Seven days to go
and 90 years to celebrate
IAAF
8 July 2002 - Monte Carlo – Next Tuesday 16 July marks the 90th Anniversary of the founding of the World’s largest sports association, the International Association of Athletics Federations and what more appropriate than that this event be celebrated at the IAAF/Coca Cola World Junior Championships in Jamaica.
The vibrancy of this Caribbean setting, where youngsters from around the world will be competing on their way to becoming the great champions of tomorrow, is the perfect reflection of the vigour that drives the IAAF in this new Millennium.
From all five continents, members of the worldwide athletics family will make the trip to Kingston where the Championships will take place from 16 to 21 July.
Among the many events organised as part of the celebrations of this Jubilee year, former Olympic Champion Deon Hemmings (JAM) will conduct the IAAF Training Clinic in the National Stadium in Kingston on the eve of the Opening Ceremony of the Championships.
The Ceremony will then become the highlight of the celebrations with a special anniversary party being prepared for President Lamine Diack and all the World Athletics Family.
At the same time, on the old continent, the DN Galan will take place in Stockholm, the city where the IAAF was originally founded in 1912, for a world wide celebration of this unique anniversary.
Celebrations will continue throughout the summer and reach their climax at the World Athletics Gala in Monaco on 17 November.
This year, the World Athletics Gala will also be attended by the winners of World Athletics Day, the day when a series of athletics competitions are organised for youngsters in the 210 member countries of the IAAF. At the IAAF Council in Paris on 3 and 4 July, the names of twelve youngsters who won competitions in their countries on World Athletics Day were drawn and the lucky winners will be invited to attend this years Gala. The 12 winners representing the 6 Continental Areas of the IAAF are:
Africa
Girl: Amzal Ghania ALG
1984 10Km Walk: 54:22.6
Boy: Salou Tadjou TOG 1984 Triple
Jump: 14.41
Asia
Girl: Sri Madhvi Bindu Sri IND
1983 100m Hurdles: 15.5
Boy: Baig Afzal PAK 1984 200m:
22.43
Europe
Girl: Rabenyuk Anastasiya UKR
1983 400m Hurdles: 59.27
Boy: Vandelannoite Jess BEL 1983 100m: 10.95
North & Central America
Girl: Salrado Lucia HON 1984 5Km
Walk: 24:52
Boy: Abassy Ralph VIN 1984 Long
Jump: 6.70m
Oceania
Girl: Tapoki Tereaphii COK 1984 Shot
Put: 12.29m
Boy: Moleli Matalima SAM 1984
100m Hurdles: 14.04
South America
Girl: Aragon Shirley COL 1984
100m: 12.00
Boy: Tagle Tomas CHI 1983 400m:
49.37
