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The event is best-remembered for the men's long jump competition, when Carl Lewis made the best six-jump series in history, only to be beaten by Mike Powell, whose 8.95 m jump broke Bob Beamon's epic world record from the 1968 Summer Olympics. Officials watch as Salim Sdiri of France jumps at the GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, July 2005. ... Frederick Carlton Carl Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American athlete. ... Michael Anthony Mike Powell (born November 10, 1963) is an American Track and Field athlete. ... Robert Bob Beamon (born August 29, 1946) is an American track and field athlete, best known for his long-standing world record in the long jump. ... The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in Mexico City in 1968. ...

Men's Results

Track

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 The inaugural World Championships in Athletics were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between August 7 and August 14. ... The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6. ... 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. ... The 5th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden between August 5 and August 13. ...

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Carl Lewis USA	9.86	Leroy Burrell USA	9.88	Dennis Mitchell USA	9.91
200 m	Michael Johnson USA	20.01	Frankie Fredericks NAM	20.34	Atlee Mahorn CAN	20.49
400 m	Antonio Pettigrew USA	44.57	Roger Black UK	44.62	Danny Everett USA	44.63
800 m	Billy Konchellah KEN	1:43.99	José Barbosa BRA	1:44.24	Mark Everett USA	1:44.67
1500 m	Noureddine Morceli DZA	3:32.84	Wilfred Kirochi KEN	3:34.84	Hauke Fuhlbrügge DEU	3:35.28
5,000 m	Yobes Ondieki KEN	13:14.45	Fita Bayissa ETH	13:16.64	Brahim Boutayeb MAR	13:22.70
10,000 m	Moses Tanui KEN	27:38.74	Richard Chelimo KEN	27:39.41	Khalid Skah MAR	27:41.74
Marathon	Hiromi Taniguchi JPN	12:14:57	Ahmed Salah DJI	12:15:26	Steve Spence USA	2:15:36
110 m Hurdles	Greg Foster USA	13.06	Jack Pierce USA	13.06	Tony Jarrett UK	13.25
400 m Hurdles	Samuel Matete ZMB	47.64	Winthrop Graham JAM	47.74	Kriss Akabusi UK	47.86
3,000 m Steeplechase	Moses Kiptanui KEN	8:12.59	Patrick Sang KEN	8:13.44	Azzedine Brahmi DZA	8:15.54
20 km Walk	Maurizio Damilano ITA	1:19:37	Mikhail Shchennikov USSR	1:19:46	Yevgeniy Misyulya USSR	1:20:22
50 km Walk	Aleksandr Potashov USSR	3:53:09	Andrey Perlov USSR	3:53:09	Hartwig Gauder DEU	3:55:14
4 x 100 m Relay	USA	37.50	France	37.87	Great Britain	38.09
4 x 400 m Relay	Great Britain	2:57:53	USA	2:57:57	Jamaica	3:00.10

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Field

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 The inaugural World Championships in Athletics were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between August 7 and August 14. ... The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6. ... 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. ... The 5th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden between August 5 and August 13. ...

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Mike Powell USA	8.95	Carl Lewis USA	8.91	Larry Myricks USA	8.42
Triple Jump	Kenny Harrison USA	17.78	Leonid Voloshin USSR	17.75	Mike Conley USA	17.62
High Jump	Charles Austin USA	2.38	Javier Sotomayor CUB	2.36	Hollis Conway USA	2.36
Pole Vault	Sergey Bubka USSR	5.95	István Bagyula HUN	5.90	Maksim Tarasov USSR	5.85
Shot Put	Werner Günthör CHE	21.67	Lars Arvid Nilsen NOR	20.75	Aleksandr Klimenko USSR	20.34
Discus	Lars Riedel DEU	66.20	Erik de Bruin NLD	65.82	Attila Horváth HUN	65.32
Hammer	Yuriy Sedykh USSR	81.70	Igor Astapkovich USSR	80.94	Heinz Weis DEU	80.44
Javelin	Kimmo Kinnunen FIN	90.82	Seppo Henrik Räty FIN	88.12	Vladimir Sasimovich USSR	87.08
Decathlon	Dan O'Brien USA	8812	Mike Smith CAN	8549	Christian Schenk DEU	8394

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Women's Results

Track

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Katrin Krabbe DEU	10.99	Gwen Torrence USA	11.03	Merlene Ottey JAM	11.06
200 m	Katrin Krabbe DEU	22.09	Gwen Torrence USA	22.16	Merlene Ottey JAM	22.21
400 m	Marie-José Perec FRA	49.13	Grit Breuer DEU	49.42	Sandra Myers ESP	49.78
800 m	Lilia Nurutdinova USSR	1:57.50	Ana Quirot CUB	1:57.55	Ella Kovacs ROU	1:57:58
1500 m	Hassiba Boulmerka DZA	4:02.21	Tatiana Dorovskih USSR	4:02.58	Lioudmila Rogacheva USSR	4:02.72
3,000 m	Tatiana Dorovskih USSR	8:35.82	Yelena Romanova USSR	8:36.06	Susan Sirma KEN	8:31.95
10,000 m	Elizabeth McColgan UK	31:14.31	Zhong Huandi CHN	31:35.08	Wang Xiuting CHN	31:35.99
Marathon	Wanda Panfil POL	2:29:53	Sachiko Yamashita JPN	2:29:57	Katrin Dörre DEU	2:30:10
100 m Hurdles	Lioudmila Narozhilenko USSR	12.59	Gail Devers-Roberts USA	12.63	Natalia Grigorieva USSR	12.69
400 m Hurdles	Tatiana Ledovskaya USSR	53:11	Sally Gunnell UK	53:16	Janeene Vickers USA	53:47
10 km Walk	Alina Ivanova USSR	42:57	Madelein Svensson SWE	43:13	Sari Essayah FIN	43:13
4 x 100 m Relay	Jamaica	41.95	USSR	42.20	Germany	42.33
4 x 400 m Relay	USSR	3:18:43	USA	3:20.15	Germany	3:21:25

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Jackie Joyner-Kersee USA	7.32	Heike Drechsler DEU	7.29	Larisa Berezhnaya USSR	7.11
High Jump	Heike Henkel DEU	2.05	Yelena Yelesina USSR	1.98	Inha Babakova USSR	1.96
Shot Put	Huang Zhihong CHN	20.83	Natalya Lisovskaya USSR	20.29	Svetlana Krivelyova USSR	20.16
Discus	Tzvetanka Khristova BUL	71.02	Ilke Wyludda DEU	69.12	Larisa Mikhalchenko USSR	68.26
Javelin	Xu Demei CHN	68.78	Petra Meier DEU	68.68	Silke Renk DEU	66.80
Heptathlon	Sabine Braun DEU	6672	Liliana Nastase ROU	6493	Irina Belova USSR	6448

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Medal table by country

Position	Country:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.	USA	10	8	8	26
2.	USSR	9	9	11	29
3.	Germany	5	4	8	17
4.	Kenya	4	3	1	8
5.	Great Britain	2	2	3	7
6.	China	2	1	1	4
7.	Algeria	2	0	1	3
8.	Jamaica	1	1	3	5
9.	Finland	1	1	1	3
10=	France	1	1	0	2
10=	Japan	1	1	0	2
12=	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
12=	Italy	1	0	0	1
12=	Poland	1	0	0	1
12=	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
12=	Zambia	1	0	0	1
17.	Cuba	0	2	0	2
18=	Canada	0	1	1	2
18=	Hungary	0	1	1	2
18=	Romania	0	1	1	2
21=	Brazil	0	1	0	1
21=	Djibouti	0	1	0	1
21=	Ethiopia	0	1	0	1
21=	Namibia	0	1	0	1
21=	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
21=	Norway	0	1	0	1
21=	Sweden	0	1	0	1
28.	Morocco	0	0	2	2
29.	Spain	0	0	1	1

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References

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