1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The host stadium in Annecy (shown during a football match).
Host city	Annecy, France
Nations participating	169
Athletes participating	1156
Events	43
Dates	28 July – 2 August
Main venue	Parc des Sports
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The 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 1998 edition of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Annecy, France from July 28 to August 2.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	10.12 WJL	Amar Johnson  United States	10.34 PB	Dwight Thomas  Jamaica	10.40
200 metres details	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	20.44 WJL	Jairo Duzant  Netherlands Antilles	20.92 NJR	Russell Frye  United States	20.94
400 metres details	Nduka Awazie  Nigeria	45.54 PB	Casey Vincent  Australia	45.55 PB	Fawzi Al Shammari  Kuwait	45.89 NJR
800 metres details	William Chirchir  Kenya	1:47.23	Wilfred Bungei  Kenya	1:47.53	Paskar Owor  Uganda	1:48.20 PB
1500 metres details	Adil Kaouch  Morocco	3:42.43	Benjamin Kipkurui  Kenya	3:42.67	Robert Witt  Poland	3:43.47
5000 metres details	Million Wolde  Ethiopia	13:47.49	Kipchumba Mitei  Kenya	13:49.60	Reuben Kiyara Kamzee  Kenya	13:51.22 1
10,000 metres details	Benson Barus  Kenya	29:24.28	Salim Kipsang  Kenya	29:36.80	Alene Emere  Ethiopia	29:47.60
110 metres hurdles details	Staņislavs Olijars  Latvia	13.51	Sharif Paxton  United States	14.10	Florian Seibold  Germany	14.21
400 metres hurdles details	Periklis Iakovakis  Greece	49.82 WJL	Osiris Martínez  Cuba	50.17 PB	Peter Bate  Australia	50.83
3000 metres steeplechase details	Reuben Kosgei  Kenya	8:23.76 WJL	Abraham Cherono  Kenya	8:32.24	El Moustapha Mellour  Morocco	8:34.91 PB
10,000 metres walk details	Roman Rasskazov  Russia	41:55.95	Liu Yunfeng  China	42:01.11	Mario Iván Flores  Mexico	42:04.55
4 × 100 metres relay details	Jamaica Steve Slowly Thomas Collin Paul Thompson Roy Bailey	39.70 WJL	United States Casey Combest Dashaun McCullough Amar Johnson Russell Frye	39.71	Germany Tobias Unger Stefan Holz Zapletal Jirka Kevin Kuske	39.99
4 × 400 metres relay details	Australia Daniel McFarlane Daniel Batman Aaron Russell Casey Vincent	3:04.74 WJL	United States Tony Berrian Kevin Baker Brian Swarn Andrew Pierce	3:05.06	Jamaica Sanjay Ayre Leroy Colquhoun Omar Henry Dwayne Miller	3:05.31
High jump details	Alfredo Deza  Peru	2.21	Yin Xueli  China	2.21 PB	Aleksandr Veryutin  Belarus	2.21 PB
Pole vault details	Pavel Gerasimov  Russia	5.55 PB	Lars Börgeling  Germany	5.50	Paul Burgess  Australia Adam Ptacek  Czech Republic Giuseppe Gibilisco  Italy	5.20
Long jump details	Petar Dachev  Bulgaria	8.14 NJR	Abdel Rahmane Al-Nubi  Qatar	8.11 AJR	Luis Felipe Méliz  Cuba	7.91
Triple jump details	Ionut Punga  Romania	16.94 WJL	Ivaylo Russinov  Bulgaria	16.65 PB	Gregory Yeldell  United States	16.44 PB
Shot put details	Mikulas Konopka  Slovakia	18.50	Janus Robberts  South Africa	18.15	Carl Myerscough  Great Britain	18.12
Discus throw details	Zoltán Kővágó  Hungary	59.36	Emeka Udechuku  Great Britain	57.99	Gabor Mate  Hungary	56.96
Hammer throw details	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen  Finland	72.40 CR	Yuriy Voronkin  Russia	69.66	Wojciech Kondratowicz  Poland	68.93
Javelin throw details	David Parker  Great Britain	72.85	Gerhardus Pienaar  South Africa	71.16 PB	Yukifumi Murakami  Japan	70.72
Decathlon details	Aki Heikkinen  Finland	7476	Thomas Poge  Germany	7332 PB	Jaakko Ojaniemi  Finland	7246 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)

¹ Ahmed Baday of Morocco originally won the bronze medal in 13:49.86, but he was disqualified after it was discovered he was 24 years old at the time of the Championships.^[1]

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Shakedia Jones  United States	11.19	Angela Williams  United States	11.27	Joan Uduak Ekah  Nigeria	11.50
200 metres details	Muriel Hurtis  France	23.22	Shakedia Jones  United States	23.39	Sarah Wilhelmy  Great Britain	23.56
400 metres details	Natalya Nazarova  Russia	52.02	Nakiya Johnson  United States	52.09 PB	Yupalis Díaz  Cuba	52.39 NJR
800 metres details	Olga Mikayeva  Russia	2:05.34	Jebet Langat  Kenya	2:05.43	Naomi Misoi  Kenya	2:05.77
1500 metres details	Lan Lixin  China	4:10.05	Yemenashu Taye  Ethiopia	4:11.97 PB	Bouchra Benthami  Morocco	4:12.76
3000 metres details	Yin Lili  China	8:57.09 PB	Yemenashu Taye  Ethiopia	9:01.70	Edna Kiplagat  Kenya	9:05.46
5000 metres details	Yin Lili  China	15:29.65 CR	Faith Jemutai  Kenya	15:34.48 PB	Meryma Hashim  Kenya	15:39.57 PB
100 metres hurdles details	Julie Pratt  Great Britain	13.75	Sun Hong Wei  China	13.75	Susanna Kallur  Sweden	13.77
400 metres hurdles details	Li Yu Lian  China	55.93	Allison Beckford  Jamaica	57.19 NJR	Sun Hong Wei  China	57.43
5000 metres walk details	Sabine Zimmer  Germany	21:14.39	Jolanta Dukure  Latvia	21:17.89 NJR	Xue Ailing  China	21:28.57 PB
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Angela Williams Keyon Soley Myra Combs Shakedia Jones	43.52 WJL	France Celine Thelamon Muriel Hurtis Nadia Imalouan Anne Carole Rapp	44.07 NJR	Jamaica Tulia Robinson Aleen Bailey Melaine Walker Lisa Sharpe	44.61
4 × 400 metres relay details	Jamaica Patricia Hall Peta-Gaye Gayle Keasha Downer Allison Beckford	3:32.29 WJL	Russia Svetlana Pospelova Olga Mikayeva Olesya Zykina Natalya Nazarova	3:32.35	United States Mikele Barber Myra Combs Demetria Washington Nakiya Johnson	3:32.85
High jump details	Marina Kuptsova  Russia	1.88	Marie Norrman  Sweden	1.88 PB	Tatyana Efimenko  Kyrgyzstan Nevena Lendjel  Croatia	1.84
Pole vault details	Monika Gotz  Germany	4.20	María Mar Sánchez  Spain Monika Pyrek  Poland	4.10 NJR 4.10 NJR	None awarded	None awarded
Long jump details	Peng Fengmei  China	6.59	Lu Xin  China	6.57	Maria Chiara Baccini  Italy	6.55 NJR
Triple jump details	Baya Rahouli  Algeria	14.04 AJR	Maria Solomon  Russia	13.75 PB	Marija Martinovic  FR Yugoslavia	13.47
Shot put details	Nadzeya Astapchuk  Belarus	18.23 WJL	Du Xianhui  China	17.69 PB	Nadine Banse  Germany	16.94
Discus throw details	Liu Fengying  China	60.66	Mélina Robert-Michon  France	55.01	Lacramioara Ionescu  Romania	54.64
Hammer throw details	Bianca Achilles  Germany	61.79	Sini Pöyry  Finland	61.76 NJR	Maureen Griffin  United States	60.14
Javelin throw details	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba	68.17 WJL	Liang Lili  China	61.72 PB	Wei Jianhua  China	59.10
Heptathlon details	Shen Shengfei  China	5815	Susanna Rajamäki  Finland	5721	Viorica Tigau  Romania	5720 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)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	7	6	3	16
2	Russia	5	2	0	7
3	Great Britain	4	1	2	7
4	Kenya	3	7	2	12
5	Germany	3	2	3	8
6	United States	2	7	4	13
7	Finland	2	2	1	5
8	Jamaica	2	1	3	6
9	Ethiopia	1	2	2	5
10	France*	1	2	0	3
11	Australia	1	1	2	4
	Cuba	1	1	2	4
	Romania	1	1	2	4
14	Bulgaria	1	1	0	2
	Latvia	1	1	0	2
16	Morocco	1	0	3	4
17	Belarus	1	0	1	2
	Hungary	1	0	1	2
	Nigeria	1	0	1	2
20	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Peru	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
24	South Africa	0	2	0	2
25	Poland	0	1	2	3
26	Sweden	0	1	1	2
27	Netherlands Antilles	0	1	0	1
	Qatar	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
30	Italy	0	0	2	2
31	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	FR Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Uganda	0	0	1	1
Totals (38 nations)		43	44	45	132

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[2] 1156 athletes from 169 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[3]