2018 World U20 Championships in Athletics

Host city	Tampere, Finland
Nations	156 + 2 teams
Athletes	1462
Events	44
Dates	10–15 July
Opened by	Sauli Niinistö
Main venue	Ratina Stadium
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The 2018 World U20 Championships in Athletics, also known as the World Junior Championships, was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 1999) which was held at Tampere Stadium in Tampere, Finland on 10–15 July 2018. ^[1] The championships were originally awarded to Tampere by the IAAF in March, 2016. ^[2]

Schedule

All dates are EEST ( UTC+3)

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Qualifying Standards

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Men's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Lalu Muhammad Zohri   Indonesia	10.18 NJR	Anthony Schwartz   United States	10.22	Eric Harrison   United States	10.22 PB
200 m details	Jona Efoloko   Great Britain	20.48 PB	Charles Dobson   Great Britain	20.57	Eric Harrison   United States	20.79
400 m details	Jonathan Sacoor   Belgium	45.03 NJR	Christopher Taylor   Jamaica	45.38	Chantz Sawyers   Jamaica	45.89
800 m details	Solomon Lekuta [ fr]   Kenya	1:46.35	Ngeno Kipngetich   Kenya	1:46.45 PB	Eliott Crestan   Belgium	1:47.27
1500 m details	George Manangoi   Kenya	3:41.71	Jakob Ingebrigtsen   Norway	3:41.89	Justus Soget   Kenya	3:42.14
5000 m details	Edward Zakayo   Kenya	13:20.16	Stanley Mburu   Kenya	13:20.57	Jakob Ingebrigtsen   Norway	13:20.78 AJR
10,000 m details	Rhonex Kipruto   Kenya	27:21.08 CR	Jacob Kiplimo   Uganda	27:40.36	Berihu Aregawi   Ethiopia	27:48.41 PB
110 m hurdles (99.0 cm) details	Damion Thomas   Jamaica	13.18	Orlando Bennett   Jamaica	13.33	Shunsuke Izumiya   Japan	13.38 PB
400 m hurdles details	Sokwakhana Zazini   South Africa	49.42	Bassem Hemeida   Qatar	49.59 PB	Alison dos Santos   Brazil	49.78 PB
3000 m steeplechase details	Takele Nigate   Ethiopia	8:25.35 SB	Leonard Bett   Kenya	8:25.39	Getnet Wale   Ethiopia	8:26.16 SB
4×100 m relay details	United States Eric Harrison Anthony Schwartz Austin Kratz Micah Williams	38.88 WJL	Jamaica Xavier Nairne Christopher Taylor Jhevaughn Matherson Michael Stephens	38.96 NJR	Germany Lucas Ansah-Peprah Marvin Schulte Milo Skupin-Alfa Luis Brandner	39.22
4×400 m relay details	Italy Klaudio Gjetja Andrea Romani Alessandro Sibilio Edoardo Scotti Lorenzo Benati (heats)	3:04.05 WJL, AJR [5]	United States Elija Godwin Nicholas Ramey Justin Robinson Howard Fields Matthew Boling Umajesty Williams	3:05.24	Great Britain Alex Haydock-Wilson Joseph Brier Alastair Chalmers Alex Knibbs	3:05.64
10,000 m walk details	Zhang Yao   China	40:32.06 PB	David Hurtado   Ecuador	40:32.06 PB	José Ortiz   Guatemala	40:45.26 PB

• WJR (World Junior Record), WJL (World Junior Leader), CR (Championship Record), AJR (Area Junior Record), NJR (National Junior Record ), PB (Personal Best), SB (Season Best)

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Adónios Mérlos  [ fr] PB   Greece Roberto Vílches   Mexico	2.23m	Not Awarded		JuVaughn Blake PB   United States Breyton Poole   South Africa	2.23m
Pole vault details	Armand Duplantis   Sweden	5.82m CR	Zachery Bradford   United States	5.55m PB	Masaki Ejima   Japan	5.55m
Long jump details	Yuki Hashioka   Japan	8.03m	Maikel Vidal   Cuba	7.99m	Wayne Pinnock   Jamaica	7.90m
Triple jump details	Jordan Díaz   Cuba	17.15m CR	Martin Lamou [ fr]   France	16.44m	Jonathan Seremes [ es]   France	16.18m PB
Shot put (6 kg) details	Kyle Blignaut   South Africa	22.07m WJL	Adrian Piperi   United States	22.06m AJR	Odisséas Mouzenídis [ fr]   Greece	21.07m NJR
Discus throw (1.750 kg) details	Kai Chang   Jamaica	62.36m PB	Yauheni Bahutski   Belarus	61.75m	Claudio Romero   Chile	60.81m SB
Hammer throw (6 kg) details	Jake Norris   Great Britain	80.65m NJR	Mykhaylo Kokhan   Ukraine	79.68m PB	Mykhaylo Havryliuk [ es]   Ukraine	77.71m PB
Javelin throw details	Nash Lowis   Australia	75.31m PB	Tzuriel Pedigo   United States	73.76m PB	Maurice Voigt   Germany	73.44m PB
Decathlon (junior) details	Ashley Moloney   Australia	8190 pts CR, AJR, WJL	Gary Haasbroek   Australia	7798 pts PB	Simon Ehammer   Switzerland	7642 pts PB

• WJR (World Junior Record), WJL (World Junior Leader), CR (Championship Record), AJR (Area Junior Record), NJR (National Junior Record ), PB (Personal Best), SB (Season Best)

Women's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Briana Williams   Jamaica	11.16	Twanisha Terry   United States	11.19	Kristal Awuah   Great Britain	11.37
200 m details	Briana Williams   Jamaica	22.50 CR	Lauren Rain Williams   United States	23.09	Martyna Kotwiła   Poland	23.21 NJR
400 m details	Hima Das   India	51.46	Andrea Miklós   Romania	52.07 PB	Taylor Manson   United States	52.28
800 m details	Diribe Welteji   Ethiopia	1:59.74 CR, WJL	Carly Thomas   Australia	2:01.13 PB	Delia Sclabas   Switzerland	2:01.29 NJR
1500 m details	Alemaz Samuel   Ethiopia	4:09.67	Miriam Cherop   Kenya	4:10.73	Delia Sclabas   Switzerland	4:11.98
3000 m details	Nozomi Tanaka   Japan	8:54.01 PB	Meselu Berhe   Ethiopia	8:56.39 PB	Tsigie Gebreselama   Ethiopia	8:59.20 PB
5000 m details	Beatrice Chebet   Kenya	15:30.77 PB	Ejgayehu Taye   Ethiopia	15:30.87 PB	Girmawit Gebrzihair   Ethiopia	15:34.01 PB
100 m hurdles details	Tia Jones   United States	13.01	Britany Anderson   Jamaica	13.01 PB	Cortney Jones   United States	13.19
400 m hurdles details	Zenéy van der Walt   South Africa	55.34	Shiann Salmon   Jamaica	56.11	Yasmin Giger   Switzerland	56.98
3000 m steeplechase details	Celliphine Chespol   Kenya	9:12.79 CR	Peruth Chemutai   Uganda	9:18.87	Winfred Mutile Yavi   Bahrain	9:23.47
4×100 m relay details	Germany Victoria Dönicke Corinna Schwab Sophia Junk Denise Uphoff	43.82	Ireland Molly Scott Gina Akpe-Moses Ciara Neville Patience Jumbo Gula	43.90 NJR	Great Britain Kristal Awuah Alisha Rees Georgina Adam Ebony Carr	44.05
4×400 m relay details	United States Symone Mason Shae Anderson Julia Madubuike Taylor Manson	3:28.74 WJL	Australia Ella Connolly Cara Jardine Jemima Russell Carley Thomas	3:31.36 SB	Jamaica Janielle Josephs Stacey-Ann Williams Shiann Salmon Calisha Taylor	3:31.90 SB
10,000 m walk details	Alegna González   Mexico	44:13.88 WJL	Meryem Bekmez   Turkey	44:17.69 NJR	Glenda Morejón   Ecuador	44:19.40 AJR

• WJR (World Junior Record), WJL (World Junior Leader), CR (Championship Record), AJR (Area Junior Record), NJR (National Junior Record ), PB (Personal Best), SB (Season Best)

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Karyna Taranda   Belarus	1.92m NJR	Sommer Lecky   Ireland	1.90m NJR	María Fernanda Murillo   Colombia	1.90m AJR
Pole vault details	Amálie Švábíková   Czech Republic	4.51m NJR	Lisa Gunnarsson   Sweden	4.35m	Alice Moindrot   France	4.35m
Long jump details	Lea-Jasmine Riecke   Germany	6.51m PB	Ayaka Kora   Japan	6.37m	Tara Davis   United States	6.36m
Triple jump details	Aleksandra Nacheva   Bulgaria	14.18m WJL PB	Mirieli Santos   Brazil	13.81m PB	Davisleydi Velazco   Cuba	13.78m
Shot put details	Maddi Wesche   New Zealand	17.09m PB	Zhang Linru   China	17.05m	Jorinde van Klinken   Netherlands	17.05m
Discus throw details	Alexandra Emilianov   Moldova	57.89m	Helena Leveelahti   Finland	56.80m NJR	Silinda Morales   Cuba	55.37m PB
Hammer throw details	Camryn Rogers   Canada	64.90m	Alyssa Wilson   United States	64.45m	Yanitza Martínez   Cuba	63.82m
Javelin throw details	Alina Shukh   Ukraine	55.95m	Tomoka Kuwazoe   Japan	55.66m	Dana Baker   United States	55.04m PB
Heptathlon details	Niamh Emerson   Great Britain	6253 pts WJL	Sarah Lagger   Austria	6225 pts NJR	Adrianna Sułek   Poland	5939 pts NJR

• WJR (World Junior Record), WJL (World Junior Leader), CR (Championship Record), AJR (Area Junior Record), NJR (National Junior Record ), PB (Personal Best), SB (Season Best)

Medal table

Kenya won the ranking in the medal table.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	6	4	1	11
2	Jamaica	4	5	3	12
3	United States	3	8	7	18
4	Ethiopia	3	2	4	9
5	Great Britain	3	1	3	7
6	South Africa	3	0	1	4
7	Australia	2	3	0	5
8	Japan	2	2	2	6
9	Germany	2	0	2	4
10	Mexico	2	0	0	2
11	Cuba	1	1	3	5
12	Ukraine	1	1	1	3
13	Belarus	1	1	0	2
	China	1	1	0	2
	Sweden	1	1	0	2
16	Belgium	1	0	1	2
	Greece	1	0	1	2
18	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	India	1	0	0	1
	Indonesia	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Moldova	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
26	Ireland	0	2	0	2
	Uganda	0	2	0	2
28	France	0	1	2	3
29	Brazil	0	1	1	2
	Ecuador	0	1	1	2
	Norway	0	1	1	2
32	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Finland*	0	1	0	1
	Qatar	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
37	Switzerland	0	0	4	4
38	Poland	0	0	2	2
39	Bahrain	0	0	1	1
	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Guatemala	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (43 entries)		45	43	45	133

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Placing table

USA won the ranking in the placing table. ^[7]

Rank	Country				4	5	6	7	8	Points
1	United States	3	8	7	0	1	5	6	2	155
2	Kenya	6	4	1	2	4	0	1	2	112
3	Jamaica	4	5	3	1	1	1	2	0	101
4	Ethiopia	3	2	4	2	5	2	0	0	98
5	Germany	2	0	2	5	3	2	3	3	80
	Great Britain	3	1	3	1	2	3	4	1	80
7	Japan	2	2	2	3	2	1	2	3	75
8	Australia	2	3	0	2	3	2	3	0	71
9	China	1	1	0	3	2	5	2	0	57
10	France	0	1	2	4	2	1	0	2	52
11	Cuba	1	1	3	2	1	0	0	0	47
12	South Africa	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	40
13	Italy	1	0	0	2	2	2	1	4	38
14	Switzerland	0	0	4	0	1	2	0	1	35
15	Uganda	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	32
16	Sweden	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	26
17	Ukraine	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	25
	Belgium	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	25
19	Belarus	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	24
	Poland	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	24
21	India	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	23
	Brazil	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	23
23	Canada	1	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	22
24	Norway	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	18
25	Mexico	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16
26	Finland	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	15
	Ireland	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	15
	Spain	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	15
29	Greece	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14
	Czech Republic	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	14
	New Zealand	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	14
32	Turkey	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	13
	Ecuador	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	13
	Romania	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	13
35	Qatar	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	11
36	Austria	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	10
37	Slovakia	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	9
38	Hungary	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	8
	Netherlands	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	8
	Bulgaria	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
	Moldova	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
	Indonesia	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
43	Chile	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
	Eritrea	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	6
	Guatemala	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
	Colombia	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
	Bahamas	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
48	Armenia	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
	Slovenia	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
	Portugal	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
51	Latvia	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
	Serbia	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	4
53	Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
54	Algeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Iran	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Cyprus	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Morocco	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
61	Taiwan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
	Barbados	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

Participation

The following is a list of participating nations with the number of qualified athletes in brackets. A country without any qualified athlete could enter either one male or one female. ^[4] A total 156 countries (plus the teams from Authorized Neutral Athletes and Athlete Refugee team) and 1462 athletes were scheduled to compete.^{[ citation needed]}

References

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