1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics

1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Sydney, Australia
Nations participating	142
Athletes participating	1049
Events	41
Dates	August 20–25
Main venue	Sydney International Athletic Centre
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The 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Sydney, Australia on August 20–25.

The host stadium in Sydney.

Results[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Francis Obikwelu  Nigeria	10.21	Seun Ogunkoya  Nigeria	10.25	Francesco Scuderi  Italy	10.43
200 metres details	Francis Obikwelu  Nigeria	20.47	South Africa	20.96	United States	21.10
400 metres details	Obea Moore  United States	45.27	Jerome Davis  United States	45.86	Shane Niemi  Canada	45.94
800 metres details	Joseph Mutua  Kenya	1:48.21	Great Britain	1:48.40	Grant Cremer  Australia	1:48.46
1500 metres details	Kenya	3:38.96	Sudan	3:39.17	Miloud Abaoub  Algeria	3:39.37
5000 metres details	Assefa Mezgebu  Ethiopia	13:35.30 CR	David Chelule  Kenya	13:36.27	South Africa	13:46.19
10,000 metres details	Assefa Mezgebu  Ethiopia	28:27.78	David Chelule  Kenya	28:29.14	Japan	28:31.61
110 metres hurdles details	Yoel Hernández  Cuba	13.83	Tomasz Scigaczewski  Poland	13.88	Jovesa Naivalu  Fiji	13.91
400 metres hurdles details	Mubarak Al-Nubi  Qatar	49.07 CR	Llewellyn Herbert  South Africa	49.15	Angelo Taylor  United States	50.18
3000 metres steeplechase details	Kenya	8:33.09	Kipkurui Misoi  Kenya	8:33.31	Ali Ezzine  Morocco	8:35.60
10,000 metres walk details	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	40:38.25	David Márquez  Spain	41:03.73	Nathan Deakes  Australia	41:11.44
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Jerome Davis Obea Moore	39.36	France David Patros	39.47	Australia Paul Di Bella	39.62
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Jerome Davis Robin Martin Obea Moore	3:03.65	Japan Hiroki Takahashi Dai Tamesue Shinji Morita	3:06.01	Great Britain	3:06.76
High jump details	Mark Boswell  Canada	2.24	Ben Challenger  Great Britain Svatoslav Ton  Czech Republic	2.21	None awarded	None awarded
Pole vault details	Paul Burgess  Australia	5.35	Patrik Kristiansson  Sweden	5.30	Danny Ecker  Germany	5.30
Long jump details	Olexiy Lukashevych  Ukraine	7.91	Raúl Fernández  Spain	7.75	Nathan Morgan  Great Britain	7.74
Triple jump details	Cuba	16.50	Michael Calvo  Cuba	16.17	Ionut Punga  Romania	16.15
Shot put details	Ralf Bartels  Germany	18.71	Justin Anlezark  Australia	18.21	Clay Cross  Australia	17.69
Discus throw details	Casey Malone  United States	56.22	Roland Varga  Hungary	55.20	Frank Casañas  Cuba	54.86
Javelin throw details	Sergey Voynov  Uzbekistan	79.78	Harri Haatainen  Finland	76.12	Australia	73.88
Hammer throw details	Maciej Palyszko  Poland	71.24	Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus	70.88	Russia	70.32
Decathlon details	Attila Zsivoczky  Hungary	7582	Dean Macey  Great Britain	7480	Chiel Warners  Netherlands	7368
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[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Nora Ivanova  Bulgaria	11.32	Andrea Anderson  United States	11.43	Germany	11.46
200 metres details	Sylviane Félix  France	23.16	Lauren Hewitt  Australia	23.32	Nora Ivanova  Bulgaria	23.59
400 metres details	Romania	52.32	Suziann Reid  United States	53.17	Rosemary Hayward  Australia	53.28
800 metres details	Claudia Gesell  Germany	2:02.67	Kathleen Friedrich  Germany	2:02.70	Jebet Langat  Kenya	2:03.21
1500 metres details	Kutre Dulecha  Ethiopia	4:08.65	Jackline Maranga  Kenya	4:08.98	Ethiopia	4:09.49
3000 metres details	Anita Weyermann   Switzerland	8:50.73	Edna Kiplagat  Kenya	8:53.06	Ethiopia	8:53.77
5000 metres details	Ayelech Worku  Ethiopia	15:40.03	Olivera Jevtić  FR Yugoslavia	15:40.59	Cristina Iloc  Romania	15:41.44
100 metres hurdles details	United States	13.27	Glory Alozie  Nigeria	13.30	China	13.37
400 metres hurdles details	Ulrike Urbansky  Germany	56.65	Great Britain	57.57	Jamaica	57.91
5000 metres walk details	Irina Stankina  Russia	21:31.85	Olga Panfyorova  Russia	21:52.27	Claudia Iovan  Romania	21:57.11
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Andrea Anderson Nanceen Perry	43.79	Jamaica Peta-Gaye Dowdie Aleen Bailey	44.26	Germany Marion Wagner	44.57
4 × 400 metres relay details	Germany Claudia Gesell Ulrike Urbansky	3:31.12	Romania Otilia Ruicu	3:32.16	Australia Tamsyn Lewis Rosemary Hayward	3:32.47
High jump details	Yuliya Lyakhova  Russia	1.93	Dóra Győrffy  Hungary	1.91	Svetlana Lapina  Russia	1.91
Long jump details	Guan Yingnan  China	6.53	Cristina Nicolau  Romania	6.47	Johanna Halkoaho  Finland	6.38
Triple jump details	Tereza Marinova  Bulgaria	14.62 CR	Cristina Nicolau  Romania	13.64	Adelina Gavrila  Romania	13.50
Shot put details	China	16.58	Nadine Beckel  Germany	16.39	Belarus	16.22
Discus throw details	Ma Shuli  China	56.32	Seilala Sua  United States	56.32	China	55.70
Javelin throw details	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba	60.96	Nikolett Szabó  Hungary	58.34	Bina Ramesh  France	57.70
Heptathlon details	Russia	5711	Johanna Halkoaho  Finland	5656	Czech Republic	5504
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[]

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	6	4	2	12
2	Germany	4	2	3	9
3	Ethiopia	4	0	2	6
4	Kenya	3	5	1	9
5	Russia	3	1	2	6
6	Cuba	3	1	1	5
7	China	3	0	3	6
8	Nigeria	2	2	0	4
9	Bulgaria	2	0	1	3
10	Romania	1	3	4	8
11	Hungary	1	3	0	4
12	Australia*	1	2	7	10
13	Spain	1	2	0	3
14	France	1	1	1	3
15	Poland	1	1	0	2
16	Canada	1	0	1	2
17	Qatar	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1
21	Great Britain	0	4	2	6
22	Finland	0	2	1	3
	South Africa	0	2	1	3
24	Belarus	0	1	1	2
	Jamaica	0	1	1	2
	Japan	0	1	1	2
27	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	FR Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
	Sudan	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
31	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Fiji	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (35 nations)		41	42	40	123

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[1] 1049 athletes from 142 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• Medalists at GBRathletics.com
• Results
• Official results