1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships

International athletics championship event

3rd IAAF World Indoor Championships

Dates| 8 March–10 March
Host city| Seville, Spain
Venue| Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo
Events| 26 (+1 non-championship)
Participation| 518 athletes from
80 nations

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The 3rd IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo in Seville, Spain from March 8 to March 10, 1991. It was the first Indoor Championships to include relay races as well as women's triple jump, albeit as a non-championship event. There were a total number of 518 athletes participated from 80 countries.

## Results

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### Men

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1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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60 metres
details | Andre Cason
United States | 6.54  | Linford Christie
Great Britain | 6.55  | Chidi Imoh
Nigeria | 6.60
200 metres
details | Nikolay Antonov
Bulgaria | 20.67  | Linford Christie
Great Britain | 20.72  | Ade Mafe
Great Britain | 20.92
400 metres
details | Devon Morris
Jamaica | 46.17  | Samson Kitur
Kenya | 46.21  | Cayetano Cornet
Spain | 46.52
800 metres
details | Paul Ereng
Kenya | 1:47.08  | Tomás de Teresa
Spain | 1:47.82  | Simon Hoogewerf
Canada | 1:47.88
1500 metres
details | Noureddine Morceli
Algeria | 3:41.57  | Fermín Cacho
Spain | 3:42.68  | Mário Silva
Portugal | 3:43.85
3000 metres
details | Frank O'Mara
Ireland | 7:41.14
(CR) | Hammou Boutayeb
Morocco | 7:43.64  | Robert Denmark
Great Britain | 7:43.90
60 metres hurdles
details | Greg Foster
United States | 7.45  | Igors Kazanovs
Soviet Union | 7.47  | Mark McKoy
Canada | 7.49
5000 metres walk
details | Mikhail Shchennikov
Soviet Union | 18:23.55
(CR) | Giovanni De Benedictis
Italy | 18:23.60  | Frants Kostyukevich
Soviet Union | 18:47.05
4 × 400 metres relay
details |  Germany (GER)
Rico Lieder,
Jens Carlowitz,
Karsten Just,
Thomas Schönlebe | 3:03.05
(WR) |  United States (USA)
Raymond Pierre,
Charles Jenkins,
Andrew Valmon,
Antonio McKay,
Clifton Campbell,
Willie Smith | 3:03.24
(AR) |  Italy (ITA)
Marco Vaccari,
Vito Petrella,
Alessandro Aimar,
Andrea Nuti | 3:05.51
(NR)
High jump
details | Hollis Conway
United States | 2.40  | Artur Partyka
Poland | 2.37  | Javier Sotomayor
Cuba | 2.31
Aleksey Yemelin
Soviet Union
Pole vault
details | Sergey Bubka
Soviet Union | 6.00  | Viktor Ryzhenkov
Soviet Union | 5.80  | Ferenc Salbert
France | 5.70
Long jump
details | Dietmar Haaf
Germany | 8.15  | Jaime Jefferson
Cuba | 8.04  | Giovanni Evangelisti
Italy | 7.93
Triple jump
details | Igor Lapshin
Soviet Union | 17.31  | Leonid Voloshin
Soviet Union | 17.04  | Tord Henriksson
Sweden | 16.80
Shot put
details | Werner Günthör
Switzerland | 21.17  | Klaus Bodenmüller
Austria | 20.42  | Ron Backes
United States | 20.06

### Women

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1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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60 metres
details | Irina Sergeyeva
Soviet Union | 7.02
(CR) | Merlene Ottey
Jamaica | 7.08  | Liliana Allen
Cuba | 7.12
(NR)
200 metres
details | Merlene Ottey
Jamaica | 22.24
(CR) | Irina Sergeyeva
Soviet Union | 22.41  | Grit Breuer
Germany | 22.58
400 metres
details | Diane Dixon
United States | 50.64
(CR) | Sandra Myers
Spain | 50.99  | Anita Protti
Switzerland | 51.41
(NR)
800 metres
details | Christine Wachtel
Germany | 2:01.51  | Violeta Beclea
Romania | 2:01.75  | Ella Kovacs
Romania | 2:01.79
1500 metres
details | Lyudmila Rogachova
Soviet Union | 4:05.09  | Ivana Kubešová
Czechoslovakia | 4:06.22  | Tudorita Chidu
Romania | 4:06.27
3000 metres
details | Marie-Pierre Duros
France | 8:50.69  | Margareta Keszeg
Romania | 8:51.51  | Lyubov Kremlyova
Soviet Union | 8:51.90
60 metres hurdles
details | Lyudmila Narozhilenko
Soviet Union | 7.88  | Monique Ewanjé-Épée
France | 7.90  | Aliuska López
Cuba | 8.03
3000 metres walk
details | Beate Anders
Germany | 11:50.90
(CR) | Kerry Saxby
Australia | 12:03.21  | Ileana Salvador
Italy | 12:07.67
4 × 400 metres relay
details |  Germany (GER)
Sandra Seuser,
Katrin Schreiter,
Annett Hesselbarth,
Grit Breuer | 3:27.22
(WR) |  Soviet Union (URS)
Marina Shmonina,
Lyudmila Dzhigalova,
Margarita Ponomaryova,
Aelita Yurchenko | 3:27.95
(NR) |  United States (USA)
Terri Dendy,
Lillie Leatherwood,
Jearl Miles,
Diane Dixon | 3:29.00
(AR)
High jump
details | Heike Henkel
Germany | 2.00  | Tamara Bykova
Soviet Union | 1.97  | Heike Balck
Germany | 1.94
Long jump
details | Larisa Berezhnaya
Soviet Union | 6.84  | Heike Drechsler
Germany | 6.82  | Marieta Ilcu
Romania | 6.74
Shot put
details | Sui Xinmei
China | 20.54
(CR) | Huang Zhihong
China | 20.33  | Natalya Lisovskaya
Soviet Union | 20.00

#### Non-championship event

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Triple jump
details | Inessa Kravets
Soviet Union | 14.44
(CR) | Li Huirong
China | 13.98  | Sofiya Bozhanova
Bulgaria | 13.62

### Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Soviet Union (URS)| 7| 6| 4| 17
2|  Germany (GER)| 6| 1| 2| 9
3|  United States (USA)| 4| 1| 2| 7
4|  Jamaica (JAM)| 2| 1| 0| 3
5|  France (FRA)| 1| 1| 1| 3
6|  China (CHN)| 1| 1| 0| 2
Kenya (KEN)| 1| 1| 0| 2
8|  Switzerland (SUI)| 1| 0| 1| 2
9|  Algeria (ALG)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Bulgaria (BUL)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Ireland (IRL)| 1| 0| 0| 1
12|  Spain (ESP)| 0| 3| 1| 4
13|  Romania (ROM)| 0| 2| 3| 5
14|  Great Britain (GBR)| 0| 2| 2| 4
15|  Cuba (CUB)| 0| 1| 3| 4
Italy (ITA)| 0| 1| 3| 4
17|  Australia (AUS)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Austria (AUT)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Czechoslovakia (TCH)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Morocco (MAR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Poland (POL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
22|  Canada (CAN)| 0| 0| 2| 2
23|  Nigeria (NGR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Portugal (POR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Sweden (SWE)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (25 entries)| 26| 26| 27| 79

## Participating nations

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* Algeria (4)
* Andorra (1)
* Angola (2)
* Anguilla (1)
* Argentina (2)
* Australia (12)
* Austria (9)
* Bahamas (3)
* Belgium (3)
* Bermuda (1)
* Bolivia (2)
* Botswana (1)
* Brazil (6)
* Bulgaria (8)
* Burundi (2)
* Cameroon (2)
* Canada (14)
* Chile (3)
* China (13)
* Chinese Taipei (2)
* Colombia (2)
* Cuba (13)
* Cyprus (1)
* Czechoslovakia (16)
* Denmark (2)
* Dominican Republic (2)
* Ecuador (2)
* Ethiopia (2)
* Finland (6)
* France (17)
* Germany (43)
* Ghana (2)
* Great Britain (21)
* Greece (4)
* Guinea (1)
* Hungary (7)
* Iceland (3)
* Ireland (6)
* Israel (2)
* Italy (17)
* Ivory Coast (2)
* Jamaica (10)
* Japan (4)
* Kenya (6)
* Luxembourg (1)
* Madagascar (1)
* Malaysia (1)
* Mauritius (1)
* Morocco (8)
* Netherlands (8)
* Netherlands Antilles (1)
* New Zealand (2)
* Nigeria (5)
* Norway (5)
* Pakistan (1)
* Paraguay (1)
* Peru (2)
* Poland (10)
* Portugal (5)
* Republic of the Congo (2)
* Romania (18)
* Rwanda (1)
* Senegal (3)
* Sierra Leone (1)
* South Korea (1)
* Soviet Union (42)
* Spain (36)
* Swaziland (2)
* Sweden (5)
* Switzerland (3)
* Tanzania (2)
* Trinidad and Tobago (5)
* Tunisia (1)
* Turkey (1)
* Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
* United States (49)
* United States Virgin Islands (2)
* Uruguay (2)
* Yugoslavia (5)
* Zambia (2)

## See also

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* 1991 in athletics (track and field)

## External links

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