2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics
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The 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics is the sixth edition of the World Youth Championships in Athletics. They were held in Brixen
Brixen
Brixen is the name of two cities in the Alps:*Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy*Brixen im Thale, Tyrol, AustriaBrixen may also refer to:*Bishopric of Brixen, the former north-Italian state....

, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 from 8–12 July 2009. Athletes must be aged 16 or 17 on 31 December 2009 (born in 1992 or 1993) to compete.

Boys

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...

Prezel Hardy
Prezel Hardy
Prezel Hardy, Jr. is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters.At the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Brixen, Italy, Hardy won the 100 meters in 10.57 in the midst of heavy rain....


 United States
10.57 Aaron Brown
Aaron Brown (track athlete)
Aaron Brown is a Canadian sprinter, who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters.Brown attended Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute until 2010, and has committed to the University of Southern California on a track scholarship....


 Canada
10.74 Giovanni Galbieri
 Italy
10.79
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...

Kirani James
Kirani James
Kirani James is a Grenadian sprinter who specializes in the 200 and 400 metres. He is the reigning 400 metres world champion.Prodigious from a young age, he ran the fastest 400 m times ever by a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old...


 Grenada
21.05 PB Alberto Gavalda
 Spain
21.33 SB Keenan Brock
Keenan Brock
Keenan Brock is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. He is currently in his freshman year at Auburn University....


 United States
21.39
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...

Kirani James
Kirani James
Kirani James is a Grenadian sprinter who specializes in the 200 and 400 metres. He is the reigning 400 metres world champion.Prodigious from a young age, he ran the fastest 400 m times ever by a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old...


 Grenada
45.24 CR WL PB Joshua Mance
Joshua Mance
Ronell Joshua Mance is an American sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. He currently entering his sophomore year at the University of Southern California....


 United States
46.22 PB Awadelkarim Elyas
 Sudan
47.15 SB
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...

Johan Rogestedt
 Sweden
1:50.92 PB Peter Langat Kiplangat
 Kenya
1:50.97 Nicholas Kiplangat Kipkoech
 Kenya
1:51.01
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...

Gideon Kiage Mageka
 Kenya
3:37.36 WL Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku
Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku
Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner.Born in Machakos, he was the son of a javelin thrower, David Ndiku, but he decided not to follow his father and focused on running instead...


 Kenya
3:38.42 Girma Bekele
 Ethiopia
3:39.88 PB
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...

Isaiah Kiplangat Koech
 Kenya
7:51.51 CR David Kiprotich Bett
David Kiprotich Bett
David Kiprotich Bett is an Kenyan long-distance runner, who specialises in the 5000 meters.At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Moncton, Canada, Bett won a gold medal over 5000 m....


 Kenya
7:52.13 PB Goitom Kifle
 Eritrea
8:05.83 PB
2000 m st. Hillary Kipsang Yego
 Kenya
5:25.33 WL Peter Kibet Lagat
 Kenya
5:26.59 PB Desta Alemu
 Ethiopia
5:37.32 PB
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...

 91.4 cm
Dale Morgan
 United States
13.28 WL Jack Meredith
 United Kingdom
13.33 PB Gregory MacNeil
 Canada
13.51
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...

 84.0 cm
Norge Sotomayor
 Cuba
51.30 WL Jeremiah Kipkorir Mutai
 Kenya
51.45 PB Jose Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon
 Italy
51.74
10,000 m track walk
Race walking
Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance athletic event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times...

Hagen Pohle
 Germany
41:35.99 CR WL PB Dementiy Cheparev
 Russia
41:53.76 PB Ihor Lyashchenko
 Ukraine
42:01.90 PB
Medley relay  United States 1:50.33 WR (Youth)  Brazil 1:52.66 SB  Japan 1:52.82 SB
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....

Dmitriy Kroyter
 Israel
2.20 Janick Klausen
Janick Klausen
-Achievements:-References:...


 Denmark
2.20 PB Django Lovett
 Canada
Daniil Tsyplakov
 Russia
2.17 PB

2.17 PB
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...

Min-Sub Jin
 South Korea
5.15 PB Carlo Paech
 Germany
5.10 Daniel Clemens
 Germany
5.10
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...

Supanara Sukhasvasti na Ayudhya
 Thailand
7.65 PB Stefan Brits
 South Africa
7.57 Yannick Roggatz
 Germany
7.53 PB
In winning the long jump, Supanara Sukhasvasti na Ayudhya became Thailand’s first ever finalist, medallist and champion in an athletics global event of any age category. He is a descendent of King Rama IV.
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...

Benjamin Williams
 United Kingdom
15.91 PB Supanara Sukhasvasti na Ayudhya
 Thailand
15.70 PB Aleksandr Yurchenko
 Russia
15.66 PB
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....

 5 kg
Ryan Crouser
 United States
21.56 CR Krzysztof Brzozowski
Krzysztof Brzozowski
Krzysztof Brzozowski is a Polish shot putter.He won a gold medal at the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, with a then-World Youth Best of 23.23 m....


 Poland
20.89 PB Frans Schutte
 South Africa
20.37 PB
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...

 1.500 kg
Hamid Manssour
 Syria
64.20 Ryan Crouser
 United States
61.64 Traves Smikle
 Jamaica
61.22 PB
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...

 5 kg
Hongqiu Chen
 People's Republic of China
74.93 WL PB Suhrob Khodjaev
 Tajikistan
73.29 PB Tomas Kruzliak
 Slovakia
72.17
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...

 700g
Shih-Feng Huang
 Chinese Taipei
74.00 Killian Durechou
 France
73.54 Braian Toledo
Braian Toledo
Braian Ezequiel Toledo is an Argentine javelin thrower who has improved the World Youth Best in boys' javelin throw by more than six meters....


 Argentina
73.44 PB
Octathlon
Octathlon
An octathlon is a multisport competition consisting of eight different sports or contests.-Track and field:An octathlon in athletics is an event which consists of eight track and field events. The most common version of the combined event is contested by boys at youth level, most notably at the...

Kevin Mayer
 France
6478 WL Mohd Ahmed Al-Mannai
 Qatar
6232 PB Steffen Klink
 Germany
6217 PB

Girls

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...

Jodie Williams
Jodie Williams
Jodie Alicia Williams is a junior British sprinter, who specialises in the 100 metres and the 200 metres. She is the former World Youth Champion over both distances, the reigning World Junior and European Junior Champion in the 100 m and European Junior Champion in the 200 m.Williams had...

 
 United Kingdom
11.39 WL PB Allison Peter
 United States Virgin Islands
11.47 PB Ashton Purvis
 United States
11.48 SB
15-year-old Jodie Williams takes the 100 m sprint title in a youth world leading time of 11.39. This is also a personal best for Williams. Williams has not lost a 100 m final since 2007.
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...

Jodie Williams
Jodie Williams
Jodie Alicia Williams is a junior British sprinter, who specialises in the 100 metres and the 200 metres. She is the former World Youth Champion over both distances, the reigning World Junior and European Junior Champion in the 100 m and European Junior Champion in the 200 m.Williams had...


 United Kingdom
23.08 WL Allison Peter
 United States Virgin Islands
23.08 WL Ashton Purvis
 United States
23.15 PB
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...

Ebony Eutsey
 United States
52.88 Michelle Brown
 United States
53.44 Sandra Wagner
 Sweden
53.52 PB
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...

Cherono Koech
 Kenya
2:01.67 CR Ciara Mageean
 Republic of Ireland
2:03.07 PB Rowena Cole
 United Kingdom
2:03.83 PB
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...

Nelly Chebet Ngeiywo
 Kenya
4:12.76 PB Gete Dima
 Ethiopia
4:15.16 Amela Terzić
Amela Terzić
Amela Terzić is a Serbian long-distance runner. She won two gold medals at 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships in Tallinn....


 Serbia
4:16.71 PB
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...

Purity Cherotich Rionoripo
 Kenya
9:03.79 Jackline Chepngeno
 Kenya
9:05.93 PB Genet Yalew
 Ethiopia
9:08.95 PB
2000 m st. Korahubsh Itaa
 Ethiopia
6:11.83 WYR Lucia Kamene Muangi
 Kenya
6:11.90 PB Halima Hassen
 Ethiopia
6:16.83 PB
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...

 76.2 cm
Isabelle Pedersen
Isabelle Pedersen
Isabelle Pedersen is an Norwegian hurdling athlete. At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, she won a gold medal in the 100 m hurdles.-Career:...


 Norway
13.23 Kori Carter
 United States
13.26 PB Bridgette Owens
 United States
13.39 PB
With this win, 17-year-old Isabelle Pedersen became Norway’s first ever World Youth champion. Her time of 13.20 in the semi finals was a national record and third all-time Youth best.
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...

Vera Rudakova
 Russia
57.83 WL Danielle Dowie
 Jamaica
58.62 Deborah Rodriguez
 Uruguay
59.71 PB
5,000 m track walk
Race walking
Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance athletic event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times...

Elena Lashmanova
 Russia
22:55.45 WL Yanelli Caballero
 Mexico
22:59.27 PB Svetlana Vasilyeva (athlete)
 Russia
23:00.15 PB
Medley relay  United States 2:04.32 WL  Hungary 2:09.22 PB  Romania 2:09.25 PB
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....

Alessia Trost
Alessia Trost
Alessia Trost, born in Pordenone on March 1993 is an Italian female high jumper that has won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Brixen. Trost has also won the Italian youth championship in 2008. At the first Youth Olympics 2010 she won a silver medal clearing 1.86 meters, to finish...


 Italy
1.87 Mariya Kuchina
Mariya Kuchina
Mariya Kuchina is an Russian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.Kuchina won her first international medal at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where she cleared a personal best of 1.85 m to take the silver medal...


 Russia
Amy Pejkovic
 Australia
1.85 PB
 
1.85 PB
The 6'2", 16-year-old Italian is Italy’s first ever World Youth champion.
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...

Angelica Bengtsson
Angelica Bengtsson
-External links:...


 Sweden
4.32 WL Michaela Meijer
 Sweden
4.10 Felicia Horvath
 Hungary
Tatyana Stetsyuk
 
4.00 PB

4.00 PB
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...

Minjia Lu
 People's Republic of China
6.22 Alina Rotaru
 Romania
6.09 Jennifer Clayton
 United States
6.05
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...

Yana Borodina
 Russia
13.63 WL Lina Deng
 People's Republic of China
13.57 PB Valeriya Kanatova
 Uzbekistan
13.45
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....

Lena Urbaniak
 Germany
15.28 Margaret Satupai
 Samoa
14.96 SB Yangzi Dong
 People's Republic of China
14.65 PB
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...

Shanshan Li
 People's Republic of China
51.65 Alex Collatz
 United States
50.09 Shanice Craft
 Germany
49.15
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...

Barbara Spiler
 Slovenia
59.33 Kivilcim Kaya
Kivilcim Kaya
Kıvılcım Kaya is a Turkish female hammer thrower.She is the daughter of the former Turkish national wrestler Ziya Kaya. She began working with Artun Talay, who guided to Eşref Apak for Olympics bronze medal in Athens 2004...


 Turkey
57.91 SB Bianca Lazar Fazecas
 Romania
56.41 PB
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...

Anastasiya Svechnikova
Anastasiya Svechnikova
Anastasiya Svechnikova is an Uzbekistani javelin thrower. Her personal best throw is 56.14 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Tashkent. She competed at the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final...


 Uzbekistan
53.25 SB You Wu
 People's Republic of China
52.04 PB Laura Henkel
 Germany
51.47 PB
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:...

Katarina Thompson
 United Kingdom
5750 WL Laura Ikauniece
Laura Ikauniece
Laura Ikauniece is a Latvian athlete competing in heptathlon. She has achieved her personal best of 6063 points at the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she won bronze medal....


 Latvia
5647 PB Kira Biesenbach
 Germany
5423 PB

Medals table

1  Kenya 6 7 1 14
2  United States 6 5 5 16
3  United Kingdom 4 1 1 6
4  Russia 3 2 4 9
5  People's Republic of China 3 2 1 6
6  Germany 2 1 6 9
7  Sweden 2 1 1 4
8  Grenada 2 0 0 2
9  Ethiopia 1 1 4 6
10  France 1 1 0 1
10  Thailand 1 1 0 2
12  Italy 1 0 2 3
13  Uzbekistan 1 0 1 1
14  Cuba 1 0 0 1
14  Israel 1 0 0 1
14  South Korea 1 0 0 1
14  Norway 1 0 0 1
14  Slovenia 1 0 0 1
14  Syria 1 0 0 1
14  Chinese Taipei 1 0 0 1
21  United States Virgin Islands 0 2 0 2
22  Canada 0 1 2 3
22  Romania 0 1 2 3
24  Hungary 0 1 1 2
24  Jamaica 0 1 1 2
24  South Africa 0 1 1 2
27  Australia 0 1 0 1
27  Brazil 0 1 0 1
27  Denmark 0 1 0 1
27  Republic of Ireland 0 1 0 1
27  Latvia 0 1 0 1
27  Mexico 0 1 0 1
27  Poland 0 1 0 1
27  Qatar 0 1 0 1
27  Samoa 0 1 0 1
27  Spain 0 1 0 1
27  Tajikistan 0 1 0 1
27  Turkey 0 1 0 1
39  Argentina 0 0 1 1
39  Eritrea 0 0 1 1
39  Japan 0 0 1 1
39  Serbia 0 0 1 1
39  Slovakia 0 0 1 1
39  Sudan 0 0 1 1
39  Ukraine 0 0 1 1
39  Uruguay 0 0 1 1


All Information taken from IAAF's website.

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