List of world under-20 records in athletics
Women

List of world under-20 records in athletics

Section Title: Women
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Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Age	Ref	Video

100 m	10.88 (+2.0 m/s)	Marlies Göhr	East Germany	1 July 1977	East Germany Dresden, East Germany	19 years, 102 days

200 m	22.18 (+0.8 m/s)	Allyson Felix	United States	25 August 2004	Olympic Games	Greece Athens, Greece	18 years, 281 days	[8]

22.11 (-0.5 m/s) A X	3 May 2003	Mexico Mexico City, Mexico	17 years, 166 days

400 m	49.42	Grit Breuer	Germany	27 August 1991	World Championships	Japan Tokyo, Japan	19 years, 192 days

800 m	1:54.01	Pamela Jelimo	Kenya	29 August 2008	Weltklasse Zürich	Switzerland Zürich, Switzerland	18 years, 268 days	[9]

1000 m	2:35.4a	Irina Nikitina	Soviet Union	5 August 1979	Soviet Union Podolsk, USSR	18 years, 201 days

Katrin Wühn	East Germany	12 July 1984	East Germany Potsdam, East Germany	18 years, 236 days

1500 m	3:51.34	Lang Yinglai	China	18 October 1997	National Games of China	China Shanghai, PR China	18 years, 57 days

Mile	4:17.57	Zola Budd	Great Britain	21 August 1985	Weltklasse Zürich	Switzerland Zürich, Switzerland	19 years, 87 days

2000 m	5:33.15	Zola Budd	Great Britain	13 July 1984	United Kingdom London, United Kingdom	18 years, 48 days

3000 m	8:28.83	Zola Budd	Great Britain	7 September 1985	Italy Rome, Italy	19 years, 104 days

Two miles	9:20.81	Alemitu Heroye	Ethiopia	24 August 2014	British Grand Prix	United Kingdom Birmingham, United Kingdom	19 years, 107 days

5000 m	14:30.88	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	11 June 2004	Norway Bergen, Norway	18 years, 254 days

10000 m	30:26.50	Linet Masai	Kenya	15 August 2008	Olympic Games	China Beijing, PR China	18 years, 254 days

10 km (road)	31:27 a	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	21 April 1996	Canada Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	18 years, 33 days

31:29	Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal	Norway	3 May 2009	Norway Oslo, Norway	18 years, 323 days

15 km (road)	47:39+	Everline Kimwei	Kenya	19 November 2006	Japan Kobe, Japan	19 years, 86 days

20 km (road)	1:04:15+	Meseret Belete	Ethiopia	16 September 2018	Copenhagen Half Marathon	Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark	19 years, 0 days

Half marathon	1:07:51	Meseret Belete	Ethiopia	16 September 2018	Copenhagen Half Marathon	Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark	19 years, 0 days

Marathon	2:20:59	Shure Demise	Ethiopia	23 January 2015	Dubai Marathon	United Arab Emirates Dubai, United Arab Emirates	19 years, 2 days

100 m hurdles

12.74 (+1.7 m/s)	Dior Hall	United States	13 June 2015	NCAA Division I Championships	United States Eugene, United States	19 years, 162 days

12.83 A (+0.4 m/s)	Oluwatobiloba Amusan	Nigeria	30 April 2016	UTEP Invitational	United States El Paso, United States	19 years, 7 days

12.84 (+1.5 m/s)	Aliuska López	Cuba	16 July 1987	Summer Universiade	Croatia Zagreb, Croatia	17 years, 321 days

12.84 (+1.2 m/s)	Tia Jones	United States	25 June 2016	United States Junior Championships	United States Clovis, United States	15 years, 291 days

12.75 (+1.7 m/s)	Chanel Brissett	United States	13 May 2018	PAC 12 Conference Championships	United States Palo Alto, United States	18 years, 276 days

400 m hurdles	53.60	Sydney McLaughlin	United States	27 April 2018	National Relay Championships	United States Fayetteville, United States	18 years, 263 days

52.75	Sydney McLaughlin	United States	13 May 2018	SEC Championships	United States Knoxville, United States	18 years, 279 days

2000 m steeplechase	6:11.83	Korahubish Itaa	Ethiopia	10 July 2009	World Youth Championships	Italy Brixen, Italy	17 years, 132 days

3000 m steeplechase	8:58.78	Celliphine Chepteek Chespol	Kenya	26 May 2017	Prefontaine Classic	United States Eugene, United States	18 years, 64 days

High jump	2.01 m	Olga Turchak	Soviet Union	7 July 1986	Soviet Union Moscow, USSR	19 years, 124 days

Heike Balck	East Germany	18 June 1989	East Germany Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany	18 years, 303 days

Pole vault	4.71 m i	Wilma Murto	Finland	31 January 2016	Germany Zweibrücken, Germany	17 years, 234 days

Pole vault outdoors	4.64 m	Eliza McCartney	New Zealand	19 December 2015	Auckland Summer Series 7 Meeting	New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand	19 years, 8 days

Long jump	7.14 m (+1.1 m/s)	Heike Drechsler	East Germany	4 June 1983	Czechoslovakia Bratislava, Czechoslovakia	18 years, 170 days

Triple jump	14.62 m (+1.0 m/s)	Tereza Marinova	Bulgaria	25 August 1996	Australia Sydney, Australia	18 years, 355 days

Shot put	20.54 m	Astrid Kumbernuss	East Germany	1 July 1989	Finland Orimattila, Finland	19 years, 146 days

Discus throw	74.40 m	Ilke Wyludda	East Germany	13 September 1988	East Germany East Berlin, East Germany	19 years, 169 days

Hammer throw	73.24 m	Zhang Wenxiu	China	24 June 2005	China Changsha, China	19 years, 94 days

Javelin throw	63.86 m	Yuleimis Aguilar	Cuba	2 August 2015	Pan American Junior Championships	Canada Edmonton, Canada	18 years, 364 days

Heptathlon	6542 pts	Carolina Klüft	Sweden	9–10 August 2002	European Championships	Germany München, Germany	19 years, 189 days

13.33 (100 m hurdles), 1.89 m (high jump), 13.16 m (shot put), 23.71 (200 m) / 6.36 m (long jump), 47.61 m (javelin), 2:17.99 (800 m)

5000 m walk (track)	20:28.05	Tatyana Kalmykova	Russia	12 July 2007	Czech Republic Ostrava, Czech Republic	17 years, 183 days

10000 m walk (track)	42:47.25	Anežka Drahotová	Czech Republic	23 July 2014	World Junior Championships	United States Eugene, United States	19 years, 1 day

42:43 (ht) #	Svetlana Vasilyeva	Russia	27 February 2011	Russian Winter Walking Championships	Russia Sochi, Russia	18 years, 218 days

10 km walk (road)	41:57	Gao Hongmiao	China	8 September 1993	National Games of China	China Beijing, China	19 years, 144 days

41:55 #	Irina Stankina	Russia	11 February 1995	Russia Adler, Russia	17 years, 323 days

20000 m walk (track)	1:29:32.4	Song Hongjuan	China	24 October 2003	Japan Changsha, Japan	19 years, 112 days

20 km walk (road)	1:25:30	Anisya Kirdyapkina	Russia	23 February 2008	Russia Adler, Russia	18 years, 123 days

4×100 m relay	43.27	Katrin Fehm Keshia Kwadwo Sophia Junk Jennifer Montag	Germany	23 July 2017	European U20 Championships	Italy Grosseto, Italy	19 years, 98 days 18 years, 13 days 18 years, 144 days 19 years, 162 days

4×400 m relay	3:27.60	Alexandria Anderson Ashlee Kidd Stephanie Smith Natasha Hastings	United States	18 July 2004	World Junior Championships	Italy Grosseto, Italy	17 years, 172 days 18 years, 358 days 19 years, 21 days 17 years, 361 days

Sentence(s)

In 2014, Alemitu set a world junior best record in the two mile with a of time 9:20.81 at the British Grand Prix in Birmingham.

final_sentence: In 2014, Alemitu set a world junior best record in the two mile with a of time 9:20.81 at the British Grand Prix in Birmingham.