1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics explained

1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Host City:	Bydgoszcz, Poland
Events:	39
Dates:	16–18 July
Level:	Youth (under 18)
Stadium:	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium
Next:	2001 Debrecen

The 1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics was the first edition of the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics. It was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland from July 16 to July 18, 1999.

Results

Boys

100 m	Mark Lewis-Francis	10.40	Bryan Sears	10.42	Omar Brown	10.43
200 m	Timothy Benjamin	20.72	Omar Brown	21.09	Bryan Sears	21.16
400 m	William Mandla Nkosi	46.94	Glaudel Garzón	47.00	Mark van Soest	47.19
800 m	Nicholas Wachira	1:50.70	Berhanu Alemu	1:50.79	Mohammad M. Al Azemi	1:51.24
1500 m	Cornelius Chirchir	3:44.02	Michael Too	3:44.70	Osman Yusif	3:45.53
3000 m	Pius Muli	8:08.16	Kenenisa Bekele	8:09.89	Anouar Assila	8:13.54
2000 m St.	Stephen Cherono	5:31.89	Luleseged Wale	5:32.61	Philip Simbolei	5:41.77
110 m H 91.4 cm	Ladji Doucouré	13.26	Nassim Brahimi	13.36	Paul Whitty	13.59
400 m H 84.0 cm	Marthinus Kritzinger	49.86	Sergio Hierrezuelo	49.95	Vincent Mumo Kiilu	51.50
10,000 m track walk	Yevgeniy Demkov	42:26.07	Aleksandr Strokov	42:36.52	Takayuki Tanii	42:40.86
4 × 100 metres relay		40.03		40.14		41.13
Medley relay		1:51.29		1:52.49		1:54.10
High jump	Jacques Freitag	2.16	Cui Kai	2.13	Andrei Chubsa	2.13
Pole vault	Sébastien Homo	5.20	Oleksandr Korchmyd	5.10	Rico Tepper	5.00
Long jump	Shang Yapeng	7.80	Yoelmis Pacheco	7.62	Nicolaas Grimbeeck	7.59
Triple jump	Ibrahim Mahmedin	15.96	Yoandri Betanzos	15.83	Viktor Yastrebov	15.74
Shot put 5 kg	Robert Häggblom	19.76	Dmitriy Gorshkov	19.69	Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi	19.44
Discus 1.500 kg	Ming-Huang Chang	64.14	Zhang Huabing	58.36	Raine Munukka	56.52
Hammer 5 kg	Krisztián Pars	74.76	Oleksandr Lutsenko	73.68	Aleksei Yeliseyev	73.68
Javelin 700g	Joachim Kiteau	79.65	Saku Kuusisto	78.73	Alexandr Ivanov	78.65

Girls

100 m	Veronica Campbell	11.49	Lisa Sharpe	11.52	Adriana Lamalle	11.66
200 m	LaShauntea Moore	23.38	Melaine Walker	23.72	Ana López	23.97
400 m	Monique Henderson	52.28	Helen Okpanachi	52.38	Norma González	52.39
800 m	Georgina Clarke	2:05.90	Tetyana Petlyuk	2:06.97	Mihaela Olaru	2:08.20
1500 m	Zanelle Grobler	4:23.06	Chibiwott Kibet	4:24.43	Elaine Du Plessis	4:24.59
3000 m	Alice Timbilil	9:01.99	Meseret Defar	9:02.08	Vivian Cheruiyot	9:04.42
100 m H 76.2 cm	Adrianna Lamalle	13.08	Maren Freisen	13.42	Anay Tejeda	13.45
400 m H	Jana Pittman	57.87	Ya Wu Jie	58.32	Patricia Hall	58.67
5000 m track walk	Tatiana Kozlova	22:31.93	Maryna Tsikhanava	22:37.54	Ekaterina Dergounova	22:54.59
4 × 100 metres relay		44.30		45.40		45.49
Medley Relay		2:07.71		2:09.19		2:11.13
High jump	Anna Chicherova	1.89	Renáta Medgyesová	1.83	Gaelle Niare	1.79
Pole vault	Yelena Isinbayeva	4.10	Floe Kuhnert	4.05	Vanessa Boslak	4.00
Long jump	Zhou Yangxia	6.29	Jenniina Halkoaho	6.24	Alina Militaru	6.22
Triple jump	Mabel Gay	13.82	Anastasiya Ilyina	13.59	Yusmay Bicet	13.58
Shot put	Hong Mei	15.57	Natallia Kharaneka	15.57	Chiara Rosa	14.64
Discus	Hong Mei	52.18	Julia Bremser	51.83	Deborah Lovely	49.14
Hammer	Kamila Skolimowska	63.94	Yunaika Crawford	57.56	Ivana Brkljacic	55.69
Javelin	Olivia Norris	52.03	Xénia Frajka	49.76	Halina Kakhava	49.62

External links

• Official results
• Official site