1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships

4th IAAF World Indoor Championships
Dates March 12–14
Host city Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venue Skydome
Events 27 (+4 non-championship)
Participation 537 athletes from
93 nations

The 4th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Skydome in Toronto, Ontario, 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
Canada
6.50
(CR)
Frankie Fredericks
Namibia
6.51
(NR)
Talal Mansour
Qatar
6.57
200 metres
James Trapp
United States
20.63 Damien Marsh
Australia
20.71 Kevin Little
United States
20.72
400 metres
Butch Reynolds
United States
45.26
(CR)
Sunday Bada
Nigeria
45.75 Darren Clark
Australia
46.45
800 metres
Tom McKean
Great Britain
1:47.29 Charles Nkazamyampi
Burundi
1:47.62 Nico Motchebon
Germany
1:48.15
1500 metres
Marcus O'Sullivan
Ireland
3:45.00 David Strang
Great Britain
3:45.30 Branko Zorko
Croatia
3:45.39
3000 metres
Gennaro Di Napoli
Italy
7:50.26 Eric Dubus
France
7:50.57 Enrique Molina
Spain
7:51.10
60 metres hurdles
Mark McKoy
Canada
7.41
(CR)
Colin Jackson
Great Britain
7.43 Tony Dees
United States
7.43
High jump
Javier Sotomayor
Cuba
2.41 Patrik Sjöberg
Sweden
2.39 Steve Smith
Great Britain
2.37
Pole vault
Rodion Gataullin
Russia
5.90 Grigoriy Yegorov
Kazakhstan
5.80 Jean Galfione
France
5.80
Long jump
Iván Pedroso
Cuba
8.23 Joe Greene
United States
8.13 Jaime Jefferson
Cuba
7.98
Triple jump
Pierre Camara
France
17.59
(CR)
Māris Bružiks
Latvia
17.36 Brian Wellman
Bermuda
17.27
Shot put
Mike Stulce
United States
21.27 Jim Doehring
United States
21.08 Aleksandr Bagach
Ukraine
20.63
4 × 400 metres relay
United States (USA)
Darnell Hall
Brian Irvin
Jason Rouser
Mark Everett
3:04.20 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)
Dazel 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
Russia
18:32.10 Robert Korzeniowski
Poland
18:35.91 Mikhail Orlov
Russia
18:43.48

Women

1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres
Gail Devers
United States
6.95
(CR)
Irina Privalova
Russia
6.97 Zhanna Tarnopolskaya
Ukraine
7.21
200 metres
Irina Privalova
Russia
22.15
(CR)
Melinda Gainsford
Australia
22.73 Natalya Voronova
Russia
22.90
400 metres
Sandie Richards
Jamaica
50.93
(NR)
Tatyana Alekseyeva
Russia
51.03 Jearl Miles
United States
51.37
800 metres
Maria Mutola
Mozambique
1:57.55
(CR)
Svetlana Masterkova
Russia
1:59.18 Joetta Clark
United States
1:59.86
1500 metres
Yekaterina Podkopayeva
Russia
4:09.29 Violeta Beclea
Romania
4:09.41 Sandra Gasser
Switzerland
4:10.99
3000 metres
Yvonne Murray
Great Britain
8:50.55 Margareta Keszeg
Romania
9:02.89 Lynn Jennings
United States
9:03.78
60 metres hurdles
Julie Baumann
Switzerland
7.86 LaVonna Martin
United States
7.99 Patricia Girard
France
8.01
High jump
Stefka Kostadinova
Bulgaria
2.02 Heike Henkel
Germany
2.02 Inga Babakova
Ukraine
2.00
Long jump
Marieta Ilcu
Romania
6.84 Susen Tiedtke
Germany
6.84 Inessa Kravets
Ukraine
6.77
Triple jump
Inessa Kravets
Ukraine
14.47
(CR)
Yolanda Chen
Russia
14.36 Inna Lasovskaya
Russia
14.35
Shot put
Svetlana Krivelyova
Russia
19.57 Stephanie Storp
Germany
19.37 Zhang Liuhong
China
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
Russia
11:49.73
(CR)
Kerry Saxby-Junna
Australia
11:53.82 Ileana Salvador
Italy
11:55.35
  • The Russian 4 × 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
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.
Men's 1600 metres
Medley Relay
United States
Mark Everett,
James Trapp,
Kevin Little,
Butch Reynolds
3:15.10 Brazil
Gilmar dos Santos,
André Domingos,
Sidnei de Souza,
Eronilde de Araújo
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
The Russian women's 1600 metres medley relay team, composed of Yelena Afanasyeva, Marina Shmonina, Yelena Rusina and Yelena Andreyeva, originally won the event, but were later disqualified when Shmonina was found to have been doping.

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Russia 6 4 3 13
2 United States (USA) 5 4 5 14
3 Great Britain (GBR) 2 2 1 5
4 Cuba (CUB) 2 0 1 3
5 Canada (CAN) 2 0 0 2
Jamaica (JAM) 2 0 0 2
7 Romania (ROM) 1 2 0 3
8 France (FRA) 1 1 2 4
9 Ukraine (UKR) 1 0 4 5
10 Italy (ITA) 1 0 1 2
Switzerland (SUI) 1 0 1 2
12 Bulgaria (BUL) 1 0 0 1
Ireland (IRL) 1 0 0 1
Mozambique (MOZ) 1 0 0 1
15 Australia (AUS) 0 3 1 4
Germany (GER) 0 3 1 4
17 Burundi (BDI) 0 1 0 1
Kazakhstan (KAZ) 0 1 0 1
Latvia (LAT) 0 1 0 1
Namibia (NAM) 0 1 0 1
Nigeria (NGR) 0 1 0 1
Poland (POL) 0 1 0 1
Sweden (SWE) 0 1 0 1
Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) 0 1 0 1
25 Bermuda (BER) 0 0 1 1
China (CHN) 0 0 1 1
Croatia (CRO) 0 0 1 1
Japan (JPN) 0 0 1 1
Qatar (QAT) 0 0 1 1
Spain (ESP) 0 0 1 1
Totals (30 entries) 27 27 26 80

Participating nations

See also