1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Athens, Greece
Nations participating	142
Athletes participating	1135
Events	41
Dates	16–20 July
Main venue	Athens Olympic Stadium
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The 1st World Junior Championships in Athletics was the inaugural 1986 edition of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Athens, Greece on 16–20 July.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Derrick Florence  United States	10.17	Stanley Kerr  United States	10.23	Jamie Henderson  Great Britain	10.34
200 metres details	Stanley Kerr  United States	20.74	Derrick Florence  United States	21.12	Steve McBain  Australia	21.21
400 metres details	Miles Murphy  Australia	45.64	Roberto Hernández  Cuba	45.64	Edgar Itt  West Germany	45.72
800 metres details	David Sharpe  Great Britain	1:48.32	Manuel Balmaceda  Chile	1:48.91	Andrey Sudnik  Soviet Union	1:48.93
1500 metres details	Wilfred Kirochi  Kenya	3:44.62	Peter Rono  Kenya	3:45.62	Johan Boakes  Great Britain	3:45.80
5000 metres details	Peter Chumba  Kenya	13:55.25	Alejandro Gómez  Spain	13:55.94	Feyisa Melese  Ethiopia	13:56.45
10,000 metres details	Peter Chumba  Kenya	28:44.00	Juma Munyampanda  Tanzania	28:45.14	Debebe Demisse  Ethiopia	28:49.09
20 kilometres road run details	Tadesse Gebre  Ethiopia	1:01:32	Juma Munyampanda  Tanzania	1:01:45	Negash Dube  Ethiopia	1:04:23
110 metres hurdles details	Colin Jackson  Great Britain	13.44	Jon Ridgeon  Great Britain	13.91	Emilio Valle  Cuba	14.00
400 metres hurdles details	Emilio Valle  Cuba	50.02	Hiroshi Kakimori  Japan	50.09	Pascal Maran  France	50.39
2000 metres steeplechase details	Jon Azkueta  Spain	5:28.56	Johnstone Kipkoech  Kenya	5:29.56	Jens Volkmann  West Germany	5:29.60
10,000 metres walk details	Mikhail Shchennikov  Soviet Union	40:38.01	Salvatore Cacia  Italy	40:40.73	Ricardo Pueyo  Spain	40:41.05
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain Jamie Henderson Phil Goedluck David Kirton Jon Ridgeon	39.80	West Germany Matthias Schlicht Frank Kobor Oliver Schmidt Ingo Todt	39.81	Poland Jarosław Kaniecki Tomasz Jędrusik Jacek Konopka Marek Parjaszewski	39.98
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Clifton Campbell Chip Rish Percy Waddle William Reed	3:01.90	Cuba Luis Cadogan Eulogio Mordoche Ramiro González Roberto Hernández	3:04.22	Jamaica Anthony Christie Thomas Mason Howard Davis Lyndale Patterson	3:05.16
High jump details	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba	2.25	Hollis Conway  United States	2.22	Thomas Müller  East Germany	2.22
Pole vault details	Igor Potapovich  Soviet Union	5.50	Delko Lesev  Bulgaria	5.40	Mike Thiede  East Germany	5.30
Long jump details	Dietmar Haaf  West Germany	7.93	Ivo Krsek  Czechoslovakia	7.87	Thomas Wolf  East Germany	7.77
Triple jump details	Igor Parygin  Soviet Union	16.97	Zdravko Dimitrov  Bulgaria	16.13	Du Benghong  China	16.00
Shot put details	Aleksejs Lukašenko  Soviet Union	18.90	Vyacheslav Lykho  Soviet Union	18.71	Radoslav Despotov  Bulgaria	18.17
Discus throw details	Vasil Baklarov  Bulgaria	60.60	Werner Reiterer  Australia	58.64	Vasiliy Kaptyukh  Soviet Union	58.22
Hammer throw details	Vitaliy Alisevich  Soviet Union	72.00	Valeriy Gubkin  Soviet Union	71.78	Sabin Khristov  Bulgaria	68.96
Javelin throw details	Uladzimir Sasimovich  Soviet Union	78.84	Mark Roberson  Great Britain	74.24	Gavin Lovegrove  New Zealand	74.22
Decathlon details	Petri Keskitalo  Finland	7623	Mike Smith  Canada	7523	Nikolay Zayats  Soviet Union	7509
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)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Tina Iheagwam  Nigeria	11.34	Caryl Smith  United States	11.46	Maicel Malone  United States	11.49
200 metres details	Falilat Ogunkoya  Nigeria	23.11	Mary Onyali  Nigeria	23.30	Katrin Krabbe  East Germany	23.31
400 metres details	Susann Sieger  East Germany	52.02	Olga Pesnopevtseva  Soviet Union	52.17	Sandie Richards  Jamaica	52.23
800 metres details	Selina Chirchir  Kenya	2:01.40	Gabriela Sedláková  Czechoslovakia	2:01.49	Adriana Dumitru  Romania	2:01.93
1500 metres details	Ana Padurean  Romania	4:14.63	Selina Chirchir  Kenya	4:15.59	Snežana Pajkić  Yugoslavia	4:16.03
3000 metres details	Cleopatra Palacian  Romania	9:02.91	Philippa Mason  Great Britain	9:03.35	Dorina Calenic  Romania	9:06.94
10,000 metres details	Katrin Kley  East Germany	33:19.67	Nora Maraga  Kenya	33:57.99	Marleen Renders  Belgium	33:59.36
100 metres hurdles details	Heike Tillack  East Germany	13.10	Aliuska López  Cuba	13.14	Tanya Davis  United States	13.46
400 metres hurdles details	Claudia Bartl  East Germany	56.76	Kellie Roberts  United States	56.80	Svetlana Lukashevich  Soviet Union	57.92
5000 metres walk details	Wang Yan  China	22:03.65	Natalya Zykova  Soviet Union	22:17.76	Jin Bingjie  China	22:17.83
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Carlette Guidry Caryl Smith Denise Liles Maicel Malone	43.78	East Germany Ina Morgenstern Katrin Krabbe Britta Beisbier Heike Tillack	43.97	Nigeria Tina Iheagwam Caroline Nwajei Falilat Ogunkoya Mary Onyali	44.13
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Gisele Harris Kandice Princhett Tasha Downing Janeene Vickers	3:30.45	East Germany Heike Böckmann Claudia Bartl Katja Prochnow Susanne Sieger	3:30.90	Soviet Union Svetlana Lukashevich Marina Khripankova Tatyana Chebykina Olga Pesnopevtseva	3:32.35
High jump details	Karen Scholz  East Germany	1.92	Galina Astafei  Romania	1.90	Yelena Obukhova  Soviet Union	1.88
Long jump details	Patricia Bille  East Germany	6.70	Anu Kaljurand  Soviet Union	6.46	Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan  Soviet Union	6.39
Shot put details	Heike Rohrmann  East Germany	18.39	Stephanie Storp  West Germany	18.20	Ines Wittich  East Germany	18.19
Discus throw details	Ilke Wyludda  East Germany	64.02	Franka Dietzsch  East Germany	60.26	Min Chunfeng  China	54.00
Javelin throw details	Xiomara Rivero  Cuba	62.86	Anja Reiter  East Germany	60.24	Alexandra Beck  East Germany	59.92
Heptathlon details	Svetla Dimitrova  Bulgaria	6041	Marina Shcherbina  Soviet Union	5953	Anke Schmidt  East Germany	5900
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)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	8	4	7	19
2	Soviet Union	6	6	7	19
3	United States	5	5	2	12
4	Kenya	4	4	1	9
5	Great Britain	3	3	2	8
6	Cuba	3	3	1	7
7	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	2	2	6
8	Romania (ROM)	2	1	2	5
9	Nigeria	2	1	1	4
10	West Germany	1	2	2	5
11	Australia	1	1	1	3
	Spain	1	1	1	3
13	China	1	0	3	4
14	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	0	2	3
15	Finland	1	0	0	1
16	Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	2
	Tanzania	0	2	0	2
18	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Chile	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
22	Jamaica	0	0	2	2
23	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 nations)		41	41	41	123

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[1] 1135 athletes from 142 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[2]