2003 World Championships in Athletics

IX World Championships in Athletics

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Host city	Saint-Denis, France
Nations participating	198
Athletes participating	1679
Dates	23 August – 31 August
Main venue	Stade de France
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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 Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.

Men's results

Track

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Kim Collins Saint Kitts and Nevis	10.07	Darrel Brown Trinidad and Tobago	10.08	Darren Campbell Great Britain	10.08 SB
200 m	John Capel United States	20.30	Darvis Patton United States	20.31	Shingo Suetsugu Japan	20.38
400 m	Tyree Washington United States	44.771	Marc Raquil France	44.79 NR	Michael Blackwood Jamaica	44.80
800 m	Djabir Saïd-Guerni Algeria	1:44.81	Yuriy Borzakovskiy Russia	1:44.84	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi South Africa	1:44.90
1500 m	Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco	3:31.77	Mehdi Baala France	3:32.31	Ivan Heshko Ukraine	3:33.17
5000 m	Eliud Kipchoge Kenya	12:52.79 CR	Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco	12:52.83	Kenenisa Bekele Ethiopia	12:53.12
10,000 m	Kenenisa Bekele Ethiopia	26:49.57 CR	Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia	26:50.77 SB	Sileshi Sihine Ethiopia	27:01.44
Marathon	Jaouad Gharib Morocco	2:08:31 CR	Julio Rey Spain	2:08:38	Stefano Baldini Italy	2:09:14
110 m hurdles	Allen Johnson United States	13.12	Terrence Trammell United States	13.20 SB	Liu Xiang China	13.23
400 m hurdles	Félix Sánchez Dominican Republic	47.25 WL	Joey Woody United States	48.18 SB	Periklís Iakovákis Greece	48.24
3000 m steeplechase	Saif Saaeed Shaheen Qatar	8:04.39	Ezekiel Kemboi Kenya	8:05.11	Eliseo Martin Spain	8:09.09 PB
20 km race walk	Jefferson Pérez Ecuador	1:17:21 WBP	Paquillo Fernández Spain	1:18:00 SB	Roman Rasskazov Russia	1:18:07 SB
50 km race walk	Robert Korzeniowski Poland	3:36:03 WBP	German Skurygin Russia	3:36:42 NR	Andreas Erm Germany	3:37:46 NR
4 x 100 m relay	John Capel, Bernard Williams, Darvis Patton, Joshua J Johnson United States	38.06	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Cláudio Roberto Souza Brazil	38.26 SB	Timothy Beck, Troy Douglas, Patrick van Balkom, Caimin Douglas Netherlands	38.87
4 x 400 m relay	Leslie Djhone, Naman Keïta, Stéphane Diagana, Marc Raquil France	2:58.962 NR	Brandon Simpson, Danny McFarlane, Davian Clarke, Michael Blackwood Jamaica	2:59.60 SB	Avard Moncur, Dennis Darling, Nathaniel McKinney, Chris Brown Bahamas	3:00.53 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)

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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Jacques Freitag South Africa	2.35 SB	Stefan Holm Sweden	2.32	Mark Boswell Canada	2.32 SB
Long jump	Dwight Phillips United States	8.32	James Beckford Jamaica	8.28 SB	Yago Lamela Spain	8.22
Pole vault	Giuseppe Gibilisco Italy	5.90 NR	Okkert Brits South Africa	5.85 SB	Patrik Kristiansson Sweden	5.85 PB
Triple jump	Christian Olsson Sweden	17.72	Yoandri Betanzos Cuba	17.28 SB	Leevan Sands Bahamas	17.26
Shot put	Andrei Mikhnevich Belarus	21.69 PB	Adam Nelson United States	21.26	Yuriy Bilonoh Ukraine	21.10
Discus	Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania	69.69 SB	Róbert Fazekas Hungary	69.01	Vasiliy Kaptyukh Belarus	66.51 SB
Javelin	Sergey Makarov Russia	85.44	Andrus Värnik Estonia	85.17	Boris Henry Germany	84.74
Hammer	Ivan Tikhon Belarus	83.05	Adrián Annus Hungary	80.36	Koji Murofushi Japan	80.12
Decathlon	Tom Pappas United States	8750	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	8634	Dmitry Karpov Kazakhstan	8374 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)

Women's results

Track

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Torri Edwards (USA)	10.93 (PB)	Zhanna Pintusevich (UKR)	10.99 (SB)	Chandra Sturrup (BAH)	11.02
200 m	Anastasiya Kapachinskaya (RUS)	22.38 (PB)	Torri Edwards (USA)	22.47	Muriel Hurtis (FRA)	22.59
400 m	Ana Guevara (MEX)	48.89 (PB)	Lorraine Fenton (JAM)	49.43 (SB)	Amy Mbacke Thiam (SEN)	49.95 (SB)
800 m	Maria Mutola (MOZ)	1:59.89	Kelly Holmes (GBR)	2:00.18	Natalya Khrushchelyova (RUS)	2:00.29
1,500 m	Tatyana Tomashova (RUS)	3:58.52 (CR)	Süreyya Ayhan (TUR)	3:59.04	Hayley Tullett (GBR)	3:59.95 (PB)
5,000 m	Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)	14:51.72	Marta Dominguez (ESP)	14:52.26	Edith Masai (KEN)	14:52.30
10,000 m	Berhane Adere (ETH)	30:04.18 (CR)	Werknesh Kidane (ETH)	30:07.15 (PB)	Sun Yingjie (CHN)	30:07.20 (PB)
Marathon	Catherine Ndereba (KEN)	2:23:55 (CR)	Mizuki Noguchi (JPN)	2:24:14	Masako Chiba (JPN)	2:25:09
100 m hurdles	Perdita Felicien (CAN)	12.53 (NR)	Brigitte Foster (JAM)	12.57	Miesha McKelvy (USA)	12.67
400 m hurdles	Jana Pittman (AUS)	53.22 (PB)	Sandra Glover (USA)	53.65 (SB)	Yuliya Pechonkina (RUS)	53.71
20 km walk	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	1:26:52 (CR)	Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL)	1:27:34	Valentina Tsybulskaya (BLR)	1:28:10 (NR)
4 x 100 m relay	Patricia Girard-Léno Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Christine Arron France	41.78 (WL)	Angela Williams Chryste Gaines Inger Miller Torri Edwards United States	41.83 (SB)	Olga Fyodorova Yuliya Tabakova Marina Kislova Larisa Kruglova Russia	42.66
4 x 400 m relay	Demetria Washington, Jearl Miles Clark, Me'Lisa Barber, Sanya Richards United States	3:22.63 (WL)	Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Natalya Nazarova, Olesya Zykina, Yuliya Pechonkina (Nosova) Russia	3:22.91 (SB)	Allison Beckford, Lorraine Fenton (Graham), Ronetta Smith, Sandie Richards, Jamaica	3:22.92 (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)

Field

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Hestrie Cloete (RSA)	2.06 (WL, AR)	Marina Kuptsova (RUS)	2.00	Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)	2.00
Pole vault	Svetlana Feofanova (RUS)	4.75 (CR)	Annika Becker (GER)	4.70 (SB)	Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS)	4.65
Long jump	Eunice Barber (FRA)	6.99 (SB)	Tatyana Kotova (RUS)	6.74	Anju Bobby George (IND)	6.70 (SB)
Triple jump	Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)	15.18 (SB)	Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR)	15.05 (AR)	Magdelin Martinez (ITA)	14.90 (NR)
Shot put	Svetlana Krivelyova (RUS)	20.63	Nadzeya Astapchuk (BLR)	20.12 (PB)	Vita Pavlysh (UKR)	20.08 (SB)
Discus throw	Irina Yatchenko (BLR)	67.32 (SB)	Anastasia Kelesidou (GRE)	67.14 (SB)	Ekaterini Voggoli (GRE)	66.73 (PB)
Hammer throw	Yipsi Moreno (CUB)	73.33	Olga Kuzenkova (RUS)	71.71	Manuela Montebrun (FRA)	70.92
Javelin throw	Mirela Manjani (GRE)	66.52 (WL)	Tatyana Shikolenko (RUS)	63.28	Steffi Nerius (GER)	62.70
Heptathlon	Carolina Klüft (SWE)	7001 (WL)	Eunice Barber (FRA)	6755 (SB)	Natallia Sazanovich (BLR)	6524 (SB)
	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.
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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	United States	8	7	1	16
2.	Russia	7	7	5	19
3.	France	3	3	2	8
4.	Ethiopia	3	2	2	7
5.	Belarus	3	1	3	7
6.	Sweden	2	1	2	5
7.	Kenya	2	1	1	4
7=	South Africa	2	1	1	4
9.	Morocco	2	1	0	3
10.	Greece	1	1	2	4
11.	Cuba	1	1	0	2
12.	Italy	1	0	2	3
13.	Canada	1	0	1	2
14.	Algeria	1	0	0	1
14=	Australia	1	0	0	1
14=	Dominican Republic	1	0	0	1
14=	Ecuador	1	0	0	1
14=	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
14=	Mexico	1	0	0	1
14=	Mozambique	1	0	0	1
14=	Poland	1	0	0	1
14=	Qatar	1	0	0	1
14=	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1	0	0	1
24.	Jamaica	0	4	2	6
25.	Spain	0	3	2	5
26.	Hungary	0	2	0	2
27.	Germany	0	1	3	4
27=	Japan	0	1	3	4
27=	Ukraine	0	1	3	4
30.	Great Britain	0	1	2	3
31.	Brazil	0	1	0	1
31=	Cameroon	0	1	0	1
31=	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
31=	Estonia	0	1	0	1
31=	Ireland	0	1	0	1
31=	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	0	1
31=	Turkey	0	1	0	1
38.	Bahamas	0	0	3	3
39.	China	0	0	2	2
40.	India	0	0	1	1
40=	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
40=	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
40=	Senegal	0	0	1	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.

• IAAF Championship 2003

External links

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