Athletics at the 1998 World Youth Games

Athletics at the World Youth Games
Athletics at the World Youth Games
	The host stadium in Moscow (shown in 2009)
Dates	14 – 17 July
Host city	Moscow, Russia
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Events	36
Participation	678 athletes from ; 87 nations
	; 1998 World Youth Games

At the 1998 World Youth Games the athletics competition was held from 14–17 July at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. A total of 678 youth (under-18) athletes from 87 countries took part in the track and field events.^[1]

Several major countries with strong traditions in athletics were absent from the contests (among them Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany and the United States) and this undermined the overall quality of performances. Planned subsequent editions were not held.^[2] Although the games were not an initial success, the idea was revived in 2010 and athletics events were again held as part of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, which garnered wide participation.

Medal summary[]

Boys[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Paul Gorries (RSA)	10.76	Kostyantyn Vasyukov (UKR)	10.79	Mirko Turri (ITA)	10.83
200 metres	(CHN)	21.33	Paul Gorries (RSA)	21.40	(UKR)	21.60
400 metres	Xu Zizhou (CHN)	47.50	(RSA)	48.36	(MAS)	48.72
800 metres	Yuriy Borzakovskiy (RUS)	1:47.71	(KSA)	1:49.88	(RSA)	1:50.30
1500 metres	(ETH)	3:53.96	Yuriy Borzakovskiy (RUS)	3:54.84	(KEN)	3:56.13
3000 metres	(IRI)	8:30.06	(ETH)	8:30.69	Ion Luchianov (MDA)	8:32.10
110 metres hurdles	(CHN)	13.74	(CHI)	14.15	(CYP)	14.17
400 metres hurdles	(SYR)	51.39	(ITA)	51.70	(BAR)	53.26
5000 metres walk	(BLR)	20:40.58	Viktor Burayev (RUS)	20:41.08	(RUS)	20:41.25
4 × 100 m relay	Finland (FIN)	41.87	Ukraine (UKR) Kostyantyn Vasyukov	42.07	Malaysia (MAS) Nazmizan Mohamad	42.19
4 × 400 m relay	China (CHN) Xu Zizhou	3:13.57	South Africa (RSA) Paul Gorries	3:15.13	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Liu Yuan-Kai	3:20.83
High jump	(BLR)	2.12 m	Fabrizio Schembri (ITA)	2.12 m	(KOR)	2.12 m
Pole vault	(GRE)	5.05 m	Oleksandr Korchmid (UKR)	4.90 m	(RUS)	4.90 m
Long jump	Yoelmis Pacheco (CUB)	7.50 m	(TPE)	7.45 m (w)	Luka Aračić (CRO)	7.41 m
Triple jump	(BRA)	15.57 m	Dmitriy Valyukevich (BLR)	15.52 m	(UKR)	15.15 m
Shot put	Pavel Sofin (RUS)	19.59 m	(BRA)	19.20 m	(RSA)	19.19 m
Discus throw	Lois Maikel Martínez (CUB)	61.47 m	Pavel Lyzhyn (BLR)	58.59 m	(UKR)	57.19 m
Javelin throw	(CUB)	72.36 m	Gerhardus Pienaar (RSA)	71.79 m	Aleksandr Ivanov (RUS)	67.97 m

Girls[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Emily Maher (IRL)	11.93	Thatiana Ignâcio (BRA)	12.05	(SLO)	12.13
200 metres	Emily Maher (IRL)	24.16	Nataliya Pyhyda (UKR)	24.29	(BAR)	24.30
400 metres	Nataliya Pyhyda (UKR)	54.01	Aneta Lemiesz (POL)	54.36	(RUS)	54.53
800 metres	(CUB)	2:07.01	Esther Desviat (ESP)	2:07.05	(BLR)	2:07.17
1500 metres	(RSA)	4:20.62	(CRO)	4:21.11	Rasa Drazdauskaité (LTU)	4:21.63
3000 metres	(UGA)	9:29.94	(NAM)	9:30.98	Elvan Abeye (ETH)	9:34.95
100 metres hurdles	Svetlana Sokolova (RUS)	13.42	(POL)	13.53	Mariya Koroteyeva (RUS)	13.65
400 metres hurdles	Natalya Antyukh (RUS)	59.94	(CHN)	61.46	(POL)	61.89
4 × 100 m relay	Poland (POL) Aneta Lemiesz	46.65	Croatia (CRO)	47.68	Chile (CHI) Francisca Guzmán	48.13
4 × 400 m relay	Russia (RUS) Svetlana Sokolova Natalya Antyukh Mariya Koroteyeva	3:44.54	Kazakhstan (KAZ) Anna Gavriushenko	3:49.93	South Africa (RSA)	3:56.30
3000 metres walk	(RUS)	12:57.97	(MEX)	13:13.29	(RUS)	13:16.27
High jump	Marina Kuptsova (RUS)	1.86 m	Tatyana Efimenko (KGZ)	1.84 m	Tatiana Grigorieva (RUS)	1.79 m
Pole vault	Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS)	4.00 m	Fanni Juhász (HUN)	3.90 m	(POL)	3.70 m
Long jump	(UKR)	6.30 m	(CHN)	6.20 m	Svetlana Sokolova (RUS)	6.17 m
Triple jump	Mabel Gay (CUB)	13.41 m	(UKR)	13.05 m	Dana Velďáková (SVK)	13.05 m
Shot put	Li Meiju (CHN)	15.89 m	(CHN)	15.35 m	Laura Bordignon (ITA)	14.43 m
Discus throw	(CHN)	49.92 m	Vera Begić (CRO)	48.70 m	(RUS)	48.63 m
Javelin throw	(POL)	49.75 m	Inga Kožarenoka (LAT)	49.59 m	Natallia Shymchuk (BLR)	48.97 m