2018 IAAF World U20 Championships

The 2018 World U20 Championships in Athletics, also known as the World Junior Championships, was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 1999) which was held at Tampere Stadium in Tampere, Finland on 10–15 July 2018.^[1] The championships were originally awarded to Tampere by the IAAF in March, 2016.^[2]

2018 World U20 Championships in Athletics

Host city	Tampere, Finland
Nations	156 + 2 teams
Athletes	1462
Events	44
Dates	10–15 July
Opened by	Sauli Niinistö
Main venue	Tampere Stadium
← 2016 Bydgoszcz 2021 Nairobi →

Schedule

Q	Qualification	H	Heats	½	Semifinals	F	Final
M = morning session, A = afternoon session

All dates are EEST (UTC+3)

Men Date → 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July Event ↓ M A M A M A M A M A A 100 m H ½ F 200 m H ½ F 400 m H ½ F 800 m H ½ F 1500 m H F 3000 m SC H F 5000 m F 10,000 m F 110 m hurdles H ½ F 400 m hurdles H ½ F 4 × 100 m relay H F 4 × 400 m relay H F 10,000 m walk F High jump Q F Pole vault Q F Long jump Q F Triple jump Q F Shot put Q F Discus throw Q F Hammer throw Q F Javelin throw Q F Decathlon F

Women Date → 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July Event ↓ M A M A M A M A M A A 100 m H ½ F 200 m H ½ F 400 m H ½ F 800 m H ½ F 1500 m H F 3000 m SC H F 3000 m F 5000 m F 100 m hurdles H ½ F 400 m hurdles H ½ F 4 × 100 m relay H F 4 × 400 m relay H F 10,000 m walk F High jump Q F Pole vault Q F Long jump Q F Triple jump Q F Shot put Q F Discus throw Q F Hammer throw Q F Javelin throw Q F Heptathlon F

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Qualifying Standards

Event	Men	Women
100 m	10.55	11.80
200 m	21.35	24.20
400 m	47.70	55.00
800 m	1:50.00	2:08.70
1500 m	3:48.00	4:27.00
5000 m	5000 m 14:15.00 8:15.00 (3000 m)	5000 m 16:40.00 9:35.00 (3000 m)
10,000 m	31:00.00 10,000 m	–
3000 m sc	9:10.00	10:43.00
100 mH	–	14.10
110 mH	14.20 0.995 m	–
400 mH	53.00	60.75
10,000 m RW	44:00.00	51:00.00
4x100 m Relay	No standard	No standard
4x400 m Relay	No standard	No standard
Heptathlon	–	5300 points
Decathlon	7200 points	–
High Jump	2.16 m	1.82 m
Pole Vault	5.10 m	4.05 m
Long Jump	7.55 m	6.15 m
Triple Jump	15.60 m	12.85 m
Shot Put	18.25 m (6 kg)	14.50 m
Discus	56.00 m	48.00 m
Hammer	68.00 m (6 kg)	57.00 m
Javelin	68.70 m	50.00 m

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Men's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Lalu Muhammad Zohri  Indonesia	10.18 NJR	Anthony Schwartz  United States	10.22	Eric Harrison  United States	10.22 PB
200 m details	Jona Efoloko  Great Britain	20.48 PB	Charles Dobson  Great Britain	20.57	Eric Harrison  United States	20.79
400 m details	Jonathan Sacoor  Belgium	45.03 NJR	Christopher Taylor  Jamaica	45.38	Chantz Sawyers  Jamaica	45.89
800 m details	Solomon Lekuta [fr]  Kenya	1:46.35	Ngeno Kipngetich  Kenya	1:46.45 PB	Eliott Crestan  Belgium	1:47.27
1500 m details	George Manangoi  Kenya	3:41.71	Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway	3:41.89	Justus Soget  Kenya	3:42.14
5000 m details	Edward Zakayo  Kenya	13:20.16	Stanley Mburu  Kenya	13:20.57	Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway	13:20.78 AJR
10,000 m details	Rhonex Kipruto  Kenya	27:21.08 CR	Jacob Kiplimo  Uganda	27:40.36	Berihu Aregawi  Ethiopia	27:48.41 PB
110 m hurdles (99.0 cm) details	Damion Thomas  Jamaica	13.18	Orlando Bennett  Jamaica	13.33	Shunsuke Izumiya  Japan	13.38 PB
400 m hurdles details	Sokwakhana Zazini  South Africa	49.42	Bassem Hemeida  Qatar	49.59 PB	Alison dos Santos  Brazil	49.78 PB
3000 m steeplechase details	Takele Nigate  Ethiopia	8:25.35 SB	Leonard Bett  Kenya	8:25.39	Getnet Wale  Ethiopia	8:26.16 SB
4×100 m relay details	United States Eric Harrison Anthony Schwartz Austin Kratz Micah Williams	38.88 WJL	Jamaica Xavier Nairne Christopher Taylor Jhevaughn Matherson Michael Stephens	38.96 NJR	Germany Lucas Ansah-Peprah Marvin Schulte Milo Skupin-Alfa Luis Brandner	39.22
4×400 m relay details	Italy Klaudio Gjetja Andrea Romani Alessandro Sibilio Edoardo Scotti Lorenzo Benati (heats)	3:04.05 WJL, AJR[5]	United States Elija Godwin Nicholas Ramey Justin Robinson Howard Fields Matthew Boling Umajesty Williams	3:05.24	Great Britain Alex Haydock-Wilson Joseph Brier Alastair Chalmers Alex Knibbs	3:05.64
10,000 m walk details	Zhang Yao  China	40:32.06 PB	David Hurtado  Ecuador	40:32.06 PB	José Ortiz  Guatemala	40:45.26 PB

• WJR (World Junior Record), WJL (World Junior Leader), CR (Championship Record), AJR (Area Junior Record), NJR (National Junior Record ), PB (Personal Best), SB (Season Best)

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Adónios Mérlos  [fr] PB  Greece Roberto Vílches  Mexico	2.23m	Not Awarded		JuVaughn Blake PB  United States Breyton Poole  South Africa	2.23m
Pole vault details	Armand Duplantis  Sweden	5.82m CR	Zachery Bradford  United States	5.55m PB	Masaki Ejima  Japan	5.55m
Long jump details	Yuki Hashioka  Japan	8.03m	Maikel Vidal  Cuba	7.99m	Wayne Pinnock  Jamaica	7.90m
Triple jump details	Jordan Díaz  Cuba	17.15m CR	Martin Lamou [fr]  France	16.44m	Jonathan Seremes  France	16.18m PB
Shot put (6 kg) details	Kyle Blignaut  South Africa	22.07m WJL	Adrian Piperi  United States	22.06m AJR	Odisséas Mouzenídis [fr]  Greece	21.07m NJR
Discus throw (1.750 kg) details	Kai Chang  Jamaica	62.36m PB	Yauheni Bahutski  Belarus	61.75m	Claudio Romero  Chile	60.81m SB
Hammer throw (6 kg) details	Jake Norris  Great Britain	80.65m NJR	Mykhaylo Kokhan  Ukraine	79.68m PB	Mykhaylo Havryliuk [es]  Ukraine	77.71m PB
Javelin throw details	Nash Lowis  Australia	75.31m PB	Tzuriel Pedigo  United States	73.76m PB	Maurice Voigt  Germany	73.44m PB
Decathlon (junior) details	Ashley Moloney  Australia	8190 pts CR, AJR, WJL	Gary Haasbroek  Australia	7798 pts PB	Simon Ehammer  Switzerland	7642 pts PB

• WJR (World Junior Record), WJL (World Junior Leader), CR (Championship Record), AJR (Area Junior Record), NJR (National Junior Record ), PB (Personal Best), SB (Season Best)

Women's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Briana Williams  Jamaica	11.16	Twanisha Terry  United States	11.19	Kristal Awuah  Great Britain	11.37
200 m details	Briana Williams  Jamaica	22.50 CR	Lauren Rain Williams  United States	23.09	Martyna Kotwiła  Poland	23.21 NJR
400 m details	Hima Das  India	51.46	Andrea Miklós  Romania	52.07 PB	Taylor Manson  United States	52.28
800 m details	Diribe Welteji  Ethiopia	1:59.74 CR, WJL	Carly Thomas  Australia	2:01.13 PB	Delia Sclabas  Switzerland	2:01.29 NJR
1500 m details	Alemaz Samuel  Ethiopia	4:09.67	Miriam Cherop  Kenya	4:10.73	Delia Sclabas  Switzerland	4:11.98
3000 m details	Nozomi Tanaka  Japan	8:54.01 PB	Meselu Berhe  Ethiopia	8:56.39 PB	Tsigie Gebreselama  Ethiopia	8:59.20 PB
5000 m details	Beatrice Chebet  Kenya	15:30.77 PB	Ejgayehu Taye  Ethiopia	15:30.87 PB	Girmawit Gebrzihair  Ethiopia	15:34.01 PB
100 m hurdles details	Tia Jones  United States	13.01	Britany Anderson  Jamaica	13.01 PB	Cortney Jones  United States	13.19
400 m hurdles details	Zenéy van der Walt  South Africa	55.34	Shiann Salmon  Jamaica	56.11	Yasmin Giger  Switzerland	56.98
3000 m steeplechase details	Celliphine Chespol  Kenya	9:12.79 CR	Peruth Chemutai  Uganda	9:18.87	Winfred Mutile Yavi  Bahrain	9:23.47
4×100 m relay details	Germany Victoria Dönicke Corinna Schwab Sophia Junk Denise Uphoff	43.82	Ireland Molly Scott Gina Akpe-Moses Ciara Neville Patience Jumbo Gula	43.90 NJR	Great Britain Kristal Awuah Alisha Rees Georgina Adam Ebony Carr	44.05
4×400 m relay details	United States Symone Mason Shae Anderson Julia Madubuike Taylor Manson	3:28.74 WJL	Australia Ella Connolly Cara Jardine Jemima Russell Carley Thomas	3:31.36 SB	Jamaica Janielle Josephs Stacey-Ann Williams Shiann Salmon Calisha Taylor	3:31.90 SB
10,000 m walk details	Alegna González  Mexico	44:13.88 WJL	Meryem Bekmez  Turkey	44:17.69 NJR	Glenda Morejón  Ecuador	44:19.40 AJR

• WJR (World Junior Record), WJL (World Junior Leader), CR (Championship Record), AJR (Area Junior Record), NJR (National Junior Record ), PB (Personal Best), SB (Season Best)

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Karyna Demidik  Belarus	1.92m NU20R	Sommer Lecky  Ireland	1.90m NU20R	María Fernanda Murillo  Colombia	1.90m = AU20R
Pole vault details	Amálie Švábíková  Czech Republic	4.51m NJR	Lisa Gunnarsson  Sweden	4.35m	Alice Moindrot  France	4.35m
Long jump details	Lea-Jasmine Riecke  Germany	6.51m PB	Ayaka Kora  Japan	6.37m	Tara Davis  United States	6.36m
Triple jump details	Aleksandra Nacheva  Bulgaria	14.18m WJL PB	Mirieli Santos  Brazil	13.81m PB	Davisleydi Velazco  Cuba	13.78m
Shot put details	Maddi Wesche  New Zealand	17.09m PB	Zhang Linru  China	17.05m	Jorinde van Klinken  Netherlands	17.05m
Discus throw details	Alexandra Emilianov  Moldova	57.89m	Helena Leveelahti  Finland	56.80m NJR	Silinda Morales  Cuba	55.37m PB
Hammer throw details	Camryn Rogers  Canada	64.90m	Alyssa Wilson  United States	64.45m	Yanitza Martínez  Cuba	63.82m
Javelin throw details	Alina Shukh  Ukraine	55.95m	Tomoka Kuwazoe  Japan	55.66m	Dana Baker  United States	55.04m PB
Heptathlon details	Niamh Emerson  Great Britain	6253 pts WJL	Sarah Lagger  Austria	6225 pts NJR	Adrianna Sułek  Poland	5939 pts NJR

• WJR (World Junior Record), WJL (World Junior Leader), CR (Championship Record), AJR (Area Junior Record), NJR (National Junior Record ), PB (Personal Best), SB (Season Best)

Medal table

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Kenya won the ranking in the medal table.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	6	4	1	11
2	Jamaica	4	5	3	12
3	United States	3	8	7	18
4	Ethiopia	3	2	4	9
5	Great Britain	3	1	3	7
6	South Africa	3	0	1	4
7	Australia	2	3	0	5
8	Japan	2	2	2	6
9	Germany	2	0	2	4
10	Mexico	2	0	0	2
11	Cuba	1	1	3	5
12	Ukraine	1	1	1	3
13	Belarus	1	1	0	2
	China	1	1	0	2
	Sweden	1	1	0	2
16	Belgium	1	0	1	2
	Greece	1	0	1	2
18	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	India	1	0	0	1
	Indonesia	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Moldova	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
26	Ireland	0	2	0	2
	Uganda	0	2	0	2
28	France	0	1	2	3
29	Brazil	0	1	1	2
	Ecuador	0	1	1	2
	Norway	0	1	1	2
32	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Finland*	0	1	0	1
	Qatar	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
37	Switzerland	0	0	4	4
38	Poland	0	0	2	2
39	Bahrain	0	0	1	1
	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Guatemala	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (43 entries)		45	43	45	133

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Placing table

USA won the ranking in the placing table.^[7]

Rank	Country				4	5	6	7	8	Points
1	United States	3	8	7	0	1	5	6	2	155
2	Kenya	6	4	1	2	4	0	1	2	112
3	Jamaica	4	5	3	1	1	1	2	0	101
4	Ethiopia	3	2	4	2	5	2	0	0	98
5	Germany	2	0	2	5	3	2	3	3	80
	Great Britain	3	1	3	1	2	3	4	1	80
7	Japan	2	2	2	3	2	1	2	3	75
8	Australia	2	3	0	2	3	2	3	0	71
9	China	1	1	0	3	2	5	2	0	57
10	France	0	1	2	4	2	1	0	2	52
11	Cuba	1	1	3	2	1	0	0	0	47
12	South Africa	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	40
13	Italy	1	0	0	2	2	2	1	4	38
14	Switzerland	0	0	4	0	1	2	0	1	35
15	Uganda	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	32
16	Sweden	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	26
17	Ukraine	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	25
	Belgium	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	25
19	Belarus	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	24
	Poland	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	24
21	India	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	23
	Brazil	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	23
23	Canada	1	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	22
24	Norway	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	18
25	Mexico	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16
26	Finland	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	15
	Ireland	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	15
	Spain	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	15
29	Greece	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14
	Czech Republic	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	14
	New Zealand	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	14
32	Turkey	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	13
	Ecuador	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	13
	Romania	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	13
35	Qatar	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	11
36	Austria	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	10
37	Slovakia	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	9
38	Hungary	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	8
	Netherlands	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	8
	Bulgaria	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
	Moldova	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
	Indonesia	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
43	Chile	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
	Eritrea	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	6
	Guatemala	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
	Colombia	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
	Bahamas	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
48	Armenia	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
	Slovenia	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
	Portugal	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
51	Latvia	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
	Serbia	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	4
53	Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
54	Algeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Iran	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Cyprus	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
	Morocco	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
61	Taiwan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
	Barbados	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

Participation

The following is a list of participating nations with the number of qualified athletes in brackets. A country without any qualified athlete could enter either one male or one female.^[4] A total 156 countries (plus the teams from Authorized Neutral Athletes and Athlete Refugee team) and 1462 athletes were scheduled to compete.^{[citation needed]}

•  Algeria (11)
•  Authorised Neutral Athletes (9)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (2)
•  Argentina (4)
•  Armenia (2)
•  ART (2)
•  Aruba (1)
•  Australia (54)
•  Austria (10)
•  Bahamas (12)
•  Bahrain (3)
•  Bangladesh (1)
•  Barbados (6)
•  Belarus (12)
•  Belgium (14)
•  Bermuda (1)
•  Bhutan (1)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (4)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Botswana (13)
•  Brazil (20)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Bulgaria (9)
•  Burkina Faso (1)
•  Burundi (1)
•  Cameroon (1)
•  Canada^[8] (32)
•  Cayman Islands (3)
•  Chad (1)
•  Chile (4)
•  China^[9] (35)
•  Ivory Coast (1)
•  Colombia (8)
•  Republic of the Congo (1)
•  Costa Rica (2)
•  Croatia (5)
•  Cuba^[10] (13)
•  Cyprus (4)
•  Czech Republic (24)
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
•  Denmark (11)
•  Djibouti (1)
•  Dominica (1)
•  Dominican Republic (7)
•  Ecuador (9)
•  Egypt (2)
•  Eritrea (4)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Estonia (3)
•  Ethiopia (29)
•  Finland^[11] (32) Host
•  France (44)
•  French Polynesia (1)
•  Gambia (1)
•  Georgia (5)
•  Germany (67)
•  Ghana (1)
•  Gibraltar (1)
•  Great Britain^[12] (40)
•  Greece (19)
•  Grenada (1)
•  Guatemala (4)
•  Guam (1)
•  Guyana (2)
•  Haiti (1)
•  Hong Kong (1)
• Honduras (1)
•  Hungary (27)
•  Iceland (3)
•  India (31)
•  Indonesia (2)
•  Iran (4)
•  Iraq (3)
•  Ireland (19)
•  Israel (4)
•  Italy (55)
•  Jamaica (42)
•  Jordan (1)
•  Japan (47)
•  Kazakhstan (2)
•  Kenya (27)
•  Kosovo (1)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Kyrgyzstan (1)
•  Latvia (6)
•  Lesotho (1)
•  Libya (1)
•  Lithuania (7)
•  Luxembourg (2)
•  Macau (1)
• Macedonia (1)
•  Madagascar (1)
•  Malta (1)
•  Maldives (1)
•  Mexico (6)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Montenegro (1)
•  Morocco (10)
•  Namibia (1)
•  Nauru (1)
•  Netherlands (14)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  New Zealand (11)
•  Nigeria (3)
•  Norway (10)
•  Oman (1)
•  Panama (1)
•  Papua New Guinea (1)
•  Paraguay (1)
•  Peru (6)
•  Philippines (1)
•  Poland (37)
•  Portugal (14)
•  Puerto Rico (5)
•  Qatar (8)
•  Romania (17)
•  Saint Lucia (1)
•  San Marino (1)
•  São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (5)
•  Senegal (1)
•  Serbia (6)
•  Seychelles (1)
•  Sierra Leone (1)
•  Singapore (1)
•  Slovakia (9)
•  Slovenia (11)
•  South Africa (19)
•  South Korea (7)
•  South Sudan (1)
•  Spain (46)
•  Sri Lanka^[13] (11)
•  Sudan (1)
•  Eswatini (1)
•  Sweden (17)
•  Switzerland (21)
•  Chinese Taipei (4)
•  Tajikistan (1)
•  Tonga (1)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (14)
•  Tunisia (5)
•  Turkey (32)
•  Turkmenistan (1)
•  Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
•  Tuvalu (1)
•  Uganda (11)
•  Ukraine (34)
•  United States^[14] (79)
•  Uruguay (2)
•  Uzbekistan (2)
•  Vanuatu (1)
•  Venezuela (5)
•  Vietnam (2)
•  United States Virgin Islands (1)
•  Yemen (1)
•  Zambia (3)
•  Zimbabwe (6)