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

50 m	6.24	Marlies Oelsner	East Germany	5 March 1977	East Germany Berlin, East Germany	18 years, 349 days

55 m	6.68 A	Aleisha Latimer	United States	6 February 1998	United States Boulder, United States	18 years, 299 days

60 m	7.07	Ewa Swoboda	Poland	12 February 2016	Copernicus Cup	Poland Toruń, Poland	18 years, 201 days

200 m	22.40	Bianca Knight	United States	14 March 2008	NCAA Division I Championships	United States Fayetteville, United States	19 years, 72 days

300 m	36.12	Sydney McLaughlin	United States	8 December 2017	Hoosier Open	United States Bloomington, United States	18 years, 123 days

400 m	50.82	Sanya Richards	United States	13 March 2004	NCAA Division I Championships	United States Fayetteville, United States	18 years, 292 days

50.52	Sydney McLaughlin	United States	25 February 2018	SEC Championships	United States College Station, United States	18 years, 202 days

50.36	Sydney McLaughlin	United States	10 March 2018	NCAA Division I Championships	United States College Station, United States	18 years, 215 days

500 m	1:08.94	Kseniya Zadorina	Russia	12 January 2006	Christmas Cup	Russia Moscow, Russia	18 years, 316 days

800 m	2:01.03	Meskerem Legesse	Ethiopia	14 February 2004	United States Fayetteville, United States	17 years, 139 days

2:00.7 (ht) OT	Katrin Wühn	East Germany	7 January 1984	East Germany Senftenberg, East Germany	18 years, 49 days

Christine Wachtel	22 January 1984	19 years, 16 days

1000 m	2:35.80	Mary C. Cain	United States	8 February 2014	New Balance Indoor Grand Prix	United States Roxbury, United States	17 years, 281 days

1500 m	4:01.81	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	20 February 2016	Glasgow Grand Prix	United Kingdom Glasgow, United Kingdom	19 years, 28 days

Mile	4:24.10	Kalkidan Gezahegne	Ethiopia	20 February 2010	Aviva Indoor Grand Prix	United Kingdom Birmingham, United Kingdom	18 years, 288 days

2000 m	5:35.46	Dawit Seyaum	Ethiopia	7 February 2015	New Balance Indoor Grand Prix	United States Boston, United States	18 years, 195 days

3000 m	8:33.56	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	20 February 2004	Aviva Indoor Grand Prix	United Kingdom Birmingham, United Kingdom	18 years, 142 days

5000 m	14:53.99	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	31 January 2004	Boston Indoor Games	United States Boston, United States	18 years, 122 days

50 m hurdles (84 cm)	6.95	Candy Young	United States	3 February 1979	Canada Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	16 years, 258 days

60 m hurdles	8.00	Klaudia Siciarz	Poland	18 February 2017	Polish Championships	Poland Toruń, Poland	18 years, 340 days

7.98	Tara Davis	United States	9 March 2018	NCAA Division I Championships	United States College Station, United States	18 years, 293 days

300 m hurdles	41.19 OT	Annika Kumlin	Finland	18 February 1996	Finland Kuopio, Finland	18 years, 332 days

High jump	1.99 m	Vashti Cunningham	United States	12 March 2016	USA Championships	United States Portland, United States	18 years, 54 days

Yaroslava Mahuchikh	Ukraine	26 January 2019	Miroslava Hubnerova Memorial	Czech Republic Hustopeče, Czech Republic	17 years, 129 days

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

Long jump	6.88 m	Heike Daute	East Germany	1 February 1983	East Germany East Berlin, East Germany	18 years, 47 days

Triple jump	14.37 m	Ren Ruiping	China	11 March 1995	Spain Barcelona, Spain	19 years, 38 days

Shot put	20.51 m	Heidi Krieger	East Germany	8 February 1984	Hungary Budapest, Hungary	18 years, 203 days

Pentathlon	4542 pts	Alina Shukh	Ukraine	4 February 2017	International Combined Events Meeting	Estonia Lasnamäe, Estonia	17 years, 358 days

8.98 (60 m hurdles), 1.89 m (high jump), 13.81 m (shot put), 6.12 m (long jump), 2:16.84 (800 m)

4550 pts	Alina Shukh	Ukraine	27 January 2017	Ukrainian Team Championships	Ukraine Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine	17 years, 350 days

8.85 (60 m hurdles), 1.88 m (high jump), 14.27 m (shot put), 6.07 m (long jump), 2:17.69 (800 m)

4635 pts A	Kendell Williams	United States	15 March 2014	NCAA Division I Championships	United States Albuquerque, United States	18 years, 274 days

8.21 (60 m hurdles), 1.88 m (high jump), 12.05 m (shot put), 6.32 m (long jump), 2:17.31 (800 m)

4694 pts OT	Sibylle Thiele	East Germany	26 January 1984	East Germany Senftenberg, East Germany	18 years, 326 days

8.59 (60 m hurdles), 1.86 m (high jump), 14.32 m (shot put), 6.51 m (long jump), 2:20.4 (800 m)

4558 pts X	Nafissatou Thiam	Belgium	3 February 2013	Belgium Ghent, Belgium	18 years, 168 days

8.65 (60m hurdles), 1.84m (high jump), 14.00m (shot put), 6.30m (long jump), 2:21.18 (800m)

1500 m walk	6:02.85+	Taylor Ewert	United States	9 February 2019	Millrose Games	United States New York City United States	17 years, 80 days

Mile walk	6:28.21	Taylor Ewert	United States	9 February 2019	Millrose Games	United States New York City United States	17 years, 80 days

3000 m walk (track)	12:05.6 (ht)	Lyudmila Yefimkina	Russia	1 March 1998	Russia Insar, Russia	16 years, 191 days

5000 m walk (track)	21:30.1	Vera Sokolova	Russia	6 January 2005	Russia Chelyabinsk, Russia	17 years, 212 days

4 × 200 m relay	1:35.86	Long Beach Poly Shana Solomon Jasmine Lee Dominique Dorsey Shalonda Solomon	United States	16 March 2003	United States New York City, United States	16 years, 345 days 17 years, 84 days 17 years, 87 days

4 × 400 m relay	3:38.91	Long Beach Poly Dashanta Harris Jasmine Lee Shana Woods Shalonda Solomon	United States	14 March 2004	United States New York City, United States	17 years, 344 days 17 years, 251 days 18 years, 86 days

4 × 800m relay	8:59.37	Suffern High School McKenna Greany Heidt Consiglio	United States	12 March 2006	United States New York City, United States

8:53.67 #	Boys and Girls High School, Brooklyn Vargas Fernandez Francis Livingston ( Jamaica)	United States	1 March 2002	United States New York City, United States

Sentence(s)

Meskerem Legesse set the world junior record in the indoor 800m with a time of 2:01.03 at Fayetteville, United States on 14 February 2004.

final_sentence: Meskerem Legesse set the world junior record in the indoor 800m with a time of 2:01.03 at Fayetteville, United States on 14 February 2004.