1995 World Championships in Athletics

1995 edition of the World Championships in Athletics

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5th World Championships in Athletics

Host city| Gothenburg, Sweden
Nations| 191
Athletes| 1804
Dates| 5–13 August 1995
Opened by| King Carl XVI Gustaf
Main venue| Ullevi Stadium

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The 5th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden on 5–13 August 1995.

This edition featured 1804 athletes from 191 nations.[1]

This competition saw the women run the 5000 m event at the World Championships for the first time. The race replaced the 3000 m event which had been run at all previous World Championships.

## Men's results

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### Track

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1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Donovan Bailey
Canada | 9.97  | Bruny Surin
Canada | 10.03  | Ato Boldon
Trinidad and Tobago | 10.03
200 m
details | Michael Johnson
United States | 19.79
CR  | Frankie Fredericks
Namibia | 20.12  | Jeff Williams
United States | 20.18
400 m
details | Michael Johnson
United States | 43.39
CR  | Butch Reynolds
United States | 44.22  | Greg Haughton
Jamaica | 44.56
800 m
details | Wilson Kipketer
Denmark | 1:45.08  | Arthémon Hatungimana
Burundi | 1:45.64  | Vebjørn Rodal
Norway | 1:45.68
1,500 m
details | Noureddine Morceli
Algeria | 3:33.73  | Hicham El Guerrouj
Morocco | 3:35.28  | Vénuste Niyongabo
Burundi | 3:35.56
5,000 m
details | Ismael Kirui
Kenya | 13:16.77  | Khalid Bouhlami
Morocco | 13:17.15  | Shem Kororia
Kenya | 13:17.59
10,000 m
details | Haile Gebrselassie
Ethiopia | 27:12.95
CR  | Khalid Skah
Morocco | 27:14.53  | Paul Tergat
Kenya | 27:14.70
Marathon
details | Martín Fiz
Spain | 2:11:41  | Dionicio Cerón
Mexico | 2:12:13  | Luíz Antônio dos Santos
Brazil | 2:12:49
110 m hurdles
details | Allen Johnson
United States | 13.00  | Tony Jarrett
Great Britain | 13.04  | Roger Kingdom
United States | 13.19
400 m hurdles
details | Derrick Adkins
United States | 47.98  | Samuel Matete
Zambia | 48.03  | Stéphane Diagana
France | 48.14
3,000 m st.
details | Moses Kiptanui
Kenya | 8:04.16
CR  | Christopher Koskei
Kenya | 8:09.30  | Saad Al-Asmari
Saudi Arabia | 8:12.95

20 km walk
details | Michele Didoni
Italy | 1:19:59  | Valentí Massana
Spain | 1:20:23  | Yevgeniy Misyulya
Belarus | 1:20:48
50 km walk
details | Valentin Kononen
Finland | 3:43:42  | Giovanni Perricelli
Italy | 3:45:11  | Robert Korzeniowski
Poland | 3:45:57
4 × 100 m relay
details |  Canada (CAN)
Donovan Bailey
Robert Esmie
Glenroy Gilbert
Bruny Surin | 38.31  |  Australia (AUS)
Paul Henderson
Tim Jackson
Steve Brimacombe
Damien Marsh | 38.50  |  Italy (ITA)
Giovanni Puggioni
Ezio Madonia
Angelo Cipolloni
Sandro Floris | 39.07
4 × 400 m relay
details |  United States (USA)
Marlon Ramsey
Derek Mills
Butch Reynolds
Michael Johnson
Kevin Lyles*
Darnell Hall* | 2:57.32  |  Jamaica (JAM)
Michael McDonald
Davian Clarke
Danny McFarlane
Greg Haughton
Dennis Blake* | 2:59.88  |  Nigeria (NGR)
Udeme Ekpeyong
Kunle Adejuyigbe
Jude Monye
Sunday Bada | 3:03.18

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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1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Long jump
details | Iván Pedroso
Cuba | 8.70  | James Beckford
Jamaica | 8.30  | Mike Powell
United States | 8.29
Triple jump
details | Jonathan Edwards
Great Britain | 18.29
(WR) | Brian Wellman
Bermuda | 17.62  | Jérôme Romain
Dominica | 17.59
High jump
details | Troy Kemp
Bahamas | 2.37  | Javier Sotomayor
Cuba | 2.37  | Artur Partyka
Poland | 2.35
Pole vault
details | Sergey Bubka
Ukraine | 5.92  | Maksim Tarasov
Russia | 5.86  | Jean Galfione
France | 5.86
Shot put
details | John Godina
United States | 21.47  | Mika Halvari
Finland | 20.93  | Randy Barnes
United States | 20.41
Discus throw
details | Lars Riedel
Germany | 68.76
(CR) | Vladimir Dubrovshchik
Belarus | 65.98  | Vasiliy Kaptyukh
Belarus | 65.88
Hammer throw
details | Andrey Abduvaliyev
Tajikistan | 81.56  | Igor Astapkovich
Belarus | 81.10  | Tibor Gécsek
Hungary | 80.98
Javelin throw
details | Jan Železný
Czech Republic | 89.58  | Steve Backley
Great Britain | 86.30  | Boris Henry
Germany | 86.08
Decathlon
details | Dan O'Brien
United States | 8695  | Eduard Hämäläinen
Belarus | 8489  | Mike Smith
Canada | 8419

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)

## Women's results

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### Track

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1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details |  Gwen Torrence (USA) | 10.85  |  Merlene Ottey (JAM) | 10.94  |  Irina Privalova (RUS) | 10.96
200 m
details |  Merlene Ottey (JAM) | 22.12  |  Irina Privalova (RUS) | 22.12  |  Galina Malchugina (RUS) | 22.37
400 m
details |  Marie-José Pérec (FRA) | 49.28  |  Pauline Davis (BAH) | 49.96  |  Jearl Miles (USA) | 50.00
800 m
details |  Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) | 1:56.11  |  Letitia Vriesde (SUR) | 1:56.68
(AR) |  Kelly Holmes (GBR) | 1:56.95
1,500 m
details |  Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG) | 4:02.42  |  Kelly Holmes (GBR) | 4:03.04  |  Carla Sacramento (POR) | 4:03.79
5,000 m
details |  Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL) | 14:46.47
(CR) |  Fernanda Ribeiro (POR) | 14:48.54  |  Zahra Ouaziz (MAR) | 14:53.77
10,000 m
details |  Fernanda Ribeiro (POR) | 31:04.99  |  Derartu Tulu (ETH) | 31:08.10  |  Tegla Loroupe (KEN) | 31:17.66
Marathon
details |  Manuela Machado (POR) | 2:25:39  |  Anuța Cătună (ROU) | 2:26:25  |  Ornella Ferrara (ITA) | 2:30:11
The marathon course was 400 m short of the normal distance.
100 m hurdles
details |  Gail Devers (USA) | 12.68  |  Olga Shishigina (KAZ) | 12.80  |  Yuliya Graudyn (RUS) | 12.85
400 m hurdles
details |  Kim Batten (USA) | 52.61
(WR) |  Tonja Buford (USA) | 52.62  |  Deon Hemmings (JAM) | 53.48
(NR)
10 km walk
details |  Irina Stankina (RUS) | 42:13
(CR) |  Elisabetta Perrone (ITA) | 42:16  |  Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS) | 42:20
4 × 100 m relay
details |  United States (USA)
Celena Mondie-Milner
Carlette Guidry
Chryste Gaines
Gwen Torrence
D'Andre Hill* | 42.12  |  Jamaica (JAM)
Dahlia Duhaney
Juliet Cuthbert
Beverly McDonald
Merlene Ottey
Michelle Freeman* | 42.25  |  Germany (GER)
Melanie Paschke
Silke Lichtenhagen
Silke-Beate Knoll
Gabriele Becker | 43.01
4 × 400 m relay
details |  United States (USA)
Kim Graham
Rochelle Stevens
Camara Jones
Jearl Miles
Nicole Green* | 3:22.29  |  Russia (RUS)
Tatyana Chebykina
Svetlana Goncharenko
Yuliya Sotnikova
Yelena Andreyeva
Tatyana Zakharova* | 3:23.98  |  Australia (AUS)
Lee Naylor
Renée Poetschka
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Cathy Freeman | 3:25.88

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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1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Long jump
details |  Fiona May (ITA) | 6.98  |  Niurka Montalvo (CUB) | 6.86  |  Irina Mushayilova (RUS) | 6.83
Triple jump
details |  Inessa Kravets (UKR) | 15.50
(WR) |  Iva Prandzheva (BUL) | 15.18  |  Anna Biryukova (RUS) | 15.08
High jump
details |  Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | 2.01  |  Alina Astafei (GER) | 1.99  |  Inha Babakova (UKR) | 1.99
Shot put
details |  Astrid Kumbernuss (GER) | 21.22  |  Huang Zhihong (CHN) | 20.04  |  Svetla Mitkova (BUL) | 19.56
Discus throw
details |  Ellina Zvereva (BLR) | 68.64  |  Ilke Wyludda (GER) | 67.20  |  Olga Chernyavskaya (RUS) | 66.86
Javelin throw
details |  Natalya Shikolenko (BLR) | 67.56  |  Felicia Tilea (ROU) | 65.22  |  Mikaela Ingberg (FIN) | 65.16
Heptathlon
details |  Ghada Shouaa (SYR) | 6651  |  Svetlana Moskalets (RUS) | 6575  |  Rita Ináncsi (HUN) | 6522

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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Note that the host, Sweden, did not win any medals at these championships. This fate Sweden shares only with Canada (2001).

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States (USA)| 12| 2| 5| 19
2|  Belarus (BLR)| 2| 3| 2| 7
3|  Germany (GER)| 2| 2| 2| 6
Italy (ITA)| 2| 2| 2| 6
5|  Cuba (CUB)| 2| 2| 0| 4
6|  Kenya (KEN)| 2| 1| 3| 6
7|  Canada (CAN)| 2| 1| 1| 4
Portugal (POR)| 2| 1| 1| 4
9|  Ukraine (UKR)| 2| 0| 1| 3
10|  Algeria (ALG)| 2| 0| 0| 2
11|  Russia (RUS)| 1| 4| 7| 12
12|  Jamaica (JAM)| 1| 4| 2| 7
13|  Great Britain (GBR)| 1| 3| 1| 5
14|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 1| 1| 1| 3
Finland (FIN)| 1| 1| 1| 3
16|  Bahamas (BAH)| 1| 1| 0| 2
Ethiopia (ETH)| 1| 1| 0| 2
Spain (ESP)| 1| 1| 0| 2
19|  France (FRA)| 1| 0| 2| 3
20|  Czech Republic (CZE)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Denmark (DEN)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Ireland (IRL)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Syria (SYR)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Tajikistan (TJK)| 1| 0| 0| 1
25|  Morocco (MAR)| 0| 3| 1| 4
26|  Romania (ROU)| 0| 2| 0| 2
27|  Australia (AUS)| 0| 1| 1| 2
Burundi (BDI)| 0| 1| 1| 2
29|  Bermuda (BER)| 0| 1| 0| 1
China (CHN)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Mexico (MEX)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Namibia (NAM)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Suriname (SUR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Zambia (ZAM)| 0| 1| 0| 1
36|  Hungary (HUN)| 0| 0| 2| 2
Poland (POL)| 0| 0| 2| 2
38|  Brazil (BRA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Dominica (DMA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Nigeria (NGR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Norway (NOR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Saudi Arabia (KSA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (43 entries)| 44| 44| 44| 132

Source: [1]

## References

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* IAAF 1995 Championship

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

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