1999 World Championships in Athletics

7th World Championships in Athletics

Host city

Seville, Spain

Nations participating

201

Athletes participating

1821

Dates

August 20–29, 1999

Main venue

Estadio Olímpico

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The 7th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Olímpico, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29.

One of the main highlights of the games was the world record set in the 400 metres by Michael Johnson of the United States in a time of 43.18 seconds.

Men's results

Track

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Maurice Greene (USA)	9.80 (CR)	Bruny Surin (CAN)	9.84 (=NR)	Dwain Chambers (GBR)	9.97 (PB)
200 m	Maurice Greene (USA)	19.90 (SB)	Claudinei da Silva (BRA)	20.00 (PB)	Francis Obikwelu (NGR)	20.11
400 m	Michael Johnson (USA)	43.18 (WR)	Sanderlei Claro Parrela (BRA)	44.29 (AR)	Alejandro Cárdenas (MEX)	44.31 (NR)
800 m	Wilson Kipketer (DEN)	1:43.30	Hezekiél Sepeng (RSA)	1:43.32	Djabir Saïd-Guerni (ALG)	1:44.18 (NR)
1500 m	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	3:27.65 (CR)	Noah Ngeny (KEN)	3:28.73 (NR)	Reyes Estévez (ESP)	3:30.57 (PB)
5000 m	Salah Hissou (MAR)	12:58.13 (CR)	Benjamin Limo (KEN)	12:58.72	Mohammed Mourhit (BEL)	12:58.80
10,000 m	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)	27:57.27	Paul Tergat (KEN)	27:58.56	Assefa Mezgebu (ETH)	27:59.15
Marathon	Abel Antón (ESP)	2:13:36	Vincenzo Modica (ITA)	2:14:03	Nobuyuki Sato (JPN)	2:14:07
110 m hurdles	Colin Jackson (GBR)	13.04 (SB)	Anier García (CUB)	13.07 (NR)	Duane Ross (USA)	13.12 (PB)
400 m hurdles	Fabrizio Mori (ITA)	47.72 (WL)	Stéphane Diagana (FRA)	48.12 (SB)	Marcel Schelbert (SUI)	48.13 (NR)
3000 m st.	Christopher Kosgei (KEN)	8:11.76	Wilson Boit Kipketer (KEN)	8:12.09	Ali Ezzine (MAR)	8.12.73
20 km walk	Ilya Markov (RUS)	1:23:34	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:24:19	Daniel García (MEX)	1:24:31
50 km walk	Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)	3:47:54¹ (PB)	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	3:48:18	Curt Clausen (USA)	3:50:55
4 × 100 m relay	United States (USA) Jon Drummond Tim Montgomery Brian Lewis Maurice Greene	37.59 (WL)	Great Britain (GBR) Jason Gardener Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Dwain Chambers	37.73 (AR)	Brazil (BRA) Raphael de Oliveira, Claudinei da Silva Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva	38.05² (AR)
4 × 400 m relay	Poland (POL) Tomasz Czubak Robert Maćkowiak Jacek Bocian Piotr Haczek	2:58.91³ (SB)	Jamaica (JAM) Michael McDonald Greg Haughton Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke	2:59.34	South Africa (South Africa) Jopie van Oudtshoorn Hendrick Mokganyetsi Adriaan Botha Arnaud Malherbe	3:00.20 (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)

¹ German Skurygin of Russia originally won the gold medal in the 50 km walk in 3:44:23, but was disqualified after he tested positive for drugs in November 2001.
² Nigeria (Innocent Asonze, Francis Obikwelu, Daniel Effiong, Deji Aliu) originally won the bronze medal in 37.91, but were disqualified on August 31, 2005 after it was found Asonze had failed a doping test in June 1999.
³ The United States (Jerome Davis, Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, Michael Johnson) originally won the gold medal in 2:56.45, but were disqualified in 2008 after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to using HGH and EPO between 1997 and 2003.

Field

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS)	2.37 (WL)	Mark Boswell (CAN)	2.35 (NR)	Martin Buß (GER)	2.32
Pole vault	Maksim Tarasov (RUS)	6.02 (CR)	Dmitri Markov (AUS)	5.90	Aleksandr Averbukh (ISR)	5.80 (NR)
Long jump	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	8.56	Yago Lamela (ESP)	8.40	Gregor Cankar (SLO)	8.36 (SB)
Triple jump	Charles Friedek (GER)	17.59 (WL)	Rostislav Dimitrov (BUL)	17.49 (PB)	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	17.48
Shot put	C.J. Hunter (USA)	21.79 (PB)	Oliver-Sven Buder (GER)	21.42 (SB)	Oleksandr Bagach (UKR)	21.26
Discus throw	Anthony Washington (USA)	69.08 (CR)	Jürgen Schult (GER)	68.18 (SB)	Lars Riedel (GER)	68.09
Javelin throw	Aki Parviainen (FIN)	89.52	Konstadinos Gatsioudis (GRE)	89.18	Jan Železný (CZE)	87.67
Hammer throw	Karsten Kobs (GER)	80.24	Zsolt Németh (HUN)	79.05	Vladislav Piskunov (UKR)	79.03
Decathlon	Tomáš Dvořák (CZE)	8744	Dean Macey (GBR)	8556 (PB)	Chris Huffins (USA)	8547 (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)

Women's results

Track

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Marion Jones (USA)	10.70 (CR)	Inger Miller (USA)	10.79	Ekaterini Thanou (GRE)	10.84
200 m	Inger Miller (USA)	21.77 (WL)	Beverly McDonald (JAM)	22.22 (PB)	Merlene Frazer (JAM)	22.26
400 m	Cathy Freeman (AUS)	49.67 (SB)	Anja Rücker (GER)	49.74 (PB)	Lorraine Graham-Fenton (JAM)	49.92 (PB)
800 m	Ludmila Formanová (CZE)	1:56.68	Maria Mutola (MOZ)	1:56.72	Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)	1:56.93
1500 m	Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)	3:59.53 (SB)	Regina Jacobs (USA)	4:00.35 (PB)	Kutre Dulecha (ETH)	4:00.96 (SB)
5000 m	Gabriela Szabo (ROU)	14:41.82 (CR)	Zahra Ouaziz (MAR)	14:43.15	Ayelech Worku (ETH)	14:44.22 (PB)
10,000 m	Gete Wami (ETH)	30:24.56 (CR)	Paula Radcliffe (GBR)	30:27.13 (NR)	Tegla Loroupe (KEN)	30:32.03 (NR)
Marathon	Jong Song-Ok (PRK)	2:26:59 (NR)	Ari Ichihashi (JPN)	2:27:02 (PB)	Lidia Șimon (ROU)	2:27:41
100 m hurdles	Gail Devers (USA)	12.37 (WL)	Gloria Alozie (NGR)	12.44 (AR)	Ludmila Engquist (SWE)	12.47 (NR)
400 m hurdles	Daimí Pernía (CUB)	52.89 (WL)	Nezha Bidouane (MAR)	52.90 (AR)	Deon Hemmings (JAM)	53.16 (SB)
20 km walk	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	1:30:50	Wang Yan (CHN)	1:30:52	Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS)	1:31:18 (SB)
4 × 100 m relay	Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson Bahamas	41.92 (WL)	Patricia Girard Muriel Hurtis Katia Benth Christine Arron France	42.06 (NR)	Aleen Bailey Merlene Frazer, Beverly McDonald Peta-Gaye Dowdie Jamaica	42.15 (SB)
4 × 400 m relay	Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Natalya Nazarova Russia	3:21.98 (WL)	Suziann Reid Maicel Malone-Wallace, Michelle Collins Jearl Miles Clark United States	3:22.09 (SB)	Anke Feller Uta Rohländer Anja Rücker Grit Breuer Germany	3:22.43 (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)

Field

1995 |1997 |1999 |2001 |2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Inha Babakova (UKR)	1.99	Yelena Yelesina (RUS)	1.99	Svetlana Lapina (RUS)	1.99 (PB)
Pole vault	Stacy Dragila (USA)	4.60 (WR)	Anzhela Balakhonova (UKR)	4.55 (AR)	Tatiana Grigorieva (AUS)	4.45
Long jump	Niurka Montalvo (ESP)	7.06 (NR)	Fiona May (ITA)	6.94	Marion Jones (USA)	6.83
Triple jump	Paraskevi Tsiamita (GRE)	14.88	Yamilé Aldama (CUB)	14.61	Olga Vasdeki (GRE)	14.61
Shot put	Astrid Kumbernuss (GER)	19.85 (SB)	Nadine Kleinert (GER)	19.61 (PB)	Svetlana Krivelyova (RUS)	19.43
Discus throw	Franka Dietzsch (GER)	68.14	Anastasia Kelesidou (GRE)	66.05	Nicoleta Grasu (ROU)	65.35
Hammer throw	Mihaela Melinte (ROU)	75.20	Olga Kuzenkova (RUS)	72.56	Lisa Misipeka (ASA)	66.06
Javelin throw	Mirela Manjani (GRE)	67.09 (PB)	Tatyana Shikolenko (RUS)	66.37 (PB)	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	66.06
Heptathlon	Eunice Barber (FRA)	6861 (PB)	Denise Lewis (GBR)	6724	Ghada Shouaa (SYR)	6500
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)

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	United States	10	3	4	17
2.	Russia	5	4	3	12
3.	Germany	4	4	4	12
4.	Greece	2	2	2	6
5.	Morocco	2	2	1	5
6.	Cuba	2	2	0	4
6.	Italy	2	2	0	4
8.	Spain	2	1	1	4
9.	Ethiopia	2	0	3	5
10.	Romania	2	0	2	4
11.	Czech Republic	2	0	1	3
12.	Great Britain	1	4	2	7
13.	Kenya	1	4	1	6
14.	France	1	2	0	3
15.	Australia	1	1	2	4
15.	Ukraine	1	1	2	4
17.	China	1	1	0	2
18.	Bahamas	1	0	0	1
18.	Denmark	1	0	0	1
18.	Finland	1	0	0	1
18.	North Korea	1	0	0	1
18.	Poland	1	0	0	1
23.	Jamaica	0	2	4	6
24.	Brazil	0	2	1	3
25.	Canada	0	2	0	2
26.	Japan	0	1	1	2
26.	Nigeria	0	1	1	2
26.	South Africa	0	1	1	2
29.	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
29.	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
29.	Hungary	0	1	0	1
29.	Mozambique	0	1	0	1
33.	Mexico	0	0	2	2
34.	Algeria	0	0	1	1
34.	American Samoa	0	0	1	1
34.	Belgium	0	0	1	1
34.	Israel	0	0	1	1
34.	Norway	0	0	1	1
34.	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
34.	Sweden	0	0	1	1
34.	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
34.	Syria	0	0	1	1

References

World Championships organised by the IAAF

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1999 World Championships in Athletics

Men's results

Track

Field

Women's results

Track

Field

Medals table

See also

References