1993 World Championships in Athletics

4th World Championships in Athletics

Host city	Stuttgart, Germany
Nations participating	187
Athletes participating	1689
Dates	August 13 – August 22
Main venue	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
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The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium, Stuttgart, Germany between August 13 and August 22 with the participation of 187 nations.^[1]

The 1993 World Championships was the final time the women's 3000 m would be contested. At subsequent Championships the race was replaced by the longer 5000 m.

Men's results

Track

1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

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

Field

1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Long jump	Mike Powell (USA)	8.59	Stanislav Tarasenko (RUS)	8.16	Vitaliy Kyrylenko (UKR)	8.15
Triple jump	Mike Conley (USA)	17.86	Leonid Voloshin (RUS)	17.65	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	17.44
High jump	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.40 (CR)	Artur Partyka (POL)	2.37	Steve Smith (GBR)	2.37
Pole vault	Sergey Bubka (UKR)	6.00 (CR)	Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)	5.90 (AR)	Maksim Tarasov (RUS)	5.80
					Igor Trandenkov (RUS)
Shot put	Werner Günthör (SUI)	21.97	Randy Barnes (USA)	21.80	Oleksandr Bagach (UKR)	20.40^1
Discus throw	Lars Riedel (GER)	67.72	Dmitriy Shevchenko (RUS)	66.90	Jürgen Schult (GER)	66.12
Hammer throw	Andrey Abduvaliyev (TJK)	81.64 (AR)	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	79.88	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)	79.54
Javelin throw	Jan Železný (CZE)	85.98 (CR)	Kimmo Kinnunen (FIN)	84.78	Mick Hill (GBR)	82.96
Decathlon	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 mestenolone.

Women's results

Track

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

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

Field

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Long jump	Heike Drechsler  Germany	7.11	Larysa Berezhna  Ukraine	6.98	Renata Nielsen  Denmark	6.76
Triple jump	Anna Biryukova  Russia	15.09 WR	Yolanda Chen  Russia	14.70	Iva Prandzheva  Bulgaria	14.23
High jump	Ioamnet Quintero  Cuba	1.99	Silvia Costa  Cuba	1.97	Sigrid Kirchmann  Austria	1.97 NR
Shot put	Huang Zhihong  China	20.57	Svetlana Krivelyova  Russia	19.97	Kathrin Neimke  Germany	19.71
Discus throw	Olga Chernyavskaya  Russia	67.40	Daniela Costian  Australia	65.36	Min Chunfeng  China	65.26
Javelin throw	Trine Hattestad  Norway	69.18	Karen Forkel  Germany	65.80	Natalya Shikolenko  Belarus	65.64
Heptathlon	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 by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	United States	13	7	5	25
2.	China	4	2	2	8
3.	Russia	3	8	5	16
4=	Great Britain	3	3	4	10
4=	Kenya	3	3	4	10
6.	Germany	2	2	4	8
7.	Spain	2	1	2	5
8.	Cuba	2	1	0	3
9.	Finland	1	2	0	3
10.	Jamaica	1	1	3	5
11.	Ukraine	1	1	2	4
12.	Ethiopia	1	1	1	3
13.	Namibia	1	1	0	2
14=	Algeria	1	0	1	2
14=	Japan	1	0	1	2
16=	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
16=	Mozambique	1	0	0	1
16=	Norway	1	0	0	1
16=	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
16=	Tajikistan	1	0	0	1
21.	Italy	0	3	1	4
22.	Belarus	0	2	2	4
23=	Australia	0	1	0	1
23=	Ireland	0	1	0	1
23=	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
23=	Poland	0	1	0	1
23=	Portugal	0	1	0	1
23=	Zambia	0	1	0	1
29=	Austria	0	0	1	1
29=	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
29=	Canada	0	0	1	1
29=	Denmark	0	0	1	1
29=	Hungary	0	0	1	1
29=	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
29=	Romania	0	0	1	1
29=	Somalia	0	0	1	1

See also

• 1993 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. "iaaf.org - Osaka 2007 - History". Archived from the original on 2009-05-10. Retrieved 2009-04-03.

• IAAF 1993