2016 World U20 Championships in Athletics

Host city	Bydgoszcz, Poland
Nations	140
Athletes	1359
Events	44
Dates	19–24 July
Opened by	Andrzej Duda
Main venue	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium
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The 2016 World U20 Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 1997) which was held at Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland on 19–24 July 2016.^[1] It was the first time the competition had been held under the new name, having previously been known as World Junior Championships in Athletics.

The championships were originally awarded to Kazan, Russia before the hosting rights were withdrawn as a result of ARAF being suspended by the IAAF.^[2] Since then, three cities expressed an interest in hosting the championships;^[3] on 7 January 2016, the decision was made to reallocate the championships to Bydgoszcz as it was the only city to submit a bid.^[1]

The medal table was topped by the United States with 11 gold, 6 silver, and 4 bronze medals, followed by Kenya and Ethiopia.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Noah Lyles  United States	10.17	Filippo Tortu  Italy	10.24	Mario Burke  Barbados	10.26
200 m details	Michael Norman  United States	20.17 CR	Tlotliso Leotlela  South Africa	20.59	Nigel Ellis  Jamaica	20.63
400 m details	Abdelalelah Haroun  Qatar	44.81 SB	Wilbert London  United States	45.27 PB	Karabo Sibanda  Botswana	45.45
800 m details	Kipyegon Bett  Kenya	1:44.95 SB	Willy Tarbei [fr]  Kenya	1:45.50	Mostafa Smaili  Morocco	1:46.02
1500 m details	Kumari Taki  Kenya	3:48.63	Taresa Tolosa  Ethiopia	3:48.77	Anthony Kiptoo  Kenya	3:49.00
5000 m details	Selemon Barega  Ethiopia	13:21.21 PB	Djamal Direh  Djibouti	13:21.50 NJR	Wesley Ledama  Kenya	13:23.34 PB
10,000 m details	Rodgers Kwemoi  Kenya	27:25.23 CR	Aron Kifle  Eritrea	27:26.20 NJR	Jacob Kiplimo  Uganda	27:26.68 PB
110 m hurdles (99.0 cm) details	Marcus Krah  United States	13.25 PB	Amere Lattin  United States	13.30 PB	Takumu Furuya  Japan	13.31 AJR
400 m hurdles details	Jaheel Hyde  Jamaica	49.03	Taylor McLaughlin  United States	49.45 PB	Kyron McMaster  British Virgin Islands	49.56 NJR
3000 m steeplechase details	Amos Kirui  Kenya	8:20.43 WJL	Yemane Haileselassie  Eritrea	8:22.67	Getnet Wale  Ethiopia	8:22.83 PB
4×100 m relay details	United States Michael Norman Hakim Montgomery Brandon Taylor Noah Lyles	38.93 WJL	Japan Ippei Takeda Jun Yamashita Wataru Inuzuka Kenta Oshima	39.01 AJR	Germany Roger Gurski Thomas Barthel Niels Torben Giese Manuel Eitel	39.13 AJR
4×400 m relay details	United States Champion Allison Ari Cogdell Kahmari Montgomery Wilbert London III	3:02:39 WJL	Botswana Omphemetse Poo Baboloki Thebe Karabo Sibanda Xholani Talane	3:02:81 AJR	Jamaica Anthony Carpenter Sean Bailey Terry Ricardo Thomas Christopher Taylor	3:04:83 SB
10,000 m walk details	Callum Wilkinson  Great Britain	40:41.62 WJL	Jhonatan Amores  Ecuador	40:43.33 PB	Salih Korkmaz  Turkey	40:45.53 NUR

• (World Junior Leader ) -(Championship Record) -( Area Junior Record )- (National Junior Record )( Personal Best)- (Season Best )

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Luis Zayas  Cuba	2.27 WJL	Darius Carbin  United States	2.25 PB	Mohamat Allamine Hamdi  Qatar	2.23 PB
Pole vault details	Deakin Volz  United States	5.65 PB	Kurtis Marschall  Australia	5.55	Armand Duplantis  Sweden	5.45
Long jump details	Maykel Massó  Cuba	8.00	Miltiadis Tentoglou  Greece	7.91	Darcy Roper  Australia	7.88 SB
Triple jump details	Lázaro Martínez  Cuba	17.06 WJL	Cristian Nápoles  Cuba	16.62	Melvin Raffin  France	16.37
Shot put (6 kg) details	Bronson Osborn  United States	21.27 PB	Wictor Petersson  Sweden	20.65 PB	Adrian Piperi  United States	20.62 PB
Discus throw (1.750 kg) details	Mohamed Ibrahim Moaaz  Qatar	63.63 NJR	Oskar Stachnik  Poland	62.83 PB	Hleb Zhuk  Belarus	61.70 PB
Hammer throw (6 kg) details	Bence Halász  Hungary	80.93	Hlib Piskunov  Ukraine	79.58 PB	Aleksi Jaakkola  Finland	77.88
Javelin throw details	Neeraj Chopra  India	86.48 WJR	Johan Grobler  South Africa	80.59 PB	Anderson Peters  Grenada	79.65 NJR
Decathlon (junior) details	Niklas Kaul  Germany	8162 WJR	Maksim Andraloits  Belarus	8046 NJR	Johannes Erm  Estonia	7879 NJR

• ( World Junior Record ) -(World Junior Leader) - (National Junior Record )-- (National Junior Record )-( Personal Best)- (Season Best )

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Candace Hill  United States	11.07 CR	Ewa Swoboda  Poland	11.12 NJR	Khalifa St. Fort  Trinidad and Tobago	11.18
200 m details	Edidiong Odiong  Bahrain	22.84 NJR	Evelyn Rivera  Colombia	23.21 PB	Estelle Raffai  France	23.48
400 m details	Tiffany James  Jamaica	51.32 WJL	Lynna Irby  United States	51.39 PB	Junelle Bromfield  Jamaica	52.05
800 m details	Samantha Watson  United States	2:04.52	Aaliyah Miller  United States	2:05.06	Tigist Ketema  Ethiopia	2:05.13
1500 m details	Adanech Anbesa  Ethiopia	4:08.07	Fantu Worku  Ethiopia	4:08.43	Christina Aragon  United States	4:08.71 PB
3000 m details	Beyenu Degefa  Ethiopia	8:41.76 CR	Dalila Abdulkadir Gosa  Bahrain	8:46.42 NUR	Konstanze Klosterhalfen  Germany	8:46.74 NUR
5000 m details	Kalkidan Fentie  Ethiopia	15:29.64 PB	Emmaculate Chepkirui  Kenya	15:31.12 PB	Bontu Rebitu  Bahrain	15:31.93
100 m hurdles details	Elvira Herman  Belarus	12.85 CR	Rushelle Burton  Jamaica	12.87 NJR	Tia Jones  United States	12.89
400 m hurdles details	Anna Cockrell  United States	55.20 PB	Shannon Kalawan  Jamaica	56.54	Xahria Santiago  Canada	56.90 SB
3000 m steeplechase details	Celliphine Chepteek Chespol  Kenya	9:25.15 CR	Tigist Getnet  Bahrain	9:34.08	Agrie Belachew  Ethiopia	9:37.17 PB
4×100 m relay details	United States Tia Jones Taylor Bennett Kaylor Harris Candace Hill	43.69 WJL	France Tamara Murcia Cynthia Leduc Fanny Peltier Estelle Raffai	44.05	Germany Katrin Fehm Keshia Beverly Kwadwo Eleni Frommann Chantal Butzek	44.18 SB
4×400 m relay details	United States Lynna Irby Anna Cockrell Karrington Winters Samantha Watson	3:29.11 WJL	Jamaica Shannon Kalawan Tiffany James Stacey-Ann Williams Junelle Bromfield	3:31.01 SB	Canada Xahria Santiago Ashlan Best Natassha McDonald Victoria Tachinski	3:32.25 NJR
10,000 m walk details	Ma Zhenxia  China	45:18.46 WJL	Noemi Stella  Italy	45:23.85 SB	Yehualeye Beletew  Ethiopia	45:33.69 AJR

• WJL ( World Junior Leader ) -(Championship Record) -( Area Junior Record ) - (National Junior Record )- -( Personal Best)- (Season Best )

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Michaela Hrubá  Czech Republic	1.91	Ximena Esquivel  Mexico	1.89	Yuliya Levchenko  Ukraine	1.86
Pole vault details	Angelica Moser  Switzerland	4.55 CR	Robeilys Peinado  Venezuela	4.40	Wilma Murto  Finland	4.40
Long jump details	Yanis David  France	6.42	Sophie Weissenberg  Germany	6.40	Hilary Kpatcha  France	6.33 PB
Triple jump details	Chen Ting  China	13.85 PB	Konstadina Romeou  Greece	13.55 PB	Georgiana Iuliana Anitei  Romania	13.49 SB
Shot put details	Alina Kenzel  Germany	17.58 WJL	Song Jiayuan  China	16.36 PB	Alyssa Wilson  United States	16.33
Discus throw details	Kristina Rakočević  Montenegro	56.36	Kirsty Williams  Australia	53.91 PB	Alexandra Emilianov  Moldova	53.08
Hammer throw details	Beatrice Nedberge Llano  Norway	64.33	Alexandra Hulley  Australia	63.47	Suvi Koskinen  Finland	62.49
Javelin throw details	Klaudia Maruszewska  Poland	57.59 PB	Jo-Ane van Dyk  South Africa	57.32 PB	Eda Tuğsuz  Turkey	56.71
Heptathlon details	Sarah Lagger  Austria	5960 NUR	Adriana Rodríguez  Cuba	5925 PB	Hanne Maudens  Belgium	5881 PB

• WJL ( World Junior Leader ) -(Championship Record)-- (National Junior Record ) -( Personal Best)- (Season Best )

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	11	7	3	21
2	Kenya	5	2	2	9
3	Ethiopia	4	2	4	10
4	Cuba	3	2	0	5
5	Jamaica	2	3	3	8
6	Germany	2	1	3	6
7	China	2	1	0	3
8	Qatar	2	0	1	3
9	Bahrain	1	2	1	4
10	Poland*	1	2	0	3
11	France	1	1	3	5
12	Belarus	1	1	1	3
13	Romania	1	0	1	2
14	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	India	1	0	0	1
	Montenegro	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
22	Australia	0	3	1	4
23	South Africa	0	3	0	3
24	Eritrea	0	2	0	2
	Greece	0	2	0	2
	Italy	0	2	0	2
27	Botswana	0	1	1	2
	Japan	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
30	Colombia	0	1	0	1
	Djibouti	0	1	0	1
	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
35	Finland	0	0	3	3
36	Canada	0	0	2	2
	Sweden	0	0	2	2
	Turkey	0	0	2	2
39	Barbados	0	0	1	1
	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	British Virgin Islands	0	0	1	1
	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	Grenada	0	0	1	1
	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1
	Uganda	0	0	1	1
Totals (47 entries)		44	44	44	132

Notes

Updated after Konrad Bukowiecki disqualification in men's shot put.^[4]

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