With his 200 metres gold medal, Usain Bolt of Jamaica became the youngest World Junior Championships winner at the time.Blanka Vlašić of Croatia won the high jump.Sweden's Carolina Klüft set a new world junior record in the heptathlon.
According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,[1] 1069 athletes from 159 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[2]
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^IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, p. 5, retrieved 13 June 2015