2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics

Host city|  Brixen, Italy
Events| 40
Dates| 8–12 July
Main venue| Brixen-Bressanone Sport Arena

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The 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics is the sixth edition of the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics. They were held at Brixen-Bressanone Sport Arena in Bressanone, Italy from 8–12 July 2009. Athletes had to be aged 16 or 17 on 31 December 2009 (born in 1992 or 1993) to compete.[1]

15-year-old Jodie Williams took the 100 m sprint title in a youth world leading time of 11.39. This was also a personal best for Williams, who had not lost a 100 m final since 2007.[2] Also winning the girls' 200 m, Williams became the first youth athlete ever to do so. A similar feat was achieved by Kirani James of Grenada, who won the boys' 200 and 400 metres.[3]

With the 100 m hurdles, 17-year-old Isabelle Pedersen became Norway's first World Youth champion. Her time of 13.20 in the semi-finals was a national record and third all-time Youth best.[4] 16-year-old Italian Alessia Trost also became the host nation's first World Youth champion.[5]

Johan Rogestedt of Sweden became the first European ever to win the 800 metres, usually dominated by East African runners.[6] In high jump, Russian-born Dmitriy Kroyter became Israel's first world youth champion.

## Medal summary

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### Boys

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Prezel Hardy
United States | 10.57  | Aaron Brown
Canada | 10.74  | Giovanni Galbieri
Italy | 10.79
200 m
details | Kirani James
Grenada | 21.05 PB  | Alberto Gavalda
Spain | 21.33 SB  | Keenan Brock
United States | 21.39
400 m
details | Kirani James
Grenada | 45.24 CR WL PB  | Joshua Mance
United States | 46.22 PB  | Awad El Karim Makki
Sudan | 47.15 SB
800 m | Johan Rogestedt
Sweden | 1:50.92 PB  | Peter Langat Kiplangat
Kenya | 1:50.97  | Nicholas Kiplangat Kipkoech
Kenya | 1:51.01
1500 m | Gideon Kiage Mageka
Kenya | 3:37.36 WL  | Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku
Kenya | 3:38.42  | Girma Bekele
Ethiopia | 3:39.88 PB
3000 m | Isaiah Kiplangat Koech
Kenya | 7:51.51 CR  | David Kiprotich Bett
Kenya | 7:52.13 PB  | Goitom Kifle
Eritrea | 8:05.83 PB
2000 m st. | Hillary Kipsang Yego
Kenya | 5:25.33 WL  | Peter Kibet Lagat
Kenya | 5:26.59 PB  | Desta Alemu
Ethiopia | 5:37.32 PB
110 m H 91.4 cm  | Dale Morgan
United States | 13.28 WL  | Jack Meredith
Great Britain | 13.33 PB  | Gregory MacNeil
Canada | 13.51
400 m H 84.0 cm  | Norge Sotomayor
Cuba | 51.30 WL  | Jeremiah Kipkorir Mutai
Kenya | 51.45 PB  | Jose Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon
Italy | 51.74
10,000 m track walk | Hagen Pohle
Germany | 41:35.99 CR WL PB  | Dementiy Cheparev [Wikidata]
Russia | 41:53.76 PB  | Ihor Lyashchenko
Ukraine | 42:01.90 PB
Medley relay |  United States
Colin Hepburn
Keenan Brock
Dedric Dukes
Joshua Mance | 1:50.33 WYB |  Brazil
Jonathas da Silva
Jean Roberto da Silva
Jackson da Silva
Leandro de Araújo | 1:52.66 SB  |  Japan
Takumi Kuki
Ryota Yamagata
Ko Kayada
Shogo Momiki | 1:52.82 SB
High jump | Dmitriy Kroyter
Israel | 2.20  | Janick Klausen
Denmark | 2.20 PB  | Django Lovett
Canada
Daniil Tsyplakov
Russia | 2.17 PB

2.17 PB
Pole vault | Jin Min-sub
South Korea | 5.15 PB  | Carlo Paech
Germany | 5.10  | Daniel Clemens
Germany | 5.10
Long jump | Supanara Sukhasvasti
Thailand | 7.65 PB  | Stefan Brits
South Africa | 7.57  | Yannick Roggatz
Germany | 7.53 PB
Triple jump | Benjamin Williams
Great Britain | 15.91 PB  | Supanara Sukhasvasti
Thailand | 15.70 PB  | Aleksandr Yurchenko
Russia | 15.66 PB
Shot put 5 kg  | Ryan Crouser
United States | 21.56 CR  | Krzysztof Brzozowski
Poland | 20.89 PB  | Frans Schutte
South Africa | 20.37 PB
Discus 1.500 kg  | Hamid Manssour
Syria | 64.20  | Ryan Crouser
United States | 61.64  | Traves Smikle
Jamaica | 61.22 PB
Hammer 5 kg  | Chen Hongqiu
China | 74.93 WL PB  | Suhrob Khodjaev
Tajikistan | 73.29 PB  | Tomáš Kružliak
Slovakia | 72.17
Javelin 700g  | Shih-Feng Huang
Chinese Taipei | 74.00  | Killian Durechou
France | 73.54  | Braian Toledo
Argentina | 73.44 PB
Octathlon | Kevin Mayer
France | 6478 WL  | Mohd Ahmed Al-Mannai
Qatar | 6232 PB  | Steffen Klink
Germany | 6217 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)

### Girls

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m | Jodie Williams
Great Britain | 11.39 WL PB  | Allison Peter
U.S. Virgin Islands | 11.47 PB  | Ashton Purvis
United States | 11.48 SB
200 m | Jodie Williams
Great Britain | 23.08 WL  | Allison Peter
U.S. Virgin Islands | 23.08 WL  | Ashton Purvis
United States | 23.15 PB
400 m | Ebony Eutsey
United States | 52.88  | Michelle Brown
United States | 53.44  | Sandra Wagner
Sweden | 53.52 PB
800 m | Cherono Koech
Kenya | 2:01.67 CR  | Ciara Mageean
Ireland | 2:03.07 PB  | Rowena Cole
Great Britain | 2:03.83 PB
1500 m | Nelly Chebet Ngeiywo
Kenya | 4:12.76 PB  | Gete Dima
Ethiopia | 4:15.16  | Amela Terzić
Serbia | 4:16.71 PB
3000 m | Purity Cherotich Rionoripo
Kenya | 9:03.79  | Jackline Chepngeno
Kenya | 9:05.93 PB  | Genet Yalew
Ethiopia | 9:08.95 PB
2000 m st. | Korahubsh Itaa
Ethiopia | 6:11.83 WYB | Lucia Kamene Muangi
Kenya | 6:11.90 PB  | Halima Hassen
Ethiopia | 6:16.83 PB
100 m H 76.2 cm  | Isabelle Pedersen
Norway | 13.23  | Kori Carter
United States | 13.26 PB  | Bridgette Owens
United States | 13.39 PB
400 m H | Vera Rudakova
Russia | 57.83 WL  | Danielle Dowie
Jamaica | 58.62  | Déborah Rodríguez
Uruguay | 59.71 PB
5,000 m track walk | Elena Lashmanova
Russia | 22:55.45 WL  | Yanelli Caballero
Mexico | 22:59.27 PB  | Svetlana Vasilyeva
Russia | 23:00.15 PB
Medley relay |  United States
Jordan Clark
Ashton Purvis
Briana Nelson
Ebony Eutsey | 2:04.32 WL  |  Hungary
Anasztázia Nguyen
Kriszta Komiszár
Dorina Vincze
Lilla Loránd | 2:09.22 PB  |  Romania
Ana Maria Rosianu
Ana Alungoaie
Sanda Belgyan
Adelina Pastor | 2:09.25 PB
High jump | Alessia Trost
Italy | 1.87  | Mariya Kuchina
Russia
Amy Pejkovic
Australia | 1.85 PB

1.85 PB  |
Pole vault | Angelica Bengtsson
Sweden | 4.32 WL  | Michaela Meijer
Sweden | 4.10  | Felicia Horvath
Hungary

* * *

Tatyana Stetsyuk
Russia | 4.00 PB

4.00 PB
Long jump | Lu Minjia
China | 6.22  | Alina Rotaru
Romania | 6.09  | Jennifer Clayton
United States | 6.05
Triple jump | Yana Borodina
Russia | 13.63 WL  | Deng Lina
China | 13.57 PB  | Valeriya Kanatova
Uzbekistan | 13.45
Shot put | Lena Urbaniak
Germany | 15.28  | Margaret Satupai
Samoa | 14.96 SB  | Dong Yangzi
China | 14.65 PB
Discus | Li Shanshan
China | 51.65  | Alex Collatz
United States | 50.09  | Shanice Craft
Germany | 49.15
Hammer | Barbara Spiler
Slovenia | 59.33  | Kivilcim Kaya
Turkey | 57.91 SB  | Bianca Lazar Fazecas
Romania | 56.41 PB
Javelin | Anastasiya Svechnikova
Uzbekistan | 53.25 SB  | Wu You
China | 52.04 PB  | Laura Henkel
Germany | 51.47 PB
Heptathlon | Katarina Thompson
Great Britain | 5750 WL  | Laura Ikauniece
Latvia | 5647 PB  | Kira Biesenbach
Germany | 5423 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)

## Medals table

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Kirani James of Grenada won a 200/400 m sprint double. Angelica Bengtsson took the pole vault title for Sweden. Jodie Williams won a 100/200 m sprint double for Great Britain. Kévin Mayer of France won the decathlon. Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Kenya (KEN)| 6| 7| 1| 14
2|  United States (USA)| 6| 5| 5| 16
3|  Great Britain (GBR)| 4| 1| 1| 6
4|  Russia (RUS)| 3| 2| 4| 9
5|  China (CHN)| 3| 2| 1| 6
6|  Germany (GER)| 2| 1| 6| 9
7|  Sweden (SWE)| 2| 1| 1| 4
8|  Grenada (GRN)| 2| 0| 0| 2
9|  Ethiopia (ETH)| 1| 1| 4| 6
10|  France (FRA)| 1| 1| 0| 2
Thailand (THA)| 1| 1| 0| 2
12|  Italy (ITA)| 1| 0| 2| 3
13|  Uzbekistan (UZB)| 1| 0| 1| 2
14|  Chinese Taipei (TPE)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Cuba (CUB)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Israel (ISR)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Norway (NOR)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Slovenia (SLO)| 1| 0| 0| 1
South Korea (KOR)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Syria (SYR)| 1| 0| 0| 1
21|  U.S. Virgin Islands (ISV)| 0| 2| 0| 2
22|  Canada (CAN)| 0| 1| 2| 3
Romania (ROU)| 0| 1| 2| 3
24|  Hungary (HUN)| 0| 1| 1| 2
Jamaica (JAM)| 0| 1| 1| 2
South Africa (RSA)| 0| 1| 1| 2
27|  Australia (AUS)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Brazil (BRA)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Denmark (DEN)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Ireland (IRL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Latvia (LAT)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Mexico (MEX)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Poland (POL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Qatar (QAT)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Samoa (SAM)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Spain (ESP)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Tajikistan (TJK)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Turkey (TUR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
39|  Argentina (ARG)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Eritrea (ERI)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Japan (JPN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Serbia (SRB)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Slovakia (SVK)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Sudan (SUD)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Ukraine (UKR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Uruguay (URU)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (46 entries)| 40| 41| 41| 122

All Information taken from IAAF's website.[7]

## Mascot

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The mascot is a crow named Hugo, who is also the mascot of Brixia Meeting.[8]

## References

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1. ^ IAAF, May 5, 2009: More than 170 nations to compete in Sϋdtirol – 2009 World Youth Champs. Accessed 2009-07-11. Archived 2009-09-08.
2. ^ "15-year-old Jodie Williams takes sprint titles". IAAF. 2009-07-09. Archived from the original on 2009-08-13. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
3. ^ Williams and James achieve unprecedented doubles as Kenya steals the show in middle distance
4. ^ "World Youth gold is more than a dream come true for Pedersen". IAAF. 2009-07-09. Archived from the original on 2009-08-13. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
5. ^ "Golden jump for Italy's Alessia Trost". IAAF. 2009-07-10. Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
6. ^ A Swede steals Kenya's thunder at the World Youth Championships
7. ^ 2009 World Youth medal table [1] . Accessed 2009-07-11. Archived 2009-09-08.
8. ^ "Hugo the mascot of iaaf wyc sudtirol 2009 by UnivesiadeMascots54 on DeviantArt". 22 February 2024.

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