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 streets of Paris and the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.

IX World Championships in Athletics
Championnats du monde d'athlétisme-Saint-Denis, France
Host citySaint-Denis, France
Nations198
Athletes1679
Dates23–31 August 2003
Opened byPrime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Closed byIAAF President Lamine Diack
Main venueStade de France





Men's results

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Track

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1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

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

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.
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

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1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

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

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1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Torri Edwards
  United States
10.93
(PB)
Chandra Sturrup
  Bahamas
11.02 Ekaterini Thanou
  Greece
11.03
(SB)
200 m
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Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
  Russia
22.38
(PB)
Torri Edwards
  United States
22.47 Muriel Hurtis
  France
22.59
400 m
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Ana Guevara
  Mexico
48.89
(PB)
Lorraine Fenton
  Jamaica
49.43
(SB)
Amy Mbacké Thiam
  Senegal
49.95
(SB)
800 m
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Maria Mutola
  Mozambique
1:59.89 Kelly Holmes
  Great Britain
2:00.18 Natalya Khrushchelyova
  Russia
2:00.29
1,500 m
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Tatyana Tomashova
  Russia
3:58.52
(CR)
Süreyya Ayhan
  Turkey
3:59.04 Hayley Tullett
  Great Britain
3:59.95
(PB)
5,000 m
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Tirunesh Dibaba
  Ethiopia
14:51.72 Marta Domínguez
  Spain
14:52.26 Edith Masai
  Kenya
14:52.30
10,000 m
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Berhane Adere
  Ethiopia
30:04.18
(CR)
Werknesh Kidane
  Ethiopia
30:07.15
(PB)
Sun Yingjie
  China
30:07.20
(PB)
Marathon
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Catherine Ndereba
  Kenya
2:23:55
(CR)
Mizuki Noguchi
  Japan
2:24:14 Masako Chiba
  Japan
2:25:09
100 m hurdles
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Perdita Felicien
  Canada
12.53
(NR)
Brigitte Foster
  Jamaica
12.57 Miesha McKelvy
  United States
12.67
400 m hurdles
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Jana Pittman
  Australia
53.22
(PB)
Sandra Glover
  United States
53.65
(SB)
Yuliya Pechonkina
  Russia
53.71
20 km walk
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Yelena Nikolayeva
  Russia
1:26:52
(CR)
Gillian O'Sullivan
  Ireland
1:27:34 Valentina Tsybulskaya
  Belarus
1:28:10
(NR)
4 × 100 m relay
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  France (FRA)
Patricia Girard-Léno
Muriel Hurtis
Sylviane Félix
Christine Arron
41.78
(WL)
  United States (USA)
Angela Williams
Chryste Gaines
Inger Miller
Torri Edwards
Lauryn Williams*
41.83
(SB)
  Russia (RUS)
Olga Fyodorova
Yuliya Tabakova
Marina Kislova
Larisa Kruglova
42.66
4 × 400 m relay
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  United States (USA)
Demetria Washington
Jearl Miles Clark
Me'Lisa Barber
Sanya Richards
DeeDee Trotter*
3:22.63
(WL)
  Russia (RUS)
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Natalya Nazarova
Olesya Zykina
Yuliya Pechonkina (Nosova)
Svetlana Pospelova*
Svetlana Goncharenko*
3:22.91
(SB)
  Jamaica (JAM)
Allison Beckford
Lorraine Fenton (Graham)
Ronetta Smith
Sandie Richards
Michelle Burgher*
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)

Note: * Indicates medalists who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

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1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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Hestrie Cloete
  South Africa
2.06
(WL, AR)
Marina Kuptsova
  Russia
2.00 Kajsa Bergqvist
  Sweden
2.00
Pole vault
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Svetlana Feofanova
  Russia
4.75
(CR)
Annika Becker
  Germany
4.70
(SB)
Yelena Isinbayeva
  Russia
4.65
Long jump
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Eunice Barber
  France
6.99
(SB)
Tatyana Kotova
  Russia
6.74 Anju Bobby George
  India
6.70
(SB)
Triple jump
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Tatyana Lebedeva
  Russia
15.18
(SB)
Françoise Mbango Etone
  Cameroon
15.05
(AR)
Magdelín Martínez
  Italy
14.90
(NR)
Shot put
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Svetlana Krivelyova
  Russia
20.63 Nadzeya Astapchuk
  Belarus
20.12
(PB)
Vita Pavlysh
  Ukraine
20.08
(SB)
Discus throw
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Irina Yatchenko
  Belarus
67.32
(SB)
Anastasia Kelesidou
  Greece
67.14
(SB)
Ekaterini Voggoli
  Greece
66.73
(PB)
Hammer throw
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Yipsi Moreno
  Cuba
73.33 Olga Kuzenkova
  Russia
71.71 Manuela Montebrun
  France
70.92
Javelin throw
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Mirela Manjani
  Greece
66.52
(WL)
Tatyana Shikolenko
  Russia
63.28 Steffi Nerius
  Germany
62.70
Heptathlon
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Carolina Klüft
  Sweden
7001
(WL)
Eunice Barber
  France
6755
(SB)
Natallia Sazanovich
  Belarus
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

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  *   Host nation (France)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)87116
2  Russia (RUS)77519
3  France (FRA)*3328
4  Ethiopia (ETH)3227
5  Belarus (BLR)3137
6  Sweden (SWE)2125
7  Kenya (KEN)2114
  South Africa (RSA)2114
9  Morocco (MAR)2103
10  Greece (GRE)1135
11  Cuba (CUB)1102
12  Italy (ITA)1023
13  Canada (CAN)1012
14  Algeria (ALG)1001
  Australia (AUS)1001
  Dominican Republic (DOM)1001
  Ecuador (ECU)1001
  Lithuania (LTU)1001
  Mexico (MEX)1001
  Mozambique (MOZ)1001
  Poland (POL)1001
  Qatar (QAT)1001
  Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)1001
24  Jamaica (JAM)0426
25  Spain (ESP)0325
26  Hungary (HUN)0202
27  Germany (GER)0134
  Japan (JPN)0134
29  Bahamas (BAH)0123
  Great Britain (GBR)0123
31  Brazil (BRA)0101
  Cameroon (CMR)0101
  Czech Republic (CZE)0101
  Estonia (EST)0101
  Ireland (IRL)0101
  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)0101
  Turkey (TUR)0101
38  Ukraine (UKR)0033
39  China (CHN)0022
40  India (IND)0011
  Kazakhstan (KAZ)0011
  Netherlands (NED)0011
  Senegal (SEN)0011
Totals (43 entries)464646138
Source: [1]

References

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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.