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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. The World Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations. ...
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics (known in the US as track and field). It was founded in 1912 at its first Congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation. ...
The Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion is a stadium located in Stuttgart, Germany. ...
, City Center seen from Weinsteige Road Castle Solitude The 1956 TV Tower The Weissenhof Estate in 1927 Stuttgart (IPA: []) is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. ...
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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 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 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1. ...
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. ...
The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10. ...
| Event: | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | | 100 m | Linford Christie
United Kingdom | 9.87 AR | Andre Cason
United States | 9.92 | Dennis Mitchell
United States | 9.99 | | 200 m | Frankie Fredericks
Namibia | 19.85 AR | John Regis
United Kingdom | 19.94 | Carl Lewis
United States | 19.99 | | 400 m | Michael Johnson
United States | 43.65 | Butch Reynolds
United States | 44.13 | Samson Kitur
Kenya | 44.54 | | 800 m | Paul Ruto
Kenya | 1:44.71 | Giuseppe D'Urso
Italy | 1:44.86 | Billy Konchellah
Kenya | 1:44.89 | | 1500 m | Noureddine Morceli
Algeria | 3:34.24 | Fermin Cacho Ruiz
Spain | 3:35.56 | Abdi Bile
Somalia | 3:35.96 | | 5,000 m | Ismael Kirui
Kenya | 13:02.75 | Haile Gebrselassie
Ethiopia | 13:03.17 | Fita Bayisa
Ethiopia | 13:05.40 | | 10,000 m | Haile Gebrselassie
Ethiopia | 27:46.02 | Moses Tanui
Kenya | 27:46.54 | Richard Chelimo
Kenya | 28:06.02 | | Marathon | Mark Plaatjes
United States | 2:13:57 | Lucketz Swartbooi
Namibia | 2:14:11 | Bert van Vlaanderen
Netherlands | 2:15:12 | | 110 m Hurdles | Colin Jackson
United Kingdom | 12.91 WR | Tony Jarrett
United Kingdom | 13.00 | Jack Pierce
United States | 13.06 | | 400 m Hurdles | Kevin Young
United States | 47.18 | Samuel Matete
Zambia | 47.60 | Winthrop Graham
Jamaica | 47.62 | | 3,000 m Steeplechase | Moses Kiptanui
Kenya | 8:06.36 CR | Patrick Sang
Kenya | 8:07.53 | Alessandro Lambruschini
Italy | 8:08.78 | | 20 km Walk | Valentin Massana
Spain | 1:22:31 | Giovanni De Benedictis
Italy | 1:23:06 | Daniel Plaza
Spain | 1:23:18 | | 50 km Walk | Jesús Ángel García
Spain | 3:41:41 | Valentin Kononen
Finland | 3:42:02 | Valeriy Spitsyn
Russia | 3:42:50 | | 4 x 100 m Relay | Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell, Leroy Burrell
United States | 37.48 | Colin Jackson, Tony Jarrett, John Regis, Linford Christie
United Kingdom | 37.77 AR | Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Atlee Mahorn
Canada | 37.83 NR | | 4 x 400 m Relay | Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson
United States | 2:54.29 WR | Kennedy Ochieng, Simon Kemboi, Abednego Matilu, Samson Kitur
Kenya | 2:59.82 | Rico Lieder, Karsten Just, Olaf Hense, Thomas Schönlebe
Germany | 2:59.99 | | AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record Sprints are short running races in athletics. ...
Linford Christie, OBE (born April 2, 1960) is a former athlete, and the only English man to win Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European 100 m gold medals. ...
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Andre Cason (born January 20, 1969 in Virginia Beach) is a former American sprinter. ...
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Dennis Allen Mitchell (born February 20, 1966) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics. ...
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Sprints are short running races in athletics. ...
Frank Fredericks (born October 2, 1967) is a Namibian athlete, the first and so far only Olympic medalist of his country. ...
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John Regis (born October 13, 1966 in Lewisham) is a retired English athlete who mainly competed in the 200 metres. ...
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Frederick Carlton (Carl) Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is a retired American track and field athlete who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 golds, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were golds, in a career that spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996...
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Sprints are short running races in athletics. ...
Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is a retired American sprinter who holds world records in the 200 m, 400 m and 4 x 400 m relay (2:54. ...
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Butch Reynolds was a 1988 Olympic Gold medalist in the Mens 4x400 meter relay for the United States. ...
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Samson Kitur (February 25, 1966 - April 25, 2003) was a Kenyan athlete, an Olympic medalist in 1992. ...
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Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 5000 meters. ...
Paul Ruto is a former Kenyan 800 metres runner who won a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. ...
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Giuseppe DUrso (born 1969) is a former Italian 800 metres runner who won a silver medal at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. ...
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Billy Konchellah is a former Kenyan 800m runner who won two consecutive World Championship gold medals in Rome 1987 and Tokyo 1991. ...
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Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 5000 meters. ...
Noureddine Morceli (born February 28, 1970) is a former Algerian athlete, winner of 1500 m run at the 1996 Summer Olympics. ...
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Fermin Cacho Ruiz was a Spanish athlete. ...
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Abdi Bile (born December 28, 1962 in Los Anod) is a former middle distance runner from Somalia. ...
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Long-distance track event races requires runners to balance their energy. ...
Ismael Kirui is a former Kenyan long distance runner who won gold medals over 5000 metres at the 1993 and the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. ...
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Haile Gebrselassie (Geez haylÄ gebre silassÄ; born April 18, 1973) is a long distance track and road running athlete born as one of ten children in Asella, Arsi Province, Ethiopia. ...
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Fita Bayisa (born December 15, 1972 in Ambo) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner most known for winning an bronze medal on the 5,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics. ...
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Long-distance track event races requires runners to balance their energy. ...
Haile Gebrselassie (Geez haylÄ gebre silassÄ; born April 18, 1973) is a long distance track and road running athlete born as one of ten children in Asella, Arsi Province, Ethiopia. ...
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Moses Tanui is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who won the gold medal over 10000m at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. ...
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Richard Chelimo (February 24, 1972 â August 15, 2001) was a Kenyan athlete, and a former world and world junior record holder over 10,000 m. ...
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Modern day marathon runners The word marathon refers to a long-distance road running event of 42. ...
Mark Plaatjes (born June 2, 1961 in Johannesburg) was the marathon champion at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart. ...
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Lucketz Swartbooi (born February 6, 1966) is a Namibian long-distance runner who won a silver medal in the marathon race at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. ...
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Albert (Bert) van Vlaanderen (born November 25, 1964 in Tienhoven) is a retired long-distance runner from The Netherlands, who participated in two Summer Olympics. ...
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Hurdling In track and field athletics there are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. ...
Colin Ray Jackson CBE (born February 18, 1967 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh sprint and hurdling athlete of Jamaican and distant Scottish ancestry, who now works as a sports commentator and television presenter predominantly for the BBC. // Jackson attended Llanedeyrn High School playing football and cricket for the county...
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Tony Jarrett (born: August 13, 1968 in Enfield, London, England) was a sprint and hurdling athlete. ...
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Jack Pierce (born September 23, 1962 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. ...
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Hurdling In track and field athletics there are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. ...
Kevin Curtis Young (born September 16, 1966) is a former American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics. ...
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Samuel Matete (born July 27, 1968 in Chingola) is a Zambian athlete who competed mainly in 400 m hurdles. ...
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Winthrop Graham (born November 17, 1965 in Saint Elizabeth) is a retired Jamaican athlete who mainly competedin in the 400 metres hurdles. ...
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Long-distance track event races requires runners to balance their energy. ...
Moses Kiptanui (born: October 1, 1970 in Marakwet, Kenya) is a middle and long distance athlete mostly famous for 3000 m steeplechase in which he was the number one ranked athlete from 1991 to 1995. ...
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Patrick Sang (born April 11, 1964) is a former Kenyan runner. ...
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Alessandro Lambruschini (born 7 January 1965 in Fucecchio) is an Italian long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase. ...
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Mens 20 km walk during the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland. ...
Valentà Massana Gracia (born July 5, 1970 in Viladecans) is a Spanish race walker. ...
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Giovanni De Benedictis (born January 8, 1968 in Pescara) is a Italian race walker. ...
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Daniel Plaza Montero (born July 3, 1966) is a Spanish race walker. ...
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Mens 20 km walk during the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland. ...
Jesús Ãngel GarcÃa (born October 17, 1969 in Madrid) is a Spanish race walker. ...
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Valentin Kononen (b. ...
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Valeriy Spitsyn (born December 5, 1965) is a Russian race walker. ...
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During a relay race, members of a team take turns swimming or running (usually with a baton) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. ...
Jonathan A. Jon Drummond (born September 9, 1968) is an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. ...
Andre Cason (born January 20, 1969 in Virginia Beach) is a former American sprinter. ...
Dennis Allen Mitchell (born February 20, 1966) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics. ...
Leroy Russel Burrell (born February 21, 1967) is an American athlete who twice set the world record for the 100 metre sprint, setting a time of 9. ...
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Colin Ray Jackson CBE (born February 18, 1967 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh sprint and hurdling athlete of Jamaican and distant Scottish ancestry, who now works as a sports commentator and television presenter predominantly for the BBC. // Jackson attended Llanedeyrn High School playing football and cricket for the county...
Tony Jarrett (born: August 13, 1968 in Enfield, London, England) was a sprint and hurdling athlete. ...
John Regis (born October 13, 1966 in Lewisham) is a retired English athlete who mainly competed in the 200 metres. ...
Linford Christie, OBE (born April 2, 1960) is a former athlete, and the only English man to win Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European 100 m gold medals. ...
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Robert Esmie (born July 5, 1972) is a Canadian athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. ...
Glenroy John Gilbert (born August 31, 1968) is a former Canadian athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. ...
Bruny Surin (born July 12, 1967) is a former Canadian athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. ...
Atlee Mahorn (born October 27, 1965 in Clarendon, Jamaica) is a retired Canadian sprinter. ...
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During a relay race, members of a team take turns swimming or running (usually with a baton) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. ...
Andrew Valmon was a 1992 Olympic Gold medalist in the Mens 4x400 meter relay for the United States. ...
Quincy D. Watts (born June 19, 1970) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics. ...
Butch Reynolds was a 1988 Olympic Gold medalist in the Mens 4x400 meter relay for the United States. ...
Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is a retired American sprinter who holds world records in the 200 m, 400 m and 4 x 400 m relay (2:54. ...
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Kennedy Ochieng (born 30 December 1971) is a retired Kenyan sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. ...
Samson Kitur (February 25, 1966 - April 25, 2003) was a Kenyan athlete, an Olympic medalist in 1992. ...
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Rico Lieder (born 25 September 1971 in Burgstädt) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. ...
Thomas Schönlebe (born August 6, 1965 in Frauenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a former (East) German 400 metres runner who won the gold medal at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome. ...
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| Field 1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997 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 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1. ...
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. ...
The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10. ...
| Event: | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | | Long Jump | Mike Powell
United States | 8.59 | Stanislav Tarasenko
Russia | 8.16 | Vitaliy Kirilenko
Ukraine | 8.15 | | Triple Jump | Mike Conley
United States | 17.86 | Leonid Voloshin
Russia | 17.65 | Jonathan Edwards
United Kingdom | 17.44 | | High Jump | Javier Sotomayor
Cuba | 2.40 CR | Artur Partyka
Poland | 2.37 | Steve Smith
United Kingdom | 2.37 | | Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka
Ukraine | 6.00 CR | Grigoriy Yegorov
Kazakhstan | 5.90 AR | Maksim Tarasov
Russia and Igor Trandenkov
Russia | 5.80 | | Shot Put | Werner Günthör
Switzerland | 21.97 | Randy Barnes
United States | 21.80 | Oleksandr Bagach
Ukraine | 20.40 | | Discus | Lars Riedel
Germany | 67.72 | Dmitriy Shevchenko
Russia | 66.90 | Jürgen Schult
Germany | 66.12 | | Hammer | Andrey Abduvaliyev
Tajikistan | 81.64 AR | Igor Astapkovich
Belarus | 79.88 | Tibor Gecsek
Hungary | 79.54 | | Javelin | Jan Železný
Czech Republic | 85.98 CR | Kimmo Kinnunen
Finland | 84.78 | Mick Hill
United Kingdom | 82.96 | | Decathlon | Dan O'Brien
United States | 8817 CR | Eduard Hämäläinen
Belarus | 8724 | Paul Meier
Germany | 8548 | | AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record Long jumper at the GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, July 2005. ...
Michael Anthony Mike Powell (born November 10, 1963) is an American Track and Field athlete. ...
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The triple jump is an athletics (track and field) event, previously also known as hop, step and jump, whose various names describe the actions a competitor takes. ...
Michael Mike Conley (born October 5, 1962 in Chicago) is an American track & field athlete competing in the triple jump. ...
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Leonid Voloshin (born March 30, 1966 in Krasnodar) is a retired triple jumper from Russia. ...
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Jonathan David Edwards CBE (born May 10, 1966 in London, England) is a former British triple jumper and widely regarded as the finest triple jumper of all time. ...
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Gold medal winner Ethel Catherwood of Canada scissors over the bar at the 1928 Summer Olympics. ...
Javier Sotomayor (born October 13, 1967), 1. ...
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Artur Partyka of Poland is one of the greatest high jumpers of all time. ...
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Steve Smith (born 29 March 1973 in Liverpool) is a retired high jumper from England. ...
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Pole vaulting is an athletic event where a person uses a long, flexible pole (usually made either of fiberglass or carbon fiber) as an aid to leap over a bar. ...
Sergey Bubka (СеÑгÑй ÐÑбка) (born 14 December 1963 in Voroshilovgrad U.S.S.R., today Luhansk, Ukraine) is an Ukrainian (and former Soviet) athlete. ...
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Grigoriy Yegorov (born January 12, 1967) is a former pole vault athlete from Kazakhstan. ...
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Maksim Tarasov (born 2 December 1970 in Yaroslavl) is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. ...
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Igor Trandenkov (born August 17, 1966) is a retired Russian pole vaulter best known for winning two Olympic silver medals. ...
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Shot put The shot put is an athletics (track and field) event involving putting (throwing in a pushing motion) a heavy metal ball (called the shot) as far as possible. ...
Werner Günthör (born June 1, 1961 in Uttwil) is a former Swiss track and field athlete, who was the best shot putter in the history of Swiss track and field. ...
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Eric R. (Randy) Barnes (born June 16, 1966) is an American shot putter who holds outdoor and indoor distance records. ...
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Aleksandr Bagach (born November 21, 1966 in Matusov) is a former Ukrainian shot putter. ...
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Lars Riedel (born June 28, 1967 in Zwickau) is a successful German discus thrower. ...
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Dmitriy Shevchenko (born May 13, 1968 in Taganrog) is a Russian discus thrower who won silver medals at the World and European Championships. ...
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Jürgen Schult (born May 11, 1960 in Amt Neuhaus, Lower Saxony) is a German track and field athlete, who represented East Germany in the 1988 Olympic competition in the discus throw on October 1, 1988, where he won the gold medal. ...
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The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is a heavy steel ball attached with wire (maximum 4 ft (1. ...
Andrey Abduvaliyev (born June 30, 1966 in Leningrad) is a former hammer thrower who won a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. ...
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Igor Astapkovich (born January 4, 1963 in Minsk) is a hammer thrower who won two Olympic medals, first representing USSR and later his homecountry Belarus. ...
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Tibor Gécsek (born 22 September 1964 in Szentgotthárd) is a retired Hungarian hammer thrower. ...
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Jan Železný (IPA: ) (born June 16, 1966 in Mladá Boleslav) is a Czech athlete, world and Olympic champion and world record holder in javelin throw. ...
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Mick Hill (born October 22, 1964 in Leeds) is a former British javelin thrower, who won three silver medals and one bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games, a bronze medal at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics and a silver medal at the 1998 European Championships in Athletics. ...
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// The Decathlon Day 1: 100 m long jump shot put High Jump 400 m Day 2: 110m hurdles discus throw pole vault javelin throw 1500 m Decathlon sprouted from the ancient game pentathlon. ...
Daniel Dion (Dan) OBrien (born July 18, 1966 in Portland, Oregon) is an American decathlete. ...
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Eduard Hämäläinen (born January 21, 1969 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan) is a former decathlete from Finland. ...
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Paul Meier (born July 27, 1971 in Velbert) is former German decathlete who won a bronze medal at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart where he set a personal best of 8548 points. ...
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| Women's Results Track 1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997 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 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1. ...
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. ...
The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10. ...
| 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-Clark
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 | | 3,000 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
United States | 12.67 | | 400 m Hurdles | Sally Gunnell
United Kingdom | 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 x 100 m Relay | Olga Bogoslovskaya, Galina Maltchouguina, Natalya Voronova, Irina Privalova
Russia | 41.49 CR | Michelle Finn, Gwen Torrence, Wendy Vereen, Gail Devers
United States | 41.49 CR | Michelle Freemann, Juliet Campbell, Nicole Mitchell, Merlene Ottey
Jamaica | 41.94 | | 4 x 400 m Relay | Gwen Torrence, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Natasha Kaiser, Jearl Miles-Clark
United States | 3:16.71 CR | Yelena Rouzina, Tatyana Alekseyeva, Margarita Ponomaryova, Irina Privalova
Russia | 3:18.38 | Linda Keough, Phylis Smith, Tracy Goddard, Sally Gunnell
United Kingdom | 3:23.41 | | AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record Sprints are short running races in athletics. ...
Yolanda Gail Devers (born November 19, 1966 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is a three-time Olympic 100 m champion in athletics for the US Olympic Team. ...
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Gwen Torrence (born June 12, 1965) was a sprint athlete and an Olympic gold medalist from the United States. ...
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Sprints are short running races in athletics. ...
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Gwen Torrence (born June 12, 1965) was a sprint athlete and an Olympic gold medalist from the United States. ...
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Irina Privalova (born Sergeyeva on November 22, 1968 in Malakhova) is a Russian athlete. ...
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Sprints are short running races in athletics. ...
Jearl Miles-Clark (born September 4, 1966). ...
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Sandie Richards (born November 6, 1968 in Clarendon Park, Jamaica) is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the Jamaica. ...
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Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 5000 meters. ...
Maria de Lurdes Mutola (born October 27, 1972 in Maputo) is an athlete from Mozambique who has specialised in the 800 m. ...
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Lyubov Gurina (born August 6, 1957 in Matushkino, Kirov Oblast) is a retired middle distance runner who represented the USSR and later Russia. ...
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Ella Kovács (born December 11, 1964 in LuduÅ) is a retired Romanian middle distance runner of Hungarian descent. ...
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Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 5000 meters. ...
Liu Dong (born 24 December 1973) is a retired Chinese middle distance runner. ...
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Sonia OSullivan (born November 28, 1969) is an Irish runner from Cobh, County Cork. ...
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Hassiba Boulmerka (born July 10, 1968) is a former Algerian middle distance athlete. ...
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Long-distance track event races requires runners to balance their energy. ...
Qu Yunxia (°25 December 1972) is a Chinese Olympic athlete. ...
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Zhang Linli (born 6 March 1973) is a retired Chinese long-distance runner. ...
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Zhang Lirong (born 3 March 1973) is a retired Chinese long-distance runner. ...
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Long-distance track event races requires runners to balance their energy. ...
Wang Junxia (çåé, born January 19, 1973 in Jiaohe, Jilin Province) was a Chinese famous long-distance runner. ...
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Zhong Huandi (born 28 June 1967) is a retired Chinese long-distance runner who concentrated on the 3000 and 10,000 metres, and later the marathon. ...
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Sally Barsosio (born March 21, 1978) is a Kenyan distance runner. ...
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Modern day marathon runners The word marathon refers to a long-distance road running event of 42. ...
Junko Asari (born 22 September 1969 in Kazuno-Shi) is a retired Japanese marathon runner. ...
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Maria Manuela Machado (born August 9, 1963 in Viana do Castelo) is a former Portuguese long-distance runner, who was particularly successful when running the marathon. ...
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Tomoe Abe (born 13 August 1971) is a retired Japanese marathon runner. ...
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Hurdling In track and field athletics there are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. ...
Yolanda Gail Devers (born November 19, 1966 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is a three-time Olympic 100 m champion in athletics for the US Olympic Team. ...
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Marina Azyabina (born 15 June 1963, Russian: ) is a retired Russian hurdler. ...
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Hurdling In track and field athletics there are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. ...
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Sandra Farmer-Patrick (born 18 August 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres hurdles. ...
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Mens 20 km walk during the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland. ...
Sari Essayah Sari Essayah (born February 21, 1967 in Haukivuori) is a Finnish retired race walker. ...
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Ileana Salvador (born January 16, 1962) is an Italian race walker. ...
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During a relay race, members of a team take turns swimming or running (usually with a baton) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. ...
Olga Bogoslovskaya (born May 20, 1964). ...
Galina Malchugina (born December 17, 1962 in Bryansk) is a retired sprinter from Russia. ...
Natalya Voronova, née Pomoshchnikova (born July 9, 1965) is a retired Russian athlete who competed in the 100 and 200 metres. ...
Irina Privalova (born Sergeyeva on November 22, 1968 in Malakhova) is a Russian athlete. ...
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Gwen Torrence (born June 12, 1965) was a sprint athlete and an Olympic gold medalist from the United States. ...
Yolanda Gail Devers (born November 19, 1966 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is a three-time Olympic 100 m champion in athletics for the US Olympic Team. ...
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Juliet Campbell (born 17 March 1970 in Kingston) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres. ...
Nicole Mitchell (also spelled Nikole, born 5 June 1974) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. ...
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During a relay race, members of a team take turns swimming or running (usually with a baton) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. ...
Gwen Torrence (born June 12, 1965) was a sprint athlete and an Olympic gold medalist from the United States. ...
Maicel Malone-Wallace (born June 6, 1969 in Indianapolis) was a 1996 Olympic Gold medalist in the Womens 4x400 meter relay for the United States. ...
Natasha Kaiser (born May 14, 1967) is an American athlete, who competed mainly in the 400 metres. ...
Jearl Miles-Clark (born September 4, 1966). ...
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Yelena Ruzina (Russian: ; born 3 April 1964) is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. ...
Tatyana Alekseyeva (born October 7, 1963) is a former 400 metres runner from Russia. ...
Irina Privalova (born Sergeyeva on November 22, 1968 in Malakhova) is a Russian athlete. ...
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Phylis Smith (born September 29, 1965) is a former sprinter from Great Britain who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. ...
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| Field 1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997 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 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1. ...
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. ...
The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10. ...
| Event: | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | | Long Jump | Heike Drechsler
Germany | 7.11 | Larisa Berezhnaya
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 | | Shot Put | Huang Zhihong
China | 20.57 | Svetlana Krivelyova
Russia | 19.97 | Kathrin Neimke
Germany | 19.71 | | Discus | Olga Chernyavskaya
Russia | 67.40 | Daniela Costian
Australia | 65.36 | Min Chunfeng
China | 65.26 | | Javelin | 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 | | AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record Long jumper at the GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, July 2005. ...
Heike Drechsler (born December 16, 1964 Gera) is a German athlete, who has won 2 Olympic gold medals. ...
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Larisa Berezhnaya (born February 28, 1961) is a retired long jumper who represented USSR and later Ukraine. ...
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The triple jump is an athletics (track and field) event, previously also known as hop, step and jump, whose various names describe the actions a competitor takes. ...
Anna Biryukova (born September 27, 1969) is a retired triple jumper from Russia. ...
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Yolanda Chen (born July 26, 1961 in Moscow) is a retired Russian athlete. ...
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Iva Prandzheva (born February 15, 1972 in Plovdiv) is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump. ...
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Gold medal winner Ethel Catherwood of Canada scissors over the bar at the 1928 Summer Olympics. ...
Ioamnet Quintero (born September 8, 1972) is a former high jumper from Cuba who competed in the womens high jump contest at the 1992 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. ...
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Silvia Costa (born May 4, 1964 in Pinar del RÃo Province) is a former high jumper from Cuba most known for winning medals at the 1985 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 1993 World Championships in Athletics. ...
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Shot put The shot put is an athletics (track and field) event involving putting (throwing in a pushing motion) a heavy metal ball (called the shot) as far as possible. ...
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Svetlana Krivelyova (born: June 13, 1969 in Bryansk, Russia) is an athlete who specialises in the shot put. ...
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Kathrin Neimke (July 18, 1966 in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt), is a German track and field athlete. ...
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Olga Chernyavskaya, née Davydova, then Burova (born September 17, 1963 in Irbit) is a Russian discus thrower best known for winning the gold medal at the 1993 World Championships. ...
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Daniela Costian was born on June 30, 1965 in Braila, Romania, but became an Australian citizen in 1990. ...
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Min Chunfeng (born 17 March 1969) is a retired Chinese discus thrower. ...
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Trine Hattestad is a Norwegian javelin thrower, born on 18 April, 1966 in Lørenskog, Norway, as Elsa Katrine Solberg. ...
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Karen Forkel (September 24, 1970 in Wolfen) is a German track and field athlete and an Olympic medal winner. ...
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Natalya Shikolenko (born August 1, 1964 in Andizhan, Uzbekistan) is a javelin thrower who represented USSR and later Belarus. ...
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A heptathlon is a sportive contest made up of seven events (from the Greek hepta (seven) and athlon (contest)). More specifically, the term heptathlon refers to an athletics event consisting of seven events. ...
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American athlete, ranked amongst the all-time greatest heptathletes. ...
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Sabine Braun (born June 19, 1965 in Essen) is a German Olympic athlete in track and field. ...
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Svetlana Buraga (born 4 September 1965 in Minsk) is a retired Belarusian heptathlete. ...
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