1999 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ATHLETICS

The '7th World Championships in Athletics', under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Olímpico, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29.
One of the main highlights of the games was the World Record set in the 400 metre sprint by the outstanding Michael Johnson of the United States of America in a time of 43.18 seconds.

Contents

Men's Results

Track

Field

Women's Results

Track

Field

Medals Table

References

Men's Results

Track

1995 |1997 |1999 |2001 |2003

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Maurice Greene	9.80 CR	Bruny Surin	9.84 NR	Dwain Chambers	9.97 PB
200 m	Maurice Greene	19.90 SB	Claudinei da Silva	20.00 PB	Francis Obikwelu	20.11
400 m	Michael Johnson	43.18 WR	Sanderlei Claro Parrela	44.29 AR	Alejandro Cárdenas	44.31 NR
800 m	Wilson Kipketer	1:43.30	Hezekiél Sepeng	1:43.32	Djabir Saïd Guerni	1:44.18 NR
1500 m	Hicham El Guerrouj	3:27.65 CR	Noah Ngeny	3:28.73 NR	Reyes Estévez	3:30.57 PB
5000 m	Salah Hissou	12:58.13 CR	Benjamin Limo	12:58.72	Mohammed Mourhit	12:58.80
10 000 m	Haile Gebrselassie	27:57.27	Paul Tergat	27:58.56	Assefa Mezegebu	27:59.15
Marathon ''Details''	Abel Antón	2:13:36	Vincenzo Modica	2:14:03	Nobuyuki Sato	2:14:07
110 m H	Colin Jackson	13.04 SB	Anier García	13.07 NR	Duane Ross	13.12 PB
400 m H	Fabrizio Mori	47.72 WL	Stéphane Diagana	48.12 SB	Marcel Schelbert	48.13 NR
3000 m St.	Christopher Kosgei	8:11.76	Wilson Boit Kipketer	8:12.09	Ali Ezzine	8.12.73
20 km Walk	Ilya Markov	1:23:34	Jefferson Pérez	1:24:19	Daniel García	1:24:31
50 km Walk	Ivano Brugnetti	3:47:54 PB	Nikolay Matyukhin	3:48:18	Curt Clausen	3:50:55
4 X 100 m	Jon Drummond, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	37.59 WL	Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers	37.73 AR	Raphael de Oliveira, Claudinei da Silva, Edson Luciano Ribeiro, André Domingos da Silva	38.05 AR
4 X 400 m	Jerome Davis, Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, Michael Johnson	2:56.45 WL	Tomasz Czubak, Robert Mackowiak, Jacek Bocian, Piotr Haczek	2:58.91 SB	Michael McDonald, Greg Haughton, Danny McFarlane, Davian Clarke	2:59.34

German Skurygin (RUS) originally won the gold medal in the 50 km Walk with a time of 3:44:23, but he was later disqualified for doping, in November 2001.

The Nigerian 4x100 m relay team (Innocent Asonze, Francis Obikwelu, Daniel Effiong, Deji Aliu), originally third in 37.91, was disqualified because Innocent Asonze failed a doping test on June 1999. This was confirmed on August 31, 2005.

Field

1995 |1997 |1999 |2001 |2003

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump	Vyacheslav Voronin	2.37 WL	Mark Boswell	2.35 NR	Martin Buß	2.32
Long Jump	Iván Pedroso	8.56	Yago Lamela	8.40	Gregor Cankar	8.36 SB
Pole Vault	Maksim Tarasov	6.02 CR	Dmitri Markov	5.90	Aleksandr Averbukh	5.80 NR
Triple Jump	Charles Friedek	17.59 WL	Rostislav Dimitrov	17.49 PB	Jonathan Edwards	17.48
Shot Put	C.J. Hunter	21.79 PB	Oliver-Sven Buder	21.42 SB	Oleksandr Bagach	21.26
Discus	Anthony Washington	69.08 CR	Jürgen Schult	68.18 SB	Lars Riedel	68.09
Javelin	Aki Parviainen	89.52	Konstadinos Gatsioudis	89.18	Jan Železný	87.67
Hammer	Karsten Kobs	80.24	Zsolt Németh	79.05	Vladislav Piskunov	79.03
Decathlon	Tomáš Dvořák	8744	Dean Macey	8556 PB	Chris Huffins	8547 SB

Women's Results

Track

1995 |1997 |1999 |2001 |2003

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Marion Jones	10.70 CR	Inger Miller	10.79 PB	Ekaterini Thanou	10.84
200 m	Inger Miller	21.77 WL	Beverly McDonald	22.22 PB	Merlene Frazer Andrea Philipp	22.26
400 m	Cathy Freeman	49.67 SB	Anja Rücker	49.74 PB	Lorraine Graham-Fenton	49.92 PB
800 m	Ludmila Formanová	1:56.68	Maria Mutola	1:56.72	Svetlana Masterkova	1:56.93
1500 m	Svetlana Masterkova	3:59.53 SB	Regina Jacobs	4:00.35 PB	Kutre Dulecha	4:00.96 SB
5000 m	Gabriela Szabo	14:41.82 CR	Zahra Ouaziz	14:43.15	Ayelech Worku	14:44.22 PB
10 000 m	Gete Wami	30:24.56 CR	Paula Radcliffe	30:27.13 NR	Tegla Loroupe	30:32.03 NR
Marathon ''Details''	Jong Song-Ok	2:26:59 NR	Ari Ichihashi	2:27:02 PB	Lidia Simon	2:27:41
100 m H	Gail Devers	12.37 WL	Gloria Alozie	12.44 AR	Ludmila Engqvist (Narozhilenko)	12.47 NR
400 m H	Daimí Pernía	52.89 WL	Nezha Bidouane	52.90 AR	Deon Hemmings	53.16 SB
20 km Walk	Liu Hongyu	1:30:50	Wang Yan	1:30:52	Kerry Saxby-Junna	1:31:18 SB
4 X 100 m	Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson	41.92 WL	Patricia Girard, Muriel Hurtis, Katia Benth, Christine Arron	42.06 NR	Aleen Bailey, Merlene Frazer, Beverly McDonald, Peta-Gaye Dowdie	42.15 SB
4 X 400 m	Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko, Olga Kotlyarova, Natalya Nazarova	3:21.98 WL	Suziann Reid, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Michelle Collins, Jearl Miles-Clark	3:22.09 SB	Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer, Anja Rücker, Grit Breuer	3:22.43 SB

Field

1995 |1997 |1999 |2001 |2003

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump	Inha Babakova	1.99	Yelena Yelesina	1.99	Svetlana Lapina	1.99 PB
Pole Vault	Stacy Dragila	4.60 WR	Anzhela Balakhonova	4.55 AR	Tatiana Grigorieva	4.45
Long Jump	Niurka Montalvo	7.06 NR	Fiona May	6.94	Marion Jones	6.83
Triple Jump	Paraskevi Tsiamita	14.88	Yamilé Aldama	14.61	Olga Vasdeki	14.61
Shot Put	Astrid Kumbernuss	19.85 SB	Nadine Kleinert	19.61 PB	Svetlana Krivelyova	19.43
Discus	Franka Dietzsch	68.14	Anastasia Kelesidou	66.05	Nicoleta Grasu	65.35
Hammer	Mihaela Melinte	75.20	Olga Kuzenkova	72.56	Lisa Misipeka	66.06
Javelin	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili	67.09 PB	Tatyana Shikolenko	66.37 PB	Trine Hattestad	66.06
Heptathlon	Eunice Barber	6861 PB	Denise Lewis	6724	Ghada Shouaa	6500

Medals Table

Position:	Nation:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.		11	3	4	18
2.		5	4	3	12
3.		4	4	4	12
4.		2	2	2	6
5.		2	2	1	5
6=		2	2	0	4
6=		2	2	0	4
8.		2	1	1	4
9.		2	0	3	5
10.		2	0	2	4
11.		2	0	1	3
12.		1	4	2	7
13.		1	4	1	6
14.		1	2	0	3
15=		1	1	2	4
15=		1	1	2	4
17.		1	1	0	2
18=		1	0	0	1
18=		1	0	0	1
18=		1	0	0	1
18=		1	0	0	1
22.		0	2	1	3
23.		0	2	0	2
24.		0	1	5	6
25=		0	1	1	2
25=		0	1	1	2
27=		0	1	0	1
27=		0	1	0	1
27=		0	1	0	1
27=		0	1	0	1
27=		0	1	0	1
27=		0	1	0	1
33.		0	0	2	2
34=		0	0	1	1
34=		0	0	1	1
34=		0	0	1	1
34=		0	0	1	1
34=		0	0	1	1
34=		0	0	1	1
34=		0	0	1	1
34=		0	0	1	1
34=		0	0	1	1

References

★ IAAF 1999