2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Santiago, Chile between 17 and 22 October 2000.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Mark Lewis-Francis  Great Britain	10.12 CR	Salem Mubarak Al-Yami  Saudi Arabia	10.38	Marc Burns  Trinidad and Tobago	10.40 PB
200 metres details	Paul Gorries  South Africa	20.64	Marcin Jędrusiński  Poland	20.87	Timothy Benjamin  Great Britain	20.94
400 metres details	Hamdan Obah Al-Bishi  Saudi Arabia	44.66 CR	Brandon Simpson  Jamaica	45.73 PB	Shinji Ishikawa  Japan	45.77 NJR
800 metres details	Nicholas Wachira  Kenya	1:47.16	Florent Lacasse  France	1:47.61	Antonio Manuel Reina  Spain	1:47.90
1500 metres details	Cornelius Chirchir  Kenya	3:38.80	Wolfram Müller  Germany	3:39.37	Philemon Kibet  Kenya	3:40.77 PB
5000 metres details	Gordon Mugi  Kenya	13:44.93	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	13:45.43	Cyrus Kataron  Kenya	13:46.12
10,000 metres details	Robert Kipkorir Kipchumba  Kenya	28:54.37	Duncan Lebo  Kenya	28:58.39	Abraha Hadush  Ethiopia	29:44.65
110 metres hurdles details	Yuniel Hernández  Cuba	13.60 WLJ	Thomas Blaschek  Germany	13.80	Ladji Doucouré  France	13.84
400 metres hurdles details	Marek Plawgo  Poland	49.23 WLJ	Pieter de Villiers  South Africa	50.52	Ockert Cilliers  South Africa	50.58
3000 metres steeplechase details	Raymond Yator  Kenya	8:16.34 CR	David Chemweno  Kenya	8:31.95 PB	Abdelatif Chemlal  Morocco	8:43.57
10,000 metres walk details	Cristián David Berdeja  Mexico	40:56.47 SB	Yevgeniy Demkov  Russia	40:56.53	Viktor Burayev  Russia	40:56.57
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain Tyrone Edgar Dwayne Grant Timothy Benjamin Mark Lewis-Francis	39.05 CR	France Ronald Pognon Fabrice Calligny Ladji Doucouré Leslie Djhone	39.33 NJR	Japan Takashi Mogi Kazuya Kitamura Yusuke Omae Hisashi Miyazaki	39.47 NJR
4 × 400 metres relay details	Jamaica Sekou Clarke Aldwyn Sappleton Pete Coley Brandon Simpson	3:06.06 WLJ	Germany Sebastian Gatzka Christian Duma Steffen Hönig Bastian Swillims	3:06.79	Poland Rafał Wieruszewski Karol Terejlis Adrian Galaszewski Marek Plawgo	3:07.05 SB
High jump details	Jacques Freitag  South Africa	2.24	Germaine Mason  Jamaica	2.24 NJR	Tomasz Śmiałek  Poland	2.21 PB
Pole vault details	Aleksey Khanafin  Russia	5.30	Aleksandr Korchmyd  Ukraine	5.30	Rocky Danners  United States	5.20
Long jump details	Cai Peng  China	7.88	Vladimir Zyuskov  Ukraine	7.84 PB	Yoelmis Pacheco  Cuba	7.71
Triple jump details	Marian Oprea  Romania	16.41	Yoandri Betanzos  Cuba	16.34	Mohammed Hamdi Awadh  Qatar	16.29
Shot put details	Rutger Smith  Netherlands	19.48 CR	Ivan Yushkov  Russia	19.06	Tomasz Chrzanowski  Poland	19.00 NJR
Discus throw details	Hannes Hopley  South Africa	59.51 NJR	Niklas Arrhenius  Sweden	59.19 PB	Rutger Smith  Netherlands	58.70
Javelin throw details	Gerhardus Pienaar  South Africa	78.11 NJR	Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway	76.34 NJR	Park Jae-Myong  South Korea	72.36
Hammer throw details	Eşref Apak  Turkey	69.97 NJR	Dylan Armstrong  Canada	67.50	Aaron Fish  Australia	67.44
Decathlon details	Dennis Leyckes  Germany	7897 CR	David Gómez  Spain	7772 NJR	André Niklaus  Germany	7712 PB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	11.12 CR	Katchi Habel  Germany	11.39 PB	Fana Ashby  Trinidad and Tobago	11.47
200 metres details	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	22.87 CR	Sina Schielke  Germany	23.20	Vida Anim  Ghana	23.81
400 metres details	Jana Pittman  Australia	52.45	Aneta Lemiesz  Poland	52.78 NJR	Norma González  Colombia	53.30
800 metres details	Jebet Langat  Kenya	2:01.51	Georgie Clarke  Australia	2:02.28	Lucia Klocová  Slovakia	2:04.00 PB
1500 metres details	Abebech Negussie  Ethiopia	4:19.93	Rose Kosgei  Kenya	4:20.16	Georgie Clarke  Australia	4:20.21
3000 metres details	Beatrice Jepchumba  Kenya	9:08.80	Jane Chepkoech  Kenya	9:10.05	Etalemahu Kidane  Ethiopia	9:11.55 PB
5000 metres details	Dorcus Inzikuru  Uganda	16:21.32	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	16:23.69	Sharon Cherop  Kenya	16:23.73
100 metres hurdles details	Susanna Kallur  Sweden	13.02 WLJ	Fanny Gérance  France	13.21 PB	Adrianna Lamalle  France	13.27
400 metres hurdles details	Jana Pittman  Australia	56.27	Marjolein de Jong  Netherlands	56.50	Melaine Walker  Jamaica	56.96 NJR
10,000 metres walk details	Lyudmila Yefimkina  Russia	44:07.74	Tatyana Kozlova  Russia	44:24.43 PB	Sabine Zimmer  Germany	46:49.97 NJR
4 × 100 metres relay details	Germany Christa Kaufmann Sina Schielke Kerstin Grötzinger Katchi Habel	43.91 WLJ	Jamaica Veronica Campbell Nadine Palmer Kerron Stewart Nolle Graham	44.05 SB	Sweden Emma Rienas Jenny Kallur Susanna Kallur Linda Fernström	44.78 NJR
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain Kim Wall Jenny Meadows Helen Thieme Lisa Miller	3:33.82 WLJ	Jamaica Sheryl Morgan Kareen Gayle Anneisha McLaughlin Melaine Walker	3:33.99 SB	Romania Adela Diana Marchis Liliana Barbulescu Maria Rus Alina Ripanu	3:34.49
High jump details	Blanka Vlašić  Croatia	1.91	Marina Kuptsova  Russia	1.88	Marizca Gertenbach  South Africa	1.88 PB
Pole vault details	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.20 CR	Annika Becker  Germany	4.10	Vanessa Boslak  France Fanni Juhász  Hungary	4.10 4.10 SB
Long jump details	Concepción Montaner  Spain	6.47	Zhou Yangxia  China	6.45	Kumiko Ikeda  Japan	6.43 NJR
Triple jump details	Anastasiya Ilyina  Russia	14.24	Anna Pyatykh  Russia	14.18 PB	Dana Veldáková  Slovakia	13.92 NJR
Shot put details	Kathleen Kluge  Germany	17.37 PB	Li Meiju  China	16.57	Natallia Kharaneka  Belarus	16.40
Discus throw details	Xu Shaoyang  China	54.41	Jana Tucholke  Germany	53.97 PB	Olga Goncharenko  Belarus	53.64
Javelin throw details	Jarmila Klimešová  Czech Republic	54.82	Inga Kožarenoka  Latvia	54.64	Halina Kakhava  Belarus	54.26
Hammer throw details	Ivana Brkljacic  Croatia	62.22 CR	Virginia Balut  Romania	60.23 PB	Yunaika Crawford  Cuba	59.98
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	6056 WLJ	Lidiya Bashlykova  Russia	5898	Sanna Saarman  Finland	5707
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	7	4	3	14
2	Russia	4	6	1	11
3	South Africa	4	1	2	7
4	Germany	3	7	2	12
5	Jamaica	3	4	1	8
6	Great Britain	3	0	1	4
7	China	2	2	0	4
8	Australia	2	1	2	5
9	Sweden	2	1	1	4
10	Croatia	2	0	0	2
11	Poland	1	2	3	6
12	Ethiopia	1	2	2	5
13	Cuba	1	1	2	4
14	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
	Romania	1	1	1	3
	Spain	1	1	1	3
17	Saudi Arabia	1	1	0	2
18	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	Mexico	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
	Uganda	1	0	0	1
22	France	0	3	3	6
23	Ukraine	0	2	0	2
24	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
27	Japan	0	0	3	3
28	Belarus	0	0	2	2
	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	2	2
31	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Ghana	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
–	Chile*	0	0	0	0
Totals (38 entries)		43	43	43	129

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[1] 1122 athletes from 151 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[2]

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