The 5th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden on 5–13 August 1995.

5th World Championships in Athletics
Host cityGothenburg, Sweden
Nations191
Athletes1804
Dates5–13 August 1995
Opened byKing Carl XVI Gustaf
Main venueUllevi Stadium

This edition featured 1804 athletes from 191 nations.[1]

This competition saw the women run the 5000 m event at the World Championships for the first time. The race replaced the 3000 m event which had been run at all previous World Championships.


Men's results

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Track

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1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Donovan Bailey
  Canada
9.97 Bruny Surin
  Canada
10.03 Ato Boldon
  Trinidad and Tobago
10.03
200 m
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Michael Johnson
  United States
19.79
CR
Frankie Fredericks
  Namibia
20.12 Jeff Williams
  United States
20.18
400 m
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Michael Johnson
  United States
43.39
CR
Butch Reynolds
  United States
44.22 Greg Haughton
  Jamaica
44.56
800 m
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Wilson Kipketer
  Denmark
1:45.08 Arthémon Hatungimana
  Burundi
1:45.64 Vebjørn Rodal
  Norway
1:45.68
1,500 m
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Noureddine Morceli
  Algeria
3:33.73 Hicham El Guerrouj
  Morocco
3:35.28 Vénuste Niyongabo
  Burundi
3:35.56
5,000 m
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Ismael Kirui
  Kenya
13:16.77 Khalid Bouhlami
  Morocco
13:17.15 Shem Kororia
  Kenya
13:17.59
10,000 m
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Haile Gebrselassie
  Ethiopia
27:12.95
CR
Khalid Skah
  Morocco
27:14.53 Paul Tergat
  Kenya
27:14.70
Marathon
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Martín Fiz
  Spain
2:11:41 Dionicio Cerón
  Mexico
2:12:13 Luíz Antônio dos Santos
  Brazil
2:12:49
110 m hurdles
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Allen Johnson
  United States
13.00 Tony Jarrett
  Great Britain
13.04 Roger Kingdom
  United States
13.19
400 m hurdles
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Derrick Adkins
  United States
47.98 Samuel Matete
  Zambia
48.03 Stéphane Diagana
  France
48.14
3,000 m st.
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Moses Kiptanui
  Kenya
8:04.16
CR
Christopher Koskei
  Kenya
8:09.30 Saad Al-Asmari
  Saudi Arabia
8:12.95
AR
20 km walk
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Michele Didoni
  Italy
1:19:59 Valentí Massana
  Spain
1:20:23 Yevgeniy Misyulya
  Belarus
1:20:48
50 km walk
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Valentin Kononen
  Finland
3:43:42 Giovanni Perricelli
  Italy
3:45:11 Robert Korzeniowski
  Poland
3:45:57
4 × 100 m relay
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  Canada (CAN)
Donovan Bailey
Robert Esmie
Glenroy Gilbert
Bruny Surin
38.31   Australia (AUS)
Paul Henderson
Tim Jackson
Steve Brimacombe
Damien Marsh
38.50   Italy (ITA)
Giovanni Puggioni
Ezio Madonia
Angelo Cipolloni
Sandro Floris
39.07
4 × 400 m relay
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  United States (USA)
Marlon Ramsey
Derek Mills
Butch Reynolds
Michael Johnson
Kevin Lyles*
Darnell Hall*
2:57.32   Jamaica (JAM)
Michael McDonald
Davian Clarke
Danny McFarlane
Greg Haughton
Dennis Blake*
2:59.88   Nigeria (NGR)
Udeme Ekpeyong
Kunle Adejuyigbe
Jude Monye
Sunday Bada
3:03.18
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

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Long jump
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Iván Pedroso
  Cuba
8.70 James Beckford
  Jamaica
8.30 Mike Powell
  United States
8.29
Triple jump
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Jonathan Edwards
  Great Britain
18.29
(WR)
Brian Wellman
  Bermuda
17.62 Jérôme Romain
  Dominica
17.59
High jump
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Troy Kemp
  Bahamas
2.37 Javier Sotomayor
  Cuba
2.37 Artur Partyka
  Poland
2.35
Pole vault
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Sergey Bubka
  Ukraine
5.92 Maksim Tarasov
  Russia
5.86 Jean Galfione
  France
5.86
Shot put
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John Godina
  United States
21.47 Mika Halvari
  Finland
20.93 Randy Barnes
  United States
20.41
Discus throw
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Lars Riedel
  Germany
68.76
(CR)
Vladimir Dubrovshchik
  Belarus
65.98 Vasiliy Kaptyukh
  Belarus
65.88
Hammer throw
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Andrey Abduvaliyev
  Tajikistan
81.56 Igor Astapkovich
  Belarus
81.10 Tibor Gécsek
  Hungary
80.98
Javelin throw
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Jan Železný
  Czech Republic
89.58 Steve Backley
  Great Britain
86.30 Boris Henry
  Germany
86.08
Decathlon
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Dan O'Brien
  United States
8695 Eduard Hämäläinen
  Belarus
8489 Mike Smith
  Canada
8419
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

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Track

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1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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  Gwen Torrence (USA) 10.85   Merlene Ottey (JAM) 10.94   Irina Privalova (RUS) 10.96
200 m
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  Merlene Ottey (JAM) 22.12   Irina Privalova (RUS) 22.12   Galina Malchugina (RUS) 22.37
400 m
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  Marie-José Pérec (FRA) 49.28   Pauline Davis (BAH) 49.96   Jearl Miles (USA) 50.00
800 m
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  Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) 1:56.11   Letitia Vriesde (SUR) 1:56.68
(AR)
  Kelly Holmes (GBR) 1:56.95
1,500 m
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  Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG) 4:02.42   Kelly Holmes (GBR) 4:03.04   Carla Sacramento (POR) 4:03.79
5,000 m
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  Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL) 14:46.47
(CR)
  Fernanda Ribeiro (POR) 14:48.54   Zahra Ouaziz (MAR) 14:53.77
10,000 m
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  Fernanda Ribeiro (POR) 31:04.99   Derartu Tulu (ETH) 31:08.10   Tegla Loroupe (KEN) 31:17.66
Marathon
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  Manuela Machado (POR) 2:25:39   Anuța Cătună (ROU) 2:26:25   Ornella Ferrara (ITA) 2:30:11
The marathon course was 400 m short of the normal distance.
100 m hurdles
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  Gail Devers (USA) 12.68   Olga Shishigina (KAZ) 12.80   Yuliya Graudyn (RUS) 12.85
400 m hurdles
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  Kim Batten (USA) 52.61
(WR)
  Tonja Buford (USA) 52.62   Deon Hemmings (JAM) 53.48
(NR)
10 km walk
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  Irina Stankina (RUS) 42:13
(CR)
  Elisabetta Perrone (ITA) 42:16   Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS) 42:20
4 × 100 m relay
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  United States (USA)
Celena Mondie-Milner
Carlette Guidry
Chryste Gaines
Gwen Torrence
D'Andre Hill*
42.12   Jamaica (JAM)
Dahlia Duhaney
Juliet Cuthbert
Beverly McDonald
Merlene Ottey
Michelle Freeman*
42.25   Germany (GER)
Melanie Paschke
Silke Lichtenhagen
Silke-Beate Knoll
Gabriele Becker
43.01
4 × 400 m relay
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  United States (USA)
Kim Graham
Rochelle Stevens
Camara Jones
Jearl Miles
Nicole Green*
3:22.29   Russia (RUS)
Tatyana Chebykina
Svetlana Goncharenko
Yuliya Sotnikova
Yelena Andreyeva
Tatyana Zakharova*
3:23.98   Australia (AUS)
Lee Naylor
Renée Poetschka
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Cathy Freeman
3:25.88
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

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1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Long jump
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  Fiona May (ITA) 6.98   Niurka Montalvo (CUB) 6.86   Irina Mushayilova (RUS) 6.83
Triple jump
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  Inessa Kravets (UKR) 15.50
(WR)
  Iva Prandzheva (BUL) 15.18   Anna Biryukova (RUS) 15.08
High jump
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  Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) 2.01   Alina Astafei (GER) 1.99   Inha Babakova (UKR) 1.99
Shot put
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  Astrid Kumbernuss (GER) 21.22   Huang Zhihong (CHN) 20.04   Svetla Mitkova (BUL) 19.56
Discus throw
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  Ellina Zvereva (BLR) 68.64   Ilke Wyludda (GER) 67.20   Olga Chernyavskaya (RUS) 66.86
Javelin throw
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  Natalya Shikolenko (BLR) 67.56   Felicia Tilea (ROU) 65.22   Mikaela Ingberg (FIN) 65.16
Heptathlon
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  Ghada Shouaa (SYR) 6651   Svetlana Moskalets (RUS) 6575   Rita Ináncsi (HUN) 6522
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

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Note that the host, Sweden, did not win any medals at these championships. This fate Sweden shares only with Canada (2001).

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)122519
2  Belarus (BLR)2327
3  Germany (GER)2226
  Italy (ITA)2226
5  Cuba (CUB)2204
6  Kenya (KEN)2136
7  Canada (CAN)2114
  Portugal (POR)2114
9  Ukraine (UKR)2013
10  Algeria (ALG)2002
11  Russia (RUS)14712
12  Jamaica (JAM)1427
13  Great Britain (GBR)1315
14  Bulgaria (BUL)1113
  Finland (FIN)1113
16  Bahamas (BAH)1102
  Ethiopia (ETH)1102
  Spain (ESP)1102
19  France (FRA)1023
20  Czech Republic (CZE)1001
  Denmark (DEN)1001
  Ireland (IRL)1001
  Syria (SYR)1001
  Tajikistan (TJK)1001
25  Morocco (MAR)0314
26  Romania (ROU)0202
27  Australia (AUS)0112
  Burundi (BDI)0112
29  Bermuda (BER)0101
  China (CHN)0101
  Kazakhstan (KAZ)0101
  Mexico (MEX)0101
  Namibia (NAM)0101
  Suriname (SUR)0101
  Zambia (ZAM)0101
36  Hungary (HUN)0022
  Poland (POL)0022
38  Brazil (BRA)0011
  Dominica (DMA)0011
  Nigeria (NGR)0011
  Norway (NOR)0011
  Saudi Arabia (KSA)0011
  Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)0011
Totals (43 entries)444444132
Source: [1]

References

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  1. ^ "iaaf.org - Osaka 2007 - History". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-04-03.