World Athletics Championships 1999

1st World Youth Athletics Championships (U18)
The Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium after the renovation in 2008
city	Bydgoszcz , Poland
Stadion	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium
participating countries	137
Participating athletes	1,103 (597 boys) (506 girls)
Competitions	39
opening	July 16, 1999
Final day	July 18, 1999
timeline
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The 1st World Athletics Championships took place from July 16 to 18, 1999 in the Polish city ​​of Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg) in the local Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium .

The 1,103 athletes (506 girls and 597 boys) came from 137 countries.

Boys

100 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Mark Lewis-Francis	GBR	10.40
2	Bryan Sears	United States	10.42
3	Omar Brown	JAM	10.43
4th	Kazuya Kitamura	JPN	10.50
5	Salem Mubarak Al-Yami	KSA	10.51
6th	Tim Goebel	GER	10.54
7th	Davion Spence	JAM	10.59
8th	Taiwo Ajibade	NGR	10.63

200 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Timothy Benjamin	GBR	20.72
2	Omar Brown	JAM	21.09
3	Bryan Sears	United States	21.16
4th	Matthew Bouveng	OUT	21.53
5	Salem Mubarak Al-Yami	KSA	21.54
6th	Winston Smith	JAM	21.76
7th	Sam Watts	GBR	22.00
8th	Jacner Palacios	COL	21.88

400 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	William Mandla Nkosi	RSA	46.94
2	Glaudel Garzón	CUB	47.00
3	Mark Van Soest	RSA	47.19
4th	Japheth Ogamba	KEN	47.32
5	Ivory McCann	United States	47.55
6th	Travon Walton	United States	47.92
7th	Hamed Hamdan AlBishi	KSA	48.03
	Nicholas Wachira	KEN	DNS

800 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Nicholas Wachira	KEN	1: 50.70
2	Berhanu Alemu	ETH	1: 50.79
3	Mohammad Al-Azemi	KUW	1: 51.24
4th	Philip Rotich	KEN	1: 51.53
5	Lucas Seleka	RSA	1; 53.64
6th	Catalin Netcu	ROU	1: 53.89
7th	Erik Sproll	CAN	1: 53.92
	William Mandla Nkosi	RSA	DNF

1500 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Cornelius Chirchir	KEN	3: 44.02
2	Michael Too	KEN	3: 44.70
3	Osman Yusif	KSA	3: 45.53
4th	Abubaker Ali Kamal	QAT	3: 45.72
5	Johan Cronje	RSA	3: 46.45
6th	Hamza Abdenouz	ALG	3: 48.46
7th	Nikolai Babichev	RUS	3: 50.05
8th	Mark Fountain	OUT	3: 50.70

3000 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Pius Maluko Muli	KEN	8: 08.16
2	Kenenisa Bekele	ETH	8: 09.89
3	Anouar Assila	MAR	8: 13.54
4th	Hussan Adelo	ETH	8: 20.87
5	Shuichi Fujii	JPN	8: 21.23
6th	Mohamed Muktar Jama	GBR	8: 21.25
7th	Job Sikoria	UGA	8: 21.96
8th	Michael Kipkorir Kipyego	KEN	8: 22.17

10,000 m of walking

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Yevgeny Demkov	RUS	42: 26.07
2	Alexander Strokov	RUS	42: 36.52
3	Takayuki Tanii	JPN	42: 40.86
4th	Benjamin Kuciński	POLE	44: 24.26
5	Horacio Nava	MEX	44: 41.89
6th	Andrei Talashka	BLR	45: 29.60
7th	Colin Griffin	IRL	46: 14.36
8th	Matej Tóth	SVK	46: 49.33

110 m hurdles

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Ladji Doucouré	FRA	13.26
2	Nassim Mezian Brahimi	QAT	13.36
3	Paul Whitty	CAN	13.59
4th	Stefanos Ioannou	CYP	13.77
5	Joshua Walker	United States	13.84
6th	André Streese	GER	13.88
7th	Ruaan Vorster	RSA	13.97
8th	Adel Al Saihati	KSA	13.99

400 m hurdles

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Marnus Kritzinger	RSA	49.86
2	Sergio Hierrezuelo	CUB	49.95
3	Vincent Mumo Kiilu	KEN	51.50
4th	Sean Avery	OUT	52.01
5	Tristan Anthony	GBR	52.20
6th	Alexander Borschtschenko	RUS	52.34
7th	Jeffrey Christie	United States	52.69
8th	Mikhail Lipski	RUS	52.95

2000 m obstacle

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Saif Saaeed Shaheen	KEN	5: 31.89
2	Luleseged whales	ETH	5: 32.61
3	Philip Simbolei	KEN	5: 41.77
4th	Liam Reale	IRL	5: 50.41
5	Said Hersi	QAT	5: 54.04
6th	Thomas Hopkins	GBR	5: 54.43
7th	Rami Ghazi	KSA	5; 54.46
8th	Hristóforos Meroúsis	GRE	5: 55.01

4 × 100 m relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	Jamaica	Winston Smith Michael Frater Davion Spence Omar Brown	40.03
2	Japan	Yosuke Tahara Kazuya Kitamura Yoshitaka Kaneko Yusuke Omae	40.14
3	Germany	Johannes Fischer Christoph Lehner Norman Grittke André Streese	41.13
4th	Spain	Martin Rodriguez-Fraile Txomi Txurruka Guillermo Vidal Iñaki Casas	41.36
5	Hungary	Gergely Lèpold Gergely Nagy Làszlò Jankovics Kornél Horváth	41.86
6th	United States	Joshua Walker Duriel Laird Brandon Royster Allen Simms	42.30
7th	Chinese Taipei	Ming-Yung Liu Ying-Chi Chen Ying-Yu Chen Chieh-Huan Lee	51.11
	South Africa	Janko Kotze Samuel Montsitsi Ruaan Vorster Nicolaas Grimbeeck	DSQ

Sprint relay (100 m - 200 m - 300 m - 400 m)

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	United States	Jonathan Lott Bryan Sears Travon Walton Ivory McCann	1: 51.29
2	South Africa	William Mandla Nkosi Warren October Marnus Kritzinger Mark Van Soest	1: 52.49
3	Japan	Toshio Imura Takeshi Yoneda Masakatsu Tanaka Tsutomu Takahashi	1: 54.10
4th	Czech Republic	Tomáš Knébl Jan Mazanec Jirí Kmínek Jan Vrba	1: 54.26
5	Hungary	Gergely Lèpold Gergely Nagy Zsolt Prosser Sándor Gombos	1: 54.35
6th	Greece	Evággelos Halastáras Loúis Tsátoumas Charilaos Pappas George Thriskos	1: 56.83
7th	Malaysia	Mohd Shahrizal Mohamad Boniface Lejau Mohd Radzuan Nadzar Muhamad Zaiful Zainal Abidin	1: 56.99
8th	Slovenia	Tilen Suhadolnik Matjaž Borovina Matjaz Bukovec Urh Kopitar	1: 59.25

high jump

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Jacques Friday	RSA	2.16
2	Kai Cui	CHN	2.13
3	Andrei Chubsa	BLR	2.13
4th	Pavel Dubitsky	KAZ	2.10
5	Jirí Krehula	CZE	2.10
	Shuhei Manabe	JPN	2.10
7th	Phillip Nelson	OUT	2.10
8th	Lukasz Krzaczkowski	POLE	2.05

Pole vault

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Sébastien Homo	FRA	5.20
2	Oleksandr Kortschmid	UKR	5.10
3	Rico Tepper	GER	5.00
4th	Toshio Imura	JPN	4.95
5	Ivan Bonchev	BUL	4.85
6th	Mikael Westö	FIN	4.75
7th	Alberto Martinez	ESP	4.65
8th	Paul Gensic	United States	4.65
	Witscheslav Ostapenko	RUS	4.65

Long jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Yapeng Shang	CHN	7.80
2	Yoelmis Pacheco	CUB	7.62
3	Nicolaas Grimbeeck	RSA	7.59
4th	Loúis Tsátoumas	GRE	7.54
5	Jonathan Chimier	MRI	7.47
6th	Liu Ta-Wei	TPE	7.34
7th	Marijo Bakovic	CRO	7.25
8th	Samuel Montsitsi	RSA	7.06

Triple jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ibrahim Mohamdein Aboubaker	QAT	15.96
2	Yoandris Betanzos	CUB	15.83
3	Viktor Jastrebow	UKR	15.74
4th	Marian Oprea	ROU	15.70
5	Yapeng Shang	CHN	15.39
6th	Allen Simms	United States	15.15
7th	Arzyom Vasilenka	BLR	15.05
8th	Nikólaos Lagós	GRE	14.86

Shot put

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Robert Häggblom	FIN	19.76
2	Dimitri Gorshkov	RUS	19.69
3	Khaled Habash Alsuwaidi	QAT	19.44
4th	Alexander Heydemüller	GER	19.31
5	Kevin Smith	RSA	18.81
6th	Scott Martin	OUT	18.71
7th	Jan Tylce	CZE	18.59
8th	Arnošt Holovský	CZE	18.57

Discus throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Chang Ming-huang	TPE	64.14
2	Huabing Zhang	CHN	58.36
3	Raine Munukka	FIN	56.52
4th	Michal Hodun	POLE	56.27
5	Daniel Taylor	United States	55.96
6th	Peng Wang	CHN	54.96
7th	Kris Coene	BEL	54.89
8th	Khaled Habash Alsuwaidi	QAT	54.35

Hammer throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Krisztián Pars	HUN	74.76
2	Oleksandr Lutsenko	UKR	73.68
3	Alexei Elissejew	RUS	73.68
4th	Oleh Chotenjuk	UKR	73.53
5	Alexei Korolev	RUS	71.93
6th	Eşref Apak	DOOR	71.45
7th	József Horváth	HUN	69.15
8th	Petri Rautio	FIN	68.16

Javelin throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Joachim Kiteau	FRA	79.65
2	Saku Kuusisto	FIN	78.73
3	Aleksandr Ivanov	RUS	78.65
4th	Xuebao Yu	CHN	77.11
5	Mohamed Al Khulaifi	QAT	73.80
6th	Ahmed Abou-Jalala	QAT	73.33
7th	Trevor Snyder	CAN	72.94
8th	Seppo Hirvonen	FIN	70.83

girl

100 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Veronica Campbell-Brown	JAM	11.49
2	Lisa Sharpe	JAM	11.52
3	Adrianna Lamalle	FRA	11.66
4th	LaShauntea Moore	United States	11.66
5	Patient Edem Emem	NGR	11.74
6th	Donna Maylor	GBR	11.76
7th	Katchi Habel	GER	11.94
8th	Crystal Attenborough	OUT	11.94

200 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	LaShauntea Moore	United States	23.38
2	Melaine Walker	JAM	23.72
3	Ana López	CUB	23.97
4th	Nadine Palmer	JAM	24.08
5	Kerstin Grötzinger	GER	24.08
	Lenka Ficková	CZE	24.08
7th	Maren Schulze	GER	24.11
8th	Dorota Jedrusinska	POLE	24.66

400 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Monique Henderson	United States	52.28
2	Helen Okpanachi	NGR	52.38
3	Norma González	COL	52.39
4th	Jana Vecherkevich	RUS	53.45
5	Libania Grenot	CUB	54.43
6th	Michelle Louw	RSA	54.45
7th	Jana Pittman	OUT	55.06
8th	Zaneta Tomczyk	POLE	55.88

800 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Georgie Clarke	OUT	2: 05.90
2	Tetiana Petlyuk	UKR	2: 06.97
3	Mihaela Olaru	ROU	2: 08.20
4th	Iryna Waschtschuk	UKR	2: 08.30
5	Liliana Bărbulescu	ROU	2: 11.97
6th	Agata Kiedrowicz	POLE	2: 12.42
7th	Esther Desviat	ESP	2: 16.23
	Saray Balverdi	CUB	DNF

1500 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Zanelle Grobler	RSA	4: 23.06
2	Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet	KEN	4: 24.43
3	Elaine du Plessis	RSA	4: 24.59
4th	Demelza Murrihy	NZL	4: 24.66
5	Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa	KEN	4: 27.78
6th	Adriana Vitková	SVK	4: 28.71
7th	Maerenet Gebray	ETH	4: 28.85
8th	Joanna Parusheva	BUL	4: 29.39

3000 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Alice Jemeli Timbilili	KEN	9: 01.99
2	Meseret Defar	ETH	9: 02.08
3	Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot	KEN	9: 04.42
4th	Eloise Poppett	OUT	9: 05.05
5	Elvan Abeylegesse	DOOR	9: 08.29
6th	Malika Asahssah	DOOR	9: 12.23
7th	Ikuko Nagao	JPN	9: 15.21
8th	Docus Inzikuru	UGA	9: 15.66

5000 m walk

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Tatiana Koslowa	RUS	22: 31.93
2	Maryna Zichanawa	BLR	22: 37.54
3	Ekaterina Dergounova	RUS	22: 54.59
4th	Luisa Paltin	ECU	23: 24.84
5	María Hatzipanayiotídou	GRE	23: 43.56
6th	Michelle French	OUT	23: 52.51
7th	Zuzana Malíková	SVK	24: 03.81
8th	Wioletta Spychalska	POLE	24: 19.36

100 m hurdles

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Adrianna Lamalle	FRA	13.08
2	Maren Freisen	GER	13.42
3	Anay Tejeda	CUB	13.45
4th	Merize Theron	RSA	13.56
5	Stephanie Danner	GER	13.74
6th	Melaine Walker	JAM	13.80
7th	Cristina Sarrapino	ESP	13.88
8th	Ginnie Crawford	United States	14.01

400 m hurdles

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Jana Pittman	OUT	57.87
2	Ya Wu Jie	CHN	58.32
3	Patricia Hall	JAM	58.67
4th	Nicola Sanders	GBR	58.96
5	Olessia Boufalova	RUS	59.16
6th	Zofia Malachowska	POLE	59.50
7th	Patrícia Vieira	POR	59.86
8th	Rachel Dolphin	OUT	60.50

4 × 100 m relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	Jamaica	Nadine Palmer Melaine Walker Veronica Campbell Lisa Sharpe	44.30
2	United States	Ginnie Crawford Ashley Mitchell Raasin McIntosh Stephanie Durst	45.40
3	Poland	Dorota Wojtczak Dorota Jedrusinska Malgorzata Flejszar Anita Hennig	45.49
4th	Germany	Katchi Habel Lisa Schorr Kerstin Grötzinger Christa Kaufmann	45.50
5	Japan	Toyomi Hosokawa Kanui Takahashi Ayumi Ushihara Saeko Okayama	46.51
6th	Chile	Maria del Pilar Fuenzalida Maria José Echeverria Fabiola Hecht Daniela Pávez	46.59
7th	Nigeria	Patient Edem Emem Ajarat Yussuf Helen Okpanachi Oluyemi Fagbamila	46.72
8th	South Africa	Roxanne Goliath Merize Theron Cindy Peters Janice Josephs	46.96

Sprint relay (100 m - 200 m - 300 m - 400 m)

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Stephanie Durst LaShauntea Moore Christy Fairley Monique Henderson	2: 07.71
2	Poland	Malgorzata Flejszar Dorota Wojtczak Hanna Wardowska Magdalena Uzarska	2: 09.19
3	Ukraine	Hanna Bordjugowa Wiktorija Lofizka Maryna Majdanowa Tetjana Petlyuk	2: 11.13
4th	Nigeria	Yoko Suzuka Maiko Takahashi Miki Nishimura Mayu Kida	2: 11.72
5	Brazil	Thatiana Regina Ignâcio Gerlane Da Silva Gomes Pricila Dutra Lopes Perla Regina dos Santos	2: 12.13
	Slovenia	Manja Praznik Nina Strazišcar Naja Ferjan Janja Prelovšek	2: 12.13
7th	New Zealand	Sarah Phillips Jannah Fleetwood April Brough Michelle Prowse	2: 12.18
8th	Hungary	Adrienn Gròsz Nikolett Listár Zita Óvári Dóra Drobny	2: 13.69

high jump

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Anna Chicherova	RUS	1.89
2	Renáta Medgyesová	SVK	1.83
3	Gaëlle Niaré	FRA	1.79
4th	Melanie Melfort	GER	1.79
	Marina Aitowa	KAZ	1.79
6th	Olena Holosha	UKR	1.79
7th	Eva Müller	GER	1.79
8th	Blanka Vlašić	CRO	1.75

Pole vault

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Elena Isinbayeva	RUS	4.10
2	Floé Kühnert	GER	4.05
3	Vanessa Boslak	FRA	4.00
4th	Annu Mäkelä	FIN	4.00
5	Kateřina Baďurová	CZE	3.75
	Natalija Kushch-Masuryk	UKR	3.75
7th	Karla McGee	CAN	3.65
8th	Emilia Struska	POLE	3.50

Long jump

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Zhou Yangxia	CHN	6.29
2	Jenniina Halkoaho	FIN	6.24
3	Alina Militaru	ROU	6.22
4th	Elena Anghelescu	ROU	6.04
5	Irina Melschina	RUS	5.99
6th	Yoko Suzuka	JPN	5.90
7th	Saeko Okayama	JPN	5.86
8th	Teresa Dobija	POLE	5.75

Triple jump

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Mabel Gay	CUB	13.82
2	Anastassija Ilyina	RUS	13.59
3	Yusmay Bicet	CUB	13.58
4th	Zhou Yangxia	CHN	13.26
5	Renáta Medgyesová	SVK	13.22
6th	Irina Beskrovnaya	SVK	13.12
7th	Stéphanie Luzieux	FRA	12.95
8th	Anniina Lindholm	FIN	12.82

Shot put

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Hong Mei	CHN	15.57
2	Natallja Charaneka	BLR	15.57
3	Chiara Rosa	ITA	14.64
4th	Marinela Colibasan	ROU	14.57
5	Katsiaryna Rulko	BLR	14.41
6th	Lucia Korceková	SVK	14.16
7th	Joanna Rozko	POLE	13.97
8th	Victoria Lowrie	NZL	13.86

Discus throw

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Hong Mei	CHN	52.18
2	Julia brakes	GER	51.83
3	Deborah Lovely	OUT	49.14
4th	Vera Begic	CRO	48.80
5	Claire Smithson	GBR	47.76
6th	Tanya Bloem	RSA	47.26
7th	Emily Duran	United States	45.76
8th	Marinela Colibasan	ROU	44.75

Hammer throw

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Kamila Skolimowska	POLE	63.94
2	Yunaika Crawford	CUB	57.56
3	Ivana Brkljačić	CRO	55.69
4th	Alena Matoschka	BLR	54.51
5	Yulia Denisova	RUS	51.80
6th	Silke Grundmann	GER	50.15
7th	Ariadna Salgado	ESP	49.77
8th	Olga Andreyeva	RUS	49.75

Javelin throw

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Olivia Norris	GER	52.03
2	Xénia Frajka	HUN	49.76
3	Halina Kachawa	BLR	49.62
4th	Stefanie Hessler	GER	48.39
5	Goldie Sayers	GBR	47.86
6th	Inga Kožarenoka	LVA	47.25
7th	Monica Stoian	ROU	47.25
8th	Xiaochuan Li	CHN	47.03

Abbreviations

WR = world record WJR = junior world record OR = Olympic record YOR = Olympic youth record AR = continental record AJR = junior continental record NR = national record NJR = national junior record CR = championship record MR = event record

WB = world best WJB = Junior World Best WYB = youth world best AB = continent best AJB = Junior Continental Best AYB = youth continental best NB = national best NJB = national youth best performance NYB = national youth record

PB = personal best SB = personal season best QB = best qualification WL = world annual best WJL = Junior World Year's Best WYL = youth world annual best DSQ = disqualified (engl. Disqualified ) DNS = competition not started ( Did Not Start ) DNF = competition not finished ( Did Not Finish )

Medal table

Medal table (final score after 39 decisions)
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Kenya	5	2	3	10
02	Russia	4th	3	3	10
03	People's Republic of China	4th	3	0	7th
04th	United States	4th	2	1	7th
05	South Africa	4th	1	3	8th
06th	France	4th	0	3	7th
07th	Jamaica	3	3	2	8th
08th	Australia	2	0	1	3
09	United Kingdom	2	0	0	2
010	Cuba	1	5	3	9
011	Germany	1	3	2	6th
012	Finland	1	2	1	4th
13	Qatar	1	1	1	3
	Poland	1	1	1	3
015th	Hungary	1	1	0	2
016	Chinese Taipei	1	0	0	1
017th	Ethiopia	0	4th	0	4th
018th	Ukraine	0	3	2	5
019th	Belarus	0	2	2	4th
020th	Japan	0	1	2	3
21st	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
023	Romania	0	0	2	2
24	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia	0	0	1	1
total		39	39	39	117

Web links

• Previous Event 1st IAAF World Youth Championships IAAF website, accessed September 6, 2013
• Results Competition results , accessed September 6, 2013
• IAAF World Youth Championships competition results on gbrathletics.com, accessed September 6, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More than 1000 young athletes ready to compete General News at IAAF, July 14, 1999, accessed September 6, 2013
2. ↑ Medal Table 1st IAAF World Youth Championships on the IAAF website, 16. – 18. July 1999, Bydgoszcz (Poland), accessed September 6, 2013