1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships

4th IAAF World Indoor Championships
Dates	March 12–14
Host city	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venue	Skydome
Events	27 (+4 non-championship)
Participation	537 [1] athletes from 93 nations
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The 4th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Skydome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from March 12 to March 14, 1993. It was the last Indoor Championships to feature the 5,000 and 3,000 metres race walk events. In addition, it was the first Indoor Championships to include heptathlon and pentathlon, albeit as non-championship events. There were a total number of 537 athletes participated from 93 countries.

Results

Men

1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Bruny Surin   Canada	6.50 (CR)	Frankie Fredericks   Namibia	6.51 (NR)	Talal Mansour   Qatar	6.57
200 metres details	James Trapp   United States	20.63	Damien Marsh   Australia	20.71	Kevin Little   United States	20.72
400 metres details	Butch Reynolds   United States	45.26 (CR)	Sunday Bada   Nigeria	45.75	Darren Clark   Australia	46.45
800 metres details	Tom McKean   Great Britain	1:47.29	Charles Nkazamyampi   Burundi	1:47.62	Nico Motchebon   Germany	1:48.15
1500 metres details	Marcus O'Sullivan   Ireland	3:45.00	David Strang   Great Britain	3:45.30	Branko Zorko   Croatia	3:45.39
3000 metres details	Gennaro Di Napoli   Italy	7:50.26	Eric Dubus   France	7:50.57	Enrique Molina   Spain	7:51.10
60 metres hurdles details	Mark McKoy   Canada	7.41 (CR)	Colin Jackson   Great Britain	7.43	Tony Dees   United States	7.43
High jump details	Javier Sotomayor   Cuba	2.41	Patrik Sjöberg   Sweden	2.39	Steve Smith   Great Britain	2.37
Pole vault details	Rodion Gataullin   Russia	5.90	Grigoriy Yegorov   Kazakhstan	5.80	Jean Galfione   France	5.80
Long jump details	Iván Pedroso   Cuba	8.23	Joe Greene   United States	8.13	Jaime Jefferson   Cuba	7.98
Triple jump details	Pierre Camara   France	17.59 (CR)	Māris Bružiks   Latvia	17.36	Brian Wellman   Bermuda	17.27
Shot put details	Mike Stulce   United States	21.27	Jim Doehring   United States	21.08	Aleksandr Bagach   Ukraine	20.63
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Darnell Hall Brian Irvin Jason Rouser Mark Everett	3:04.20	Trinidad and Tobago  (TRI) Dazel Jules Alvin Daniel Neil de Silva Ian Morris	3:07.02 (NR)	Japan  (JPN) Masayoshi Kan Seiji Inagaki Yoshihiko Saito Hiroyuki Hayashi	3:07.30
5000 metres walk details	Mikhail Shchennikov   Russia	18:32.10	Robert Korzeniowski   Poland	18:35.91	Mikhail Orlov   Russia	18:43.48

• For doping offenses, the Bulgarians Daniel Ivanov and Nikolai Raev were disqualified from the bronze medals in long and triple jump respectively. ^{[2] [3]}

Women

1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Gail Devers   United States	6.95 (CR)	Irina Privalova   Russia	6.97	Zhanna Tarnopolskaya   Ukraine	7.21
200 metres details	Irina Privalova   Russia	22.15 (CR)	Melinda Gainsford   Australia	22.73	Natalya Voronova   Russia	22.90
400 metres details	Sandie Richards   Jamaica	50.93 (NR)	Tatyana Alekseyeva   Russia	51.03	Jearl Miles   United States	51.37
800 metres details	Maria Mutola   Mozambique	1:57.55 (CR)	Svetlana Masterkova   Russia	1:59.18	Joetta Clark   United States	1:59.86
1500 metres details	Yekaterina Podkopayeva   Russia	4:09.29	Violeta Beclea   Romania	4:09.41	Sandra Gasser   Switzerland	4:10.99
3000 metres details	Yvonne Murray   Great Britain	8:50.55	Margareta Keszeg   Romania	9:02.89	Lynn Jennings   United States	9:03.78
60 metres hurdles details	Julie Baumann   Switzerland	7.86	LaVonna Martin   United States	7.99	Patricia Girard   France	8.01
High jump details	Stefka Kostadinova   Bulgaria	2.02	Heike Henkel   Germany	2.02	Inga Babakova   Ukraine	2.00
Long jump details	Marieta Ilcu   Romania	6.84	Susen Tiedtke   Germany	6.84	Inessa Kravets   Ukraine	6.77
Triple jump details	Inessa Kravets   Ukraine	14.47 (CR)	Yolanda Chen   Russia	14.36	Inna Lasovskaya   Russia	14.35
Shot put details	Svetlana Krivelyova   Russia	19.57	Stephanie Storp   Germany	19.37	Zhang Liuhong   China	19.32
4 × 400 metres relay details	Jamaica Deon Hemmings, Beverly Grant, Cathy Rattray-Williams, Sandie Richards	3:32.32	United States Trevaia Williams, Terri Dendy, Dyan Webber, Natasha Kaiser-Brown	3:32.50	none	none
3000 metres walk details	Yelena Nikolayeva   Russia	11:49.73 (CR)	Kerry Saxby-Junna   Australia	11:53.82	Ileana Salvador   Italy	11:55.35

• The Russian 4 × 400 m relay team won the event and was awarded the gold medal, but was later disqualified when Marina Shmonina was found to have been doping. ^{[3] [4]}

Non-championship events

Some events were contested without counting towards the total medal status. The 1600 metres medley relay consisted of four legs over 800 m, 200 m, 200 m and 400 m.

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's heptathlon details	Dan O'Brien  United States	6476	Mike Smith  Canada	6279	Eduard Hämäläinen Belarus	6075
Women's pentathlon details	Liliana Nastase   Romania	4686	Urszula Włodarczyk  Poland	4667	Birgit Clarius  Germany	4641
	Irina Belova (RUS) won the women's pentathlon and was awarded the gold medal, but was later disqualified when she was found to have been doping. [3] [5]
Men's 1600 metres Medley Relay	United States Mark Everett, James Trapp, Kevin Little, Butch Reynolds	3:15.10	Brazil Gilmar dos Santos, André Domingos, Sidnei de Souza, Eronilde de Araújo	3:16.11	Canada Freddie Williams, Ricardo Greenidge, Peter Ogilvie, Mark Jackson	3:16.93
Women's 1600 metres Medley Relay	United States Joetta Clark, Wendy Vereen, Kim Batten, Jearl Miles	3:45.90	Canada Donalda Duprey, Sonia Paquette, Mame Twumasi, Alanna Yakiwchuk	3:56.34	none	none
	The Russian women's 1600 metres medley relay team, composed of Yelena Afanasyeva, Marina Shmonina, Yelena Rusina and Yelena Andreyeva, originally won the event, but were later disqualified when Shmonina was found to have been doping. [3]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	6	4	3	13
2	United States  (USA)	5	4	5	14
3	Great Britain  (GBR)	2	2	1	5
4	Cuba  (CUB)	2	0	1	3
5	Canada  (CAN)	2	0	0	2
	Jamaica  (JAM)	2	0	0	2
7	Romania  (ROM)	1	2	0	3
8	France  (FRA)	1	1	2	4
9	Ukraine  (UKR)	1	0	4	5
10	Italy  (ITA)	1	0	1	2
	Switzerland  (SUI)	1	0	1	2
12	Bulgaria  (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland  (IRL)	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique  (MOZ)	1	0	0	1
15	Australia  (AUS)	0	3	1	4
	Germany  (GER)	0	3	1	4
17	Burundi  (BDI)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia  (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Namibia  (NAM)	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria  (NGR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago  (TRI)	0	1	0	1
25	Bermuda  (BER)	0	0	1	1
	China  (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Croatia  (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Japan  (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Qatar  (QAT)	0	0	1	1
	Spain  (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (30 entries)		27	27	26	80

Participating nations

•   Angola (1)
•   Argentina (2)
•   Armenia (1)
•   Aruba (1)
•  Australia (10)
•   Austria (6)
•   Azerbaijan (5)
•   Bahamas (2)
• Belarus (6)
•  Belgium (7)
•   Bermuda (2)
•   Bolivia (1)
•   Botswana (1)
•  Brazil (8)
•   Bulgaria (7)
•   Burundi (2)
•  Canada (37)
•   Cape Verde (1)
•   Central African Republic (1)
•  Chile (2)
•  China (12)
•   Chinese Taipei (2)
•   Croatia (1)
•   Cuba (13)
•   Czech Republic (8)
•   Denmark (3)
•   Dominica (1)
•   Estonia (2)
• Ethiopia (1)
•   Finland (9)
•  France (15)
•  Germany (29)
•   Ghana (2)
•  Great Britain (26)
•   Greece (7)
• Hong Kong (1)
•   Hungary (6)
•   Iceland (2)
•   Ireland (6)
•   Israel (2)
•  Italy (19)
•   Ivory Coast (2)
•   Jamaica (15)
•  Japan (8)
•   Kazakhstan (3)
•   Kenya (3)
•   Kuwait (1)
• Kyrgyzstan (1)
•   Latvia (5)
• Lithuania (6)
•   Madagascar (2)
•   Malaysia (2)
•   Mali (1)
•   Montserrat (1)
•  Mexico (1)
•   Moldova (2)
•   Morocco (6)
•   Mozambique (1)
•   Namibia (1)
•  Netherlands (9)
•  New Zealand (1)
•   Nigeria (2)
•   Norway (6)
•   Paraguay (1)
•   Philippines (1)
•  Poland (6)
•  Portugal (7)
•   Puerto Rico (2)
•   Qatar (2)
•   Romania (19)
• Russia (34)
• Saint Lucia (1)
•   El Salvador (2)
•   Senegal (1)
•   Sierra Leone (1)
•   Slovakia (4)
•   Slovenia (3)
• South Africa (5)
•   South Korea (2)
•  Spain (18)
• Swaziland (2)
•  Sweden (9)
•   Switzerland (7)
•   Togo (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (4)
•   Turkey (2)
•   Uganda (2)
•   Ukraine (13)
•  United States (56)
•   United States Virgin Islands (1)
•   Uzbekistan (1)
•   Zaire (1)
• Zambia (1)

See also

• 1993 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. (558 when counting non-championship events)
2. "Sporting Digest: Drugs in sport" . The Independent. 13 April 1993. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
3. Istanbul 2012 – Notes on contents, IAAF, p. 45, retrieved 31 May 2015
4. Sport References: Marina Shmonina
5. Sports Reference – Irina Belova

External links

• GBR Athletics
• Athletics Australia
• (German)