1993 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ATHLETICS

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 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.

Contents

Men's Results

Track

Field

Women's Results

Track

Field

Medal table by country

References

Men's Results

Track

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Linford Christie	9.87 AR	Andre Cason	9.92	Dennis Mitchell	9.99
200 m	Frankie Fredericks	19.85 AR	John Regis	19.94	Carl Lewis	19.99
400 m	Michael Johnson	43.65	Butch Reynolds	44.13	Samson Kitur	44.54
800 m	Paul Ruto	1:44.71	Giuseppe D'Urso	1:44.86	Billy Konchellah	1:44.89
1500 m	Noureddine Morceli	3:34.24	Fermin Cacho Ruiz	3:35.56	Abdi Bile	3:35.96
5,000 m	Ismael Kirui	13:02.75	Haile Gebrselassie	13:03.17	Fita Bayisa	13:05.40
10,000 m	Haile Gebrselassie	27:46.02	Moses Tanui	27:46.54	Richard Chelimo	28:06.02
Marathon	Mark Plaatjes	2:13:57	Lucketz Swartbooi	2:14:11	Bert van Vlaanderen	2:15:12
110 m Hurdles	Colin Jackson	12.91 WR	Tony Jarrett	13.00	Jack Pierce	13.06
400 m Hurdles	Kevin Young	47.18	Samuel Matete	47.60	Winthrop Graham	47.62
3,000 m Steeplechase	Moses Kiptanui	8:06.36 CR	Patrick Sang	8:07.53	Alessandro Lambruschini	8:08.78
20 km Walk	Valentin Massana	1:22:31	Giovanni De Benedictis	1:23:06	Daniel Plaza	1:23:18
50 km Walk	Jesús Ángel García	3:41:41	Valentin Kononen	3:42:02	Valeriy Spitsyn	3:42:50
4 x 100 m Relay	Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell, Leroy Burrell	37.48	Colin Jackson, Tony Jarrett, John Regis, Linford Christie	37.77 AR	Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Atlee Mahorn	37.83 NR
4 x 400 m Relay	Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson	2:54.29 WR	Kennedy Ochieng, Simon Kemboi, Abednego Matilu, Samson Kitur	2:59.82	Rico Lieder, Karsten Just, Olaf Hense, Thomas Schönlebe	2:59.99

Field

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Mike Powell	8.59	Stanislav Tarasenko	8.16	Vitaliy Kirilenko	8.15
Triple Jump	Mike Conley	17.86	Leonid Voloshin	17.65	Jonathan Edwards	17.44
High Jump	Javier Sotomayor	2.40 CR	Artur Partyka	2.37	Steve Smith	2.37
Pole Vault	Sergey Bubka	6.00 CR	Grigoriy Yegorov	5.90 AR	Maksim Tarasov and Igor Trandenkov	5.80
Shot Put	Werner Günthör	21.97	Randy Barnes	21.80	Oleksandr Bagach	20.40
Discus	Lars Riedel	67.72	Dmitriy Shevchenko	66.90	Jürgen Schult	66.12
Hammer	Andrey Abduvaliyev	81.64 AR	Igor Astapkovich	79.88	Tibor Gecsek	79.54
Javelin	Jan Železný	85.98 CR	Kimmo Kinnunen	84.78	Mick Hill	82.96
Decathlon	Dan O'Brien	8817 CR	Eduard Hämäläinen	8724	Paul Meier	8548

Women's Results

Track

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Gail Devers	10.82 CR	Merlene Ottey	10.82 CR	Gwen Torrence	10.89
200 m	Merlene Ottey	21.98	Gwen Torrence	22.00	Irina Privalova	22.13
400 m	Jearl Miles-Clark	49.82	Natasha Kaiser-Brown	50.17	Sandie Richards	50.44
800 m	Maria Mutola	1:55.43 AR	Lyubov Gurina	1:57.10	Ella Kovacs	1:57.92
1500 m	Liu Dong	4:00.50	Sonia O'Sullivan	4:03.48	Hassiba Boulmerka	4:04.29
3,000 m	Qu Yunxia	8:28.71 CR	Zhang Linli	8:29.25	Zhang Lirong	8:31.95
10,000 m	Wang Junxia	30:49.30 CR	Zhong Huandi	31:12.55	Sally Barsosio	31:15.38
Marathon	Junko Asari	2:30:03	Manuela Machado	2:30.54	Tomoe Abe	2:31:01
100 m Hurdles	Gail Devers	12.46 AR	Marina Azyabina	12.60	Lynda Tolbert	12.67
400 m Hurdles	Sally Gunnell	52.74 WR	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	52.79 AR	Margarita Ponomaryova	53.48
10 km Walk	Sari Essayah	42:59	Ileana Salvador	43:08	Encarna Granados	43:21
4 x 100 m Relay	Olga Bogoslovskaya, Galina Maltchouguina, Natalya Voronova, Irina Privalova	41.49 CR	Michelle Finn, Gwen Torrence, Wendy Vereen, Gail Devers	41.49 CR	Michelle Freemann, Juliet Campbell, Nicole Mitchell, Merlene Ottey	41.94
4 x 400 m Relay	Gwen Torrence, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Natasha Kaiser, Jearl Miles-Clark	3:16.71 CR	Yelena Rouzina, Tatyana Alekseyeva, Margarita Ponomaryova, Irina Privalova	3:18.38	Linda Keough, Phylis Smith, Tracy Goddard, Sally Gunnell	3:23.41

Field

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Heike Drechsler	7.11	Larisa Berezhnaya	6.98	Renata Nielsen	6.76
Triple Jump	Anna Biryukova	15.09 WR	Yolanda Chen	14.70	Iva Prandzheva	14.23
High Jump	Ioamnet Quintero	1.99	Silvia Costa	1.97	Sigrid Kirchmann	1.97
Shot Put	Huang Zhihong	20.57	Svetlana Krivelyova	19.97	Kathrin Neimke	19.71
Discus	Olga Chernyavskaya	67.40	Daniela Costian	65.36	Min Chunfeng	65.26
Javelin	Trine Hattestad	69.18	Karen Forkel	65.80	Natalya Shikolenko	65.64
Heptathlon	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	6837	Sabine Braun	6797	Svetlana Buraga	6635

Medal table by country

'Position'	'Country:'	'Gold:'	'Silver:'	'Bronze:'	'Total: '
1.		13	7	5	25
2.		4	2	2	8
3.		3	8	5	16
4=		3	3	4	10
4=		3	3	4	10
6.		2	2	4	8
7.		2	1	2	5
8.		2	1	0	3
9.		1	2	0	3
10.		1	1	3	5
11.		1	1	2	4
12.		1	1	1	3
13.		1	1	0	2
14=		1	0	1	2
14=		1	0	1	2
16=		1	0	0	1
16=		1	0	0	1
16=		1	0	0	1
16=		1	0	0	1
16=		1	0	0	1
21.		0	3	1	4
22.		0	1	2	3
23=		0	1	0	1
23=		0	1	0	1
23=		0	1	0	1
23=		0	1	0	1
23=		0	1	0	1
23=		0	1	0	1
29=		0	0	1	1
29=		0	0	1	1
29=		0	0	1	1
29=		0	0	1	1
29=		0	0	1	1
29=		0	0	1	1
29=		0	0	1	1
29=		0	0	1	1

References

★ IAAF 1993