2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Kingston, Jamaica from July 16 to July 21, 2002.

2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Kingston, Jamaica
Nations	159
Athletes	1069
Events	43
Dates	16–21 July
Main venue	National Stadium
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Men's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Darrel Brown  Trinidad and Tobago	10.09 CR	Marc Burns  Trinidad and Tobago	10.18 PB	Willie Hordge  United States	10.36
	Brown's 10.09 then ranked fifth all-time among juniors. He eventually broke the WJR at the 2003 World Championships.
200 metres details	Usain Bolt  Jamaica	20.61	Brendan Christian  Antigua and Barbuda	20.74	Wes Felix  United States	20.82 PB
	At only 15 years, 332 days, Bolt became the youngest ever junior world champion. He was surpassed by Jacko Gill in the 2010 World Junior Championships.
400 metres details	Darold Williamson  United States	45.37	Jonathan Fortenberry  United States	45.73	Jermaine Gonzales  Jamaica	45.84 PB
800 metres details	Alex Kipchirchir  Kenya	1:46.59	Salem Amer Al-Badri  Qatar	1:46.63 NJR	David Fiegen  Luxembourg	1:46.66
1500 metres details	Yassine Bensghir  Morocco	3:40.72 PB	Abdulrahman Suleiman  Qatar	3:41.72	Samwel Mwera  Tanzania	3:41.75
5000 metres details	Hillary Chenonge  Kenya	13:28.30 CR	Markos Geneti  Ethiopia	13:28.83 SB	Gebregziabher Gebremariam  Ethiopia	13:29.13
10,000 metres details	Gebregziabher Gebremariam  Ethiopia	29:02.71	Sileshi Sihine  Ethiopia	29:03.74	Solomon Bushendich  Kenya	29:05.96
110 metres hurdles details	Antwon Hicks  United States	13.42	Shi Dongpeng  China	13.58	Shamar Sands  Bahamas	13.67
400 metres hurdles details	L. J. van Zyl  South Africa	48.89 CR	Kenneth Ferguson  United States	49.38 PB	Bershawn Jackson  United States	50.00 PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Michael Kipyego  Kenya	8:29.54	David Kirwa  Kenya	8:31.44	Abubaker Ali Kamal  Qatar	8:33.67 NJR
10,000 metres walk details	Vladimir Kanaykin  Russia	41:41.40	Xu Xingde  China	41:44.00	Lu Ronghua  China	41:46.07
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Ashton Collins Wes Felix Ivory Williams Willie Hordge	38.92 WJR	Jamaica Winston Hutton Orion Nicely Yhann Plummer Usain Bolt	39.15 NJR	Trinidad and Tobago Chevon Simpson Marc Burns Kevon Holder Darrel Brown	39.17 NJR
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Kenneth Ferguson Darold Williamson Ashton Collins Jonathan Fortenberry	3:03.71	Jamaica Sekou Clarke Usain Bolt Jermaine Myers Jermaine Gonzales	3:04.06 NJR	Japan Yamauchi Fujio Daisuke Sakai Yuki Yamaguchi Yosuke Inoue	3:05.80 AJR
High jump details	Andra Manson  United States	2.31 WJL	Zhu Wannan  China	2.23 PB	Germaine Mason  Jamaica	2.21
Pole vault details	Maksym Mazuryk  Ukraine	5.55 WLJ	Vladyslav Revenko  Ukraine	5.55 WLJ	Vincent Favretto  France	5.40
Long jump details	Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Waleed  Qatar	7.99 PB	Fabrice Lapierre  Australia	7.74 PB	Trevell Quinley  United States	7.71 PB
Triple jump details	Arnie David Giralt  Cuba	16.68	Li Yanxi  China	16.66 PB	Aleksandr Sergeyev  Russia	16.55
Shot put 6 kg details	Edis Elkasevic  Croatia	21.47 WLJ	Sean Shields  United States	20.54	Mika Vasara  Finland	20.50
Discus throw 1.75 kg details	Wu Tao  China	64.51 WLJ	Dmitriy Sivakov  Belarus	62.00	Michał Hodun  Poland	61.74
Hammer throw 6 kg details	Werner Smit  South Africa	76.43	Ali Al-Zinkawi  Kuwait	73.69	Aliaksandr Kazulka  Belarus	72.72
Javelin throw details	Igor Janik  Poland	74.16	Vladislav Shkurlatov  Russia	74.09 PB	Jung Sang-Jin  South Korea	73.99 PB
Decathlon details	Leonid Andreev  Uzbekistan	7693	Nadir El Fassi  France	7677	Mikko Halvari  Finland	7587
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's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Lauryn Williams  United States	11.33 PB	Simone Facey  Jamaica	11.43 PB	Marshevet Hooker  United States	11.48
200 metres details	Vernicha James  Great Britain	22.93 PB	Anneisha McLaughlin  Jamaica	22.94 PB	Sanya Richards  United States	23.09
400 metres details	Monique Henderson  United States	51.10 SB	Sanya Richards  United States	51.49	Sheryl Morgan  Jamaica	52.61
800 metres details	Janeth Jepkosgei  Kenya	2:00.80 WLJ	Lucia Klocová  Slovakia	2:01.73	Juliana Paula de Azevedo  Brazil	2:03.81 PB
1500 metres details	Viola Kibiwot  Kenya	4:12.57 PB	Berhane Herpassa  Ethiopia	4:13.59	Olesya Syreva  Russia	4:14.32 PB
3000 metres details	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	9:12.61	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli  Morocco	9:16.28 PB	Olesya Syreva  Russia	9:16.58 PB
5000 metres details	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	15:54.94	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia	15:55.99	Vivian Cheruiyot  Kenya	15:56.04
100 metres hurdles details	Anay Tejeda  Cuba	12.81	Agnieszka Frankowska  Poland	13.16	Tina Klein  Germany	13.23
400 metres hurdles details	Lashinda Demus  United States	54.70 WJR	Melaine Walker  Jamaica	56.03	Camille Robinson  Jamaica	56.14 PB
10,000 metres walk details	Fumi Mitsumura  Japan	46:01.51 NJR	Liu Siqi  China	46:07.15	Maryna Tsikhanava  Belarus	46:14.67 SB
4 × 100 metres relay details	Jamaica Sherone Simpson Kerron Stewart Anneisha McLaughlin Simone Facey	43.40 CR	United States Lauryn Williams Ashlee Williams Shalonda Solomon Marshevet Hooker	43.66	Great Britain Jade Lucas-Read Jeanette Kwakye Amy Spencer Vernicha James	44.22 PB
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Christina Hardeman Monique Henderson Tiffany Ross Lashinda Demus	3:29.95 NJR	Great Britain Kim Wall Amy Spencer Vernicha James Lisa Miller	3:30.46 NJR	Russia Yelena Mygunova Mariya Dryakhlova Yuliya Gushchina Tatyana Popova	3:34.49
High jump details	Blanka Vlašić  Croatia	1.96 WLJ	Anna Ksok  Poland	1.87	Petrina Price  Australia	1.87
Pole vault details	Floé Kühnert  Germany	4.40 CR	Yuliya Golubchikova  Russia	4.30	Nataliya Belinskaya  Russia	4.20
Long jump details	Adina Anton  Romania	6.46 PB	Wang Lina  China	6.36	Esther Aghatise  Nigeria	6.34
Triple jump details	Mabel Gay  Cuba	14.09	Yarianna Martínez  Cuba	13.74	Keila da Silva Costa  Brazil	13.70
Shot put details	Valerie Adams  New Zealand	17.73 AJR	Zhang Ying  China	16.76	Laura Gerraughty  United States	16.62
Discus throw details	Ma Xuejun  China	58.85 PB	Xu Shaoyang  China	57.87	Seema Antil  India	55.83
Hammer throw details	Ivana Brkljačić  Croatia	65.39	Martina Danišová  Slovakia	63.91	Yuliya Rozenfeld  Russia	60.83 PB
Javelin throw details	Linda Brivule  Latvia	55.35 PB	Ilze Gribule  Latvia	54.16 SB	Urszula Jasińska  Poland	54.06
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	6470 WJR	Olga Alekseyeva  Kazakhstan	5727	Olga Levenkova  Russia	5712
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

With his 200 metres gold medal, Usain Bolt of Jamaica became the youngest World Junior Championships winner at the time.

Blanka Vlašić of Croatia won the high jump.

Sweden's Carolina Klüft set a new world junior record in the heptathlon.

  *   Host nation (Jamaica)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	9	5	7	21
2	Kenya	5	1	2	8
3	Ethiopia	3	4	1	8
4	Cuba	3	1	0	4
5	Croatia	3	0	0	3
6	China	2	8	1	11
7	Jamaica*	2	5	4	11
8	South Africa	2	0	0	2
9	Russia	1	2	7	10
10	Poland	1	2	2	5
11	Qatar	1	2	1	4
12	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
	Trinidad and Tobago	1	1	1	3
14	Latvia	1	1	0	2
	Morocco	1	1	0	2
	Ukraine	1	1	0	2
17	Germany	1	0	1	2
	Japan	1	0	1	2
19	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Romania	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1
23	Slovakia	0	2	0	2
24	Belarus	0	1	2	3
25	Australia	0	1	1	2
	France	0	1	1	2
27	Antigua and Barbuda	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Kuwait	0	1	0	1
30	Brazil	0	0	2	2
	Finland	0	0	2	2
32	Bahamas	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Luxembourg	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Tanzania	0	0	1	1
Totals (37 entries)		43	43	43	129

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[1] 1069 athletes from 159 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[2]

•  Algeria (9)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Anguilla (1)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (2)
•  Argentina (3)
•  Armenia (2)
•  Aruba (1)
•  Australia (45)
•  Austria (3)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Bahamas (6)
•  Bahrain (1)
•  Barbados (3)
•  Belarus (13)
•  Belgium (7)
•  Belize (1)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
•  Botswana (5)
•  Brazil (27)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Bulgaria (6)
•  Burkina Faso (1)
•  Burundi (3)
•  Cameroon (2)
•  Canada (23)
•  Cayman Islands (1)
•  Chile (9)
•  China (22)
•  Chinese Taipei (5)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Cook Islands (1)
•  Costa Rica (1)
• Côte d'Ivoire (1)
•  Croatia (10)
•  Cuba (13)
•  Cyprus (5)
•  Czech Republic (14)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Djibouti (2)
•  Dominica (1)
•  Dominican Republic (1)
•  Ecuador (3)
•  Egypt (6)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Equatorial Guinea (1)
•  Eritrea (2)
•  Estonia (11)
•  Ethiopia (7)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (16)
•  France (41)
•  Gabon (1)
•  Gambia (2)
•  Georgia (2)
•  Germany (65)
•  Ghana (1)
•  Gibraltar (2)
•  Great Britain (28)
•  Greece (16)
•  Grenada (1)
•  Guam (1)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Guyana (1)
•  Haiti (1)
•  Honduras (1)
•  Hong Kong (1)
•  Hungary (20)
•  Iceland (2)
•  India (6)
•  Ireland (10)
•  Israel (3)
•  Italy (18)
•  Jamaica (41)
•  Japan (31)
•  Jordan (1)
•  Kazakhstan (4)
•  Kenya (18)
•  Kiribati (1)
•  Kuwait (3)
•  Kyrgyzstan (1)
•  Latvia (3)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Lesotho (1)
•  Lithuania (3)
•  Luxembourg (2)
•  Macedonia (1)
•  Madagascar (1)
•  Malawi (1)
•  Maldives (1)
•  Mali (1)
•  Mauritius (1)
•  Mexico (11)
•  Micronesia (1)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Morocco (11)
•  Mozambique (1)
•  Myanmar (1)
•  Namibia (1)
•  Netherlands (14)
•  Netherlands Antilles (1)
•  New Zealand (9)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  Nigeria (6)
•  Norway (5)
•  Oman (1)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Palestine (1)
•  Panama (2)
•  Papua New Guinea (1)
•  Paraguay (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Philippines (1)
•  Poland (29)
•  Portugal (7)
•  Puerto Rico (1)
•  Qatar (10)
•  Romania (13)
•  Russia (41)
•  Rwanda (2)
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis (4)
•  Saint Lucia (1)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•  Samoa (1)
•  São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (9)
•  Senegal (6)
•  Seychelles (1)
•  Singapore (4)
•  Slovakia (8)
•  Slovenia (4)
•  Solomon Islands (1)
•  South Africa (19)
•  South Korea (10)
•  Spain (26)
•  Sri Lanka (1)
•  Sudan (4)
•  Swaziland (1)
•  Sweden (13)
•   Switzerland (8)
•  Tajikistan (1)
•  Tanzania (2)
•  Thailand (1)
•  Togo (1)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (8)
•  Tunisia (3)
•  Turkey (4)
•  Turkmenistan (2)
•  Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
•  Ukraine (10)
•  United States (64)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
•  Uzbekistan (6)
•  Venezuela (5)
•  Yemen (1)
•  Yugoslavia (5)
•  Zambia (2)
•  Zimbabwe (2)