1993 World Championships in Athletics

4th World Championships in Athletics
Host city	Stuttgart, Germany
Nations	187
Athletes	1689
Dates	13–22 August 1993
Opened by	President Richard von Weizsäcker
Main venue	Neckarstadium
	← 1991 Tokyo 1995 Gothenburg →

Last updated January 19, 2026

The 4th World Championships in Athletics (German : Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften 1993), under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Neckarstadium, Stuttgart, Germany between 13 and 22 August with the participation of 187 nations.^[1] Having originally being held every four years in 1983, 1987 and 1991, these championships began a two-year cycle between events.

Event

The 1993 World Championships was the final time the women's 3000 m would be contested. At subsequent Championships the race was replaced by the longer 5000 m.

Men's results

Track

1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Linford Christie (GBR)	9.87 (AR)	Andre Cason (USA)	9.92	Dennis Mitchell (USA)	9.99
200 m details	Frankie Fredericks (NAM)	19.85 (CR/AR)	John Regis (GBR)	19.94	Carl Lewis (USA)	19.99
400 m details	Michael Johnson (USA)	43.65 (CR)	Butch Reynolds (USA)	44.13	Samson Kitur (KEN)	44.54
800 m details	Paul Ruto (KEN)	1:44.71	Giuseppe D'Urso (ITA)	1:44.86	Billy Konchellah (KEN)	1:44.89
1500 m details	Noureddine Morceli (ALG)	3:34.24	Fermin Cacho Ruiz (ESP)	3:35.56	Abdi Bile (SOM)	3:35.96
5000 m details	Ismael Kirui (KEN)	13:02.75	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)	13:03.17	Fita Bayisa (ETH)	13:05.40
10,000 m details	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)	27:46.02	Moses Tanui (KEN)	27:46.54	Richard Chelimo (KEN)	28:06.02
Marathon details	Mark Plaatjes (USA)	2:13:57	Luketz Swartbooi (NAM)	2:14:11	Bert van Vlaanderen (NED)	2:15:12
110 m hurdles details	Colin Jackson (GBR)	12.91 (WR)	Tony Jarrett (GBR)	13.00	Jack Pierce (USA)	13.06
400 m hurdles details	Kevin Young (USA)	47.18	Samuel Matete (ZAM)	47.60	Winthrop Graham (JAM)	47.62
3000 m steeplech. details	Moses Kiptanui (KEN)	8:06.36 (CR)	Patrick Sang (KEN)	8:07.53	Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA)	8:08.78
20 km walk details	Valentí Massana (ESP)	1:22:31	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:23:06	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:23:18
50 km walk details	Jesus Garcia (ESP)	3:41:41	Valentin Kononen (FIN)	3:42:02	Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS)	3:42:50
4 × 100 m relay details	United States (USA) Jon Drummond Andre Cason Dennis Mitchell Leroy Burrell Calvin Smith*	37.48	Great Britain (GBR) Colin Jackson Tony Jarrett John Regis Linford Christie Jason John* Darren Braithwaite*	37.77 (AR)	Canada (CAN) Robert Esmie Glenroy Gilbert Bruny Surin Atlee Mahorn	37.83 (NR)
4 × 400 m relay details	United States (USA) Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Butch Reynolds Michael Johnson Antonio Pettigrew* Derek Mills*	2:54.29 (WR)	Kenya (KEN) Kennedy Ochieng Simon Kemboi Abednego Matilu Samson Kitur	2:59.82	Germany (GER) Rico Lieder Karsten Just Olaf Hense Thomas Schönlebe	2:59.99
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Long jump details	Mike Powell (USA)	8.59	Stanislav Tarasenko (RUS)	8.16	Vitaliy Kyrylenko (UKR)	8.15
Triple jump details	Mike Conley (USA)	17.86	Leonid Voloshin (RUS)	17.65	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	17.44
High jump details	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.40 (CR)	Artur Partyka (POL)	2.37	Steve Smith (GBR)	2.37
Pole vault details	Sergey Bubka (UKR)	6.00 (CR)	Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)	5.90 (AR)	Maksim Tarasov (RUS)	5.80
Pole vault details	Sergey Bubka (UKR)	6.00 (CR)	Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)	5.90 (AR)	Igor Trandenkov (RUS)	5.80
Shot put details	Werner Günthör (SUI)	21.97	Randy Barnes (USA)	21.80	Oleksandr Bagach (UKR)	20.40¹
Discus throw details	Lars Riedel (GER)	67.72	Dmitriy Shevchenko (RUS)	66.90	Jürgen Schult (GER)	66.12
Hammer throw details	Andrey Abduvaliyev (TJK)	81.64 (AR)	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	79.88	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)	79.54
Javelin throw details	Jan Železný (CZE)	85.98 (CR)	Kimmo Kinnunen (FIN)	84.78	Mick Hill (GBR)	82.96
Decathlon details	Dan O'Brien (USA)	8817 (CR)	Eduard Hämäläinen (BLR)	8724	Paul Meier (GER)	8548
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

¹ Michael Stulce of the United States originally finished third, but was disqualified after testing positive for excess testosterone and mestanolone.

Women's results

Track

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Gail Devers United States	10.82 CR	Merlene Ottey Jamaica	10.82 CR	Gwen Torrence United States	10.89
200 m details	Merlene Ottey Jamaica	21.98	Gwen Torrence United States	22.00	Irina Privalova Russia	22.13
400 m details	Jearl Miles United States	49.82	Natasha Kaiser-Brown United States	50.17	Sandie Richards Jamaica	50.44
800 m details	Maria Mutola Mozambique	1:55.43 AR	Lyubov Gurina Russia	1:57.10	Ella Kovacs Romania	1:57.92
1500 m details	Liu Dong China	4:00.50	Sonia O'Sullivan Ireland	4:03.48	Hassiba Boulmerka Algeria	4:04.29
3000 m details	Qu Yunxia China	8:28.71 CR	Zhang Linli China	8:29.25	Zhang Lirong China	8:31.95
10,000 m details	Wang Junxia China	30:49.30 CR	Zhong Huandi China	31:12.55	Sally Barsosio Kenya	31:15.38
Marathon details	Junko Asari Japan	2:30:03	Manuela Machado Portugal	2:30:54	Tomoe Abe Japan	2:31:01
100 m hurdles details	Gail Devers United States	12.46 AR	Marina Azyabina Russia	12.60	Lynda Tolbert United States	12.67
400 m hurdles details	Sally Gunnell Great Britain	52.74 WR	Sandra Farmer-Patrick United States	52.79 AR	Margarita Ponomaryova Russia	53.48
10 km walk details	Sari Essayah Finland	42:59	Ileana Salvador Italy	43:08	Encarna Granados Spain	43:21
4 × 100 m relay details	Russia Olga Bogoslovskaya Galina Malchugina Natalya Voronova Irina Privalova Marina Trandenkova*	41.49 CR	United States Michelle Finn Gwen Torrence Wendy Vereen Gail Devers Sheila Echols*	41.49 CR	Jamaica Michelle Freeman Juliet Campbell Nikole Mitchell Merlene Ottey Dahlia Duhaney*	41.94=NR
4 × 400 m relay details	United States Gwen Torrence Maicel Malone Natasha Kaiser Jearl Miles Terri Dendy* Michelle Collins*	3:16.71 CR	Russia Yelena Rouzina Tatyana Alekseyeva Margarita Ponomaryova Irina Privalova Yelena Golesheva* Vera Sychugova*	3:18.38	Great Britain Linda Keough Phylis Smith Tracy Goddard Sally Gunnell	3:23.41
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler Germany	7.11	Larysa Berezhna Ukraine	6.98	Renata Nielsen Denmark	6.76
Triple jump details	Anna Biryukova Russia	15.09 WR	Yolanda Chen Russia	14.70	Iva Prandzheva Bulgaria	14.23
High jump details	Ioamnet Quintero Cuba	1.99	Silvia Costa Cuba	1.97	Sigrid Kirchmann Austria	1.97 NR
Shot put details	Huang Zhihong China	20.57	Svetlana Krivelyova Russia	19.97	Kathrin Neimke Germany	19.71
Discus throw details	Olga Chernyavskaya Russia	67.40	Daniela Costian Australia	65.36	Min Chunfeng China	65.26
Javelin throw details	Trine Hattestad Norway	69.18	Karen Forkel Germany	65.80	Natalya Shikolenko Belarus	65.64
Heptathlon details	Jackie Joyner-Kersee United States	6837	Sabine Braun Germany	6797	Svetlana Buraga Belarus	6635
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

* Host nation (Germany)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	13	7	5	25
2	China (CHN)	4	2	2	8
3	Russia (RUS)	3	8	5	16
4	Great Britain (GBR)	3	3	4	10
4	Kenya (KEN)	3	3	4	10
6	Germany (GER)*	2	2	4	8
7	Spain (ESP)	2	1	2	5
8	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	0	3
9	Finland (FIN)	1	2	0	3
10	Jamaica (JAM)	1	1	3	5
11	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	2	4
12	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	1	1	3
13	Namibia (NAM)	1	1	0	2
14	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	1	2
14	Japan (JPN)	1	0	1	2
16	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	1	0	0	1
21	Italy (ITA)	0	3	1	4
22	Belarus (BLR)	0	2	2	4
23	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
	Zambia (ZAM)	0	1	0	1
29	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Somalia (SOM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (36 entries)		44	44	45	133

Source:

References

Notes

↑ "iaaf.org – Osaka 2007 – History". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-04-03.

Sources

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1993 World Championships in Athletics

Contents

Event

Men's results

Track

Field

Women's results

Track

Field

Medal table

See also

References