World Youth Athletics Championships 2005

4th World Youth Athletics Championships (U18)
Stadium in Sidi Youssef Ben-Ali 2007
city	Marrakech , Morocco
Stadion	Sidi Youssef Ben-Ali Stadium
participating countries	179
Participating athletes	almost 1,400
Competitions	38
opening	July 13, 2005
Final day	July 17, 2005
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The 4th World Athletics Championships took place from July 13th to 17th, 2005 in the Moroccan city ​​of Marrakech in the local Sidi Youssef Ben-Ali stadium .

It was the largest youth world championship to date with almost 1,400 athletes from 179 countries.

The German Athletics Association (DLV) sent 16 boys and 13 girls to the competitions.

Boys

100 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	GBR	10.35 PB
2	Alexander Nelson	GBR	10.36
3	Keston Bledman	TTO	10.55
4th	Takafumi Kumamoto	JPN	10.60
5	Dax then	GUY	10.63
6th	Daiki Goto	JPN	10.64
7th	Yohan Blake	JAM	10.65
8th	Devin Mays	United States	10.74

200 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	GBR	20.91
2	Jorge Valcárcel	CUB	21.08 PB
3	Matteo Galvan	ITA	21.14 PB
4th	Dax then	GUY	21.21 PB
5	Cawayne Jervis	JAM	21.21 PB
6th	Mohammed Ali Al-Beshi	KSA	21.25 PB
7th	David Hernández	ESP	21.51
8th	Kosuke Kurisaki	JPN	21.54

400 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Adam El-Nour	SOUTH	46.56 PB
2	Julius Kirwa	KEN	46.70 PB
3	Bryshon Nellum	United States	46.81 PB
4th	Zach Chandy	United States	47.29
5	Jonathan Borlée	BEL	48.03
6th	Samuel Egadu	UGA	48.20
7th	Tristan Garrett	OUT	48.31
8th	Kervin Morgan	TTO	48.41

800 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Gilbert Kipkurui Keter	KEN	1: 48.42 CR
2	Jackson Mumbwa Kivuva	KEN	1: 48.57 PB
3	Jan Masenamela	RSA	1: 49.73
4th	Shaka Ntsimako	BOT	1: 49.76 PB
5	Jamaal James	TTO	1: 50.31 PB
6th	Robin Schembera	GER	1: 51.63
7th	Nadjim Manseur	ALG	1: 53.04
8th	Nick Toohey	OUT	1: 55.18

1500 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Belal Ali Mansoor	BHR	3: 36.98 PB
2	Bader Khalil Bader	BHR	3: 43.70 PB
3	Abubaker persimmon	SOUTH	3: 45.06 PB
4th	Leonard Kibet Kiplagat	KEN	3: 47.21 PB
5	Dumisane Hlaselo	RSA	3: 48.23 PB
6th	Jordan Chipangama	ZAM	3: 48.91 PB
7th	Fouad Elkaam	MAR	3: 52.85
8th	Justin Marpole-Bird	CAN	3: 54.55

3000 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Abreham Cherkos	ETH	8:00 a.m.
2	Ibrahim Jeilan	ETH	8: 04.21 PB
3	Saleh Marzooq Bakheet	BHR	8: 04.78
4th	Ishaq Abedeen Ishaq Isa	BHR	8: 07.67 PB
5	Issak Sibhatu	ERI	8: 08.57
6th	Bernard Muinde Matheka	KEN	8: 10.42
7th	Nail El Dod	SOUTH	8: 11.23
8th	John Sompol Mnangat	KEN	8: 11.31

2000 m obstacle

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Abel Kiprop Mutai	KEN	5: 24.69 PB
2	Bisluke Kipkorir Kiplagat	KEN	5: 24.87 PB
3	Abdelghani Ait Bahmad	MAR	5: 26.52 PB
4th	Nahom Mesfin	ETH	5: 29.51 PB
5	Osman Yahya	SOUTH	5: 40.26 PB
6th	Atsuro Kikuchi	JPN	5: 42.13 PB
7th	Jakub Holuša	CZE	5: 43.39 PB
8th	Nabil Ouhaddi	MAR	5: 43.67 PB

110 m hurdles

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Cordera Jenkins	United States	13.35 PB
2	Ryan Brathwaite	BAR	13.44
3	Gianni Frankis	GBR	13.48 PB
4th	Louw Smit	RSA	13.65 PB
5	Ahmed al-Muwallad	KSA	13.66
6th	Quentin Seigel	GER	42.32
	Abdelrahman Idris Taher	EGY	DSQ
	Emmanuel Biron	FRA	DNS

400 m hurdles

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Mohammed Yahya Daak	KSA	50.90 PB
2	David Klech	United States	50.90 PB
3	Adel Jaber Asseri	KSA	51.68
4th	Salih Dar	SOUTH	52.04
5	Timothy Grier	United States	53.30
	Abdulagadir Idriss	SOUTH	DSQ
	Wiekus Jonck	RSA	DSQ
	Romel Lewis	JAM	DNF

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

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Isaiah Green Devin Mays Zach Chandy Bryshon Nellum	1: 51.19
2	Trinidad and Tobago	Kieron Anthony Keston Bledman Ade Alleyne-Forte Kervin Morgan	1: 52.51
3	Saudi Arabia	Hadi M. Hassan Mohammed Ali Al-Beshi Ismail MH Alsabani Adel Jaber Asseri	1: 52.89
4th	South Africa	Jeanre Rossouw Kagisho Kumbane Sabelo Bhodoza Willem de Beer	1: 53.23
5	Sudan	Nagmeldin Salih Salih Dar El-Farzdag Abdelbashar Adam El-Nour	1: 53.71
6th	Puerto Rico	Gustavo de Jesús Luis López Victor Valentin Christian Santiago	1: 54.26
7th	Chinese Taipei	Tse-Ching Liang Ching-Chun Wang Chi-Sheng Chang Shih-Hsien Liu	1: 54.59
	Russia	Mikhail Idrisow Vladimir Zhukov Vyacheslav Sakayev Ruslan Bayazitov	DSQ

high jump

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Huang Haiqiang	CHN	2.27 CR
2	Oleksandr Nartov	UKR	2.18
3	Álex Soto	ESP	2.18 PB
4th	Sylwester Bednarek	POLE	2.18 PB
5	Mikel Jiménez	ESP	2.16 PB
6th	Kane Brigg	OUT	2.16 PB
7th	Raúl Spank	GER	2.11 PB
8th	Karim Samir Lotfy	EGY	2.08 PB

Pole vault

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Yang Yancheng	CHN	5.25 CR
2	Scott Roth	United States	5.25 CR
3	Albert Velez	ESP	5.20
4th	Łukasz Michalski	POLE	5.15
5	Jordan Scott	United States	5.05
6th	Jan Kudlička	CZE	5.05 PB
7th	Marvin Reitze	GER	4.90
8th	Hiroki Sasase	JPN	4.85

Long jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Chris Noffke	OUT	7.97
2	Tiberiu Talnar	ROU	7.53
3	Cleiton Sabino	BRA	7.49 PB
4th	Ryota Otsuka	JPN	7.42
5	Mohamed Yassine Chaieb	TO DO	7.40
6th	Yeóryios Tsákonash	GRE	7.33
7th	Yoichi Sakai	JPN	7.31
8th	Dimítrios Theoháris	GRE	7.27

Triple jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Héctor Dairo Fuentes	CUB	16.63 CR
2	Ilya Efremov	RUS	16.45 PB
3	Zhiwko Petkow	BUL	16.20
4th	Mohamed Yusuf Salman	BHR	16.18
5	Şeref Osmanoğlu	UKR	16.18 PB
6th	Stanislav Ionov	RUS	16.16
7th	Jiang Wei	CHN	16.08 PB
8th	Yeóryios Tsákonas	GRE	15.81 PB

Shot put

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Jan Petrus Hoffman	RSA	20.99
2	ladislav Tulácek	CZE	19.97
3	Rosen Karamfilow	BUL	19.86
4th	Nikola Kišanic	CRO	19.42
5	Pavel Shustsitsky	BLR	19.07 PB
6th	Anton Tikhomirov	RUS	18.97
7th	Emanuele Fuamatu	OUT	18.70
8th	Tumatai Dauphin	PYF	18.69

Discus throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ali Shahrokhi	OUT	61.07 PB
2	Osmel Charlot	CUB	60.17 PB
3	Antonio Vital and Silva	POR	59.30
4th	Vladislav Tulácek	CZE	58.65 PB
5	Savvas Arestis	CYP	56.87 PB
6th	Yeóryios Trémos	GRE	56.66 PB
7th	Nikola Kišanic	CRO	55.83 PB
8th	Pavel Shustsitsky	BLR	54.85

Hammer throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Sándor Pálhegyi	HUN	81.89 CR
2	Artem Vynnyk	UKR	77.88
3	Alexander Smith	GBR	73.77
4th	Adrian Pop	ROU	73.16 PB
5	Samuli Heinänen	FIN	73.00 PB
6th	Dimítrios Filladitákis	GRE	72.44
7th	Arno Laitinen	FIN	71.29
8th	Walter Henning	United States	70.91 PB

Javelin throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Noël Meyer	RSA	80.52
2	Roman Avramenko	UKR	79.22 PB
3	Víctor Fatecha	PAR	77.21 PB
4th	Wang Qingbo	CHN	76.33 PB
5	Leonardo Gottardo	ITA	74.80 PB
6th	Khamis Ghabish Al Qatiti	GRANNY	73.81 PB
7th	Matthias Treff	GER	73.27
8th	Mikael Sundler	SWE	72.46

Eight fight

space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Yordani García	CUB	6482 WBP
2	Matthias Prey	GER	6282 PB
3	Cleiton Sabino	BRA	6218 PB
4th	Saad Fahad Al-Bishi	KSA	6211 PB
5	Jan Felix Knobel	GER	6169 PB
6th	Rok Deržanic	SLO	5984 PB
7th	Lewis Robson	GBR	5930 PB
8th	Lars Vikan Rise	NOR	5927 PB

girl

100 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Bianca Knight	United States	11.38
2	Ebony Collins	United States	11.44 PB
3	Schillonie Calvert	JAM	11.44
4th	Franciela Krasucki	BRA	10.45
5	Anika Jno-Baptiste	ATG	11.54
6th	Lucille Sargent	GBR	11.65 PB
7th	Éloyse Lesueur	FRA	11.69
	Yomara Hinestroza	COL	DSQ

200 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Aymeé Martínez	CUB	22.99 CR
2	Bianca Knight	United States	23.33
3	LaToya King	JAM	23.57 PB
4th	Khrystal Carter	United States	23.61 PB
5	Vanda Gomes	BRA	23.73
6th	Marika Popowiczm	POLE	23.93
7th	Josiane Valentim	BRA	24.26
8th	Olivia Tauro	OUT	24.38

400 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Nawal El Jack	SOUTH	51.19 CR
2	Danijela Grgic	CRO	51.30 PB
3	Aymeé Martínez	CUB	52.04 PB
4th	Brandi Cross	United States	53.34
5	Olha Myhaylychenko	UKR	53.66 PB
6th	Maria Alejandra Idrobo	COL	54.58
7th	Bobby-Gaye Wilkins-Gooden	JAM	54.72
8th	Anna Werkschowskaya	RUS	54.75

800 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Flavious Teresa Kwamboka	KEN	2: 07.42
2	Winny Chebet	KEN	2: 08.15
3	Katherine Katsanevakis	OUT	2: 08.35
4th	Halima Hachlaf	MAR	2: 08.61
5	Emma Jackson	GBR	2: 09.17
6th	Carolyn Plateau	GBR	2: 09.19
7th	Angela Wagner	RSA	2: 09.29
8th	Sabrina Buchrucker	GER	2: 09.93

1500 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Sheila Chepkirui Kiprotich	KEN	4: 12.29 CR
2	Yuriko Kobayashi	JPN	4: 13.96 PB
3	Bizunesh Urgesa	ETH	4: 19.34 PB
4th	Maya Iino	JPN	4: 23.06 PB
5	Amina Bakhit	SOUTH	4: 23.13 PB
6th	Cristina Vasiloiu	ROU	4: 26.66
7th	Heidi lake	OUT	4: 30.55
8th	Abadia Belmiloud	ALG	4: 31.70

3000 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Veronica Nyaruai Wanjiru	KEN	9: 01.61 CR
2	Pauline Chemning Korikwiang	KEN	9: 05.42
3	Hitomi Niiya	JPN	9: 10.34 PB
4th	Rina Yamazaki	JPN	9: 18.78 PB
5	Sian Edwards	GBR	9: 19.51 PB
6th	Daniela Fetcere	LAT	9: 33.12
7th	Maren Kock	GER	9: 33.29 PB
8th	Christina Kröckert	GER	9: 33.82

5000 m walk

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Tatyana Kalmykowa	RUS	22: 14.47 CR
2	Elmira Alembekowa	RUS	22: 27.17
3	Chai Xue	CHN	22: 34.38 PB
4th	Wolha Masuronak	BLR	22: 52.06
5	Seasbyeol Weon	COR	23: 46.92 SB
6th	Sabrina Trevisan	ITA	24: 06.61 SB
7th	Catarina Godinho	POR	24: 14.08 PB
8th	Lorena Castrillo	ESP	24: 21.74

100 m hurdles

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	April Williams	United States	13.23
2	Natasha Ruddock	JAM	13.38
3	Theresa Lewis	United States	13.39
4th	Emilia Rundqvist	SWE	13.51 PB
5	Arna Erega	CRO	13.52 PB
6th	Shermaine Williams	JAM	13.69
7th	Jessica Gulli	OUT	13.85
8th	Charlotte Yeates	OUT	13.99

400 m hurdles

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Ebony Collins	United States	55.96 CR
2	Lauren Wells	OUT	58.30
3	Aya Miyahara	JPN	59.62
4th	Yisel Regla Velazco	CUB	59.67
5	Yekaterina Kuzmenko	RUS	60.29
6th	Ghofrane Mohamed	SYR	61.39
7th	Frida Persson	SWE	61.41
8th	Hayat Lambarki	MAR	61.76

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

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Khrystal Carter Ebony Collins Bianca Knight Brandi Cross	2: 03.93
2	Australia	Jess Gulli-Nance Olivia Tauro Megan Hill Jaimee-Lee Hoebergen-Starr	2: 06.58
3	Brazil	Tatiane Ferraz Vanda Gomes Franciela Krasucki Josiane Valentim	2: 06.60
4th	Poland	Katarzyna Paluch Agnieszka Ceglarek Marika Popowicz-Drapała Tina Polak Matusinska	2: 09.05
5	Russia	Aleksandra Fedoriwa Irina Skwortsowa Anna Werkhowskaya Nadezda Sozontowa	2: 09.42
6th	Japan	Shiho Takagi Chisato Fukushima Aya Miyahara Ruriko Kubo	2: 10.66
7th	Romania	Imola Albert Andreea Ograzeanu Andreea Ionescu Anamaria Ionita	2: 10.93
8th	Morocco	Fadoua Adili Hajar Aït Assou Siham Noussail Hayat Lambarki	2: 12.85

high jump

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Gu Biwei	CHN	1.87
2	Sophia Begg	OUT	1.85
3	Ekaterina Yevseeva	KAZ	1.85
4th	Urszula Domel-Gardzielewska	POLE	1.82 PB
5	Erika Wiklund	SWE	1.82 SB
6th	Charis O'Connor	GBR	1.79
7th	Vikki Hubbard	GBR	1.79
8th	Ekaterina Bolshova	RUS	1.79

Pole vault

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Ekaterini Stefanidi	GRE	4.30 CR
2	Keisa Monterola	VEN	4.30 CR
3	Yu Shuo	CHN	4.20 PB
4th	Vicky Parnov	OUT	4.10
5	Lisa Ryzih	GER	4.05
6th	Minna Nikkanen	FIN	4.00
7th	Christina Michel	GER	3.90
8th	Tina Šutej	SLO	3.90

Long jump

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Arantxa King	BER	6.39 PB
2	Éloyse Lesueur	FRA	6.28
3	Cornelia Deiac	ROU	6.25 PB
4th	Manuela Galtier	FRA	6.21
5	Carina Nastvogel	GER	6.16
6th	Shara Proctor	AIA	6.13
7th	Kaire Leibak	EST	6.11
8th	Nastassja Mirontschyk-Ivanova	BLR	6.08

Triple jump

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Sha Li	CHN	13.81
2	Kaire Leibak	EST	13.74 PB
3	Cristina Bujin	ROU	13.23
4th	Haykanush Beklaryan	POOR	13.06
5	Jin Jie	CHN	12.99 SB
6th	Olga Timofeeva	RUS	12.94
7th	Patrícia Mamona	POR	12.87 PB
8th	Carmen Toma	ROU	12.76

Shot put

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Simoné du Toit	RSA	16.33
2	Li Bo	CHN	15.92 PB
3	Dani Samuels	OUT	15.53 PB
4th	Natalia Ducó	CHI	14.44 PB
5	Eden Francis	GBR	14.20
6th	Kamorean Hayes	United States	13.90
7th	Florentia Kappa	CYP	13.12
8th	Jenny Svoboda	United States	13.05

Discus throw

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Dani Samuels	OUT	54.04
2	Simoné du Toit	RSA	52.10
3	Kamorean Hayes	United States	49.64 PB
4th	Amber Paige Newby	United States	47.25 PB
5	Ionela Vartolomei	ROU	46.41
6th	Maryke Oberholzer	RSA	45.09 PB
7th	Sabina Banyté	LTU	44.42 PB
8th	Dilek Esmer	DOOR	44.35

Hammer throw

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Bianca Perie	ROU	62.27
2	Anna Bulgakova	RUS	62.05
3	Thóra Lévai	HUN	58.80 PB
4th	Marynna de Jesús	BRA	55.96 PB
5	Tugce Sahutoglu	DOOR	54.78
6th	Dorotea Habazin	CRO	54.16
7th	Zalina Marghieva	MDA	54.00
8th	Anna Ksenofontova	RUS	51.62

Javelin throw

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Zhang Li	CHN	56.66
2	Vera Yuryevna Rebrik	UKR	56.16
3	Yanet Cruz	CUB	51.66
4th	Ynthie Coetzee	RSA	51.10
5	Elizabeth Gleadle	CAN	50.53 PB
6th	Urszula Jakimowicz	POLE	49.37
7th	Melina Suomela	FIN	47.86
8th	Kim Kyung-ae	COR	46.66

Heptathlon

space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Tatiana Chernova	RUS	5875 CR
2	Jana Panteleeva	RUS	5611
3	Diana Rach	GER	5418 PB
4th	Maiju Mattila	FIN	5437 PB
5	Romy Gürbig	GER	5406 PB
6th	Laetitia Denis	FRA	5402 PB
7th	Grit Šadeiko	EST	5271 PB
8th	Eliška Klučinová	CZE	5249 PB

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	United States	6th	4th	3	13
02	Kenya	5	5	0	10
03	People's Republic of China	5	1	2	8th
04th	Russia	3	5	0	8th
05	Cuba	3	2	2	7th
06th	South Africa	3	1	1	5
07th	Australia	2	3	2	7th
08th	United Kingdom	2	1	2	5
09	Sudan	2	0	1	3
010	Romania	1	1	2	4th
11	Ethiopia	1	1	1	3
	Bahrain	1	1	1	3
013	Saudi Arabia	1	0	2	3
014th	Hungary	1	0	1	2
15th	Bermuda	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Iran	1	0	0	1
018th	Ukraine	0	4th	0	4th
019th	Japan	0	1	3	4th
020th	Jamaica	0	1	2	3
21st	Germany	0	1	1	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	1	2
23	Barbados	0	1	0	1
	Estonia	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
029	Brazil	0	0	3	3
30th	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
	Spain	0	0	2	2
32	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Paraguay	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
total		39	39	39	117

Web links

• Previous Event: 4th IAAF World Youth Championships IAAF website, accessed September 5, 2013
• Results Competition results , accessed September 5, 2013
• IAAF World Youth Championships competition results on gbrathletics.com, accessed September 5, 2013
• U18 World Championship in Marrakech Competition results from Leichtathletik.de, accessed September 5, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The world's biggest ever Youth Athletics competition starts today in Marrakesh! General News Carlo at IAAF, July 13, 2005, accessed September 5, 2013
2. ↑ Gustav Schwenk: U18 World Championship - no gold, two medals for DLV team , on: Leichtathletik.de, July 18, 2005, updated July 9, 2016
3. ↑ Medal Table 4th IAAF World Youth Championships on the IAAF website, 13. – 17. July 2005, Marrakech, accessed September 5, 2013, but differ from: Results U18 World Championship in Marrakech ( Memento from January 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on Leichtathletik.de and 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics on Wikipedia (English), both accessed September 5, 2013