2006 IAAF World Cup – Results

These are the results of the 2006 IAAF World Cup, which took place in Athens, Greece on 16 and 17 September.

Five continental teams were present (Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania) and three full national teams competed (United States, Russia and host nation Greece). Furthermore – following victories at the 2006 European Cup on the men's and women's sides respectively – France fielded a men's team, while Poland fielded a women's team.

Track

Events
100 m	200 m	400 m	800 m	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m	100/110 m h	400 m h	3000 m st	4 × 100 m relay	4 × 400 m relay

100 m

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 USA Tyson Gay 9.88 2 EUR Francis Obikwelu 10.09 3 AME Marc Burns 10.14 4 AFR Uchenna Emedolu 10.14 SB 5 FRA Ronald Pognon 10.17 6 ASI Yaozu Yang 10.21 PB 7 RUS Andrey Yepishin 10.27 8 OCE Patrick Johnson 10.28 9 GRE Anastasios Gousis 10.34

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 AME Sherone Simpson 10.97 2 USA Torri Edwards 11.19 3 AFR Vida Anim 11.21 SB 4 EUR Kim Gevaert 11.24 5 RUS Yuliya Gushchina 11.39 6 GRE Yeoryia Kokloni 11.40 7 ASI Guzel Khubbieva 11.43 SB 8 OCE Sally McLellan 11.44 9 POL Daria Onyśko 11.49

200 m

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 USA Wallace Spearmon 19.87 2 AME Usain Bolt 19.96 3 ASI Shingo Suetsugu 20.30 4 EUR Francis Obikwelu 20.36 5 OCE Patrick Johnson 20.52 6 GRE Anastasios Gousis 20.69 7 RUS Ivan Teplykh 20.94 8 AFR Stéphan Buckland 20.96 9 FRA Manuel Reynaert 21.87

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 USA Sanya Richards 22.23 2 EUR Kim Gevaert 22.72 3 AFR Vida Anim 22.81 PB 4 RUS Yuliya Gushchina 22.96 5 POL Monika Bejnar 23.21 6 ASI Guzel Khubbieva 23.34 7 AME Cydonie Mothersille 23.50 8 GRE Hariklia Bouda 23.52 9 OCE Melanie Kleeberg 23.86

400 m

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 USA LaShawn Merritt 44.54 2 AFR Gary Kikaya 44.66 3 GRE Dimitrios Regas 45.11 NR 4 AME Alleyne Francique 45.30 5 EUR Daniel Dąbrowski 45.61 6 RUS Vladislav Frolov 45.76 7 FRA Marc Raquil 46.26 8 OCE Clinton Hill 46.41 9 ASI Rohan Pradeep Kumara 47.35

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 USA Sanya Richards 48.70 WL 2 EUR Vanja Stambolova 50.09 3 AME Novlene Williams 50.24 4 RUS Tatyana Veshkurova 50.50 5 GRE Fani Halkia 50.94 SB 6 AFR Amy Mbacké Thiam 51.39 7 ASI Olga Tereshkova 52.57 8 POL Grażyna Prokopek 53.29 9 OCE Rosemary Hayward 54.01

800 m

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 ASI Yusuf Saad Kamel 1:44.98 2 EUR Bram Som 1:45.13 3 AFR Mbulaeni Mulaudzi 1:45.14 4 AME Gary Reed 1:45.54 5 RUS Dmitriy Bogdanov 1:46.31 6 USA Khadevis Robinson 1:46.45 7 FRA Florent Lacasse 1:47.30 8 OCE Jason Stewart 1:49.01 9 GRE Efthimios Papadopoulos 1:49.45

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 AME Zulia Calatayud 2:00.06 2 AFR Janeth Jepkosgei 2:00.09 3 RUS Olga Kotlyarova 2:00.84 4 EUR Rebecca Lyne 2:00.97 5 POL Aneta Lemiesz 2:01.53 6 USA Hazel Clark 2:01.83 7 ASI Pinki Pramanik 2:03.28 8 GRE Eleni Filandra 2:05.14 9 OCE Libby Allen 2:07.31

1500 m

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Alex Kipchirchir 3:52.60 2 EUR Ivan Heshko 3:53.33 3 OCE Nicholas Willis 3:54.76 4 USA Gabriel Jennings 3:55.09 5 RUS Ramil Aritkulov 3:55.11 6 AME Nathan Brannen 3:55.16 7 ASI Abdulrahman Suleiman 3:55.67 8 FRA Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad 3:55.89 9 GRE Panayiotis Ikonomou 3:59.00

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 ASI Maryam Yusuf Jamal 4:00.84 2 RUS Tatyana Tomashova 4:02.45 3 OCE Sarah Jamieson 4:02.82 4 EUR Daniela Yordanova 4:02.97 5 POL Lidia Chojecka 4:06.52 6 AME Carmen Douma-Hussar 4:07.36 7 AFR Nouria Mérah-Benida 4:10.25 8 USA Treniere Clement 4:13.55 9 GRE Kalliopi Astropekaki 4:40.68

3000 m

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 OCE Craig Mottram 7:32.19 CR 2 AFR Kenenisa Bekele 7:36.25 3 FRA Driss Maazouzi 7:47.80 SB 4 AME Kevin Sullivan 7:47.99 5 USA Adam Goucher 7:48.15 6 EUR Jesús España 7:50.09 7 RUS Sergey Ivanov 7:52.80 8 ASI Tareq Mubarak Taher 8:03.70 9 GRE Anastasios Fraggos 8:17.30

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Tirunesh Dibaba 8:33.78 CR 2 POL Lidia Chojecka 8:39.69 3 USA Kara Goucher 8:41.42 PB 4 OCE Eloise Wellings 8:41.78 PB 5 ASI Kayoko Fukushi 8:44.58 SB 6 EUR Krisztina Papp 8:51.15 7 RUS Yuliya Chizhenko 8:59.67 SB 8 GRE Maria Protopappa 9:00.15 SB 9 AME Megan Metcalfe 9:04.90

5000 m

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 ASI Saif Saaeed Shaheen 13:35.30 2 AFR Mike Kipruto Kigen 13:36.19 3 USA Matthew Tegenkamp 13:36.83 4 EUR Jan Fitschen 13:45.38 5 AME Marilson dos Santos 13:47.15 6 FRA Khalid Zoubaa 13:49.44 7 RUS Sergey Ivanov 13:50.16 8 OCE Adrian Blincoe 14:03.29 9 GRE Padeleimon Savvopoulos 14:26.62

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Meseret Defar 14:39.11 CR 2 RUS Liliya Shobukhova 15:05.33 3 ASI Kayoko Fukushi 15:06.69 4 OCE Kimberley Smith 15:12.15 5 USA Lauren Fleshman 15:17.65 6 EUR Sabrina Mockenhaupt 15:34.61 7 GRE Maria Protopappa 15:49.50 8 POL Katarzyna Kowalska 16:18.35 9 AME Lucélia Peres 16:23.72

3000 m steeplechase

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 ASI Saif Saaeed Shaheen 8:19.09 CR 2 AFR Paul Kipsiele Koech 8:19.37 3 FRA Bouabdellah Tahri 8:29.06 4 EUR Jukka Keskisalo 8:29.42 5 OCE Youcef Abdi 8:36.13 6 RUS Pavel Potapovich 8:38.95 7 USA Steve Slattery 8:43.15 8 AME Fernando Alex Fernandes 8:51.33 9 GRE Arbedo-Alexandros Litsis 9:10.83

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Alesia Turava 9:29.10 2 AFR Jeruto Kiptum 9:31.44 3 POL Wioletta Janowska 9:35.08 4 OCE Victoria Mitchell 9:36.34 5 RUS Tatyana Petrova 9:36.50 6 AME Korene Hinds 9:47.86 7 USA Lisa Galaviz 9:49.32 8 ASI Minori Hayakari 9:49.49 9 GRE Irini Kokkinariou 10:35.78

100/110 m hurdles

Men (110 m) Rank Team Competitor Result 1 USA Allen Johnson 12.96 CR 2 ASI Liu Xiang 13.03 3 AME Dayron Robles 13.06 4 EUR Staņislavs Olijars 13.15 SB 5 FRA Cédric Lavanne 13.56 6 RUS Igor Peremota 13.57 7 OCE James Mortimer 13.94 8 GRE Theopistos Mavridis 13.96 9 AFR Aymen Ben Ahmed 14.08

Women (100 m) Rank Team Competitor Result 1 AME Brigitte Foster-Hylton 12.67 2 EUR Susanna Kallur 12.77 3 USA Ginnie Powell 12.90 4 OCE Sally McLellan 12.95 PB 5 POL Aurelia Trywiańska 12.97 6 RUS Aleksandra Antonova 13.12 7 GRE Flora Redoumi 13.23 8 AFR Toyin Augustus 13.27 9 ASI Feng Yun 13.32

400 m hurdles

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 USA Kerron Clement 48.12 2 AFR L. J. van Zyl 48.35 3 EUR Marek Plawgo 48.76 4 AME Kemel Thompson 48.80 5 FRA Naman Keïta 49.53 6 RUS Aleksandr Derevjagin 49.83 7 OCE Tristan Thomas 50.00 8 GRE Minas Alozidis 51.12 9 ASI Yevgeniy Meleshenko 51.55

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 RUS Yuliya Nosova 53.88 2 USA Lashinda Demus 54.06 3 POL Anna Jesień 54.48 SB 4 EUR Tetiana Tereschuk-Antipova 54.55 5 AME Daimí Pernía 54.60 SB 6 ASI Xiaoxiao Huang 55.06 SB 7 AFR Janet Wienand 56.31 8 GRE Hristina Hantzi-Neag 56.35 SB 9 OCE Lauren Boden 58.22

4 × 100 m relay

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 USA Kaaron Conwright, Wallace Spearmon, Tyson Gay, Jason Smoots 37.59 CR 2 EUR Dwain Chambers, Dwayne Grant, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis 38.45 PB 3 ASI Naoki Tsukahara, Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira, Shigeyuki Kojima 38.51 PB 4 RUS Maksim Mokrousov, Mikhail Yegorychev, Roman Smirnov, Andrey Yepishin 38.78 SB 5 AFR Adetoyi Durotoye, Uchenna Emedolu, Stéphan Buckland, Eric Nkansah 38.87 SB 6 OCE Daniel Batman, Patrick Johnson, Ambrose Ezenwa, Aaron Rouge-Serret 39.48 SB 7 FRA Oudéré Kankarafou, Dimitri Demoniere, Fabrice Calligny, Issa-Aimé Nthépé 39.67 8 GRE Ioannis Politis, Andreas Karayiannis, Aristidis Petridis, Panayiotis Sarris 39.84 AME Dwight Thomas, Marc Burns, Christopher Williams, Asafa Powell DNF

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 AME Aleen Bailey, Debbie Ferguson, Cydonie Mothersille, Sherone Simpson 42.26 WL 2 RUS Yuliya Gushchina, Natalya Rusakova, Irina Khabarova, Yekaterina Grigoryeva 42.36 SB 3 AFR Francisca Idoko, Endurance Ojokolo, Esther Dankwah, Vida Anim 43.61 SB 4 POL Ewelina Klocek, Daria Onyśko, Dorota Dydo, Beata Szkudlarz 43.91 SB 5 OCE Preya Carey, Sally McLellan, Melanie Kleeberg, Fiona Cullen 44.26 SB 6 ASI Sangwan Jaksunin, Oranut Klomdee, Jutamass Thavoncharoen, Nongnuch Sanrat 44.27 SB 7 GRE Hariklia Bouda, Zoi Nerantzidou, Eleftheria Kobidou, Yeoryia Kokloni 44.29 8 EUR Anyika Onuora, Emma Ania, Emily Freeman, Joice Maduaka 47.61 SB USA Wyllesheia Myrick, Stephanie Durst, Me'Lisa Barber, Torri Edwards DQ

4 × 400 m relay

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 USA Jamel Ashley, Derrick Brew, LaShawn Merritt, Darold Williamson 3:00.11 2 AME Chris Brown, Michael Blackwood, Carlos Santa, Alleyne Francique 3:00.14 SB 3 AFR Paul Gorries, Gary Kikaya, Young Talkmore Nyongani, Malik Louahla 3:00.88 PB 4 FRA Brice Panel, Leslie Djhone, Naman Keïta, Marc Raquil 3:03.85 5 EUR Rafał Wieruszewski, Kamghe Gaba, Daniel Dąbrowski, Andrea Barberi 3:03.90 PB 6 RUS Dmitriy Petrov, Vladislav Frolov, Aleksandr Derevyagin, Yevgeniy Lebedev 3:04.15 7 ASI Prasanna Sampath Amarasekara, Yuzo Kanemaru, Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi, Mohammed Al Salhi 3:04.67 SB 8 OCE Tristan Thomas, Daniel Batman, Clinton Hill, Sean Wroe 3:05.54 SB 9 GRE Stilianos Dimotsios, Padeleimon Melahrinoudis, Yeoryios Doupis, Dimitrios Regas 3:09.68

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 AME Shericka Williams, Tonique Williams-Darling, Christine Amertil, Novlene Williams 3:19.84 WL 2 USA DeeDee Trotter, Monique Henderson, Moushaumi Robinson, Lashinda Demus 3:20.69 SB 3 RUS Svetlana Pospelova, Olga Kotlyarova, Yulia Nosova, Tatyana Veshkurova 3:21.21 SB 4 EUR Mariyana Dimitrova, Nataliya Pyhyda, Ilona Usovich, Vania Stambolova 3:22.35 PB 5 POL Grażyna Prokopek, Monika Bejnar, Aneta Lemiesz, Anna Jesień 3:27.22 6 AFR Amy Mbacké Thiam, Louise Ayétotché, Amantle Montsho, Christy Ekpukhon 3:27.65 SB 7 GRE Hristina Hantzi-Neag, Stiliani Dimoglou, Alena-Maria Padi, Dimitra Dova 3:35.79 8 OCE Rosemary Hayward, Caitlin Willis, Angeline Blackburn, Rebecca Irwin 3:36.36 SB 9 ASI Asami Tanno, Chitra K. Soman, Sathi Geetha, Manjeet Kaur 3:38.85 SB

Field

Events
High jump	Pole vault	Long jump	Triple jump	Shot put	Discus	Hammer	Javelin

High jump

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Tomáš Janku 2.28 2 RUS Andrei Silnov 2.24 3 USA Tora Harris 2.24 4 AFR Kabelo Kgosiemang 2.20 5 GRE Dimitrios Sirrakos 2.20 6 AME Jessé de Lima 2.15 7 FRA Mustapha Raifak 2.10 8 OCE Liam Zamel-Paez 2.05 ASI Haiqiang Huang DNS

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 RUS Jelena Slesarenko 1.97 2 EUR Tia Hellebaut 1.97 3 ASI Marina Aitova 1.94 PB 3 USA Amy Acuff 1.94 5 AME Nicole Forrester 1.94 PB 6 POL Anna Ksok 1.87 7 GRE Persefoni Hatzinakou 1.83 7 AFR Rene van der Merwe 1.83 9 OCE Angela McKee 1.79

Pole vault

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 OCE Steven Hooker 5.80 2 ASI Daichi Sawano 5.70 3 AME Germán Chiaraviglio 5.70 4 FRA Romain Mesnil 5.60 5 USA Russ Buller 5.50 6 AFR Okkert Brits 5.50 7 EUR Aleksandr Averbukh 5.50 8 GRE Stavros Kouroupakis 5.40 9 RUS Dmitry Starodubtsev 5.20

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 RUS Yelena Isinbayeva 4.60 CR 2 AME Fabiana Murer 4.55 3 ASI Gao Shuying 4.50 SB 4 EUR Martina Strutz 4.40 5 POL Monika Pyrek 4.30 6 GRE Afroditi Skafida 4.15 7 AFR Syrine Balti 4.00 USA Jennifer Stuczynski NM OCE Kym Howe NM

Long jump

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 AME Irving Saladino 8.26 2 EUR Andrew Howe 8.12 3 ASI Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi 8.11 4 AFR Ignisious Gaisah 8.09 5 FRA Salim Sdiri 8.03 6 USA Brian Johnson 7.88 7 RUS Ruslan Gataullin 7.64 8 OCE Fabrice Lapierre 7.58 GRE Louis Tsatoumas NM

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 RUS Lyudmila Kolchanova 6.78 2 EUR Naide Gomes 6.68 3 GRE Hrysopiyi Devetzi 6.64 4 OCE Bronwyn Thompson 6.63 5 POL Małgorzata Trybańska 6.41 6 USA Rose Richmond 6.38 7 AME Keila Costa 6.33 8 ASI Olga Rypakova 6.21 9 AFR Joséphine Mbarga-Bikié 5.87

Triple jump

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 USA Walter Davis 17.54 2 AME Jadel Gregório 17.41 3 EUR Marian Oprea 17.05 4 ASI Yanxi Li 16.87 5 RUS Danil Burkenya 16.84 6 AFR Tarik Bougtaïb 16.57 7 FRA Julien Kapek 16.56 8 OCE Alwyn Jones 16.42 GRE Konstadinos Zalaggitis NM

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 RUS Tatyana Lebedeva 15.13 2 GRE Hrysopiyi Devetzi 15.04 3 AFR Yamilé Aldama 14.78 4 AME Trecia Smith 14.64 5 ASI Anastasiya Juravleva 14.54 6 EUR Olha Saladukha 14.16 7 USA Shani Marks 13.79 8 POL Aleksandra Fila 13.34 9 OCE Linda Allen 12.95

Shot put

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Ralf Bartels 20.67 2 USA Reese Hoffa 20.60 3 RUS Pavel Sofin 20.45 4 OCE Scott Martin 20.25 5 AME Dorian Scott 20.21 6 FRA Gaëtan Bucki 19.40 7 ASI Navpreet Singh 18.43 8 AFR Yasser Ibrahim Farag 18.23 9 GRE Andreas Anastasopoulos 17.06

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 OCE Valerie Vili 19.87 2 RUS Olga Ryabinkina 19.54 SB 3 AME Yumileidi Cumbá 19.12 4 EUR Natallia Kharaneka 19.06 5 ASI Li Ling 19.05 PB 6 USA Jillian Camarena 18.43 7 POL Krystyna Zabawska 17.74 8 AFR Vivian Chukwuemeka 17.72 9 GRE Irini Terzoglou 16.32

Discus

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Virgilijus Alekna 67.19 2 ASI Ehsan Haddadi 62.60 3 USA Ian Waltz 62.12 4 AFR Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly 61.50 5 OCE Scott Martin 60.93 6 FRA Jean-Claude Retel 58.18 7 RUS Bogdan Pishchalnikov 58.17 8 GRE Stefanos Konstas 58.17 9 AME Jason Tunks 56.92

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Franka Dietzsch 66.07 2 USA Aretha Thurmond 61.83 3 ASI Aimin Song 61.47 4 RUS Darya Pishchalnikova 61.39 5 POL Wioletta Potępa 60.82 6 OCE Dani Samuels 59.68 7 AME Yania Ferrales 58.93 8 AFR Elizna Naude 56.11 9 GRE Areti Abatzi 53.66

Hammer

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 ASI Koji Murofushi 82.01 SB 2 EUR Ivan Tikhon 80.00 3 RUS Ilya Konovalov 77.14 4 USA Alfred Kruger 75.53 5 GRE Alexandros Papadimitriou 74.13 6 AME James Steacy 74.04 7 AFR Chris Harmse 73.94 8 OCE Stuart Rendell 71.99 9 FRA Christophe Épalle 71.43

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 POL Kamila Skolimowska 75.29 CR 2 RUS Tatyana Lysenko 74.44 3 AME Yipsi Moreno 73.99 4 ASI Zhang Wenxiu 71.19 5 EUR Maryia Smaliachkova 68.93 6 USA Erin Gilreath 67.39 7 OCE Brooke Krueger-Billett 65.92 8 GRE Alexandra Papayeoryiou 65.22 9 AFR Marwa Hussein 60.23

Javelin

Men Rank Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Andreas Thorkildsen 87.17 2 AFR Gerhardus Pienaar 83.62 3 RUS Aleksandr Ivanov 81.87 4 ASI Chen Qi 79.20 5 GRE Yeóryios Íltsios 75.74 6 OCE Stuart Farquhar 74.55 7 USA Rob Minnitti 73.40 8 FRA Bérenger Demerval 67.68 9 AME Robinson Pratt 29.02 PB

Women Rank Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Steffi Nerius 63.37 2 AME Sonia Bisset 61.74 3 AFR Justine Robbeson 61.38 4 POL Barbara Madejczyk 59.63 5 OCE Kimberley Mickle 58.52 6 GRE Savva Lika 58.36 7 RUS Lada Chernova 58.29 8 USA Kim Kreiner 54.34 9 ASI Ma Ning 52.54