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1993 World Championships in Athletics#Field 2

{{Short description|4th World Championships in Athletics}}

{{Infobox games

| name = 4th World Championships in Athletics

| logo = Stuttgart IAAF 1993.jpg

| size =

| host_city = Stuttgart, Germany

| caption =

| nations = 187

| athletes = 1689

| events =

| dates = 13–22 August 1993

| opened_by = President Richard von Weizsäcker

| stadium = Neckarstadium

| previous = 1991 Tokyo

| next = 1995 Gothenburg

}}

The 4th World Championships in Athletics, 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.{{cite web|title=iaaf.org – Osaka 2007 – History |url=http://osaka2007.iaaf.org/history/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312032624/http://osaka2007.iaaf.org/history/index.html |archive-date=2009-03-12 |url-status=dead |access-date=2009-04-03 }} 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

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
100 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Linford Christie|GBR}}

9.87
(AR)

|{{flagathlete|Andre Cason|USA}}

9.92

|{{flagathlete|Dennis Mitchell|USA}}

9.99
200 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Frankie Fredericks|NAM}}

19.85
(CR/AR)

|{{flagathlete|John Regis|GBR}}

19.94

|{{flagathlete|Carl Lewis|USA}}

19.99
400 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Michael Johnson|USA}}

43.65
(CR)

|{{flagathlete|Butch Reynolds|USA}}

44.13

|{{flagathlete|Samson Kitur|KEN}}

44.54
800 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Paul Ruto|KEN}}

1:44.71

|{{flagathlete|Giuseppe D'Urso|ITA}}

1:44.86

|{{flagathlete|Billy Konchellah|KEN}}

1:44.89
1500 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Noureddine Morceli|ALG}}

3:34.24

|{{flagathlete|Fermin Cacho Ruiz|ESP}}

3:35.56

|{{flagathlete|Abdi Bile|SOM}}

3:35.96
5000 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Ismael Kirui|KEN}}

13:02.75

|{{flagathlete|Haile Gebrselassie|ETH|1991}}

13:03.17

|{{flagathlete|Fita Bayisa|ETH|1991}}

13:05.40
10,000 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Haile Gebrselassie|ETH|1991}}

27:46.02

|{{flagathlete|Moses Tanui|KEN}}

27:46.54

|{{flagathlete|Richard Chelimo|KEN}}

28:06.02
Marathon
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon}}

|{{flagathlete|Mark Plaatjes|USA}}

2:13:57

|{{flagathlete|Luketz Swartbooi|NAM}}

2:14:11

|{{flagathlete|Bert van Vlaanderen|NED}}

2:15:12
110 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles}}

|{{flagathlete|Colin Jackson|GBR}}

12.91
(WR)

|{{flagathlete|Tony Jarrett|GBR}}

13.00

|{{flagathlete|Jack Pierce|USA}}

13.06
400 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles}}

|{{flagathlete|Kevin Young|USA}}

47.18

|{{flagathlete|Samuel Matete|ZAM|1964}}

47.60

|{{flagathlete|Winthrop Graham|JAM}}

47.62
3000 m steeplech.
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase}}

|{{flagathlete|Moses Kiptanui|KEN}}

8:06.36
(CR)

|{{flagathlete|Patrick Sang|KEN}}

8:07.53

|{{flagathlete|Alessandro Lambruschini|ITA}}

8:08.78
20 km walk
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk}}

|{{flagathlete|Valentí Massana|ESP}}

1:22:31

|{{flagathlete|Giovanni De Benedictis|ITA}}

1:23:06

|{{flagathlete|Daniel Plaza|ESP}}

1:23:18
50 km walk
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk}}

|{{flagathlete|Jesus Garcia|ESP}}

3:41:41

|{{flagathlete|Valentin Kononen|FIN}}

3:42:02

|{{flagathlete|Valeriy Spitsyn|RUS|1991}}

3:42:50
4 × 100 m relay
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 x 100 metres relay}}

|{{flagteam|USA}}
Jon Drummond
Andre Cason
Dennis Mitchell
Leroy Burrell
Calvin Smith*

37.48

|{{flagteam|GBR}}
Colin Jackson
Tony Jarrett
John Regis
Linford Christie
Jason John*
Darren Braithwaite*

37.77
(AR)

|{{flagteam|CAN}}
Robert Esmie
Glenroy Gilbert
Bruny Surin
Atlee Mahorn

37.83
(NR)
4 × 400 m relay
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 x 400 metres relay}}

|{{flagteam|USA}}
Andrew Valmon
Quincy Watts
Butch Reynolds
Michael Johnson
Antonio Pettigrew*
Derek Mills*

2:54.29
(WR)

|{{flagteam|KEN}}
Kennedy Ochieng
Simon Kemboi
Abednego Matilu
Samson Kitur

2:59.82

|{{flagteam|GER}}
Rico Lieder
Karsten Just
Olaf Hense
Thomas Schönlebe

2:59.99
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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

=Field=

1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
Long jump
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump}}

|{{flagathlete|Mike Powell|USA}}

8.59

|{{flagathlete|Stanislav Tarasenko|RUS|1991}}

8.16

|{{flagathlete|Vitaliy Kyrylenko|UKR}}

8.15
Triple jump
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump}}

|{{flagathlete|Mike Conley|USA}}

17.86

|{{flagathlete|Leonid Voloshin|RUS|1991}}

17.65

|{{flagathlete|Jonathan Edwards|GBR}}

17.44
High jump
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump}}

|{{flagathlete|Javier Sotomayor|CUB}}

2.40
(CR)

|{{flagathlete|Artur Partyka|POL}}

2.37

|{{flagathlete|Steve Smith|GBR}}

2.37
rowspan="2"|Pole vault
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault}}

|rowspan="2"|{{flagathlete|Sergey Bubka|UKR}}

rowspan="2"|6.00
(CR)

|rowspan="2"|{{flagathlete|Grigoriy Yegorov|KAZ}}

rowspan="2"|5.90
(AR)

|{{flagathlete|Maksim Tarasov|RUS|1991}}

rowspan="2"|5.80
{{flagathlete|Igor Trandenkov|RUS|1991}}
Shot put
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put}}

|{{flagathlete|Werner Günthör|SUI}}

21.97

|{{flagathlete|Randy Barnes|USA}}

21.80

|{{flagathlete|Oleksandr Bagach|UKR}}

20.401
Discus throw
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw}}

|{{flagathlete|Lars Riedel|GER}}

67.72

|{{flagathlete|Dmitriy Shevchenko|RUS|1991}}

66.90

|{{flagathlete|Jürgen Schult|GER}}

66.12
Hammer throw
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw}}

|{{flagathlete|Andrey Abduvaliyev|TJK}}

81.64
(AR)

|{{flagathlete|Igor Astapkovich|BLR|1991}}

79.88

|{{flagathlete|Tibor Gécsek|HUN}}

79.54
Javelin throw
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw}}

|{{flagathlete|Jan Železný|CZE}}

85.98
(CR)

|{{flagathlete|Kimmo Kinnunen|FIN}}

84.78

|{{flagathlete|Mick Hill|GBR}}

82.96
Decathlon
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon}}

|{{flagathlete|Dan O'Brien|USA}}

8817
(CR)

|{{flagathlete|Eduard Hämäläinen|BLR|1991}}

8724

|{{flagathlete|Paul Meier|GER}}

8548
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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

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
100 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres}}

|Gail Devers
{{flagcountry|USA}}

10.82
CR

|Merlene Ottey
{{flagcountry|JAM}}

10.82
CR

|Gwen Torrence
{{flagcountry|USA}}

10.89
200 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres}}

|Merlene Ottey
{{flagcountry|Jamaica}}

21.98

|Gwen Torrence
{{flagcountry|United States}}

22.00

|Irina Privalova
{{flagcountry|Russia|1991}}

22.13
400 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres}}

|Jearl Miles
{{flagcountry|United States}}

49.82

|Natasha Kaiser-Brown
{{flagcountry|United States}}

50.17

|Sandie Richards
{{flagcountry|Jamaica}}

50.44
800 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres}}

|Maria Mutola
{{flagcountry|Mozambique}}

1:55.43
AR

|Lyubov Gurina
{{flagcountry|Russia|1991}}

1:57.10

|Ella Kovacs
{{flagcountry|Romania|1991}}

1:57.92
1500 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres}}

|Liu Dong
{{flagcountry|China}}

4:00.50

|Sonia O'Sullivan
{{IRL}}

4:03.48

|Hassiba Boulmerka
{{flagcountry|Algeria}}

4:04.29
3000 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres}}

|Qu Yunxia
{{flagcountry|China}}

8:28.71
CR

|Zhang Linli
{{flagcountry|China}}

8:29.25

|Zhang Lirong
{{flagcountry|China}}

8:31.95
10,000 m
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres}}

|Wang Junxia
{{flagcountry|China}}

30:49.30
CR

|Zhong Huandi
{{flagcountry|China}}

31:12.55

|Sally Barsosio
{{flagcountry|Kenya}}

31:15.38
Marathon
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's Marathon}}

|Junko Asari
{{flagcountry|Japan}}

2:30:03

|Manuela Machado
{{flagcountry|Portugal}}

2:30:54

|Tomoe Abe
{{flagcountry|Japan}}

2:31:01
100 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles}}

|Gail Devers
{{flagcountry|USA}}

12.46
AR

|Marina Azyabina
{{flagcountry|Russia|1991}}

12.60

|Lynda Tolbert
{{flagcountry|USA}}

12.67
400 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles}}

|Sally Gunnell
{{flagcountry|Great Britain}}

52.74
WR

|Sandra Farmer-Patrick
{{flagcountry|USA}}

52.79
AR

|Margarita Ponomaryova
{{flagcountry|Russia|1991}}

53.48
10 km walk
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10 kilometres walk}}

|Sari Essayah
{{flagcountry|Finland}}

42:59

|Ileana Salvador
{{flagcountry|Italy}}

43:08

|Encarna Granados
{{flagcountry|Spain}}

43:21
4 × 100 m relay
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 x 100 metres relay}}

|{{flagcountry|Russia|1991}}
Olga Bogoslovskaya
Galina Malchugina
Natalya Voronova
Irina Privalova
Marina Trandenkova*

41.49 CR

|{{flagcountry|USA}}
Michelle Finn
Gwen Torrence
Wendy Vereen
Gail Devers
Sheila Echols*

41.49 CR

|{{flagcountry|Jamaica}}
Michelle Freeman
Juliet Campbell
Nikole Mitchell
Merlene Ottey
Dahlia Duhaney*

41.94=NR
4 × 400 m relay
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 x 400 metres relay}}

|{{flagcountry|USA}}
Gwen Torrence
Maicel Malone
Natasha Kaiser
Jearl Miles
Terri Dendy*
Michelle Collins*

3:16.71 CR

|{{flagcountry|Russia|1991}}
Yelena Rouzina
Tatyana Alekseyeva
Margarita Ponomaryova
Irina Privalova
Yelena Golesheva*
Vera Sychugova*

3:18.38

|{{flagcountry|Great Britain}}
Linda Keough
Phylis Smith
Tracy Goddard
Sally Gunnell

3:23.41
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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

=Field=

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
Long jump
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump}}

|Heike Drechsler
{{flagcountry|Germany}}

7.11

|Larysa Berezhna
{{flagcountry|Ukraine}}

6.98

|Renata Nielsen
{{flagcountry|Denmark}}

6.76
Triple jump
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump}}

|Anna Biryukova
{{flagcountry|Russia|1991}}

15.09
WR

|Yolanda Chen
{{flagcountry|Russia|1991}}

14.70

|Iva Prandzheva
{{flagcountry|Bulgaria}}

14.23
High jump
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump}}

|Ioamnet Quintero
{{flagcountry|Cuba}}

1.99

|Silvia Costa
{{flagcountry|Cuba}}

1.97

|Sigrid Kirchmann
{{flagcountry|Austria}}

1.97
NR
Shot put
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put}}

|Huang Zhihong
{{flagcountry|China}}

20.57

|Svetlana Krivelyova
{{flagcountry|Russia|1991}}

19.97

|Kathrin Neimke
{{flagcountry|Germany}}

19.71
Discus throw
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw}}

|Olga Chernyavskaya
{{flagcountry|Russia|1991}}

67.40

|Daniela Costian
{{flagcountry|Australia}}

65.36

|Min Chunfeng
{{flagcountry|China}}

65.26
Javelin throw
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw}}

|Trine Hattestad
{{flagcountry|Norway}}

69.18

|Karen Forkel
{{flagcountry|Germany}}

65.80

|Natalya Shikolenko
{{flagcountry|Belarus|1991}}

65.64
Heptathlon
{{DetailsLink|1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon}}

|Jackie Joyner-Kersee
{{flagcountry|USA}}

6837

|Sabine Braun
{{flagcountry|Germany}}

6797

|Svetlana Buraga
{{flagcountry|Belarus|1991}}

6635
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Medal table

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host = GER

| flag_template =

| event =

| team =

| source = [https://www.worldathletics.org/Competitions/world-athletics-championships/4th-iaaf-world-championships-in-athletics-1/medaltable]

| gold_USA = 13 | silver_USA = 7 | bronze_USA = 5

| gold_CHN = 4 | silver_CHN = 2 | bronze_CHN = 2

| gold_RUS = 3 | silver_RUS = 8 | bronze_RUS = 5 | name_RUS = {{flagteam|RUS|1991}}

| gold_GBR = 3 | silver_GBR = 3 | bronze_GBR = 4

| gold_KEN = 3 | silver_KEN = 3 | bronze_KEN = 4

| gold_GER = 2 | silver_GER = 2 | bronze_GER = 4 | host_GER = yes

| gold_ESP = 2 | silver_ESP = 1 | bronze_ESP = 2

| gold_CUB = 2 | silver_CUB = 1 | bronze_CUB = 0

| gold_FIN = 1 | silver_FIN = 2 | bronze_FIN = 0

| gold_JAM = 1 | silver_JAM = 1 | bronze_JAM = 3

| gold_UKR = 1 | silver_UKR = 1 | bronze_UKR = 2

| gold_ETH = 1 | silver_ETH = 1 | bronze_ETH = 1 | name_ETH = {{flagteam|ETH|1991}}

| gold_NAM = 1 | silver_NAM = 1 | bronze_NAM = 0

| gold_ALG = 1 | silver_ALG = 0 | bronze_ALG = 1

| gold_JPN = 1 | silver_JPN = 0 | bronze_JPN = 1

| gold_CZE = 1 | silver_CZE = 0 | bronze_CZE = 0

| gold_MOZ = 1 | silver_MOZ = 0 | bronze_MOZ = 0

| gold_NOR = 1 | silver_NOR = 0 | bronze_NOR = 0

| gold_SUI = 1 | silver_SUI = 0 | bronze_SUI = 0

| gold_TJK = 1 | silver_TJK = 0 | bronze_TJK = 0

| gold_ITA = 0 | silver_ITA = 3 | bronze_ITA = 1

| gold_BLR = 0 | silver_BLR = 2 | bronze_BLR = 2 | name_BLR = {{flagteam|BLR|1991}}

| gold_AUS = 0 | silver_AUS = 1 | bronze_AUS = 0

| gold_IRL = 0 | silver_IRL = 1 | bronze_IRL = 0

| gold_KAZ = 0 | silver_KAZ = 1 | bronze_KAZ = 0

| gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 1 | bronze_POL = 0

| gold_POR = 0 | silver_POR = 1 | bronze_POR = 0

| gold_ZAM = 0 | silver_ZAM = 1 | bronze_ZAM = 0

| gold_AUT = 0 | silver_AUT = 0 | bronze_AUT = 1

| gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 0 | bronze_BUL = 1

| gold_CAN = 0 | silver_CAN = 0 | bronze_CAN = 1

| gold_DEN = 0 | silver_DEN = 0 | bronze_DEN = 1

| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 1

| gold_NED = 0 | silver_NED = 0 | bronze_NED = 1

| gold_ROU = 0 | silver_ROU = 0 | bronze_ROU = 1

| gold_SOM = 0 | silver_SOM = 0 | bronze_SOM = 1

}}

See also

References

;Notes

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;Sources

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20041212065450/http://www2.iaaf.org/results/past/WCH93/index.html IAAF 1993]

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