1991 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ATHLETICS

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 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.

Contents

Men's Results

Track

Field

Women's Results

Track

Field

Medal table by country

References

Men's Results

Track

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Carl Lewis	9.86 WR	Leroy Burrell	9.88	Dennis Mitchell	9.91 PB
200 m	Michael Johnson	20.01	Frankie Fredericks	20.34	Atlee Mahorn	20.49
400 m	Antonio Pettigrew	44.57	Roger Black	44.62	Danny Everett	44.63
800 m	Billy Konchellah	1:43.99	José Luiz Barbosa	1:44.24	Mark Everett	1:44.67
1500 m	Noureddine Morceli	3:32.84 CR	Wilfred Kirochi	3:34.84	Hauke Fuhlbrügge	3:35.28
5000 m	Yobes Ondieki	13:14.45 CR	Fita Bayisa	13:16.64	Brahim Boutayeb	13:22.70
10,000 m	Moses Tanui	27:38.74	Richard Chelimo	27:39.41	Khalid Skah	27:41.74
Marathon ''Details''	Hiromi Taniguchi	2:14:57	Ahmed Saleh	2:15:26	Steve Spence	2:15:36
110 m hurdles	Greg Foster	13.06	Jack Pierce	13.06	Tony Jarrett	13.25
400 m hurdles	Samuel Matete	47.64	Winthrop Graham	47.74 NR	Kriss Akabusi	47.86 NR
3000 m steeplechase	Moses Kiptanui	8:12.59	Patrick Sang	8:13.44	Azzedine Brahmi	8:15.54
20 km Walk	Maurizio Damilano	1:19:37 CR	Mikhail Shchennikov	1:19:46	Yevgeniy Misyulya	1:20:22
50 km Walk	Aleksandr Potashov	3:53:09	Andrey Perlov	3:53:09	Hartwig Gauder	3:55:14
4 x 100 m relay	Andre Cason, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell, Carl Lewis	37.50 WR	Max Morinière, Daniel Sangouma, Jean-Charles Trouabal, Bruno Marie-Rose	37.87	Tony Jarrett, John Regis, Darren Braithwaite, Linford Christie	38.09
4 x 400 m relay	Roger Black, Derek Redmond, John Regis, Kriss Akabusi	2:57:53 AR	Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Danny Everett, Antonio Pettigrew	2:57:57	Patrick O'Connor, Devon Morris, Winthrop Graham, Seymour Fagan	3:00.10

Field

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Mike Powell	8.95 WR	Carl Lewis	8.91	Larry Myricks	8.42
Triple Jump	Kenny Harrison	17.78	Leonid Voloshin	17.75	Mike Conley	17.62
High Jump	Charles Austin	2.38 =CR	Javier Sotomayor	2.36	Hollis Conway	2.36
Pole Vault	Sergey Bubka	5.95 CR	István Bagyula	5.90	Maksim Tarasov	5.85
Shot Put	Werner Günthör	21.67	Lars Arvid Nilsen	20.75	Aleksandr Klimenko	20.34
Discus	Lars Riedel	66.20	Erik de Bruin	65.82	Attila Horváth	65.32
Hammer	Yuriy Sedykh	81.70	Igor Astapkovich	80.94	Heinz Weis	80.44
Javelin	Kimmo Kinnunen	90.82	Seppo Räty	88.12	Vladimir Sasimovich	87.08
Decathlon	Dan O'Brien	8812 CR	Mike Smith	8549	Christian Schenk	8394

★ Georg Andersen of Norway was the original silver medalist in shot put but was later disqualified because of doping.

Women's Results

Track

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Katrin Krabbe	10.99	Gwen Torrence	11.03	Merlene Ottey	11.06
200 m	Katrin Krabbe	22.09	Gwen Torrence	22.16	Merlene Ottey	22.21
400 m	Marie-José Perec	49.13	Grit Breuer	49.42	Sandra Myers	49.78
800 m	Lilia Nurutdinova	1:57.50	Ana Fidelia Quirot	1:57.55	Ella Kovacs	1:57:58
1500 m	Hassiba Boulmerka	4:02.21	Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh	4:02.58	Lyudmila Rogachova	4:02.72
3,000 m	Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh	8:35.82	Yelena Romanova	8:36.06	Susan Sirma	8:39.41 AR
10,000 m	Liz McColgan	31:14.31	Zhong Huandi	31:35.08	Wang Xiuting	31:35.99
Marathon ''Details''	Wanda Panfil	2:29:53	Sachiko Yamashita	2:29:57	Katrin Dörre	2:30:10
100 m Hurdles	Ludmila Narozhilenko	12.59	Gail Devers	12.63	Natalia Grigorieva	12.69
400 m Hurdles	Tatyana Ledovskaya	53:11 CR	Sally Gunnell	53:16 NR	Janeene Vickers	53:47
10 km Walk	Alina Ivanova	42:57 CR	Madelein Svensson	43:13	Sari Essayah	43:13
4 x 100 m Relay	Dahlia Duhaney, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly McDonald, Merlene Ottey	41.94	Natalya Kovtun, Galina Maltchouguina, Yelena Vinogradova, Irina Privalova	42.20	Grit Breuer, Katrin Krabbe, Sabine Richter, Heike Drechsler	42.33
4 x 400 m Relay	Tatyana Ledovskaya, Lyudmila Dzighalova, Olga Nazarova, Olga Bryzgina	3:18:43	Rochelle Stevens, Diane Dixon, Jearl Miles, Lillie Leatherwood	3:20.15	Uta Rohländer, Katrin Krabbe, Christine Wachtel, Grit Breuer	3:21:25

Field

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995

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

Medal table by country

'''Position'''	'Country:'	'Gold:'	'Silver:'	'Bronze:'	'Total: '
1.		10	8	8	26
2.		9	9	11	29
3.		5	4	8	17
4.		4	3	1	8
5.		2	2	3	7
6.		2	1	1	4
7.		2	0	1	3
8.		1	1	3	5
9.		1	1	1	3
10=		1	1	0	2
10=		1	1	0	2
12=		1	0	0	1
12=		1	0	0	1
12=		1	0	0	1
12=		1	0	0	1
12=		1	0	0	1
17.		0	2	0	2
18=		0	1	1	2
18=		0	1	1	2
18=		0	1	1	2
21=		0	1	0	1
21=		0	1	0	1
21=		0	1	0	1
21=		0	1	0	1
21=		0	1	0	1
21=		0	1	0	1
21=		0	1	0	1
28.		0	0	2	2
29.		0	0	1	1

References

★ IAAF 1991