The 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics were the 2006 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held from 15 August to 20 August at the Chaoyang Sports Centre in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China.
The Championships were dominated by the host nation China, and Kenya. The United States showed a near complete domination in the relay events. Estonia won four gold medals; their first medals ever at the World Junior Championships.
Results
Men
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey 10.37 SBJustyn Warner 10.39Yohan Blake 10.42Remaldo Rose, bronze medalist in 2004, finished fourth. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Liberia, Ecuador, Azerbaijan, Cayman Islands, Serbia, Kiribati and the Northern Mariana Islands.Marek Niit 20.96 NJBryan Barnett 21.00Alexander Nelson 21.14The original winner, Dmytro Ostrovsky of Ukraine, was disqualified for stepping in another lane. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Gibraltar and Ecuador.Renny Quow 45.74 PBJustin Oliver 45.78 PBMartyn Rooney 45.87David Rudisha 1:47.40Jackson Kivuna 1:47.64Abraham Chepkirwok 1:47.79Remmy Ndiwa 3:40.44 SBAbdalaati Iguider 3:40.73Belal Mansoor Ali 3:41.36Iguider was the reigning champion and championship record holder. Tsegai Tewelde of Eritrea, who finished fifth, established national junior records twice during the competition.Tariku Bekele 13:31.34Abreham Cherkos 13:35.95Joseph Ebuya 13:42.93Tariku Bekele, the younger brother of World and Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele, won a bronze medal in 2004. Ebuya already had a silver medal from the 10 000 m.Ibrahim Jeilan 28:53.29Joseph Ebuya 28:53.46 PBAadam Ismaeel Khamis 28:54.30 NJNational junior records were also established for Eritrea and Burundi.110 metres hurdles 99.0 cmArtur Noga 13.23 CRSamuel Coco-Viloin 13.35 NJKonstadinos Douvalidis 13.39 NJThe hurdle height had been reduced from 106.7 cm to 99.0 cm, thus allowing championship records in all three rounds of the competition. The world's fastest juniors in 2006, Dennis Martin and Darius Reed of the United States, failed to succeed.Chris Carter 50.08Bandar Sharahili 50.34 PBStanislav Melnykov 50.43 PBCarter took the only individual gold medal for the United States. During the competition, national junior records were set for Togo and the Netherlands.Willy Komen 8:14.00 CRBisluke Kiplagat 8:18.11 PBAbdelghani Aït Bahmad 8:20.05 NJKomen beat the previous championship record by 2.34 seconds. Tareq Mubarak Taher of Bahrain originally finished second, but was disqualified for age cheating.Bo Xiangdong 42:50.26Huang Zhengyu 43:13.29 PBYusuke Suzuki 43:45.62Winston BarnesRemaldo RoseCawayne JervisYohan Blake 39.05 WJLEvander WellsGordon McKenzieWillie PerryBrandon Myers 39.21 SBRion PierreAlexander NelsonWade Bennett-JacksonHarry Aikines-Aryeetey 39.24 SBNational junior records for Canada, Cayman Islands, Chinese Taipei and Singapore in the initial heats. Germany and Nigeria fumbled in the final and did not finish; however, neither were ever in medal position.Quentin SummersJustin OliverBryshon NellumChris Carter 3:03.76 WJLMaksim DyldinDmitriy BuryakVyacheslav SakaevAnton Kokorin 3:05.13 NJChris ClarkeGrant BakerKris RobertsonMartyn Rooney 3:05.49 SBKenya, in fourth set a national junior record of 3:05.54, with 800 metres medalists Kivuna and Rudisha on the last two laps, thereby improving their own record from the heats. Belgium and Czech Republic too set new NJs in the heats.Huang Haiqiang 2.32 WJLNiki Palli 2.29Bohdan Bondarenko 2.26 PBHuang, helped by an enthusiastic home crowd, improved his personal best by 4 cm to overcome pre-event favorite Palli. Oleksandr Nartov of Ukraine, a medal prospect with a personal best of 2.26 m, exited at 2.10 in the qualification round.Germán Chiaraviglio 5.71 CRYang Yansheng 5.54 PBLeonid Kivalov 5.42Chiaraviglio, the reigning silver medalist, improved the championship record by 6 cm. The athletes who placed from 4th to 9th all failed to clear 5.36 m.Robert Crowther 8.00 AJAntone Belt 7.95 PBZhang Xiaoyi 7.86Zhang was the world junior leader in 2006 with 8.17 metres. Mohammad Arzandeh of Iran, who set a national record, briefly held a medal position. Medal contenders such as Konstantin Safronov and Chris Noffke failed to qualify for the final.Benjamin Compaoré 16.61 WJLHugo Chila 16.49Zhong Minwei 16.29Shot put 6 kgMargus Hunt 20.53 WJLMostafa Abdul El-Moaty 20.14Guo Yanxiang 19.97Discus throw gold medalist Hunt emerged as a complete surprise, having a personal best of 18.61 metres before the competition. He became the first athlete to win the gold both in shot and discus, after Rutger Smith won a gold and a bronze in 2000. Pre-event favorites such as Carlos Véliz, Sourabh Vij and Jan Petrus Hoffman all failed to break the 20-metre barrier in the final. National records were established for Kuwait and Uzbekistan.Discus throw 1.75 kgMargus Hunt 67.32 WJLMohammad Samimi 63.00 NJMartin Wierig 62.17 PBHunt had established a new world junior record of 66.35 metres at 9:00 AM on the opening day. In the final, he improved it to 66.68 and then 67.32. It was the first WJC gold medal for Estonia. With 63.00 m in the final round, Samimi skipped from fourth to second, following in the footsteps of Ehsan Haddadi who won a gold medal for Iran with 62.14 m in 2004. The qualification round saw a national junior record for Samoa.Hammer throw 6 kgYevgeniy Aydamirov 78.42 CRKristóf Németh 78.39Marcel Lomnický 77.06 NJIn the qualification round Yury Shayunou of Belarus set a new championship record with 76.76 metres, beating 76.43 m from 2002. Aydamirov however, with a personal best of 82.60 metres, improved this record in the final but was seriously threatened by Németh who trailed 3 centimetres behind from the second round on. Shayunou eventually finished fourth in 76.95 metres, a national junior record, and Turkmenistan and China too got new national junior records.John Robert Oosthuizen 83.07 CR Ari Mannio 77.26Roman Avramenko 76.01 PBOosthuizen broke the championship record from 1996 of 79.78 metres in his second throw, and went unchallenged through the competition. New national junior records were also established for Tunisia, Serbia, Fiji (twice) and Paraguay.Arkadiy Vasilyev 8059Yordanis García 7850Jordan Vandermade 7807Vasilyev set a championship record as the 99.0 cm hurdles were used for the very first time. García finished behind his personal best in the tougher men's decathlon event, where he has 7880 points.
Women Tezdzhan Naimova 11.28Gabby Mayo 11.42Carrie Russell 11.42World junior leader Alexandria Anderson finished sixth. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Singapore, Chad and the Marshall Islands.Tezdzhan Naimova 22.99 PBVanda Gomes 23.59 SBEwelina Klocek 23.63 PBNaimova, taking her second gold medal at the Championships, was virtually unchallenged. World junior leader Gabby Mayo finished sixth.Danijela Grgić 50.78 WJLSonita Sutherland 51.42Nawal El Jack 51.67 SBSutherland was also the silver medalist of the 2004 edition. Two Zambian junior records were established in the qualifying rounds.Olga Cristea 2:04.52 SBWinny Chebet 2:04.59 PBRebekah Noble 2:04.90Cristea won the first World Championships title of any kind for Moldova.Irene Jelagat 4:08.88 PBMercy Kosgei 4:12.48Yuriko Kobayashi 4:12.88During the competition, national junior records were set for Serbia (twice) and Eritrea.Veronica Wanjiru 9:02.90 SBPauline Korikwiang 9:05.21Song Liwei 9:06.35 PBXue Fei 15:31.61 PB Florence Kiplagat 15:32.34 PB Mary Ngugi 15:36.82 PBCaroline Tuigong 9:40.95 CRAncuța Bobocel 9:46.19 AJR Mekdes Bekele Tadese 9:48.67The winner ran barefoot. Bobocel successfully defended her silver medal from the 2004 edition. Additional national records were set by Latvian fourth-place finisher Poļina Jeļizarova as well as for Portugal, France and Algeria in the heats.Yekaterina Shtepa 13.33 WJLChristina Vukicevic 13.34 NJTiffany Ofili 13.37 PBKaliese Spencer 55.11 WJLNicole Leach 55.55Sherene Pinnock 56.67 PBPinnock was also the bronze medalist in the 2004 edition.Liu Hong 45:12.84 PBTatyana Shemyakina 45:34.41Anamaria Greceanu 46:45.67 PBJeneba TarmohAlexandria AndersonElizabeth OlearGabby Mayo 43.49Johanna DanoisEmilie GayduJoellie BaflanCéline Distel 44.20Naffene BriscoeAnastasia Le-RoyCarrie RussellSchillonie Calvert 44.22 SBThe American team equalled their winning result from 2004. Calvert won her second bronze medal for Jamaica, having competed on the relay team in 2004 as well. National junior records for Norway and Slovenia as well as a South American junior record by Brazil were established in the heats.Jessica BeardBrandi CrossSa'de WilliamsNicole Leach 3:29.01 WJLFolashade AbuganAjoke OdumosuJoy EzeSekinat Adesanya 3:30.84 AJLatoya McDermottSherene PinnockSonita SutherlandKaliese Spencer 3:31.62 SBBoth Pinnock and Sutherland won relay bronze medals in 2004. The Nigerian team had already set an African junior record in the heats with 3:33.00 minutes after a sprint duel with Jamaica. The final also saw an Asian junior record by the Chinese team in fourth place.Svetlana Radzivil 1.91 NJZheng Xingjuan 1.88Annett EngelYekaterina Yevseyeva 1.84Five athletes, among them a medal favorite Viktoria Leks, ended at 1.84 metres, two of whom shared the podium for the bronze medal.Zhou Yang 4.30 PBTina Šutej 4.25 NJVicky Parnov 4.20Reigning champion and favorite Lisa Ryzih exited early in the final after failing all three attempts at her opening height of 4.00 metres. The 2006 world junior leader, Valeriya Volik of Russia, finished fourth.Rhonda Watkins 6.46Anika Leipold 6.42Zhang Yuan 6.41Kaire Leibak 14.43 WJLSha Li 14.01 PBLiliya Kulyk 14.01 PBBefore the competition Leibak held the world junior leading mark with 13.96 metres, which was improved by Sha Li with 13.97 m in the qualification round. Leibak was in the lead throughout the final, but with 14.05 metres from the fourth round she was threatened by Sha and Kulyk, who both jumped 14.01 m in the fifth round. In the sixth round, however, both challengers failed to improve while Leibak jumped 14.43 metres, only 9 centimetres behind the world junior record. Patrícia Mamona in fourth place established a Portuguese junior record with 13.37 metres; a new Spanish junior record was also set in the final.Melissa Boekelman 17.66 PBDenise Hinrichs 17.35Irina Tarasova 17.11 PBThe shot put was the first final of the Championships. Simoné du Toit in fourth established a new African junior record with 16.95 metres.Dani Samuels 60.63 WJLPan Saili 57.40 SBTan Jian 56.09With 60.22 metres from the first round, Samuels went unthreatened throughout the competition. Annelies Peetroons in fourth place set a new Belgian junior record.Bianca Perie 67.38 CRAnna Bulgakova 65.73Hao Shuai 64.26Perie became the first World Youth champion from 2005 to win a gold medal in Beijing. The new championships record was an improvement of Marina Smolyachkova's 66.81 metres from 2004. Zalina Marghiev of Moldova was in bronze medal position until the final round.Sandra Schaffarzik 60.45 CRVira Rebryk 57.79 NJ Marharyta Dorozhon 57.68 PBReigning champion Vivian Zimmer, who held the previous championship record with 58.50 metres, finished in seventh place. Like in the men's javelin competition, the winner was never challenged.Tatyana Chernova 6227 WJLIda Marcussen 6020 NJYana Panteleyeva 5979A close competition for the silver and bronze medals saw Marcussen prevail despite finishing behind Iryna Ilkevych of Ukraine in the 800 metres race. Ilkevych ended in fourth place with a national junior record of 5952 points. The winning score of 5868 from 2004 would only have been good enough for a fifth place in 2006.
Medal table
Participation According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, 1350 athletes from 176 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.
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