2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics

None 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics Beijing2006logo.png China Beijing, China 176 1350 44 15–20 August Chaoyang Sports Centre 2004 Grosseto 2008 Bydgoszcz The 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics were the 2006 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held from 15 August to 20 August at the Chaoyang Sports Centre in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China. The Championships were dominated by the host nation China, and Kenya. The United States showed a near complete domination in the relay events. Estonia won four gold medals; their first medals ever at the World Junior Championships. Results Men 100 metres MenHarry Aikines-AryeeteyGBR 10.37 SBJustyn WarnerCanada 10.39Yohan BlakeJamaica 10.42Remaldo Rose, bronze medalist in 2004, finished fourth. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Liberia, Ecuador, Azerbaijan, Cayman Islands, Serbia, Kiribati and the Northern Mariana Islands.200 metres MenMarek NiitEstonia 20.96 NJBryan BarnettCanada 21.00Alexander NelsonGBR 21.14The original winner, Dmytro Ostrovsky of Ukraine, was disqualified for stepping in another lane. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Gibraltar and Ecuador.400 metres MenRenny QuowTTO 45.74 PBJustin OliverUSA 45.78 PBMartyn RooneyGBR 45.87800 metres MenDavid RudishaKenya 1:47.40Jackson KivunaKenya 1:47.64Abraham ChepkirwokUganda 1:47.791500 metres MenRemmy NdiwaKenya 3:40.44 SBAbdalaati IguiderMorocco 3:40.73Belal Mansoor AliBahrain 3:41.36Iguider was the reigning champion and championship record holder. Tsegai Tewelde of Eritrea, who finished fifth, established national junior records twice during the competition.5000 metres MenTariku BekeleEthiopia 1996 13:31.34Abreham CherkosEthiopia 1996 13:35.95Joseph EbuyaKenya 13:42.93Tariku Bekele, the younger brother of World and Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele, won a bronze medal in 2004. Ebuya already had a silver medal from the 10 000 m.10,000 metres MenIbrahim JeilanEthiopia 1996 28:53.29Joseph EbuyaKenya 28:53.46 PBAadam Ismaeel KhamisBahrain 28:54.30 NJNational junior records were also established for Eritrea and Burundi.110 metres hurdles 99.0 cm2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdlesArtur NogaPoland 13.23 CRSamuel Coco-ViloinFrance 13.35 NJKonstadinos DouvalidisGreece 13.39 NJThe hurdle height had been reduced from 106.7 cm to 99.0 cm, thus allowing championship records in all three rounds of the competition. The world's fastest juniors in 2006, Dennis Martin and Darius Reed of the United States, failed to succeed.400 metres hurdles MenChris CarterUSA 50.08Bandar SharahiliSaudi Arabia 50.34 PBStanislav MelnykovUkraine 50.43 PBCarter took the only individual gold medal for the United States. During the competition, national junior records were set for Togo and the Netherlands.3000 metres steeplechase MenWilly KomenKenya 8:14.00 CRBisluke KiplagatKenya 8:18.11 PBAbdelghani Aït BahmadMorocco 8:20.05 NJKomen beat the previous championship record by 2.34 seconds. Tareq Mubarak Taher of Bahrain originally finished second, but was disqualified for age cheating.Taher Tareq Mubaraq (BRN) - Performances Annulled http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=512/newsId=40170.html IAAF.org 2007-08-07 2007-08-09 10,000 metres walk MenBo XiangdongCHN 42:50.26Huang ZhengyuCHN 43:13.29 PBYusuke SuzukiJapan 43:45.624 × 100 metres relay MenJamaicaWinston BarnesRemaldo RoseCawayne JervisYohan Blake 39.05 WJLUnited StatesEvander WellsGordon McKenzieWillie PerryBrandon Myers 39.21 SBGBRion PierreAlexander NelsonWade Bennett-JacksonHarry Aikines-Aryeetey 39.24 SBNational junior records for Canada, Cayman Islands, Chinese Taipei and Singapore in the initial heats. Germany and Nigeria fumbled in the final and did not finish; however, neither were ever in medal position.4 × 400 metres relay MenUnited StatesQuentin SummersJustin OliverBryshon NellumChris Carter 3:03.76 WJLRussiaMaksim DyldinDmitriy BuryakVyacheslav SakaevAnton Kokorin 3:05.13 NJGBChris ClarkeGrant BakerKris RobertsonMartyn Rooney 3:05.49 SBKenya, in fourth set a national junior record of 3:05.54, with 800 metres medalists Kivuna and Rudisha on the last two laps, thereby improving their own record from the heats. Belgium and Czech Republic too set new NJs in the heats.High jump MenHuang HaiqiangCHN 2.32 WJLNiki PalliIsrael 2.29Bohdan BondarenkoUkraine 2.26 PBHuang, helped by an enthusiastic home crowd, improved his personal best by 4 cm to overcome pre-event favorite Palli. Oleksandr Nartov of Ukraine, a medal prospect with a personal best of 2.26 m, exited at 2.10 in the qualification round.Pole vault MenGermán ChiaraviglioArgentina 5.71 CRYang YanshengCHN 5.54 PBLeonid KivalovRussia 5.42Chiaraviglio, the reigning silver medalist, improved the championship record by 6 cm. The athletes who placed from 4th to 9th all failed to clear 5.36 m.Long jump MenRobert CrowtherAUS 8.00 AJAntone BeltUSA 7.95 PBZhang XiaoyiCHN 7.86Zhang was the world junior leader in 2006 with 8.17 metres. Mohammad Arzandeh of Iran, who set a national record, briefly held a medal position. Medal contenders such as Konstantin Safronov and Chris Noffke failed to qualify for the final.Triple jump MenBenjamin CompaoréFrance 16.61 WJLHugo ChilaEcuador 16.49Zhong MinweiCHN 16.29Shot put 6 kg2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's shot putMargus HuntEstonia 20.53 WJLMostafa Abdul El-MoatyEgypt 20.14Guo YanxiangCHN 19.97Discus throw gold medalist Hunt emerged as a complete surprise, having a personal best of 18.61 metres before the competition. He became the first athlete to win the gold both in shot and discus, after Rutger Smith won a gold and a bronze in 2000. Pre-event favorites such as Carlos Véliz, Sourabh Vij and Jan Petrus Hoffman all failed to break the 20-metre barrier in the final. National records were established for Kuwait and Uzbekistan.Discus throw 1.75 kg2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throwMargus HuntEstonia 67.32 WJLMohammad SamimiIran 63.00 NJMartin WierigGermany 62.17 PBHunt had established a new world junior record of 66.35 metres at 9:00 AM on the opening day. In the final, he improved it to 66.68 and then 67.32. It was the first WJC gold medal for Estonia. With 63.00 m in the final round, Samimi skipped from fourth to second, following in the footsteps of Ehsan Haddadi who won a gold medal for Iran with 62.14 m in 2004. The qualification round saw a national junior record for Samoa.Hammer throw 6 kg2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throwYevgeniy AydamirovRussia 78.42 CRKristóf NémethHungary 78.39Marcel LomnickýSlovakia 77.06 NJIn the qualification round Yury Shayunou of Belarus set a new championship record with 76.76 metres, beating 76.43 m from 2002. Aydamirov however, with a personal best of 82.60 metres, improved this record in the final but was seriously threatened by Németh who trailed 3 centimetres behind from the second round on. Shayunou eventually finished fourth in 76.95 metres, a national junior record, and Turkmenistan and China too got new national junior records.Javelin throw MenJohn Robert OosthuizenSouth Africa 83.07 CR Ari MannioFinland 77.26Roman AvramenkoUkraine 76.01 PBOosthuizen broke the championship record from 1996 of 79.78 metres in his second throw, and went unchallenged through the competition. New national junior records were also established for Tunisia, Serbia, Fiji (twice) and Paraguay.Decathlon MenArkadiy VasilyevRussia 8059Yordanis GarcíaCuba 7850Jordan VandermadeNew Zealand 7807Vasilyev set a championship record as the 99.0 cm hurdles were used for the very first time. García finished behind his personal best in the tougher men's decathlon event, where he has 7880 points. Women 100 metres WomenTezdzhan NaimovaBulgaria 11.28Gabby MayoUSA 11.42Carrie RussellJamaica 11.42World junior leader Alexandria Anderson finished sixth. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Singapore, Chad and the Marshall Islands.200 metres WomenTezdzhan NaimovaBulgaria 22.99 PBVanda GomesBrazil 23.59 SBEwelina KlocekPoland 23.63 PBNaimova, taking her second gold medal at the Championships, was virtually unchallenged. World junior leader Gabby Mayo finished sixth.400 metres WomenDanijela GrgićCroatia 50.78 WJLSonita SutherlandJamaica 51.42Nawal El JackSudan 51.67 SBSutherland was also the silver medalist of the 2004 edition. Two Zambian junior records were established in the qualifying rounds.800 metres WomenOlga CristeaMoldova 2:04.52 SBWinny ChebetKenya 2:04.59 PBRebekah NobleUSA 2:04.90Cristea won the first World Championships title of any kind for Moldova.1500 metres WomenIrene JelagatKenya 4:08.88 PBMercy KosgeiKenya 4:12.48Yuriko KobayashiJapan 4:12.88During the competition, national junior records were set for Serbia (twice) and Eritrea.3000 metres WomenVeronica WanjiruKenya 9:02.90 SBPauline KorikwiangKenya 9:05.21Song LiweiCHN 9:06.35 PB5000 metres WomenXue FeiCHN 15:31.61 PB Florence KiplagatKenya 15:32.34 PB Mary NgugiKenya 15:36.82 PB3000 metres steeplechase WomenCaroline TuigongKenya 9:40.95 CRAncuța BobocelRomania 9:46.19 AJR Mekdes Bekele TadeseEthiopia 1996 9:48.67The winner ran barefoot. Bobocel successfully defended her silver medal from the 2004 edition. Additional national records were set by Latvian fourth-place finisher Poļina Jeļizarova as well as for Portugal, France and Algeria in the heats.100 metres hurdles WomenYekaterina ShtepaRussia 13.33 WJLChristina VukicevicNorway 13.34 NJTiffany OfiliUSA 13.37 PB400 metres hurdles WomenKaliese SpencerJamaica 55.11 WJLNicole LeachUSA 55.55Sherene PinnockJamaica 56.67 PBPinnock was also the bronze medalist in the 2004 edition.10,000 metres walk WomenLiu HongCHN 45:12.84 PBTatyana ShemyakinaRussia 45:34.41Anamaria GreceanuRomania 46:45.67 PB4 × 100 metres relay WomenUSJeneba TarmohAlexandria AndersonElizabeth OlearGabby Mayo 43.49FranceJohanna DanoisEmilie GayduJoellie BaflanCéline Distel 44.20JamaicaNaffene BriscoeAnastasia Le-RoyCarrie RussellSchillonie Calvert 44.22 SBThe American team equalled their winning result from 2004. Calvert won her second bronze medal for Jamaica, having competed on the relay team in 2004 as well. National junior records for Norway and Slovenia as well as a South American junior record by Brazil were established in the heats.4 × 400 metres relay WomenUSJessica BeardBrandi CrossSa'de WilliamsNicole Leach 3:29.01 WJLNigeriaFolashade AbuganAjoke OdumosuJoy EzeSekinat Adesanya 3:30.84 AJJamaicaLatoya McDermottSherene PinnockSonita SutherlandKaliese Spencer 3:31.62 SBBoth Pinnock and Sutherland won relay bronze medals in 2004. The Nigerian team had already set an African junior record in the heats with 3:33.00 minutes after a sprint duel with Jamaica. The final also saw an Asian junior record by the Chinese team in fourth place.High jump WomenSvetlana RadzivilUzbekistan 1.91 NJZheng XingjuanCHN 1.88Annett EngelGERYekaterina YevseyevaKazakhstan 1.84Five athletes, among them a medal favorite Viktoria Leks, ended at 1.84 metres, two of whom shared the podium for the bronze medal.Pole vault WomenZhou YangCHN 4.30 PBTina ŠutejSlovenia 4.25 NJVicky ParnovAUS 4.20Reigning champion and favorite Lisa Ryzih exited early in the final after failing all three attempts at her opening height of 4.00 metres. The 2006 world junior leader, Valeriya Volik of Russia, finished fourth.Long jump WomenRhonda WatkinsTTO 6.46Anika LeipoldGermany 6.42Zhang YuanCHN 6.41Triple jump WomenKaire LeibakEstonia 14.43 WJLSha LiCHN 14.01 PBLiliya KulykUkraine 14.01 PBBefore the competition Leibak held the world junior leading mark with 13.96 metres, which was improved by Sha Li with 13.97 m in the qualification round. Leibak was in the lead throughout the final, but with 14.05 metres from the fourth round she was threatened by Sha and Kulyk, who both jumped 14.01 m in the fifth round. In the sixth round, however, both challengers failed to improve while Leibak jumped 14.43 metres, only 9 centimetres behind the world junior record. Patrícia Mamona in fourth place established a Portuguese junior record with 13.37 metres; a new Spanish junior record was also set in the final.Shot put WomenMelissa BoekelmanNetherlands 17.66 PBDenise HinrichsGermany 17.35Irina TarasovaRussia 17.11 PBThe shot put was the first final of the Championships. Simoné du Toit in fourth established a new African junior record with 16.95 metres.Discus throw WomenDani SamuelsAUS 60.63 WJLPan SailiCHN 57.40 SBTan JianCHN 56.09With 60.22 metres from the first round, Samuels went unthreatened throughout the competition. Annelies Peetroons in fourth place set a new Belgian junior record.Hammer throw WomenBianca PerieRomania 67.38 CRAnna BulgakovaRussia 65.73Hao ShuaiCHN 64.26Perie became the first World Youth champion from 2005 to win a gold medal in Beijing. The new championships record was an improvement of Marina Smolyachkova's 66.81 metres from 2004. Zalina Marghiev of Moldova was in bronze medal position until the final round.Javelin throw WomenSandra SchaffarzikGermany 60.45 CRVira RebrykUkraine 57.79 NJ Marharyta DorozhonUkraine 57.68 PBReigning champion Vivian Zimmer, who held the previous championship record with 58.50 metres, finished in seventh place. Like in the men's javelin competition, the winner was never challenged.Heptathlon WomenTatyana ChernovaRussia 6227 WJLIda MarcussenNorway 6020 NJYana PanteleyevaRussia 5979A close competition for the silver and bronze medals saw Marcussen prevail despite finishing behind Iryna Ilkevych of Ukraine in the 800 metres race. Ilkevych ended in fourth place with a national junior record of 5952 points. The winning score of 5868 from 2004 would only have been good enough for a fifth place in 2006. Medal table thumb|180px|An 800 metres win was the first major title for David Rudisha of Kenya. thumb|200px|Artur Noga took the 110 metres hurdles gold for Poland. thumb|Kaliese Spencer of Jamaica won the 400 metres hurdles. CHN Flagcountry 6 7 2 5 5 7 yes 4 5 2 4 3 3 4 0 0 2 1 5 2 1 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 2 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 5 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 Participation According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, Peters Lionel Magnusson Tomas WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2006 Beijing CHN Aug 15-20 http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/WJC/WJC2006.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130312025231/http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/WJC/WJC2006.html 12 March 2013 WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH") 13 June 2015 1350 athletes from 176 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. 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