2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics

The 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Marrakesh, Morocco on July 13–July 17. The host stadium was Stade Sidi Youssef Ben Ali.

2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics

Host city	Marrakesh, Morocco
Events	39
Dates	13–17 July
Main venue	Stade Sidi Youssef Ben Ali
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The boy's 400 metres hurdles event was initially won by Sudan's Abdulagadir Idriss in a time of 50.78 seconds,^[1] but this was later annulled due to Idriss failing a doping control.^[2]

Results

Boys

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey  Great Britain	10.35 PB	Alexander Nelson  Great Britain	10.36	Keston Bledman  Trinidad and Tobago	10.55
200 m	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey  Great Britain	20.91 WYL	Jorge Valcárcel  Cuba	21.08 PB	Matteo Galvan  Italy	21.14 PB
400 m	Adam El-Nour  Sudan	46.56 PB	Julius Kirwa  Kenya	46.70 PB	Bryshon Nellum  United States	46.81 PB
800 m	Gilbert Keter Kipkurui  Kenya	1:48.42 CR	Jackson Kivuna Mumbwa  Kenya	1:48.57 PB	Jan Masenamela  South Africa	1:49.73 NJR
1500 m	Belal Mansoor Ali  Bahrain	3:36.98	Bader Khalil Bader  Bahrain	3:43.70 PB	Abubaker Kaki Khamis  Sudan	3:45.06 PB
3000 m	Abreham Cherkos  Ethiopia	8:00.90	Ibrahim Jeilan  Ethiopia	8:04.21 PB	Saleh Bakheet Marzooq  Bahrain	8:04.78
2000 m St.[3]	Abel Mutai Kiprop  Kenya	5:24.69 WYR	Bisluke Kiplagat Kipkorir  Kenya	5:24.87 PB	Abdelghani Aït Bahmad  Morocco	5:26.52 PB
110 m H 91.4 cm	Cordera Jenkins  United States	13.35 PB	Ryan Brathwaite  Barbados	13.44	Gianni Frankis  Great Britain	13.48 PB
400 m H 84.0 cm	Mohammed Daak  Saudi Arabia	50.90 PB	David Klech  United States	50.90 PB	Adel Jaber Asseri  Saudi Arabia	51.68
10,000 m track walk	Sergey Morozov  Russia	42:26.92	Vladimir Akhmetov  Russia	42:32.81	Yusuke Suzuki  Japan	42:43.22 PB
Medley relay	United States Isaiah Green Devin Mays Zach Chandy Bryshon Nellum	1:51.19 WYL	Trinidad and Tobago Kieron Anthony Keston Bledman Ade Alleyne-Forte Kervin Morgan	1:52.51 PB	Saudi Arabia M. Hadi Hassan Mohammed Ali Al-Beshi M.H Ismail Al-Sabani Jaber Adel Asseri	1:52.89 PB
High jump	Huang Haiqiang  China	2.27 CR	Oleksandr Nartov  Ukraine	2.18	Alex Soto  Spain	2.18 PB
Pole vault	Yang Yansheng  China	5.25 CR	Scott Roth  United States	5.25 CR	Albert Velez  Spain	5.20
Long jump	Chris Noffke  Australia	7.97w	Tiberiu Talnar  Romania	7.53w	Cleiton Sabino  Brazil	7.49 PB
Triple jump	Dairo Hector Fuentes  Cuba	16.63 CR	Ilya Efremov  Russia	16.45 PB	Zhivko Petkov  Bulgaria	16.20
Shot put 5 kg	Jan Petrus Hoffman  South Africa	20.99 WYL	Vladislav Tulacek  Czech Republic	19.97	Rosen Karamfilov  Bulgaria	19.86
Discus 1.500 kg	Ali Shahrokhi  Iran	61.07 PB	Osmel Charlot  Cuba	60.17 PB	Antonio e Silva Vital  Portugal	59.30
Hammer 5 kg	Sandor Palhegyi  Hungary	81.89 CR	Artem Vynnyk  Ukraine	77.88	Alexander Smith  Great Britain	73.77
Javelin 700g	Noel Meyer  South Africa	80.52 WYL	Roman Avramenko  Ukraine	79.22 PB	Víctor Fatecha  Paraguay	77.21 PB
Octathlon	Yordani Garcia  Cuba	6482 WYR	Matthias Prey  Germany	6282 PB	Cleiton Sabino  Brazil	6218 PB
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)

• Abdulagadir Idriss (Sudan) won the 400 metres hurdles final, but was later disqualified for doping.^[4][5]

Girls

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Bianca Knight  United States	11.38 WYL	Ebony Collins  United States	11.44 PB	Schillonie Calvert  Jamaica	11.44
200 m	Aymée Martínez  Cuba	22.99 CR	Bianca Knight  United States	23.33	LaToya King  Jamaica	23.57 PB
400 m	Nawal El Jack  Sudan	51.19 CR, NR	Danijela Grgic  Croatia	51.30 PB	Aymée Martínez  Cuba	52.04 PB
800 m	Teresa Flavious Kwamboka  Kenya	2:07.42	Winny Chebet  Kenya	2:08.15	Katherine Katsanevakis  Australia	2:08.35
1500 m	Sheila Kiprotich Chepkirui  Kenya	4:12.29 CR	Yuriko Kobayashi  Japan	4:13.96 PB	Bizunesh Mohammed Urgesa  Ethiopia	4:19.34 PB
3000 m	Veronica Wanjiru Nyaruai  Kenya	9:01.61 CR	Pauline Korikwiang Chemning  Kenya	9:05.42	Hitomi Niiya  Japan	9:10.34 PB
100 m H 76.2 cm	April Williams  United States	13.23 WYL	Natasha Ruddock  Jamaica	13.38	Theresa Lewis  United States	13.39
400 m H	Ebony Collins  United States	55.96 CR	Lauren Boden  Australia	58.30	Aya Miyahara  Japan	59.62
5000 m track walk	Tatyana Kalmykova  Russia	22:14.47 CR	Elmira Alembekova  Russia	22:27.17	Xue Chai  China	22:34.28 PB
Medley relay	United States Khrystal Carter Ebony Collins Bianca Knight Brandi Cross	2:03.93 WYL	Australia Jessica Gulli Olivia Tauro Megan Hill Jaimee-Lee Hoebergen	2:06.58 PB	Brazil Tatiane Ferraz Vanda Gomes Franciela Krasucki Josiane Valentim	2:06.60 PB
High jump	Gu Biwei  China	1.87	Sophia Begg  Australia	1.85	Yekaterina Yevseyeva  Kazakhstan	1.85
Pole vault	Ekaterini Stefanidi  Greece	4.30 CR	Keisa Monterola  Venezuela	4.30 CR	Shuo Yu  China	4.20 PB
Long jump	Arantxa King  Bermuda	6.39 PB	Eloyse Lesueur  France	6.28	Cornelia Deiac  Romania	6.25 PB
Triple jump	Li Sha  China	13.81	Kaire Leibak  Estonia	13.74 PB	Cristina Bujin  Romania	13.23
Shot put	Simone du Toit  South Africa	16.33 WYL	Bo Li  China	15.92 PB	Dani Samuels  Australia	15.53 PB
Discus	Dani Samuels  Australia	54.09	Simone du Toit  South Africa	52.10	Kamorean Hayes  United States	49.64 PB
Hammer	Bianca Perie  Romania	62.27	Anna Bulgakova  Russia	62.05	Dora Levai  Hungary	58.80 PB
Javelin	Zhang Li  China	56.66	Vira Rebryk  Ukraine	56.16	Yanet Cruz  Cuba	51.66
Heptathlon	Tatyana Chernova  Russia	5875 CR	Yana Panteleyeva  Russia	5611	Diana Rach  Germany	5481 PB
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

Harry Aikines-Aryeetey won a sprint double for Great Britain.

Éloyse Lesueur of France won her first major medal, a long jump silver, at these championships.

  *   Host nation (Morocco)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	6	3	4	13
2	Kenya	5	5	0	10
3	China	5	1	2	8
4	Russia	3	5	0	8
5	Cuba	3	2	2	7
6	South Africa	3	1	1	5
7	Sudan	3	0	1	4
8	Australia	2	3	2	7
9	Great Britain	2	1	2	5
10	Romania	1	1	2	4
11	Bahrain	1	1	1	3
	Ethiopia	1	1	1	3
13	Hungary	1	0	1	2
14	Bermuda	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Iran	1	0	0	1
17	Ukraine	0	4	0	4
18	Japan	0	1	3	4
19	Jamaica	0	1	2	3
20	Germany	0	1	1	2
	Saudi Arabia	0	1	1	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	1	2
23	Barbados	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Estonia	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
29	Brazil	0	0	3	3
30	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
Totals (36 entries)		39	39	39	117

See also

• 2005 in athletics (track and field)