2003 World Championships in Athletics

{{Short description|2003 edition of the World Championships in Athletics}}

{{Infobox games

| name = IX World Championships in Athletics
{{lang|fr|Championnats du monde d'athlétisme-Saint-Denis}}

| logo = Paris 2003 IAAF.jpg

| host_city = Saint-Denis, France

| nations = 198

| athletes = 1679

| events =

| dates = 23–31 August 2003

| opened_by = Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin

| closed_by = IAAF President Lamine Diack

| stadium = Stade de France

| previous = Edmonton 2001

| next = Helsinki 2005

}}

The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from 23 August to 31 August 2003 in the streets of Paris and the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.

Men's results

=Track=

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

rowspan=2|100 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres}}

|Kim Collins
{{flag|Saint Kitts and Nevis}}

10.07

|Darrel Brown
{{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}

10.08

|Darren Campbell
{{flagu|Great Britain}}

10.08
(SB)

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rowspan=2|200 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres}}

|John Capel
{{flagu|United States }}

20.30

|Darvis Patton
{{flagu|United States}}

20.31

|Shingo Suetsugu
{{flagu|Japan }}

20.38

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rowspan=2|400 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres}}

|Tyree Washington
{{flagu|United States}}

44.77¹

|Marc Raquil
{{flagu|France}}

44.79
(NR)

|Michael Blackwood
{{flag|Jamaica}}

44.80

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rowspan=2|800 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres}}

|Djabir Saïd-Guerni
{{flag|Algeria}}

1:44.81

|Yuriy Borzakovskiy
{{flagu|Russia}}

1:44.84

|Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
{{flag|South Africa}}

1:44.90

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rowspan=2|1500 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres}}

|Hicham El Guerrouj
{{flag|Morocco}}

3:31.77

|Mehdi Baala
{{flagu|France}}

3:32.31

|Ivan Heshko
{{flag|Ukraine}}

3:33.17

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rowspan=2|5000 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres}}

|Eliud Kipchoge
{{flag|Kenya}}

12:52.79
(CR)

|Hicham El Guerrouj
{{flag|Morocco}}

12:52.83

|Kenenisa Bekele
{{flag|Ethiopia|1996}}

12:53.12

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rowspan=2|10,000 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres}}

|Kenenisa Bekele
{{flag|Ethiopia|1996}}

26:49.57
(CR)

|Haile Gebrselassie
{{flag|Ethiopia|1996}}

26:50.77
(SB)

|Sileshi Sihine
{{flag|Ethiopia|1996}}

27:01.44

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rowspan=2|Marathon
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's Marathon}}

|Jaouad Gharib
{{flag|Morocco}}

2:08:31
(CR)

|Julio Rey
{{flagu|Spain}}

2:08:38

|Stefano Baldini
{{flagu|Italy}}

2:09:14

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rowspan=2|110 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles}}

|Allen Johnson
{{flagu|United States}}

13.12

|Terrence Trammell
{{flagu|United States}}

13.20
(SB)

|Liu Xiang
{{flagu|China}}

13.23

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rowspan=2|400 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles}}

|Félix Sánchez
{{flag|Dominican Republic}}

47.25
(WL)

|Joey Woody
{{flagu|United States}}

48.18
(SB)

|Periklís Iakovákis
{{flag|Greece}}

48.24

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rowspan=2|3000 m steeplechase
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase}}

|Saif Saaeed Shaheen
{{flag|Qatar}}

8:04.39

|Ezekiel Kemboi
{{flag|Kenya}}

8:05.11

|Eliseo Martin
{{flagu|Spain}}

8:09.09
(PB)

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rowspan=2|20 km race walk
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk}}

|Jefferson Pérez
{{flag|Ecuador}}

1:17:21
(WBP)

|Paquillo Fernández
{{flagu|Spain}}

1:18:00
(SB)

|Roman Rasskazov
{{flagu|Russia}}

1:18:07
(SB)

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rowspan=2|50 km race walk
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk}}

|Robert Korzeniowski
{{flag|Poland}}

3:36:03
(WBP)

|German Skurygin
{{flagu|Russia}}

3:36:42
(NR)

|Andreas Erm
{{flagu|Germany}}

3:37:46
(NR)

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rowspan=2|4 × 100 m relay
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay}}

|{{flagteam|USA}}
John Capel
Bernard Williams
Darvis Patton
Joshua J. Johnson

38.06

|{{flagteam|BRA}}
Vicente de Lima
Édson Ribeiro
André da Silva
Cláudio Roberto Souza

38.26
(SB)

|{{flagteam|NED}}
Timothy Beck
Troy Douglas
Patrick van Balkom
Caimin Douglas
Guus Hoogmoed*

38.87

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rowspan=2|4 × 400 m relay
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay}}

|{{flagteam|FRA}}
Leslie Djhone
Naman Keïta
Stéphane Diagana
Marc Raquil
Ahmed Douhou*

2:58.96²
(NR)

|{{flagteam|JAM}}
Brandon Simpson
Danny McFarlane
Davian Clarke
Michael Blackwood
Michael Campbell*
Lansford Spence*

2:59.60
(SB)

|{{flagteam|BAH}}
Avard Moncur
Dennis Darling
Nathaniel McKinney
Chris Brown
Carl Oliver*

3:00.53
(SB)

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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

¹ Jerome Young of the United States originally finished first in 44.50, but was disqualified after he tested positive for drugs in 2004.

² The United States (Calvin Harrison, Tyree Washington, Derrick Brew, Jerome Young) originally finished first in 2:58.88, but were disqualified after Jerome Young and Calvin Harrison both tested positive for drugs in 2004.

=Field=

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

rowspan=2|High jump
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump}}

|Jacques Freitag
{{flag|South Africa}}

2.35
(SB)

|Stefan Holm
{{flag|Sweden}}

2.32

|Mark Boswell
{{flagu|Canada}}

2.32
(SB)

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rowspan=2|Long jump
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump}}

|Dwight Phillips
{{flagu|United States}}

8.32

|James Beckford
{{flag|Jamaica}}

8.28
(SB)

|Yago Lamela
{{flagu|Spain}}

8.22

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rowspan=2|Pole vault
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault}}

|Giuseppe Gibilisco
{{flagu|Italy}}

5.90
(NR)

|Okkert Brits
{{flag|South Africa}}

5.85
(SB)

|Patrik Kristiansson
{{flag|Sweden}}

5.85
(PB)

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rowspan=2|Triple jump
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump}}

|Christian Olsson
{{flag|Sweden}}

17.72

|Yoandri Betanzos
{{flag|Cuba}}

17.28
(SB)

|Leevan Sands
{{flag|Bahamas}}

17.26

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rowspan=2|Shot put
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put}}

|Andrei Mikhnevich
{{flag|Belarus}}

21.69
(PB)

|Adam Nelson
{{flagu|United States}}

21.26

|Yuriy Bilonoh
{{flag|Ukraine}}

21.10

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rowspan=2|Discus
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw}}

|Virgilijus Alekna
{{flag|Lithuania|1988}}

69.69
(SB)

|Róbert Fazekas
{{flag|Hungary}}

69.01

|Vasiliy Kaptyukh
{{flag|Belarus}}

66.51
(SB)

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rowspan=2|Javelin
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw}}

|Sergey Makarov
{{flagu|Russia}}

85.44

|Andrus Värnik
{{flag|Estonia}}

85.17

|Boris Henry
{{flagu|Germany}}

84.74

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rowspan=2|Hammer
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw}}

|Ivan Tikhon
{{flag|Belarus}}

83.05

|Adrián Annus
{{flag|Hungary}}

80.36

|Koji Murofushi
{{flagu|Japan}}

80.12

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rowspan=2|Decathlon
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon}}

|Tom Pappas
{{flagu|United States}}

8750

|Roman Šebrle
{{flag|Czech Republic}}

8634

|Dmitry Karpov
{{flag|Kazakhstan}}

8374
(NR)

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|colspan=7|{{Sports record codes}}

Women's results

=Track=

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

rowspan=2|100 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres}}

|{{flagmedalist|Torri Edwards|USA}}

10.93
(PB)

|{{flagmedalist|Chandra Sturrup|BAH}}

11.02

|{{flagmedalist|Ekaterini Thanou|GRE}}

11.03
(SB)

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200 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres}}

|{{flagmedalist|Anastasiya Kapachinskaya|RUS}}

22.38
(PB)

|{{flagmedalist|Torri Edwards|USA}}

22.47

|{{flagmedalist|Muriel Hurtis|FRA}}

22.59

400 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres}}

|{{flagmedalist|Ana Guevara|MEX}}

48.89
(PB)

|{{flagmedalist|Lorraine Fenton|JAM}}

49.43
(SB)

|{{flagmedalist|Amy Mbacké Thiam|SEN}}

49.95
(SB)

800 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres}}

|{{flagmedalist|Maria Mutola|MOZ}}

1:59.89

|{{flagmedalist|Kelly Holmes|GBR}}

2:00.18

|{{flagmedalist|Natalya Khrushchelyova|RUS}}

2:00.29

1500 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres}}

|{{flagmedalist|Tatyana Tomashova|RUS}}

3:58.52
(CR)

|{{flagmedalist|Süreyya Ayhan|TUR}}

3:59.04

|{{flagmedalist|Hayley Tullett|GBR}}

3:59.95
(PB)

5000 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres}}

|{{flagmedalist|Tirunesh Dibaba|ETH|1996}}

14:51.72

|{{flagmedalist|Marta Domínguez|ESP}}

14:52.26

|{{flagmedalist|Edith Masai|KEN}}

14:52.30

10,000 m
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres}}

|{{flagmedalist|Berhane Adere|ETH|1996}}

30:04.18
(CR)

|{{flagmedalist|Werknesh Kidane|ETH|1996}}

30:07.15
(PB)

|{{flagmedalist|Sun Yingjie|CHN}}

30:07.20
(PB)

Marathon
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's Marathon}}

|{{flagmedalist|Catherine Ndereba|KEN}}

2:23:55
(CR)

|{{flagmedalist|Mizuki Noguchi|JPN}}

2:24:14

|{{flagmedalist|Masako Chiba|JPN}}

2:25:09

100 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles}}

|{{flagmedalist|Perdita Felicien|CAN}}

12.53
(NR)

|{{flagmedalist|Brigitte Foster|JAM}}

12.57

|{{flagmedalist|Miesha McKelvy|USA}}

12.67

400 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles}}

|{{flagmedalist|Jana Pittman|AUS}}

53.22
(PB)

|{{flagmedalist|Sandra Glover|USA}}

53.65
(SB)

|{{flagmedalist|Yuliya Pechonkina|RUS}}

53.71

20 km walk
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk}}

|{{flagmedalist|Yelena Nikolayeva|RUS}}

1:26:52
(CR)

|{{flagmedalist|Gillian O'Sullivan|IRL}}

1:27:34

|{{flagmedalist|Valentina Tsybulskaya|BLR}}

1:28:10
(NR)

4 × 100 m relay
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay}}

|{{flagteam|FRA}}
Patricia Girard-Léno
Muriel Hurtis
Sylviane Félix
Christine Arron

41.78
(WL)

|{{flagteam|USA}}
Angela Williams
Chryste Gaines
Inger Miller
Torri Edwards
Lauryn Williams*

41.83
(SB)

|{{flagteam|RUS}}
Olga Fyodorova
Yuliya Tabakova
Marina Kislova
Larisa Kruglova

42.66

4 × 400 m relay
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay}}

|{{flagteam|USA}}
Demetria Washington
Jearl Miles Clark
Me'Lisa Barber
Sanya Richards
DeeDee Trotter*

3:22.63
(WL)

|{{flagteam|RUS}}
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Natalya Nazarova
Olesya Zykina
Yuliya Pechonkina (Nosova)
Svetlana Pospelova*
Svetlana Goncharenko*

3:22.91
(SB)

|{{flagteam|JAM}}
Allison Beckford
Lorraine Fenton (Graham)
Ronetta Smith
Sandie Richards
Michelle Burgher*

3:22.92
(SB)

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Note: * Indicates medalists who ran in preliminary rounds.

=Field=

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

High jump
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump}}

|{{flagmedalist|Hestrie Cloete|RSA}}

2.06
(WL, AR)

|{{flagmedalist|Marina Kuptsova|RUS}}

2.00

|{{flagmedalist|Kajsa Bergqvist|SWE}}

2.00

Pole vault
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault}}

|{{flagmedalist|Svetlana Feofanova|RUS}}

4.75
(CR)

|{{flagmedalist|Annika Becker|GER}}

4.70
(SB)

|{{flagmedalist|Yelena Isinbayeva|RUS}}

4.65

Long jump
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump}}

|{{flagmedalist|Eunice Barber|FRA}}

6.99
(SB)

|{{flagmedalist|Tatyana Kotova|RUS}}

6.74

|{{flagmedalist|Anju Bobby George|IND}}

6.70
(SB)

Triple jump
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump}}

|{{flagmedalist|Tatyana Lebedeva|RUS}}

15.18
(SB)

|{{flagmedalist|Françoise Mbango Etone|CMR}}

15.05
(AR)

|{{flagmedalist|Magdelín Martínez|ITA}}

14.90
(NR)

Shot put
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put}}

|{{flagmedalist|Svetlana Krivelyova|RUS}}

20.63

|{{flagmedalist|Nadzeya Astapchuk|BLR}}

20.12
(PB)

|{{flagmedalist|Vita Pavlysh|UKR}}

20.08
(SB)

Discus throw
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw}}

|{{flagmedalist|Irina Yatchenko|BLR}}

67.32
(SB)

|{{flagmedalist|Anastasia Kelesidou|GRE}}

67.14
(SB)

|{{flagmedalist|Ekaterini Voggoli|GRE}}

66.73
(PB)

Hammer throw
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw}}

|{{flagmedalist|Yipsi Moreno|CUB}}

73.33

|{{flagmedalist|Olga Kuzenkova|RUS}}

71.71

|{{flagmedalist|Manuela Montebrun|FRA}}

70.92

Javelin throw
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw}}

|{{flagmedalist|Mirela Manjani|GRE}}

66.52
(WL)

|{{flagmedalist|Tatyana Shikolenko|RUS}}

63.28

|{{flagmedalist|Steffi Nerius|GER}}

62.70

rowspan="2"|Heptathlon
{{DetailsLink|2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon}}

|{{flagmedalist|Carolina Klüft|SWE}}

7001
(WL)

|{{flagmedalist|Eunice Barber|FRA}}

6755
(SB)

|{{flagmedalist|Natallia Sazanovich|BLR}}

6524
(SB)

colspan=6|Swedish Carolina Klüft won with big margin following a breaking of her personal best in six of the seven events and the totals. She was the third woman ever to score more than 7000 points.

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Medal table

{{Medals table

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| source = [https://www.worldathletics.org/Competitions/world-athletics-championships/9th-iaaf-world-championships-in-athletics-2962/medaltable]

| gold_USA = 8 | silver_USA = 7 | bronze_USA = 1

| gold_RUS = 7 | silver_RUS = 7 | bronze_RUS = 5

| gold_FRA = 3 | silver_FRA = 3 | bronze_FRA = 2 | host_FRA = yes

| gold_ETH = 3 | silver_ETH = 2 | bronze_ETH = 2 | name_ETH = {{flagteam|ETH|1996}}

| gold_BLR = 3 | silver_BLR = 1 | bronze_BLR = 3

| gold_SWE = 2 | silver_SWE = 1 | bronze_SWE = 2

| gold_KEN = 2 | silver_KEN = 1 | bronze_KEN = 1

| gold_RSA = 2 | silver_RSA = 1 | bronze_RSA = 1

| gold_MAR = 2 | silver_MAR = 1 | bronze_MAR = 0

| gold_GRE = 1 | silver_GRE = 1 | bronze_GRE = 3

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

| gold_ITA = 1 | silver_ITA = 0 | bronze_ITA = 2

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

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

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

| gold_DOM = 1 | silver_DOM = 0 | bronze_DOM = 0

| gold_ECU = 1 | silver_ECU = 0 | bronze_ECU = 0

| gold_LTU = 1 | silver_LTU = 0 | bronze_LTU = 0 | name_LTU = {{flagteam|LTU|1988}}

| gold_MEX = 1 | silver_MEX = 0 | bronze_MEX = 0

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

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

| gold_QAT = 1 | silver_QAT = 0 | bronze_QAT = 0

| gold_SKN = 1 | silver_SKN = 0 | bronze_SKN = 0

| gold_JAM = 0 | silver_JAM = 4 | bronze_JAM = 2

| gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 3 | bronze_ESP = 2

| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 2 | bronze_HUN = 0

| gold_GER = 0 | silver_GER = 1 | bronze_GER = 3

| gold_JPN = 0 | silver_JPN = 1 | bronze_JPN = 3

| gold_BAH = 0 | silver_BAH = 1 | bronze_BAH = 2

| gold_GBR = 0 | silver_GBR = 1 | bronze_GBR = 2

| gold_BRA = 0 | silver_BRA = 1 | bronze_BRA = 0

| gold_CMR = 0 | silver_CMR = 1 | bronze_CMR = 0

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

| gold_EST = 0 | silver_EST = 1 | bronze_EST = 0

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

| gold_TRI = 0 | silver_TRI = 1 | bronze_TRI = 0

| gold_TUR = 0 | silver_TUR = 1 | bronze_TUR = 0

| gold_UKR = 0 | silver_UKR = 0 | bronze_UKR = 3

| gold_CHN = 0 | silver_CHN = 0 | bronze_CHN = 2

| gold_IND = 0 | silver_IND = 0 | bronze_IND = 1

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

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

| gold_SEN = 0 | silver_SEN = 0 | bronze_SEN = 1

}}

References

For more information about these results including in-depth results of all heats and finals that include photo finish, wind readings and reaction times see the link below.

[http://www.iaaf.org/history/WCH/season=2003/eventCode=2962/news/ IAAF Championship 2003]

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