1999 World Championships in Athletics

7th World Championships in Athletics

Host city	Seville, Spain
Nations	201
Athletes	1821
Dates	20–29 August 1999
Opened by	Juan Carlos I
Closed by	Primo Nebiolo
Main venue	Estadio Olímpico de Sevila
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The 7th World Championships in Athletics (Spanish : Campeonato Mundial de Atletismo de 1999), a World Athletic Championships event held under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29.

One of the main highlights of the games was the world record set in the 400 metres by Michael Johnson of the United States in a time of 43.18 seconds.

Men's results

Track

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Maurice Greene   United States	9.80 (CR)	Bruny Surin   Canada	9.84 (=NR)	Dwain Chambers   Great Britain	9.97 (PB)
200 m details	Maurice Greene   United States	19.90 (SB)	Claudinei da Silva   Brazil	20.00 (PB)	Francis Obikwelu   Nigeria	20.11
400 m details	Michael Johnson   United States	43.18 (WR)	Sanderlei Claro Parrela   Brazil	44.29 (AR)	Alejandro Cárdenas   Mexico	44.31 (NR)
800 m details	Wilson Kipketer   Denmark	1:43.30	Hezekiél Sepeng   South Africa	1:43.32	Djabir Saïd-Guerni   Algeria	1:44.18 (NR)
1500 m details	Hicham El Guerrouj   Morocco	3:27.65 (CR)	Noah Ngeny   Kenya	3:28.73 (NR)	Reyes Estévez   Spain	3:30.57 (PB)
5000 m details	Salah Hissou   Morocco	12:58.13 (CR)	Benjamin Limo   Kenya	12:58.72	Mohammed Mourhit   Belgium	12:58.80
10,000 m details	Haile Gebrselassie   Ethiopia	27:57.27	Paul Tergat   Kenya	27:58.56	Assefa Mezgebu   Ethiopia	27:59.15
Marathon details	Abel Antón   Spain	2:13:36	Vincenzo Modica   Italy	2:14:03	Nobuyuki Sato   Japan	2:14:07
110 m hurdles details	Colin Jackson   Great Britain	13.04 (SB)	Anier García   Cuba	13.07 (NR)	Duane Ross   United States	13.12 (PB)
400 m hurdles details	Fabrizio Mori   Italy	47.72 (WL)	Stéphane Diagana   France	48.12 (SB)	Marcel Schelbert   Switzerland	48.13 (NR)
3000 m st. details	Christopher Kosgei   Kenya	8:11.76	Wilson Boit Kipketer   Kenya	8:12.09	Ali Ezzine   Morocco	8.12.73
20 km walk details	Ilya Markov   Russia	1:23:34	Jefferson Pérez   Ecuador	1:24:19	Daniel García   Mexico	1:24:31
50 km walk details	Ivano Brugnetti   Italy	3:47:541 (PB)	Nikolay Matyukhin   Russia	3:48:18	Curt Clausen   United States	3:50:55
4 × 100 m relay details	United States  (USA) Jon Drummond Tim Montgomery Brian Lewis Maurice Greene	37.59 (WL)	Great Britain  (GBR) Jason Gardener Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Dwain Chambers Allyn Condon*	37.73 (AR)	Brazil  (BRA) Raphael de Oliveira Claudinei da Silva Édson Ribeiro André da Silva	38.052 (AR)
4 × 400 m relay details	Poland  (POL) Tomasz Czubak Robert Maćkowiak Jacek Bocian Piotr Haczek Piotr Długosielski*	2:58.913 (SB)	Jamaica  (JAM) Michael McDonald Greg Haughton Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke Paston Coke* Omar A. Brown*	2:59.34	South Africa  (RSA) Jopie van Oudtshoorn Hendrick Mokganyetsi Adriaan Botha Arnaud Malherbe	3:00.20 (NR)
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.
¹ German Skurygin of Russia originally won the gold medal in the 50 km walk in 3:44:23, but was disqualified after he tested positive for drugs in November 2001.
² Nigeria (Innocent Asonze, Francis Obikwelu, Daniel Effiong, Deji Aliu) originally won the bronze medal in 37.91, but were disqualified on August 31, 2005 after it was found Asonze had failed a doping test in June 1999.
³ The United States (Jerome Davis, Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, Michael Johnson) originally won the gold medal in 2:56.45, but were disqualified in 2008 after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to using HGH and EPO between 1997 and 2003.

Field

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Vyacheslav Voronin   Russia	2.37 (WL)	Mark Boswell   Canada	2.35 (NR)	Martin Buß   Germany	2.32
Pole vault details	Maksim Tarasov   Russia	6.02 (CR)	Dmitri Markov   Australia	5.90	Aleksandr Averbukh   Israel	5.80 (NR)
Long jump details	Iván Pedroso   Cuba	8.56	Yago Lamela   Spain	8.40	Gregor Cankar   Slovenia	8.36 (SB)
Triple jump details	Charles Friedek   Germany	17.59 (WL)	Rostislav Dimitrov   Bulgaria	17.49 (PB)	Jonathan Edwards   Great Britain	17.48
Shot put details	C.J. Hunter   United States	21.79 (PB)	Oliver-Sven Buder   Germany	21.42 (SB)	Oleksandr Bagach   Ukraine	21.26
Discus throw details	Anthony Washington   United States	69.08 (CR)	Jürgen Schult   Germany	68.18 (SB)	Lars Riedel   Germany	68.09
Javelin throw details	Aki Parviainen   Finland	89.52	Konstadinos Gatsioudis   Greece	89.18	Jan Železný   Czech Republic	87.67
Hammer throw details	Karsten Kobs   Germany	80.24	Zsolt Németh   Hungary	79.05	Vladislav Piskunov   Ukraine	79.03
Decathlon details	Tomáš Dvořák   Czech Republic	8744	Dean Macey   Great Britain	8556 (PB)	Chris Huffins   United States	8547 (SB)
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)

Women's results

Track

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Marion Jones   United States	10.70 (CR)	Inger Miller   United States	10.79	Ekaterini Thanou   Greece	10.84
200 m details	Inger Miller   United States	21.77 (WL)	Beverly McDonald   Jamaica	22.22 (PB)	Merlene Frazer   Jamaica	22.26
					Andrea Philipp   Germany
400 m details	Cathy Freeman   Australia	49.67 (SB)	Anja Rücker   Germany	49.74 (PB)	Lorraine Graham-Fenton   Jamaica	49.92 (PB)
800 m details	Ludmila Formanová   Czech Republic	1:56.68	Maria Mutola   Mozambique	1:56.72	Svetlana Masterkova   Russia	1:56.93
1500 m details	Svetlana Masterkova   Russia	3:59.53 (SB)	Regina Jacobs   United States	4:00.35 (PB)	Kutre Dulecha   Ethiopia	4:00.96 (SB)
5000 m details	Gabriela Szabo   Romania	14:41.82 (CR)	Zahra Ouaziz   Morocco	14:43.15	Ayelech Worku   Ethiopia	14:44.22 (PB)
10,000 m details	Gete Wami   Ethiopia	30:24.56 (CR)	Paula Radcliffe   Great Britain	30:27.13 (NR)	Tegla Loroupe   Kenya	30:32.03 (NR)
Marathon details	Jong Song-Ok   North Korea	2:26:59 (NR)	Ari Ichihashi   Japan	2:27:02 (PB)	Lidia Șimon   Romania	2:27:41
100 m hurdles details	Gail Devers   United States	12.37 (WL)	Gloria Alozie   Nigeria	12.44 (AR)	Ludmila Engquist   Sweden	12.47 (NR)
400 m hurdles details	Daimí Pernía   Cuba	52.89 (WL)	Nezha Bidouane   Morocco	52.90 (AR)	Deon Hemmings   Jamaica	53.16 (SB)
20 km walk details	Liu Hongyu   China	1:30:50	Wang Yan   China	1:30:52	Kerry Saxby-Junna   Australia	1:31:18 (SB)
4 × 100 m relay details	Bahamas  (BAH) Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson Eldece Clarke-Lewis*	41.92 (WL)	France  (FRA) Patricia Girard Muriel Hurtis Katia Benth Christine Arron Fabé Dia*	42.06 (NR)	Jamaica  (JAM) Aleen Bailey Merlene Frazer Beverly McDonald Peta-Gaye Dowdie	42.15 (SB)
4 × 400 m relay details	Russia  (RUS) Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Natalya Nazarova Natalya Sharova* Yekaterina Bakhvalova*	3:21.98 (WL)	United States  (USA) Suziann Reid Maicel Malone-Wallace Michelle Collins Jearl Miles Clark Andrea Anderson*	3:22.09 (SB)	Germany  (GER) Anke Feller Uta Rohländer Anja Rücker Grit Breuer Anja Knippel*	3:22.43 (SB)
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

1995 |1997 |1999 |2001 |2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Inha Babakova   Ukraine	1.99	Yelena Yelesina   Russia	1.99	Svetlana Lapina   Russia	1.99 (PB)
Pole vault details	Stacy Dragila   United States	4.60 (WR)	Anzhela Balakhonova   Ukraine	4.55 (AR)	Tatiana Grigorieva   Australia	4.45
Long jump details	Niurka Montalvo   Spain	7.06 (NR)	Fiona May   Italy	6.94	Marion Jones   United States	6.83
Triple jump details	Paraskevi Tsiamita   Greece	14.88	Yamilé Aldama   Cuba	14.61	Olga Vasdeki   Greece	14.61
Shot put details	Astrid Kumbernuss   Germany	19.85 (SB)	Nadine Kleinert   Germany	19.61 (PB)	Svetlana Krivelyova   Russia	19.43
Discus throw details	Franka Dietzsch   Germany	68.14	Anastasia Kelesidou   Greece	66.05	Nicoleta Grasu   Romania	65.35
Hammer throw details	Mihaela Melinte   Romania	75.20	Olga Kuzenkova   Russia	72.56	Lisa Misipeka   American Samoa	66.06
Javelin throw details	Mirela Manjani   Greece	67.09 (PB)	Tatyana Shikolenko   Russia	66.37 (PB)	Trine Hattestad   Norway	66.06
Heptathlon details	Eunice Barber   France	6861 (PB)	Denise Lewis   Great Britain	6724	Ghada Shouaa   Syria	6500
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 (Spain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	10	3	4	17
2	Russia  (RUS)	5	4	3	12
3	Germany  (GER)	4	4	4	12
4	Greece  (GRE)	2	2	2	6
5	Morocco  (MAR)	2	2	1	5
6	Cuba  (CUB)	2	2	0	4
	Italy  (ITA)	2	2	0	4
8	Spain  (ESP)*	2	1	1	4
9	Ethiopia  (ETH)	2	0	3	5
10	Romania  (ROU)	2	0	2	4
11	Czech Republic  (CZE)	2	0	1	3
12	Great Britain  (GBR)	1	4	2	7
13	Kenya  (KEN)	1	4	1	6
14	France  (FRA)	1	2	0	3
15	Australia  (AUS)	1	1	2	4
	Ukraine  (UKR)	1	1	2	4
17	China  (CHN)	1	1	0	2
18	Bahamas  (BAH)	1	0	0	1
	Denmark  (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Finland  (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	North Korea  (PRK)	1	0	0	1
	Poland  (POL)	1	0	0	1
23	Jamaica  (JAM)	0	2	4	6
24	Brazil  (BRA)	0	2	1	3
25	Canada  (CAN)	0	2	0	2
26	Japan  (JPN)	0	1	1	2
	Nigeria  (NGR)	0	1	1	2
	South Africa  (SAF)	0	1	1	2
29	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Ecuador  (ECU)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary  (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Mozambique  (MOZ)	0	1	0	1
33	Mexico  (MEX)	0	0	2	2
34	Algeria  (ALG)	0	0	1	1
	American Samoa  (ASA)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium  (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Israel  (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Norway  (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia  (SLO)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Syria  (SYR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (42 entries)		46	46	47	139

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See also

• 1999 in athletics (track and field)

References

• IAAF 1999
• History of the IAAF World Championships ^{[ permanent dead link ]}