2001 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ATHLETICS

The '8th World Championships in Athletics', under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between August 3 and August 12 and was the first time the event had visited North America.

Contents

Men's Results

Track

Field

Women's Results

Track

Field

Medals Table

References

Men's Results

Track

1997 |1999 |2001 |2003 |2005

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Maurice Greene	9.82 WL	Bernard Williams	9.94 PB	Ato Boldon	9.98
200 m	Konstantinos Kenteris	20.04	Christopher Williams	20.20	Kim Collins Shawn Crawford	20.30 NR (St.Kitts)
400 m	Avard Moncur	44.64	Ingo Schultz	44.87	Greg Haughton	44.98
800 m	André Bucher	1:43.70	Wilfred Bungei	1:44.55	Pawel Czapiewski	1:44.63 PB
1500 m	Hicham El Guerrouj	3:30.68	Bernard Lagat	3:31.10	Driss Maazouzi	3:31.54 SB
5000 m	Richard Limo	13:00.77	Million Wolde	13:03.47	John Kibowen	13:05.20
10 000 m	Charles Kamathi	27:53.25	Assefa Mezegebu	27:53.97	Haile Gebrselassie	27:54.41
Marathon	Gezahegne Abera	2:12:42 SB	Simon Biwott	2:12:43	Stefano Baldini	2:13:18
110 m H	Allen Johnson	13.04 WL	Anier García	13.07 SB	Dudley Dorival	13.25 NR
400 m H	Felix Sanchez	47.49 WL	Fabrizio Mori	47.54 NR	Dai Tamesue	47.89 NR
3000 m St.	Reuben Kosgei	8:15.16	Ali Ezzine	8:16.21	Bernard Barmasai	8:16.59
20 km Walk	Roman Rasskazov	1:20:31	Ilya Markov	1:20:33	Viktor Burayev	1:20:36
50 km Walk	Robert Korzeniowski	3:42.08 WL	Jesús Ángel García	3:43:07 SB	Edgar Hernández	3:46:12 PB
4 x 100 m	Morne Nagel, Corne Du Plessis, Lee-Roy Newton, Matthew Quinn	38.47 NR	Marc Burns, Ato Boldon, Jaycey Harper, Darrel Brown	38.58 NR	Matthew Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Steve Brimacombe, Adam Basil	38.83 SB
4 x 400 m	Leonard Byrd, Antonio Pettigrew, Derrick Brew, Angelo Taylor	2.57.54 WL	Avard Moncur, Christopher Brown, Troy Mcintosh, Tim Munnings	2.58.19 NR	Brandon Simpson, Christopher Williams, Greg Haughton, Danny McFarlane	2.58.39 SB

Ali Saidi-Sief of Algeria, second in the 5000 m, was disqualified for doping (nandrolone) few days later.

Tim Montgomery (USA) came second in the men's 100 metres with a time of 9.85 and was part of the 4x100m USA team that finished first in 37.96 (Mickey Grimes, Bernard Williams, Dennis Mitchell, Tim Montgomery), but was stripped of his medals in December 13, 2005, following the BALCO drug scandal.

Field

1997 |1999 |2001 |2003 |2005

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump	Martin Buß	2.36 WL	Yaroslav Rybakov Vyacheslav Voronin	2.33 PB (Rybakov) SB (Voronin)
Pole Vault	Dmitri Markov	6.05 CR	Aleksandr Averbukh	5.85	Nick Hysong	5.85 SB
Long Jump	Iván Pedroso	8.40	Savanté Stringfellow	8.24	Carlos Calado	8.21 SB
Triple Jump	Jonathan Edwards	17.92 WL	Christian Olsson	17.47	Igor Spasovkhodskiy	17.44 PB
Shot Put	John Godina	21.87	Adam Nelson	21.24	Arsi Harju	20.93 SB
Discus	Lars Riedel	69.72 CR	Virgilijus Alekna	69.40	Michael Möllenbeck	67.61 PB
Hammer	Szymon Ziółkowski	83.38 CR	Koji Murofushi	82.92	Ilya Konovalov	80.27 SB
Javelin	Jan Železný	92.80 CR	Aki Parviainen	91.31	Konstadinos Gatsioudis	89.95
Decathlon	Tomáš Dvořák	8902 CR	Erki Nool	8815 NR	Dean Macey	8603 PB

Women's Results

Track

1997 |1999 |2001 |2003 |2005

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Zhanna Pintusevich-Block (Tarnopolskaya)	10.82 WL	Marion Jones	10.85	Ekaterini Thanou	10.91 SB
200 m	Marion Jones	22.39	Debbie Ferguson	22.52	LaTasha Jenkins	22.85
400 m	Amy Mbacke Thiam	49.86 NR	Lorraine Fenton	49.88 SB	Ana Guevara	49.97 SB
800 m	Maria Mutola	1:57.17	Stephanie Graf	1:57.20 SB	Letitia Vriesde	1:57.35 SB
1500 m	Gabriela Szabo	4:00.57 SB	Violeta Beclea Szekely	4:01.70	Natalya Gorelova	4:02.40
5000 m	Olga Yegorova	15:03.39	Marta Dominguez	15:06.59	Ayelech Worku	15:10.17
10,000 m	Derartu Tulu	31:48.81	Berhane Adere	31:48.85	Gete Wami	31:49.98
Marathon	Lidia Simon	2:26:01	Reiko Tosa	2:26:06	Svetlana Zakharova	2:26:18
100 m H	Anjanette Kirkland	12.42 WL	Gail Devers	12.54 SB	Olga Shishigina	12.58 SB
400 m H	Nezha Bidouane	53.34 WL	Yuliya Pechonkina	54.27	Daimi Pernia	54.51
20 km Walk	Olimpiada Ivanova	1:27:48 CR	Valentina Tsybulskaya	1:28:49 PB	Elisabetta Perrone	1:28:56
4 x 100 m	Melanie Paschke, Gaby Rockmeier, Birgit Rockmeier, Marion Wagner	42.32 SB	Sylviane Félix, Frédérique Bangué, Muriel Hurtis, Odiah Sidibé	42.39 SB	Juliet Campbell, Merlene Frazer, Beverly McDonald, Astia Walker	42.40 SB
4 x 400 m	Sandie Richards, Catherine Scott-Pomales, Debbie-Ann Parris, Lorraine Fenton	3.20.65 WL	Florence Ekpo-Umoh, Shanta Ghosh, Claudia Marx, Grit Breuer	3.21.97 SB	Irina Rosikhina, Yuliya Pechonkina, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Olesya Zykina	3.24.92

Originally, Kelli White (USA) was third in the 200 m (22.56) and took part in the winning 4x100 relay team (Kelli White, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, Marion Jones; 41.71), but following the BALCO doping scandal she later admitted to using prohibited substances and on June 18, 2004 all her performances since December 15, 2000 have been annulled.

Field

1997 |1999 |2001 |2003 |2005

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump	Hestrie Cloete (Storbeck)	2.00 SB	Inha Babakova	2.00	Kajsa Bergqvist	1.97
Pole Vault	Stacy Dragila	4.75 CR	Svetlana Feofanova	4.75 CR	Monika Pyrek	4.55
Long Jump	Fiona May	7.02	Tatyana Kotova	7.01	Niurka Montalvo	6.88
Triple Jump	Tatyana Lebedeva	15.25 WL	Françoise Mbango-Etone	14.60	Tereza Marinova	14.58
Shot Put	Yanina Korolchik	20.61 NR	Nadine Kleinert	19.86 PB	Vita Pavlysh	19.41
Discus	Ellina Zvereva	67.10	Nicoleta Grasu	66.24	Anastasia Kelesidou	65.50 SB
Hammer	Yipsi Moreno	70.65 AR	Olga Kuzenkova	70.61	Bronwyn Eagles	68.87
Javelin	Osleidys Menéndez	69.53 CR	Mirela Manjani (Tzelili)	65.78	Sonia Bisset	64.69
Heptathlon	Yelena Prokhorova	6694 SB	Natalya Sazanovich	6539 SB	Shelia Burrell	6472 PB

Natalya Sadova of Russia originally won the gold medal in discus throw (68.57), but she was later disqualified for doping (caffeine), in March 2005.

Medals Table

Position:	Nation:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.		7	5	4	16
2.		5	7	6	18
3.		3	3	2	8
4.		3	3	1	7
5.		3	1	2	6
6.		2	3	3	8
7=		2	2	0	4
7=		2	2	0	4
9.		2	1	0	3
10.		2	0	2	4
11=		2	0	0	2
11=		2	0	0	2
13.		1	2	3	6
14.		1	2	0	3
15.		1	1	3	5
16.		1	1	2	4
17.		1	1	1	3
18.		1	0	2	3
19.		1	0	1	2
20=		1	0	0	1
20=		1	0	0	1
20=		1	0	0	1
20=		1	0	0	1
24=		0	2	1	3
24=		0	2	1	3
26=		0	1	1	2
26=		0	1	1	2
26=		0	1	1	2
26=		0	1	1	2
30=		0	1	0	1
30=		0	1	0	1
30=		0	1	0	1
30=		0	1	0	1
30=		0	1	0	1
35.		0	0	2	2
36=		0	0	1	1
36=		0	0	1	1
36=		0	0	1	1
36=		0	0	1	1
36=		0	0	1	1
36=		0	0	1	1

References

★ 2001 IAAF World Championships in Athletics - Official website