1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics

1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Host city	Athens, Greece
Nations	142
Athletes	1135
Events	41
Dates	16–20 July
Main venue	Athens Olympic Stadium
	1988 Sudbury →

The 1986 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
11	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
16	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 entries)		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]