2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics

2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics

Host city	Marrakech, Morocco
Events	39
Dates	13–17 July
Main venue
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The 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Marrakesh, Morocco on July 13–July 17. The host stadium was .

The boy's 400 metres hurdles event was initially won by Sudan's in a time of 50.78 seconds,^[1] but this was later annulled due to Idriss failing a doping control.^[2]

Results[]

Boys[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey  Great Britain	10.35 PB	Alexander Nelson  Great Britain	10.36	Keston Bledman  Trinidad and Tobago	10.55
200 m	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey  Great Britain	20.91 WYL	Cuba	21.08 PB	Matteo Galvan  Italy	21.14 PB
400 m	Sudan	46.56 PB	Julius Kirwa  Kenya	46.70 PB	Bryshon Nellum  United States	46.81 PB
800 m	Kenya	1:48.42 CR	Jackson Kivuna Mumbwa  Kenya	1:48.57 PB	South Africa	1:49.73 NJR
1500 m	Belal Mansoor Ali  Bahrain	3:36.98	Bahrain	3:43.70 PB	Abubaker Kaki Khamis  Sudan	3:45.06 PB
3000 m	Abreham Cherkos  Ethiopia	8:00.90	Ibrahim Jeilan  Ethiopia	8:04.21 PB	Bahrain	8:04.78
2000 m St.[3]	Abel Mutai Kiprop  Kenya	5:24.69 WYR	Bisluke Kiplagat Kipkorir  Kenya	5:24.87 PB	Morocco	5:26.52 PB
110 m H 91.4 cm	Cordera Jenkins  United States	13.35 PB	Ryan Brathwaite  Barbados	13.44	Gianni Frankis  Great Britain	13.48 PB
400 m H 84.0 cm	Saudi Arabia	50.90 PB	David Klech  United States	50.90 PB	Saudi Arabia	51.68
10,000 m track walk	Sergey Morozov  Russia	42:26.92	Russia	42:32.81	Yusuke Suzuki  Japan	42:43.22 PB
Medley relay	United States Bryshon Nellum	1:51.19 WYL	Trinidad and Tobago Keston Bledman Ade Alleyne-Forte	1:52.51 PB	Saudi Arabia	1:52.89 PB
High jump	Huang Haiqiang  China	2.27 CR	Oleksandr Nartov  Ukraine	2.18	Alex Soto  Spain	2.18 PB
Pole vault	Yang Yansheng  China	5.25 CR	Scott Roth  United States	5.25 CR	Spain	5.20
Long jump	Chris Noffke  Australia	7.97w	Romania	7.53w	Brazil	7.49 PB
Triple jump	Dairo Hector Fuentes  Cuba	16.63 CR	Russia	16.45 PB	Bulgaria	16.20
Shot put 5 kg	Jan Petrus Hoffman  South Africa	20.99 WYL	Czech Republic	19.97	Bulgaria	19.86
Discus 1.500 kg	Ali Shahrokhi  Iran	61.07 PB	Cuba	60.17 PB	Portugal	59.30
Hammer 5 kg	Sandor Palhegyi  Hungary	81.89 CR	Ukraine	77.88	Alexander Smith  Great Britain	73.77
Javelin 700g	Noel Meyer  South Africa	80.52 WYL	Roman Avramenko  Ukraine	79.22 PB	Victor Fatecha  Paraguay	77.21 PB
Octathlon	Yordani Garcia  Cuba	6482 WYR	Germany	6282 PB	Brazil	6218 PB
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)

• (Sudan) won the 400 metres hurdles final, but was later disqualified for doping.^[4][5]

Girls[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Bianca Knight  United States	11.38 WYL	Ebony Collins  United States	11.44 PB	Schillonie Calvert  Jamaica	11.44
200 m	Aymée Martínez  Cuba	22.99 CR	Bianca Knight  United States	23.33	Jamaica	23.57 PB
400 m	Nawal El Jack  Sudan	51.19 CR, NR	Danijela Grgic  Croatia	51.30 PB	Aymée Martínez  Cuba	52.04 PB
800 m	Kenya	2:07.42	Winny Chebet  Kenya	2:08.15	Australia	2:08.35
1500 m	Sheila Kiprotich Chepkirui  Kenya	4:12.29 CR	Yuriko Kobayashi  Japan	4:13.96 PB	Bizunesh Mohammed Urgesa  Ethiopia	4:19.34 PB
3000 m	Veronica Wanjiru Nyaruai  Kenya	9:01.61 CR	Pauline Korikwiang Chemning  Kenya	9:05.42	Hitomi Niiya  Japan	9:10.34 PB
100 m H 76.2 cm	United States	13.23 WYL	Jamaica	13.38	United States	13.39
400 m H	Ebony Collins  United States	55.96 CR	Lauren Boden  Australia	58.30	Japan	59.62
5000 m track walk	Tatyana Kalmykova  Russia	22:14.47 CR	Elmira Alembekova  Russia	22:27.17	China	22:34.28 PB
Medley relay	United States Ebony Collins Bianca Knight	2:03.93 WYL	Australia Jessica Gulli	2:06.58 PB	Brazil Vanda Gomes Franciela Krasucki	2:06.60 PB
High jump	Gu Biwei  China	1.87	Australia	1.85	Yekaterina Yevseyeva  Kazakhstan	1.85
Pole vault	Ekaterini Stefanidi  Greece	4.30 CR	Keisa Monterola  Venezuela	4.30 CR	China	4.20 PB
Long jump	Arantxa King  Bermuda	6.39 PB	Eloyse Lesueur  France	6.28	Cornelia Deiac  Romania	6.25 PB
Triple jump	Li Sha  China	13.81	Kaire Leibak  Estonia	13.74 PB	Cristina Bujin  Romania	13.23
Shot put	Simone du Toit  South Africa	16.33 WYL	China	15.92 PB	Dani Samuels  Australia	15.53 PB
Discus	Dani Samuels  Australia	54.09	Simone du Toit  South Africa	52.10	United States	49.64 PB
Hammer	Bianca Perie  Romania	62.27	Anna Bulgakova  Russia	62.05	Hungary	58.80 PB
Javelin	Zhang Li  China	56.66	Vira Rebryk  Ukraine	56.16	Yanet Cruz  Cuba	51.66
Heptathlon	Tatyana Chernova  Russia	5875 CR	Russia	5611	Germany	5481 PB
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[]

Harry Aikines-Aryeetey won a sprint double for Great Britain.

Éloyse Lesueur of France won her first major medal, a long jump silver, at these championships.

  *   Host nation (Morocco)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	6	3	4	13
2	Kenya	5	5	0	10
3	China	5	1	2	8
4	Russia	3	5	0	8
5	Cuba	3	2	2	7
6	South Africa	3	1	1	5
7	Sudan	3	0	1	4
8	Australia	2	3	2	7
9	Great Britain	2	1	2	5
10	Romania	1	1	2	4
11	Bahrain	1	1	1	3
	Ethiopia	1	1	1	3
13	Hungary	1	0	1	2
14	Bermuda	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Iran	1	0	0	1
17	Ukraine	0	4	0	4
18	Japan	0	1	3	4
19	Jamaica	0	1	2	3
20	Germany	0	1	1	2
	Saudi Arabia	0	1	1	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	1	2
23	Barbados	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Estonia	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
29	Brazil	0	0	3	3
30	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
	Spain	0	0	2	2
32	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Morocco*	0	0	1	1
	Paraguay	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
Totals (36 nations)		39	39	39	117

See also[]

• 2005 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

• Official site (archived)