1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Dates	16–18 July
Host city	Bydgoszcz, Poland
Venue	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium
Level	Youth (under 18)
Events	39
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The 1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics was the first edition of the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics. It was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland from July 16 to July 18, 1999.

Results

Boys

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Mark Lewis-Francis  Great Britain	10.40	Bryan Sears  United States	10.42	Omar Brown  Jamaica	10.43
200 m	Timothy Benjamin  Great Britain	20.72	Omar Brown  Jamaica	21.09	Bryan Sears  United States	21.16
400 m	William Mandla Nkosi  South Africa	46.94	Glaudel Garzón  Cuba	47.00	Mark van Soest  South Africa	47.19
800 m	Nicholas Wachira  Kenya	1:50.70	Berhanu Alemu  Ethiopia	1:50.79	Mohammad M. Al Azemi  Kuwait	1:51.24
1500 m	Cornelius Chirchir  Kenya	3:44.02	Michael Too  Kenya	3:44.70	Osman Yusif  Saudi Arabia	3:45.53
3000 m	Pius Muli  Kenya	8:08.16	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	8:09.89	Anouar Assila  Morocco	8:13.54
2000 m St.	Stephen Cherono  Kenya	5:31.89	Luleseged Wale  Ethiopia	5:32.61	Philip Simbolei  Kenya	5:41.77
110 m H 91.4 cm	Ladji Doucouré  France	13.26	Nassim Brahimi  Qatar	13.36	Paul Whitty  Canada	13.59
400 m H 84.0 cm	Marthinus Kritzinger  South Africa	49.86	Sergio Hierrezuelo  Cuba	49.95	Vincent Mumo Kiilu  Kenya	51.50
10,000 m track walk	Yevgeniy Demkov  Russia	42:26.07	Aleksandr Strokov  Russia	42:36.52	Takayuki Tanii  Japan	42:40.86
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Winston Smith Michael Frater Davaon Spence Omar Brown	40.03	Japan Yosuke Tahara Kazuya Kitamura Yoshitaka Kaneko Yusuke Omae	40.14	Germany Johannes Fischer Christoph Lehner Norman Grittke Andre Streese	41.13
Medley relay	United States Jonathan Lott Bryan Sears Travon Walton Ivory McCann	1:51.29	South Africa William Mandla Nkosi Warren October Marthinus Kritzinger Mark van Soest	1:52.49	Japan Toshio Imura Takeshi Yoneda Masakatsu Tanaka Tsutomu Takahashi	1:54.10
High jump	Jacques Freitag  South Africa	2.16	Cui Kai  China	2.13	Andrei Chubsa  Belarus	2.13
Pole vault	Sébastien Homo  France	5.20	Oleksandr Korchmyd  Ukraine	5.10	Rico Tepper  Germany	5.00
Long jump	Shang Yapeng  China	7.80	Yoelmis Pacheco  Cuba	7.62	Nicolaas Grimbeeck  South Africa	7.59
Triple jump	Ibrahim Mahmedin  Qatar	15.96	Yoandri Betanzos  Cuba	15.83	Viktor Yastrebov  Ukraine	15.74
Shot put 5 kg	Robert Häggblom  Finland	19.76	Dmitriy Gorshkov  Russia	19.69	Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi  Qatar	19.44
Discus 1.500 kg	Ming-Huang Chang  Chinese Taipei	64.14	Zhang Huabing  China	58.36	Raine Munukka  Finland	56.52
Hammer 5 kg	Krisztián Pars  Hungary	74.76	Oleksandr Lutsenko  Ukraine	73.68	Aleksei Yeliseyev  Russia	73.68
Javelin 700g	Joachim Kiteau  France	79.65	Saku Kuusisto  Finland	78.73	Alexandr Ivanov  Russia	78.65
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)

Girls

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	11.49	Lisa Sharpe  Jamaica	11.52	Adriana Lamalle  France	11.66
200 m	LaShauntea Moore  United States	23.38	Melaine Walker  Jamaica	23.72	Ana López  Cuba	23.97
400 m	Monique Henderson  United States	52.28	Helen Okpanachi  Nigeria	52.38	Norma González  Colombia	52.39
800 m	Georgina Clarke  Australia	2:05.90	Tetyana Petlyuk  Ukraine	2:06.97	Mihaela Olaru  Romania	2:08.20
1500 m	Zanelle Grobler  South Africa	4:23.06	Chibiwott Kibet  Kenya	4:24.43	Elaine Du Plessis  South Africa	4:24.59
3000 m	Alice Timbilil  Kenya	9:01.99	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	9:02.08	Vivian Cheruiyot  Kenya	9:04.42
100 m H 76.2 cm	Adrianna Lamalle  France	13.08	Maren Freisen  Germany	13.42	Anay Tejeda  Cuba	13.45
400 m H	Jana Pittman  Australia	57.87	Ya Wu Jie  China	58.32	Patricia Hall  Jamaica	58.67
5000 m track walk	Tatiana Kozlova  Russia	22:31.93	Maryna Tsikhanava  Belarus	22:37.54	Ekaterina Dergounova  Russia	22:54.59
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Nadine Palmer Melaine Walker Veronica Campbell Lisa Sharpe	44.30	United States Ginnie Powell Ashley Mitchell Raasin McIntosh Stephanie Durst	45.40	Poland Dorota Wojtczak Dorota Dydo Małgorzata Flejszar Anita Hennig	45.49
Medley Relay	United States Stephanie Durst LaShauntea Moore Christy Fairley Monique Henderson	2:07.71	Poland Małgorzata Flejszar Dorota Wojtczak Hanna Wardowska Magdalena Uzarska	2:09.19	Ukraine Ganna Bordyugova Viktoriya Lofitska Maryna Maydanova Tetyana Petlyuk	2:11.13
High jump	Anna Chicherova  Russia	1.89	Renáta Medgyesová  Slovakia	1.83	Gaelle Niare  France	1.79
Pole vault	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.10	Floe Kuhnert  Germany	4.05	Vanessa Boslak  France	4.00
Long jump	Zhou Yangxia  China	6.29	Jenniina Halkoaho  Finland	6.24	Alina Militaru  Romania	6.22
Triple jump	Mabel Gay  Cuba	13.82	Anastasiya Ilyina  Russia	13.59	Yusmay Bicet  Cuba	13.58
Shot put	Hong Mei  China	15.57	Natallia Kharaneka  Belarus	15.57	Chiara Rosa  Italy	14.64
Discus	Hong Mei  China	52.18	Julia Bremser  Germany	51.83	Deborah Lovely  Australia	49.14
Hammer	Kamila Skolimowska  Poland	63.94	Yunaika Crawford  Cuba	57.56	Ivana Brkljacic  Croatia	55.69
Javelin	Olivia Norris  Germany	52.03	Xénia Frajka  Hungary	49.76	Halina Kakhava  Belarus	49.62
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

Ladji Doucouré of France was triumphant in the 110 metres hurdles.

Kamila Skolimowska won the hammer throw gold for the host nation.

  *   Host nation (Poland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	5	2	3	10
2	Russia	4	3	3	10
3	China	4	3	0	7
4	United States	4	2	1	7
5	South Africa	4	1	3	8
6	France	4	0	3	7
7	Jamaica	3	3	2	8
8	Australia	2	0	1	3
9	Great Britain	2	0	0	2
10	Cuba	1	5	3	9
11	Germany	1	3	2	6
12	Finland	1	2	1	4
13	Poland*	1	1	1	3
	Qatar	1	1	1	3
15	Hungary	1	1	0	2
16	Chinese Taipei	1	0	0	1
17	Ethiopia	0	4	0	4
18	Ukraine	0	3	2	5
19	Belarus	0	2	2	4
20	Japan	0	1	2	3
21	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
23	Romania	0	0	2	2
24	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia	0	0	1	1
Totals (30 entries)		39	39	39	117

External links

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