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Sunday, 20 August 2006
Men's 5000m Final
20 August 2006 - Tariku Bekele of Ethiopia’s clinched his first ever World title as he won the junior’s 5000m here in Beijing ahead of his countryman Abreham Cherkos Fekele.
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Women's Discus Throw Final
20 August 2006 - 18-year-old Dani Samuels of Australia confirmed her pre-event status of favourite to win the women’s Discus Throw final with a new personal best and World Junior leading performance of 60.63m. -
Men's Triple Jump Final
20 August 2006 - Benjamin Compaoré of France improved his personal best to a World Junior leading 16.61m to win the men’s Triple Jump World Junior title here in Beijing. -
Women's 1500m Final
20 August 2006 - 17-year-old Irene Jelagat led the third Kenyan middle-distance double of these Championships as she completed a 60-second last lap to clinch the women’s 1500m gold medal. -
Men's 110m Hurdles Final
20 August 2006 - An impressive winner of yesterday’s semi-final 18-year-old Artur Noga of Poland was an overwhelming winner in the men’s 110m Hurdles final, the first track event of the day. -
Women's High Jump Final
Sunday 20 August 2006 - It took 19-year-old Svetlana Radzivil only five jumps to claim her country’s first gold medal of the championships here in Beijing. -
Women's Heptathlon
19 August 2006 - Russia’s Tatyana Chernova who had taken the lead in the opening event of the women’s Combined Events with a might 13.70 100m Hurdles run, improved her own World Junior leading performance by 51 points to win the Heptathlon World Junior title here in Beijing. -
Men's Javelin Throw Final
19 August 2006 - 19-year-old John Robert Oosthuizen of South Africa had signalled his gold medal ambitions when becoming the first automatic qualifier to advance to tonight’s final, his opening effort three days ago an excellent 78.42. -
Men's Shot Put Final
19 August 2006 - Estonia’s Margus Hunt became the first junior athlete ever to win a Shot Put / Discus Throw gold medal double as he added an impressive 20.53m Shot Put National Junior record to his 67.32m World Junior record win four days ago in the discus. -
Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final
19 August 2006 - Willy Rutto Komen of Kenya shoved off an impressive 14 seconds off his personal best to clock a new Championships record of 8:14.00 to win the men’s 3000m Steeplechase final.
