2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics

Host city	Cali, Colombia
Events	40
Dates	15–19 July
Main venue	Estadio Pascual Guerrero

The 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics was the ninth edition of the biennial international athletics competition for youth (under-18) athletes. The five-day competition took place between 15 and 19 July at the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero stadium in Cali, Colombia.^[1][2] Eligible athletes were aged 16 or 17 on 31 December 2015 (born in 1998 or 1999).

Medal summary

The host stadium in Cali

Boys

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown  Japan	10.28 CR	Derick Silva  Brazil	10.49	Rechmial Miller  Great Britain	10.59
200 metres	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown  Japan	20.34 CR	Kyle Appel  South Africa	20.57 PB	Josephus Lyles  United States	20.74 PB
400 metres	Christopher Taylor  Jamaica	45.27 WYL	Josephus Lyles  United States	45.46 PB	Keshun Reed  United States	45.96
800 metres	Willy Tarbei  Kenya	1:45.58	Kipyegon Bett  Kenya	1:45.86	Luis Fernando Pires  Brazil	1:48.61 PB
1500 metres	Kumari Taki  Kenya	3:36.38 CR	Mulugeta Assefa  Ethiopia	3:41.10 PB	Lawi Kosgei  Kenya	3:41.43
3000 metres	Richard Yator Kimunyan  Kenya	7:54.45	Davis Kiplangat  Kenya	7:54.52	Tefera Mosisa  Ethiopia	7:55.04 PB
110 metres hurdles	Mattéo Ngo  France	13.53 PB	Joseph Daniels  Canada	13.54	Isaiah Lucas  United States	13.54
400 metres hurdles	Norman Grimes  United States	49.11 WYL	Ryusei Fujii  Japan	50.33 PB	Masaki Toyoda  Japan	50.53 PB
2000 metres steeplechase	Vincent Kipyegon Ruto  Kenya	5:27.58	Wogene Sebisibe  Ethiopia	5:29.41 PB	Geofrey Rotich  Kenya	5:30.16 PB
10,000 metres walk	Sergey Shirobokov  Russia	42.24.41	Zhang Jun  China	42.33.68 PB	Federico González  Mexico	42.54.55
High jump	Stefano Sottile  Italy	2.20 WYL	Dmytro Nikitin  Ukraine	2.18 PB	Darius Carbin  United States	2.16 PB
Pole vault	Armand Duplantis  Sweden	5.30 CR	Vladyslav Malykhin  Ukraine	5.30 CR	Emmanouil Karalis  Greece	5.20
Long jump	Maykel Massó  Cuba	8.05 CR	Darcy Roper  Australia	8.01PB	Eberson Silva  Brazil	7.76 PB
Triple jump	Cristian Nápoles  Cuba	16.13	Du Mingze  China	16.02 PB	Julio César Carbonell  Cuba	15.70
Shot put	Adrian Piperi  United States	22.00 WYL	Szymon Mazur  Poland	21.77 PB	Wictor Petersson  Sweden	21.56 PB
Discus throw	Werner Visser  South Africa	64.24	Wang Yuhan  China	60.33 PB	George Evans  Great Britain	60.22
Hammer throw	Hlib Piskunov  Ukraine	84.91 CR	Mykhaylo Havryliuk  Ukraine	78.93 PB	Ned Weatherly  Australia	77.60
Javelin throw	Paul Botha  South Africa	78.49 PB	Niklas Kaul  Germany	78.05	Vladislav Palyunin  Uzbekistan	76.77
Decathlon	Niklas Kaul  Germany	8002 WYB	Ludovic Besson  France	7678 PB	Hans-Christian Hausenberg  Estonia	7657

Girls

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Candace Hill  United States	11.08 CR	Khalifa St.Fort  Trinidad and Tobago	11.19 PB	Jayla Kirkland  United States	11.41 PB
200 metres	Candace Hill  United States	22.43 WYB	Lauren Rain Williams  United States	22.90 PB	Nicola De Bruyn  South Africa	23.38 PB
400 metres	Salwa Eid Naser  Bahrain	51.50 WYL	Lynna Irby  United States	51.79 PB	Catherine Reid  Great Britain	52.25 PB
800 metres	Samantha Watson  United States	2:03.54 PB	Gadese Ejara  Ethiopia	2:03.67 PB	Marta Zenoni  Italy	2:04.15
1500 metres	Bedatu Hirpa  Ethiopia	4:12.92 WYL	Dalila Abdulkadir Gosa  Bahrain	4:13.35 PB	Joyline Cherotich  Kenya	4:15.20 PB
3000 metres	Shuru Bulo  Ethiopia	9:01.12 WYL	Emily Chebet Kipchumba  Kenya	9:02.92 PB	Sheila Chelangat  Kenya	9:04.54 PB
100 metres hurdles	Maribel Vanessa Caicedo  Ecuador	13.04 PB	Brittley Humphrey  United States	13.22 PB	Sarah Koutouan  France	13.29
400 metres hurdles	Sydney McLaughlin  United States	55.94 CR	Xahria Santiago  Canada	56.79 PB	Brandeé Johnson  United States	57.47 PB
2000 metres steeplechase	Celliphine Chepteek Chespol  Kenya	6:17.15 PB	Sandrafelis Chebet Tuei  Kenya	6:19.61	Agrie Belachew  Ethiopia	6:34.68
5000 metres walk	Ma Zhenxia  China	22:41.08 SB	Olga Eliseeva  Russia	22:45.09	Ayalnesh Dejene  Ethiopia	22:48.25 PB
High jump	Michaela Hrubá  Czech Republic	1.90	Ieva Turke  Latvia	1.82 PB	Lada Pejchalová  Czech Republic	1.82
Pole vault	Elienor Werner  Sweden	4.26 WYL	Phillipa Hajdasz  Australia	4.05 PB	Not awarded
			Chen Qiaoling  China
Long jump	Tara Davis  United States	6.41 PB	Kaiza Karlén  Sweden	6.24 PB	Maja Bedrac  Slovenia	6.22
Triple jump	Georgiana Iuliana Anitei  Romania	13.49 WYL	Zeng Rui  China	13.04 PB	Yanna Anay Armenteros  Cuba	13.04
Shot put	Julia Ritter  Germany	18.53 PB	Sophia Rivera  United States	17.93	Kristina Rakočević  Montenegro	17.49
Discus throw	Alexandra Emilianov  Moldova	52.78 PB	Kristina Rakočević  Montenegro	51.41	Samantha Peace  Australia	50.59 PB
Hammer throw	Sofiya Palkina  Russia	67.82	Deniz Yaylaci  Turkey	67.01 PB	Shang Ningyu  China	66.84 PB
Javelin throw	Haruka Kitaguchi  Japan	60.35 PB	Stella Weinberg  Norway	57.11 PB	Laine Donane  Latvia	56.15
Heptathlon	Géraldine Ruckstuhl   Switzerland	6037 CR	Sarah Lagger  Austria	5992	Alina Shukh  Ukraine	5896

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay	United States Keshun Reed Lynna Irby Norman Grimes Samantha Watson	3:19.54	South Africa André Nicholas Marich Renate Van Tonder Taylon Bieldt Kyle Appel	3:23.60	Canada Nathan Friginette Ashlan Best Dean Ellenwood Kyra Constantine	3:23.60

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Colombia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	5	6	19
2	Kenya (KEN)	5	4	4	13
3	Japan (JPN)	3	1	1	5
4	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	3	3	8
5	South Africa (RSA)	2	2	1	5
6	Sweden (SWE)	2	1	1	4
7	Germany (GER)	2	1	0	3
	Russia (RUS)	2	1	0	3
9	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	2	4
10	China (CHN)	1	5	1	7
11	Ukraine (UKR)	1	3	1	5
12	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
13	Bahrain (BHR)	1	1	0	2
14	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
16	Ecuador (ECU)	1	0	0	1
	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
21	Australia (AUS)	0	2	2	4
22	Canada (CAN)	0	2	1	3
23	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	2	3
24	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	1	2
	Montenegro (MNE)	0	1	1	2
26	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
31	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	3	3
32	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
37	Colombia (COL)*	0	0	0	0
Totals (37 entries)		39	40	38	117

References

External links

• Official 2015 World Youth Championships website Archived 2015-12-27 at the Wayback Machine at IAAF
• Official website
• Official statistics handbook
• Results at World Athletics