1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships

7th IAAF World Indoor Championships
Dates	5 March–7 March
Host city	Maebashi, Japan
Venue	Green Dome Maebashi
Events	28
Participation	451 athletes from 115 nations
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The 7th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in the Green Dome Maebashi stadium in Maebashi, Japan from March 5 to March 7, 1999. It was the first time the Championships were staged outside Europe or North America. Primo Nebiolo, president of the IAAF, characterized the championships as "the greatest ever". There were a total number of 487 participating athletes from 115 countries.

Doping disqualifications

Four medalists were disqualified for doping; Rostislav Dimitrov of Bulgaria was stripped of the triple jump silver, Inger Miller of the USA was stripped of the 60 metre bronze, Vita Pavlysh of Ukraine was stripped of the shot put gold and Irina Korzhanenko of Russia was stripped of the shot put silver. ^[1]

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Maurice Greene   United States	6.42 (CR)	Tim Harden   United States	6.43 (PB)	Jason Gardener   Great Britain	6.46 (AR)
200 m details	Frankie Fredericks   Namibia	20.10 (CR)	Obadele Thompson   Barbados	20.26 (AR)	Kevin Little   United States	20.48
400 m details	Jamie Baulch   Great Britain	45.73	Milton Campbell   United States	45.99	Alejandro Cárdenas   Mexico	46.02 (NR)
800 m details	Johan Botha   South Africa	1:45.47	Wilson Kipketer   Denmark	1:45.49	Nico Motchebon   Germany	1:45.74
1500 m details	Haile Gebrselassie   Ethiopia	3:33.77 (CR)	Laban Rotich   Kenya	3:33.98	Andrés Manuel Díaz   Spain	3:34.46
3000 m details	Haile Gebrselassie   Ethiopia	7:53.57	Paul Bitok   Kenya	7:53.79	Million Wolde   Ethiopia	7:53.85
60 m hurdles details	Colin Jackson   Great Britain	7.38 (CR)	Reggie Torian   United States	7.40	Falk Balzer   Germany	7.44
4 × 400 m relay details	United States  (USA) Andre Morris Dameon Johnson Deon Minor Milton Campbell	3:02.83 (WR)	Poland  (POL) Piotr Haczek Jacek Bocian Piotr Rysiukiewicz Robert Maćkowiak	3:03.01 (AR)	Great Britain  (GBR) Allyn Condon Solomon Wariso Adrian Patrick Jamie Baulch	3:03.20 (NR)
High jump details	Javier Sotomayor   Cuba	2.36	Vyacheslav Voronin   Russia	2.36	Charles Austin   United States	2.33
Pole vault details	Jean Galfione   France	6.00 (CR)	Jeff Hartwig   United States	5.95 (AR)	Danny Ecker   Germany	5.85
Long jump details	Iván Pedroso   Cuba	8.62 (CR)	Yago Lamela   Spain	8.56 (AR)	Erick Walder   United States	8.30
Triple jump details	Charles Friedek   Germany	17.18 (PB)	LaMark Carter   United States 1	16.98	Zsolt Czingler   Hungary	16.98
Shot put details	Aleksandr Bagach   Ukraine	21.41	John Godina   United States	21.06	Yuriy Bilonog   Ukraine	20.89
Heptathlon details	Sebastian Chmara   Poland	6386 (WL)	Erki Nool   Estonia	6374 (NR)	Roman Šebrle   Czech Republic	6319 (NR)

¹ Rostislav Dimitrov of Bulgaria originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified for doping. ^[1]

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details *	Ekaterini Thanou   Greece	6.96	Gail Devers   United States	7.02	Philomena Mensah   Canada	7.07
200 m details	Ionela Târlea   Romania	22.39	Svetlana Goncharenko   Russia	22.69	Pauline Davis   Bahamas	22.70
400 m details	Grit Breuer   Germany	50.80	Falilat Ogunkoya   Nigeria	51.25	Jearl Miles Clark   United States	51.45
800 m details	Ludmila Formanová   Czech Republic	1:56.90 (CR)	Maria Mutola   Mozambique	1:57.17	Natalya Tsyganova   Russia	1:57.47 (NR)
1500 m details	Gabriela Szabo   Romania	4:03.23 (CR)	Violeta Beclea   Romania	4:03.53 (PB)	Lidia Chojecka   Poland	4:05.86 (NR)
3000 m details	Gabriela Szabo   Romania	8:36.42	Zahra Ouaziz   Morocco	8:38.43 (AR)	Regina Jacobs   United States	8:39.14 (AR)
60 m hurdles details	Olga Shishigina   Kazakhstan	7.86	Glory Alozie   Nigeria	7.87	Keturah Anderson   Canada	7.90
4 × 400 m relay details	Russia  (RUS) Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Natalya Nazarova	3:24.25 (WR)	Australia  (AUS) Susan Andrews Tania Van Heer Tamsyn Lewis Cathy Freeman	3:26.87 (AR)	United States  (USA) Monique Hennagan Michelle Collins Zundra Feagin Shanelle Porter	3:27.59 (AR)
High jump details	Khristina Kalcheva   Bulgaria	1.99	Zuzana Hlavoňová   Czech Republic	1.96	Tisha Waller   United States	1.96
Pole vault details	Nastja Ryjikh   Germany	4.50 (CR)	Vala Flosadóttir   Iceland	4.45 (NR)	Nicole Rieger   Germany	4.35
					Zsuzsanna Szabó   Hungary
Long jump details	Tatyana Kotova   Russia	6.86 (PB)	Shana Williams   United States	6.82 (PB)	Iva Prandzheva   Bulgaria	6.78
Triple jump details	Ashia Hansen   Great Britain	15.02 (WL)	Iva Prandzheva   Bulgaria	14.94 (NR)	Šárka Kašpárková   Czech Republic	14.87 (NR)
Shot put details *	Svetlana Krivelyova   Russia	19.08	Krystyna Danilczyk   Poland	19.00	Teri Steer   United States	18.86
Pentathlon details	Le Shundra Nathan   United States	4753	Irina Belova   Russia	4691	Urszula Włodarczyk   Poland	4596

• American sprinter Inger Miller won the bronze but failed a post-race drug test (excessive caffeine) and was stripped of the medal. ^{[1] [2]}
• Vita Pavlysh of Ukraine failed a drug test and was stripped of her shot put gold medal. ^[1]
• Irina Korzhanenko of Russia was stripped of the shot put silver. ^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	3	8	8	19
2	Russia  (RUS)	3	3	1	7
3	Romania  (ROM)	3	1	0	4
4	Germany  (GER)	3	0	4	7
5	Great Britain  (GBR)	3	0	2	5
6	Ethiopia  (ETH)	2	0	1	3
7	Cuba  (CUB)	2	0	0	2
8	Poland  (POL)	1	2	2	5
9	Czech Republic  (CZE)	1	1	2	4
10	Bulgaria  (BGR)	1	1	1	3
11	Ukraine  (UKR)	1	0	1	2
12	France  (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Greece  (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
	Namibia  (NAM)	1	0	0	1
	South Africa  (RSA)	1	0	0	1
17	Kenya  (KEN)	0	2	0	2
	Nigeria  (NGA)	0	2	0	2
19	Spain  (ESP)	0	1	1	2
20	Australia  (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Barbados  (BRB)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark  (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia  (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Iceland  (ISL)	0	1	0	1
	Morocco  (MAR)	0	1	0	1
	Mozambique  (MOZ)	0	1	0	1
27	Canada  (CAN)	0	0	2	2
	Hungary  (HUN)	0	0	2	2
29	Bahamas  (BAH)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico  (MEX)	0	0	1	1
Totals (30 entries)		28	28	29	85

Participating nations

•   Algeria (4)
•   Andorra (1)
•   Anguilla (1)
•   Antigua and Barbuda (1)
•   Argentina (1)
•   Armenia (1)
•   Australia (12)
•   Austria (6)
•   Bahamas (5)
•   Bahrain (1)
•   Barbados (1)
• Belarus (2)
•   Belgium (2)
•   Benin (1)
•   Bermuda (1)
•   Bhutan (1)
•   Bolivia (1)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
•   Botswana (1)
•   Brazil (1)
•   Bulgaria (10)
•   Burundi (2)
•   Canada (4)
•   Central African Republic (1)
•   Chad (2)
•   China (10)
•   Chinese Taipei (1)
•   Ivory Coast (1)
•   Croatia (1)
•   Cuba (9)
•   Cyprus (1)
•   Czech Republic (10)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
•   Denmark (1)
•   Dominica (1)
•   Dominican Republic (1)
•   Egypt (1)
•   Equatorial Guinea (1)
•   Eritrea (1)
•   Estonia (1)
• Ethiopia (2)
•   Finland (1)
•   France (17)
•   Gabon (1)
• Georgia (1)
•   Germany (24)
•   Ghana (1)
•   Great Britain (24)
•   Greece  (GRE) (8)
•   Guatemala (1)
•   Guinea (1)
•   Guyana (1)
•   Haiti (1)
•   Hong Kong (1)
•   Hungary (7)
•   Iceland (3)
•   Ireland (3)
•   Israel (2)
•   Italy (7)
•   Jamaica (15)
•   Japan (30)
•   Kazakhstan (4)
•   Kenya (5)
• Kyrgyzstan (1)
•   Laos (1)
•   Latvia (1)
• Lesotho (1)
•   Liberia (1)
• Lithuania (2)
•   Madagascar (1)
• Malawi (1)
•   Malaysia (1)
•   Maldives (1)
•   Mauritius (1)
•   Mexico (4)
•   Montserrat (1)
•   Morocco (3)
•   Mozambique (2)
•   Namibia (1)
•   Netherlands (3)
•   New Zealand (3)
•   Nigeria (8)
•   Oman (1)
•   Papua New Guinea (1)
•   Philippines (1)
•   Poland (20)
•   Portugal (1)
•   Republic of the Congo (1)
•   Romania (10)
•   Russia (26)
• Rwanda (1)
•   El Salvador (1)
•   Sierra Leone (1)
•   Singapore (1)
•   Slovakia (2)
•   Slovenia (8)
•   Solomon Islands (1)
•   South Africa (2)
•   Spain (18)
•   Suriname (1)
• Swaziland (1)
•   Sweden (4)
•   Switzerland (4)
•   Tanzania (1)
•   Togo (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Tunisia (1)
•   Turkmenistan (1)
•   Uganda (1)
•   Ukraine (7)
•   United States (46)
•   Uzbekistan (1)
• Yugoslavia (1)
• Zambia (1)
•   Zimbabwe (1)

See also

• 1999 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. Mark Butler (ed.), "DOPING VIOLATIONS AT IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS", IAAF Statistics Book – World Indoor Championships SOPOT 2014 (PDF), IAAF, pp. 47–48, retrieved 27 September 2015
2. Morfey, Alex (2001-10-13). Athletics: Miller failed drug test in 1999. The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved on 2010-02-07.

External links

• 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships Official Website
• Athletics Australia