2017 IAAF World U18 Championships

The 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships was the tenth and last edition of the biennial international athletics competition for youth (under-18) athletes.^[1] The five-day competition took place between 12 and 16 July at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.^[2] Eligible athletes were aged 16 or 17 on 31 December 2017 (born in 2000 or 2001).

2017 World U18 Championships in Athletics

Host city	Nairobi, Kenya
Events	40
Dates	12–16 July
Main venue	Moi International Sports Centre
← 2015 Cali

South Africa topped the medals table with 11 medals, five of them gold, while host nation Kenya finished fourth with four gold and 15 medals in total.

Boycott

The United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Italy decided not to take part in the championships for organizational, logistical, and health and safety reasons (concerning athletes still underage).^[3][4]

Medal summary

Boys

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Tshenolo Lemao  South Africa	10.57	Retshidisitswe Mlenga  South Africa	10.61	Tyreke Wilson  Jamaica	10.65
200 metres details	Retshidisitswe Mlenga  South Africa	21.03	Tshenolo Lemao  South Africa	21.12 PB	Luis Brander  Germany	21.23 PB
400 metres details	Antonio Watson  Jamaica	46.59 PB	Daniel Williams  Guyana	46.72 PB	Colby Jennings  Turks and Caicos Islands	46.77 NR
800 metres details	Melese Nberet  Ethiopia	1:47.12 WU18L	Tolesa Bodena  Ethiopia	1:47.16 PB	Japhet Kibiwott Toroitich  Kenya	1:47.82 PB
1500 metres details	George Manangoi  Kenya	3:47.53	Abebe Dessassa  Ethiopia	3:48.65 PB	Belete Mekonen  Ethiopia	3:50.64
3000 metres details	Selemon Barega  Ethiopia	7:47.16 PB	Edward Zakayo  Kenya	7:49.17 PB	Stanley Mburu  Kenya	7:50.64 PB
110 metres hurdles details	De'Jour Russell  Jamaica	13.04 CR	Lu Hao-hua  Chinese Taipei	13.41	Thomas Wanaverbecq  France	13.55
400 metres hurdles details	Sokwakhana Zazini  South Africa	49.27	Moitalel Naadokila  Kenya	52.06 PB	Baptiste Christophe  France	52.21 PB
2000 metres steeplechase details	Leonard Bett  Kenya	5:32.52	Cleophas Meyan  Kenya	5:33.07 PB	Alemu Kitessa  Ethiopia	5:42.10
10,000 metres walk details	Zhang Yao  China	41:12.01 WU18L	Salavat Ilkaev Independent Athletes	41:24.17 PB	Dominic Ndingiti  Kenya	41:25.78 PB
High jump details	Breyton Poole  South Africa	2.24 WU18L	Chima Ihenetu  Germany	2.14 PB	Vladyslav Lavskyy  Ukraine	2.11 PB
Pole vault details	Matthias Orban  France	5.00	Christos Tamanis  Cyprus	4.85 PB	Illya Kravchenko  Ukraine	4.70 PB
Long jump details	Maikel Vidal  Cuba	7.88 WU18L	Lester Lescay  Cuba	7.79 PB	Andreas Samuel Bucsa  Romania	7.47
Triple jump details	Jordan Díaz  Cuba	17.30 WU18B	Frixon Chila  Ecuador	15.92 PB	Arnovis Dalmero  Colombia	15.89 PB
Shot put details	Timo Northoff  Germany	20.72 WU18L	Mikhail Samuseu  Belarus	19.99	Jonathan de Lacey Lacey  South Africa	19.93 PB
Discus throw details	Claudio Romero  Chile	64.33 WU18L	Oleksiy Kyrylin  Ukraine	63.98 PB	Morne Brandon  South Africa	58.34
Hammer throw details	Mykhaylo Kokhan  Ukraine	82.31	Damneet Singh  India	74.20 PB	Raphael Winkelvoss  Germany	71.78
Javelin throw details	Liu Zhekai  China	77.54 PB	Johannes Schlebusch  South Africa	75.68 PB	Song Qingshu  China	73.64
Decathlon details	Steven Fauvel-Clinch  France	7559 WU18L	Olegs Kozakovs  Latvia	7377 PB	Leo Neugebauer  Germany	7204

Girls

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Mizgin Ay  Turkey	11.62	Magdalena Stefanowicz  Poland	11.62 PB	Kevona Davis  Jamaica	11.67
200 metres details	Talea Prepens  Germany	23.51 PB	Jaël Bestué  Spain	23.61 PB	Mizgin Ay  Turkey	23.76 PB
400 metres details	Barbora Malíková  Czech Republic	52.74 PB	Mary Moraa  Kenya	53.31 PB	Giovana Rosália dos Santos  Brazil	53.57 PB
800 metres details	Jackline Wambui  Kenya	2:01.46 WU18L	Lydia Jeruto Lagat  Kenya	2:02.06 PB	Hirut Meshesha  Ethiopia	2:06.32
1500 metres details	Lemlem Hailu  Ethiopia	4:20.80	Sindu Girma  Ethiopia	4:22.14	Edina Jebitok  Kenya	4:23.16
3000 metres details	Abersh Minsewo  Ethiopia	9:24.62	Emmaculate Chepkirui  Kenya	9:24.69	Yitayish Mekonene  Ethiopia	9:28.46
100 metres hurdles details	Britany Anderson  Jamaica	12.72	Cyrena Samba-Mayela  France	12.80	Daszay Freeman  Jamaica	13.09
400 metres hurdles details	Zeney van der Walt  South Africa	58.23	Sanique Walker  Jamaica	58.27	Gisèle Wender  Germany	59.17 PB
2000 metres steeplechase details	Caren Chebet  Kenya	6:24.80 WU18L	Mercy Chepkurui  Kenya	6:26.10 PB	Etalemahu Sintayehu  Ethiopia	6:35.79
5000 metres walk details	Glenda Morejón  Ecuador	22:32.30	Meryem Bekmez  Turkey	22:32.79	Elvira Khasanova Independent Athletes	22:35.72
High jump details	Yaroslava Mahuchikh  Ukraine	1.92 CR	Martyna Lewandowska  Poland	1.82	Lavinja Jürgens  Germany	1.79 SB
Pole vault details	Niu Chunge  China	4.20 PB	Leni Freyja Wildgrube  Germany	4.15 PB	Anna Airault  France	4.10 PB
Long jump details	Gong Luying  China	6.37 PB	Lea-Sophie Klik  Germany	6.30	Diane Mouillac  France	6.28 PB
Triple jump details	Tan Qiujiao  China	13.64 WU18L	Aleksandra Nacheva  Bulgaria	13.54 PB	Zulia Hernández  Cuba	13.29 PB
Shot put details	Selina Dantzler  Germany	17.64	Yu Tianxiao  China	17.62 PB	Yue Sun  China	17.59 PB
Discus throw details	Silinda Morales  Cuba	52.89	Leia Braunagel  Germany	51.29	Liu Quantong  China	50.10
Hammer throw details	Amanda Almendáriz  Cuba	71.12 WU18L	Yaritza Martínez  Cuba	69.75	Katsiaryna Valadkevich  Belarus	68.17
Javelin throw details	Marisleisys Duarthe  Cuba	62.92 CR	Qing Cai  China	57.01	Dai Qianqian  China	54.96
Heptathlon details	María Vicente  Spain	5612	Johanna Seibler  Germany	5602	Urtė Bačianskaitė  Lithuania	5467

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 x 400 metres relay details	Brazil Bruno Benedito da Silva Giovana Rosália dos Santos Jéssica Moreira Alison dos Santos	3:21.71	Jamaica Shaquena Foote Anthony Cox Sanique Walker Antonio Watson Joanne Reid* Tyrese Reid*	3:22.23	South Africa Gontse Morake Retshidisitswe Mlenga Zeney van der Walt Sokwakhana Zazini	3:24.45

* Medalists who participated in heats only.

Medal table

  Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa (RSA)	5	3	3	11
2	China (CHN)	5	2	4	11
3	Cuba (CUB)	5	2	1	8
4	Kenya (KEN)*	4	7	4	15
5	Ethiopia (ETH)	4	3	5	12
6	Germany (GER)	3	5	5	13
7	Jamaica (JAM)	3	2	3	8
8	France (FRA)	2	1	4	7
9	Ukraine (UKR)	2	1	2	5
10	Turkey (TUR)	1	1	1	3
11	Ecuador (ECU)	1	1	0	2
	Spain (ESP)	1	1	0	2
13	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	1	2
14	Chile (CHI)	1	0	0	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
16	Poland (POL)	0	2	0	2
17	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	1	2
–	Independent Athletes[1]	0	1	1	2
18	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	0	1
	Cyprus (CYP)	0	1	0	1
	Guyana (GUY)	0	1	0	1
	India (IND)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
24	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Turks and Caicos Islands (TCA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		39	39	39	117

Source: ^[5]

Notes

^[1] Independent Athletes were not included in the official medal table.^[5]

See also

• 2017 Asian Youth Championships in Athletics
• 2017 African Youth Championships in Athletics