| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|
100 metres details | Darrel Brown
Trinidad and Tobago | 10.09 CR | Marc Burns
Trinidad and Tobago | 10.18 PB | Willie Hordge
United States | 10.36 |
| Brown's 10.09 then ranked fifth all-time amongjuniors. He eventually broke theWJR at the2003 World Championships. |
200 metres details | Usain Bolt
Jamaica | 20.61 | Brendan Christian
Antigua and Barbuda | 20.74 | Wes Felix
United States | 20.82 PB |
| At only 15 years, 332 days, Bolt became the youngest ever junior world champion. He was surpassed byJacko Gill in the2010 World Junior Championships. |
400 metres details | Darold Williamson
United States | 45.37 | Jonathan Fortenberry
United States | 45.73 | Jermaine Gonzales
Jamaica | 45.84 PB |
800 metres details | Alex Kipchirchir
Kenya | 1:46.59 | Salem Amer Al-Badri
Qatar | 1:46.63 NJR | David Fiegen
Luxembourg | 1:46.66 |
1500 metres details | Yassine Bensghir
Morocco | 3:40.72 PB | Abdulrahman Suleiman
Qatar | 3:41.72 | Samwel Mwera
Tanzania | 3:41.75 |
5000 metres details | Hillary Chenonge
Kenya | 13:28.30 CR | Markos Geneti
Ethiopia | 13:28.83 SB | Gebregziabher Gebremariam
Ethiopia | 13:29.13 |
10,000 metres details | Gebregziabher Gebremariam
Ethiopia | 29:02.71 | Sileshi Sihine
Ethiopia | 29:03.74 | Solomon Bushendich
Kenya | 29:05.96 |
110 metres hurdles details | Antwon Hicks
United States | 13.42 | Shi Dongpeng
China | 13.58 | Shamar Sands
Bahamas | 13.67 |
400 metres hurdles details | L. J. van Zyl
South Africa | 48.89 CR | Kenneth Ferguson
United States | 49.38 PB | Bershawn Jackson
United States | 50.00 PB |
3000 metres steeplechase details | Michael Kipyego
Kenya | 8:29.54 | David Kirwa
Kenya | 8:31.44 | Abubaker Ali Kamal
Qatar | 8:33.67 NJR |
10,000 metres walk details | Vladimir Kanaykin
Russia | 41:41.40 | Xu Xingde
China | 41:44.00 | Lu Ronghua
China | 41:46.07 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | United States Ashton Collins Wes Felix Ivory Williams Willie Hordge | 38.92 WJR | Jamaica Winston Hutton Orion Nicely Yhann Plummer Usain Bolt | 39.15 NJR | Trinidad and Tobago Chevon Simpson Marc Burns Kevon Holder Darrel Brown | 39.17 NJR |
4 × 400 metres relay details | United States Kenneth Ferguson Darold Williamson Ashton Collins Jonathan Fortenberry | 3:03.71 | Jamaica Sekou Clarke Usain Bolt Jermaine Myers Jermaine Gonzales | 3:04.06 NJR | Japan Yamauchi Fujio Daisuke Sakai Yuki Yamaguchi Yosuke Inoue | 3:05.80 AJR |
High jump details | Andra Manson
United States | 2.31 WJL | Zhu Wannan
China | 2.23 PB | Germaine Mason
Jamaica | 2.21 |
Pole vault details | Maksym Mazuryk
Ukraine | 5.55 WLJ | Vladyslav Revenko
Ukraine | 5.55 WLJ | Vincent Favretto
France | 5.40 |
Long jump details | Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Waleed
Qatar | 7.99 PB | Fabrice Lapierre
Australia | 7.74 PB | Trevell Quinley
United States | 7.71 PB |
Triple jump details | Arnie David Giralt
Cuba | 16.68 | Li Yanxi
China | 16.66 PB | Aleksandr Sergeyev
Russia | 16.55 |
Shot put 6 kg details | Edis Elkasevic
Croatia | 21.47 WLJ | Sean Shields
United States | 20.54 | Mika Vasara
Finland | 20.50 |
Discus throw 1.75 kg details | Wu Tao
China | 64.51 WLJ | Dmitriy Sivakov
Belarus | 62.00 | Michał Hodun
Poland | 61.74 |
Hammer throw 6 kg details | Werner Smit
South Africa | 76.43 | Ali Al-Zinkawi
Kuwait | 73.69 | Aliaksandr Kazulka
Belarus | 72.72 |
Javelin throw details | Igor Janik
Poland | 74.16 | Vladislav Shkurlatov
Russia | 74.09 PB | Jung Sang-Jin
South Korea | 73.99 PB |
Decathlon details | Leonid Andreev
Uzbekistan | 7693 | Nadir El Fassi
France | 7677 | Mikko Halvari
Finland | 7587 |
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) |