2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics explained

2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Host City:	Kingston, Jamaica
Nations:	159
Athletes:	1069
Events:	43
Dates:	16–21 July
Stadium:	National Stadium
Previous:	2000 Santiago

The 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Kingston, Jamaica from July 16 to July 21, 2002.

Men's results

100 metres	Darrel Brown	10.09 CR	Marc Burns	10.18 PB	Willie Hordge	10.36
	Brown's 10.09 then ranked fifth all-time among juniors. He eventually broke the WJR at the 2003 World Championships.
	Usain Bolt	20.61	Brendan Christian	20.74	Wes Felix	20.82 PB
	At only, Bolt became the youngest ever junior world champion. He was surpassed by Jacko Gill in the 2010 World Junior Championships.
	Darold Williamson	45.37	Jonathan Fortenberry	45.73	Jermaine Gonzales	45.84 PB
	Alex Kipchirchir	1:46.59	Salem Amer Al-Badri	1:46.63 NJR	David Fiegen	1:46.66
	Yassine Bensghir	3:40.72 PB	Abdulrahman Suleiman	3:41.72	Samwel Mwera	3:41.75
	Hillary Chenonge	13:28.30 CR	Markos Geneti	13:28.83 SB	Gebregziabher Gebremariam	13:29.13
	Gebregziabher Gebremariam	29:02.71	Sileshi Sihine	29:03.74	Solomon Bushendich	29:05.96
	Antwon Hicks	13.42	Shi Dongpeng	13.58	Shamar Sands	13.67
	L. J. van Zyl	48.89 CR	Kenneth Ferguson	49.38 PB	Bershawn Jackson	50.00 PB
	Michael Kipyego	8:29.54	David Kirwa	8:31.44	Abubaker Ali Kamal	8:33.67 NJR
	Vladimir Kanaykin	41:41.40	Xu Xingde	41:44.00	Lu Ronghua	41:46.07
		38.92 WJR		39.15 NJR		39.17 NJR
		3:03.71		3:04.06 NJR		3:05.80 AJR
	Andra Manson	2.31 WJL	Zhu Wannan	2.23 PB	Germaine Mason	2.21
	Maksym Mazuryk	5.55 WLJ	Vladyslav Revenko	5.55 WLJ	Vincent Favretto	5.40
	Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Waleed	7.99 PB	Fabrice Lapierre	7.74 PB	Trevell Quinley	7.71 PB
	Arnie David Giralt	16.68	Li Yanxi	16.66 PB	Aleksandr Sergeyev	16.55
Shot put 6 kg	Edis Elkasevic	21.47 WLJ	Sean Shields	20.54	Mika Vasara	20.50
Discus throw 1.75 kg	Wu Tao	64.51 WLJ	Dmitriy Sivakov	62.00	Michał Hodun	61.74
Hammer throw 6 kg	Werner Smit	76.43	Ali Al-Zinkawi	73.69	Aliaksandr Kazulka	72.72
	Igor Janik	74.16	Vladislav Shkurlatov	74.09 PB	Jung Sang-Jin	73.99 PB
	Leonid Andreev	7693	Nadir El Fassi	7677	Mikko Halvari	7587

Women's results

	Lauryn Williams	11.33 PB	Simone Facey	11.43 PB	Marshevet Hooker	11.48
	Vernicha James	22.93 PB	Anneisha McLaughlin	22.94 PB	Sanya Richards	23.09
	Monique Henderson	51.10 SB	Sanya Richards	51.49	Sheryl Morgan	52.61
	Janeth Jepkosgei	2:00.80 WLJ	Lucia Klocová	2:01.73	Juliana Paula de Azevedo	2:03.81 PB
	Viola Kibiwot	4:12.57 PB	Berhane Herpassa	4:13.59	Olesya Syreva	4:14.32 PB
	Meseret Defar	9:12.61	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli	9:16.28 PB	Olesya Syreva	9:16.58 PB
	Meseret Defar	15:54.94	Tirunesh Dibaba	15:55.99	Vivian Cheruiyot	15:56.04
	Anay Tejeda	12.81	Agnieszka Frankowska	13.16	Tina Klein	13.23
	Lashinda Demus	54.70 WJR	Melaine Walker	56.03	Camille Robinson	56.14 PB
	Fumi Mitsumura	46:01.51 NJR	Liu Siqi	46:07.15	Maryna Tsikhanava	46:14.67 SB
		43.40 CR		43.66		44.22 PB
		3:29.95 NJR		3:30.46 NJR		3:34.49
	Blanka Vlašić	1.96 WLJ	Anna Ksok	1.87	Petrina Price	1.87
	Floé Kühnert	4.40 CR	Yuliya Golubchikova	4.30	Nataliya Belinskaya	4.20
	Adina Anton	6.46 PB	Wang Lina	6.36	Esther Aghatise	6.34
	Mabel Gay	14.09	Yarianna Martínez	13.74	Keila da Silva Costa	13.70
	Valerie Adams	17.73 AJR	Zhang Ying	16.76	Laura Gerraughty	16.62
	Ma Xuejun	58.85 PB	Xu Shaoyang	57.87	Seema Antil	55.83
	Ivana Brkljačić	65.39	Martina Danišová	63.91	Yuliya Rozenfeld	60.83 PB
	Linda Brivule	55.35 PB	Ilze Gribule	54.16 SB	Urszula Jasińska	54.06
	Carolina Klüft	6470 WJR	Olga Alekseyeva	5727	Olga Levenkova	5712

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, 1069 athletes from 159 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

External links

• Official site (archived)
• Organizing committee official site (archived)
• IAAF competition site