2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Athletics competition

2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city|  Kingston, Jamaica
Nations| 159
Athletes| 1069
Events| 43
Dates| 16–21 July
Main venue| National Stadium

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2004 Grosseto ->

The 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Kingston, Jamaica from July 16 to July 21, 2002.

## Men's results

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details | Darrel Brown
Trinidad and Tobago | 10.09 CR  | Marc Burns
Trinidad and Tobago | 10.18 PB  | Willie Hordge
United States | 10.36
Brown's 10.09 then ranked fifth all-time among juniors. He eventually broke the WJR at the 2003 World Championships.
200 metres
details | Usain Bolt
Jamaica | 20.61  | Brendan Christian
Antigua and Barbuda | 20.74  | Wes Felix
United States | 20.82 PB
At only 15 years, 332 days, Bolt became the youngest ever junior world champion. He was surpassed by Jacko Gill in the 2010 World Junior Championships.
400 metres
details | Darold Williamson
United States | 45.37  | Jonathan Fortenberry
United States | 45.73  | Jermaine Gonzales
Jamaica | 45.84 PB
800 metres
details | Alex Kipchirchir
Kenya | 1:46.59  | Salem Amer Al-Badri
Qatar | 1:46.63 NJR  | David Fiegen
Luxembourg | 1:46.66
1500 metres
details | Yassine Bensghir
Morocco | 3:40.72 PB  | Abdulrahman Suleiman
Qatar | 3:41.72  | Samwel Mwera
Tanzania | 3:41.75
5000 metres
details | Hillary Chenonge
Kenya | 13:28.30 CR  | Markos Geneti
Ethiopia | 13:28.83 SB  | Gebregziabher Gebremariam
Ethiopia | 13:29.13
10,000 metres
details | Gebregziabher Gebremariam
Ethiopia | 29:02.71  | Sileshi Sihine
Ethiopia | 29:03.74  | Solomon Bushendich
Kenya | 29:05.96
110 metres hurdles
details | Antwon Hicks
United States | 13.42  | Shi Dongpeng
China | 13.58  | Shamar Sands
Bahamas | 13.67
400 metres hurdles
details | L. J. van Zyl
South Africa | 48.89 CR  | Kenneth Ferguson
United States | 49.38 PB  | Bershawn Jackson
United States | 50.00 PB
3000 metres steeplechase
details | Michael Kipyego
Kenya | 8:29.54  | David Kirwa
Kenya | 8:31.44  | Abubaker Ali Kamal
Qatar | 8:33.67 NJR
10,000 metres walk
details | Vladimir Kanaykin
Russia | 41:41.40  | Xu Xingde
China | 41:44.00  | Lu Ronghua
China | 41:46.07
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  United States
Ashton Collins
Wes Felix
Ivory Williams
Willie Hordge | 38.92 WJR  |  Jamaica
Winston Hutton
Orion Nicely
Yhann Plummer
Usain Bolt | 39.15 NJR  |  Trinidad and Tobago
Chevon Simpson
Marc Burns
Kevon Holder
Darrel Brown | 39.17 NJR
4 × 400 metres relay
details |  United States
Kenneth Ferguson
Darold Williamson
Ashton Collins
Jonathan Fortenberry | 3:03.71  |  Jamaica
Sekou Clarke
Usain Bolt
Jermaine Myers
Jermaine Gonzales | 3:04.06 NJR  |  Japan
Yamauchi Fujio
Daisuke Sakai
Yuki Yamaguchi
Yosuke Inoue | 3:05.80 AJR
High jump
details | Andra Manson
United States | 2.31 WJL  | Zhu Wannan
China | 2.23 PB  | Germaine Mason
Jamaica | 2.21
Pole vault
details | Maksym Mazuryk
Ukraine | 5.55 WLJ  | Vladyslav Revenko
Ukraine | 5.55 WLJ  | Vincent Favretto
France | 5.40
Long jump
details | Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Waleed
Qatar | 7.99 PB  | Fabrice Lapierre
Australia | 7.74 PB  | Trevell Quinley
United States | 7.71 PB
Triple jump
details | Arnie David Giralt
Cuba | 16.68  | Li Yanxi
China | 16.66 PB  | Aleksandr Sergeyev
Russia | 16.55
Shot put 6 kg
details | Edis Elkasevic
Croatia | 21.47 WLJ  | Sean Shields
United States | 20.54  | Mika Vasara
Finland | 20.50
Discus throw 1.75 kg
details | Wu Tao
China | 64.51 WLJ  | Dmitriy Sivakov
Belarus | 62.00  | Michał Hodun
Poland | 61.74
Hammer throw 6 kg
details | Werner Smit
South Africa | 76.43  | Ali Al-Zinkawi
Kuwait | 73.69  | Aliaksandr Kazulka
Belarus | 72.72
Javelin throw
details | Igor Janik
Poland | 74.16  | Vladislav Shkurlatov
Russia | 74.09 PB  | Jung Sang-Jin
South Korea | 73.99 PB
Decathlon
details | Leonid Andreev
Uzbekistan | 7693  | Nadir El Fassi
France | 7677  | Mikko Halvari
Finland | 7587

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

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details | Lauryn Williams
United States | 11.33 PB  | Simone Facey
Jamaica | 11.43 PB  | Marshevet Hooker
United States | 11.48
200 metres
details | Vernicha James
Great Britain | 22.93 PB  | Anneisha McLaughlin
Jamaica | 22.94 PB  | Sanya Richards
United States | 23.09
400 metres
details | Monique Henderson
United States | 51.10 SB  | Sanya Richards
United States | 51.49  | Sheryl Morgan
Jamaica | 52.61
800 metres
details | Janeth Jepkosgei
Kenya | 2:00.80 WLJ  | Lucia Klocová
Slovakia | 2:01.73  | Juliana Paula de Azevedo
Brazil | 2:03.81 PB
1500 metres
details | Viola Kibiwot
Kenya | 4:12.57 PB  | Berhane Herpassa
Ethiopia | 4:13.59  | Olesya Syreva
Russia | 4:14.32 PB
3000 metres
details | Meseret Defar
Ethiopia | 9:12.61  | Mariem Alaoui Selsouli
Morocco | 9:16.28 PB  | Olesya Syreva
Russia | 9:16.58 PB
5000 metres
details | Meseret Defar
Ethiopia | 15:54.94  | Tirunesh Dibaba
Ethiopia | 15:55.99  | Vivian Cheruiyot
Kenya | 15:56.04
100 metres hurdles
details | Anay Tejeda
Cuba | 12.81  | Agnieszka Frankowska
Poland | 13.16  | Tina Klein
Germany | 13.23
400 metres hurdles
details | Lashinda Demus
United States | 54.70 WJR  | Melaine Walker
Jamaica | 56.03  | Camille Robinson
Jamaica | 56.14 PB
10,000 metres walk
details | Fumi Mitsumura
Japan | 46:01.51 NJR  | Liu Siqi
China | 46:07.15  | Maryna Tsikhanava
Belarus | 46:14.67 SB
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  Jamaica
Sherone Simpson
Kerron Stewart
Anneisha McLaughlin
Simone Facey | 43.40 CR  |  United States
Lauryn Williams
Ashlee Williams
Shalonda Solomon
Marshevet Hooker | 43.66  |  Great Britain
Jade Lucas-Read
Jeanette Kwakye
Amy Spencer
Vernicha James | 44.22 PB
4 × 400 metres relay
details |  United States
Christina Hardeman
Monique Henderson
Tiffany Ross
Lashinda Demus | 3:29.95 NJR  |  Great Britain
Kim Wall
Amy Spencer
Vernicha James
Lisa Miller | 3:30.46 NJR  |  Russia
Yelena Mygunova
Mariya Dryakhlova
Yuliya Gushchina
Tatyana Popova | 3:34.49
High jump
details | Blanka Vlašić
Croatia | 1.96 WLJ  | Anna Ksok
Poland | 1.87  | Petrina Price
Australia | 1.87
Pole vault
details | Floé Kühnert
Germany | 4.40 CR  | Yuliya Golubchikova
Russia | 4.30  | Nataliya Belinskaya
Russia | 4.20
Long jump
details | Adina Anton
Romania | 6.46 PB  | Wang Lina
China | 6.36  | Esther Aghatise
Nigeria | 6.34
Triple jump
details | Mabel Gay
Cuba | 14.09  | Yarianna Martínez
Cuba | 13.74  | Keila da Silva Costa
Brazil | 13.70
Shot put
details | Valerie Adams
New Zealand | 17.73 AJR  | Zhang Ying
China | 16.76  | Laura Gerraughty
United States | 16.62
Discus throw
details | Ma Xuejun
China | 58.85 PB  | Xu Shaoyang
China | 57.87  | Seema Antil
India | 55.83
Hammer throw
details | Ivana Brkljačić
Croatia | 65.39  | Martina Danišová
Slovakia | 63.91  | Yuliya Rozenfeld
Russia | 60.83 PB
Javelin throw
details | Linda Brivule
Latvia | 55.35 PB  | Ilze Gribule
Latvia | 54.16 SB  | Urszula Jasińska
Poland | 54.06
Heptathlon
details | Carolina Klüft
Sweden | 6470 WJR  | Olga Alekseyeva
Kazakhstan | 5727  | Olga Levenkova
Russia | 5712

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

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With his 200 metres gold medal, Usain Bolt of Jamaica became the youngest World Junior Championships winner at the time. Blanka Vlašić of Croatia won the high jump. Sweden's Carolina Klüft set a new world junior record in the heptathlon.

* Host nation (Jamaica)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States| 9| 5| 7| 21
2|  Kenya| 5| 1| 2| 8
3|  Ethiopia| 3| 4| 1| 8
4|  Cuba| 3| 1| 0| 4
5|  Croatia| 3| 0| 0| 3
6|  China| 2| 8| 1| 11
7|  Jamaica*| 2| 5| 4| 11
8|  South Africa| 2| 0| 0| 2
9|  Russia| 1| 2| 7| 10
10|  Poland| 1| 2| 2| 5
11|  Qatar| 1| 2| 1| 4
12|  Great Britain| 1| 1| 1| 3
Trinidad and Tobago| 1| 1| 1| 3
14|  Latvia| 1| 1| 0| 2
Morocco| 1| 1| 0| 2
Ukraine| 1| 1| 0| 2
17|  Germany| 1| 0| 1| 2
Japan| 1| 0| 1| 2
19|  New Zealand| 1| 0| 0| 1
Romania| 1| 0| 0| 1
Sweden| 1| 0| 0| 1
Uzbekistan| 1| 0| 0| 1
23|  Slovakia| 0| 2| 0| 2
24|  Belarus| 0| 1| 2| 3
25|  Australia| 0| 1| 1| 2
France| 0| 1| 1| 2
27|  Antigua and Barbuda| 0| 1| 0| 1
Kazakhstan| 0| 1| 0| 1
Kuwait| 0| 1| 0| 1
30|  Brazil| 0| 0| 2| 2
Finland| 0| 0| 2| 2
32|  Bahamas| 0| 0| 1| 1
India| 0| 0| 1| 1
Luxembourg| 0| 0| 1| 1
Nigeria| 0| 0| 1| 1
South Korea| 0| 0| 1| 1
Tanzania| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (37 entries)| 43| 43| 43| 129

## Participation

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According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,[1] 1069 athletes from 159 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[2]

* Algeria (9)
* Andorra (1)
* Anguilla (1)
* Antigua and Barbuda (2)
* Argentina (3)
* Armenia (2)
* Aruba (1)
* Australia (45)
* Austria (3)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Bahamas (6)
* Bahrain (1)
* Barbados (3)
* Belarus (13)
* Belgium (7)
* Belize (1)
* Bolivia (1)
* Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
* Botswana (5)
* Brazil (27)
* British Virgin Islands (1)
* Bulgaria (6)
* Burkina Faso (1)
* Burundi (3)
* Cameroon (2)
* Canada (23)
* Cayman Islands (1)
* Chile (9)
* China (22)
* Chinese Taipei (5)
* Colombia (3)
* Cook Islands (1)
* Costa Rica (1)
* Côte d'Ivoire (1)
* Croatia (10)
* Cuba (13)
* Cyprus (5)
* Czech Republic (14)
* Denmark (2)
* Djibouti (2)
* Dominica (1)
* Dominican Republic (1)
* Ecuador (3)
* Egypt (6)
* El Salvador (1)
* Equatorial Guinea (1)
* Eritrea (2)
* Estonia (11)
* Ethiopia (7)
* Fiji (2)
* Finland (16)
* France (41)
* Gabon (1)
* Gambia (2)
* Georgia (2)
* Germany (65)
* Ghana (1)
* Gibraltar (2)
* Great Britain (28)
* Greece (16)
* Grenada (1)
* Guam (1)
* Guatemala (1)
* Guyana (1)
* Haiti (1)
* Honduras (1)
* Hong Kong (1)
* Hungary (20)
* Iceland (2)
* India (6)
* Ireland (10)
* Israel (3)
* Italy (18)
* Jamaica (41)
* Japan (31)
* Jordan (1)
* Kazakhstan (4)
* Kenya (18)
* Kiribati (1)
* Kuwait (3)
* Kyrgyzstan (1)
* Latvia (3)
* Lebanon (1)
* Lesotho (1)
* Lithuania (3)
* Luxembourg (2)
* Macedonia (1)
* Madagascar (1)
* Malawi (1)
* Maldives (1)
* Mali (1)
* Mauritius (1)
* Mexico (11)
* Micronesia (1)
* Moldova (2)
* Morocco (11)
* Mozambique (1)
* Myanmar (1)
* Namibia (1)
* Netherlands (14)
* Netherlands Antilles (1)
* New Zealand (9)
* Nicaragua (1)
* Nigeria (6)
* Norway (5)
* Oman (1)
* Pakistan (1)
* Palestine (1)
* Panama (2)
* Papua New Guinea (1)
* Paraguay (1)
* Peru (1)
* Philippines (1)
* Poland (29)
* Portugal (7)
* Puerto Rico (1)
* Qatar (10)
* Romania (13)
* Russia (41)
* Rwanda (2)
* 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 (6)
* Seychelles (1)
* Singapore (4)
* Slovakia (8)
* Slovenia (4)
* Solomon Islands (1)
* South Africa (19)
* South Korea (10)
* Spain (26)
* Sri Lanka (1)
* Sudan (4)
* Swaziland (1)
* Sweden (13)
* Switzerland (8)
* Tajikistan (1)
* Tanzania (2)
* Thailand (1)
* Togo (1)
* Trinidad and Tobago (8)
* Tunisia (3)
* Turkey (4)
* Turkmenistan (2)
* Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
* Ukraine (10)
* United States (64)
* Uruguay (1)
* U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
* Uzbekistan (6)
* Venezuela (5)
* Yemen (1)
* Yugoslavia (5)
* Zambia (2)
* Zimbabwe (2)

## References

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1. ^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2002 Kingston JAM Jul 16-21, 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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