1993 World Championships in Athletics

4th World Championships in Athletics

4th World Championships in Athletics

Host city| Stuttgart, Germany
Nations| 187
Athletes| 1689
Dates| 13–22 August 1993
Opened by| President Richard von Weizsäcker
Main venue| Neckarstadium

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The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Neckarstadium, Stuttgart, Germany between 13 and 22 August with the participation of 187 nations.[1] Having originally being held every four years in 1983, 1987 and 1991, these championships began a two-year cycle between events.

## Event

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The 1993 World Championships was the final time the women's 3,000 m would be contested. At subsequent Championships the race was replaced by the longer 5000 m.

## Men's results

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### Track

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1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details |  Linford Christie (GBR) | 9.87
(AR) |  Andre Cason (USA) | 9.92  |  Dennis Mitchell (USA) | 9.99
200 m
details |  Frankie Fredericks (NAM) | 19.85
(CR/AR) |  John Regis (GBR) | 19.94  |  Carl Lewis (USA) | 19.99
400 m
details |  Michael Johnson (USA) | 43.65
(CR) |  Butch Reynolds (USA) | 44.13  |  Samson Kitur (KEN) | 44.54
800 m
details |  Paul Ruto (KEN) | 1:44.71  |  Giuseppe D'Urso (ITA) | 1:44.86  |  Billy Konchellah (KEN) | 1:44.89
1,500 m
details |  Noureddine Morceli (ALG) | 3:34.24  |  Fermin Cacho Ruiz (ESP) | 3:35.56  |  Abdi Bile (SOM) | 3:35.96
5,000 m
details |  Ismael Kirui (KEN) | 13:02.75  |  Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) | 13:03.17  |  Fita Bayisa (ETH) | 13:05.40
10,000 m
details |  Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) | 27:46.02  |  Moses Tanui (KEN) | 27:46.54  |  Richard Chelimo (KEN) | 28:06.02
Marathon
details |  Mark Plaatjes (USA) | 2:13:57  |  Luketz Swartbooi (NAM) | 2:14:11  |  Bert van Vlaanderen (NED) | 2:15:12
110 m hurdles
details |  Colin Jackson (GBR) | 12.91
(WR) |  Tony Jarrett (GBR) | 13.00  |  Jack Pierce (USA) | 13.06
400 m hurdles
details |  Kevin Young (USA) | 47.18  |  Samuel Matete (ZAM) | 47.60  |  Winthrop Graham (JAM) | 47.62
3,000 m steeplech.
details |  Moses Kiptanui (KEN) | 8:06.36
(CR) |  Patrick Sang (KEN) | 8:07.53  |  Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA) | 8:08.78
20 km walk
details |  Valentí Massana (ESP) | 1:22:31  |  Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA) | 1:23:06  |  Daniel Plaza (ESP) | 1:23:18
50 km walk
details |  Jesus Garcia (ESP) | 3:41:41  |  Valentin Kononen (FIN) | 3:42:02  |  Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS) | 3:42:50
4 × 100 m relay
details |  United States (USA)
Jon Drummond
Andre Cason
Dennis Mitchell
Leroy Burrell
Calvin Smith* | 37.48  |  Great Britain (GBR)
Colin Jackson
Tony Jarrett
John Regis
Linford Christie
Jason John*
Darren Braithwaite* | 37.77
(AR) |  Canada (CAN)
Robert Esmie
Glenroy Gilbert
Bruny Surin
Atlee Mahorn | 37.83
(NR)
4 × 400 m relay
details |  United States (USA)
Andrew Valmon
Quincy Watts
Butch Reynolds
Michael Johnson
Antonio Pettigrew*
Derek Mills* | 2:54.29
(WR) |  Kenya (KEN)
Kennedy Ochieng
Simon Kemboi
Abednego Matilu
Samson Kitur | 2:59.82  |  Germany (GER)
Rico Lieder
Karsten Just
Olaf Hense
Thomas Schönlebe | 2:59.99

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)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

### Field

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1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Long jump
details |  Mike Powell (USA) | 8.59  |  Stanislav Tarasenko (RUS) | 8.16  |  Vitaliy Kyrylenko (UKR) | 8.15
Triple jump
details |  Mike Conley (USA) | 17.86  |  Leonid Voloshin (RUS) | 17.65  |  Jonathan Edwards (GBR) | 17.44
High jump
details |  Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.40
(CR) |  Artur Partyka (POL) | 2.37  |  Steve Smith (GBR) | 2.37
Pole vault
details |  Sergey Bubka (UKR) | 6.00
(CR) |  Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ) | 5.90
(AR) |  Maksim Tarasov (RUS) | 5.80
Igor Trandenkov (RUS)
Shot put
details |  Werner Günthör (SUI) | 21.97  |  Randy Barnes (USA) | 21.80  |  Oleksandr Bagach (UKR) | 20.401
Discus throw
details |  Lars Riedel (GER) | 67.72  |  Dmitriy Shevchenko (RUS) | 66.90  |  Jürgen Schult (GER) | 66.12
Hammer throw
details |  Andrey Abduvaliyev (TJK) | 81.64
(AR) |  Igor Astapkovich (BLR) | 79.88  |  Tibor Gécsek (HUN) | 79.54
Javelin throw
details |  Jan Železný (CZE) | 85.98
(CR) |  Kimmo Kinnunen (FIN) | 84.78  |  Mick Hill (GBR) | 82.96
Decathlon
details |  Dan O'Brien (USA) | 8817
(CR) |  Eduard Hämäläinen (BLR) | 8724  |  Paul Meier (GER) | 8548

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)

1 Michael Stulce of the United States originally finished third, but was disqualified after testing positive for excess testosterone and mestanolone.

## Women's results

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### Track

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1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Gail Devers
United States | 10.82
CR  | Merlene Ottey
Jamaica | 10.82
CR  | Gwen Torrence
United States | 10.89
200 m
details | Merlene Ottey
Jamaica | 21.98  | Gwen Torrence
United States | 22.00  | Irina Privalova
Russia | 22.13
400 m
details | Jearl Miles
United States | 49.82  | Natasha Kaiser-Brown
United States | 50.17  | Sandie Richards
Jamaica | 50.44
800 m
details | Maria Mutola
Mozambique | 1:55.43
AR  | Lyubov Gurina
Russia | 1:57.10  | Ella Kovacs
Romania | 1:57.92
1500 m
details | Liu Dong
China | 4:00.50  | Sonia O'Sullivan
Ireland | 4:03.48  | Hassiba Boulmerka
Algeria | 4:04.29
3000 m
details | Qu Yunxia
China | 8:28.71
CR  | Zhang Linli
China | 8:29.25  | Zhang Lirong
China | 8:31.95
10,000 m
details | Wang Junxia
China | 30:49.30
CR  | Zhong Huandi
China | 31:12.55  | Sally Barsosio
Kenya | 31:15.38
Marathon
details | Junko Asari
Japan | 2:30:03  | Manuela Machado
Portugal | 2:30:54  | Tomoe Abe
Japan | 2:31:01
100 m hurdles
details | Gail Devers
United States | 12.46
AR  | Marina Azyabina
Russia | 12.60  | Lynda Tolbert
United States | 12.67
400 m hurdles
details | Sally Gunnell
Great Britain | 52.74
WR  | Sandra Farmer-Patrick
United States | 52.79
AR  | Margarita Ponomaryova
Russia | 53.48
10 km walk
details | Sari Essayah
Finland | 42:59  | Ileana Salvador
Italy | 43:08  | Encarna Granados
Spain | 43:21
4 × 100 m relay
details |  Russia
Olga Bogoslovskaya
Galina Malchugina
Natalya Voronova
Irina Privalova
Marina Trandenkova* | 41.49 CR |  United States
Michelle Finn
Gwen Torrence
Wendy Vereen
Gail Devers
Sheila Echols* | 41.49 CR |  Jamaica
Michelle Freeman
Juliet Campbell
Nikole Mitchell
Merlene Ottey
Dahlia Duhaney* | 41.94=NR
4 × 400 m relay
details |  United States
Gwen Torrence
Maicel Malone
Natasha Kaiser
Jearl Miles
Terri Dendy*
Michelle Collins* | 3:16.71 CR |  Russia
Yelena Rouzina
Tatyana Alekseyeva
Margarita Ponomaryova
Irina Privalova
Yelena Golesheva*
Vera Sychugova* | 3:18.38  |  Great Britain
Linda Keough
Phylis Smith
Tracy Goddard
Sally Gunnell | 3:23.41

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)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

### Field

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1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Long jump
details | Heike Drechsler
Germany | 7.11  | Larysa Berezhna
Ukraine | 6.98  | Renata Nielsen
Denmark | 6.76
Triple jump
details | Anna Biryukova
Russia | 15.09
WR  | Yolanda Chen
Russia | 14.70  | Iva Prandzheva
Bulgaria | 14.23
High jump
details | Ioamnet Quintero
Cuba | 1.99  | Silvia Costa
Cuba | 1.97  | Sigrid Kirchmann
Austria | 1.97

Shot put
details | Huang Zhihong
China | 20.57  | Svetlana Krivelyova
Russia | 19.97  | Kathrin Neimke
Germany | 19.71
Discus throw
details | Olga Chernyavskaya
Russia | 67.40  | Daniela Costian
Australia | 65.36  | Min Chunfeng
China | 65.26
Javelin throw
details | Trine Hattestad
Norway | 69.18  | Karen Forkel
Germany | 65.80  | Natalya Shikolenko
Belarus | 65.64
Heptathlon
details | Jackie Joyner-Kersee
United States | 6837  | Sabine Braun
Germany | 6797  | Svetlana Buraga
Belarus | 6635

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)

## Medal table

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* Host nation (Germany)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States (USA)| 13| 7| 5| 25
2|  China (CHN)| 4| 2| 2| 8
3|  Russia (RUS)| 3| 8| 5| 16
4|  Great Britain (GBR)| 3| 3| 4| 10
Kenya (KEN)| 3| 3| 4| 10
6|  Germany (GER)*| 2| 2| 4| 8
7|  Spain (ESP)| 2| 1| 2| 5
8|  Cuba (CUB)| 2| 1| 0| 3
9|  Finland (FIN)| 1| 2| 0| 3
10|  Jamaica (JAM)| 1| 1| 3| 5
11|  Ukraine (UKR)| 1| 1| 2| 4
12|  Ethiopia (ETH)| 1| 1| 1| 3
13|  Namibia (NAM)| 1| 1| 0| 2
14|  Algeria (ALG)| 1| 0| 1| 2
Japan (JPN)| 1| 0| 1| 2
16|  Czech Republic (CZE)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Mozambique (MOZ)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Norway (NOR)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Switzerland (SUI)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Tajikistan (TJK)| 1| 0| 0| 1
21|  Italy (ITA)| 0| 3| 1| 4
22|  Belarus (BLR)| 0| 2| 2| 4
23|  Australia (AUS)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Ireland (IRL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Poland (POL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Portugal (POR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Zambia (ZAM)| 0| 1| 0| 1
29|  Austria (AUT)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Bulgaria (BUL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Canada (CAN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Denmark (DEN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Hungary (HUN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Netherlands (NED)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Romania (ROU)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Somalia (SOM)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (36 entries)| 44| 44| 45| 133

Source: [1]

## See also

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* 1993 in athletics (track and field)

## References

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Notes

1. ^ "iaaf.org – Osaka 2007 – History". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-04-03.

Sources

* IAAF 1993

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