The 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, on July 20–24.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Deji Aliu  Nigeria	10.21	Jason Gardener  Great Britain	10.25	Deworski Odom  United States	10.26 WYB
200 metres details	Tony Wheeler  United States	20.62	Deji Aliu  Nigeria	20.88	Ian Mackie  Great Britain	20.95
400 metres details	Awotoro Adediran  Nigeria	45.83	Ramon Clay  United States	46.13	Shaun Farrell  New Zealand	46.31
800 metres details	Paul Byrne  Australia	1:47.42	Japheth Kimutai  Kenya	1:48.22	Alain Miranda  Cuba	1:48.24
1500 metres details	Julius Achon  Uganda	3:39.78	André Bucher   Switzerland	3:40.46	Philip Mosima  Kenya	3:41.09
5000 metres details	Daniel Komen  Kenya	13:45.37	Habte Jifar  Ethiopia	13:49.70	Giuliano Battocletti  Italy	13:51.16
10,000 metres details	Daniel Komen  Kenya	28:29.74	Kenji Takao  Japan	28:55.24	Michitane Noda  Japan	29:00.55
20 kilometres road run details	Clodoaldo da Silva  Brazil	1:03:21	Carlos García  Spain	1:03:38	Antonello Landi  Italy	1:03:40
110 metres hurdles details	Frank Busemann  Germany	13.47	Dudley Dorival  United States	13.65	Darius Pemberton  United States	13.93
400 metres hurdles details	Hennadiy Horbenko  Ukraine	50.56	Miklós Róth  Hungary	50.85	Noel Levy  Great Britain	50.94
3000 metres steeplechase details	Paul Chemase  Kenya	8:31.51	Julius Chelule  Kenya	8:33.64	Yarba Lakhal  Morocco	8:34.42
10,000 metres walk details	Jorge Segura  Mexico	40:26.93	Yevgeniy Shmalyuk  Russia	40:32.72	Artur Meleshkevich  Belarus	40:35.52
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain Jason Gardener Julian Golding Ian Mackie Trevor Cameron	39.60	United States Deworski Odom Tony Simmons Patrick Johnson Toya Jones	39.76	Canada Carlton Chambers Dave Tomlin Chris Robinson Eric Frempong-Manso	39.90
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Desmond Johnson Tony Wheeler Milton Campbell Ramon Clay	3:03.32	Jamaica Rohan McDonald Davian Clarke Mario Watts Michael McDonald	3:04.12	Great Britain Guy Bullock Nick Budden Noel Levy Mark Hylton	3:06.59
High jump details	Jagan Hames  Australia	2.23	Antoine Burke  Ireland	2.20	Mika Polku  Finland	2.20
Pole vault details	Viktor Chistyakov  Russia	5.60	Dmitriy Markov  Belarus	5.50	Taoufik Lachheb  France	5.30
Long jump details	Gregor Cankar  Slovenia	8.04	Bogdan Tarus  Romania	8.01	Shigeru Tagawa  Japan	7.85
Triple jump details	Onochie Achike  Great Britain	16.67	Leonard Cobb  United States	16.65	Ronald Servius  France	16.55
Shot put details	Adam Nelson  United States	18.34	Andreas Gustafsson  Sweden	17.95	Ville Tiisanoja  Finland	17.90
Discus throw details	Frantz Kruger  South Africa	58.22	Julio Piñero  Argentina	57.80	Timo Sinervo  Finland	56.76
Javelin throw details	Marius Corbett  South Africa	77.98	Matti Närhi  Finland	74.92	Isbel Luaces  Cuba	72.82
Hammer throw details	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland	70.44	Igor Tugay  Ukraine	70.08	Sergey Vasilyev  Russia	66.14
Decathlon details	Benjamin Jensen  Norway	7676	Klaus Isekenmeier  Germany	7298	Glenn Lindqvist  Finland	7288
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Sabrina Kelly  United States	11.36	Aspen Burkett  United States	11.40	Philomena Mensah  Ghana	11.43
200 metres details	Heide Seÿerling  South Africa	22.80 (w)	LaKeisha Backus  United States	22.86 (w)	Tatyana Tkalich  Ukraine	23.35 (w)
400 metres details	Olabisi Afolabi  Nigeria	51.97	Monique Hennagan  United States	52.25	Hana Benešová  Czech Republic	52.60
800 metres details	Mioara Cosulianu  Romania	2:04.95	Jackline Maranga  Kenya	2:05.05	Kutre Dulecha  Ethiopia	2:05.17
1500 metres details	Anita Weyermann   Switzerland	4:13.97	Marta Domínguez  Spain	4:14.59	Atsumi Yashima  Japan	4:15.84
3000 metres details	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	8:47.40	Susie Power  Australia	8:56.93	Sally Barsosio  Kenya	8:59.34
10,000 metres details	Yoko Yamazaki  Japan	32:34.11	Jackline Okemwa  Kenya	33:19.51	Jebiwot Keitany  Kenya	33:35.98
100 metres hurdles details	Kirsten Bolm  Germany	13.26	LaTasha Colander  United States	13.30	Diane Allahgreen  Great Britain	13.31
400 metres hurdles details	Ionela Târlea  Romania	56.25	Virna De Angeli  Italy	56.93	Emma Holmqvist  Sweden	57.23
5000 metres walk details	Irina Stankina  Russia	21:05.41	Susana Feitor  Portugal	21:12.87	Natalya Trofimova  Russia	21:24.71
4 × 100 metres relay details	Jamaica Tulia Robinson Beverley Langley Kerry-Ann Richards Astia Walker	44.01	Germany Sandra Roos Gabriele Becker Sandra Görigk Esther Möller	44.78	Great Britain Diane Allahgreen Susan Williams Sinead Dudgeon Rebecca Drummond	45.08
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Cicely Scott Monique Hennagan Michelle Brown Jowanna McMullen	3:32.08	Romania Marinella Mircea Lavinia Miroiu Andrea Burlacu Ionela Tîrlea	3:36.59	Germany Susanne Merkel Claudia Angerhausen Ivonne Teichmann Ulrike Urbansky	3:36.65
High jump details	Olga Kaliturina  Russia	1.88	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	1.88	Amy Acuff  United States Lenka Riháková  Slovakia	1.88
Long jump details	Yelena Lysak  Russia	6.72	Heli Koivula  Finland	6.64	Ingvild Larsen  Norway	6.39
Triple jump details	Yelena Lysak  Russia	14.43	Ren Ruiping  China	14.36	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	13.62
Shot put details	Cheng Xiaoyan  China	18.76	Yumileidi Cumbá  Cuba	18.09	Claudia Mues  Germany	17.07
Discus throw details	Corrie de Bruin  Netherlands	55.18	Sabine Sievers  Germany	54.86	Suzy Powell  United States	52.62
Javelin throw details	Taina Uppa  Finland	59.02	María Caridad Álvarez  Cuba	58.26	Réka Kovács  Hungary	55.88
Heptathlon details	Kathleen Gutjahr  Germany	5918	Regla Cárdenas  Cuba	5834	Ding Ying  China	5785
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

  *   Host nation (Portugal)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	5	8	4	17
2	Russia (RUS)	5	1	3	9
3	Kenya (KEN)	3	4	3	10
4	Germany (GER)	3	3	2	8
5	Romania (ROM)	3	2	0	5
6	South Africa (RSA)	3	0	0	3
7	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	5	8
8	Australia (AUS)	2	1	0	3
	Jamaica (JAM)	2	1	0	3
	Nigeria (NGR)	2	1	0	3
11	Finland (FIN)	1	2	4	7
12	Japan (JPN)	1	1	3	5
13	China (CHN)	1	1	1	3
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	1	3
15	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	0	2
16	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
17	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	0	1
	Uganda (UGA)	1	0	0	1
23	Cuba (CUB)	0	3	2	5
24	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	1	3
25	Spain (ESP)	0	2	0	2
26	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
27	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	1	2
	Ethiopia (ETH)	0	1	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
30	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)*	0	1	0	1
33	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
34	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Ghana (GHA)	0	0	1	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (39 entries)		42	42	43	127

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[1] 1139 athletes from 143 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[2]

• 1994 in athletics (track and field)

• Results at GBRathletics.com
• Results from World Junior Athletics History (WJAH)
• Official results