2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 2000 metres steeplechase

Events at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		boys		girls
200 m		boys		girls
400 m		boys		girls
800 m		boys		girls
1500 m		boys		girls
3000 m		boys		girls
100 m hurdles				girls
110 m hurdles		boys
400 m hurdles		boys		girls
2000 m steeplechase		boys		girls
Medley relay		boys		girls
5000 m walk				girls
10,000 m walk		boys
Field events
Long jump		boys		girls
Triple jump		boys		girls
High jump		boys		girls
Pole vault		boys		girls
Shot put		boys		girls
Discus throw		boys		girls
Javelin throw		boys		girls
Hammer throw		boys		girls
Combined events
Heptathlon				girls
Octathlon		boys

The Boys' 2000 metres at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 10 and 12 July.

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best	Nabil Ouhaddi (MAR)	5:21.36	Rabat, Morocco	16 July 2006
Championship Record	Abel Kiprop Mutai (KEN)	5:24.69	Marrakech, Morocco	15 July 2005
World Youth Leading	Nicholas Kiptonui Bett (KEN)	5:29.2	Nairobi, Kenya	11 June 2013

Heats

Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ben Preisner	Canada
	Danny Guamán	Ecuador
	Meresa Kahsay	Ethiopia
	Patrick Karl	Germany
	Mateusz Kaczmarek	Poland
	Bohdan Shkilnyuk	Ukraine
	Dávid Major	Hungary
	Hiroshi Yanokura	Japan
	Salama Modihi	Egypt
	Haran Dunderdale	Great Britain
	Michal Talán	Slovakia
	Ömer Tuncer	Turkey
	Samuel Abascal	Spain
	Luca Sinn	Austria

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Julián Sánchez-Pinto	Spain
	Giulio Perpetuo	Italy
	Mohamed Elnazir Ramadan	Qatar
	Francisco Ángel Reyes	Mexico
	Serhiy Shevchenko	Ukraine
	Ruan Meintjies	South Africa
	Tobias Wolter	Canada
	Nicholas Kiptonui Bett	Kenya
	Bandula M.S. Withanage	Sri Lanka
	Andreas Jansson	Sweden
	Patryk Blaszczyk	Poland
	Nabil Elhannachi	Algeria
	Hicham Chemlal	Morocco
	Rares Popescu	Romania

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Micheale Atsbaha	Ethiopia
	Weverton Fidelis	Brazil
	Filip Sasínek	Czech Republic
	Jonnathan Mogroviejo	Ecuador
	Said Ettaqy	Italy
	Justus Kipkorir Lagat	Kenya
	Daniel Reyes	Mexico
	Darius Cristea	Romania
	Matthew Axe	Great Britain
	Bailey Roth	United States
	Hansajith M.W. Mudiyanselage	Sri Lanka
	Konstadinos Migas	Greece
	Islam Amangos	Kazakhstan
	Luis de la Cruz	Peru

References