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.

Men's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres Template:Detailslink	Darrel Brown Template:Flagcountry	10.09 CR	Marc Burns Template:Flagcountry	10.18 PB	Willie Hordge Template:Flagcountry	10.36
	Brown's 10.09 then ranked fifth all-time among juniors. He eventually broke the WJR at the 2003 World Championships.
Template:AthleticsLink	Usain Bolt Template:Flagcountry	20.61	Brendan Christian Template:Flagcountry	20.74	Wes Felix Template:Flagcountry	20.82 PB
	At only Template:Age in years and days, Bolt became the youngest ever junior world champion. He was surpassed by Jacko Gill in the 2010 World Junior Championships.
Template:AthleticsLink	Darold Williamson Template:Flagcountry	45.37	Jonathan Fortenberry Template:Flagcountry	45.73	Jermaine Gonzales Template:Flagcountry	45.84 PB
Template:AthleticsLink	Alex Kipchirchir Template:Flagcountry	1:46.59	Salem Amer Al-Badri Template:Flagcountry	1:46.63 NJR	David Fiegen Template:Flagcountry	1:46.66
Template:AthleticsLink	Yassine Bensghir Template:Flagcountry	3:40.72 PB	Abdulrahman Suleiman Template:Flagcountry	3:41.72	Samwel Mwera Template:Flagcountry	3:41.75
Template:AthleticsLink	Hillary Chenonge Template:Flagcountry	13:28.30 CR	Markos Geneti Template:Flagcountry	13:28.83 SB	Gebregziabher Gebremariam Template:Flagcountry	13:29.13
Template:AthleticsLink	Gebregziabher Gebremariam Template:Flagcountry	29:02.71	Sileshi Sihine Template:Flagcountry	29:03.74	Solomon Bushendich Template:Flagcountry	29:05.96
Template:AthleticsLink	Antwon Hicks Template:Flagcountry	13.42	Shi Dongpeng Template:Flagcountry	13.58	Shamar Sands Template:Flagcountry	13.67
Template:AthleticsLink	L. J. van Zyl Template:Flagcountry	48.89 CR	Kenneth Ferguson Template:Flagcountry	49.38 PB	Bershawn Jackson Template:Flagcountry	50.00 PB
Template:AthleticsLink	Michael Kipyego Template:Flagcountry	8:29.54	David Kirwa Template:Flagcountry	8:31.44	Abubaker Ali Kamal Template:Flagcountry	8:33.67 NJR
Template:AthleticsLink	Vladimir Kanaykin Template:Flagcountry	41:41.40	Xu Xingde Template:Flagcountry	41:44.00	Lu Ronghua Template:Flagcountry	41:46.07
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagcountry Ashton Collins Wes Felix Ivory Williams Willie Hordge	38.92 WJR	Template:Flagcountry Winston Hutton Orion Nicely Yhann Plummer Usain Bolt	39.15 NJR	Template:Flagcountry Chevon Simpson Marc Burns Kevon Holder Darrel Brown	39.17 NJR
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagcountry Kenneth Ferguson Darold Williamson Ashton Collins Jonathan Fortenberry	3:03.71	Template:Flagcountry Sekou Clarke Usain Bolt Jermaine Myers Jermaine Gonzales	3:04.06 NJR	Template:Flagcountry Yamauchi Fujio Daisuke Sakai Yuki Yamaguchi Yosuke Inoue	3:05.80 AJR
Template:AthleticsLink	Andra Manson Template:Flagcountry	2.31 WJL	Zhu Wannan Template:Flagcountry	2.23 PB	Germaine Mason Template:Flagcountry	2.21
Template:AthleticsLink	Maksym Mazuryk Template:Flagcountry	5.55 WLJ	Vladyslav Revenko Template:Flagcountry	5.55 WLJ	Vincent Favretto Template:Flagcountry	5.40
Template:AthleticsLink	Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Waleed Template:Flagcountry	7.99 PB	Fabrice Lapierre Template:Flagcountry	7.74 PB	Trevell Quinley Template:Flagcountry	7.71 PB
Template:AthleticsLink	Arnie David Giralt Template:Flagcountry	16.68	Li Yanxi Template:Flagcountry	16.66 PB	Aleksandr Sergeyev Template:Flagcountry	16.55
Shot put 6 kg Template:Detailslink	Edis Elkasevic Template:Flagcountry	21.47 WLJ	Sean Shields Template:Flagcountry	20.54	Mika Vasara Template:Flagcountry	20.50
Discus throw 1.75 kg Template:Detailslink	Wu Tao Template:Flagcountry	64.51 WLJ	Dmitriy Sivakov Template:Flagcountry	62.00	Michał Hodun Template:Flagcountry	61.74
Hammer throw 6 kg Template:Detailslink	Werner Smit Template:Flagcountry	76.43	Ali Al-Zinkawi Template:Flagcountry	73.69	Aliaksandr Kazulka Template:Flagcountry	72.72
Template:AthleticsLink	Igor Janik Template:Flagcountry	74.16	Vladislav Shkurlatov Template:Flagcountry	74.09 PB	Jung Sang-Jin Template:Flagcountry	73.99 PB
Template:AthleticsLink	Leonid Andreev Template:Flagcountry	7693	Nadir El Fassi Template:Flagcountry	7677	Mikko Halvari Template:Flagcountry	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
Template:AthleticsLink	Lauryn Williams Template:Flagcountry	11.33 PB	Simone Facey Template:Flagcountry	11.43 PB	Marshevet Hooker Template:Flagcountry	11.48
Template:AthleticsLink	Vernicha James Template:Flagcountry	22.93 PB	Anneisha McLaughlin Template:Flagcountry	22.94 PB	Sanya Richards Template:Flagcountry	23.09
Template:AthleticsLink	Monique Henderson Template:Flagcountry	51.10 SB	Sanya Richards Template:Flagcountry	51.49	Sheryl Morgan Template:Flagcountry	52.61
Template:AthleticsLink	Janeth Jepkosgei Template:Flagcountry	2:00.80 WLJ	Lucia Klocová Template:Flagcountry	2:01.73	Juliana Paula de Azevedo Template:Flagcountry	2:03.81 PB
Template:AthleticsLink	Viola Kibiwot Template:Flagcountry	4:12.57 PB	Berhane Herpassa Template:Flagcountry	4:13.59	Olesya Syreva Template:Flagcountry	4:14.32 PB
Template:AthleticsLink	Meseret Defar Template:Flagcountry	9:12.61	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli Template:Flagcountry	9:16.28 PB	Olesya Syreva Template:Flagcountry	9:16.58 PB
Template:AthleticsLink	Meseret Defar Template:Flagcountry	15:54.94	Tirunesh Dibaba Template:Flagcountry	15:55.99	Vivian Cheruiyot Template:Flagcountry	15:56.04
Template:AthleticsLink	Anay Tejeda Template:Flagcountry	12.81	Agnieszka Frankowska Template:Flagcountry	13.16	Tina Klein Template:Flagcountry	13.23
Template:AthleticsLink	Lashinda Demus Template:Flagcountry	54.70 WJR	Melaine Walker Template:Flagcountry	56.03	Camille Robinson Template:Flagcountry	56.14 PB
Template:AthleticsLink	Fumi Mitsumura Template:Flagcountry	46:01.51 NJR	Liu Siqi Template:Flagcountry	46:07.15	Maryna Tsikhanava Template:Flagcountry	46:14.67 SB
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagcountry Sherone Simpson Kerron Stewart Anneisha McLaughlin Simone Facey	43.40 CR	Template:Flagcountry Lauryn Williams Ashlee Williams Shalonda Solomon Marshevet Hooker	43.66	Template:Flagcountry Jade Lucas-Read Jeanette Kwakye Amy Spencer Vernicha James	44.22 PB
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagcountry Christina Hardeman Monique Henderson Tiffany Ross Lashinda Demus	3:29.95 NJR	Template:Flagcountry Kim Wall Amy Spencer Vernicha James Lisa Miller	3:30.46 NJR	Template:Flagcountry Yelena Mygunova Mariya Dryakhlova Yuliya Gushchina Tatyana Popova	3:34.49
Template:AthleticsLink	Blanka Vlašić Template:Flagcountry	1.96 WLJ	Anna Ksok Template:Flagcountry	1.87	Petrina Price Template:Flagcountry	1.87
Template:AthleticsLink	Floé Kühnert Template:Flagcountry	4.40 CR	Yuliya Golubchikova Template:Flagcountry	4.30	Nataliya Belinskaya Template:Flagcountry	4.20
Template:AthleticsLink	Adina Anton Template:Flagcountry	6.46 PB	Wang Lina Template:Flagcountry	6.36	Esther Aghatise Template:Flagcountry	6.34
Template:AthleticsLink	Mabel Gay Template:Flagcountry	14.09	Yarianna Martínez Template:Flagcountry	13.74	Keila da Silva Costa Template:Flagcountry	13.70
Template:AthleticsLink	Valerie Adams Template:Flagcountry	17.73 AJR	Zhang Ying Template:Flagcountry	16.76	Laura Gerraughty Template:Flagcountry	16.62
Template:AthleticsLink	Ma Xuejun Template:Flagcountry	58.85 PB	Xu Shaoyang Template:Flagcountry	57.87	Seema Antil Template:Flagcountry	55.83
Template:AthleticsLink	Ivana Brkljačić Template:Flagcountry	65.39	Martina Danišová Template:Flagcountry	63.91	Yuliya Rozenfeld Template:Flagcountry	60.83 PB
Template:AthleticsLink	Linda Brivule Template:Flagcountry	55.35 PB	Ilze Gribule Template:Flagcountry	54.16 SB	Urszula Jasińska Template:Flagcountry	54.06
Template:AthleticsLink	Carolina Klüft Template:Flagcountry	6470 WJR	Olga Alekseyeva Template:Flagcountry	5727	Olga Levenkova Template:Flagcountry	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

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

File:Osaka07 D9A Blanka Vlasic post-VC.jpg

Blanka Vlašić of Croatia won the high jump.

File:Osaka07 D1A Carolina Kluft.jpg

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

Participation

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

External links

• Official site (archived)
• Organizing committee official site (archived)
• IAAF competition site