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. ... Stuttgart, a city located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of approximately 590,000 as of September 2005 in the city and around 3 million in the metropolitan area. ... The 16th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Helsinki, Finland. ... Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki City manager Jussi Pajunen Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area - total - land ranked 342nd 185. ...
Maksim Papernik, Maksim Dunaevskij, Grigoriy Hovrah, Vadim Savickiy, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Anzhelika Varum, Ilya Olejnikov, Olga Volkova, Nina Usatova, Nikolay Fomenko, Yurij Galcev, Aleksandr Semchev, DmitriyShevchenko, Aleksey Vertinskiy, Irina Tokarchuk, Oleg Shkolnik, Elena Vorobey
Anatolij Mateshko, Dmitriy Atovmyan, Yuriy Rogoza, Vasiliy Borodin, Elena Shevchenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Valerij Nikolaev, Andrej Smolyakov, Irina Apeksimova, Anatolij Zhuravlev, Aleksandr Porohovschikov, Viktor Stepanov, DmitriyShevchenko, Poverennova Darya
Maksim Korostyshevskiy, Sergey Shustickiy, Ivan Volkov, Natalya Nazarova, Mariya Soloveva, Olga Volkova, Aleksandr Baluev, DmitriyShevchenko, Oksana Korostyshevskaya, Tatyana Lyutaeva, Igor Zolotovickiy, Evgeniy Redko, Eduard Radzyukevich, Regina Myannik
Defending champion Italy defeated Romania tonight to win the Olympic gold medal in women's team foil, and Russia followed later in the evening with a gold medal victory over Poland in the men's team foil.
DmitriyShevchenko, Ilgar Mamedov and Vladislav Pavlovich each scored 15 touches each for the Russians, who defeated Poland, 45-40.
The U.S. women's fencing team, sparked by a thrilling comeback victory over Russia at a World Cup final in Cuba, came into the Olympics in an unfamiliar position.