Izabela da Silva made history in Eugene by becoming the first Brazilian female athlete to win a world junior title when taking the discus with a massive personal best of 58.03m.
Russia s Ekaterina Starygina threw 56.85m on her final attempt of the competition to seize women s javelin gold over defending champion Sofi Flink of Sweden.
Margaret Nyairera Wambui ran the race of her life, three seconds faster than her previous lifetime best which she set in Wednesday s semifinal, as she won over two laps of the track in 2:00.49.
Mikhail Akimenko of Russia won the men s high jump with a 2.24m clearance after an intense competition which saw the top four jumpers all record personal best clearances.
Alena Lutkovskaya won one of two gold medals for Russia on Thursday (24) at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 when she prevailed in the most competitive women s pole vault ever contested in the 28-year history of the event.
