The 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics were the seventh edition of the

World Youth Championships in Athletics The IAAF U18 Championships in Athletics (until 2015 known as IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics) was a global athletics event comprising track and field events for competitors who were 17 or younger (youth = Under-18). The event was org ...

. They were held in

Lille Métropole Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nor ...

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, with stadium-based events at Stadium Lille-Métropole in

Villeneuve d'Ascq Villeneuve-d'Ascq (; pcd, Neuvile-Ask) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. With more than 60,000 inhabitants and 50,000 students, it is one of the main cities of the Métropole Européenne de Lille and the largest in area ( ...

, on 6–10 July 2011. Eligible athletes were aged 16 or 17 on 31 December 2011 (born in 1994 or 1995). The event had record participation levels, with 1375 athletes (757 boys/618 girls) from 173 countries entering the tournament. Over the five-day competition, forty

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

events were contested (20 for boys and 20 for girls). A total of five world youth best marks were set in Lille. New Zealand's

Jacko Gill Jackson Gill (born 20 December 1994) is a New Zealand track and field athlete who competes in the shot put. Gill throws with his right hand, using the spin technique. In 2010, he won gold in the shot put at the World Junior Championships at t ...

won the

shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's c ...

by four metres, improving his own youth best to 24.35 m.

Jake Stein Jake Stein (born 17 January 1994) is an Australian rules footballer with the Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL) and a former track and field athlete specialising in the decathlon. He previously played for the Greater Wes ...

collected a record 6491 points in the

octathlon An octathlon is a combined event competition consisting of eight different sports or contests. Track and field An octathlon in athletics is an event which consists of eight track and field events. The word "octathlon" derives from the Greek words ...

, while Leonard Kirwa Kosencha of Kenya ran a world youth best of 1:44.08 minutes for the

800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since th ...

. The United States boys and Jamaican girls ran record times to win their respective medley relay events. Four further championship records were also broken at the competition. Stadium Nord (Champions League)

The United States topped the medals table (six golds and 16 in total), closely followed by Kenya, which took five golds and 14 altogether from the middle- and long-distance races. Jamaica came third, winning most of its medals in the sprints and jumps, although

Fedrick Dacres Fedrick Dacres (born 28 February 1994) is a Jamaican discus thrower. He began his throwing career as a student at Calabar High School in Jamaica along with other accomplished throwers such as Chad Wright and Traves Smikle, under the guidance ...

made history by taking the country's first ever gold in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an ancient sport, as demonstrated by th ...

. The same top-three order occurred in the points table, which took into account placings in the top eight of each event.

Medal summary

Boys

Girls

Medal table

*All Information taken from IAAF's website.

Participating nations

* * * * * * * * * * (29) * (12) * (15) * * * * * * * * * * (20) * * * * (42) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (12) * * * * * * * * (9) * * * * (host) * * * * (27) * (24) * * * * * * * * * * * * * (19) * * * * * (39) * * * * * * * * * (15) * * * * * (8) * * * * * * * * * (1) * * * * * * * * * * (1) * * * * (10) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (7) * * * (19) * * * * * * * * * * * * * (40)USA
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References

;Session reports *Martin, Dave (2011-07-06)

IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01. *Martin, Dave (2011-07-06)

IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01. *Martin, Dave (2011-07-07)

IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01. *Martin, Dave (2011-07-07)

IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01. *Martin, Dave (2011-07-08)

IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01. *Martin, Dave (2011-07-08)

IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01. *Martin, Dave (2011-07-09)

IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01. *Martin, Dave (2011-07-09)

IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01. *Martin, Dave (2011-07-10)

IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.

External links

Official resultsOfficial competition websiteOfficial 2011 World Youth Championships website
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2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics