2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Nations	171
Athletes	1566
Events	44
Dates	10–15 July
Opened by	Juan Carlos I of Spain
Main venue	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
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The 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born 1993 or later) which was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on 10–15 July 2012.^[1] A total of 44 athletics events were contested at the championships, 22 by male and 22 by female athletes.

Several medalists from the 2010 championships were eligible to defend their titles, including Jacko Gill, Jodie Williams, Shaunae Miller, and Angelica Bengtsson. Gill and Bengtsson were successful.

Men's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Adam Gemili  Great Britain	10.05 WJL CR	Aaron Ernest  United States	10.17 PB	Odean Skeen  Jamaica	10.28 PB
200 m details	Delano Williams  Turks and Caicos Islands	20.48 NJ	Aaron Ernest  United States	20.53 PB	Tyreek Hill  United States	20.54
400 m details	Luguelín Santos  Dominican Republic	44.85	Arman Hall  United States	45.39 PB	Steven Solomon  Australia Aldrich Bailey  United States	45.52
800 m details	Nigel Amos  Botswana	1:43.79 CR	Timothy Kitum  Kenya	1:44.56	Edwin Kiplagat Melly  Kenya	1:44.79 PB
1500 m details	Hamza Driouch  Qatar	3:39.04	Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich  Kenya	3:40.39 PB	Abdelhadi Labâli  Morocco	3:40.60
5000 m details	Muktar Edris  Ethiopia	13:38.95	Abrar Osman Adem  Eritrea	13:40.52	Wiliam Malel Sitonik  Kenya	13:40.52
10,000 m details	Yigrem Demelash  Ethiopia	28:16.07 PB	Philemon Kipchilis Cheboi  Kenya	28:23.98 PB	Geoffrey Kipkorir Kirui  Kenya	28:30.47
110 m hurdles (99.0 cm) details	Yordan Luis O'Farrill  Cuba	13.18 CR	Nicholas Hough  Australia	13.27 AJ	Wilhem Belocian  France	13.29 NJ
400 m hurdles details	Eric Futch  United States	50.24 WJL	Takahiro Matsumoto  Japan	50.41 PB	Ibrahim Mohammed Saleh  Saudi Arabia	50.47 PB
3000 m steeplechase details	Conseslus Kipruto  Kenya	8:06.10 CR	Gilbert Kiplangat Kirui  Kenya	8:19.94	Hicham Sigueni  Morocco	8:30.14
4×100 m relay details	United States Tyreek Hill Aldrich Bailey Arthur Delaney Aaron Ernest	38.67 WJL	Jamaica Tykwendo Tracey Odean Skeen Jevaughn Minzie Jazeel Murphy	38.97 NJ	Japan Kazuma Oseto Akiyuki Hashimoto Aska Cambridge Kazuki Kanamori	39.02
4×400 m relay details	United States Quincy Downing Aldrich Bailey Chidi Okezie Arman Hall	3:03.99 WJL	Poland Karol Zalewski Rafał Smoleń Piotr Kuśnierz Patryk Dobek	3:05.05 NJ	Trinidad and Tobago Asa Guevara Jereem Richards Brandon Benjamin Machel Cedenio	3:06.32
10,000 m walk details	Éider Arévalo  Colombia	40:09.74 WJL	Aleksandr Ivanov  Russia	40:12.90 PB	Su Guanyu  China	40:16.87 PB

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Andrei Churyla  Belarus	2.24	Falk Wendrich  Germany	2.24 PB	Ryan Ingraham  Bahamas	2.24
Pole vault details	Thiago Braz da Silva  Brazil	5.55 NJ	Ivan Horvat  Croatia	5.55	Shawnacy Barber  Canada	5.55 NJ
Long jump details	Sergey Morgunov  Russia	8.09	Andreas Trajkovski  Denmark	7.82 NJ	Jarrion Lawson  United States	7.64
Triple jump details	Pedro Pichardo  Cuba	16.79 WJL	Artem Primak  Russia	16.60	Latario Collie-Minns  Bahamas	16.37
Shot put (6 kg) details	Jacko Gill  New Zealand	22.20 CR	Krzysztof Brzozowski  Poland	21.78 NJ	Damien Birkinhead  Australia	21.14 NJ
Discus throw (1.750 kg) details	Fedrick Dacres  Jamaica	62.80 PB	Wojciech Praczyk  Poland	62.75	Gerhard de Beer  South Africa	61.57
Hammer throw (6 kg) details	Ashraf Amgad Elseify  Qatar	85.57 WJ	Bence Pásztor  Hungary	76.74	Suhrob Khodjaev  Uzbekistan	76.16 PB
Javelin throw details	Keshorn Walcott  Trinidad and Tobago	78.64	Braian Toledo  Argentina	77.09	Morné Moolman  South Africa	76.29 PB
Decathlon (junior) details	Gunnar Nixon  United States	8018 WJL	Jake Stein  Australia	7951 AJ	Tim Dekker  Netherlands	7815 PB

Women's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Anthonique Strachan  Bahamas	11.20 WJL	Nimet Karakuş  Turkey	11.36	Tamiris de Liz  Brazil	11.45
200 m details	Anthonique Strachan  Bahamas	22.53 CR	Olivia Ekpone  United States	23.15 PB	Dezerea Bryant  United States	23.15
400 m details	Ashley Spencer  United States	50.50 CR	Kadecia Baird  Guyana	51.04 AJ	Erika Rucker  United States	51.10 PB
800 m details	Ajee' Wilson  United States	2:00.91 PB	Jessica Judd  Great Britain	2:00.96 PB	Manal El Bahraoui  Morocco	2:03.09
1500 m details	Faith Kipyegon  Kenya	4:04.96 CR	Amela Terzić  Serbia	4:07.59 PB, NR	Senbere Teferi  Ethiopia	4:08.28 PB
3000 m details	Mercy Chebwogen  Kenya	9:08.88 PB	Hiwot Gebrekidan  Ethiopia	9:09.27 PB	Emelia Gorecka  Great Britain	9:09.43 PB
5000 m details	Buze Diriba  Ethiopia	15:32.94	Ruti Aga  Ethiopia	15:32.95 PB	Agnes Jebet Tirop  Kenya	15:36.74 PB
100 m hurdles details	Morgan Snow  United States	13.38	Noemi Zbären   Switzerland	13.42	Ekaterina Bleskina  Russia	13.43
400 m hurdles details	Janieve Russell  Jamaica	56.62 WJL	Aurélie Chaboudez  France	57.14 NJ	Kaila Barber  United States	57.63
3000 m steeplechase details	Daisy Jepkemei  Kenya	9:47.22 WJL	Tejinesh Gebisa  Ethiopia	9:50.51 PB	Stella Jepkosgei Rutto  Kenya	9:50.58 PB
4×100 m relay details	United States Morgan Snow Dezerea Bryant Jennifer Madu Shayla Sanders	43.89 WJL	Germany Alexandra Burghardt Ida Mayer Katharina Grompe Jessie Maduka	44.24 SB	Brazil Camila de Souza Tamiris de Liz Nathalia da Rosa Jessica Dos Reis	44.29 SB
4×400 m relay details	United States Erika Rucker Olivia Ekpone Kendall Baisden Ashley Spencer	3:30.01 WJL	Jamaica Sandrae Farquharson Olivia James Shericka Jackson Janieve Russell	3:32.97 SB	Russia Yana Glotova Alina Galitskaya Yuliya Koltachikhina Ekaterina Renzhina	3:36.42
10,000 m walk details	Ekaterina Medvedeva  Russia	45:41.74	Nadezhda Leontyeva  Russia	45:43.64 PB	Sandra Arenas  Colombia	45:44.46

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Alessia Trost  Italy	1.91	Lissa Labiche  Seychelles	1.88 NJ	Mariya Kuchina  Russia	1.88
Pole vault details	Angelica Bengtsson  Sweden	4.50 CR	Elizabeth Parnov  Australia	4.30	Roberta Bruni  Italy	4.20
Long jump details	Katarina Johnson-Thompson  Great Britain	6.81w	Lena Malkus  Germany	6.80w	Jazmin Sawyers  Great Britain	6.67 WJL
Triple jump details	Ana Peleteiro  Spain	14.17 WJL	Dovilė Dzindzaletaitė  Lithuania	14.17 WJL, NR	Liuba Zaldívar  Cuba	13.90
Shot put details	Shanice Craft  Germany	17.15 WJL	Gao Yang  China	16.57	Bian Ka  China	16.48
Discus throw details	Anna Rüh  Germany	62.38	Shanice Craft  Germany	60.42	Shelbi Vaughan  United States	60.07
Hammer throw details	Alexandra Tavernier  France	70.62 CR	Alexia Sedykh  France	67.34	Alena Navahrodskaya  Belarus	67.13 PB
Javelin throw details	Sofi Flinck  Sweden	61.40 WJL, NR	Liu Shiying  China	59.20 PB	Marija Vučenović  Serbia	57.12 PB
Heptathlon details	Yorgelis Rodríguez  Cuba	5966	Xénia Krizsán  Hungary	5957 PB	Tamara de Sousa  Brazil	5900 AJ

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Spain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	9	5	6	20
2	Kenya (KEN)	4	4	5	13
3	Ethiopia (ETH)	3	3	1	7
4	Cuba (CUB)	3	0	1	4
5	Germany (GER)	2	4	0	6
6	Russia (RUS)	2	3	3	8
7	Jamaica (JAM)	2	2	1	5
8	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	2	5
9	Bahamas (BAH)	2	0	2	4
10	Qatar (QAT)	2	0	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
12	France (FRA)	1	2	1	4
13	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	3	4
14	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	1	2
	Colombia (COL)	1	0	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	1	0	1	2
18	Botswana (BOT)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
	Spain (ESP)*	1	0	0	1
	Turks and Caicos Islands (TCA)	1	0	0	1
22	Australia (AUS)	0	4	1	5
23	Poland (POL)	0	3	0	3
24	China (CHN)	0	2	2	4
25	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	0	2
26	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
	Serbia (SRB)	0	1	1	2
28	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Eritrea (ERI)	0	1	0	1
	Guyana (GUY)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	Seychelles (SEY)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
37	Morocco (MAR)	0	0	3	3
38	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	2	2
39	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (42 entries)		43	46	43	132

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[2] 1566 athletes from 171 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[3]