1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Sudbury, Canada
Nations	123
Athletes	1024
Events	41
Dates	27–31 July
Main venue	Laurentian University Stadium
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The 1988 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]

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 details	Andre Cason   United States	10.22	Sven Matthes   East Germany	10.28	Aleksandr Shlychkov   Soviet Union	10.37
200 metres details	Kevin Braunskill   United States	20.87	Olapade Adeniken   Nigeria	20.88	Dmitriy Bartenyev   Soviet Union	20.92
400 metres details	Tomasz Jędrusik   Poland	46.19	Steve Perry   Australia	46.74	Anthony Eziuka   Nigeria	46.81
800 metres details	Jonah Birir   Kenya	1:50.03	Kevin McKay   Great Britain	1:50.79	Melford Homela   Zimbabwe	1:51.34
1500 metres details	Wilfred Kirochi   Kenya	3:46.52	Noureddine Morceli   Algeria	3:46.93	Fermín Cacho   Spain	3:47.31
5000 metres details	Henry Kirui   Kenya	13:54.29	Mohamed Choumassi   Morocco	13:54.36	Addis Abebe   Ethiopia	13:58.08
10,000 metres details	Addis Abebe   Ethiopia	28:42.13	Bedilu Kibret   Ethiopia	28:48.55	James Songok   Kenya	28:50.42
20 kilometres road run details	Metaferia Zeleke   Ethiopia	59:27	Thomas Osano   Kenya	1:00:14	Abel Gisemba   Kenya	1:00:36
110 metres hurdles details	Reinaldo Quintero   Cuba	13.71	Steve Brown   United States	13.73	Elbert Ellis   United States	13.78
400 metres hurdles details	Kelly Carter   United States	49.50	Mugur Mateescu   Romania	50.70	Vadim Zadoinov   Soviet Union	50.88
3000 metres steeplechase details	William Chemitei   Kenya	8:41.61	Matthew Birir   Kenya	8:44.54	Arto Kuusisto   Finland	8:46.42
10,000 metres walk details	Alberto Cruz   Mexico	41:16.11	Valentí Massana   Spain	41:33.95	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy   Soviet Union	41:38.86
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	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 details	Artur Partyka   Poland	2.28	Lambros Papakostas   Greece	2.25	Park Jae-Hong   South Korea Jaroslaw Kotewicz   Poland	2.22
Pole vault details	István Bagyula   Hungary	5.65	Maksim Tarasov   Soviet Union	5.60	Andrey Grudinin   Soviet Union	5.30
Long jump details	Luis Bueno   Cuba	7.99	Saúl Isalgué   Cuba	7.78	Nai Hui-Fang   Chinese Taipei	7.77
Triple jump details	Vladimir Melikhov   Soviet Union	16.69	Galin Georgiev   Bulgaria	16.18	Eugene Greene   Bahamas	16.16
Shot put details	Aleksandr Klimenko   Soviet Union	18.92	Mike Stulce   United States	18.47	Aleksandr Klimov   Soviet Union	18.06
Discus throw details	Andreas Seelig   East Germany	58.60	Kamy Keshmiri   United States	54.68	Yuriy Nesteryets   Soviet Union	53.70
Hammer throw details	Vadim Kolesnik   Soviet Union	69.52	Oleg Polyushik   Soviet Union	69.00	Thomas Hommel   East Germany	66.06
Javelin throw details	Vladimir Ovchinnikov   Soviet Union	77.08	Steve Backley   Great Britain	75.40	Jens Reimann   East Germany	71.64
Decathlon details	Michael Kohnle   West Germany	7729	Robert Změlík   Czechoslovakia	7659	Eduard Hämäläinen   Soviet Union	7596
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Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Diana Dietz   East Germany	11.18	Katrin Krabbe   East Germany	11.23	Liliana Allen   Cuba	11.36
200 metres details	Katrin Krabbe   East Germany	22.34	Diana Dietz   East Germany	22.88	Liliana Allen   Cuba	22.97
400 metres details	Grit Breuer   East Germany	51.24	Maicel Malone   United States	52.23	Olga Moroz   Soviet Union	53.20
800 metres details	Birte Bruhns   East Germany	2:00.67	Catalina Gheorghiu   Romania	2:01.96	Dorota Buczkowska   Poland	2:02.94
1500 metres details	Doina Homneac   Romania	4:12.94	Snežana Pajkić   Yugoslavia	4:16.19	Yvonne van der Kolk   Netherlands	4:16.35
3000 metres details	Ann Mwangi   Kenya	9:13.99	Fernanda Ribeiro   Portugal	9:15.33	Yvonne Lichtenfeld   East Germany	9:16.02
10,000 metres details	Jane Ngotho   Kenya	33:49.45	Olga Nazarkina   Soviet Union	33:50.03	Mónica Gama   Portugal	34:16.13
100 metres hurdles details	Aliuska López   Cuba	13.23	Birgit Wolf   West Germany	13.51	Zhanna Gurbanova   Soviet Union	13.64
400 metres hurdles details	Antje Axmann   East Germany	57.47	Ann Maenhout   Belgium	57.58	Silvia Rieger   West Germany	57.88
5000 metres walk details	Mari Cruz Díaz   Spain	21:51.31	Olga Sánchez   Spain	21:58.17	Maria Grazia Orsani   Italy	22:04.74
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	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 details	Galina Astafei   Romania	2.00	Yelena Yelesina   Soviet Union	1.96	Karen Scholz   East Germany	1.92
Long jump details	Fiona May   Great Britain	6.88	Anu Kaljurand   Soviet Union	6.78	Jo Wise   Great Britain	6.69
Shot put details	Ines Wittich   East Germany	18.54	Heike Rohrmann   East Germany	17.84	Elvira Polyakova   Soviet Union	17.10
Discus throw details	Ilke Wyludda   East Germany	68.24	Astrid Kumbernuss   East Germany	64.08	Proletka Voycheva   Bulgaria	58.94
Javelin throw details	Karen Forkel   East Germany	61.44	Isel López   Cuba	57.86	Malgorzata Kielczewska   Poland	57.04
Heptathlon details	Svetla Dimitrova   Bulgaria	6289	Yelena Petushkova   Soviet Union	6102	Peggy Beer   East Germany	6067
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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	5	2	12
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 entries)		41	41	42	124

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]

See also

• 1988 in athletics (track and field)

References

External links

• Official results
• Medalists at GBRathletics.com
• Results