1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships
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The 7th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics
were held in the Green Dome Maebashi
stadium in Maebashi
, Japan
from March 5 to March 7, 1999. It was the first time the Championships were staged outside Europe
or North America
. Primo Nebiolo
, president of the IAAF, characterized the championships as "the greatest ever". There were a total number of 487 participating athletes from 115 countries.
IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics
The International Association of Athletics Federations World Indoor Championships were inaugurated as the World Indoor Games in 1985 in Paris, France and were subsequently renamed in 1987 as they are known today.-History:...
were held in the Green Dome Maebashi
Green Dome Maebashi
is an arena in Maebashi, Japan. With a capacity of 8,000, it is primarily used for indoor sports. One of its primary functions is as a velodrome - when it is known as - holding parimutuel Keirin races throughout the year...
stadium in Maebashi
Maebashi, Gunma
is the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, Japan.The city was founded on April 1, 1892, by the samurai Makuba Kawai.On December 5, 2004 the town of Ōgo, and the villages of Kasukawa and Miyagi, all from Seta District, were merged into Maebashi....
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
from March 5 to March 7, 1999. It was the first time the Championships were staged outside Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
or North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
. Primo Nebiolo
Primo Nebiolo
Primo Nebiolo was an Italian sports official, best known as president of the worldwide athletics federation International Association of Athletics Federations....
, president of the IAAF, characterized the championships as "the greatest ever". There were a total number of 487 participating athletes from 115 countries.
Men
| 60 m |
6.42 (CR) |
|6.43 (PB) |
|6.46 (AR) |
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| 200 m |
|20.10 (CR) |
|20.26 (AR) |
|20.48 | |||
| 400 m |
|45.73 | |45.99 | |46.02 (NR) |
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| 800 m |
|1:45.47 | |1:45.49 | |1:45.74 | |||
| 1,500 m |
|3:33.77 (CR) |
|3:33.98 | |3:34.46 | |||
| 3,000 m |
|7:53.57 | |7:53.79 | |7:53.85 | |||
| 60 m hurdles |
|7.38 (CR) |
|7.40 | |7.44 | |||
| 4x400 m relay |
 United StatesAndre Morris Dameon Johnson Deon Minor Deon Minor Deon Minor is an American former track and field athlete who specialized in the 400 meter dash. He won two consecutive gold medals in the relay at the IAAF World Indoor Championships from 1997 to 1999, setting a world record mark of 3:02.83 minutes in the latter competition.-Career:Minor grew up... Milton Campbell Milton Campbell Milton Campbell is a former track and field athlete from the United States who mainly competes in the 400 metres.His success comes during the indoor season... |
3:02.83 (WR) |
 PolandPiotr Haczek Piotr Haczek Piotr Haczek is a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. An outdoor and indoor world champion in the 4 x 400 metres relay, his success came mainly in relay, his best individual performance being a gold medal at the 1999 European Under 23 Championships.-Personal bests:*100 metres -... Jacek Bocian Piotr Rysiukiewicz Piotr Rysiukiewicz Piotr Grzegorz Rysiukiewicz is a Polish sprinter who has won various medals for the Polish 4 x 400 metres relay team. He was a member of the best Polish relay 4 x 400 in the 1990s... Robert Maćkowiak Robert Mackowiak Robert Maćkowiak is a Polish sprinter. Together with Tomasz Czubak, Jacek Bocian and Piotr Haczek he won the gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics... |
3:03.01 (AR) |
 United KingdomAllyn Condon Allyn Condon Allyn Condon is an English former sprinter and current bobsleigher. At the Vancouver Olympic Games in 2010 he became the second person to have competed for Great Britain in both the summer and winter Olympic games having already competed in the Sydney Olympics in 2000.-Athletics:Condon has been... Solomon Wariso Adrian Patrick Jamie Baulch Jamie Baulch James Steven Baulch , but raised by foster parents in Risca, near Newport, is a British sprint athlete and television presenter. He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. As a member of British 4 x 400 metres relay teams, he won a gold medal at the 1997 World... |
3:03.20 (NR) |
| High jump |
|2.36 | |2.36 | |2.33 | |||
| Pole vault |
|6.00 (CR) |
|5.95 (AR) |
|5.85 | |||
| Long jump |
|8.62 (CR) |
|8.56 (AR) |
|8.30 | |||
| Triple jump |
|17.18 (PB) |
|16.98 | |16.98 | |||
| Shot put |
|21.41 | |21.06 | |20.89 | |||
| Heptathlon |
|6386 (WL) |
|6374 (NR) |
|6319 (NR) |
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Women
| 60 m |
|6.96 | |7.02 | * | 7.07 | ||
| 200 m |
|22.39 | |22.69 | |22.70 | |||
| 400 m |
|50.80 | |51.25 | |51.45 | |||
| 800 m |
|1:56.90 (CR) |
|1:57.17 | |1:57.47 (NR) |
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| 1,500 m |
|4:03.23 (CR) |
|4:03.53 (PB) |
|4:05.86 (NR) |
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| 3,000 m |
|8:36.42 | |8:38.43 (AR) |
|8:39.14 (AR) |
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| 60 m hurdles |
|7.86 | |7.87 | |7.90 | |||
| 4x400 m relay |
 RussiaTatyana Chebykina Tatyana Chebykina Tatyana Chebykina is a former Russian athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. Over the course of her career her greatest success came in relay races.She is married to the race walker Nikolay Matyukhin.-Achievements:-External links:... Svetlana Goncharenko Svetlana Goncharenko Svetlana Goncharenko is a former Russian athlete who mainly competed in the 200 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay runner, winning the bronze medal in 4x400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics.... Olga Kotlyarova Olga Kotlyarova Olga Kotlyarova is a Russian runner. She used to compete mainly in 400 metres, and has an Olympic bronze medal from 2000 in relay... Natalya Nazarova Natalya Nazarova Natalya Viktorovna Nazarova is a sprint athlete.She was born in Moscow.Following a personal best time of 49.65 seconds run a fortnight earlier, Natalya had lost form by the start of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and only just made the final finishing 8th... |
3:24.25 (WR) |
 AustraliaSusan Andrews Tania Van Heer Tania Van Heer Tania Van Heer is an Australian sprinter who won two gold medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.-Athletics career:... Tamsyn Lewis Tamsyn Lewis Tamsyn Carolyn Lewis is an Australian athlete and middle-distance runner, who has won a total of seventeen Australian Championships at 400 metres, 800 metres and 400m hurdles.... Cathy Freeman Cathy Freeman Catherine Astrid Salome "Cathy" Freeman, OAM is former Australian sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame.Freeman was the first ever Aboriginal... |
3:26.87 (AR) |
United States Monique Hennagan Monique Hennagan Monique Hennagan is an American athlete, who mainly competes in the 400 meters. She won her first relay medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships and her second in 2003.... Michelle Collins Zundra Feagin Shanelle Porter Shanelle Porter Shanelle Porter is a retired American sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.Her personal best time is 50.67 seconds, achieved in July 1996 in Lignano, Italy.-Achievements:-References:*... |
3:27.59 (AR) |
| High jump |
|1.99 | |1.96 | |1.96 | |||
| Pole vault |
rowspan="2" | |rowspan="2"|4.50 (CR) |
rowspan="2" | |rowspan="2"|4.45 (NR) |
|rowspan="2"|4.35 | |
| Long jump |
|6.86 (PB) |
|6.82 (PB) |
|6.78 | |||
| Triple jump |
|15.02 (WL) |
|14.94 (NR) |
|14.87 (NR) |
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| Shot put |
|19.08 | |19.00 | |18.86 | |||
| Pentathlon |
|4753 | |4691 | |4596 |
- Note: * = American sprinter Inger MillerInger MillerInger Miller is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is the daughter of Lennox Miller, an Olympic champion runner from Jamaica....
won the bronze but failed a post-race drug test (excessive caffeine) and was stripped of the medal.
- Note: Vita PavlyshVita PavlyshVita Pavlysh is a former athlete who specialised in the shot put....
failed a drug testDrug testA drug test is a technical analysis of a biological specimen – for example urine, hair, blood, sweat, or oral fluid / saliva – to determine the presence or absence of specified parent drugs or their metabolites...
and was stripped of her shot put gold medal.
Medal table by country
| 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 | |
| 27 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |