2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics

Host city	Sherbrooke,Quebec, Canada
Events	39
Dates	9–13 July
Main venue	Université de Sherbrooke Stadium
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The2003World Youth Championships in Athletics was the third edition of the internationalathletics competition foryouth (under-18) athletes organised by theIAAF. It was held inSherbrooke,Canada from the 9–13 July at theUniversité de Sherbrooke Stadium.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Yahya Al-Gahes  Saudi Arabia	10.69	Yahya Hassan I. Habeeb  Saudi Arabia	10.73	Craig Pickering  Great Britain	10.85
200 metres	Usain Bolt  Jamaica	20.40CR	Michael Grant  United States	21.04	Jamahl Alert  Great Britain	21.35
400 metres	Nagmeldin Ali Abubakr  Sudan	46.10CR	Demiko Goodman  United States	46.42	Željko Vincek  Croatia	47.45
800 metres	Mohammed Al-Salhi  Saudi Arabia	1:48.79CR	Bernard Kiptanui  Kenya	1:49.14	Abraham Kipngetich  Kenya	1:49.17
1500 metres	Benson Marrianyi  Kenya	3:44.94PB	Samson Kiplangat  Kenya	3:45.13	Isaac Mboyaza  South Africa	3:48.05PB
3000 metres	Augustine Choge  Kenya	7:52.53	Tariku Bekele  Ethiopia	7:54.71PB	Shimelis Girma  Ethiopia	7:55.12PB
2000 m steeplechase	Ronald Kipchumba  Kenya	5:30.27WYR	Justus Kipchirchir  Kenya	5:31.24PB	Chris Winter  Canada	5:44.23PB
110 m hurdles 91.4 cm	Jason Richardson  United States	13.29WYL	Mubarak Al-Mabadi  Saudi Arabia	13.41PB	Alexander John  Germany	13.50PB
400 m hurdles 84.0 cm	Jason Richardson  United States	49.91WYL	Wouter le Roux  South Africa	50.85PB	Jamaal Charles  United States	51.48PB
10,000 m track walk	Aleksandr Prokhorov  Russia	42:16.16CR	Makoto Sawada  Japan	42:17.62PB	Vyacheslav Golovin  Russia	42:37.15SB
Medley relay	United States Jay Cooper Michael Grant Jamaal Charles Cedric Goodman	1:52.03WYL	Poland Dariusz Kuć Kamil Witkowski Rafał Błocian Ziemowit Ryś	1:53.08SB	Japan Shinya Saburi Kenji Fujimitsu Naohiro Shinada Go Tanabe	1:53.11SB
High jump	Martin Gunther  Germany	2.11	Oleksandr Nartov  Ukraine	2.11	Hikaru Tsuchiya  Japan	2.11
Pole vault	Germán Chiaraviglio  Argentina	5.15	Dmitry Starodubtsev  Russia	5.10PB	Steven Lewis  Great Britain	5.05PB
Long jump	Naohiro Shinada  Japan	7.61	Yves Renaux  France	7.44	Andrejs Maskancevs  Latvia	7.05
Triple jump	Dennis Fernández  Cuba	15.77	Mousa Abdou Alkam Qarqaran  Saudi Arabia	15.60PB	Mohamed Abbas Darwish  United Arab Emirates	15.55
Shot put 5 kg	Liu Feng  China	21.45WYR	Kyle Helf  Canada	20.79PB	Ameen Al-Aradi  Saudi Arabia	19.69PB
Discus throw 1.5 kg	Ronnie Buckley  Australia	64.34CR	Wu Jian  China	63.18PB	Yao-Hui Wang  Chinese Taipei	60.00
Hammer throw 5 kg	Mikhail Levin  Russia	76.41	Kristóf Németh  Hungary	75.59	Sándor Pálhegyi  Hungary	75.47PB
Javelin throw 700 g	Julio Cesar de Oliveira  Brazil	81.16CR	John Robert Oosthuizen  South Africa	81.07PB	Raldu Potgieter  South Africa	75.56PB
Octathlon	Andrés Silva  Uruguay	6456WYR	Andrei Krauchanka  Belarus	6366	Lukaš Patera  Czech Republic	6316PB

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Jessica Onyepunuka  United States	11.31CR	Krystin Lacy  United States	11.50	Kelly-Ann Baptiste  Trinidad and Tobago	11.58
200 metres	Anneisha McLaughlin  Jamaica	23.26	Courtney Champion  United States	23.56	Cleo Tyson  United States	23.67
400 metres	Natasha Hastings  United States	53.41	Antonina Krivoshapka  Russia	53.54PB	Jaimee-Lee Hoebergen  Australia	53.78PB
800 metres	Mariya Shapaeva  Russia	2:03.40CR	Olga Cristea  Moldova	2:04.30PB	Larisa Arcip  Romania	2:04.31PB
1500 metres	Alem Techale  Ethiopia	4:17.41PB	Jelena Ština  Latvia	4:17.43	Joyce Jepkosgei Musungu  Kenya	4:17.65PB
3000 metres	Siham Hilali  Morocco	9:12.70PB	Pasalia Kipkoech Chepkorir  Kenya	9:13.77	Yuko Nohara  Japan	9:14.82
100 metres hurdles 76.2 cm	Sally McLellan  Australia	13.42	LaToya Greaves  Jamaica	13.49	Domenique Manning  United States	13.60
400 metres hurdles	Zuzana Hejnova  Czech Republic	57.54CR	Yekaterina Kostetskaya  Russia	58.37	Mackenzie Hill  United States	59.15
5000 m track walk	Vera Sokolova  Russia	22:50.23	Ann Loughnane  Ireland	23:37.00PB	Noriko Nishide  Japan	23:50.69
Medley relay	United States Jessica Onyepunuka Alexandria Anderson Krystin Lacy Natasha Hastings	2:03.87WYL	Jamaica Samantha Henry-Robinson Sherline Duncan Sonita Sutherland Anneisha McLaughlin	2:07.05PB	Russia Yelena Kremneva Yelena Khvashchevskaya Anastasiya Shuvalova Antonina Krivoshapka	2:07.52PB
High jump	Iryna Kovalenko  Ukraine	1.92CR	Annett Engel  Germany Svetlana Shkolina  Russia	1.86PB 1.86	–
Pole vault	Lisa Ryzih  Germany	4.05	Sviatlana Makarevich  Belarus	4.00PB	Charmaine Lucock  Australia	4.00PB
Long jump	Cristine Spataru  Romania	6.41CR	Denisa Ščerbová  Czech Republic	6.40PB	Hanna Demydova  Ukraine	6.15
Triple jump	Cristine Spataru  Romania	13.86CR	Elina Sorsa  Finland	12.95	Aliki-Yvoni Askitopoulou  Greece	12.93PB
Shot put	Jiang Limin  China	15.60WYL	Magdalena Sobieszek  Poland	15.42PB	Marli Knoetze  South Africa	15.10
Discus throw	Lisandra Rodriguez  Cuba	48.56	Julie Bennell  Australia	48.32	Kristina Gehrig  Germany	48.31
Hammer throw	Valentina Srša  Croatia	61.18	Mariya Bespalova  Russia	57.81	Johanna Hoppe  Germany	56.46
Javelin throw	Xue Juan  China	56.82CR	Bo-Ra Shin  South Korea	53.74PB	Vivian Zimmer  Germany	52.20
Heptathlon	Marisa De Aniceto  France	5458	Sarah Kern  Germany	5445	Marina Ponyarova  Russia	5338PB

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	6	4	4	14
2	Russia (RUS)	4	5	3	12
3	Kenya (KEN)	3	4	2	9
4	China (CHN)	3	1	0	4
5	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	2	3	1	6
6	Germany (GER)	2	2	4	8
7	Jamaica (JAM)	2	2	0	4
8	Australia (AUS)	2	1	2	5
9	Romania (ROM)	2	0	1	3
10	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	0	2
11	Japan (JPN)	1	1	4	6
12	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	1	3
	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	1	1	3
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	1	3
15	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
16	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	1	2
17	Argentina (ARG)	1	0	0	1
	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	0	1
	Sudan (SUD)	1	0	0	1
	Uruguay (URU)	1	0	0	1
22	South Africa (RSA)	0	2	3	5
23	Belarus (BLR)	0	2	0	2
	Poland (POL)	0	2	0	2
25	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	1	2
28	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
32	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	3	3
33	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	0	1	1
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (36 entries)		39	40	38	117

• Official results

• IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics
• 2003 in the sport of athletics
• July 2003 sports events in Canada
• Sports in Sherbrooke
• 2003 in sports in Quebec
• International track and field competitions hosted by Canada
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• Sports competitions in Quebec

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