1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 2nd World Junior Championships in Athletics was the 1988 edition of the World Junior Championships in Athletics, held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada from July 27 to July 31, 1988.[1]

1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Sudbury, Canada
Nations participating	123
Athletes participating	1024
Events	40
Dates	27–31 July
Main venue	Laurentian University Stadium

Planning

The city's bid to host the games was accepted in 1986, winning over Cali, Colombia.[1] In addition to the International Association of Athletics Federations's concerns about the political instability of Colombia at the time,[2] Sudbury had recently established a strong reputation in sporting circles due to its hosting of the 1980 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships, as well as Alex Baumann's world record performance in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[1]

Despite this, IAAF president Primo Nebiolo personally opposed the selection, arguing that the city was not large or world-famous enough to be an appropriate host city for the event.[1] Over the next two years, Nebiolo lobbied several times to have the games pulled from the city,[1] in turn causing difficulties for the city in securing sufficient funding from corporate and government sponsors.[3] As late as ten days before the event was to begin, the event still faced a significant budget gap in its broadcasting contracts,[4] with Nebiolo again threatening to pull the games from the city before a last-minute donation from the Canadian Track and Field Association covered the shortfall.[5]

Once the games started, however, Nebiolo was more positive, stating that the games benefited from being held in a smaller centre that was able to provide an athlete-centred experience and had the community spirit to draw on a huge base of volunteers.[6]

The city's Northern Lights Festival Boréal was held concurrently to serve as the championships' cultural festival. CBC Television and MCTV acted as the host broadcasters.[1]

Overall, the games contributed approximately $8 million to the city's local economy.[6]

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Andre Cason  United States	10.22	Sven Matthes  East Germany	10.28	Aleksandr Shlychkov  Soviet Union	10.37
200 metres	Kevin Braunskill  United States	20.87	Olapade Adeniken  Nigeria	20.88	Dmitriy Bartenyev  Soviet Union	20.92
400 metres	Tomasz Jędrusik  Poland	46.19	Steve Perry  Australia	46.74	Anthony Eziuka  Nigeria	46.81
800 metres	Jonah Birir  Kenya	1:50.03	Kevin McKay  Great Britain	1:50.79	Melford Homela  Zimbabwe	1:51.34
1500 metres	Wilfred Kirochi  Kenya	3:46.52	Noureddine Morceli  Algeria	3:46.93	Fermín Cacho  Spain	3:47.31
5000 metres	Henry Kirui  Kenya	13:54.29	Mohamed Choumassi  Morocco	13:54.36	Addis Abebe  Ethiopia	13:58.08
10,000 metres	Addis Abebe  Ethiopia	28:42.13	Bedilu Kibret  Ethiopia	28:48.55	James Songok  Kenya	28:50.42
20 kilometres road run	Metaferia Zeleke  Ethiopia	59:27	Thomas Osano  Kenya	1:00:14	Abel Gisemba  Kenya	1:00:36
110 metres hurdles	Reinaldo Quintero  Cuba	13.71	Steve Brown  United States	13.73	Elbert Ellis  United States	13.78
400 metres hurdles	Kelly Carter  United States	49.50	Mugur Mateescu  Romania	50.70	Vadim Zadoinov  Soviet Union	50.88
3000 metres steeplechase	William Chemitei  Kenya	8:41.61	Matthew Birir  Kenya	8:44.54	Arto Kuusisto  Finland	8:46.42
10,000 metres walk	Alberto Cruz  Mexico	41:16.11	Valentí Massana  Spain	41:33.95	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy  Soviet Union	41:38.86
4 × 100 metres relay	United States Kevin Braunskill Quincy Watts Andre Cason Terrence Warren	39.27	Nigeria Abdullah Tetengi Davidson Ezinwa Victor Nwankwo Olapade Adeniken	39.66	United Kingdom Courtney Rumbolt Lloyd Stapleton Darren Braithwaite Jamie Henderson	40.06
4 × 400 metres relay	United States Jesse Carr Chris Nelloms Jesse Williams Ralph Carrington	3:05.09	Australia Anthony Ryan Mark Garner Dean Capobianco Steve Perry	3:07.60	Jamaica Michael Rose Carey Johnson Anthony Pryce Daniel England	3:08.00
High jump	Artur Partyka  Poland	2.28	Lambros Papakostas  Greece	2.25	Park Jae-Hong  South Korea Jaroslaw Kotewicz  Poland	2.22
Pole vault	István Bagyula  Hungary	5.65	Maksim Tarasov  Soviet Union	5.60	Andrey Grudinin  Soviet Union	5.30
Long jump	Luis Bueno  Cuba	7.99	Saúl Isalgué  Cuba	7.78	Nai Hui-Fang  Chinese Taipei	7.77
Triple jump	Vladimir Melikhov  Soviet Union	16.69	Galin Georgiev  Bulgaria	16.18	Eugene Greene  Bahamas	16.16
Shot put	Aleksandr Klimenko  Soviet Union	18.92	Mike Stulce  United States	18.47	Aleksandr Klimov  Soviet Union	18.06
Discus throw	Andreas Seelig  East Germany	58.60	Kamy Keshmiri  United States	54.68	Yuriy Nesteryets  Soviet Union	53.70
Hammer throw	Vadim Kolesnik  Soviet Union	69.52	Oleg Polyushik  Soviet Union	69.00	Thomas Hommel  East Germany	66.06
Javelin throw	Vladimir Ovchinnikov  Soviet Union	77.08	Steve Backley  Great Britain	75.40	Jens Reimann  East Germany	71.64
Decathlon	Michael Kohnle  West Germany	7729	Robert Změlík  Czechoslovakia	7659	Eduard Hämäläinen  Soviet Union	7596
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	Diana Dietz  East Germany	11.18	Katrin Krabbe  East Germany	11.23	Liliana Allen  Cuba	11.36
200 metres	Katrin Krabbe  East Germany	22.34	Diana Dietz  East Germany	22.88	Liliana Allen  Cuba	22.97
400 metres	Grit Breuer  East Germany	51.24	Maicel Malone  United States	52.23	Olga Moroz  Soviet Union	53.20
800 metres	Birte Bruhns  East Germany	2:00.67	Catalina Gheorghiu  Romania	2:01.96	Dorota Buczkowska  Poland	2:02.94
1500 metres	Doina Homneac  Romania	4:12.94	Snežana Pajkić  Yugoslavia	4:16.19	Yvonne van der Kolk  Netherlands	4:16.35
3000 metres	Ann Mwangi  Kenya	9:13.99	Fernanda Ribeiro  Portugal	9:15.33	Yvonne Lichtenfeld  East Germany	9:16.02
10,000 metres	Jane Ngotho  Kenya	33:49.45	Olga Nazarkina  Soviet Union	33:50.03	Mónica Gama  Portugal	34:16.13
100 metres hurdles	Aliuska López  Cuba	13.23	Birgit Wolf  West Germany	13.51	Zhanna Gurbanova  Soviet Union	13.64
400 metres hurdles	Antje Axmann  East Germany	57.47	Ann Maenhout  Belgium	57.58	Silvia Rieger  West Germany	57.88
5000 metres walk	Mari Cruz Díaz  Spain	21:51.31	Olga Sánchez  Spain	21:58.17	Maria Grazia Orsani  Italy	22:04.74
4 × 100 metres relay	East Germany Grit Breuer Katrin Krabbe Diana Dietz Katrin Henke	43.48	Cuba Eusebia Riquelme Liliana Allen Aliuska López Ana Valdivia	44.04	United States Angela Burnham Kendra Mackey Frenchie Holmes Esther Jones	44.27
4 × 400 metres relay	East Germany Manuela Derr Stefanie Fabert Anke Wöhlk Grit Breuer	3:28.39	United States Keisha Demas Stephanie Saleem Kendra Mackey Teri Smith	3:31.48	Soviet Union Tatyana Movchan Viktoria Miloserdova Olga Burkanova Olga Moroz	3:31.89
High jump	Galina Astafei  Romania	2.00	Yelena Yelesina  Soviet Union	1.96	Karen Scholz  East Germany	1.92
Long jump	Fiona May  Great Britain	6.88	Anu Kaljurand  Soviet Union	6.78	Jo Wise  Great Britain	6.69
Shot put	Ines Wittich  East Germany	18.54	Heike Rohrmann  East Germany	17.84	Elvira Polyakova  Soviet Union	17.10
Discus throw	Ilke Wyludda  East Germany	68.24	Astrid Kumbernuss  East Germany	64.08	Proletka Voycheva  Bulgaria	58.94
Javelin throw	Karen Forkel  East Germany	61.44	Isel López  Cuba	57.86	Malgorzata Kielczewska  Poland	57.04
Heptathlon	Svetla Dimitrova  Bulgaria	6289	Yelena Petushkova  Soviet Union	6102	Peggy Beer  East Germany	6067
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	11	5	5	21
2	Kenya	6	2	2	10
3	United States	5	2	2	9
4	Soviet Union	4	6	12	22
5	Cuba	3	3	2	8
6	Romania	2	2	0	4
7	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	1	1	4
8	Poland	2	0	3	5
9	Great Britain	1	2	2	5
10	Spain	1	2	1	4
11	Bulgaria	1	1	1	3
	West Germany	1	1	1	3
13	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Mexico	1	0	0	1
15	Nigeria	0	2	1	3
16	Australia	0	2	0	2
17	Portugal	0	1	1	2
18	Algeria	0	1	0	1
	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
24	Bahamas	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Jamaica	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Zimbabwe	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 nations)		41	38	42	121

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,[7] 1024 athletes from 123 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[8]

•  Algeria (2)
•  American Samoa (1)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Anguilla (1)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (1)
•  Argentina (3)
•  Aruba (1)
•  Australia (43)
•  Austria (10)
•  Bahamas (6)
•  Bahrain (2)
•  Bangladesh (1)
•  Barbados (1)
•  Belgium (13)
•  Bermuda (1)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Botswana (2)
•  Brazil (21)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Bulgaria (22)
•  Burkina Faso (2)
•  Canada (48)
•  Cayman Islands (1)
•  Chile (2)
•  China (20)
•  Chinese Taipei (12)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Congo (1)
•  Cook Islands (1)
•  Costa Rica (2)
•  Côte d'Ivoire (3)
•  Cuba (24)
•  Cyprus (2)
•  Czechoslovakia (11)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Djibouti (1)
•  Dominican Republic (2)
•  East Germany (37)
•  Ecuador (4)
•  Egypt (1)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Ethiopia (12)
•  Fiji (1)
•  Finland (22)
•  France (39)
•  Gambia (1)
•  Ghana (4)
•  Great Britain (40)
•  Greece (8)
•  Guatemala (2)
•  Guinea (2)
•  Guyana (2)
•  Honduras (2)
•  Hong Kong (2)
•  Hungary (18)
•  Iceland (2)
•  Ireland (9)
•  Israel (2)
•  Italy (45)
•  Jamaica (15)
•  Japan (25)
•  Kenya (17)
•  Kuwait (2)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Liechtenstein (1)
•  Madagascar (1)
•  Malawi (2)
•  Maldives (1)
•  Malta (1)
•  Mauritania (1)
•  Mauritius (2)
•  Mexico (8)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Montserrat (1)
•  Morocco (4)
•    Nepal (2)
•  Netherlands (14)
•  Netherlands Antilles (2)
•  New Zealand (12)
•  Nigeria (10)
•  Norway (14)
•  Pakistan (2)
•  Panama (1)
•  Paraguay (2)
•  Peru (1)
•  Philippines (1)
•  Poland (17)
•  Portugal (16)
•  Puerto Rico (2)
•  Qatar (2)
•  Romania (16)
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)
•  Saint Lucia (2)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2)
•  Senegal (3)
•  Seychelles (2)
•  Sierra Leone (2)
•  Singapore (1)
•  Somalia (3)
•  South Korea (3)
•  Soviet Union (60)
•  Spain (30)
•  Sri Lanka (1)
•  Sudan (2)
•  Suriname (1)
•  Swaziland (1)
•  Sweden (16)
•   Switzerland (10)
•  Tanzania (7)
•  Thailand (1)
•  Tonga (1)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (2)
•  Turkey (2)
•  Uganda (2)
•  United States (75)
•  U.S. Virgin Islands (2)
•  Vanuatu (1)
•  West Germany (47)
•  Western Samoa (1)
•  Yugoslavia (10)
•  Zaire (2)
•  Zambia (3)
•  Zimbabwe (4)

See also

• 1988 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. "Junior host out to bury bad image". The Globe and Mail, July 21, 1988.
2. "Sudbury a surprise as world track meet site". Ottawa Citizen, November 19, 1987.
3. "Junior meet gets cash to go ahead". Vancouver Sun, July 18, 1988.
4. "Sudbury could lose world track meet". Toronto Star, July 17, 1998.
5. "Cash rescues world juniors". The Globe and Mail, July 19, 1988.
6. "Sudbury Invests Heavily in Image". Northern Ontario Business, September 1988.
7. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1988 Sudbury CAN Jul 27-31, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 7 April 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
8. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, p. 5, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• Official results
• Medalists at GBRathletics.com
• Results