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Chinese juniors world’s best

Sports Reporter
China who emerged as the top Aslan sporting nation1 at the recent 25th Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona maintained their ascendancy by topping the medals table of the fourth World Junior Athletics Championships which concluded in the South Korean capital Seoul yesterday, according to agency reports.
Chinese female athletes bagged four gold medals on the concluding day of the five-day meet Sunday to give their country a haul of 14 medals inclusive of eight golds, three silvers and .three bronzes.
The United States bagged nine medals, only four of them being gold, to finish second while the Unified Team of the Commonwealth of Independent States who topped the Barcelona medal chart Managed only four golds, a silver and a bronze for a third-place finish
Hosts South Korea could muster only a solitary silver medal and placed 22nd among the 30 nations that made it to the medals table.
China's Zhang Lin LI won the women's 3000 metres race in a time of 8:46.86 secs while her compatriot Cao Hongmlau took the women's 5000m walk gold. China’s third success on the concluding day came when Hao Dongying hurled the discus a distance of 58.34 metres for the gold medal Uu Dong completed the Chinese success story by claiming the women's 15OOm clocking 4:05.14 secs
Stephen Smith of Great Britain won the men’s high a by scaling 2.37 metres Erica Johansson of Sweden won the women's long
jump with a leap of 6.65 metres.
RESULTS
Following are the results of the final day’s competitions Sunday in the fourth World Junior athletics championships:
MEN
3,000-Metre Steeplechase:
1. Mwangangi Muindi, Kenya. 8:31.62; 2. Ayelc Mezegcbu, Ethiopia. 8:32.43: 3. Stephen Chepseba, Kenya. 8:32.48; 4. Steffen Brandis. Germany. 8:39.58: 5.- Glenn Stojanovic. Australia. 8:40.62; 6. Emerson Vettort. Brazil, 8:41.55; 7. Takeshi Yamamoto. Japan, 8:41.73; 8. Yoshiyuki Ikeda, Japan, 8:42.52.
1,500 Metres:
1. Atoi Boru, Kenya, 3:37.94; 2. Venuste Nlyongabo, Burundi. 3:38.59; 3. Kevin Sullivan, Canada. 3:39.11: 4. Kim Soon-hyung. South Korea. 3:40.26; 5. Eddie Crowe, New Zealand. 3:40.82; 6. Javier Ro driguez, Spain, 3:40.94: 7. Dominique Loeser, Germany, 3:41.47; 8. Funtwaki Yusuke. Japan. 3:4X02.
High Jump:
1. Stephen Srfitth. Britain. 2.37 metres (7 9-); 2 Tim Forsyth, Australia, X.3 1 (7 7); 3. Kimino Takahiro. Japan. 2.29 (7-ek; 4. Kim Tae ypung. South Korea. 2.23 (7-3j); 5. Scgey Kcvugtn. Unified Team. 2.20 (7-23: 6. Krisofer Lamos. Germany? 2.20 (7-2 5); 7 Tomas Jaaku. Czechoslovakia. 2.17 (7-1 J; 8. Cocnrag Roux. South Afrita. 2.17 (7 . k
400-Maire Relay 2
I. Britain. 39.21; 2. United States. 39.59; 3. Nigeria. 39.88; 4 Jamaica. 40.06
13MkM«*r« Reday:
I. United Stales. 3:06 |1: 2. Jamaica. 3:06.58; 3. Japan. 3:08.66; 4 Poland. 3:07.01
WOMEN:
3/KMI Meiras:
1. Zhang Linll. China. 8:46.86; 2. Gabriela Szabo. Romania. 8:48.28: 3. Zhang Lining, China. 8:48.45; 4. Paula Radcliffe. Britain, 8:51.78; 5. Annemari Sandell. Finland. 8:56.02; 6. Embetge Shiferaw, Ethiopia. 9:00.5; 7. Jung Young-im. South Korea; 8. Susie Power, Australia. 9:04.30.
5,000-Metre Walk:
1. Gao Hongmlao, Chtaa. 21:2O.CB; 2. Jane Saville. Australia.' 21:58.64; 3. Miki Itakura. Japan, 22:25.58: 4. Bertha Vera. Ecuador. 22:30.45; 5. Kamila Holpu-chova, Czechoslovakia, 22:33.92; 6. Marta Vasco, Spain, 22:34.26; 7. Michaela Hafner. Italy. 22:34.33; 8. Doreen Sellenrlek. Germany. 22
1. Bao Dongying. China. 58.34 (191-5): 2. Zhang Cuilan. China, 57 10 (187-4); 3. Sabine Fried. Germany. 53.94 (177); 4. Danljela Curovic, Independent (Yug-oslavia), 52.64 (172-8); 5.
Mew Zealand. 52.20 (171 3). 6 Ulrike Heidelmann. Germany, 51.64 (169-5); 7. Petra Juraskova, Czechoslovakia. 51.26 (168 2); 8. Adrienne Lynn. New Zealand. 51.18 (167 11)
1A09 Metres:
1. Uu Dong. China. 4:05.14.
2. Jackline Maranga. Kenya, 4:08,79; 3. U Ying. China.
4 09.04 ; 4 Nami Sugimura, Japan. 4:13 53. 5. ler M’ kyung. South Korea. 4 14 18: 6. Carmen Wuestenhagen. Germany, 4:15.74: 7 Yoshiko Ichikawa. Japan, 4:17.07. 8. Elena Cosovcanu. Romania.
4 Jump.
1 Erica Johansson. Sweden. 6.65 (21-95: 2- Nicole Dcvonish. CanaA, 6.43 (21
14): 3. Yu Hauxtu. China, 6.26 (2b 6^; 4. Heli Jtofvula, Finland. b. 14 (20 1 A; 5. Cristina Morujao. Portugal. 6.09 (19-11^; 6. Lacena Goldlitf. Ja-maca. 6.09 (19-1 ij: 7. Lisette Cuza. Cuba. 6.03 (19-10r); 8. Niki Xanthou, Greece, 6.03 (19-93. ,
lOO-MeiA Relay
1. Jamaica. 46.96; 2. United States, 44.51: 3. Germany. 44.52: 4. Germany. 44.62.
1,600-Metre Relay
1. Romania. 3:31.57: 2. Ja-
maica. 3:32.68: 3. Germany, 3:32.72; 4. United States. 3:33.11.