2001 World Championships in Athletics

The 8th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between 3 and 12 August 2001 and was the first time the event had visited North America. The music for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies was composed by Canadian composers Jan Randall and Cassius Khan. The ceremonies also featured a thousand-strong voice choir, and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

8th World Championships in Athletics
Host cityEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nations189
Athletes1602
Dates3–12, August 2001
Opened byPrime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien
Closed byIAAF President Lamine Diack
Main venueCommonwealth Stadium

Edmonton defeated bids from Paris, France (which hosted the next edition) and the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States to host the event.[1] Edmonton had previously hosted the 1978 Commonwealth Games and the 1983 Summer Universiade.

Men's results

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Track

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1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Maurice Greene
  United States
9.82
(WL)
Bernard Williams
  United States
9.942
(PB)
Ato Boldon
  Trinidad and Tobago
9.98
200 m
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Konstantinos Kenteris
  Greece
20.04 Christopher Williams
  Jamaica
20.20 Kim Collins
  Saint Kitts and Nevis
20.30
(NR St.Kitts)
Shawn Crawford
  United States
400 m
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Avard Moncur
  Bahamas
44.64 Ingo Schultz
  Germany
44.87 Greg Haughton
  Jamaica
44.98
800 m
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André Bucher
  Switzerland
1:43.70 Wilfred Bungei
  Kenya
1:44.55 Paweł Czapiewski
  Poland
1:44.63
(PB)
1500 m
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Hicham El Guerrouj
  Morocco
3:30.68 Bernard Lagat
  Kenya
3:31.10 Driss Maazouzi
  France
3:31.54
(SB)
5000 m
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Richard Limo
  Kenya
13:00.77 Million Wolde
  Ethiopia
13:03.471 John Kibowen
  Kenya
13:05.20
10,000 m
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Charles Kamathi
  Kenya
27:53.25 Assefa Mezgebu
  Ethiopia
27:53.97 Haile Gebrselassie
  Ethiopia
27:54.41
Marathon
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Gezahegne Abera
  Ethiopia
2:12:42
(SB)
Simon Biwott
  Kenya
2:12:43 Stefano Baldini
  Italy
2:13:18
110 m hurdles
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Allen Johnson
  United States
13.04
(WL)
Anier García
  Cuba
13.07
(SB)
Dudley Dorival
  Haiti
13.25
(NR)
400 m hurdles
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Félix Sánchez
  Dominican Republic
47.49
(WL)
Fabrizio Mori
  Italy
47.54
(NR)
Dai Tamesue
  Japan
47.89
(NR)
3,000 m st.
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Reuben Kosgei
  Kenya
8:15.16 Ali Ezzine
  Morocco
8:16.21 Bernard Barmasai
  Kenya
8:16.59
20 km walk
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Roman Rasskazov
  Russia
1:20:31 Ilya Markov
  Russia
1:20:33 Viktor Burayev
  Russia
1:20:36
50 km walk
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Robert Korzeniowski
  Poland
3:42.08
(WL)
Jesús Ángel García
  Spain
3:43:07
(SB)
Edgar Hernández
  Mexico
3:46:12
(PB)
4 × 100 m relay
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  South Africa
Morne Nagel
Corne Du Plessis
Lee-Roy Newton
Mathew Quinn
38.47
(NR)
  Trinidad and Tobago
Marc Burns
Ato Boldon
Jaycey Harper
Darrel Brown
38.58
(NR)
  Australia
Matthew Shirvington
Paul Di Bella
Steve Brimacombe
Adam Basil
38.83
(SB)
4 × 400 m relay
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  Bahamas
Avard Moncur
Chris Brown
Troy McIntosh
Tim Munnings
Carl Oliver*
2:58.194
(NR)
  Jamaica
Brandon Simpson
Christopher Williams
Greg Haughton
Danny McFarlane
Michael Blackwood*
Mario Watts*
2:58.39
(SB)
  Poland
Rafał Wieruszewski
Piotr Haczek
Piotr Długosielski
Piotr Rysiukiewicz
Jacek Bocian*
2:59.71
(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 Ali Saïdi-Sief of Algeria originally finished second in the 5000 m in 13:02.16, but he was disqualified after he tested positive for nandrolone.
2 Tim Montgomery (USA) originally came second in the men's 100 meters in 9.85, but he was disqualified in 2005 after he admitted to drug use as a result of the BALCO scandal.
3 The USA originally finished first in 37.96 (Mickey Grimes, Bernard Williams, Dennis Mitchell, Tim Montgomery), but they were disqualified in 2005 after Tim Montgomery admitted to drug use as a result of the BALCO scandal.
4 The United States (Leonard Byrd, Antonio Pettigrew, Derrick Brew, Angelo Taylor) originally finished first in 2:57.54, but were disqualified in 2008 after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to using HGH and EPO between 1997 and 2003.

Field

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1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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Martin Buß
  Germany
2.36
(WL)
Yaroslav Rybakov
  Russia
2.33
(PB Rybakov)
(SB Voronin)
Vyacheslav Voronin
  Russia
Pole vault
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Dmitri Markov
  Australia
6.05
(CR)
Aleksandr Averbukh
  Israel
5.85 Nick Hysong
  United States
5.85
(SB)
Long jump
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Iván Pedroso
  Cuba
8.40 Savanté Stringfellow
  United States
8.24 Carlos Calado
  Portugal
8.21
(SB)
Triple jump
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Jonathan Edwards
  Great Britain and Northern Ireland
17.92
(WL)
Christian Olsson
  Sweden
17.47 Igor Spasovkhodskiy
  Russia
17.44
(PB)
Shot put
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John Godina
  United States
21.87 Adam Nelson
  United States
21.24 Arsi Harju
  Finland
20.93
(SB)
Discus throw
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Lars Riedel
  Germany
69.72
(CR)
Virgilijus Alekna
  Lithuania
69.40 Michael Möllenbeck
  Germany
67.61
(PB)
Hammer throw
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Szymon Ziółkowski
  Poland
83.38
(CR)
Koji Murofushi
  Japan
82.92 Ilya Konovalov
  Russia
80.27
(SB)
Javelin throw
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Jan Železný
  Czech Republic
92.80
(CR)
Aki Parviainen
  Finland
91.31 Konstadinos Gatsioudis
  Greece
89.95
Decathlon
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Tomáš Dvořák
  Czech Republic
8902
(CR)
Erki Nool
  Estonia
8815
(NR)
Dean Macey
  Great Britain and Northern Ireland
8603
(PB)
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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1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Zhanna Pintusevich
  Ukraine
10.82
(WL)
Ekaterini Thanou
  Greece
10.912
(SB)
Chandra Sturrup
  Bahamas
11.02
200 m
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Debbie Ferguson
  Bahamas
22.521 LaTasha Jenkins
  United States
22.85 Cydonie Mothersille
  Cayman Islands
22.882
400 m
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Amy Mbacké Thiam
  Senegal
49.86
(NR)
Lorraine Fenton
  Jamaica
49.88
(SB)
Ana Guevara
  Mexico
49.97
SB
800 m
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Maria Mutola
  Mozambique
1:57.17 Stephanie Graf
  Austria
1:57.20
(SB)
Letitia Vriesde
  Suriname
1:57.35
(SB)
1,500 m
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Gabriela Szabo
  Romania
4:00.57
(SB)
Violeta Szekely
  Romania
4:01.70 Natalya Gorelova
  Russia
4:02.40
5,000 m
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Olga Yegorova
  Russia
15:03.39 Marta Domínguez
  Spain
15:06.59 Ayelech Worku
  Ethiopia
15:10.17
10,000 m
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Derartu Tulu
  Ethiopia
31:48.81 Berhane Adere
  Ethiopia
31:48.85 Gete Wami
  Ethiopia
31:49.98
Marathon
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Lidia Șimon
  Romania
2:26:01 Reiko Tosa
  Japan
2:26:06 Svetlana Zakharova
  Russia
2:26:18
100 m hurdles
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Anjanette Kirkland
  United States
12.42
(WL)
Gail Devers
  United States
12.54
SB
Olga Shishigina
  Kazakhstan
12.58
(SB)
400 m hurdles
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Nezha Bidouane
  Morocco
53.34
(WL)
Yuliya Pechonkina
  Russia
54.27 Daimí Pernía
  Cuba
54.51
20 km walk
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Olimpiada Ivanova
  Russia
1:27:48
(CR)
Valentina Tsybulskaya
  Belarus
1:28:49
(PB)
Elisabetta Perrone
  Italy
1:28:56
4 × 100 m relay
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  Germany
Melanie Paschke
Gabi Rockmeier
Birgit Rockmeier
Marion Wagner
42.323
(SB)
  France
Sylviane Félix
Frédérique Bangué
Muriel Hurtis
Odiah Sidibé
42.39
(SB)
  Jamaica
Juliet Campbell
Merlene Frazer
Beverly McDonald
Astia Walker
Elva Goulbourne*
42.40
(SB)
4 × 400 m relay
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  Jamaica
Sandie Richards
Catherine Scott-Pomales
Debbie-Ann Parris
Lorraine Fenton
Michelle Burgher*
Deon Hemmings*
3:20.65
(WL)
  Germany
Florence Ekpo-Umoh
Shanta Ghosh
Claudia Marx
Grit Breuer
3:21.97
(SB)
  Russia
Irina Rosikhina
Yuliya Pechonkina
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Olesya Zykina
Natalya Shevtsova*
3:24.92
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 Kelli White originally finished third in the 200 m in 22.56, but she was disqualified in 2004 after she admitted to using steroids as a result of the BALCO doping scandal.
2Marion Jones (USA) finished second in the 100m in 10.85 and first in the 200m in 22.39, but she was disqualified in 2005 after she admitted to using steroids as a result of the BALCO doping scandal.
3 The USA team of Kelli White, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, and Marion Jones originally finished first in a time of 41.71, but were disqualified in 2004 after Kelli White admitted to using steroids as a result of the BALCO doping scandal.

Field

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1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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Hestrie Cloete
  South Africa
2.00
(SB)
Inha Babakova
  Ukraine
2.00 Kajsa Bergqvist
  Sweden
1.97
Pole vault
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Stacy Dragila
  United States
4.75
(CR)
Svetlana Feofanova
  Russia
4.75
(CR)
Monika Pyrek
  Poland
4.55
Long jump
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Fiona May
  Italy
7.02 Tatyana Kotova
  Russia
7.01 Niurka Montalvo
  Spain
6.88
Triple jump
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Tatyana Lebedeva
  Russia
15.25
(WL)
Françoise Mbango-Etone
  Cameroon
14.60 Tereza Marinova
  Bulgaria
14.58
Shot put
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Yanina Karolchik
  Belarus
20.61
(NR)
Nadine Kleinert
  Germany
19.86
(PB)
Vita Pavlysh
  Ukraine
19.41
Discus throw
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Ellina Zvereva
  Belarus
67.101 Nicoleta Grasu
  Romania
66.24 Anastasia Kelesidou
  Greece
65.50
(SB)
Hammer throw
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Yipsi Moreno
  Cuba
70.65
(AR)
Olga Kuzenkova
  Russia
70.61 Bronwyn Eagles
  Australia
68.87
Javelin throw
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Osleidys Menéndez
  Cuba
69.53
(CR)
Mirela Maniani
  Greece
65.78 Sonia Bisset
  Cuba
64.69
Heptathlon
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Yelena Prokhorova
  Russia
6694
(SB)
Natallia Sazanovich
  Belarus
6539
(SB)
Shelia Burrell
  United States
6472
(PB)
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)

1Natalya Sadova of Russia originally won the gold medal in discus throw (68.57), but she was later disqualified after she tested positive for caffeine.

Medal table

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Note that the host nation Canada did not win any medals at these championships. This makes Canada only the second championship host with such a distinction, after Sweden in 1995.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia57618
2  United States55313
3  Kenya3328
4  Germany3317
5  Cuba3126
6  Bahamas3014
7  Ethiopia2338
8  Belarus2204
  Romania2204
10  Morocco2103
11  Poland2035
12  Czech Republic2002
  South Africa2002
14  Jamaica1326
15  Greece1225
16  Italy1124
17  Ukraine1113
18  Australia1023
19  Great Britain1012
20  Dominican Republic1001
  Mozambique1001
  Senegal1001
   Switzerland1001
24  Japan0213
  Spain0213
26  Finland0112
  France0112
  Sweden0112
  Trinidad and Tobago0112
30  Austria0101
  Cameroon0101
  Estonia0101
  Israel0101
  Lithuania0101
35  Mexico0022
36  Bulgaria0011
  Cayman Islands0011
  Haiti0011
  Kazakhstan0011
  Portugal0011
  Saint Kitts and Nevis0011
  Suriname0011
Totals (42 entries)464746139
Source: [1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Edmonton wins bid to host 2001 IAAF World Championships in Athletics". ww.worldathletics.org/. IAAF. 19 November 1998. Retrieved 22 July 2022.