1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships

4th IAAF World Indoor Championships
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Host city	Toronto, Canada
Date(s)	March 12–14
Main stadium	Skydome
Participation	537 athletes from 93 nations
Events	27 (+4 non-championship)
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The 4th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Skydome in Toronto, Canada from March 12 to March 14, 1993. It was the last Indoor Championships to feature the 5,000 and 3,000 metres race walk events. In addition, it was the first Indoor Championships to include heptathlon and pentathlon, albeit as non-championship events. There were a total number of 537 athletes participated from 93 countries.

Results

Men

1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Bruny Surin (CAN)	6.50 (CR)	Frankie Fredericks (NAM)	6.51 (NR)	Talal Mansour (QAT)	6.57
200 metres	James Trapp (USA)	20.63	Damien Marsh (AUS)	20.71	Kevin Little (USA)	20.72
400 metres	Butch Reynolds (USA)	45.26 (CR)	Sunday Bada (NGR)	45.75	Darren Clark (AUS)	46.45
800 metres	Tom McKean (GBR)	1:47.29	Charles Nkazamyampi (BDI)	1:47.62	Nico Motchebon (GER)	1:48.15
1500 metres	Marcus O'Sullivan (IRL)	3:45.00	David Strang (GBR)	3:45.30	Branko Zorko (CRO)	3:45.39
3000 metres	Gennaro Di Napoli (ITA)	7:50.26	Eric Dubus (FRA)	7:50.57	Enrique Molina (ESP)	7:51.10
60 metres hurdles	Mark McKoy (CAN)	7.41 (CR)	Colin Jackson (GBR)	7.43	Tony Dees (USA)	7.43
High jump	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.41	Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)	2.39	Steve Smith (GBR)	2.37
Pole vault	Rodion Gataullin (RUS)	5.90	Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)	5.80	Jean Galfione (FRA)	5.80
Long jump	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	8.23	Joe Greene (USA)	8.13	Jaime Jefferson (CUB)	7.98
Triple jump	Pierre Camara (FRA)	17.59 (CR)	Māris Bružiks (LAT)	17.36	Brian Wellman (BER)	17.27
Shot put	Mike Stulce (USA)	21.27	Jim Doehring (USA)	21.08	Aleksandr Bagach (UKR)	20.63
4 × 400 metres relay	United States (USA) Darnell Hall Brian Irvin Jason Rouser Mark Everett	3:04.20	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) Daziel Jules Alvin Daniel Neil de Silva Ian Morris	3:07.02 (NR)	Japan (JPN) Masayoshi Kan Seiji Inagaki Yoshihiko Saito Hiroyuki Hayashi	3:07.30
5000 metres walk	Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS)	18:32.10	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	18:35.91	Mikhail Orlov (RUS)	18:43.48

• For doping offenses, the Bulgarians Daniel Ivanov and Nikolai Raev were disqualified from the bronze medals in long and triple jump respectively.

Women

1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Gail Devers (USA)	6.95 (CR)	Irina Privalova (RUS)	6.97	Zhanna Tarnopolskaya (UKR)	7.21
200 metres	Irina Privalova (RUS)	22.15 (CR)	Melinda Gainsford (AUS)	22.73	Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova (RUS)	22.90
400 metres	Sandie Richards (JAM)	50.93 (NR)	Tatyana Alekseyeva (RUS)	51.03	Jearl Miles (USA)	51.37
800 metres	Maria Mutola (MOZ)	1:57.55 (CR)	Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)	1:59.18	Joetta Clark (USA)	1:59.86
1500 metres	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (RUS)	4:09.29	Violeta Beclea (ROU)	4:09.41	Sandra Gasser (SUI)	4:10.99
3000 metres	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	8:50.55	Margareta Keszeg (ROU)	9:02.89	Lynn Jennings (USA)	9:03.78
60 metres hurdles	Julie Baumann (SUI)	7.86	LaVonna Martin (USA)	7.99	Patricia Girard-Léno (FRA)	8.01
High jump	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.02	Heike Henkel (GER)	2.02	Inga Babakova (UKR)	2.00
Long jump	Marieta Ilcu (ROU)	6.84	Susen Tiedtke (GER)	6.84	Inessa Kravets (UKR)	6.77
Triple jump	Inessa Kravets (UKR)	14.47 (CR)	Yolanda Chen (RUS)	14.36	Inna Lasovskaya (RUS)	14.35
Shot put	Svetlana Krivelyova (RUS)	19.57	Stephanie Storp (GER)	19.37	Zhang Liuhong (CHN)	19.32
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Deon Hemmings, Beverly Grant, Cathy Rattray-Williams, Sandie Richards	3:32.32	United States Trevaia Williams, Terri Dendy, Dyan Webber, Natasha Kaiser-Brown	3:32.50	none	none
3000 metres walk	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	11:49.73 (CR)	Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS)	11:53.82	Ileana Salvador (ITA)	11:55.35

• The Russian 4 x 400 m relay team won the event and was awarded the gold medal, but was later disqualified when Marina Shmonina was found to have been doping.

Non-championship events

Some events were contested without counting towards the total medal status. The 1600 metres medley relay consisted of four legs over 800 m, 200 m, 200 m and 400 m.

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's heptathlon	Dan O'Brien United States	6476	Mike Smith Canada	6279	Eduard Hämäläinen Belarus	6075
Women's pentathlon	Liliana Nastase Romania	4686	Urszula Włodarczyk Poland	4667	Birgit Clarius Germany	4641
Men's 1600 metres Medley Relay	United States Mark Everett, James Trapp, Kevin Little, Butch Reynolds	3:15.10	Brazil Gilmar dos Santos, André da Silva, Sidnei Telles, Eronilde de Araujo	3:16.11	Canada Freddie Williams, Ricardo Greenidge, Peter Ogilvie, Mark Jackson	3:16.93
Women's 1600 metres Medley Relay	United States Joetta Clark, Wendy Vereen, Kim Batten, Jearl Miles	3:45.90	Canada Donalda Duprey, Sonia Paquette, Mame Twumasi, Alanna Yakiwchuk	3:56.34	none	none

• Irina Belova (RUS) won the women's pentathlon and was awarded the gold medal, but was later disqualified when she was found to have been doping.
• The Russian women's 1600 meteres medley relay team won the event, but was later disqualified when Marina Shmonina was found to have been doping.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	6	4	3	13
2	United States	5	4	5	14
3	Great Britain	2	2	1	5
4	Cuba	2	0	1	3
5	Canada	2	0	0	2
	Jamaica	2	0	0	2
7	Romania	1	2	0	3
8	France	1	1	2	4
9	Ukraine	1	0	4	5
10	Italy	1	0	1	2
	Switzerland	1	0	1	2
12	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
	Ireland	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique	1	0	0	1
15	Australia	0	3	1	4
	Germany	0	3	1	4
17	Burundi	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Namibia	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	0	1
25	Bermuda	0	0	1	1
	China	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1

See also

• 1993 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics
• Athletics Australia
• [1] (German)