2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics
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The 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics were the fifth edition of the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics
IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics
The IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics is a global athletics event comprising track and field events for competitors who are 17 or younger . The event is organized by International Association of Athletics Federations . It is held biannually...

. They were held on 11–15 July 2007 in Ostrava
Ostrava
Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague. Located close to the Polish border, it is also the administrative center of the Moravian-Silesian Region and of the Municipality with Extended Competence. Ostrava was candidate for the...

, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

.

Boys

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...

Dexter Lee
Dexter Lee
Dexter Lee is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. He became the first athlete to win back-to-back titles at World Junior Championships in Athletics....


10.51 Nickel Ashmeade
Nickel Ashmeade
Nickel Ashmeade is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters.Ashmeade first enjoyed success in the sprints as a junior athlete: at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships he beat compatriot Dexter Lee to the 100 m title, was runner-up to Ramone...


10.54 Kenneth Gilstrap
10.65
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...

Ramone McKenzie
Ramone McKenzie
Ramone McKenzie is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. He turned professional on November 2, 2009, now being trained by American coach Lance Brauman....


20.67 Ramil Guliyev
Ramil Guliyev
Ramil Guliyev is a Azerbaijani-born Turkish sprint athlete. He competes in the 100 meters and 200 meters events. He competed at the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships, winning a silver medal in the 100 m and a gold medal in the 200 m.He holds the national and...


20.72 Nickel Ashmeade
Nickel Ashmeade
Nickel Ashmeade is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters.Ashmeade first enjoyed success in the sprints as a junior athlete: at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships he beat compatriot Dexter Lee to the 100 m title, was runner-up to Ramone...


20.76 PB
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...

Christopher Clarke
Christopher Clarke (athlete)
Christopher Clarke is an English sprinter who numerously has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at junior and senior level. At club level he represents Marshall Milton Keynes AC and is also higher claim to Newham and Essex Beagles A.C...


46.74 Kirani James
Kirani James
Kirani James is a Grenadian sprinter who specializes in the 200 and 400 metres. He is the reigning 400 metres world champion.Prodigious from a young age, he ran the fastest 400 m times ever by a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old...


46.96 PB Vladimir Krasnov
Vladimir Krasnov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Krasnov is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...


47.03
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...

Geoffrey Kibet
1:49.99 Ali Al-Deraan
1:50.10 Andrew Cook
1:50.12 PB
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...

Fredrick Ndunge Musyoki
3:44.27 PB Josphat Kithii Mitunga
3:44.68 Dawit Wolde
3:45.03 PB
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...

Daniel Salel Lemashon
7:57.18 PB Lucas Rotich
Lucas Rotich
Lucas Kimeli Rotich is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres.He won a silver medal in the 3000 metres at the 2007 World Youth Championships, the bronze medal in the junior race at the 2008 World Cross Country Championships and finished sixth in the 5000 metres at the...


7:59.67 PB Andrew Cook
8:00.98 PB
2000 m st. Legese Lamiso
5:30.81 WYL Silas Kitum Kosgei
5:32.88 PB Abdellah Dacha
5:34.49 PB
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...

 91.4 cm
Wayne Davis
Wayne Davis (athlete)
Wayne Courtney Davis II is an American hurdler who specializes in the 110 metre hurdles. He currently holds the world junior record and the US high school record in the 39" 110 m hurdles with a time of 13.08 seconds...


13.18 WYR William Wynne
13.44 PB Denis Semyonov
13.82 PB
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...

 84.0 cm
William Wynne
49.01 WYR Reginald Wyatt
50.33 PB Amaurys R. Valle
50.37 PB
10,000 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...

Stanislav Emelyanov
Stanislav Emelyanov
Stanislav Emelyanov is a Russian race walker and current European champion in 20 kilometres race walk.-Achievements:-References:...


41:49.91 CR Daniel Pedro Gomez
43:11.87 PB Vito Di Bari
Vito Di Bari
Vito Di Bari is an Innovation Designer and futurologist. He is the innovation designer for the Milan Expo 2015 and Professor of Innovation Design at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.-General information:...


43:36.13 PB
Medley relay
Isaiah Sweeney
Kenneth Gilstrap
William Wynne
Danzell Fortson 
1:51.34 WYL
Seiya Hane
Daizo Hamano
Hiroyuki Kubota
Akihiro Urano 
1:51.42 PB
Dexter Lee
Dexter Lee
Dexter Lee is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. He became the first athlete to win back-to-back titles at World Junior Championships in Athletics....


Ramone McKenzie
Ramone McKenzie
Ramone McKenzie is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. He turned professional on November 2, 2009, now being trained by American coach Lance Brauman....


Nickel Ashmeade
Nickel Ashmeade
Nickel Ashmeade is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters.Ashmeade first enjoyed success in the sprints as a junior athlete: at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships he beat compatriot Dexter Lee to the 100 m title, was runner-up to Ramone...


Dwayne Extol 
1:52.18 PB
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....

Wang Chen
2.22 WYL Sergey Mudrov
2.22 WYL Josh Hall
2.20 PB
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...

Nico Weiler
5.26 CR Manuel Concepción
4.85 Shota Doi
4.85
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...

Yasumichi Konishi
7.52 Daisuke Yoshiyama
7.32 Christian Taylor
Christian Taylor (athlete)
Christian Taylor is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and has a personal record of 17.96 meters...


7.29 PB
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...

Christian Taylor
Christian Taylor (athlete)
Christian Taylor is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and has a personal record of 17.96 meters...


15.98 WYL Aleksey Fedorov
15.59 PB Gennadiy Chudinov
15.54 PB
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....

 5 kg
David Storl
David Storl
David Storl is a German athlete who specialises in the shot put. He was successful on the youth and junior athletics circuit, winning gold medals at the World Youth Championships and World Junior Championships...


21.40 WYL Marin Premeru
Marin Premeru
Marin Premeru is a Croatian discus thrower and shot putter with a personal best of 62.10 in the discus and 19.80 in the shot put. Marin Premeru has the WYB in the shot with 22.79 m.Premeru is coached by Ivan Ivančić....


20.42 Dmytro Savytskyy
20.15
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...

 1.500 kg
Mykyta Nesterenko
Mykyta Nesterenko
Mykyta Nesterenko is a Ukrainian discus thrower.His personal best throw with the 2 kilogramm implement is 65.31 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Tallinn. With the junior discus he has a best of 70.13 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. This is the current junior world record...


68.54 Marin Premeru
Marin Premeru
Marin Premeru is a Croatian discus thrower and shot putter with a personal best of 62.10 in the discus and 19.80 in the shot put. Marin Premeru has the WYB in the shot with 22.79 m.Premeru is coached by Ivan Ivančić....


64.20 PB Andrius Gudžius
Andrius Gudžius
Andrius Gudžius is a discus thrower who competes internationally for Lithuania.-Achievements:-References:...


61.59 PB
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...

 5 kg
Andriy Martynyuk
76.09 Daniel Szabo
75.30 PB Richard Olbrich
75.18
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...

 700 g
Tuomas Laaksonen
79.71 WYL Hamish Peacock
76.31 PB Edgars Rūtiņš
74.65 PB
Octathlon
Octathlon
An octathlon is a multisport competition consisting of eight different sports or contests.-Track and field:An octathlon in athletics is an event which consists of eight track and field events. The most common version of the combined event is contested by boys at youth level, most notably at the...

Shane Brathwaite
6261 WYL Jaroslav Hedvičák
6212 PB Adam Bevis
6212 PB

Girls

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...

Asha Philip
Asha Philip
Asha Philip is an English sprinter, who was the first British woman to achieve a global 100m title having won Gold at the 2007 IAAF World Youth Championships aged 16.Asha Philip is also a World Champion on Double-Mini Trampoline...


11.46 Rosangela Santos
Rosângela Santos
Rosângela Santos is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Brazil....


11.46 PB Ashlee Nelson
Ashlee Nelson
Aslee Nelson is an professional English sprinter who specialises in 100m. She is the younger sister of English sprinter Alexander Nelson.Her personal best are 11.36 100m and 23.46 over 200m....


11.58
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...

Barbara Leoncio
Bárbara Leôncio
Bárbara Leôncio is a young Brazilian athlete, world champion in the 200 meters at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics held in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In the same edition, Bárbara was placed fourth in the 100 meters...


23.50 PB Chalonda Goodman
23.54 Nivea Smith
Nivea Smith
Nivea Smith is a sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. She grew up in Freeport, attended Mary Star of the Sea Primary School, and later graduated from Grand Bahama Catholic High School.-Career:...


23.69
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...

Yuliya Baraley
Yuliya Baraley
Yuliya Baraley is a Ukrainian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.She won the gold medal at the 2007 World Youth Championships, finished fifth at the 2008 World Junior Championships, and won two gold medals at the 2009 European Junior Championships...


53.57 Latoya McDermott
54.12 Alexandra Štukova
54.46
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...

Elena Mirela Lavric
Elena Mirela Lavric
Elena Mirela Lavric is a Romanian athlete who specializes in the 800 metres. Her personal best time is 2:00.06 minutes, achieved at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz.-Achievements:-References:...


2:04.29 Alison Leonard
2:05.36 Juana Ivis Mendez
2:05.42 PB
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...

Sammary Cherotich
4:15.47 PB Jordan Hasay
Jordan Hasay
Jordan Melissa Hasay is an American female middle-distance runner. She grew up in Arroyo Grande, attending Mission College Preparatory Catholic High School. She was unanimously selected 2008 Girls High School Athlete of the Year by the voting panel at Track & Field News...


4:17.24 Sheila Chepkirui Kiprotich
4:19.26 SB
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...

Mercy Cherono
Mercy Cherono
Mercy Cherono is a Kenyan middle distance runner. She is a two-time world junior champion in the 3000 metres and has also won gold medals at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics and 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games...


8:53.94 CR Mahlet Melese
8:56.98 PB Sule Utura
Sule Utura
Gedo Sule Utura is an Ethiopian middle distance and long distance runner. She won the 5000 metres at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics and was third place in the 3000 metres at the World Youth Championships in the previous year.She began competing at road running events: she ran the...


9:06.48 PB
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...

 76.2 cm
Julian Purvis
13.41 PB Shermaine Williams
13.48 Anne Zagre
Anne Zagré
Anne Zagré is a Belgian sprint athlete. In 2009, she became European youth champion in the 100m hurdles. Just like Élodie Ouédraogo, Zagré has her roots in Burkina Faso.She won 3 junior titles during her youth career...


13.58 PB
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...

Dalilah Muhammad
57.25 Andreea Ionescu
57.33 PB Ryann Krais
Ryann Krais
Ryann Krais is an American athlete. She is a gold and bronze medalist from the 2007 World Youth Championships.- Personal :...


57.50
2000 m st. Caroline Tuigong
6:22.30 CR Christine Mayanga
6:22.49 PB Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal
6:25.30 SB
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...

Tatyana Kalmykova
20:28.05 WYR Irina Yumanova
21:21.14 PB Panayiota Tsinopoulou
22:49.15 PB
Medley relay
Chalonda Goodman
Ashton Purvis
Ryann Krais
Ryann Krais
Ryann Krais is an American athlete. She is a gold and bronze medalist from the 2007 World Youth Championships.- Personal :...


Erica Alexander 
2:05.74 WYL
Gayon Evans
Jura Levy
Jura Levy
Jura Levy is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres-Personal bests:-External links:...


Shana-Gaye Tracey
Latoya McDermott 
2:06.77 PB
Loudia Laarman
Christabel Nettey
Alyssa Johnson
Natalie Geiger 
2:09.08 SB
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....

Natalya Mamlina
1.89 WYL Misha-Gaye DaCosta
1.84 PB Aleksandrina Klimentinova

Elena Vallortigara
1.81
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...

Vicky Parnov
Vicky Parnov
Vicky Parnov is an Australian athlete who competes in pole vault. She has strong athletic pedigree, being the niece of Tatiana Grigorieva, who won the silver medal for Australia in the women's pole vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the granddaughter of Natalya Pechonkina, who won the bronze...


4.35 CR Ekaterini Stefanidi
4.25 SB Petra Olsen
4.05
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...

Darya Klishina
Darya Klishina
Darya Igorevna Klishina is a Russian long jumper.She holds the Russian junior record with 7.03 m, the all time second best junior mark.-Personal bests:Key: RJR = Russian junior record-External links:...


6.47 CR Ivana Španović
Ivana Španovic
Ivana Španović is a Serbian long jumper.She finished seventh at the 2006 World Junior Championships, won the silver medal the 2007 World Youth Championships and the gold medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships...


6.41 SB Mariya Shumilova
6.29
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...

Dailenis Alcantara
13.63 Yosleidis Rivalta
13.32 SB Maja Bratkic
12.96
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....

Aliona Hryshko
15.91 PB Samira Burkhardt
15.36 Sophie Kleeberg
Sophie Kleeberg
-Achievements:-References:...


14.94 PB
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...

Julia Fischer
51.39 PB Sandra Perković
Sandra Perković
Sandra Perković is a Croatian discus thrower. After a successful junior career, she won the discus throw gold medal at the 2010 European Championships, in her first year of senior competition...


51.25 Jin Yuanyan
51.20
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...

Bianca Perie
Bianca Perie
Bianca Perie is a female hammer thrower from Romania. Her personal best throw is 69.59 metres, achieved in March 2008 in Bucharest.As a junior she was dominant in her field...


64.61 CR Andriana Papadopoulou-Fatala
56.32 Barbara Špiler
55.97
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...

Tazmin Brits
51.71 Carita Hinkka
51.61 Sini Kiiski
50.75 SB
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:...

Kateřina Cachová
Kateřina Cachová
Kateřina Cachová is a Czech athlete who specialises in the heptathlon.Cachová represented the Czech Republic at the 2010 European Championships in Athletics where she finished 17th in the heptathlon, scoring a personal best of 5911 points.At the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships in...


5641 WYL Carolin Schäfer
5544 PB Elisa-Sophie Dobel
5494 PB

Medals table

1 7 4 3 14
2 6 4 1 11
3 4 3 3 10
4 3 2 3 8
5 3 0 1 4
6 2 5 2 9
7 2 1 1 4
8 2 1 0 3
9 1 3 0 4
10 1 1 2 4
1 1 2 4
1 1 2 4
13 1 1 1 3
14 1 1 0 2
1 1 0 2
16 1 0 1 2
17 1 0 0 1
1 0 0 1
1 0 0 1
20 0 3 0 3
21 0 2 1 3
22 0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
29 0 0 3 3
30 0 0 2 2
0 0 2 2
32 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1

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