1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics

1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Host cityGreece Athens, Greece
Nations142
Athletes1135
Events41
Dates16–20 July
Main venueAthens Olympic Stadium

The 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was the inaugural 1986 edition of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Athens, Greece on 16–20 July.

Results

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Men

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Derrick Florence
 United States
10.17 Stanley Kerr
 United States
10.23 Jamie Henderson
 Great Britain
10.34
200 metres
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Stanley Kerr
 United States
20.74 Derrick Florence
 United States
21.12 Steve McBain
 Australia
21.21
400 metres
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Miles Murphy
 Australia
45.64 Roberto Hernández
 Cuba
45.64 Edgar Itt
 West Germany
45.72
800 metres
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David Sharpe
 Great Britain
1:48.32 Manuel Balmaceda
 Chile
1:48.91 Andrey Sudnik
 Soviet Union
1:48.93
1500 metres
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Wilfred Kirochi
 Kenya
3:44.62 Peter Rono
 Kenya
3:45.62 Johan Boakes
 Great Britain
3:45.80
5000 metres
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Peter Chumba
 Kenya
13:55.25 Alejandro Gómez
 Spain
13:55.94 Feyisa Melese
 Ethiopia
13:56.45
10,000 metres
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Peter Chumba
 Kenya
28:44.00 Juma Munyampanda
 Tanzania
28:45.14 Debebe Demisse
 Ethiopia
28:49.09
20 kilometres road run
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Tadesse Gebre
 Ethiopia
1:01:32 Juma Munyampanda
 Tanzania
1:01:45 Negash Dube
 Ethiopia
1:04:23
110 metres hurdles
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Colin Jackson
 Great Britain
13.44 Jon Ridgeon
 Great Britain
13.91 Emilio Valle
 Cuba
14.00
400 metres hurdles
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Emilio Valle
 Cuba
50.02 Hiroshi Kakimori
 Japan
50.09 Pascal Maran
 France
50.39
2000 metres steeplechase
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Jon Azkueta
 Spain
5:28.56 Johnstone Kipkoech
 Kenya
5:29.56 Jens Volkmann
 West Germany
5:29.60
10,000 metres walk
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Mikhail Shchennikov
 Soviet Union
40:38.01 Salvatore Cacia
 Italy
40:40.73 Ricardo Pueyo
 Spain
40:41.05
4 × 100 metres relay
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 Great Britain
Jamie Henderson
Phil Goedluck
David Kirton
Jon Ridgeon
39.80  West Germany
Matthias Schlicht
Frank Kobor
Oliver Schmidt
Ingo Todt
39.81  Poland
Jarosław Kaniecki
Tomasz Jędrusik
Jacek Konopka
Marek Parjaszewski
39.98
4 × 400 metres relay
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 United States
Clifton Campbell
Chip Rish
Percy Waddle
William Reed
3:01.90  Cuba
Luis Cadogan
Eulogio Mordoche
Ramiro González
Roberto Hernández
3:04.22  Jamaica
Anthony Christie
Thomas Mason
Howard Davis
Lyndale Patterson
3:05.16
High jump
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Javier Sotomayor
 Cuba
2.25 Hollis Conway
 United States
2.22 Thomas Müller
 East Germany
2.22
Pole vault
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Igor Potapovich
 Soviet Union
5.50 Delko Lesev
 Bulgaria
5.40 Mike Thiede
 East Germany
5.30
Long jump
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Dietmar Haaf
 West Germany
7.93 Ivo Krsek
 Czechoslovakia
7.87 Thomas Wolf
 East Germany
7.77
Triple jump
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Igor Parygin
 Soviet Union
16.97 Zdravko Dimitrov
 Bulgaria
16.13 Du Benghong
 China
16.00
Shot put
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Aleksejs Lukašenko
 Soviet Union
18.90 Vyacheslav Lykho
 Soviet Union
18.71 Radoslav Despotov
 Bulgaria
18.17
Discus throw
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Vasil Baklarov
 Bulgaria
60.60 Werner Reiterer
 Australia
58.64 Vasiliy Kaptyukh
 Soviet Union
58.22
Hammer throw
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Vitaliy Alisevich
 Soviet Union
72.00 Valeriy Gubkin
 Soviet Union
71.78 Sabin Khristov
 Bulgaria
68.96
Javelin throw
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Uladzimir Sasimovich
 Soviet Union
78.84 Mark Roberson
 Great Britain
74.24 Gavin Lovegrove
 New Zealand
74.22
Decathlon
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Petri Keskitalo
 Finland
7623 Mike Smith
 Canada
7523 Nikolay Zayats
 Soviet Union
7509
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

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Tina Iheagwam
 Nigeria
11.34 Caryl Smith
 United States
11.46 Maicel Malone
 United States
11.49
200 metres
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Falilat Ogunkoya
 Nigeria
23.11 Mary Onyali
 Nigeria
23.30 Katrin Krabbe
 East Germany
23.31
400 metres
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Susann Sieger
 East Germany
52.02 Olga Pesnopevtseva
 Soviet Union
52.17 Sandie Richards
 Jamaica
52.23
800 metres
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Selina Chirchir
 Kenya
2:01.40 Gabriela Sedláková
 Czechoslovakia
2:01.49 Adriana Dumitru
 Romania
2:01.93
1500 metres
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Ana Padurean
 Romania
4:14.63 Selina Chirchir
 Kenya
4:15.59 Snežana Pajkić
 Yugoslavia
4:16.03
3000 metres
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Cleopatra Palacian
 Romania
9:02.91 Philippa Mason
 Great Britain
9:03.35 Dorina Calenic
 Romania
9:06.94
10,000 metres
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Katrin Kley
 East Germany
33:19.67 Nora Maraga
 Kenya
33:57.99 Marleen Renders
 Belgium
33:59.36
100 metres hurdles
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Heike Tillack
 East Germany
13.10 Aliuska López
 Cuba
13.14 Tanya Davis
 United States
13.46
400 metres hurdles
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Claudia Bartl
 East Germany
56.76 Kellie Roberts
 United States
56.80 Svetlana Lukashevich
 Soviet Union
57.92
5000 metres walk
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Wang Yan
 China
22:03.65 Natalya Zykova
 Soviet Union
22:17.76 Jin Bingjie
 China
22:17.83
4 × 100 metres relay
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 United States
Carlette Guidry
Caryl Smith
Denise Liles
Maicel Malone
43.78  East Germany
Ina Morgenstern
Katrin Krabbe
Britta Beisbier
Heike Tillack
43.97  Nigeria
Tina Iheagwam
Caroline Nwajei
Falilat Ogunkoya
Mary Onyali
44.13
4 × 400 metres relay
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 United States
Gisele Harris
Kandice Princhett
Tasha Downing
Janeene Vickers
3:30.45  East Germany
Heike Böckmann
Claudia Bartl
Katja Prochnow
Susanne Sieger
3:30.90  Soviet Union
Svetlana Lukashevich
Marina Khripankova
Tatyana Chebykina
Olga Pesnopevtseva
3:32.35
High jump
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Karen Scholz
 East Germany
1.92 Galina Astafei
 Romania
1.90 Yelena Obukhova
 Soviet Union
1.88
Long jump
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Patricia Bille
 East Germany
6.70 Anu Kaljurand
 Soviet Union
6.46 Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan
 Soviet Union
6.39
Shot put
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Heike Rohrmann
 East Germany
18.39 Stephanie Storp
 West Germany
18.20 Ines Wittich
 East Germany
18.19
Discus throw
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Ilke Wyludda
 East Germany
64.02 Franka Dietzsch
 East Germany
60.26 Min Chunfeng
 China
54.00
Javelin throw
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Xiomara Rivero
 Cuba
62.86 Anja Reiter
 East Germany
60.24 Alexandra Beck
 East Germany
59.92
Heptathlon
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Svetla Dimitrova
 Bulgaria
6041 Marina Shcherbina
 Soviet Union
5953 Anke Schmidt
 East Germany
5900
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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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 East Germany84719
2 Soviet Union66719
3 United States55212
4 Kenya4419
5 Great Britain3328
6 Cuba3317
7 Bulgaria (BUL)2226
8 Romania (ROM)2125
9 Nigeria2114
10 West Germany1225
11 Australia1113
 Spain1113
13 China1034
14 Ethiopia (ETH)1023
15 Finland1001
16 Czechoslovakia0202
 Tanzania0202
18 Canada0101
 Chile0101
 Italy0101
 Japan0101
22 Jamaica0022
23 Belgium0011
 France0011
 New Zealand0011
 Poland0011
 Yugoslavia0011
Totals (27 entries)414141123

Participation

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According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,[1] 1135 athletes from 142 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1986 Athens GRE Jul 16-20, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 26 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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