2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics

2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics

Host city	Brixen, Italy
Events	40
Dates	8–12 July
Main venue	Brixen-Bressanone Sport Arena

The 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics is the sixth edition of the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics. They were held at Brixen-Bressanone Sport Arena in Bressanone, Italy from 8–12 July 2009. Athletes had to be aged 16 or 17 on 31 December 2009 (born in 1992 or 1993) to compete.^[1]

15-year-old Jodie Williams took the 100 m sprint title in a youth world leading time of 11.39. This was also a personal best for Williams, who had not lost a 100 m final since 2007.^[2] Also winning the girls' 200 m, Williams became the first youth athlete ever to do so. A similar feat was achieved by Kirani James of Grenada, who won the boys' 200 and 400 metres.^[3]

With the 100 m hurdles, 17-year-old Isabelle Pedersen became Norway's first World Youth champion. Her time of 13.20 in the semi-finals was a national record and third all-time Youth best.^[4] 16-year-old Italian Alessia Trost also became the host nation's first World Youth champion.^[5]

Johan Rogestedt of Sweden became the first European ever to win the 800 metres, usually dominated by East African runners.^[6] In high jump, Russian-born Dmitriy Kroyter became Israel's first world youth champion.

Medal summary

Boys

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Prezel Hardy  United States	10.57	Aaron Brown  Canada	10.74	Giovanni Galbieri  Italy	10.79
200 m details	Kirani James  Grenada	21.05 PB	Alberto Gavalda  Spain	21.33 SB	Keenan Brock  United States	21.39
400 m details	Kirani James  Grenada	45.24 CR WL PB	Joshua Mance  United States	46.22 PB	Awad El Karim Makki  Sudan	47.15 SB
800 m	Johan Rogestedt  Sweden	1:50.92 PB	Peter Langat Kiplangat  Kenya	1:50.97	Nicholas Kiplangat Kipkoech  Kenya	1:51.01
1500 m	Gideon Kiage Mageka  Kenya	3:37.36 WL	Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku  Kenya	3:38.42	Girma Bekele  Ethiopia	3:39.88 PB
3000 m	Isaiah Kiplangat Koech  Kenya	7:51.51 CR	David Kiprotich Bett  Kenya	7:52.13 PB	Goitom Kifle  Eritrea	8:05.83 PB
2000 m st.	Hillary Kipsang Yego  Kenya	5:25.33 WL	Peter Kibet Lagat  Kenya	5:26.59 PB	Desta Alemu  Ethiopia	5:37.32 PB
110 m H 91.4 cm	Dale Morgan  United States	13.28 WL	Jack Meredith  Great Britain	13.33 PB	Gregory MacNeil  Canada	13.51
400 m H 84.0 cm	Norge Sotomayor  Cuba	51.30 WL	Jeremiah Kipkorir Mutai  Kenya	51.45 PB	Jose Reynaldo Bencosme de Leon  Italy	51.74
10,000 m track walk	Hagen Pohle  Germany	41:35.99 CR WL PB	Dementiy Cheparev [Wikidata]  Russia	41:53.76 PB	Ihor Lyashchenko  Ukraine	42:01.90 PB
Medley relay	United States Colin Hepburn Keenan Brock Dedric Dukes Joshua Mance	1:50.33 WYB	Brazil Jonathas da Silva Jean Roberto da Silva Jackson da Silva Leandro de Araújo	1:52.66 SB	Japan Takumi Kuki Ryota Yamagata Ko Kayada Shogo Momiki	1:52.82 SB
High jump	Dmitriy Kroyter  Israel	2.20	Janick Klausen  Denmark	2.20 PB	Django Lovett  Canada Daniil Tsyplakov  Russia	2.17 PB 2.17 PB
Pole vault	Jin Min-sub  South Korea	5.15 PB	Carlo Paech  Germany	5.10	Daniel Clemens  Germany	5.10
Long jump	Supanara Sukhasvasti  Thailand	7.65 PB	Stefan Brits  South Africa	7.57	Yannick Roggatz  Germany	7.53 PB
Triple jump	Benjamin Williams  Great Britain	15.91 PB	Supanara Sukhasvasti  Thailand	15.70 PB	Aleksandr Yurchenko  Russia	15.66 PB
Shot put 5 kg	Ryan Crouser  United States	21.56 CR	Krzysztof Brzozowski  Poland	20.89 PB	Frans Schutte  South Africa	20.37 PB
Discus 1.500 kg	Hamid Manssour  Syria	64.20	Ryan Crouser  United States	61.64	Traves Smikle  Jamaica	61.22 PB
Hammer 5 kg	Chen Hongqiu  China	74.93 WL PB	Suhrob Khodjaev  Tajikistan	73.29 PB	Tomáš Kružliak  Slovakia	72.17
Javelin 700g	Shih-Feng Huang  Chinese Taipei	74.00	Killian Durechou  France	73.54	Braian Toledo  Argentina	73.44 PB
Octathlon	Kevin Mayer  France	6478 WL	Mohd Ahmed Al-Mannai  Qatar	6232 PB	Steffen Klink  Germany	6217 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)

Girls

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Jodie Williams  Great Britain	11.39 WL PB	Allison Peter  U.S. Virgin Islands	11.47 PB	Ashton Purvis  United States	11.48 SB
200 m	Jodie Williams  Great Britain	23.08 WL	Allison Peter  U.S. Virgin Islands	23.08 WL	Ashton Purvis  United States	23.15 PB
400 m	Ebony Eutsey  United States	52.88	Michelle Brown  United States	53.44	Sandra Wagner  Sweden	53.52 PB
800 m	Cherono Koech  Kenya	2:01.67 CR	Ciara Mageean  Ireland	2:03.07 PB	Rowena Cole  Great Britain	2:03.83 PB
1500 m	Nelly Chebet Ngeiywo  Kenya	4:12.76 PB	Gete Dima  Ethiopia	4:15.16	Amela Terzić  Serbia	4:16.71 PB
3000 m	Purity Cherotich Rionoripo  Kenya	9:03.79	Jackline Chepngeno  Kenya	9:05.93 PB	Genet Yalew  Ethiopia	9:08.95 PB
2000 m st.	Korahubsh Itaa  Ethiopia	6:11.83 WYB	Lucia Kamene Muangi  Kenya	6:11.90 PB	Halima Hassen  Ethiopia	6:16.83 PB
100 m H 76.2 cm	Isabelle Pedersen  Norway	13.23	Kori Carter  United States	13.26 PB	Bridgette Owens  United States	13.39 PB
400 m H	Vera Rudakova  Russia	57.83 WL	Danielle Dowie  Jamaica	58.62	Déborah Rodríguez  Uruguay	59.71 PB
5,000 m track walk	Elena Lashmanova  Russia	22:55.45 WL	Yanelli Caballero  Mexico	22:59.27 PB	Svetlana Vasilyeva  Russia	23:00.15 PB
Medley relay	United States Jordan Clark Ashton Purvis Briana Nelson Ebony Eutsey	2:04.32 WL	Hungary Anasztázia Nguyen Kriszta Komiszár Dorina Vincze Lilla Loránd	2:09.22 PB	Romania Ana Maria Rosianu Ana Alungoaie Sanda Belgyan Adelina Pastor	2:09.25 PB
High jump	Alessia Trost  Italy	1.87	Mariya Kuchina  Russia Amy Pejkovic  Australia	1.85 PB   1.85 PB
Pole vault	Angelica Bengtsson  Sweden	4.32 WL	Michaela Meijer  Sweden	4.10	Felicia Horvath  Hungary Tatyana Stetsyuk  Russia	4.00 PB 4.00 PB
Long jump	Lu Minjia  China	6.22	Alina Rotaru  Romania	6.09	Jennifer Clayton  United States	6.05
Triple jump	Yana Borodina  Russia	13.63 WL	Deng Lina  China	13.57 PB	Valeriya Kanatova  Uzbekistan	13.45
Shot put	Lena Urbaniak  Germany	15.28	Margaret Satupai  Samoa	14.96 SB	Dong Yangzi  China	14.65 PB
Discus	Li Shanshan  China	51.65	Alex Collatz  United States	50.09	Shanice Craft  Germany	49.15
Hammer	Barbara Spiler  Slovenia	59.33	Kivilcim Kaya  Turkey	57.91 SB	Bianca Lazar Fazecas  Romania	56.41 PB
Javelin	Anastasiya Svechnikova  Uzbekistan	53.25 SB	Wu You  China	52.04 PB	Laura Henkel  Germany	51.47 PB
Heptathlon	Katarina Thompson  Great Britain	5750 WL	Laura Ikauniece  Latvia	5647 PB	Kira Biesenbach  Germany	5423 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)

Medals table

Kirani James of Grenada won a 200/400 m sprint double.

Angelica Bengtsson took the pole vault title for Sweden.

Jodie Williams won a 100/200 m sprint double for Great Britain.

Kévin Mayer of France won the decathlon.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya (KEN)	6	7	1	14
2	United States (USA)	6	5	5	16
3	Great Britain (GBR)	4	1	1	6
4	Russia (RUS)	3	2	4	9
5	China (CHN)	3	2	1	6
6	Germany (GER)	2	1	6	9
7	Sweden (SWE)	2	1	1	4
8	Grenada (GRN)	2	0	0	2
9	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	1	4	6
10	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
	Thailand (THA)	1	1	0	2
12	Italy (ITA)	1	0	2	3
13	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	0	1	2
14	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	0	0	1
	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	0	1
	Israel (ISR)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	0	1
	Syria (SYR)	1	0	0	1
21	U.S. Virgin Islands (ISV)	0	2	0	2
22	Canada (CAN)	0	1	2	3
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	2	3
24	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Jamaica (JAM)	0	1	1	2
	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	1	2
27	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	0	1
	Samoa (SAM)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
39	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Eritrea (ERI)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
	Sudan (SUD)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay (URU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (46 entries)		40	41	41	122

All Information taken from IAAF's website.^[7]

Mascot

The mascot is a crow named Hugo, who is also the mascot of Brixia Meeting.^[8]

References

1. IAAF, May 5, 2009: More than 170 nations to compete in Sϋdtirol – 2009 World Youth Champs. Accessed 2009-07-11. Archived 2009-09-08.
2. "15-year-old Jodie Williams takes sprint titles". IAAF. 2009-07-09. Archived from the original on 2009-08-13. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
3. Williams and James achieve unprecedented doubles as Kenya steals the show in middle distance
4. "World Youth gold is more than a dream come true for Pedersen". IAAF. 2009-07-09. Archived from the original on 2009-08-13. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
5. "Golden jump for Italy's Alessia Trost". IAAF. 2009-07-10. Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
6. A Swede steals Kenya's thunder at the World Youth Championships
7. 2009 World Youth medal table [1] . Accessed 2009-07-11. Archived 2009-09-08.
8. "Hugo the mascot of iaaf wyc sudtirol 2009 by UnivesiadeMascots54 on DeviantArt". 22 February 2024.

External links

• Official results
• Official website of the 2009 World Youth Championships