2003 World Championships in Athletics

2003 edition of the World Championships in Athletics

IX World Championships in Athletics
Championnats du monde d'athlétisme-Saint-Denis

Host city| Saint-Denis, France
Nations| 198
Athletes| 1679
Dates| 23–31 August 2003
Opened by| Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Closed by| IAAF President Lamine Diack
Main venue| Stade de France

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The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from 23 August to 31 August 2003 in the streets of Paris and the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.

## Men's results

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### Track

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1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Kim Collins
Saint Kitts and Nevis | 10.07  | Darrel Brown
Trinidad and Tobago | 10.08  | Darren Campbell
Great Britain | 10.08
(SB)
200 m
details | John Capel
United States | 20.30  | Darvis Patton
United States | 20.31  | Shingo Suetsugu
Japan | 20.38
400 m
details | Tyree Washington
United States | 44.771 | Marc Raquil
France | 44.79
(NR) | Michael Blackwood
Jamaica | 44.80
800 m
details | Djabir Saïd-Guerni
Algeria | 1:44.81  | Yuriy Borzakovskiy
Russia | 1:44.84  | Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
South Africa | 1:44.90
1500 m
details | Hicham El Guerrouj
Morocco | 3:31.77  | Mehdi Baala
France | 3:32.31  | Ivan Heshko
Ukraine | 3:33.17
5000 m
details | Eliud Kipchoge
Kenya | 12:52.79
(CR) | Hicham El Guerrouj
Morocco | 12:52.83  | Kenenisa Bekele
Ethiopia | 12:53.12
10,000 m
details | Kenenisa Bekele
Ethiopia | 26:49.57
(CR) | Haile Gebrselassie
Ethiopia | 26:50.77
(SB) | Sileshi Sihine
Ethiopia | 27:01.44
Marathon
details | Jaouad Gharib
Morocco | 2:08:31
(CR) | Julio Rey
Spain | 2:08:38  | Stefano Baldini
Italy | 2:09:14
110 m hurdles
details | Allen Johnson
United States | 13.12  | Terrence Trammell
United States | 13.20
(SB) | Liu Xiang
China | 13.23
400 m hurdles
details | Félix Sánchez
Dominican Republic | 47.25
(WL) | Joey Woody
United States | 48.18
(SB) | Periklís Iakovákis
Greece | 48.24
3000 m steeplechase
details | Saif Saaeed Shaheen
Qatar | 8:04.39  | Ezekiel Kemboi
Kenya | 8:05.11  | Eliseo Martin
Spain | 8:09.09
(PB)
20 km race walk
details | Jefferson Pérez
Ecuador | 1:17:21
(WBP) | Paquillo Fernández
Spain | 1:18:00
(SB) | Roman Rasskazov
Russia | 1:18:07
(SB)
50 km race walk
details | Robert Korzeniowski
Poland | 3:36:03
(WBP) | German Skurygin
Russia | 3:36:42
(NR) | Andreas Erm
Germany | 3:37:46
(NR)
4 × 100 m relay
details |  United States (USA)
John Capel
Bernard Williams
Darvis Patton
Joshua J. Johnson | 38.06  |  Brazil (BRA)
Vicente de Lima
Édson Ribeiro
André da Silva
Cláudio Roberto Souza | 38.26
(SB) |  Netherlands (NED)
Timothy Beck
Troy Douglas
Patrick van Balkom
Caimin Douglas
Guus Hoogmoed* | 38.87
4 × 400 m relay
details |  France (FRA)
Leslie Djhone
Naman Keïta
Stéphane Diagana
Marc Raquil
Ahmed Douhou* | 2:58.962
(NR) |  Jamaica (JAM)
Brandon Simpson
Danny McFarlane
Davian Clarke
Michael Blackwood
Michael Campbell*
Lansford Spence* | 2:59.60
(SB) |  Bahamas (BAH)
Avard Moncur
Dennis Darling
Nathaniel McKinney
Chris Brown
Carl Oliver* | 3:00.53
(SB)

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.
1 Jerome Young of the United States originally finished first in 44.50, but was disqualified after he tested positive for drugs in 2004.
2 The United States (Calvin Harrison, Tyree Washington, Derrick Brew, Jerome Young) originally finished first in 2:58.88, but were disqualified after Jerome Young and Calvin Harrison both tested positive for drugs in 2004.

### Field

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1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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High jump
details | Jacques Freitag
South Africa | 2.35
(SB) | Stefan Holm
Sweden | 2.32  | Mark Boswell
Canada | 2.32
(SB)
Long jump
details | Dwight Phillips
United States | 8.32  | James Beckford
Jamaica | 8.28
(SB) | Yago Lamela
Spain | 8.22
Pole vault
details | Giuseppe Gibilisco
Italy | 5.90
(NR) | Okkert Brits
South Africa | 5.85
(SB) | Patrik Kristiansson
Sweden | 5.85
(PB)
Triple jump
details | Christian Olsson
Sweden | 17.72  | Yoandri Betanzos
Cuba | 17.28
(SB) | Leevan Sands
Bahamas | 17.26
Shot put
details | Andrei Mikhnevich
Belarus | 21.69
(PB) | Adam Nelson
United States | 21.26  | Yuriy Bilonoh
Ukraine | 21.10
Discus
details | Virgilijus Alekna
Lithuania | 69.69
(SB) | Róbert Fazekas
Hungary | 69.01  | Vasiliy Kaptyukh
Belarus | 66.51
(SB)
Javelin
details | Sergey Makarov
Russia | 85.44  | Andrus Värnik
Estonia | 85.17  | Boris Henry
Germany | 84.74
Hammer
details | Ivan Tikhon
Belarus | 83.05  | Adrián Annus
Hungary | 80.36  | Koji Murofushi
Japan | 80.12
Decathlon
details | Tom Pappas
United States | 8750  | Roman Šebrle
Czech Republic | 8634  | Dmitry Karpov
Kazakhstan | 8374
(NR)

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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1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Torri Edwards
United States | 10.93
(PB) | Chandra Sturrup
Bahamas | 11.02  | Ekaterini Thanou
Greece | 11.03
(SB)
200 m
details | Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Russia | 22.38
(PB) | Torri Edwards
United States | 22.47  | Muriel Hurtis
France | 22.59
400 m
details | Ana Guevara
Mexico | 48.89
(PB) | Lorraine Fenton
Jamaica | 49.43
(SB) | Amy Mbacké Thiam
Senegal | 49.95
(SB)
800 m
details | Maria Mutola
Mozambique | 1:59.89  | Kelly Holmes
Great Britain | 2:00.18  | Natalya Khrushchelyova
Russia | 2:00.29
1500 m
details | Tatyana Tomashova
Russia | 3:58.52
(CR) | Süreyya Ayhan
Turkey | 3:59.04  | Hayley Tullett
Great Britain | 3:59.95
(PB)
5000 m
details | Tirunesh Dibaba
Ethiopia | 14:51.72  | Marta Domínguez
Spain | 14:52.26  | Edith Masai
Kenya | 14:52.30
10,000 m
details | Berhane Adere
Ethiopia | 30:04.18
(CR) | Werknesh Kidane
Ethiopia | 30:07.15
(PB) | Sun Yingjie
China | 30:07.20
(PB)
Marathon
details | Catherine Ndereba
Kenya | 2:23:55
(CR) | Mizuki Noguchi
Japan | 2:24:14  | Masako Chiba
Japan | 2:25:09
100 m hurdles
details | Perdita Felicien
Canada | 12.53
(NR) | Brigitte Foster
Jamaica | 12.57  | Miesha McKelvy
United States | 12.67
400 m hurdles
details | Jana Pittman
Australia | 53.22
(PB) | Sandra Glover
United States | 53.65
(SB) | Yuliya Pechonkina
Russia | 53.71
20 km walk
details | Yelena Nikolayeva
Russia | 1:26:52
(CR) | Gillian O'Sullivan
Ireland | 1:27:34  | Valentina Tsybulskaya
Belarus | 1:28:10
(NR)
4 × 100 m relay
details |  France (FRA)
Patricia Girard-Léno
Muriel Hurtis
Sylviane Félix
Christine Arron | 41.78
(WL) |  United States (USA)
Angela Williams
Chryste Gaines
Inger Miller
Torri Edwards
Lauryn Williams* | 41.83
(SB) |  Russia (RUS)
Olga Fyodorova
Yuliya Tabakova
Marina Kislova
Larisa Kruglova | 42.66
4 × 400 m relay
details |  United States (USA)
Demetria Washington
Jearl Miles Clark
Me'Lisa Barber
Sanya Richards
DeeDee Trotter* | 3:22.63
(WL) |  Russia (RUS)
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Natalya Nazarova
Olesya Zykina
Yuliya Pechonkina (Nosova)
Svetlana Pospelova*
Svetlana Goncharenko* | 3:22.91
(SB) |  Jamaica (JAM)
Allison Beckford
Lorraine Fenton (Graham)
Ronetta Smith
Sandie Richards
Michelle Burgher* | 3:22.92
(SB)

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 medalists who ran in preliminary rounds.

### Field

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1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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High jump
details | Hestrie Cloete
South Africa | 2.06
(WL, AR) | Marina Kuptsova
Russia | 2.00  | Kajsa Bergqvist
Sweden | 2.00
Pole vault
details | Svetlana Feofanova
Russia | 4.75
(CR) | Annika Becker
Germany | 4.70
(SB) | Yelena Isinbayeva
Russia | 4.65
Long jump
details | Eunice Barber
France | 6.99
(SB) | Tatyana Kotova
Russia | 6.74  | Anju Bobby George
India | 6.70
(SB)
Triple jump
details | Tatyana Lebedeva
Russia | 15.18
(SB) | Françoise Mbango Etone
Cameroon | 15.05
(AR) | Magdelín Martínez
Italy | 14.90
(NR)
Shot put
details | Svetlana Krivelyova
Russia | 20.63  | Nadzeya Astapchuk
Belarus | 20.12
(PB) | Vita Pavlysh
Ukraine | 20.08
(SB)
Discus throw
details | Irina Yatchenko
Belarus | 67.32
(SB) | Anastasia Kelesidou
Greece | 67.14
(SB) | Ekaterini Voggoli
Greece | 66.73
(PB)
Hammer throw
details | Yipsi Moreno
Cuba | 73.33  | Olga Kuzenkova
Russia | 71.71  | Manuela Montebrun
France | 70.92
Javelin throw
details | Mirela Manjani
Greece | 66.52
(WL) | Tatyana Shikolenko
Russia | 63.28  | Steffi Nerius
Germany | 62.70
Heptathlon
details | Carolina Klüft
Sweden | 7001
(WL) | Eunice Barber
France | 6755
(SB) | Natallia Sazanovich
Belarus | 6524
(SB)
Swedish Carolina Klüft won with big margin following a breaking of her personal best in six of the seven events and the totals. She was the third woman ever to score more than 7000 points.

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 (France)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States (USA)| 8| 7| 1| 16
2|  Russia (RUS)| 7| 7| 5| 19
3|  France (FRA)*| 3| 3| 2| 8
4|  Ethiopia (ETH)| 3| 2| 2| 7
5|  Belarus (BLR)| 3| 1| 3| 7
6|  Sweden (SWE)| 2| 1| 2| 5
7|  Kenya (KEN)| 2| 1| 1| 4
South Africa (RSA)| 2| 1| 1| 4
9|  Morocco (MAR)| 2| 1| 0| 3
10|  Greece (GRE)| 1| 1| 3| 5
11|  Cuba (CUB)| 1| 1| 0| 2
12|  Italy (ITA)| 1| 0| 2| 3
13|  Canada (CAN)| 1| 0| 1| 2
14|  Algeria (ALG)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Australia (AUS)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Dominican Republic (DOM)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Ecuador (ECU)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Lithuania (LTU)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Mexico (MEX)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Mozambique (MOZ)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Poland (POL)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Qatar (QAT)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)| 1| 0| 0| 1
24|  Jamaica (JAM)| 0| 4| 2| 6
25|  Spain (ESP)| 0| 3| 2| 5
26|  Hungary (HUN)| 0| 2| 0| 2
27|  Germany (GER)| 0| 1| 3| 4
Japan (JPN)| 0| 1| 3| 4
29|  Bahamas (BAH)| 0| 1| 2| 3
Great Britain (GBR)| 0| 1| 2| 3
31|  Brazil (BRA)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Cameroon (CMR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Czech Republic (CZE)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Estonia (EST)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Ireland (IRL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Turkey (TUR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
38|  Ukraine (UKR)| 0| 0| 3| 3
39|  China (CHN)| 0| 0| 2| 2
40|  India (IND)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Netherlands (NED)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Senegal (SEN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (43 entries)| 46| 46| 46| 138

Source: [1]

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