1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships

3rd IAAF World Indoor Championships
Host city Seville, Spain
Date(s) 8 March–10 March
Main stadium Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo
Participation 518 athletes from
80 nations
Events 26 (+1 non-championship)


The 3rd IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo in Seville, Spain from March 8 to March 10, 1991. It was the first Indoor Championships to include relay races as well as women's triple jump, albeit as a non-championship event. There were a total number of 518 athletes participated from 80 countries.

Results

Men

1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres
  Andre Cason (USA)6.54  Linford Christie (GBR)6.55  Chidi Imoh (NGR)6.60
200 metres
  Nikolay Antonov (BUL)20.67  Linford Christie (GBR)20.72  Ade Mafe (GBR)20.92
400 metres
  Devon Morris (JAM)46.17  Samson Kitur (KEN)46.21  Cayetano Cornet (ESP)46.52
800 metres
  Paul Ereng (KEN)1:47.08  Tomás de Teresa (ESP)1:47.82  Simon Hoogewerf (CAN)1:47.88
1500 metres
  Noureddine Morceli (ALG)3:41.57  Fermín Cacho (ESP)3:42.68  Mário Silva (POR)3:43.85
3000 metres
  Frank O'Mara (IRL)7:41.14
(CR)		  Hammou Boutayeb (MAR)7:43.64  Robert Denmark (GBR)7:43.90
60 metres hurdles
  Greg Foster (USA)7.45  Igors Kazanovs (URS)7.47  Mark McKoy (CAN)7.49
5000 metres walk
  Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)18:23.55
(CR)		  Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)18:23.60  Frants Kostyukevich (URS)18:47.05
4 × 400 metres relay
  Germany (GER)
Rico Lieder,
Jens Carlowitz,
Karsten Just,
Thomas Schönlebe		3:03.05
(WR)		  United States (USA)
Raymond Pierre,
Charles Jenkins,
Andrew Valmon,
Antonio McKay,
Clifton Campbell,
Willie Smith		3:03.24
(AR)		  Italy (ITA)
Marco Vaccari,
Vito Petrella,
Alessandro Aimar,
Andrea Nuti		3:05.51
(NR)
High jump
  Hollis Conway (USA)2.40  Artur Partyka (POL)2.37  Javier Sotomayor (CUB)2.31
 Aleksey Yemelin (URS)
Pole vault
  Sergey Bubka (URS)6.00  Viktor Ryzhenkov (URS)5.80  Ferenc Salbert (FRA)5.70
Long jump
  Dietmar Haaf (GER)8.15  Jaime Jefferson (CUB)8.04  Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)7.93
Triple jump
  Igor Lapshin (URS)17.31  Leonid Voloshin (URS)17.04  Tord Henriksson (SWE)16.80
Shot put
  Werner Günthör (SUI)21.17  Klaus Bodenmüller (AUT)20.42  Ron Backes (USA)20.06

Women

1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres
  Irina Sergeyeva (URS)7.02
(CR)		  Merlene Ottey (JAM)7.08  Liliana Allen (CUB)7.12
(NR)
200 metres
  Merlene Ottey (JAM)22.24
(CR)		  Irina Sergeyeva (URS)22.41  Grit Breuer (GER)22.58
400 metres
  Diane Dixon (USA)50.64
(CR)		  Sandra Myers (ESP)50.99  Anita Protti (SUI)51.41
(NR)
800 metres
  Christine Wachtel (GER)2:01.51  Violeta Beclea (ROU)2:01.75  Ella Kovacs (ROU)2:01.79
1500 metres
  Lyudmila Rogachova (URS)4:05.09  Ivana Kubešová (TCH)4:06.22  Tudorita Chidu (ROU)4:06.27
3000 metres
  Marie-Pierre Duros (FRA)8:50.69  Margareta Keszeg (ROU)8:51.51  Lyubov Kremlyova (URS)8:51.90
60 metres hurdles
  Lyudmila Narozhilenko (URS)7.88  Monique Ewanjé-Épée (FRA)7.90  Aliuska López (CUB)8.03
3000 metres walk
  Beate Anders (GER)11:50.90
(CR)		  Kerry Saxby (AUS)12:03.21  Ileana Salvador (ITA)12:07.67
4 × 400 metres relay
  Germany (GER)
Sandra Seuser,
Katrin Schreiter,
Annett Hesselbarth,
Grit Breuer		3:27.22
(WR)		  Soviet Union (URS)
Marina Shmonina,
Lyudmila Dzhigalova,
Margarita Ponomaryova,
Aelita Yurchenko		3:27.95
(NR)		  United States (USA)
Terri Dendy,
Lillie Leatherwood,
Jearl Miles,
Diane Dixon		3:29.00
(AR)
High jump
  Heike Henkel (GER)2.00  Tamara Bykova (URS)1.97  Heike Balck (GER)1.94
Long jump
  Larisa Berezhnaya (URS)6.84  Heike Drechsler (GER)6.82  Marieta Ilcu (ROU)6.74
Shot put
  Sui Xinmei (CHN)20.54
(CR)		  Huang Zhihong (CHN)20.33  Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)20.00

Non-championship event

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Triple jump
  Inessa Kravets (URS)14.44
(CR)		  Li Huirong (CHN)13.98  Sofiya Bozhanova (BUL)13.62

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Soviet Union 7 6 4 17
2  Germany 6 1 2 9
3  United States 4 1 2 7
4  Jamaica 2 1 0 3
5  France 1 1 1 3
6  China 1 1 0 2
 Kenya 1 1 0 2
8   Switzerland 1 0 1 2
9  Algeria 1 0 0 1
 Bulgaria 1 0 0 1
 Ireland 1 0 0 1
12  Spain 0 3 1 4
13  Romania 0 2 3 5
14  Great Britain 0 2 2 4
15  Italy 0 1 3 4
 Cuba 0 1 3 4
17  Australia 0 1 0 1
 Morocco 0 1 0 1
 Austria 0 1 0 1
 Poland 0 1 0 1
 Czechoslovakia 0 1 0 1
22  Canada 0 0 2 2
23  Nigeria 0 0 1 1
 Portugal 0 0 1 1
 Sweden 0 0 1 1

Participating nations

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