1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 1988 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

from July 27 to July 31, 1988.

The city's Northern Lights Festival Boréal

Northern Lights Festival Boréal

Northern Lights Festival Boréal is an annual folk festival in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's oldest music festival, in continuous operation since 1972...

was held concurrently to serve as the championships' cultural festival. CBC Television

CBC Television

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and MCTV

Mid-Canada Communications

Mid-Canada Communications was a Canadian media company, which operated from 1980 to 1990. The company, a division of Northern Cable, had television and radio holdings in Northeastern Ontario.-MCTV:...

acted as the host broadcasters.

Men

100 m 100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...	Andre Cason Andre Cason Andre Cason is an American former sprinter. He was a member of the US 4 x 100 meters relay team that won the gold medal at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo with a world record time of 37.50 seconds... United States	10.22	Sven Matthes Sven Matthes Sven Matthes is a German sprinter who held the World Junior Record in 60 metres for 13 years between 1988 and 2001 with a time of 6.53 seconds.... German Democratic Republic	10.28	Aleksandr Shlychkov Soviet Union	10.37
200 m 200 metres A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...	Kevin Braunskill United States	20.87	Olapade Adeniken Olapade Adeniken Olapade Adeniken is a retired Nigerian sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres,and is the father of Michael Adeniken.... Nigeria	20.88	Dmitriy Bartenyev Soviet Union	20.92
400 m 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...	Tomasz Jędrusik Tomasz Jedrusik Tomasz Jędrusik is a male former track and field sprinter from Poland, who represented his native country at two Summer Olympics: 1988 and 1996. He set his personal best in the men's 400 metres event in 1988.-References:*... Poland	46.19	Steve Perry Australia	46.74	Anthony Eziuka Nigeria	46.81
800 m 800 metres The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...	Jonah Birir Jonah Birir Jonah Birir is a former Kenyan middle distance runner.In 1988 he won the World Junior Championships over 800 metres, and at the 1990 World Junior Championships he won a silver medal in a personal best time of 1:46.61. He then concentrated on the 1500 metres distance, finishing fifth in the 1992... Kenya	1:50.03	Kevin McKay United Kingdom	1:50.79	Melford Homela Zimbabwe	1:51.34
1500 m 1500 metres The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...	Wilfred Kirochi Wilfred Kirochi Wilfred Kirochi is a former Kenyan middle distance runner who won a silver medal at the 1991 World Championships' final in Tokyo in the 1500 m event... Kenya	3:46.52	Noureddine Morceli Noureddine Morceli Noureddine Morceli is a retired Algerian athlete, winner of the 1500 m run at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Born in Ténès, Noureddine Morceli rose to athletic prominence after winning the silver medal in the 1500 m at the World Junior Championships in 1988... Algeria	3:46.93	Fermín Cacho Fermín Cacho Fermín Cacho Ruiz is a Spanish athlete, winner of the 1500 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Born in Ágreda, Spain, Cacho had an enviable competitive record in the 1500 m, but it wasn't until late in his career that he produced a time of corresponding quality.Cacho's first notable result came in... Spain	3:47.31
5000 m 5000 metres The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...	Henry Kirui Kenya	13:54.29	Mohamed Choumassi Morocco	13:54.36	Addis Abebe Addis Abebe Addis Abebe is a former long-distance runner from Ethiopia, best known for winning a bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics.... Ethiopia	13:58.08
10 000 m	Addis Abebe Addis Abebe Addis Abebe is a former long-distance runner from Ethiopia, best known for winning a bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics.... Ethiopia	28:42.13	Bedilu Kibret Ethiopia	28:48.55	James Songok Kenya	28:50.42
20 km road race	Metaferia Zeleke Ethiopia	59:27	Thomas Osano Kenya	1:00:14	Abel Gisemba Kenya	1:00:36
110 m H 110 metres hurdles The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...	Reinaldo Quintero Cuba	13.71	Stephen Brown Stephen Brown (athlete) Stephen Brown is a retired athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 110 metres hurdles. He represented his birth country United States until 1997.He attended the Wake Forest University, North Carolina, US.... United States	13.73	Elbert Ellis United States	13.78
400 m H 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...	Kelly Carter United States	49.50	Mugur Mateescu Kingdom of Romania	50.70	Vadim Zadoinov Soviet Union	50.88
3000 m St.	William Chemitei Kenya	8:41.61	Matthew Birir Matthew Birir Matthew Kiprotich Birir is a former athlete from Kenya, winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Born in Eldama Ravine, Matthew Birir started running, when he attended at the famous St. Patrick's High School in Iten, where many great Kenyan runners are rosen.At the Barcelona... Kenya	8:44.54	Arto Kuusisto Finland	8:46.42
10000 m track walk	Alberto Cruz Mexico	41:16.11	Valentí Massana Valentí Massana Valentí Massana Gracia is a Catalan race walker, and the record holder in Spain in the men's 50 km walk Valentí Massana Gracia (born July 5, 1970 in Viladecans) is a Catalan race walker, and the record holder in Spain in the men's 50 km walk Valentí Massana Gracia (born July 5, 1970 in... Spain	41:33.95	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy Mikhail Khmelnitskiy Mikhail Khmelnitskiy is a male race walker who represented the USSR and later Belarus.-Achievements:-External links:*... Soviet Union	41:38.86
4 X 100 m Relay race During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...	United States	39.27	Nigeria	39.66	United Kingdom	40.06
4 X 400 m Relay race During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...	United States	3:05.09	Australia	3:07.60	Jamaica	3:08.00
High jump High jump The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....	Artur Partyka Artur Partyka Artur Jerzy Partyka is a former Polish high jumper and two-time Olympic medalist. He won twelve national titles in a row, starting in 1989. He represented ŁKS Łódź.... Poland	2.28	Lambros Papakostas Lambros Papakostas Lambros Papakostas is a retired Greek high jumper who won two silver medals at the World Indoor Championships in 1995 and 1997. His personal best, achieved in Athens in 1992, was 2.36 metres. He is an eight-time national champion for Greece in the men's high jump event.-Achievements:-External links:... Greece	2.25	Park Jae-Hong South Korea Jaroslaw Kotewicz Jaroslaw Kotewicz Jarosław Kotewicz is a retired Polish high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in August 1995 in Zurich.-Achievements:-External links:... Poland	2.22
Pole vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...	István Bagyula István Bagyula István Bagyula is a retired Hungarian pole vaulter. He is a former world junior record holder, having equalled Radion Gataullin's 1984 record of 5.65 metres at the 1988 World Junior Championships. A new championship record at the time, it has not yet been beaten at the WJC... Hungary	5.65	Maksim Tarasov Maksim Tarasov Maksim Vladimirovich Tarasov is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. His personal best jump is 6.05 metres, which puts him third in the all-time performers list .- Achievements :-References: - IAAF... Soviet Union	5.60	Andrey Grudinin Soviet Union	5.30
Long jump Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...	Luis Bueno Luis Bueno Luis Alberto Bueno is a retired Cuban Track and Field athlete, known primarily for being a Junior long jumper. He currently holds the World Best in the Youth Division, at 8.25m set as a 17 year old while winning the 1986 Ibero-American Championships September 28, 1986 in Havana.Two years later... Cuba	7.99	Saúl Isalgué Cuba	7.78	Nai Hui-Fang Chinese Taipei	7.77
Triple jump Triple jump The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...	Vladimir Melikhov Soviet Union	16.69	Galin Georgiev Galin Georgiev Galin Georgiev is a retired Bulgarian triple jumper, best known for placing seventh at the 1996 Summer Olympics.His personal best triple jump was 17.14 metres, achieved in May 1998 in Sofia. This ranks him fifth among Bulgarian triple jumpers, behind Khristo Markov, Rostislav Dimitrov, Momchil... Kingdom of Bulgaria	16.18	Eugene Greene The Bahamas	16.16
Shot put Shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....	Aleksandr Klimenko Soviet Union	18.92	Mike Stulce Mike Stulce Michael Stulce is a former shot putter from the United States who was an outstanding athlete at Texas A&M University. He won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He is also three times national champion. In 1993 he won the U.S... United States	18.47	Aleksandr Klimov Soviet Union	18.06
Discus Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...	Andreas Seelig Andreas Seelig Andreas Seelig is a retired discus thrower from Germany. He won the 1989 European Junior Championships and ended up in seventh place at the 1998 European Championships. Seelig also won the men's discus throw event at the Military World Games in 1999 .-Achievements:-References:... German Democratic Republic	58.60	Kamy Keshmiri Kamy Keshmiri Kamy Keshmiri is a retired male discus thrower from the United States. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's discus throw event at the 1989 Summer Universiade in Duisburg, West Germany. Keshmiri set his personal best at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics in... United States	54.68	Yuriy Nesteryets Soviet Union	53.70
Javelin Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...	Vladimir Ovchinnikov Vladimir Ovchinnikov (athlete) Vladimir Ovchinnikov is a retired male javelin thrower from Russia, who competed in three Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 for the Soviet Union. He set his personal best on May 14, 1995 in Tolyatti, throwing 88.00 metres.-Achievements:... Soviet Union	77.08	Steve Backley Steve Backley Stephen James Backley OBE is a retired British athlete who was formerly the world record holder for javelin throwing... United Kingdom	75.40	Jens Reimann German Democratic Republic	71.64
Hammer Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...	Vadim Kolesnik Vadim Kolesnik Vadim Kolesnik is a retired Ukrainian hammer thrower. His personal best throw is 79.62 metres, achieved in July 1994 in Dnipropetrovsk.-Achievements:-External links:... Soviet Union	69.52	Oleg Polyushik Soviet Union	69.00	Thomas Hommel German Democratic Republic	66.06
Decathlon Decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...	Michael Kohnle Michael Kohnle Michael Kohnle is a retired male decathlete from Germany. He set his personal best score in the men's decathlon on May 28, 1995 in Götzis. Kohnle was the last national champion for West Germany .-Achievements:-External links:... West Germany	7729	Robert Změlík Robert Zmelík Robert Změlík is a Czech track athlete who won a gold medal in Olympic decathlon in 1992.His personal best in decathlon was 8627 points , in Heptathlon 6228 points , both former national records... Czechoslovakia	7659	Eduard Hämäläinen Eduard Hämäläinen Eduard Hämäläinen is a retired decathlete from Finland and Belarus.-Biograpfhy:He originally competed for the Soviet Union and then Belarus after the Soviet dissolution, but changed nationality. His great-grandparents were deported from Finland to Turkestan in 1917... Soviet Union	7596

Women

100 m 100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...	Diana Dietz German Democratic Republic	11.18	Katrin Krabbe Katrin Krabbe Katrin Krabbe is a female athlete who competed for the German Democratic Republic and Germany thereafter... German Democratic Republic	11.23	Liliana Allen Liliana Allen Liliana Allen Doll is a Cuban track and field athlete, competing for Mexico. She previously represented Cuba.... Cuba	11.36
200 m 200 metres A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...	Katrin Krabbe Katrin Krabbe Katrin Krabbe is a female athlete who competed for the German Democratic Republic and Germany thereafter... German Democratic Republic	22.34	Diana Dietz German Democratic Republic	22.88	Liliana Allen Liliana Allen Liliana Allen Doll is a Cuban track and field athlete, competing for Mexico. She previously represented Cuba.... Cuba	22.97
400 m 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...	Grit Breuer Grit Breuer Grit Breuer is a former East German athlete, who competed in the women's 200m, 400m, 4x100m, and 4x400m events.... German Democratic Republic	51.24	Maicel Malone United States	52.23	Olga Moroz Soviet Union	53.20
800 m 800 metres The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...	Birte Bruhns Birte Bruhns Birte Bruhns is a retired German runner who specialized in the 800 metres.She represented the sports club ASV Köln, and became German champion in 1993. Her personal best time was 1:59.17 minutes, achieved in July 1988 in East Berlin.... German Democratic Republic	2:00.67	Catalina Gheorghiu Kingdom of Romania	2:01.96	Dorota Buczkowska Poland	2:02.94
1500 m 1500 metres The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...	Doina Homneac Kingdom of Romania	4:12.94	Snežana Pajkić Snežana Pajkic Snežana Pajkić-Jolović is a former middle distance runner from Serbia, who won the gold medal for Yugoslavia in the women's 1.500 metres at the 1990 European Championships.-Achievements:... Kingdom of Yugoslavia	4:16.19	Yvonne van der Kolk Netherlands	4:16.35
3000 m 3000 metres The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...	Ann Mwangi Kenya	9:13.99	Fernanda Ribeiro Fernanda Ribeiro Maria Fernanda Moreira Ribeiro, GCIH , is a long-distance runner, born in Penafiel, Portugal. She achieved the top of her career in the 1996 Summer Olympics where she won the women's 10,000 m gold medal, giving Portugal their 3rd Olympic gold , and establishing a new Olympic record - 31:01.63.-... Portugal	9:15.33	Yvonne Lichtenfeld German Democratic Republic	9:16.02
10 000 m	Jane Ngotho Kenya	33:49.45	Olga Nazarkina Soviet Union	33:50.03	Mónica Gama Portugal	34:16.13
100 m H 100 metres hurdles The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...	Aliuska López Aliuska López Aliuska López is a Spanish athlete of Cuban origin. She competes mostly in hurdling. The world junior champion from 1988, she is still the world junior record holder at 100 metres hurdles... Cuba	13.23	Birgit Wolf West Germany	13.51	Zhanna Gurbanova Soviet Union	13.64
400 m H 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...	Antje Axmann German Democratic Republic	57.47	Ann Maenhout Belgium	57.58	Silvia Rieger Silvia Rieger Silvia Rieger is a retired German athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.Her personal best time in the 200 metres is 54.22 seconds, achieved at the 1998 IAAF World Cup in Johannesburg... West Germany	57.88
5000 m track walk	Mari Cruz Díaz Spain	21:51.31	Olga Sánchez Spain	21:58.17	Maria Grazia Orsani Italy	22:04.74
4 X 100 m Relay race During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...	German Democratic Republic	43.48	Cuba	44.04	United States	44.27
4 X 400 m Relay race During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...	German Democratic Republic	3:28.39	United States	3:31.48	Soviet Union	3:31.89
High jump High jump The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....	Galina Astafei Kingdom of Romania	2.00	Yelena Yelesina Yelena Yelesina Yelena Borisovna Yelesina is a female high jumper from Russia. She won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with 2,01m, one centimetre behind her personal best jump. She also has several minor medals from major championships.-Achievements:... Soviet Union	1.96	Karen Scholz German Democratic Republic	1.92
Long jump Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...	Fiona May Fiona May Fiona May was an athlete who competed for the Great Britain and later Italy in the long jump. She won the World Championships twice and two Olympic silver medals... United Kingdom	6.88	Anu Kaljurand Soviet Union	6.78	Jo Wise United Kingdom	6.69
Shot put Shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....	Ines Wittich Ines Wittich Ines Wittich is a retired German shot putter.She represented the sports clubs TV Wattenscheid and TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, and won the bronze medal at the German championships in 1998.... German Democratic Republic	18.54	Heike Rohrmann Heike Rohrmann Heike Rohrmann is a retired East German shot putter.She won the gold medal at the 1986 World Junior Championships and a silver medal at the 1988 World Junior Championships. Her personal best throw was 18.94 metres, achieved in May 1988 in Halle. This places her among the best junior athletes of... German Democratic Republic	17.84	Elvira Polyakova Soviet Union	17.10
Discus Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...	Ilke Wyludda Ilke Wyludda Ilke Wyludda is a former discus thrower from Germany.She set eleven junior records at discus throw and even two at shot put, and became junior world champion. Between 1989 and 1991 she recorded 41 successive wins, only to be beaten by Tsvetanka Khristova at the 1991 World Championships... German Democratic Republic	68.24	Astrid Kumbernuss Astrid Kumbernuss Astrid Kumbernuss is a former German female shot putter and discus thrower.Her career started at the SC Neubrandenburg sports club. Her greatest successes were gold medals at the 1995, 1997 and 1999 World Championships in Athletics, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta... German Democratic Republic	64.08	Proletka Voycheva Kingdom of Bulgaria	58.94
Javelin Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...	Karen Forkel Karen Forkel Karen Forkel is a German track and field athlete and an Olympic medal winner. In the 1990s she was among the world's best javelin throwers. Her biggest success came in the 1992 Summer Olympics when she took the bronze medal with a throw of 66.86 meters.Her personal best throw with the... German Democratic Republic	61.44	Isel López Isel López Isel López Rodríguez is a retired female javelin thrower from Cuba. Her personal best throw is 61.66 metres, which he achieved in May 1999 in Havana.-Achievements:-References:*... Cuba	57.86	Malgorzata Kielczewska Poland	57.04
Heptathlon Heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...	Svetla Dimitrova Svetla Dimitrova Svetla Stefanova Dimitrova was a Bulgarian athlete who started out competing in heptathlon, and later specialized as a sprint hurdler.... Kingdom of Bulgaria	6289	Yelena Petushkova Yelena Petushkova Yelena Vladimirovna Petushkova was a Russian and former Soviet equestrian who won three medals, of which one gold and two silver in dressage during the Summer Olympics.... Soviet Union	6102	Peggy Beer Peggy Beer Peggy Beer is a retired German heptathlete. Her personal best was 6531 points, achieved at the 1990 European Championships in Split. This ranks her tenth among German heptathletes, behind Sabine Braun, Sabine Paetz, Ramona Neubert, Anke Behmer-Vater, Heike Drechsler, Ines Schulz, Sibylle Thiele,... German Democratic Republic	6067

Medals table

Medal count
#	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	\| German Democratic Republic	11	5	5	21
2	\| Kenya	6	2	2	10
3	\| United States	5	2	2	9
4	\| Soviet Union	4	6	12	22
5	\| Cuba	3	3	2	8
6	\| Romania	2	2	0	4
7	\| Ethiopia	2	1	1	4
8	\| Poland	2	0	3	5
9	\| United Kingdom	1	2	2	5
10	\| Spain	1	2	1	4
11	\| Bulgaria	1	1	1	3
11	West Germany	1	1	1	3
13	\| Hungary	1	0	0	1
13	Mexico	1	0	0	1
15	Nigeria	0	2	1	3
16	Australia	0	2	0	2
17	Portugal	0	1	1	2
18	\| Algeria	0	1	0	1
	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
24	\| The Bahamas	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Jamaica	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Zimbabwe	0	0	1	1

External links

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