1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships

The 7th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Maebashi, Japan between March 5 and March 7, 1999.

It was the first time the Championships was held outside Europe or North America. Primo Nebiolo, president of the IAAF, characterized the championships as "the greatest ever".

Results

Men

1995 | 1997 | 1999 |2001 |2003|

Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
60 m	Maurice Greene	|6.42 CR	Tim Harden	|6.43 PB	Jason Gardener	|6.46 AR
200 m	Frankie Fredericks	|20.10 CR	Obadele Thompson	|20.26 AR	Kevin Little	|20.48
400 m	Jamie Baulch	|45.73	Milton Campbell	|45.99	Alejandro Cardenas	|46.02 NR
800 m	Johan Botha	|1:45.47	Wilson Kipketer	|1:45.49	Nico Motchebon	|1:45.74
1500 m	Haile Gebrselassie	|3:33.77 CR	Laban Rotich	|3:33.98	Andrés Diaz	|3:34.46
3000 m	Haile Gebrselassie	|7:53.57	Paul Bitok	|7:53.79	Millon Wolde	|7:53.85
60 m Hurdles	Colin Jackson	|7.38 CR	Reggie Torian	|7.40	Falk Balzer	|7.44
High Jump	Javier Sotomayor	|2.36	Vyacheslav Voronin	|2.36	Charles Austin	|2.30
Pole Vault	Jean Galfione	|6.00 CR	Jeff Hartwig	|5.95 AR	Danny Ecker	|5.85
Long Jump	Iván Pedroso	|8.62 CR	Yago Lamela	|8.56 AR	Erick Walder	|8.30
Triple Jump	Charles Friedek	|17.18 PB	LaMark Carter	|16.98	Zsolt Czingler	|16.98
Shot Put	Aleksandr Bagach	|21.41	John Godina	|21.06	Yuriy Bilonog	|20.89
4 x 400 m Relay	Andre Morris Dameon Johnson Deon Minor Milton Campbell	> Piotr Haczek Jacek Bocian Piotr Rysiukiewicz Robert Mackowiak	> Allyn Condon Solomon Wariso Adrian Patrick Jamie Baulch	3:03.20 NR
Heptathlon	Sebastian Chmara	|6386 WL	Erki Nool	|6374 NR	Roman Šebrle	|6319 NR

Women

1995 | 1997 |1999 |2001 |2003|

Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
60 m	Ekaterini Thanou	|6.96	Gail Devers	|7.02	Philomena Mensah	|7.07
200 m	Ionela Tirlea	|22.39	Svetlana Goncharenko	|22.69	Pauline Davis	|22.70
400 m	Grit Breuer	|50.80	Falilat Ogunkoya	|51.25	Jearl Miles-Clark	|51.45
800 m	Ludmila Formanová	|1:56.90 CR	Maria Mutola	|1:57.17	Natalya Tsyganova	|1:57.47 NR
1500 m	Gabriela Szabo	|4:03.23 CR	Violeta Beclea-Szekely	|4:03.53 PB	Lidia Chojecka	|4:05.86 NR
3000 m	Gabriela Szabo	|8:36.42	Zahra Ouaziz	|8:38.43 AR	Regina Jacobs	|8:39.14 AR
60 m Hurdles	Olga Shishigina	|7.86	Glory Alozie	|7.87	Keturah Anderson	|7.90
High Jump	Khristina Kalcheva	|1.99	Zuzana Kovacikova-Hlavoňová	|1.96	Tisha Waller	|1.96
Pole Vault	Nastja Ryshich	|4.50 CR	Vala Flosadóttir	|4.45 NR	Nicole Rieger-Humbert and Zsuzsa Szabo	|4.35
Long Jump	Tatyana Kotova	|6.86 PB	Shana Williams	|6.82 PB	Iva Prandzheva	|6.78
Triple Jump	Ashia Hansen	|15.02 WL	Iva Prandzheva	|14.94 NR	Sárka Kasparkova	|14.87 NR
Shot Put	Svetlana Krivelyova	|19.08	Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska	|19.00	Teri Steer-Tunks	|18.86
4 x 400 m Relay	Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Natalya Nazarova	> Susan Andrews Tania Van Heer Tamsyn Lewis Cathy Freeman	> Monique Hennagan Michelle Collins Zundra Feagin-Alexander Shanelle Porter	3:27.59 AR
Pentathlon	Le Shundra Nathan	|4753	Irina Belova	|4691	Urszula Włodarczyk	|4596

Note: Vita Pavlysh failed a drug test and was stripped of her shot put gold medal.

Medals table

	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.		3	8	9	20
2. |	3	3	1	7
3. |	3	1	0	4
4. |	3	0	4	6
5. |	3	0	2	5
6. |	2	0	1	3
7. |	2	0	0	2
8. |	1	2	2	5
9. |	1	1	2	4
10. |	1	1	1	3
11. |	1	0	1	2
12. |	1	0	0	1
12. |	1	0	0	1
12. |	1	0	0	1
12. |	1	0	0	1
12. |	1	0	0	1
17. |	0	2	0	2
17. |	0	2	0	2
19. |	0	1	1	2
20. |	0	1	0	1
20. |	0	1	0	1
20. |	0	1	0	1
20. |	0	1	0	1
20. |	0	1	0	1
20. |	0	1	0	1
20. |	0	1	0	1
27. |	0	0	2	2
28. |	0	0	1	1
28. |	0	0	1	1
28. |	0	0	1	1

External Link

*IAAF 1999 World Indoor Championships Official Website