Lamine Diack, the former head of world athletics' governing body who was convicted of corruption last year, died at home in Senegal on Friday at the age of 88, his son said.....
World Athletics U20 Championships Nairobi 21 Medal Table
| # | COUNTRY |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KENYA | 8 | 2 | 7 | 17 |
| 2 | FINLAND | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | NIGERIA | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | ETHIOPIA | 3 | 6 | 2 | 11 |
| 5 | JAMAICA | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 6 | SOUTH AFRICA | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | BOTSWANA | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | SWEDEN | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | FRANCE | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 10 | CZECH REPUBLIC | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| #WAU20Nairobi21 | #TwendeTukiuke | |||||
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