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The surprise of the final day at the World Junior Championships here on Sunday was the gold medal victory of the British 4x400 metres relay team.
It took Cornelius Chirchir just 30 metres to get to the front of the men's 1500 and there the Kenyan stayed for the entire race.
"I knew that I was regarded as a medal contender, but a world championships is something very special and anything can happen. It was here and now that counted, previous accomplishments had no significance.
Campbell, the reigning world youth 100metres champion added two world junior titles to her coffers
Francis, the young Briton who won the 100 metres gold medal on Wednesday, used all his abundant speed to power through, past France’s Leslie Djhone, overcoming a four-metre lead to win the gold in a championship record 39.05sec – and the second fastest time ever run by a junior team.
Jamaica’s outstanding World Junior Championships were capped off with a gold run in the final event of the week, the men’s 4x400 metres relay.
Beatrice Jepchumba’s gold medal in the women’s 3,000 metres on Sunday duly completed almost total domination by Kenya of all the distance events at the World Junior Championships here
Spectators who were at the last world junior championships in Annecy need no reminding of the effortless long-striding gait of William Chirchir. The Kenyan hardly seemed to touch the ground as he floated to the 800 metres title in France.
South Africa is one of the world's largest gold producers and it has taken its talent at mining the mineral all the way to Chile.
Veronica Campbell further marked herself out as the next great Jamaican sprinter, when she became the first woman to complete the 100-200 metres sprint double
Jana Pittman had no sooner completed an astonishing golden double of 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles at the World Junior Championships
There can be few better ways of learning how to win a world junior title than ask the man who won it before you - and life is made much easier if you are a Kenyan steeplechaser because you don't have to look very far.