2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics

2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Host city	Santiago, Chile
Nations participating	151
Athletes participating	1122
Events	43
Dates	17–22 October
Main venue	Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos

The 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Santiago, Chile between 17 and 22 October 2000.

Host stadium in Chile.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Mark Lewis-Francis Great Britain	10.12 CR	Salem Mubarak Al-Yami Saudi Arabia	10.38	Marc Burns Trinidad and Tobago	10.40 PB
200 metres	Paul Gorries South Africa	20.64	Marcin Jędrusiński Poland	20.87	Timothy Benjamin Great Britain	20.94
400 metres	Hamdan Obah Al-Bishi Saudi Arabia	44.66 CR	Brandon Simpson Jamaica	45.73 PB	Shinji Ishikawa Japan	45.77 NJR
800 metres	Nicholas Wachira Kenya	1:47.16	Florent Lacasse France	1:47.61	Antonio Manuel Reina Spain	1:47.90
1500 metres	Cornelius Chirchir Kenya	3:38.80	Wolfram Müller Germany	3:39.37	Philemon Kibet Kenya	3:40.77 PB
5000 metres	Gordon Mugi Kenya	13:44.93	Kenenisa Bekele Ethiopia	13:45.43	Cyrus Kataron Kenya	13:46.12
10,000 metres	Robert Kipkorir Kipchumba Kenya	28:54.37	Duncan Lebo Kenya	28:58.39	Abraha Hadush Ethiopia	29:44.65
110 metres hurdles	Yuniel Hernández Cuba	13.60 WLJ	Thomas Blaschek Germany	13.80	Ladji Doucouré France	13.84
400 metres hurdles	Marek Plawgo Poland	49.23 WLJ	Pieter de Villiers South Africa	50.52	Ockert Cilliers South Africa	50.58
3000 metres steeplechase	Raymond Yator Kenya	8:16.34 CR	David Chemweno Kenya	8:31.95 PB	Abdelatif Chemlal Morocco	8:43.57
10,000 metres walk	Cristián David Berdeja Mexico	40:56.47 SB	Yevgeniy Demkov Russia	40:56.53	Viktor Burayev Russia	40:56.57
4 × 100 metres relay	Great Britain Tyrone Edgar Dwayne Grant Timothy Benjamin Mark Lewis-Francis	39.05 CR	France Ronald Pognon Fabrice Calligny Ladji Doucouré Leslie Djhone	39.33 NJR	Japan Takashi Mogi Kazuya Kitamura Yusuke Omae Hisashi Miyazaki	39.47 NJR
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Sekou Clarke Aldwyn Sappleton Pete Coley Brandon Simpson	3:06.06 WLJ	Germany Sebastian Gatzka Christian Duma Steffen Hönig Bastian Swillims	3:06.79	Poland Rafał Wieruszewski Karol Terejlis Adrian Galaszewski Marek Plawgo	3:07.05 SB
High jump	Jacques Freitag South Africa	2.24	Germaine Mason Jamaica	2.24 NJR	Tomasz Śmiałek Poland	2.21 PB
Pole vault	Aleksey Khanafin Russia	5.30	Aleksandr Korchmyd Ukraine	5.30	Rocky Danners United States	5.20
Long jump	Cai Peng China	7.88	Vladimir Zyuskov Ukraine	7.84 PB	Yoelmis Pacheco Cuba	7.71
Triple jump	Marian Oprea Romania	16.41	Yoandri Betanzos Cuba	16.34	Mohammed Hamdi Awadh Qatar	16.29
Shot put	Rutger Smith Netherlands	19.48 CR	Ivan Yushkov Russia	19.06	Tomasz Chrzanowski Poland	19.00 NJR
Discus throw	Hannes Hopley South Africa	59.51 NJR	Niklas Arrhenius Sweden	59.19 PB	Rutger Smith Netherlands	58.70
Javelin throw	Gerhardus Pienaar South Africa	78.11 NJR	Andreas Thorkildsen Norway	76.34 NJR	Park Jae-Myong South Korea	72.36
Hammer throw	Eşref Apak Turkey	69.97 NJR	Dylan Armstrong Canada	67.50	Aaron Fish Australia	67.44
Decathlon	Dennis Leyckes Germany	7897 CR	David Gómez Spain	7772 NJR	André Niklaus Germany	7712 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)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Veronica Campbell Jamaica	11.12 CR	Katchi Habel Germany	11.39 PB	Fana Ashby Trinidad and Tobago	11.47
200 metres	Veronica Campbell Jamaica	22.87 CR	Sina Schielke Germany	23.20	Vida Anim Ghana	23.81
400 metres	Jana Pittman Australia	52.45	Aneta Lemiesz Poland	52.78 NJR	Norma González Colombia	53.30
800 metres	Jebet Langat Kenya	2:01.51	Georgie Clarke Australia	2:02.28	Lucia Klocová Slovakia	2:04.00 PB
1500 metres	Abebech Negussie Ethiopia	4:19.93	Rose Kosgei Kenya	4:20.16	Georgie Clarke Australia	4:20.21
3000 metres	Beatrice Jepchumba Kenya	9:08.80	Jane Chepkoech Kenya	9:10.05	Etalemahu Kidane Ethiopia	9:11.55 PB
5000 metres	Dorcus Inzikuru Uganda	16:21.32	Meseret Defar Ethiopia	16:23.69	Sharon Cherop Kenya	16:23.73
100 metres hurdles	Susanna Kallur Sweden	13.02 WLJ	Fanny Gérance France	13.21 PB	Adrianna Lamalle France	13.27
400 metres hurdles	Jana Pittman Australia	56.27	Marjolein de Jong Netherlands	56.50	Melaine Walker Jamaica	56.96 NJR
10,000 metres walk	Lyudmila Yefimkina Russia	44:07.74	Tatyana Kozlova Russia	44:24.43 PB	Sabine Zimmer Germany	46:49.97 NJR
4 × 100 metres relay	Germany Christa Kaufmann Sina Schielke Kerstin Grötzinger Katchi Habel	43.91 WLJ	Jamaica Veronica Campbell Nadine Palmer Kerron Stewart Nolle Graham	44.05 SB	Sweden Emma Rienas Jenny Kallur Susanna Kallur Linda Fernström	44.78 NJR
4 × 400 metres relay	Great Britain Kim Wall Jenny Meadows Helen Thieme Lisa Miller	3:33.82 WLJ	Jamaica Sheryl Morgan Kareen Gayle Anneisha McLaughlin Melaine Walker	3:33.99 SB	Romania Adela Diana Marchis Liliana Barbulescu Maria Rus Alina Ripanu	3:34.49
High jump	Blanka Vlašić Croatia	1.91	Marina Kuptsova Russia	1.88	Marizca Gertenbach South Africa	1.88 PB
Pole vault	Yelena Isinbayeva Russia	4.20 CR	Annika Becker Germany	4.10	Vanessa Boslak France Fanni Juhász Hungary	4.10 4.10 SB
Long jump	Concepción Montaner Spain	6.47	Zhou Yangxia China	6.45	Kumiko Ikeda Japan	6.43 NJR
Triple jump	Anastasiya Ilyina Russia	14.24	Anna Pyatykh Russia	14.18 PB	Dana Veldáková Slovakia	13.92 NJR
Shot put	Kathleen Kluge Germany	17.37 PB	Li Meiju China	16.57	Natallia Kharaneka Belarus	16.40
Discus throw	Xu Shaoyang China	54.41	Jana Tucholke Germany	53.97 PB	Olga Goncharenko Belarus	53.64
Javelin throw	Jarmila Klimešová Czech Republic	54.82	Inga Kožarenoka Latvia	54.64	Halina Kakhava Belarus	54.26
Hammer throw	Ivana Brkljacic Croatia	62.22 CR	Virginia Balut Romania	60.23 PB	Yunaika Crawford Cuba	59.98
Heptathlon	Carolina Klüft Sweden	6056 WLJ	Lidiya Bashlykova Russia	5898	Sanna Saarman Finland	5707
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

Rutger Smith of the Netherlands won the shot put gold and discus bronze.

Veronica Campbell won a sprint double for Jamaica.

The host country is highlighted in lavender blue


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	7	4	3	14
2	Russia	4	6	1	11
3	South Africa	4	1	2	7
4	Germany	3	7	2	12
5	Jamaica	3	4	1	8
6	Great Britain	3	0	1	4
7	China	2	2	0	4
8	Australia	2	1	2	5
9	Sweden	2	1	1	4
10	Croatia	2	0	0	2
11	Poland	1	2	3	6
12	Ethiopia	1	2	2	5
13	Cuba	1	1	2	4
14	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
	Romania	1	1	1	3
	Spain	1	1	1	3
17	Saudi Arabia	1	1	0	2
18	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	Mexico	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
	Uganda	1	0	0	1
22	France	0	3	3	6
23	Ukraine	0	2	0	2
24	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
27	Japan	0	0	3	3
28	Belarus	0	0	2	2
	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	2	2
31	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Ghana	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
–	Chile*	0	0	0	0
Totals (38 nations)		43	43	43	129

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[1] 1122 athletes from 151 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[2]