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2003 World Championships in Athletics
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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 Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
Men's Results
Track
1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007
| Event |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
| 100 m |
Kim Collins
 Saint Kitts and Nevis |
10.07 |
Darrel Brown
 Trinidad and Tobago |
10.08 |
Darren Campbell
 Great Britain |
10.08
SB |
| Reigning World and Olympic Champion Maurice Greene was eliminated in the semi-finals, being out of shape all season, leaving the final without a clear favourite. The final was very close, with early leader Collins eventually edging out Brown, Campbell and Dwain Chambers, who all finished in 10.08 s.
The quarter-finals saw great controversy when American Jon Drummond refused to leave the track after being disqualified for a false start. Afterwards, it was found that Drummond actually did not false start and was unfairly red carded due to a misread flinch
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| 200 m |
John Capel
 United States |
20.30 |
Darvis Patton
United States |
20.31 |
Shingo Suetsugu
 Japan |
20.38 |
| John Capel finished eight in the 2000 Olympic final when he thought there was a false start. He played American football for the Chicago Bears and the Kansas City Chiefs, but wasn't very successful either. In Paris, he beat his friend Patton in a close finish. |
| 400 m |
Jerome Young
United States |
44.50
SB |
Tyree Washington
United States |
44.77 |
Marc Raquil
 France |
44.79
NR |
| Former Jamaican Young clearly beat compatriot and favourite Washington. Crowd favourite Raquil, who was in the back of the field with just 100 m to go raced to a bronze medal in the final metres. After the race, it was revealed that Young had tested positive for doping in 1999, but was let off by the United States Track and Field Association, allowing him to compete in the 2000 Summer Olympics, where he won a gold medal with the American 4 x 400 m relay team. |
| 800 m |
Djabir Saïd-Guerni
 Algeria |
1:44.81 |
Yuriy Borzakovskiy
 Russia |
1:44.84 |
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
 South Africa |
1:44.90 |
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| 1500 m |
Hicham El Guerrouj
 Morocco |
3:31.77 |
Mehdi Baala
France |
3:32.31 |
Ivan Heshko
 Ukraine |
3:33.17 |
| World Record holder El Guerrouj took his fourth consecutive title in the event, holding off French challenger Baala with a fast pace. |
| 5000 m |
Eliud Kipchoge
 Kenya |
12:52.79
CR |
Hicham El Guerrouj
Morocco |
12:52.83 |
Kenenisa Bekele
 Ethiopia |
12:53.12 |
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| 10 000 m |
Kenenisa Bekele
Ethiopia |
26:49.57
CR |
Haile Gebrselassie
Ethiopia |
26:50.77
SB |
Sileshi Sihine
Ethiopia |
27:01.44 |
| The race was totally dominated by the Ethiopians. 21-year-old four-time cross country World Champion Bekele showed he might become the next long-distance hero, beating Gebrselassie, a four-time winner of the event. |
| Marathon |
Jaouad Gharib
Morocco |
2:08:31
CR |
Julio Rey
 Spain |
2:08:38 |
Stefano Baldini
 Italy |
2:09:14 |
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| 110 m H |
Allen Johnson
United States |
13.12 |
Terrence Trammell
United States |
13.20
SB |
Liu Xiang
 China |
13.23 |
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| 400 m H |
Felix Sanchez
 Dominican Republic |
47.25
WL |
Joey Woody
United States |
48.18
SB |
Periklís Iakovákis
 Greece |
48.24 |
| 2001 World Champion Sánchez was the man to beat in this final, and out-ran the rest of the field by almost a second. South-Africa's Llewellyn Herbert was in silver medal position, but fell on the final hurdle and came in last. |
| 3000 m St. |
Saif Saaeed Shaheen
 Qatar |
8:04.39 |
Ezekiel Kemboi
Kenya |
8:05.11 |
Eliseo Martin
Spain |
8:09.09
PB |
| Kenyan runner Stephen Cherono became a Qatarese citizen just weeks before the World Championships, apparently for a good salary. He did not disappoint his new country, and won Qatar's first World Championship medal in an exciting duel with former compatriot Kemboi, whom he only beat in the final metres. Martín's medal was the first one won in the event by a European since 1993. |
| 20 km Walk |
Jefferson Pérez
 Ecuador |
1:17:21
WBP |
Francisco Fernandez
Spain |
1:18:00
SB |
Roman Rasskazov
Russia |
1:18:07
SB |
| Pérez, the 1996 Olympic Champion overtook long-time leader Fernández in the final kilometres of the race to set a new World Best Mark (no World Records are recognised in this event) by a second. His gold medal was the first World Championship medal for Ecuador. |
| 50 km Walk |
Robert Korzeniowski
 Poland |
3:36.03
WBP |
German Skurygin
Russia |
3:36:42
NR |
Andreas Erm
 Germany |
3:37:46
NR |
| Korzeniowski, one of the best race walkers in recent years, lead throughout the race, with competitors dropping off because of disqualification or because of the high pace. His final time was a new World Best Mark. |
| 4 X 100 m |
John Capel,
Bernard Williams,
Darvis Patton,
Joshua J Johnson
United States |
38.06 |
Vicente de Lima,
Edson Luciano Ribeiro,
André Domingos da Silva,
Cláudio Roberto Souza
 Brazil |
38.26
SB |
Timothy Beck,
Troy Douglas,
Patrick van Balkom,
Caimin Douglas
 Netherlands |
38.87 |
| Great Britain's quartet (Christian Malcolm, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers) was a close second in 38.08, but was later disqualified because Chambers admitted to taking drugs following the BALCO scandal. |
| 4 X 400 m |
Leslie Djhone,
Naman Keïta,
Stéphane Diagana,
Marc Raquil
France |
2:58.96
NR |
Brandon Simpson,
Danny McFarlane,
Davian Clarke,
Michael Blackwood
 Jamaica |
2:59.60
SB |
Avard Moncur,
Dennis Darling,
Nathaniel McKinney,
Chris Brown
 Bahamas |
3:00.53
SB |
| The USA team (Calvin Harrison, Tyree Washington, Derrick Brew, Jerome Young) won with the time 2:58.88, but was stripped of the gold medal on November 28, 2004 because Calvin Harrison was found guilty of a doping violation (modafinil) in June 2003. |
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AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record
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Field
1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007
| Event |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
| High Jump |
Jacques Freitag
South Africa |
2.35
SB |
Stefan Holm
 Sweden |
2.32 |
Mark Boswell
 Canada |
2.32
SB |
| Freitag, a 2.04 m tall 21-year-old, was one of the three jumpers to make 2.32. He was the only one to clear the next height, winning the gold in his first international final. |
| Long Jump |
Dwight Phillips
United States |
8.32 |
James Beckford
Jamaica |
8.28
SB |
Yago Lamela
Spain |
8.22 |
| The winning mark in the long jump final, which did not include four-time World Champion Iván Pedroso and 2001 silver medallist Savanté Stringfellow (both eliminated in the qualification), was the shortest in the history of the event. The competition heated up in the 5th round, when the lead changed three times. |
| Pole Vault |
Giuseppe Gibilisco
Italy |
5.90
NR |
Okkert Brits
South Africa |
5.85
SB |
Patrik Kristiansson
Sweden |
5.85
PB |
| Gibilisco, who had never placed better than 10th at a major tournament, upset the field with a new National Record of 5.90. Two of the pre-tournament favourites, Aleksandr Averbukh and Romain Mesnil, were already eliminated before the final, while defending World Champion Markov placed fourth in the final. |
| Triple Jump |
Christian Olsson
Sweden |
17.72 |
Yoandri Betanzos
 Cuba |
17.28
SB |
Leevan Sands
Bahamas |
17.26 |
| World Record holder and double World Champion Jonathan Edwards announced his retirement after the Championships. He qualified for the final, but had to give up after two jumps due to an injury. The title was won by 2002 European Champion Olsson, who started triple jumping after seeing Edwards win the 1995 World Championship in Gothenburg. |
| Shot Put |
Andrei Mikhnevich
 Belarus |
21.69
PB |
Adam Nelson
United States |
21.26 |
Yuriy Bilonoh
Ukraine |
21.10 |
| Mikhnevich threw five of his six throws over 21 metre, and his winning mark was a new personal best. He had been suspended until August 6 after a doping offence in 2001. Triple World Champion John Godina made the final, but placed 9th after a foul throw - heavily disputed by Godina - meaning he couldn't get three more attempts. |
| Discus |
Virgilijus Alekna
 Lithuania |
69.69
SB |
Robert Fazekas
 Hungary |
69.01 |
Vasiliy Kaptyukh
Belarus |
66.51
SB |
| Five-time World Champion Lars Riedel of Germany was looking for a record-tying sixth title, but he placed fourth behind Alekna, the 2000 Olympic Champion. |
| Javelin |
Sergey Makarov
Russia |
85.44 |
Andrus Värnik
 Estonia |
85.17 |
Boris Henry
Germany |
84.74 |
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| Hammer |
Ivan Tikhon
Belarus |
83.05 |
Adrian Ànnus
Hungary |
80.36 |
Koji Murofushi
Japan |
80.12 |
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Decathlon
Details
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Tom Pappas
United States |
8750 |
Roman Šebrle
 Czech Republic |
8634 |
Dmitry Karpov
 Kazakhstan |
8374
NR |
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AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record
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Women's Results
Track
1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007
| Event |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
100 m
details |
Torri Edwards (USA) |
10.93
(PB) |
Zhanna Pintusevich (UKR) |
10.99
(SB) |
Chandra Sturrup (BAH) |
11.02 |
| Lima Azimi, who ran her heat in 18.37 seconds, attracted international attention as the first female athlete to represent Afghanistan at any international sports event, following the fall of the Taliban. |
200 m
details |
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya (RUS) |
22.38
(PB) |
Torri Edwards (USA) |
22.47 |
Muriel Hurtis (FRA) |
22.59 |
400 m
details |
 Ana Guevara (MEX) |
48.89
(WL) |
Lorraine Fenton (JAM) |
49.43
(SB) |
 Amy Mbacke Thiam (SEN) |
49.95
(SB) |
800 m
details |
 Maria Mutola (MOZ) |
1:59.89 |
Kelly Holmes (GBR) |
2:00.18 |
Natalya Khrushchelyova (RUS) |
2:00.29 |
1,500 m
details |
Tatyana Tomashova (RUS) |
3:58.52
(CR) |
 Sureyya Ayhan (TUR) |
3:59.04 |
Hayley Tullett (GBR) |
3:59.95
(PB) |
5,000 m
details |
Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) |
14:51.72 |
Marta Dominguez (ESP) |
14:52.26 |
Edith Masai (KEN) |
14:52.30 |
10,000 m
details |
Berhane Adere (ETH) |
30:04.18
(CR) |
Werknesh Kidane (ETH) |
30:07.15
(PB) |
Sun Yingjie (CHN) |
30:07.20
(PB) |
Marathon
details |
Catherine Ndereba (KEN) |
2:23.55
(CR) |
Mizuki Noguchi (JPN) |
2:24.14 |
Masako Chiba (JPN) |
2:25.09 |
100 m hurdles
details |
Perdita Felicien (CAN) |
12.53
(NR) |
Brigitte Foster (JAM) |
12.57 |
Miesha McKelvy (USA) |
12.67 |
400 m hurdles
details |
 Jana Pittman (AUS) |
53.22
(PB) |
Sandra Glover (USA) |
53.65
(SB) |
Yuliya Pechonkina (RUS) |
53.71 |
20 km walk
details |
Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS) |
1:26:52
(CR) |
 Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL) |
1:27:34 |
Valentina Tsybulskaya (BLR) |
1:28:10
(NR) |
4x100 m relay
details |
Patricia Girard-Léno
Muriel Hurtis
Sylviane Felix
Christine Arron
France |
41.78
(WL) |
Angela Williams
Chryste Gaines
Inger Miller
Torri Edwards
United States |
41.83
(SB) |
Olga Fyodorova
Yuliya Tabakova
Marina Kislova
Larisa Kruglova
Russia |
42.66 |
4x400 m relay
details |
Demetria Washington,
Jearl Miles-Clark,
Me'Lisa Barber,
Sanya Richards
United States |
3:22.63
(WL) |
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya,
Natalya Nazarova,
Olesya Zykina,
Yuliya Pechonkina (Nosova)
Russia |
3:22.91
(SB) |
Allison Beckford,
Lorraine Fenton (Graham),
Ronetta Smith,
Sandie Richards,
Jamaica |
3:22.92
(SB) |
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AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record
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Field
1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007
Medals Table
References
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.
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