This site has been set up by Tom Magnusson and Lionel Peters to seek out and
preserve the History of Junior and Youth Athletics. At present we are compiling
complete results of World and Continental Championships.
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THE EDITORS
TOMAS MAGNUSSON
Tom is a professional data and market
analyst that works a lot with huge databases He lives and works in Solothurn (SUI)
but was born in Sweden and lived there until 1996.His first memory of seeing a
big championship on the television was the ECh-82 in Athens and the first
championship that he attended (as spectator) was WCh-95 in Gothenburg. Tom has a
database that contains all major world and continental championships for all age
groups (except masters). At the moment the database contains almost 400.000
(main) performances and about 95.000 athletes. He has assisted in compiling
statistics for the IAAF Championship Handbooks since 2002 and helped the local
organizing committees WCh-05 and ECh-06 on site. He is also a member of the ATFS
and runs a webpage which aim is to compile the complete results of the World
Cross Country Championships 1903 until present
LIONEL PETERS
Lionel has been interested in athletics since the late 1940's and in junior
athletics since he found a junior list in the 1961 ATFS annual. He founded, edited and
published World Junior Athletics News 1994-2001 ( Amonthly newsletter,
devoted to international and national junior results and statistics). Following
illness he stopped publication of it and set up World Junior Athletics News
Online at www.wjan.org
He has written 25 Junior and
Youth Annuals and Handbooks. Lionel was IAAF statistician at the World Junior
Championships in Sydney in 1996. He is in the process of writing a history of junior
athletics and is a member of the Association of Track and Field Statisticians (ATFS),
National Union of Track and field Statisticians (NUTS). Sports Writers
Association of Great Britain (SWA) and the International Sports Press
Association (AIPS) the British Athletic Writers Association (BAWA)
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We acknowledge the help of many people and organizations who have helped to
provide the information for us to obtain as complete results as we can.
Whilst every care has been taken to ensure the correctness of the
information on this site. There will be errors and omissions. Any corrections
should be sent to
lionel@wjan.org or
to Tom at
tomtytom@bluewin.ch