1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics explained

1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Host City:	Sydney, Australia
Nations:	142
Athletes:	1049
Events:	41
Dates:	August 20–25
Stadium:	Sydney International Athletic Centre
Previous:	1994 Lisbon

The 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Sydney, Australia on August 20–25.

Results

Men

	Francis Obikwelu	10.21	Seun Ogunkoya	10.25	Francesco Scuderi	10.43
	Francis Obikwelu	20.47	Riaan Dempers	20.96	Bryan Harrison	21.10
	Obea Moore	45.27	Jerome Davis	45.86	Shane Niemi	45.94
	Joseph Mutua	1:48.21	Tom Lerwill	1:48.40	Grant Cremer	1:48.46
	Shadrack Langat	3:38.96	Mohamed Yagoub Babiker	3:39.17	Miloud Abaoub	3:39.37
	Assefa Mezgebu	13:35.30 CR	David Chelule	13:36.27	Aaron Gabonewe	13:46.19
	Assefa Mezgebu	28:27.78	David Chelule	28:29.14	Tetsuhiro Furuta	28:31.61
	Yoel Hernández	13.83	Tomasz Scigaczewski	13.88	Jovesa Naivalu	13.91
	Mubarak Al-Nubi	49.07 CR	Llewellyn Herbert	49.15	Angelo Taylor	50.18
	Julius Chelule	8:33.09	Kipkurui Misoi	8:33.31	Ali Ezzine	8:35.60
	Paquillo Fernández	40:38.25	David Márquez	41:03.73	Nathan Deakes	41:11.44
		39.36		39.47		39.62
		3:03.65	Hiroki Takahashi Dai Tamesue Masayuki Okusako Shinji Morita	3:06.01		3:06.76
	Mark Boswell	2.24	Ben Challenger Svatoslav Ton	2.21	None awarded	None awarded
	Paul Burgess	5.35	Patrik Kristiansson	5.30	Danny Ecker	5.30
	Olexiy Lukashevych	7.91	Raúl Fernández	7.75	Nathan Morgan	7.74
	René Hernández	16.50	Michael Calvo	16.17	Ionut Punga	16.15
	Ralf Bartels	18.71	Justin Anlezark	18.21	Clay Cross	17.69
	Casey Malone	56.22	Roland Varga	55.20	Frank Casañas	54.86
	Sergey Voynov	79.78	Harri Haatainen	76.12	Steven Madeo	73.88
	Maciej Palyszko	71.24	Vadim Devyatovskiy	70.88	Roman Konevtsov	70.32
	Attila Zsivoczky	7582	Dean Macey	7480	Chiel Warners	7368

Women

	Nora Ivanova	11.32	Andrea Anderson	11.43	Esther Möller	11.46
	Sylviane Félix	23.16	Lauren Hewitt	23.32	Nora Ivanova	23.59
	Andrea Burlacu	52.32	Suziann Reid	53.17	Rosemary Hayward	53.28
	Claudia Gesell	2:02.67	Kathleen Friedrich	2:02.70	Jebet Langat	2:03.21
	Kutre Dulecha	4:08.65	Jackline Maranga	4:08.98	Shura Hutesa	4:09.49
	Anita Weyermann	8:50.73	Edna Kiplagat	8:53.06	Etaferahu Tarekegne	8:53.77
	Ayelech Worku	15:40.03	Olivera Jevtić	15:40.59	Cristina Iloc	15:41.44
	Joyce Bates	13.27	Glory Alozie	13.30	Tan Yali	13.37
	Ulrike Urbansky	56.65	Vicki Jamison	57.57	Tanya Jarrett	57.91
	Irina Stankina	21:31.85	Olga Panfyorova	21:52.27	Claudia Iovan	21:57.11
		43.79		44.26		44.57
		3:31.12		3:32.16		3:32.47
	Yuliya Lyakhova	1.93	Dóra Győrffy	1.91	Svetlana Lapina	1.91
	Guan Yingnan	6.53	Cristina Nicolau	6.47	Johanna Halkoaho	6.38
	Tereza Marinova	14.62 CR	Cristina Nicolau	13.64	Adelina Gavrilă	13.50
	Song Feina	16.58	Nadine Beckel	16.39	Yelena Ivanenko	16.22
	Ma Shuli	56.32	Seilala Sua	56.32	Zhang Yaqing	55.70
	Osleidys Menéndez	60.96	Nikolett Szabó	58.34	Bina Ramesh	57.70
	Yelizaveta Shalygina	5711	Johanna Halkoaho	5656	Hana Doleželová	5504

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, 1049 athletes from 142 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

External links

• Medalists at GBRathletics.com
• Results
• Official results