Athletics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Athletics at the I Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Bishan Stadium
Dates	17 – 23 August 2010
No. of events	36 (18 boys, 18 girls)
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At the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, 36 athletics events were contested – 18 for boys and 18 for girls – on 17–19 and 21–23 August 2010.^[1][2] The events took place in Bishan Stadium, Singapore.^[3] Athletes born between January 1, 1993, and December 31, 1994, were eligible to compete.^[4] Continents selected their athletes through Youth Continental Championships (Continental Youth Olympic Trials).

While most events mirrored those at the Summer Olympic Games, some events were distinct from the Games' senior counterpart. A 1000 metres race was scheduled in place of the more traditional 800/1,500 metres races. The steeplechase was held over 2000 m, instead of the seniors' 3000 m distance, and the competition featured a medley relay with legs of 100 m, 200 m, 300 m and 400 m (in the Swedish style). Combined (or multi-discipline) events were not contested.^[5]

In 2023 Luguelín Santos was suspended by World Athletics on charges of age falsification early in his career. He has admitted that he was too old by seven weeks to be eligible for these Games so may be disqualified. ^[6]

Competition format

Qualification

The six continents, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America, held their Youth Olympic Trials in 2010.

Continental youth trials
Continent	Location	Dates
Africa	N/A	Late April – early May 2010
Asia	Singapore, Singapore[7][8]	22–23 May 2010
Europe	Moscow, Russia	21–23 May 2010[9]
North America	Toronto, Canada	May 2010
Oceania	Sydney, Australia or Brisbane, Australia	March 2010
South America	N/A	May 2010

Games events

Seventeen individual events and one relay were contested, making a total of 18 events for girls and boys. Some events differed between the girls and the boys.

Sprints, hurdles, and relays

For the sprints, hurdles, and relays, there were two stages consisting of two rounds: Round 1 and the finals. Depending on the final number of entries, two to three or more heats were necessary. From results achieved in round 1, athletes were placed in A, B or C (or additional) finals, in accordance with procedures determined by the event delegate. Final placings in each discipline were determined by adding each athlete's time in the stage 1 final to his or her time in the stage 2 final. Ties were resolved in favour of the athlete with the faster time in either final.^[2]

Mid and long distance

Some confusion was caused by a mid-2009 Singapore Athletics document appearing to suggest that placings in the heats and the finals would be added to give a final placing.^[2] Depending on their performance in the heats, athletes were allocated to a A, B or C final. The final placings were decided by the placings in the final only, and the placings in the A final determined the medals with no reference to the heats. The B final determined positions 9–16 and so on.^[10]

Horizontal jumps and throws

Similar to the mid and long distance events. In the finals for each event, athletes had four attempts.^[2]

High jump and pole vault

Similar to mid and long distance events. Final placings in each discipline were determined by adding each athlete's best result in the stage 1 final to his or her best result in the stage 2 final. Ties were resolved in favour of the athlete with the best individual result in either final.^[2]

Competition schedule

Day 1

Event date	Event day	Starting time	Event details
21 August	Saturday	09:35	Girls' 100 m hurdles
		10:05	Boys' 400 m
		19:00	Girls' 5 km race walk
		19:05	Girls' discus throw
		19:10	Girls' long jump
		19:15	Girls' pole vault
		19:35	Boys' high jump
		19:55	Boys' 110 m hurdles
		20:15	Boys' discus throw
		20:30	Girls' 400 m
		20:50	Girls' 100 m
		21:10	Boys' 100 m

Day 2

Event date	Event day	Starting time	Event details
22 August	Sunday	10:00	Boys' long jump
		10:20	Boys' 1000 m
		10:50	Girls' 200 m
		19:00	Boys' Javelin throw
		19:05	Boys' 10 km race walk
		19:10	Girls' shot put
		19:20	Girls' high jump
		20:05	Girls' Javelin throw
		20:15	Girls' 3000 m
		20:30	Boys' shot put
		20:35	Boys' 3000 m
		21:15	Boys' 200 m

Day 3

Event date	Event day	Starting time	Event details
23 August	Monday	09:40	Girls' Triple Jump
		10:15	Girls' 468201
		10:50	Girls' 400 m hurdles
		19:00	Girls' Hammer throw
		19:05	Boys' pole vault
		19:40	Boys' 400 m hurdles
		19:45	Boys' Triple Jump
		19:55	Girls' 2000 m steeplechase
		20:10	Boys' Hammer throw
		20:15	Boys' 2000 m steeplechase
		20:40	Girls' medley relay
		21:00	Boys' medley relay

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	3	0	3	6
2	Russia	3	0	2	5
3	China	2	4	1	7
4	Ethiopia	2	3	0	5
–	Mixed-NOCs	2	2	2	6
5	Cuba	2	1	0	3
	France	2	1	0	3
7	Ukraine	2	0	5	7
8	Germany	2	0	2	4
9	Nigeria	2	0	1	3
	Sweden	2	0	1	3
11	Australia	1	3	0	4
12	United States	1	2	3	6
13	South Africa	1	1	1	3
14	Brazil	1	1	0	2
	Italy	1	1	0	2
16	Poland	1	0	2	3
17	Dominican Republic	1	0	1	2
	Eritrea	1	0	1	2
19	Argentina	1	0	0	1
	Israel	1	0	0	1
	Jamaica	1	0	0	1
	Spain	1	0	0	1
23	Japan	0	4	0	4
24	India	0	2	0	2
	Romania	0	2	0	2
26	Hungary	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
28	Bahamas	0	1	0	1
	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Cyprus	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
	Qatar	0	1	0	1
35	Great Britain	0	0	2	2
36	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Uganda	0	0	1	1
Totals (42 entries)		36	36	36	108

Events

Boys' events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Odean Skeen  Jamaica	10.42 PB	Masaki Nashimoto  Japan	10.51 PB	David Bolarinwa  Great Britain	10.51
200 m details	Xie Zhenye  China	21.22	Keisuke Homma  Japan	21.27	Patrick Domogala  Germany	21.36
400 m details	Luguelín Santos  Dominican Republic	47.11	Ruan Greyling  South Africa	47.22 PB	Alphas Kishoyian  Kenya	47.24 PB
1000 m details	Mohammed Aman  Ethiopia	2:19.54 PB	Hamza Driouch  Qatar	2:21.25	Charlie Grice  Great Britain	2:21.85 PB
3000 m details	Abrar Osman  Eritrea	8:07.24	Fekru Jebesa  Ethiopia	8:08.53	Hicham Sigueni  Morocco	8:08.55 SB
110 m hurdles details	Nicholas Hough  Australia	13.37 PB	Dongqiang Wang  China	13.41 PB	Jussi Kanervo  Finland	13.53 PB
400 m hurdles details	Norge Sotomayor  Cuba	50.69	Kumar Durgesh  India	50.81 PB	William Mbevi Mutunga  Kenya	51.23 PB
2000 m steeplechase details	Peter Matheka Mutuku  Kenya	5:37.63 PB	Habtamu Fayisa  Ethiopia	5:39.10	Zakaria Kiprotich  Uganda	5:41.25 PB
10 km race walk details	Ihor Lyashchenko  Ukraine	42:43.93	Oscar Villavicencio  Ecuador	43:46.00 PB	Pavel Parshin  Russia	44:18.04
Medley relay details	Americas Caio dos Santos  Brazil Odean Skeen  Jamaica Najee Glass  United States Luguelín Santos  Dominican Republic	1:51.38	Europe David Bolarinwa  Great Britain Tomasz Kluczynski  Poland Marco Lorenzi  Italy Nikita Uglov  Russia	1:52.11	Oceania Lepani Naivalu  Fiji John Rivan  Papua New Guinea Nicholas Hough  Australia Raheen Williams  Australia	1:52.71
High jump details	Dmitry Kroytor  Israel	2.19	Brandon Starc  Australia	2.19 PB	Viktor Chernysh  Ukraine	2.17 PB
Pole vault details	Didac Salas  Spain	5.05 PB	Thiago Braz da Silva  Brazil	5.05 PB	Theodoros Chrysanthopoulos  Greece	4.95 PB
Long jump details	Caio dos Santos  Brazil	7.69	Sho Matsubara  Japan	7.65 PB	Rudolph Pienaar  South Africa	7.53 PB
Triple jump details	Radame Fabar Sanchez  Cuba	16.37 PB	Fu Haitao  China	16.14 PB	Georgi Tsonov  Bulgaria	15.80
Shot put details	Krzysztof Brzozowski  Poland	23.23 WYB	Jackson Gill  New Zealand	22.60 PB	Dennis Lewke  Germany	21.22 PB
Discus throw details	Jacques du Plessis  South Africa	63.94 PB	Arjur Arjun  India	62.52	Jaromir Mazgal  Czech Republic	60.31
Hammer throw details	Liu Binbin  China	73.99 PB	Alexandros Poursanidis  Cyprus	70.30	Balazs Toreky  Hungary	70.13
Javelin throw details	Braian Toledo  Argentina	81.78	Devin Bogert  United States	76.88 PB	Intars Isejevs  Latvia	74.23 PB

Girls' events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Josephine Omaka  Nigeria	11.58	Myasia Jacobs  United States	11.64	Fany Chalas  Dominican Republic	11.65 SB
200 m details	Nkiruka Florence Nwakwe  Nigeria	23.46 PB	Tynia Gaither  Bahamas	23.68 PB	Olivia Ekpone  United States	23.75 PB
400 m details	Robin Reynolds  United States	52.57 SB	Bianca Răzor  Romania	53.10	Bukola Abogunloko  Nigeria	53.47
1000 m details	Tizita Ashame  Ethiopia	2:43.24 PB	Andrina Schlaepfer  Switzerland	2:43.84	Damaris Muthee  Kenya	2:45.42 PB
3000 m details	Gladys Chesir  Kenya	9:13.58 PB	Moe Kyuma  Japan	9:23.70	Samrawit Mengisteab  Eritrea	9:33.53
100 m hurdles details	Ekaterina Bleskina  Russia	13.34	Michelle Jenneke  Australia	13.46 PB	Noemi Zbären  Switzerland	13.50
400 m hurdles details	Aurélie Chaboudez  France	58.41 PB	Stina Troest  Denmark	58.88 PB	Olena Kolesnychenko  Ukraine	59.25
2000 m steeplechase details	Virginia Nyambura  Kenya	6:29.97 PB	Tsehynesh Tsenga  Ethiopia	6:37.81	Oksana Raita  Ukraine	6:41.49 PB
5 km race walk details	Anna Clemente  Italy	22:27.38 PB	Mao Yanxue  China	22:29.42 PB	Nadezda Leontyeva  Russia	22:35.05
Medley relay details	Americas Myasia Jacobs  United States Tynia Gaither  Bahamas Rashan Brown  Bahamas Robin Reynolds  United States	2:05.62	Africa Josephine Omaka  Nigeria Nkiruka Florence Nwakwe  Nigeria Izelle Neuhoff  South Africa Bukola Abogunloko  Nigeria	2:06.19	Europe Annie Tagoe  Great Britain Anna Bongiorni  Italy Sonja Mosler  Germany Bianca Răzor  Romania	2:07.59
High jump details	Maria Kuchina  Russia	1.89	Alessia Trost  Italy	1.86	Aneta Rydz  Poland	1.79 PB
Pole vault details	Angelica Bengtsson  Sweden	4.30	Elizabeth Parnov  Australia	4.25	Ganna Shelekh  Ukraine	4.20
Long jump details	Lena Malkus  Germany	6.40	Alina Rotaru  Romania	6.38	Le'Tristan Pledger  United States	6.17 PB
Triple jump details	Khadijatou Sagnia  Sweden	13.56 PB	Sokhna Galle  France	13.04	Ganna Aleksandrova  Ukraine	12.64
Shot put details	Natalia Troneva  Russia	15.66 PB	Gu Siyu  China	15.49	Anna Wloka  Poland	15.48
Discus throw details	Shanice Craft  Germany	55.49 PB	Krisztina Váradi  Hungary	49.92	Heidi Schmidt  Sweden	47.57 PB
Hammer throw details	Alexia Sedykh  France	59.08	Alena Navahrodskaya  Belarus	57.34	Xia Youlian  China	56.62
Javelin throw details	Kateryna Derun  Ukraine	54.59 PB	Lismania Munoz Barcelay  Cuba	52.40	Hannah Carson  United States	50.64

Participating nations

170 nations will participate in athletics.:^[11][12]

See also

• Athletics at the 1998 World Youth Games

References

Specific

Day reports

• Post, Marty (2010-08-17). Strong performances in qualifying - Youth Olympic Games, Day 1. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-19.
• Post, Marty (2010-08-18). Favourites continue to shine in Singapore - Youth Olympic Games, Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-19.
• Post, Marty (2010-08-19). Fields set for Singapore finals – Youth Olympic Games, Day 3. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-19.
• Post, Marty (2010-08-21). Skeen and Bengtsson deliver on Singapore expectations – Youth Olympic Games, Day 4. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-24.
• Post, Marty (2010-08-22). Brzozowski sets shot put World youth best in Singapore – Youth Olympic Games, Day 5. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-24.
• Post, Marty (2010-08-23). Athletics programme of Youth Olympic Games ends on high note in Singapore – Day 6. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-24.

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