1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships

3rd IAAF World Indoor Championships
Dates	8 March–10 March
Host city	Seville, Spain
Venue	Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo
Events	26 (+1 non-championship)
Participation	518 athletes from 80 nations
← 1989 Budapest 1993 Toronto →

The 3rd IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo in Seville, Spain from March 8 to March 10, 1991. It was the first Indoor Championships to include relay races as well as women's triple jump, albeit as a non-championship event. There were a total number of 518 athletes participated from 80 countries.

Results

Men

1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Andre Cason   United States	6.54	Linford Christie   Great Britain	6.55	Chidi Imoh   Nigeria	6.60
200 metres details	Nikolay Antonov   Bulgaria	20.67	Linford Christie   Great Britain	20.72	Ade Mafe   Great Britain	20.92
400 metres details	Devon Morris   Jamaica	46.17	Samson Kitur   Kenya	46.21	Cayetano Cornet   Spain	46.52
800 metres details	Paul Ereng   Kenya	1:47.08	Tomás de Teresa   Spain	1:47.82	Simon Hoogewerf   Canada	1:47.88
1500 metres details	Noureddine Morceli   Algeria	3:41.57	Fermín Cacho   Spain	3:42.68	Mário Silva   Portugal	3:43.85
3000 metres details	Frank O'Mara   Ireland	7:41.14 (CR)	Hammou Boutayeb   Morocco	7:43.64	Robert Denmark   Great Britain	7:43.90
60 metres hurdles details	Greg Foster   United States	7.45	Igors Kazanovs   Soviet Union	7.47	Mark McKoy   Canada	7.49
5000 metres walk details	Mikhail Shchennikov   Soviet Union	18:23.55 (CR)	Giovanni De Benedictis   Italy	18:23.60	Frants Kostyukevich   Soviet Union	18:47.05
4 × 400 metres relay details	Germany  (GER) Rico Lieder, Jens Carlowitz, Karsten Just, Thomas Schönlebe	3:03.05 (WR)	United States  (USA) Raymond Pierre, Charles Jenkins, Andrew Valmon, Antonio McKay, Clifton Campbell , Willie Smith	3:03.24 (AR)	Italy  (ITA) Marco Vaccari, Vito Petrella, Alessandro Aimar, Andrea Nuti	3:05.51 (NR)
High jump details	Hollis Conway   United States	2.40	Artur Partyka   Poland	2.37	Javier Sotomayor   Cuba	2.31
					Aleksey Yemelin   Soviet Union
Pole vault details	Sergey Bubka   Soviet Union	6.00	Viktor Ryzhenkov   Soviet Union	5.80	Ferenc Salbert   France	5.70
Long jump details	Dietmar Haaf   Germany	8.15	Jaime Jefferson   Cuba	8.04	Giovanni Evangelisti   Italy	7.93
Triple jump details	Igor Lapshin   Soviet Union	17.31	Leonid Voloshin   Soviet Union	17.04	Tord Henriksson   Sweden	16.80
Shot put details	Werner Günthör   Switzerland	21.17	Klaus Bodenmüller   Austria	20.42	Ron Backes   United States	20.06

Women

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Irina Sergeyeva   Soviet Union	7.02 (CR)	Merlene Ottey   Jamaica	7.08	Liliana Allen   Cuba	7.12 (NR)
200 metres details	Merlene Ottey   Jamaica	22.24 (CR)	Irina Sergeyeva   Soviet Union	22.41	Grit Breuer   Germany	22.58
400 metres details	Diane Dixon   United States	50.64 (CR)	Sandra Myers   Spain	50.99	Anita Protti   Switzerland	51.41 (NR)
800 metres details	Christine Wachtel   Germany	2:01.51	Violeta Beclea   Romania	2:01.75	Ella Kovacs   Romania	2:01.79
1500 metres details	Lyudmila Rogachova   Soviet Union	4:05.09	Ivana Kubešová   Czechoslovakia	4:06.22	Tudorita Chidu   Romania	4:06.27
3000 metres details	Marie-Pierre Duros   France	8:50.69	Margareta Keszeg   Romania	8:51.51	Lyubov Kremlyova   Soviet Union	8:51.90
60 metres hurdles details	Lyudmila Narozhilenko   Soviet Union	7.88	Monique Ewanjé-Épée   France	7.90	Aliuska López   Cuba	8.03
3000 metres walk details	Beate Anders   Germany	11:50.90 (CR)	Kerry Saxby   Australia	12:03.21	Ileana Salvador   Italy	12:07.67
4 × 400 metres relay details	Germany  (GER) Sandra Seuser, Katrin Schreiter, Annett Hesselbarth, Grit Breuer	3:27.22 (WR)	Soviet Union  (URS) Marina Shmonina, Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Margarita Ponomaryova, Aelita Yurchenko	3:27.95 (NR)	United States  (USA) Terri Dendy, Lillie Leatherwood, Jearl Miles, Diane Dixon	3:29.00 (AR)
High jump details	Heike Henkel   Germany	2.00	Tamara Bykova   Soviet Union	1.97	Heike Balck   Germany	1.94
Long jump details	Larisa Berezhnaya   Soviet Union	6.84	Heike Drechsler   Germany	6.82	Marieta Ilcu   Romania	6.74
Shot put details	Sui Xinmei   China	20.54 (CR)	Huang Zhihong   China	20.33	Natalya Lisovskaya   Soviet Union	20.00

Non-championship event

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Triple jump details	Inessa Kravets   Soviet Union	14.44 (CR)	Li Huirong   China	13.98	Sofiya Bozhanova   Bulgaria	13.62

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	7	6	4	17
2	Germany  (GER)	6	1	2	9
3	United States  (USA)	4	1	2	7
4	Jamaica  (JAM)	2	1	0	3
5	France  (FRA)	1	1	1	3
6	China  (CHN)	1	1	0	2
	Kenya  (KEN)	1	1	0	2
8	Switzerland  (SUI)	1	0	1	2
9	Algeria  (ALG)	1	0	0	1
	Bulgaria  (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland  (IRL)	1	0	0	1
12	Spain  (ESP)	0	3	1	4
13	Romania  (ROM)	0	2	3	5
14	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	2	2	4
15	Cuba  (CUB)	0	1	3	4
	Italy  (ITA)	0	1	3	4
17	Australia  (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Austria  (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Morocco  (MAR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	1	0	1
22	Canada  (CAN)	0	0	2	2
23	Nigeria  (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal  (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		26	26	27	79

Participating nations

•   Algeria (4)
•   Andorra (1)
•   Angola (2)
•   Anguilla (1)
•   Argentina (2)
•   Australia (12)
•   Austria (9)
•   Bahamas (3)
•   Belgium (3)
•   Bermuda (1)
•   Bolivia (2)
•   Botswana (1)
•   Brazil (6)
•   Bulgaria (8)
•   Burundi (2)
•   Cameroon (2)
•   Canada (14)
•   Chile (3)
•   China (13)
•   Chinese Taipei (2)
•   Colombia (2)
•   Cuba (13)
•   Cyprus (1)
•   Czechoslovakia (16)
•   Denmark (2)
•   Dominican Republic (2)
•   Ecuador (2)
• Ethiopia (2)
•   Finland (6)
•   France (17)
•   Germany (43)
•   Ghana (2)
•   Great Britain (21)
•   Greece (4)
•   Guinea (1)
•   Hungary (7)
•   Iceland (3)
•   Ireland (6)
•   Israel (2)
•   Italy (17)
•   Ivory Coast (2)
•   Jamaica (10)
•   Japan (4)
•   Kenya (6)
•   Luxembourg (1)
•   Madagascar (1)
•   Malaysia (1)
•   Mauritius (1)
•   Morocco (8)
•   Netherlands (8)
•   Netherlands Antilles (1)
•   New Zealand (2)
•   Nigeria (5)
•   Norway (5)
•   Pakistan (1)
•   Paraguay (1)
•   Peru (2)
•   Poland (10)
•   Portugal (5)
•   Republic of the Congo (2)
•   Romania (18)
• Rwanda (1)
•   Senegal (3)
•   Sierra Leone (1)
•   South Korea (1)
•   Soviet Union (42)
•   Spain (36)
• Swaziland (2)
•   Sweden (5)
•   Switzerland (3)
•   Tanzania (2)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (5)
• Tunisia (1)
•   Turkey (1)
•   Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
•   United States (49)
•   United States Virgin Islands (2)
•   Uruguay (2)
•   Yugoslavia (5)
• Zambia (2)

See also

• 1991 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics
• Athletics Australia