1995 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ATHLETICS

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.
This competition saw the women run the 5000 m event at the World Championships for the first time. The race replaced the 3000 m event which had been run at all previous World Championships.

Contents

Men's Results

Track

Field

Women's Results

Track

Field

Medal table by country

References

Men's Results

Track

1991 |1993 |1995 |1997 |1999

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Donovan Bailey	9.97	Bruny Surin	10.03	Ato Boldon	10.03
200 m	Michael Johnson	19.79	Frankie Fredericks	20.12	Jeff Williams	20.18
400 m	Michael Johnson	43.39 CR	Butch Reynolds	44.22	Greg Haughton	44.56
800 m	Wilson Kipketer	1:45.08	Arthémon Hatungimana	1:45.64	Vebjørn Rodal	1:45.68
1500 m	Noureddine Morceli	3:33.73	Hicham El Guerrouj	3:35.28	Vénuste Niyongabo	3:35.56
5,000 m	Ismael Kirui	13:16.77	Khalid Bouhlami	13:17.15	Shem Kororia	13:17.59
10,000 m	Haile Gebrselassie	27:12.95 CR	Khalid Skah	27:14.53	Paul Tergat	27:14.70
Marathon	Martín Fiz	2:11:41	Dionicio Cerón	2:12:13	Luiz dos Santos	2:12:49
110 m hurdles	Allen Johnson	13.00	Tony Jarrett	13.04	Roger Kingdom	13.19
400 m hurdles	Derrick Adkins	47.98	Samuel Matete	48.03	Stéphane Diagana	48.14
3,000 m steeplechase	Moses Kiptanui	8:04.16 CR	Christopher Kosgei	8:09.30	Saad Shadad Al-Asmari	8:12.95 AR
20 km Walk	Michele Didoni	1:19:59	Valentín Massana	1:20:23	Yevgeniy Misyulya	1:20:48
50 km Walk	Valentin Kononen	3:43:42	Giovanni Perricelli	3:45:11	Robert Korzeniowski	3:45:57
4 x 100 m relay	Donovan Bailey, Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin	38.31	Paul Henderson, Tim Jackson, Steve Brimacombe, Damien Marsh	38.50	Giovanni Puggioni, Ezio Madonia, Angelo Cipolloni, Sandro Floris	39.07
4 x 400 m relay	Marlon Ramsey, Derek Mills, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson	2:57.32	Michael McDonald, Davian Clarke, Danny McFarlane, Greg Haughton	2:59.88	Udeme Ekpeyong, Kunle Adejuyigbe, Jude Monye, Sunday Bada	3:03.18

Field

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995|1997

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Iván Pedroso	8.70	James Beckford	8.30	Mike Powell	8.29
Triple Jump	Jonathan Edwards	18.29 WR	Brian Wellman	17.62	Jerome Romain	17.59
High Jump	Troy Kemp	2:37	Javier Sotomayor	2:37	Artur Partyka	2:35
Pole Vault	Sergey Bubka	5.92	Maksim Tarasov	5.86	Jean Galfione	5.86
Shot Put	John Godina	21.47	Mika Halvari	20.93	Randy Barnes	20.41
Discus	Lars Riedel	68.76 CR	Vladimir Dubrovshchik	65.98	Vasiliy Kaptyukh	65.88
Hammer	Andrey Abduvaliyev	81.56	Igor Astapkovich	81.10	Tibor Gecsek	80.98
Javelin	Jan Železný	89.58	Steve Backley	86.30	Boris Henry	86.08
Decathlon	Dan O'Brien	8695	Eduard Hämäläinen	8489	Mike Smith	8419

Women's Results

Track

1991 |1993 |1995 |1997 |1999

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Gwen Torrence	10.85	Merlene Ottey	10.94	Irina Privalova	10.96
200 m	Merlene Ottey	22.12	Irina Privalova	22.12	Galina Maltchouguina	22.37
400 m	Marie-José Pérec	49.28	Pauline Davis-Thompson	49.96	Jearl Miles-Clark	50.00
800 m	Ana Fidelia Quirot	1:56.11	Letitia Vriesde	1:56.68 AR	Kelly Holmes	1:56.95
1500 m	Hassiba Boulmerka	4:02.42	Kelly Holmes	4:03.04	Carla Sacramento	4:03.79
5,000 m	Sonia O'Sullivan	14:46.47 CR	Fernanda Ribeiro	14:48.54	Zahra Ouaziz	14:53.77
10,000 m	Fernanda Ribeiro	31:04.99	Derartu Tulu	31:08.10	Tegla Loroupe	31:17.66
Marathon	Manuela Machado	2:25:39	Anuta Catuna	2:26:25	Ornella Ferrara	2:30:11
	The Marathon course was 400 m short of the normal distance.
100 m hurdles	Gail Devers	12.68	Olga Shishigina	12.80	Yuliya Graudyn	12.85
400 m hurdles	Kim Batten	52.61 WR	Tonja Buford-Bailey	52.62	Deon Hemmings	53.48 NR
10 km Walk	Irina Stankina	42:13 CR	Elisabetta Perrone	42:16	Yelena Nikolayeva	42:20
4 x 100 m relay	Celena Mondie-Milner Carlette Guidry-White Chryste Gaines Gwen Torrence	42.12	Dahlia Duhaney Juliet Cuthbert Beverly McDonald Merlene Ottey	42.25	Melanie Paschke Silke Lichtenhagen Silke-Beate Knoll Gabriele Becker	43.01
4 x 400 m relay	Kim Graham Rochelle Stevens Camara Jones Jearl Miles- Clark	3:22.29	Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Yuliya Sotnikova Yelena Andreyeva	3:23.98	Lee Naylor Renée Poetschka Melinda Gainsford-Taylor Cathy Freeman	3:25.88

Field

1991 |1993 |1995 |1997 |1999

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Fiona May	6.98	Niurka Montalvo	6.86	Irina Mushayilova	6.83
Triple Jump	Inessa Kravets	15.50 WR	Iva Prandzheva	15.18	Anna Biryukova	15.08
High Jump	Stefka Kostadinova	2.01	Alina Astafei	1.99	Inha Babakova	1.99
Shot Put	Astrid Kumbernuss	21.22	Huang Zhihong	20.04	Svetla Mitkova	19.56
Discus	Ellina Zvereva	68.64	Ilke Wyludda	67.20	Olga Chernyavskaya	66.86
Javelin	Natalya Shikolenko	67.56	Felicia Tilea	65.22	Mikaela Ingberg	65.16
Heptathlon	Ghada Shouaa	6651	Svetlana Moskalets	6575	Rita Inancsi	6522

Medal table by country

'''Position'''	'Country:'	'Gold:'	'Silver:'	'Bronze:'	'Total: '
1.		12	2	5	19
2=		2	2	2	6
2=		2	2	2	6
2=		2	2	2	6
5.		2	2	0	4
6.		2	1	3	6
7=		2	1	1	4
7=		2	1	1	4
9.		2	0	1	3
10.		2	0	0	2
11.		1	4	7	12
12.		1	4	2	7
13.		1	3	1	5
14.		1	1	1	3
14=		1	1	1	3
16=		1	1	0	2
16=		1	1	0	2
16=		1	1	0	2
19.		1	0	2	3
20=		1	0	0	1
20=		1	0	0	1
20=		1	0	0	1
20=		1	0	0	1
20=		1	0	0	1
25.		0	3	1	4
26.		0	2	0	2
27=		0	1	1	2
27=		0	1	1	2
29=		0	1	0	1
29=		0	1	0	1
29=		0	1	0	1
29=		0	1	0	1
29=		0	1	0	1
29=		0	1	0	1
29=		0	1	0	1
36=		0	0	2	2
36=		0	0	2	2
38=		0	0	1	1
38=		0	0	1	1
38=		0	0	1	1
38=		0	0	1	1
38=		0	0	1	1
38=		0	0	1	1

References

★ IAAF 1995 Championship