1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 5000 metres walk event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 1 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Sabine Zimmer  Germany
Silver	Jolanta Dukure  Latvia
Bronze	Xue Ailing  China

1 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sabine Zimmer	Germany	21:14.39
	Jolanta Dukure	Latvia	21:17.89
	Xue Ailing	China	21:28.57
4	Lyudmila Dedekina	Russia	21:52.91
5	Daniela Cîrlan	Romania	22:04.60
6	Rita Turova	Belarus	22:06.06
7	Elisa Rigaudo	Italy	22:07.21
8	Larisa Safronova	Russia	22:12.75
9	Shi Na	China	22:28.15
10	Michelle French	Australia	22:37.96
11	Aura Morales	Mexico	22:53.55
12	Mária Gáliková	Slovakia	22:53.70
13	Zuzana Blazeková	Slovakia	22:53.84
14	Cinzia Artino	Italy	22:57.32
15	Renee McAskill	Australia	23:14.82
16	Anne Haaland Simonsen	Norway	23:17.68
17	Edina Füsti	Hungary	23:32.04
18	Vianey Pedraza	Mexico	23:32.81
19	Lyubov Zhivoglyadova	Kazakhstan	23:36.40
20	Lisa Kutzing	United States	23:38.48
21	Vanessa Espinosa	Spain	23:40.34
22	Luisa Paltin	Ecuador	23:49.98
23	Mónica Carrión	Ecuador	23:53.86
24	Inês Henriques	Portugal	23:54.51
25	Beatrice Klabuhn	Germany	23:57.11
26	Ayako Mori	Japan	24:01.19
27	Melissa Rodriguez	France	24:16.74
28	Ayumi Miyashita	Japan	24:27.98
29	Vera Santos	Portugal	24:33.63
30	Magdalena Jacobson	Sweden	24:38.20
31	Dímitra Koukuli	Greece	25:00.72
32	Carma Watson	New Zealand	25:19.61
33	Zeneida Obando	Nicaragua	26:25.59
	Elin Cecilie Løftesnes	Norway	DQ
	Virginie Janvier	France	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event.