	Thomas Wolf German Democratic Republic	7.77
Triple jump Triple jump The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...	Igor Parygin Soviet Union	16.97	Zdravko Dimitrov Kingdom of Bulgaria	16.13	Du Benghong People's Republic of China	16.00
Shot put Shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....	Aleksejs Lukašenko Soviet Union	18.90	Vyacheslav Lykho Vyacheslav Lykho Vyacheslav Lykho is a retired shot putter who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. He won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. He was stripped of his bronze medal won at the 1990 European Championships in Split due to a doping... Soviet Union	18.71	Radoslav Despotov Bulgaria	18.17
Discus Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...	Vasil Baklarov Bulgaria	60.60	Werner Reiterer Werner Reiterer Werner Reiterer is an Austrian-born retired discus thrower and shot putter from Australia, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 . His best result was winning the title in the men's discus throw at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada... Australia	58.64	Vasiliy Kaptyukh Vasiliy Kaptyukh Vasiliy Kaptyukh is a Belarusian former discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 1996. He has in fact never won gold or silver medals in major competitions, and he finished fourth in major contests such as the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, despite he even setting his personal best throw... Soviet Union	58.22
Javelin Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...	Vladimir Sasimovich Vladimir Sasimovich Vladimir Nikolayevich Sasimovich is a retired javelin thrower who represented the USSR and later Belarus.His personal best was 87.40 metres, achieved in June 1995 in Kuortane. He was suspended by the IAAF from August 2004 to August 2006.-Achievements:... Soviet Union	78.84	Mark Roberson United Kingdom	74.24	Gavin Lovegrove Gavin Lovegrove Gavin Brian Lovegrove was a javelin thrower from New Zealand, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics,... New Zealand	74.22
Hammer Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...	Vitaliy Alisevich Soviet Union	72.00	Valeriy Gubkin Soviet Union	71.78	Sabin Khristov Bulgaria	68.96
Decathlon Decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...	Petri Keskitalo Petri Keskitalo Petri Juhani Keskitalo is a retired male decathlete from Finland. He was nicknamed "Pete" and "Elmo".... Finland	7623	Mike Smith Canada	7523	Nikolay Zayats Soviet Union	7509

Women

100 m 100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...	Tina Iheagwam Tina Iheagwam Tina Iheagwam is a retired Nigerian athlete who competed in the 100 metres.-Achievements:1991 All-Africa Games - gold medal 1989 African Championships - silver medal *1987 Universiade - bronze medal... Nigeria	11.34	Caryl Smith United States	11.46	Maicel Malone United States	11.49
200 m 200 metres A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...	Falilat Ogunkoya Falilat Ogunkoya Falilat Ogunkoya is a Nigerian athlete.Ogunkoya has won a number of national championships, including a gold medal in 1996 in the 400 metres, gold in the 200 metres and 400 m in 1998, and gold again in 1999 and 2001 in the 400 m. At the 1987 All Africa Games in Kenya she won the silver medal in... Nigeria	23.11	Mary Onyali Nigeria	23.30	Katrin Krabbe Katrin Krabbe Katrin Krabbe is a female athlete who competed for the German Democratic Republic and Germany thereafter... German Democratic Republic	23.31
400 m 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...	Susann Sieger German Democratic Republic	52.02	Olga Pesnopevtseva Soviet Union	52.17	Sandie Richards Sandie Richards Alexandra Richards is a Jamaican track and field athlete. She was a bronze medalist in the 4x400 m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.... Jamaica	52.23
800 m 800 metres The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...	Selina Chirchir Selina Chirchir Selina Chirchir is a retired Kenyan middle-distance runner and a marathoner. She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics while still a schoolgirl at the Sing'ore Girls' Secondary School in Iten.... Kenya	2:01.40	Gabriela Sedláková Czechoslovakia	2:01.49	Adriana Dumitru Romania	2:01.93
1500 m 1500 metres The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...	Ana Padurean Kingdom of Romania	4:14.63	Selina Chirchir Selina Chirchir Selina Chirchir is a retired Kenyan middle-distance runner and a marathoner. She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics while still a schoolgirl at the Sing'ore Girls' Secondary School in Iten.... Kenya	4:15.59	Snežana Pajkić Snežana Pajkic Snežana Pajkić-Jolović is a former middle distance runner from Serbia, who won the gold medal for Yugoslavia in the women's 1.500 metres at the 1990 European Championships.-Achievements:... Kingdom of Yugoslavia	4:16.03
3000 m 3000 metres The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...	Cleopatra Palacian Romania	9:02.91	Philippa Mason United Kingdom	9:03.35	Dorina Calenic Romania	9:06.94
10 000 m	Katrin Kley German Democratic Republic	33:19.67	Nora Maraga Kenya	33:57.99	Marleen Renders Marleen Renders Marleen Renders is a retired female long-distance runner from Belgium, who represented her native country thrice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988, 1996 and 2000... Belgium	33:59.36
100 m H 100 metres hurdles The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...	Heike Tillack German Democratic Republic	13.10	Aliuska López Aliuska López Aliuska López is a Spanish athlete of Cuban origin. She competes mostly in hurdling. The world junior champion from 1988, she is still the world junior record holder at 100 metres hurdles... Cuba	13.14	Tanya Davis United States	13.46
400 m H 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...	Claudia Bartl German Democratic Republic	56.76	Kellie Roberts United States	56.80	Svetlana Lukashevich Soviet Union	57.92
5000 m track walk Race walking Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance athletic event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times...	Wang Yan Wang Yan (athlete) Wang Yan is a Chinese race walker, who won the bronze medal over 10 km at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She also won the 1993 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, as well as a silver medal at the 1999 World Championships and a bronze at the 2001 East Asian Games.-Achievements:-External links:... People's Republic of China	22:03.65	Natalya Zykova Soviet Union	22:17.76	Jin Bingjie Jin Bingjie Jin Bingjie is a retired Chinese race walker.-Achievements:-External links:... People's Republic of China	22:17.83
4 X 100 m Relay race During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...	United States	43.78	German Democratic Republic	43.97	Nigeria	44.13
4 X 400 m Relay race During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...	United States	3:30.45	German Democratic Republic	3:30.90	Soviet Union	3:32.35
High jump High jump The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....	Karen Scholz German Democratic Republic	1.92	Galina Astafei Romania	1.90	Yelena Obukhova Soviet Union	1.88
Long jump Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...	Patricia Bille German Democratic Republic	6.70	Anu Kaljurand Soviet Union	6.46	Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan is a Russian long jumper. Her personal best is 7.06 metres, achieved in May 2002 in St-Peterburg.-Achievements:-External links:... Soviet Union	6.39
Shot put Shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....	Heike Rohrmann Heike Rohrmann Heike Rohrmann is a retired East German shot putter.She won the gold medal at the 1986 World Junior Championships and a silver medal at the 1988 World Junior Championships. Her personal best throw was 18.94 metres, achieved in May 1988 in Halle. This places her among the best junior athletes of... German Democratic Republic	18.39	Stephanie Storp Stephanie Storp Stephanie Storp is a retired female shot putter from Germany. Her best performance was winning the bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships, with a throw of 19.22 metres. She also won the silver medal at the 1993 World Indoor Championships, and represented her country in the Summer Olympics of... West Germany	18.20	Ines Wittich Ines Wittich Ines Wittich is a retired German shot putter.She represented the sports clubs TV Wattenscheid and TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, and won the bronze medal at the German championships in 1998.... German Democratic Republic	18.19
Discus Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...	Ilke Wyludda Ilke Wyludda Ilke Wyludda is a former discus thrower from Germany.She set eleven junior records at discus throw and even two at shot put, and became junior world champion. Between 1989 and 1991 she recorded 41 successive wins, only to be beaten by Tsvetanka Khristova at the 1991 World Championships... German Democratic Republic	64.02	Franka Dietzsch Franka Dietzsch Franka Dietzsch is a German discus thrower best known for winning gold medals at three World Championships in Athletics... German Democratic Republic	60.26	Min Chunfeng Min Chunfeng Min Chunfeng is a retired female discus thrower from the People's Republic of China.-Achievements:-References:... People's Republic of China	54.00
Javelin Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...	Xiomara Rivero Xiomara Rivero Xiomara Rivero Azcuy is a retired female athlete from Cuba who competed in the javelin throw. Her personal best throw is 65.29 metres from March 2001.-Achievements:-References:*... Cuba	62.86	Anja Reiter German Democratic Republic	60.24	Alexandra Beck German Democratic Republic	59.92
Heptathlon Heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...	Svetla Dimitrova Svetla Dimitrova Svetla Stefanova Dimitrova was a Bulgarian athlete who started out competing in heptathlon, and later specialized as a sprint hurdler.... Bulgaria	6041	Marina Shcherbina Soviet Union	5953	Anke Schmidt German Democratic Republic	5900

Medals table

Medal count
#	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	\| German Democratic Republic	9	4	7	20
2	\| Soviet Union	6	6	7	19
3	\| United States	5	5	4	14
4	\| Kenya	4	4	1	9
5	\| United Kingdom	3	3	2	8
6	\| Cuba	3	3	1	7
7	\| Bulgaria	2	2	2	6
8	\| Romania	2	1	2	5
9	\| Nigeria	2	1	1	4
10	\| West Germany	1	2	2	5
11	\| Australia	1	1	1	3
11	Spain	1	1	1	3
13	People's Republic of China	1	0	3	4
14	Ethiopia	1	0	2	3
15	Finland	1	0	0	1
16	\| Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	2
16	Tanzania	0	2	0	2
18	\| Canada	0	1	0	1
	Chile	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
22	Jamaica	0	0	2	2
23	\| Belgium	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1

External links

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