2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics

The 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics is the sixth edition of the World Youth Championships in Athletics. They were held in Brixen

Brixen

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Italy

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from 8–12 July 2009. Athletes must be aged 16 or 17 on 31 December 2009 (born in 1992 or 1993) to compete.

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...	Prezel Hardy Prezel Hardy Prezel Hardy, Jr. is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters.At the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Brixen, Italy, Hardy won the 100 meters in 10.57 in the midst of heavy rain.... United States	10.57	Aaron Brown Aaron Brown (track athlete) Aaron Brown is a Canadian sprinter, who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters.Brown attended Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute until 2010, and has committed to the University of Southern California on a track scholarship.... Canada	10.74	Giovanni Galbieri Italy	10.79
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...	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... Grenada	21.05 PB	Alberto Gavalda Spain	21.33 SB	Keenan Brock Keenan Brock Keenan Brock is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. He is currently in his freshman year at Auburn University.... United States	21.39
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...	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... Grenada	45.24 CR WL PB	Joshua Mance Joshua Mance Ronell Joshua Mance is an American sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. He currently entering his sophomore year at the University of Southern California.... United States	46.22 PB	Awadelkarim Elyas Sudan	47.15 SB
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...	Johan Rogestedt Sweden	1:50.92 PB	Peter Langat Kiplangat Kenya	1:50.97	Nicholas Kiplangat Kipkoech Kenya	1:51.01
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...	Gideon Kiage Mageka Kenya	3:37.36 WL	Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner.Born in Machakos, he was the son of a javelin thrower, David Ndiku, but he decided not to follow his father and focused on running instead... Kenya	3:38.42	Girma Bekele Ethiopia	3:39.88 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...	Isaiah Kiplangat Koech Kenya	7:51.51 CR	David Kiprotich Bett David Kiprotich Bett David Kiprotich Bett is an Kenyan long-distance runner, who specialises in the 5000 meters.At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Moncton, Canada, Bett won a gold medal over 5000 m.... Kenya	7:52.13 PB	Goitom Kifle Eritrea	8:05.83 PB
2000 m st.	Hillary Kipsang Yego Kenya	5:25.33 WL	Peter Kibet Lagat Kenya	5:26.59 PB	Desta Alemu Ethiopia	5:37.32 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	Dale Morgan United States	13.28 WL	Jack Meredith United Kingdom	13.33 PB	Gregory MacNeil Canada	13.51
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	Norge Sotomayor Cuba	51.30 WL	Jeremiah Kipkorir Mutai Kenya	51.45 PB	Jose Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon Italy	51.74
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...	Hagen Pohle Germany	41:35.99 CR WL PB	Dementiy Cheparev Russia	41:53.76 PB	Ihor Lyashchenko Ukraine	42:01.90 PB
Medley relay	United States	1:50.33 WR (Youth)	Brazil	1:52.66 SB	Japan	1:52.82 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....	Dmitriy Kroyter Israel	2.20	Janick Klausen Janick Klausen -Achievements:-References:... Denmark	2.20 PB	Django Lovett Canada Daniil Tsyplakov Russia	2.17 PB 2.17 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...	Min-Sub Jin South Korea	5.15 PB	Carlo Paech Germany	5.10	Daniel Clemens Germany	5.10
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...	Supanara Sukhasvasti na Ayudhya Thailand	7.65 PB	Stefan Brits South Africa	7.57	Yannick Roggatz Germany	7.53 PB
	In winning the long jump, Supanara Sukhasvasti na Ayudhya became Thailand’s first ever finalist, medallist and champion in an athletics global event of any age category. He is a descendent of King Rama IV.
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...	Benjamin Williams United Kingdom	15.91 PB	Supanara Sukhasvasti na Ayudhya Thailand	15.70 PB	Aleksandr Yurchenko Russia	15.66 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	Ryan Crouser United States	21.56 CR	Krzysztof Brzozowski Krzysztof Brzozowski Krzysztof Brzozowski is a Polish shot putter.He won a gold medal at the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, with a then-World Youth Best of 23.23 m.... Poland	20.89 PB	Frans Schutte South Africa	20.37 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... 1.500 kg	Hamid Manssour Syria	64.20	Ryan Crouser United States	61.64	Traves Smikle Jamaica	61.22 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	Hongqiu Chen People's Republic of China	74.93 WL PB	Suhrob Khodjaev Tajikistan	73.29 PB	Tomas Kruzliak Slovakia	72.17
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... 700g	Shih-Feng Huang Chinese Taipei	74.00	Killian Durechou France	73.54	Braian Toledo Braian Toledo Braian Ezequiel Toledo is an Argentine javelin thrower who has improved the World Youth Best in boys' javelin throw by more than six meters.... Argentina	73.44 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...	Kevin Mayer France	6478 WL	Mohd Ahmed Al-Mannai Qatar	6232 PB	Steffen Klink Germany	6217 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...	Jodie Williams Jodie Williams Jodie Alicia Williams is a junior British sprinter, who specialises in the 100 metres and the 200 metres. She is the former World Youth Champion over both distances, the reigning World Junior and European Junior Champion in the 100 m and European Junior Champion in the 200 m.Williams had... United Kingdom	11.39 WL PB	Allison Peter United States Virgin Islands	11.47 PB	Ashton Purvis United States	11.48 SB
	15-year-old Jodie Williams takes the 100 m sprint title in a youth world leading time of 11.39. This is also a personal best for Williams. Williams has not lost a 100 m final since 2007.
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...	Jodie Williams Jodie Williams Jodie Alicia Williams is a junior British sprinter, who specialises in the 100 metres and the 200 metres. She is the former World Youth Champion over both distances, the reigning World Junior and European Junior Champion in the 100 m and European Junior Champion in the 200 m.Williams had... United Kingdom	23.08 WL	Allison Peter United States Virgin Islands	23.08 WL	Ashton Purvis United States	23.15 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...	Ebony Eutsey United States	52.88	Michelle Brown United States	53.44	Sandra Wagner Sweden	53.52 PB
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...	Cherono Koech Kenya	2:01.67 CR	Ciara Mageean Republic of Ireland	2:03.07 PB	Rowena Cole United Kingdom	2:03.83 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...	Nelly Chebet Ngeiywo Kenya	4:12.76 PB	Gete Dima Ethiopia	4:15.16	Amela Terzić Amela Terzić Amela Terzić is a Serbian long-distance runner. She won two gold medals at 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships in Tallinn.... Serbia	4:16.71 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...	Purity Cherotich Rionoripo Kenya	9:03.79	Jackline Chepngeno Kenya	9:05.93 PB	Genet Yalew Ethiopia	9:08.95 PB
2000 m st.	Korahubsh Itaa Ethiopia	6:11.83 WYR	Lucia Kamene Muangi Kenya	6:11.90 PB	Halima Hassen Ethiopia	6:16.83 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	Isabelle Pedersen Isabelle Pedersen Isabelle Pedersen is an Norwegian hurdling athlete. At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, she won a gold medal in the 100 m hurdles.-Career:... Norway	13.23	Kori Carter United States	13.26 PB	Bridgette Owens United States	13.39 PB
	With this win, 17-year-old Isabelle Pedersen became Norway’s first ever World Youth champion. Her time of 13.20 in the semi finals was a national record and third all-time Youth best.
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...	Vera Rudakova Russia	57.83 WL	Danielle Dowie Jamaica	58.62	Deborah Rodriguez Uruguay	59.71 PB
5,000 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...	Elena Lashmanova Russia	22:55.45 WL	Yanelli Caballero Mexico	22:59.27 PB	Svetlana Vasilyeva (athlete) Russia	23:00.15 PB
Medley relay	United States	2:04.32 WL	Hungary	2:09.22 PB	Romania	2:09.25 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....	Alessia Trost Alessia Trost Alessia Trost, born in Pordenone on March 1993 is an Italian female high jumper that has won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Brixen. Trost has also won the Italian youth championship in 2008. At the first Youth Olympics 2010 she won a silver medal clearing 1.86 meters, to finish... Italy	1.87	Mariya Kuchina Mariya Kuchina Mariya Kuchina is an Russian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.Kuchina won her first international medal at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where she cleared a personal best of 1.85 m to take the silver medal... Russia Amy Pejkovic Australia	1.85 PB 1.85 PB
	The 6'2", 16-year-old Italian is Italy’s first ever World Youth champion.
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...	Angelica Bengtsson Angelica Bengtsson -External links:... Sweden	4.32 WL	Michaela Meijer Sweden	4.10	Felicia Horvath Hungary Tatyana Stetsyuk	4.00 PB 4.00 PB
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...	Minjia Lu People's Republic of China	6.22	Alina Rotaru Romania	6.09	Jennifer Clayton United States	6.05
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...	Yana Borodina Russia	13.63 WL	Lina Deng People's Republic of China	13.57 PB	Valeriya Kanatova Uzbekistan	13.45
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....	Lena Urbaniak Germany	15.28	Margaret Satupai Samoa	14.96 SB	Yangzi Dong People's Republic of China	14.65 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...	Shanshan Li People's Republic of China	51.65	Alex Collatz United States	50.09	Shanice Craft Germany	49.15
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...	Barbara Spiler Slovenia	59.33	Kivilcim Kaya Kivilcim Kaya Kıvılcım Kaya is a Turkish female hammer thrower.She is the daughter of the former Turkish national wrestler Ziya Kaya. She began working with Artun Talay, who guided to Eşref Apak for Olympics bronze medal in Athens 2004... Turkey	57.91 SB	Bianca Lazar Fazecas Romania	56.41 PB
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...	Anastasiya Svechnikova Anastasiya Svechnikova Anastasiya Svechnikova is an Uzbekistani javelin thrower. Her personal best throw is 56.14 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Tashkent. She competed at the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final... Uzbekistan	53.25 SB	You Wu People's Republic of China	52.04 PB	Laura Henkel Germany	51.47 PB
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:...	Katarina Thompson United Kingdom	5750 WL	Laura Ikauniece Laura Ikauniece Laura Ikauniece is a Latvian athlete competing in heptathlon. She has achieved her personal best of 6063 points at the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she won bronze medal.... Latvia	5647 PB	Kira Biesenbach Germany	5423 PB

Medals table

1	Kenya	6	7	1	14
2	United States	6	5	5	16
3	United Kingdom	4	1	1	6
4	Russia	3	2	4	9
5	People's Republic of China	3	2	1	6
6	Germany	2	1	6	9
7	Sweden	2	1	1	4
8	Grenada	2	0	0	2
9	Ethiopia	1	1	4	6
10	France	1	1	0	1
10	Thailand	1	1	0	2
12	Italy	1	0	2	3
13	Uzbekistan	1	0	1	1
14	Cuba	1	0	0	1
14	Israel	1	0	0	1
14	South Korea	1	0	0	1
14	Norway	1	0	0	1
14	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
14	Syria	1	0	0	1
14	Chinese Taipei	1	0	0	1
21	United States Virgin Islands	0	2	0	2
22	Canada	0	1	2	3
22	Romania	0	1	2	3
24	Hungary	0	1	1	2
24	Jamaica	0	1	1	2
24	South Africa	0	1	1	2
27	Australia	0	1	0	1
27	Brazil	0	1	0	1
27	Denmark	0	1	0	1
27	Republic of Ireland	0	1	0	1
27	Latvia	0	1	0	1
27	Mexico	0	1	0	1
27	Poland	0	1	0	1
27	Qatar	0	1	0	1
27	Samoa	0	1	0	1
27	Spain	0	1	0	1
27	Tajikistan	0	1	0	1
27	Turkey	0	1	0	1
39	Argentina	0	0	1	1
39	Eritrea	0	0	1	1
39	Japan	0	0	1	1
39	Serbia	0	0	1	1
39	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
39	Sudan	0	0	1	1
39	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
39	Uruguay	0	0	1	1

All Information taken from IAAF's website.

External links

Official website of the 2009 World Youth Championships

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