2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics

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2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics
2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics logo.png
Host cityPoland Bydgoszcz, Poland
Nations participating165
Athletes participating1408
Events44
Dates8–13 July
Main venueZdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium
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The 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 2008 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Bydgoszcz in Poland at the Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium between 8 and 13 July 2008. Previously Bydgoszcz hosted the 1999 World Youth Championships.

Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium, the host venue of the Championships.

The United States topped the medal table with 17 medals overall, including 11 golds, ahead of Germany and Kenya.

Men's results[]

Track[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Dexter Lee
 Jamaica
10.40 Wilhelm van der Vyver
 South Africa
10.42 Terrell Wilks
 United States
10.45
200 metres
details
Christophe Lemaitre
 France
20.83
PB
Nickel Ashmeade
 Jamaica
20.84 Robert Hering
 Germany
20.96
400 metres
details
Marcus Boyd
 United States
45.53
WJL
Kirani James
 Grenada
45.70
NJ
O'Neal Wilder
 United States
45.76
800 metres
details
Abubaker Kaki
 Sudan
1:45.60
 Kenya
1:46.23
PB
André Olivier
 South Africa
1:47.57
1500 metres
details
Imad Touil
 Algeria
3:47.40 James Kiplagat Magut
 Kenya
3:47.51 Demma Daba
 Ethiopia
3:47.65
5000 metres
details
Abreham Cherkos
 Ethiopia
13:08.57
CR
Mathew Kipkoech Kisorio
 Kenya
13:11.57
PB
Dejen Gebremeskel
 Ethiopia
13:11.97
10,000 metres
details
Josphat Kipkoech Bett
 Kenya
27:30.85
CR
Titus Kipjumba Mbishei
 Kenya
27:31.65
PB
Ibrahim Jeilan
 Ethiopia
28:07.98
110 metres hurdles 99.0 cm
details
Konstantin Shabanov
 Russia
13.27
WJL

 United States
13.45
 Jamaica
13.51
400 metres hurdles
details
Jeshua Anderson
 United States
48.68
PB
Johnny Dutch
 United States
49.25 Amaurys R. Valle
 Cuba
49.56
NJ
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Jonathan Muia Ndiku
 Kenya
8:17.28
PB
Benjamin Kiplagat
 Uganda
8:19.24
 Kenya
8:25.14
PB
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 United States

Antonio Sales
Marquise Goodwin
Terrell Wilks
38.98
WJL
 Jamaica
Oshane Bailey
Dexter Lee
Nickel Ashmeade
Yohan Blake
39.25
SB
 South Africa

Roscoe Engel

Wilhelm van der Vyver
39.70
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 United States
Marcus Boyd
Bryan Miller
O'Neal Wilder
Jeshua Anderson
3:03.86
WJL
 Great Britain


Nigel Levine
3:05.82
SB
 Germany



3:06.47
SB
10,000 metres walk
details
Stanislav Emelyanov
 Russia
39:35.01
CR
Chen Ding
 China
39:47.20
AJ

 Spain
40:29.57
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)

Field[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
Bohdan Bondarenko
 Ukraine
2.26
WJL
Sylwester Bednarek
 Poland
2.24
SB
Miguel Ángel Sancho
 Spain
2.21
Pole vault
details
Raphael Holzdeppe
 Germany
5.50 Paweł Wojciechowski
 Poland
5.40
PB
Karsten Dilla
 Germany
5.30
Long jump
details
Marquise Goodwin
 United States
7.74
PB

 Belarus
7.64 Eusebio Cáceres
 Spain
7.59
Triple jump
details
Teddy Tamgho
 France
17.33 Osviel Hernández
 Cuba
16.90
 Bahrain
16.59
Shot put 6 kg
details
David Storl
 Germany
21.08
WJL
Aleksandr Bulanov
 Russia
20.14 Marin Premeru
 Croatia
19.93
PB
Discus throw 1.75 kg
details

 Germany
62.00
PB
Marin Premeru
 Croatia
61.85 Mykyta Nesterenko
 Ukraine
61.01
Hammer throw 6 kg
details

 United States
76.92
AJ
Conor McCullough
 United States
75.88
PB

 Belarus
75.42
Javelin throw
details
Robert Szpak
 Poland
78.01
WJL
Ihab Al Sayed Abdelrahman
 Egypt
76.20
NJ
Ansis Bruns
 Latvia
75.31
PB
Decathlon Junior
details
Jan Felix Knobel
 Germany
7896
WJL
Eduard Mikhan
 Belarus
7894
NJ
Mihail Dudaš
 Serbia
7663
NJ
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's results[]

Track[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Jeneba Tarmoh
 United States
11.37 Ashleigh Nelson
 Great Britain
11.49 Sheniqua Ferguson
 Bahamas
11.52
200 metres
details
Sheniqua Ferguson
 Bahamas
23.24 Meritzer Williams
 Saint Kitts and Nevis
23.40 Janelle Redhead
 Grenada
23.52
400 metres
details
Folashade Abugan
 Nigeria
51.84 Jessica Beard
 United States
52.09 Susana A. Clement
 Cuba
52.36
800 metres
details
Elena Mirela Lavric
 Romania
2:00.06
CR
Merve Aydin
 Turkey
2:00.92
NJ

 Netherlands
2:02.05
PB
1500 metres
details
Stephanie Twell
 Great Britain
4:15.09 Kalkidan Gezahegne
 Ethiopia
4:16.58
 Great Britain
4:17.06
3000 metres
details
Mercy Cherono
 Kenya
8:58.07
SB
Bizunesh Urgesa
 Ethiopia
8:58.90 Frethiwat Goshu
 Ethiopia
9:03.76
PB
5000 metres
details
Sule Utura
 Ethiopia
16:15.59 Genzebe Dibaba
 Ethiopia
16:16.75
 Kenya
16:17.96
100 metres hurdles
details

 United States
13.40 Shermaine Williams
 Jamaica
13.48
 Cuba
13.49
400 metres hurdles
details

 United States
56.29
WJL
Janeil Bellille
 Trinidad and Tobago
56.84
NJ
Meghan Beesley
 Great Britain
57.08
PB
3000 metres steeplechase
details

 Kenya
9:31.35
CR

 Kenya
9:36.50
PB

 Ethiopia
9:37.81
NJ
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 United States
Jeneba Tarmoh


Tiffany Townsend
43.66
WJL
 Jamaica


Gayon Evans
Jura Levy
43.98
SB
 Brazil

Bárbara Leôncio

Rosângela Santos
44.61
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 United States

Jessica Beard

3:30.19  Ukraine
Olha Zemlyak

Hanna Yaroshchuk
Yuliya Baraley
3:34.20
NJ
 Australia



3:34.23
SB
10,000 metres walk
details
Tatyana Mineeva
 Russia
43:24.72
CR
Elmira Alembekova
 Russia
43:45.16
PB

 China
44:24.10
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)

Field[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
Kimberly Jess
 Germany
1.86 Mirela Demireva
 Bulgaria
1.86
SB
Lesyani Mayor
 Cuba

 Belgium
1.86
PB
1.86
PB
Pole vault
details

 Russia
4.40
CR

 Russia
4.40
CR
Ekaterini Stefanidi
 Greece
4.25
SB
Long jump
details
Ivana Španović
 Serbia
6.61 Nastassia Mironchyk
 Belarus
6.46 Dailenys Alcántara
 Cuba
6.41
PB
Triple jump
details
Dailenys Alcántara
 Cuba
14.25
WJL
Josleidy Ribalta
 Cuba
13.85 Paraskevi Papahristou
 Greece
13.74
Shot put
details
Natalia Ducó
 Chile
17.23 Melissa Boekelman
 Netherlands
16.60
 China
16.55
SB
Discus throw
details

 China
54.96
SB
Julia Fischer
 Germany
54.69 Sandra Perkovic
 Croatia
54.24
Hammer throw
details
Bianca Perie
 Romania
67.95
CR
Katerina Šafránková
 Czech Republic
63.13 Jenny Ozorai
 Hungary
60.80
Javelin throw
details
Vira Rebryk
 Ukraine
63.01
WJ
Li Lingwei
 China
59.25
PB
Tatjana Jelaca
 Serbia
58.77
NR
Heptathlon
details
Carolin Schäfer
 Germany
5833
PB
Yana Maksimava
 Belarus
5766 Grit Šadeiko
 Estonia
5765
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[]

Imad Touil

  *   Host nation (Poland)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)114217
2 Germany (GER)61310
3 Kenya (KEN)45211
4 Russia (RUS)4307
5 Ethiopia (ETH)23510
6 Ukraine (UKR)2114
7 France (FRA)2002
 Romania (ROM)2002
9 Jamaica (JAM)1416
10 Cuba (CUB)1258
11 China (CHN)1225
 Great Britain (GBR)1225
13 Poland (POL)*1203
14 Serbia (SRB)1023
15 Bahamas (BAH)1012
16 Algeria (ALG)1001
 Chile (CHI)1001
 Nigeria (NGR)1001
 Sudan (SUD)1001
20 Belarus (BLR)0415
21 Croatia (CRO)0123
 South Africa (RSA)0123
23 Grenada (GRN)0112
 Netherlands (NED)0112
25 Bulgaria (BUL)0101
 Czech Republic (CZE)0101
 Egypt (EGY)0101
 Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)0101
 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)0101
 Turkey (TUR)0101
 Uganda (UGA)0101
32 Spain (ESP)0033
33 Greece (GRE)0022
34 Australia (AUS)0011
 Bahrain (BHR)0011
 Belgium (BEL)0011
 Brazil (BRA)0011
 Estonia (EST)0011
 Hungary (HUN)0011
 Latvia (LAT)0011
Totals (40 nations)444445133

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,[1] 1408 athletes from 165 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[2]

  •  Afghanistan (2)
  •  Algeria (11)
  •  American Samoa (1)
  •  Andorra (1)
  •  Anguilla (1)
  •  Argentina (2)
  •  Armenia (1)
  •  Australia (28)
  •  Austria (8)
  •  Azerbaijan (1)
  •  Bahamas (12)
  •  Bahrain (2)
  •  Barbados (9)
  •  Belarus (24)
  •  Belgium (9)
  •  Bermuda (2)
  •  Bolivia (2)
  •  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
  •  Botswana (5)
  •  Brazil (14)
  •  British Virgin Islands (1)
  •  Bulgaria (8)
  •  Burkina Faso (1)
  •  Cambodia (1)
  •  Cameroon (1)
  •  Canada (33)
  •  Cape Verde (1)
  •  Cayman Islands (1)
  •  Chile (5)
  •  China (14)
  •  Chinese Taipei (14)
  •  Colombia (8)
  •  Comoros (2)
  •  Cook Islands (1)
  •  Costa Rica (1)
  •  Croatia (8)
  •  Cuba (12)
  •  Cyprus (4)
  •  Czech Republic (22)
  •  Denmark (5)
  •  Dominica (1)
  •  Dominican Republic (3)
  •  Ecuador (1)
  •  Egypt (6)
  •  El Salvador (1)
  •  Estonia (13)
  •  Ethiopia (23)
  •  Fiji (1)
  •  Finland (25)
  •  France (55)
  •  French Polynesia (1)
  •  Gambia (1)
  •  Georgia (3)
  •  Germany (65)
  •  Ghana (1)
  •  Gibraltar (1)
  •  Great Britain (40)
  •  Greece (12)
  •  Grenada (3)
  •  Guam (1)
  •  Guatemala (2)
  •  Guyana (1)
  •  Honduras (1)
  •  Hong Kong (3)
  •  Hungary (22)
  •  Iceland (3)
  •  India (8)
  •  Indonesia (1)
  •  Ireland (21)
  •  Israel (3)
  •  Italy (34)
  •  Jamaica (29)
  •  Japan (27)
  •  Jordan (1)
  •  Kazakhstan (12)
  •  Kenya (23)
  •  Kiribati (1)
  •  Kuwait (3)
  •  Kyrgyzstan (2)
  •  Laos (1)
  •  Latvia (11)
  •  Lebanon (1)
  •  Lesotho (2)
  •  Lithuania (16)
  •  Macau (1)
  •  Macedonia (1)
  •  Madagascar (1)
  •  Malaysia (1)
  •  Maldives (1)
  •  Mali (1)
  •  Malta (3)
  •  Mexico (12)
  •  Moldova (4)
  •  Monaco (1)
  •  Montenegro (1)
  •  Montserrat (1)
  •  Morocco (7)
  •  Myanmar (1)
  •  Nauru (1)
  •    Nepal (1)
  •  Netherlands (14)
  •  Netherlands Antilles (1)
  •  New Zealand (5)
  •  Nicaragua (1)
  •  Niger (1)
  •  Nigeria (12)
  •  Norfolk Island (1)
  •  Northern Mariana Islands (1)
  •  Norway (18)
  •  Oman (1)
  •  Pakistan (1)
  •  Palau (1)
  •  Palestine (1)
  •  Panama (2)
  •  Papua New Guinea (1)
  •  Paraguay (1)
  •  Peru (1)
  •  Poland (63)
  •  Portugal (12)
  •  Puerto Rico (7)
  •  Qatar (2)
  •  Romania (24)
  •  Russia (51)
  •  Saint Kitts and Nevis (4)
  •  Saint Lucia (1)
  •  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
  •  Samoa (1)
  •  São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
  •  Saudi Arabia (9)
  •  Senegal (5)
  •  Serbia (12)
  •  Singapore (2)
  •  Slovakia (7)
  •  Slovenia (13)
  •  Solomon Islands (1)
  •  South Africa (25)
  •  South Korea (10)
  •  Spain (35)
  •  Sri Lanka (2)
  •  Sudan (6)
  •  Suriname (1)
  •  Swaziland (1)
  •  Sweden (37)
  •   Switzerland (12)
  •  Syria (1)
  •  Tajikistan (2)
  •  Tanzania (1)
  •  Thailand (9)
  •  Togo (1)
  •  Tonga (1)
  •  Trinidad and Tobago (17)
  •  Tunisia (3)
  •  Turkey (18)
  •  Turkmenistan (2)
  •  Uganda (6)
  •  Ukraine (41)
  •  United Arab Emirates (1)
  •  United States (76)
  •  Uruguay (1)
  •  U.S. Virgin Islands (3)
  •  Uzbekistan (6)
  •  Vanuatu (1)
  •  Venezuela (4)
  •  Yemen (1)
  •  Zambia (2)

References[]

  1. ^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2008 Bydgoszcz POL Jul 8-13, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
  2. ^ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, p. 5, retrieved 13 June 2015

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