2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics

Host city	Cali, Colombia
Events	40
Dates	15–19 July
Main venue	Estadio Pascual Guerrero
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The 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics was the ninth edition of the biennial international athletics competition for youth (under-18) athletes. The five-day competition took place between 15 and 19 July at the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero stadium in Cali, Colombia. ^{[1] [2]} Eligible athletes were aged 16 or 17 on 31 December 2015 (born in 1998 or 1999).

Medal summary

Boys

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown   Japan	10.28 CR	Derick Silva   Brazil	10.49	Rechmial Miller   Great Britain	10.59
200 metres details	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown   Japan	20.34 CR	Kyle Appel   South Africa	20.57 PB	Josephus Lyles   United States	20.74 PB
400 metres details	Christopher Taylor   Jamaica	45.27 WYL	Josephus Lyles   United States	45.46 PB	Keshun Reed   United States	45.96
800 metres details	Willy Tarbei [ fr]   Kenya	1:45.58	Kipyegon Bett   Kenya	1:45.86	Luis Fernando Pires   Brazil	1:48.61 PB
1500 metres details	Kumari Taki   Kenya	3:36.38 CR	Mulugeta Assefa   Ethiopia	3:41.10 PB	Lawi Kosgei   Kenya	3:41.43
3000 metres details	Richard Yator Kimunyan   Kenya	7:54.45	Davis Kiplangat   Kenya	7:54.52	Tefera Mosisa   Ethiopia	7:55.04 PB
110 metres hurdles details	Mattéo Ngo   France	13.53 PB	Joseph Daniels   Canada	13.54	Isaiah Lucas   United States	13.54
400 metres hurdles details	Norman Grimes   United States	49.11 WYL	Ryusei Fujii   Japan	50.33 PB	Masaki Toyoda   Japan	50.53 PB
2000 metres steeplechase details	Vincent Kipyegon Ruto   Kenya	5:27.58	Wogene Sebisibe   Ethiopia	5:29.41 PB	Geofrey Rotich   Kenya	5:30.16 PB
10,000 metres walk details	Sergey Shirobokov   Russia	42.24.41	Zhang Jun   China	42.33.68 PB	Federico González   Mexico	42.54.55
High jump details	Stefano Sottile   Italy	2.20 WYL	Dmytro Nikitin   Ukraine	2.18 PB	Darius Carbin   United States	2.16 PB
Pole vault details	Armand Duplantis   Sweden	5.30 CR	Vladyslav Malykhin   Ukraine	5.30 CR	Emmanouil Karalis   Greece	5.20
Long jump details	Maykel Massó   Cuba	8.05 CR	Darcy Roper   Australia	8.01PB	Eberson Silva   Brazil	7.76 PB
Triple jump details	Cristian Nápoles   Cuba	16.13	Du Mingze   China	16.02 PB	Julio César Carbonell   Cuba	15.70
Shot put details	Adrian Piperi   United States	22.00 WYL	Szymon Mazur   Poland	21.77 PB	Wictor Petersson   Sweden	21.56 PB
Discus throw details	Werner Visser   South Africa	64.24	Wang Yuhan   China	60.33 PB	George Evans   Great Britain	60.22
Hammer throw details	Hlib Piskunov   Ukraine	84.91 CR	Mykhaylo Havryliuk   Ukraine	78.93 PB	Ned Weatherly   Australia	77.60
Javelin throw details	Paul Botha   South Africa	78.49 PB	Niklas Kaul   Germany	78.05	Vladislav Palyunin   Uzbekistan	76.77
Decathlon details	Niklas Kaul   Germany	8002 WYB	Ludovic Besson [ fr]   France	7678 PB	Hans-Christian Hausenberg   Estonia	7657

Girls

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Candace Hill   United States	11.08 CR	Khalifa St.Fort   Trinidad and Tobago	11.19 PB	Jayla Kirkland   United States	11.41 PB
200 metres details	Candace Hill   United States	22.43 WYB	Lauren Rain Williams   United States	22.90 PB	Nicola De Bruyn   South Africa	23.38 PB
400 metres details	Salwa Eid Naser   Bahrain	51.50 WYL	Lynna Irby   United States	51.79 PB	Catherine Reid   Great Britain	52.25 PB
800 metres details	Samantha Watson   United States	2:03.54 PB	Gadese Ejara   Ethiopia	2:03.67 PB	Marta Zenoni   Italy	2:04.15
1500 metres details	Bedatu Hirpa   Ethiopia	4:12.92 WYL	Dalila Abdulkadir Gosa   Bahrain	4:13.35 PB	Joyline Cherotich   Kenya	4:15.20 PB
3000 metres details	Shuru Bulo   Ethiopia	9:01.12 WYL	Emily Chebet Kipchumba   Kenya	9:02.92 PB	Sheila Chelangat   Kenya	9:04.54 PB
100 metres hurdles details	Maribel Vanessa Caicedo   Ecuador	13.04 PB	Brittley Humphrey   United States	13.22 PB	Sarah Koutouan   France	13.29
400 metres hurdles details	Sydney McLaughlin   United States	55.94 CR	Xahria Santiago   Canada	56.79 PB	Brandeé Johnson   United States	57.47 PB
2000 metres steeplechase details	Celliphine Chepteek Chespol   Kenya	6:17.15 PB	Sandrafelis Chebet Tuei   Kenya	6:19.61	Agrie Belachew   Ethiopia	6:34.68
5000 metres walk details	Ma Zhenxia   China	22:41.08 SB	Olga Eliseeva   Russia	22:45.09	Ayalnesh Dejene   Ethiopia	22:48.25 PB
High jump details	Michaela Hrubá   Czech Republic	1.90	Ieva Turke   Latvia	1.82 PB	Lada Pejchalová   Czech Republic	1.82
Pole vault details	Elienor Werner   Sweden	4.26 WYL	Phillipa Hajdasz   Australia	4.05 PB	Not awarded
			Chen Qiaoling   China
Long jump details	Tara Davis   United States	6.41 PB	Kaiza Karlén   Sweden	6.24 PB	Maja Bedrac   Slovenia	6.22
Triple jump details	Georgiana Iuliana Anitei   Romania	13.49 WYL	Zeng Rui   China	13.04 PB	Yanna Anay Armenteros   Cuba	13.04
Shot put details	Julia Ritter   Germany	18.53 PB	Sophia Rivera   United States	17.93	Kristina Rakočević   Montenegro	17.49
Discus throw details	Alexandra Emilianov   Moldova	52.78 PB	Kristina Rakočević   Montenegro	51.41	Samantha Peace   Australia	50.59 PB
Hammer throw details	Sofiya Palkina   Russia	67.82	Deniz Yaylaci   Turkey	67.01 PB	Shang Ningyu   China	66.84 PB
Javelin throw details	Haruka Kitaguchi   Japan	60.35 PB	Stella Weinberg   Norway	57.11 PB	Laine Donane   Latvia	56.15
Heptathlon details	Géraldine Ruckstuhl   Switzerland	6037 CR	Sarah Lagger   Austria	5992	Alina Shukh   Ukraine	5896

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Keshun Reed Lynna Irby Norman Grimes Samantha Watson	3:19.54	South Africa André Nicholas Marich Renate Van Tonder Taylon Bieldt Kyle Appel	3:23.60	Canada Nathan Friginette Ashlan Best Dean Ellenwood Kyra Constantine	3:23.60

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Colombia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	5	6	19
2	Kenya (KEN)	5	4	4	13
3	Japan (JPN)	3	1	1	5
4	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	3	3	8
5	South Africa (RSA)	2	2	1	5
6	Sweden (SWE)	2	1	1	4
7	Germany (GER)	2	1	0	3
	Russia (RUS)	2	1	0	3
9	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	2	4
10	China (CHN)	1	5	1	7
11	Ukraine (UKR)	1	3	1	5
12	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
13	Bahrain (BHR)	1	1	0	2
14	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
16	Ecuador (ECU)	1	0	0	1
	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
21	Australia (AUS)	0	2	2	4
22	Canada (CAN)	0	2	1	3
23	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	2	3
24	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	1	2
	Montenegro (MNE)	0	1	1	2
26	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
31	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	3	3
32	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
37	Colombia (COL)*	0	0	0	0
Totals (37 entries)		39	40	38	117

References

External links

• Official 2015 World Youth Championships website Archived 2015-12-27 at the Wayback Machine at IAAF
• Official website
• Official statistics handbook
• Results at World Athletics