1993 World Championships in Athletics

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.^[1] Having originally being held every four years in 1983, 1987 and 1991, these championships began a two-year cycle between events.

4th World Championships in Athletics

Host city	Stuttgart, Germany
Nations	187
Athletes	1689
Dates	13–22 August 1993
Opened by	President Richard von Weizsäcker
Main venue	Neckarstadium
← 1991 Tokyo 1995 Gothenburg →

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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Linford Christie (GBR)	9.87 (AR)	Andre Cason (USA)	9.92	Dennis Mitchell (USA)	9.99
200 m details	Frankie Fredericks (NAM)	19.85 (CR/AR)	John Regis (GBR)	19.94	Carl Lewis (USA)	19.99
400 m details	Michael Johnson (USA)	43.65 (CR)	Butch Reynolds (USA)	44.13	Samson Kitur (KEN)	44.54
800 m details	Paul Ruto (KEN)	1:44.71	Giuseppe D'Urso (ITA)	1:44.86	Billy Konchellah (KEN)	1:44.89
1500 m details	Noureddine Morceli (ALG)	3:34.24	Fermin Cacho Ruiz (ESP)	3:35.56	Abdi Bile (SOM)	3:35.96
5000 m details	Ismael Kirui (KEN)	13:02.75	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)	13:03.17	Fita Bayisa (ETH)	13:05.40
10,000 m details	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)	27:46.02	Moses Tanui (KEN)	27:46.54	Richard Chelimo (KEN)	28:06.02
Marathon details	Mark Plaatjes (USA)	2:13:57	Luketz Swartbooi (NAM)	2:14:11	Bert van Vlaanderen (NED)	2:15:12
110 m hurdles details	Colin Jackson (GBR)	12.91 (WR)	Tony Jarrett (GBR)	13.00	Jack Pierce (USA)	13.06
400 m hurdles details	Kevin Young (USA)	47.18	Samuel Matete (ZAM)	47.60	Winthrop Graham (JAM)	47.62
3000 m steeplech. details	Moses Kiptanui (KEN)	8:06.36 (CR)	Patrick Sang (KEN)	8:07.53	Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA)	8:08.78
20 km walk details	Valentí Massana (ESP)	1:22:31	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:23:06	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:23:18
50 km walk details	Jesus Garcia (ESP)	3:41:41	Valentin Kononen (FIN)	3:42:02	Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS)	3:42:50
4 × 100 m relay details	United States (USA) Jon Drummond Andre Cason Dennis Mitchell Leroy Burrell Calvin Smith*	37.48	Great Britain (GBR) Colin Jackson Tony Jarrett John Regis Linford Christie Jason John* Darren Braithwaite*	37.77 (AR)	Canada (CAN) Robert Esmie Glenroy Gilbert Bruny Surin Atlee Mahorn	37.83 (NR)
4 × 400 m relay details	United States (USA) Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Butch Reynolds Michael Johnson Antonio Pettigrew* Derek Mills*	2:54.29 (WR)	Kenya (KEN) Kennedy Ochieng Simon Kemboi Abednego Matilu Samson Kitur	2:59.82	Germany (GER) Rico Lieder Karsten Just Olaf Hense Thomas Schönlebe	2:59.99
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

1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Long jump details	Mike Powell (USA)	8.59	Stanislav Tarasenko (RUS)	8.16	Vitaliy Kyrylenko (UKR)	8.15
Triple jump details	Mike Conley (USA)	17.86	Leonid Voloshin (RUS)	17.65	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	17.44
High jump details	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.40 (CR)	Artur Partyka (POL)	2.37	Steve Smith (GBR)	2.37
Pole vault details	Sergey Bubka (UKR)	6.00 (CR)	Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)	5.90 (AR)	Maksim Tarasov (RUS)	5.80
					Igor Trandenkov (RUS)
Shot put details	Werner Günthör (SUI)	21.97	Randy Barnes (USA)	21.80	Oleksandr Bagach (UKR)	20.401
Discus throw details	Lars Riedel (GER)	67.72	Dmitriy Shevchenko (RUS)	66.90	Jürgen Schult (GER)	66.12
Hammer throw details	Andrey Abduvaliyev (TJK)	81.64 (AR)	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	79.88	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)	79.54
Javelin throw details	Jan Železný (CZE)	85.98 (CR)	Kimmo Kinnunen (FIN)	84.78	Mick Hill (GBR)	82.96
Decathlon details	Dan O'Brien (USA)	8817 (CR)	Eduard Hämäläinen (BLR)	8724	Paul Meier (GER)	8548
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 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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Gail Devers  United States	10.82 CR	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	10.82 CR	Gwen Torrence  United States	10.89
200 m details	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	21.98	Gwen Torrence  United States	22.00	Irina Privalova  Russia	22.13
400 m details	Jearl Miles  United States	49.82	Natasha Kaiser-Brown  United States	50.17	Sandie Richards  Jamaica	50.44
800 m details	Maria Mutola  Mozambique	1:55.43 AR	Lyubov Gurina  Russia	1:57.10	Ella Kovacs  Romania	1:57.92
1500 m details	Liu Dong  China	4:00.50	Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland	4:03.48	Hassiba Boulmerka  Algeria	4:04.29
3000 m details	Qu Yunxia  China	8:28.71 CR	Zhang Linli  China	8:29.25	Zhang Lirong  China	8:31.95
10,000 m details	Wang Junxia  China	30:49.30 CR	Zhong Huandi  China	31:12.55	Sally Barsosio  Kenya	31:15.38
Marathon details	Junko Asari  Japan	2:30:03	Manuela Machado  Portugal	2:30:54	Tomoe Abe  Japan	2:31:01
100 m hurdles details	Gail Devers  United States	12.46 AR	Marina Azyabina  Russia	12.60	Lynda Tolbert  United States	12.67
400 m hurdles details	Sally Gunnell  Great Britain	52.74 WR	Sandra Farmer-Patrick  United States	52.79 AR	Margarita Ponomaryova  Russia	53.48
10 km walk details	Sari Essayah  Finland	42:59	Ileana Salvador  Italy	43:08	Encarna Granados  Spain	43:21
4 × 100 m relay details	Russia Olga Bogoslovskaya Galina Malchugina Natalya Voronova Irina Privalova Marina Trandenkova*	41.49 CR	United States Michelle Finn Gwen Torrence Wendy Vereen Gail Devers Sheila Echols*	41.49 CR	Jamaica Michelle Freeman Juliet Campbell Nikole Mitchell Merlene Ottey Dahlia Duhaney*	41.94=NR
4 × 400 m relay details	United States Gwen Torrence Maicel Malone Natasha Kaiser Jearl Miles Terri Dendy* Michelle Collins*	3:16.71 CR	Russia Yelena Rouzina Tatyana Alekseyeva Margarita Ponomaryova Irina Privalova Yelena Golesheva* Vera Sychugova*	3:18.38	Great Britain Linda Keough Phylis Smith Tracy Goddard Sally Gunnell	3:23.41
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

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler  Germany	7.11	Larysa Berezhna  Ukraine	6.98	Renata Nielsen  Denmark	6.76
Triple jump details	Anna Biryukova  Russia	15.09 WR	Yolanda Chen  Russia	14.70	Iva Prandzheva  Bulgaria	14.23
High jump details	Ioamnet Quintero  Cuba	1.99	Silvia Costa  Cuba	1.97	Sigrid Kirchmann  Austria	1.97 NR
Shot put details	Huang Zhihong  China	20.57	Svetlana Krivelyova  Russia	19.97	Kathrin Neimke  Germany	19.71
Discus throw details	Olga Chernyavskaya  Russia	67.40	Daniela Costian  Australia	65.36	Min Chunfeng  China	65.26
Javelin throw details	Trine Hattestad  Norway	69.18	Karen Forkel  Germany	65.80	Natalya Shikolenko  Belarus	65.64
Heptathlon details	Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States	6837	Sabine Braun  Germany	6797	Svetlana Buraga  Belarus	6635
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 (Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	13	7	5	25
2	China (CHN)	4	2	2	8
3	Russia (RUS)	3	8	5	16
4	Great Britain (GBR)	3	3	4	10
	Kenya (KEN)	3	3	4	10
6	Germany (GER)*	2	2	4	8
7	Spain (ESP)	2	1	2	5
8	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	0	3
9	Finland (FIN)	1	2	0	3
10	Jamaica (JAM)	1	1	3	5
11	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	2	4
12	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	1	1	3
13	Namibia (NAM)	1	1	0	2
14	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	1	2
	Japan (JPN)	1	0	1	2
16	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	1	0	0	1
21	Italy (ITA)	0	3	1	4
22	Belarus (BLR)	0	2	2	4
23	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
	Zambia (ZAM)	0	1	0	1
29	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Somalia (SOM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (36 entries)		44	44	45	133

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See also

• 1993 in athletics (track and field)