2018 IAAF World U20 Championships explained

2018 World U20 Championships in Athletics
Host City:	Tampere, Finland
Nations:	156 + 2 teams
Athletes:	1462
Events:	44
Dates:	10–15 July
Opened By:	Sauli Niinistö
Stadium:	Ratina Stadium
Previous:	2016 Bydgoszcz

The 2018 World U20 Championships in Athletics, also known as the World Junior Championships, was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 1999) which was held at Tampere Stadium in Tampere, Finland on 10–15 July 2018.^[1] The championships were originally awarded to Tampere by the IAAF in March, 2016.^[2]

Schedule

Q	Qualification	H	Heats	½	Semifinals	F	Final
M = morning session, A = afternoon session

All dates are EEST (UTC+3)

Men

Date →	10 July		11 July			12 July		13 July		14 July		15 July
Event ↓	M	A	M	A	M	A	M	A	M	A	A
	H			½	F
						H	½		F
			H				½		F
								H			½	F
	H						F
3000 m SC						H						F
											F
	F
110 m hurdles			H	½		F
400 m hurdles						H			½		F
									H		F
										H		F
										F
							Q			F
Pole vault				Q						F
	Q			F
									Q		F
	Q	F
										Q		F
			Q						F
								Q			F
	F

Women

Date →	10 July		11 July		12 July			13 July		14 July		15 July
Event ↓	M	A	M	A	M	A	M	A	M	A	A
100 m			H			½	F
200 m								H	½		F
400 m		H		½		F
800 m	H			½		F
1500 m						H					F
3000 m SC	H								F
3000 m				F
5000 m		F
100 m hurdles								H			½	F
400 m hurdles			H			½		F
4 × 100 m relay									H		F
4 × 400 m relay										H		F
10,000 m walk										F
High jump								Q				F
Pole vault		Q				F
Long jump					Q				F
Triple jump										Q		F
Shot put			Q	F
Discus throw		Q				F
Hammer throw					Q						F
Javelin throw	Q			F
					F

^[3]

Qualifying Standards

Event	Men	Women
100 m	10.55	11.80
200 m	21.35	24.20
400 m	47.70	55.00
800 m	1:50.00	2:08.70
1500 m	3:48.00	4:27.00
5000 m	5000 m 14:15.00 8:15.00 (3000 m)	5000 m 16:40.00 9:35.00 (3000 m)
10,000 m	31:00.00 10,000 m	–
3000 m sc	9:10.00	10:43.00
100 mH	–	14.10
110 mH	14.20 0.995 m	–
400 mH	53.00	60.75
10,000 m RW	44:00.00	51:00.00
4x100 m Relay	No standard	No standard
4x400 m Relay	No standard	No standard
Heptathlon	–	5300 points
Decathlon	7200 points	–
High Jump	2.16 m	1.82 m
Pole Vault	5.10 m	4.05 m
Long Jump	7.55 m	6.15 m
Triple Jump	15.60 m	12.85 m
Shot Put	18.25 m (6 kg)	14.50 m
Discus	56.00 m	48.00 m
Hammer	68.00 m (6 kg)	57.00 m
Javelin	68.70 m	50.00 m

^[4]

Men's results

Track

100 m	Lalu Muhammad Zohri	10.18 NJR	Anthony Schwartz	10.22	Eric Harrison	10.22 PB
200 m	Jona Efoloko	20.48 PB	Charles Dobson	20.57	Eric Harrison	20.79
400 m	Jonathan Sacoor	45.03 NJR	Christopher Taylor	45.38	Chantz Sawyers	45.89
800 m		1:46.35	Ngeno Kipngetich	1:46.45 PB	Eliott Crestan	1:47.27
1500 m	George Manangoi	3:41.71	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	3:41.89	Justus Soget	3:42.14
5000 m	Edward Zakayo	13:20.16	Stanley Mburu	13:20.57	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	13:20.78 AJR
10,000 m	Rhonex Kipruto	27:21.08 CR	Jacob Kiplimo	27:40.36	Berihu Aregawi	27:48.41 PB
110 m hurdles (99.0 cm)	Damion Thomas	13.18	Orlando Bennett	13.33	Shunsuke Izumiya	13.38 PB
400 m hurdles	Sokwakhana Zazini	49.42	Bassem Hemeida	49.59 PB	Alison dos Santos	49.78 PB
3000 m steeplechase	Takele Nigate	8:25.35 SB	Leonard Bett	8:25.39	Getnet Wale	8:26.16 SB
4×100 m relay	Eric Harrison Anthony Schwartz Austin Kratz Micah Williams	38.88 WJL	Xavier Nairne Christopher Taylor Jhevaughn Matherson Michael Stephens	38.96 NJR	Lucas Ansah-Peprah Marvin Schulte Milo Skupin-Alfa Luis Brandner	39.22
4×400 m relay	Klaudio Gjetja Andrea Romani Alessandro Sibilio Edoardo Scotti Lorenzo Benati (heats)	3:04.05 WJL, AJR^[5]		3:05.24	Alex Haydock-Wilson Joseph Brier Alastair Chalmers Alex Knibbs	3:05.64
10,000 m walk	Zhang Yao	40:32.06 PB	David Hurtado	40:32.06 PB	José Ortiz	40:45.26 PB

• (World Junior Record), (World Junior Leader), (Championship Record), (Area Junior Record), (National Junior Record), (Personal Best), (Season Best)

Field

High jump	PB Roberto Vílches	2.23m	Not Awarded		JuVaughn Blake PB Breyton Poole	2.23m
Pole vault	Armand Duplantis	5.82m CR	Zachery Bradford	5.55m PB	Masaki Ejima	5.55m
Long jump	Yuki Hashioka	8.03m	Maikel Vidal	7.99m	Wayne Pinnock	7.90m
Triple jump	Jordan Díaz	17.15m CR		16.44m		16.18m PB
Shot put (6 kg)	Kyle Blignaut	22.07m WJL	Adrian Piperi	22.06m AJR		21.07m NJR
Discus throw (1.750 kg)	Kai Chang	62.36m PB	Yauheni Bahutski	61.75m	Claudio Romero	60.81m SB
Hammer throw (6 kg)	Jake Norris	80.65m NJR	Mykhaylo Kokhan	79.68m PB		77.71m PB
Javelin throw	Nash Lowis	75.31m PB	Tzuriel Pedigo	73.76m PB	Maurice Voigt	73.44m PB
Decathlon (junior)	Ashley Moloney	8190 pts CR, AJR, WJL	Gary Haasbroek	7798 pts PB	Simon Ehammer	7642 pts PB

• (World Junior Record), (World Junior Leader), (Championship Record), (Area Junior Record), (National Junior Record), (Personal Best), (Season Best)

Women's results

Track

100 m	Briana Williams	11.16	Twanisha Terry	11.19	Kristal Awuah	11.37
200 m	Briana Williams	22.50 CR	Lauren Rain Williams	23.09	Martyna Kotwiła	23.21 NJR
400 m	Hima Das	51.46	Andrea Miklós	52.07 PB	Taylor Manson	52.28
800 m	Diribe Welteji	1:59.74 CR, WJL	Carly Thomas	2:01.13 PB	Delia Sclabas	2:01.29 NJR
1500 m	Alemaz Samuel	4:09.67	Miriam Cherop	4:10.73	Delia Sclabas	4:11.98
3000 m	Nozomi Tanaka	8:54.01 PB	Meselu Berhe	8:56.39 PB	Tsigie Gebreselama	8:59.20 PB
5000 m	Beatrice Chebet	15:30.77 PB	Ejgayehu Taye	15:30.87 PB	Girmawit Gebrzihair	15:34.01 PB
100 m hurdles	Tia Jones	13.01	Britany Anderson	13.01 PB	Cortney Jones	13.19
400 m hurdles	Zenéy van der Walt	55.34	Shiann Salmon	56.11	Yasmin Giger	56.98
3000 m steeplechase	Celliphine Chespol	9:12.79 CR	Peruth Chemutai	9:18.87	Winfred Mutile Yavi	9:23.47
4×100 m relay	Victoria Dönicke Corinna Schwab Sophia Junk Denise Uphoff	43.82	Molly Scott Gina Akpe-Moses Ciara Neville Patience Jumbo Gula	43.90 NJR	Kristal Awuah Alisha Rees Georgina Adam Ebony Carr	44.05
4×400 m relay	Symone Mason Shae Anderson Julia Madubuike Taylor Manson	3:28.74 WJL	Ella Connolly Cara Jardine Jemima Russell Carley Thomas	3:31.36 SB	Janielle Josephs Stacey-Ann Williams Shiann Salmon Calisha Taylor	3:31.90 SB
10,000 m walk	Alegna González	44:13.88 WJL	Meryem Bekmez	44:17.69 NJR	Glenda Morejón	44:19.40 AJR

• (World Junior Record), (World Junior Leader), (Championship Record), (Area Junior Record), (National Junior Record), (Personal Best), (Season Best)

Field

High jump	Karyna Taranda	1.92m NJR	Sommer Lecky	1.90m NJR	María Fernanda Murillo	1.90m AJR
Pole vault	Amálie Švábíková	4.51m NJR	Lisa Gunnarsson	4.35m	Alice Moindrot	4.35m
Long jump	Lea-Jasmine Riecke	6.51m PB	Ayaka Kora	6.37m	Tara Davis	6.36m
Triple jump	Aleksandra Nacheva	14.18m WJL PB	Mirieli Santos	13.81m PB	Davisleydi Velazco	13.78m
Shot put	Maddi Wesche	17.09m PB	Zhang Linru	17.05m	Jorinde van Klinken	17.05m
Discus throw	Alexandra Emilianov	57.89m	Helena Leveelahti	56.80m NJR	Silinda Morales	55.37m PB
Hammer throw	Camryn Rogers	64.90m	Alyssa Wilson	64.45m	Yanitza Martínez	63.82m
Javelin throw	Alina Shukh	55.95m	Tomoka Kuwazoe	55.66m	Dana Baker	55.04m PB
Heptathlon	Niamh Emerson	6253 pts WJL	Sarah Lagger	6225 pts NJR	Adrianna Sułek	5939 pts NJR

• (World Junior Record), (World Junior Leader), (Championship Record), (Area Junior Record), (National Junior Record), (Personal Best), (Season Best)

Medal table

Kenya won the ranking in the medal table.^[6]

Placing table

USA won the ranking in the placing table.^[7]

Rank	Country				4	5	6	7	8	Points
1		3	8	7	0	1	5	6	2	155
2		6	4	1	2	4	0	1	2	112
3		4	5	3	1	1	1	2	0	101
4		3	2	4	2	5	2	0	0	98
5		2	0	2	5	3	2	3	3	80
		3	1	3	1	2	3	4	1	80
7		2	2	2	3	2	1	2	3	75
8		2	3	0	2	3	2	3	0	71
9		1	1	0	3	2	5	2	0	57
10		0	1	2	4	2	1	0	2	52
11		1	1	3	2	1	0	0	0	47
12		3	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	40
13		1	0	0	2	2	2	1	4	38
14		0	0	4	0	1	2	0	1	35
15		0	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	32
16		1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	26
17		1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	25
		1	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	25
19		1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	24
		0	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	24
21		1	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	23
		0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	23
23		1	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	22
24		0	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	18
25		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16
26		0	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	15
		0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	15
		0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	15
29		1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14
		1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	14
		1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	14
32		0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	13
		0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	13
		0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	13
35		0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	11
36		0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	10
37		0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	9
38		0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	8
		0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	8
		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
43		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
		0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	6
		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
48		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
51		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	4
53		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
54		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
61		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

Participation

The following is a list of participating nations with the number of qualified athletes in brackets. A country without any qualified athlete could enter either one male or one female.^[4] A total 156 countries (plus the teams from Authorized Neutral Athletes and Athlete Refugee team) and 1462 athletes were scheduled to compete.

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tampere 2018 IAAF World Athletics Championships . 2 January 2018 . IAAF.
2. Web site: Tampere and Valencia to Host 2018 IAAF World Athletics Series Events . 10 March 2016 . IAAF.
3. Web site: 2018 World U20 Championships schedule by day. 2 January 2018 . USATF.
4. Web site: 2018 World U20 Championships Standards . 2 January 2018 . .
5. Web site: RECORDS AND BEST PERFORMANCES - European Outdoor U20 Men. european-athletics.org. 16 July 2018.
6. Web site: IAAF: IAAF World U20 Championships Tampere 2018 Medal Table - iaaf.org. iaaf.org.
7. Web site: 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships - Placing table. iaaf.org. 17 July 2018.