2001 World Championships in Athletics

8th World Championships in Athletics

Host city	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nations	189
Athletes	1602
Dates	3–12, August 2001
Opened by	Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien
Closed by	IAAF President Lamine Diack
Main venue	Commonwealth Stadium

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.

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

Track

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Maurice Greene  United States	9.82 (WL)	Bernard Williams  United States	9.94^2 (PB)	Ato Boldon  Trinidad and Tobago	9.98
200 m details	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 details	Avard Moncur  Bahamas	44.64	Ingo Schultz  Germany	44.87	Greg Haughton  Jamaica	44.98
800 m details	André Bucher  Switzerland	1:43.70	Wilfred Bungei  Kenya	1:44.55	Paweł Czapiewski  Poland	1:44.63 (PB)
1500 m details	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	3:30.68	Bernard Lagat  Kenya	3:31.10	Driss Maazouzi  France	3:31.54 (SB)
5000 m details	Richard Limo  Kenya	13:00.77	Million Wolde  Ethiopia	13:03.47^1	John Kibowen  Kenya	13:05.20
10,000 m details	Charles Kamathi  Kenya	27:53.25	Assefa Mezgebu  Ethiopia	27:53.97	Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia	27:54.41
Marathon details	Gezahegne Abera  Ethiopia	2:12:42 (SB)	Simon Biwott  Kenya	2:12:43	Stefano Baldini  Italy	2:13:18
110 m hurdles details	Allen Johnson  United States	13.04 (WL)	Anier García  Cuba	13.07 (SB)	Dudley Dorival  Haiti	13.25 (NR)
400 m hurdles details	Félix Sánchez  Dominican Republic	47.49 (WL)	Fabrizio Mori  Italy	47.54 (NR)	Dai Tamesue  Japan	47.89 (NR)
3,000 m st. details	Reuben Kosgei  Kenya	8:15.16	Ali Ezzine  Morocco	8:16.21	Bernard Barmasai  Kenya	8:16.59
20 km walk details	Roman Rasskazov  Russia	1:20:31	Ilya Markov  Russia	1:20:33	Viktor Burayev  Russia	1:20:36
50 km walk details	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 details	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 details	Bahamas Avard Moncur Chris Brown Troy McIntosh Tim Munnings Carl Oliver*	2:58.19^4 (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

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

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

Track

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Zhanna Pintusevich  Ukraine	10.82 (WL)	Ekaterini Thanou  Greece	10.91^2 (SB)	Chandra Sturrup  Bahamas	11.02
200 m details	Debbie Ferguson  Bahamas	22.52^1	LaTasha Jenkins  United States	22.85	Cydonie Mothersille  Cayman Islands	22.88^2
400 m details	Amy Mbacké Thiam  Senegal	49.86 (NR)	Lorraine Fenton  Jamaica	49.88 (SB)	Ana Guevara  Mexico	49.97 SB
800 m details	Maria Mutola  Mozambique	1:57.17	Stephanie Graf  Austria	1:57.20 (SB)	Letitia Vriesde  Suriname	1:57.35 (SB)
1,500 m details	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	4:00.57 (SB)	Violeta Szekely  Romania	4:01.70	Natalya Gorelova  Russia	4:02.40
5,000 m details	Olga Yegorova  Russia	15:03.39	Marta Domínguez  Spain	15:06.59	Ayelech Worku  Ethiopia	15:10.17
10,000 m details	Derartu Tulu  Ethiopia	31:48.81	Berhane Adere  Ethiopia	31:48.85	Gete Wami  Ethiopia	31:49.98
Marathon details	Lidia Șimon  Romania	2:26:01	Reiko Tosa  Japan	2:26:06	Svetlana Zakharova  Russia	2:26:18
100 m hurdles details	Anjanette Kirkland  United States	12.42 (WL)	Gail Devers  United States	12.54 SB	Olga Shishigina  Kazakhstan	12.58 (SB)
400 m hurdles details	Nezha Bidouane  Morocco	53.34 (WL)	Yuliya Pechonkina  Russia	54.27	Daimí Pernía  Cuba	54.51
20 km walk details	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	1:27:48 (CR)	Valentina Tsybulskaya  Belarus	1:28:49 (PB)	Elisabetta Perrone  Italy	1:28:56
4 × 100 m relay details	Germany Melanie Paschke Gabi Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier Marion Wagner	42.32^3 (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 details	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

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Hestrie Cloete  South Africa	2.00 (SB)	Inha Babakova  Ukraine	2.00	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	1.97
Pole vault details	Stacy Dragila  United States	4.75 (CR)	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.75 (CR)	Monika Pyrek  Poland	4.55
Long jump details	Fiona May  Italy	7.02	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	7.01	Niurka Montalvo  Spain	6.88
Triple jump details	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	15.25 (WL)	Françoise Mbango-Etone  Cameroon	14.60	Tereza Marinova  Bulgaria	14.58
Shot put details	Yanina Karolchik  Belarus	20.61 (NR)	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	19.86 (PB)	Vita Pavlysh  Ukraine	19.41
Discus throw details	Ellina Zvereva  Belarus	67.10^1	Nicoleta Grasu  Romania	66.24	Anastasia Kelesidou  Greece	65.50 (SB)
Hammer throw details	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	70.65 (AR)	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	70.61	Bronwyn Eagles  Australia	68.87
Javelin throw details	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba	69.53 (CR)	Mirela Maniani  Greece	65.78	Sonia Bisset  Cuba	64.69
Heptathlon details	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

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.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	5	7	6	18
2	United States	5	5	3	13
3	Kenya	3	3	2	8
4	Germany	3	3	1	7
5	Cuba	3	1	2	6
6	Bahamas	3	0	1	4
7	Ethiopia	2	3	3	8
8	Belarus	2	2	0	4
	Romania	2	2	0	4
10	Morocco	2	1	0	3
11	Poland	2	0	3	5
12	Czech Republic	2	0	0	2
	South Africa	2	0	0	2
14	Jamaica	1	3	2	6
15	Greece	1	2	2	5
16	Italy	1	1	2	4
17	Ukraine	1	1	1	3
18	Australia	1	0	2	3
19	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
20	Dominican Republic	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique	1	0	0	1
	Senegal	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
24	Japan	0	2	1	3
	Spain	0	2	1	3
26	Finland	0	1	1	2
	France	0	1	1	2
	Sweden	0	1	1	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	1	2
30	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Cameroon	0	1	0	1
	Estonia	0	1	0	1
	Israel	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
35	Mexico	0	0	2	2
36	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Cayman Islands	0	0	1	1
	Haiti	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	1	1
	Suriname	0	0	1	1
Totals (42 entries)		46	47	46	139

Source: [1]

See also

• 2001 in athletics (track and field)

References

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

• 2001 IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Official website