The Ultimate 1991 World Championships in Athletics - American History Information Guide and Reference

The 1991 World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1.

The event is best-remembered for the men's long jump competition, when Carl Lewis made the best six-jump series in history, only to be beaten by Mike Powell, whose 8.95 m jump broke Bob Beamon's epic world record from the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Contents

1 Medal Winners

1.1 Medal table by country
1.2 Track
1.3 Field

2 References

3 See Also

Medal Winners

Medal table by country

Gold: Silver: Bronze:

Position	Country:	Total:
1.	USA	10	10	8	28
2.	USSR	9	9	11	29
3.	Germany	5	4	8	17
4.	Kenya	4	3	1	8
5.	Great Britain	2	2	3	7
6.	China	2	1	1	4
7.	Algeria	2	0	1	3
8.	Jamaica	1	1	3	5
9.	Finland	1	1	1	3
10=	France	1	1	0	2
10=	Japan	1	1	0	2
12=	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
12=	Italy	1	0	0	1
12=	Poland	1	0	0	1
12=	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
12=	Zambia	1	0	0	1
17.	Cuba	0	2	0	2
18=	Canada	0	1	1	2
18=	Hungary	0	1	1	2
18=	Romania	0	1	1	2
21=	Brazil	0	1	0	1
21=	Djibouti	0	1	0	1
21=	Ethiopia	0	1	0	1
21=	Namibia	0	1	0	1
21=	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
21=	Norway	0	1	0	1
21=	Sweden	0	1	0	1
28.	Morocco	0	0	2	2
29.	Spain	0	0	1	1

Track

Gold: Silver: Bronze:

Event:
100 m Men	Carl Lewis, USA	Leroy Burrell, USA	Dennis Mitchell, USA
100 m Women	Katrin Krabbe , Germany	Gwen Torrence, USA	Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
100 m Hurdles Women	Lyudmila Narozhilenko , USSR	Gail Devers-Roberts, USA	Natalya Grigoryeva , USSR
110 m Hurdles Men	Greg Foster, USA	Jack Pierce, USA	Tony Jarrett, Great Britain
200 m Men	Michael Johnson, USA	Frankie Fredericks, Namibia	Atlee Mahorn , Canada
200 m Women	Katrin Krabbe , Germany	Gwen Torrence, USA	Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
400 m Men	Antonio Pettigrew, USA	Roger Black, Great Britain	Danny Everett, USA
400 m Women	Marie-José Perec, France	Grit Breuer , Germany	Sandra Myers , Spain
400 m Hurdles Men	Samuel Matete , Zambia	Winthrop Graham , JAmaica	Kriss Akabusi, Great Britain
400 m Hurdles Women	Tatyana Ledovskaya , USSr	Sally Gunnell, Great Britain	Janeene Vickers , USA
800 m Men	Billy Konchellah , Kenya	José Barbosa , Brazil	Mark Everett , USA
800 m Women	Liliya Nurutdinova , USSR	Ana Fidelia Quirot , Cuba	Ella Kovacs , Romania
1500 m Men	Noureddine Morceli, Algeria	Wilfred Kirochi , Kenya	Hauke Fuhlbrügge , Germany
1500 m Women	Hassiba Boulmerka, Algeria	Tatyana Dorovskikh , USSR	Lyudmila Rogachova , USSR
3,000 m Steeplechase Men	Moses Kiptanui, Kenya	Patrick Sang , Kenya	Azzedine Brahmi , Algeria
5,000 m Men	Yobes Ondieki , Kenya	Fita Bayissa , Ethiopia	Brahim Boutayeb, Morocco
5,000 m Women	Tatyana Dorovskikh , USSR	Yelena Romanova , USSR	Susan Sirma , Kenya
10,000 m Men	Moses Tanui , Kenya	Richard Chelimo, Kenya	Khalid Skah, Morocco
10,000 m Women	Liz McColgan, Great Britain	Zhong Huandi , China	Wang Xiuting , China
Marathon Men	Hiromi Taniguchi , Japan	Ahmed Salah , Djibouti	Steve Spence , USA
Marathon Women	Wanda Panfil , Poland	Sachiko Yamashita , Japan	Katrin Dörre , Germany
10 km Walk Women	Alina Ivanova , USSR	Madelein Svensson , Sweden	Sari Essayah , Finland
20 km Walk Men	Maurizio Damilano , Italy	Mikhail Shchennikov , USSR	Yevgeniy Misyulya , USSR
50 km Walk Men	Aleksandr Potashov , USSR	Andrey Perlov , USSR	Hartwig Gauder , Germany
4 x 100 m Relay Men	USA	France	Great Britain
4 x 100 m Women	Jamaica	USSR	Germany
4 x 400 m Men	Great Britain	USA	Jamaica
4 x 400 m Women	USSR	USA	Germany

Field

Gold: Silver: Bronze:

Event:
Long Jump Men	Mike Powell, USA	Carl Lewis, USA	Larry Myricks , USA
Long Jump Women	Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA	Heike Drechsler , Germany	Larisa Berezhnaya , USSR
Triple Jump Men	Kenny Harrison , USA	Leonid Voloshin , USSR	Mike Conley, USA
high jump Men	Charles Austin , USA	Javier Sotomayor, Cuba	Hollis Conway , USA
high jump Women	Heike Henkel , Germany	Yelena Yelesina , USSR	Inga Babakova , USSR
javelin throw Men	Kimmo Kinnunen , Finland	Seppo Räty , Finland	Vladimir Sasimovich , USSR
javelin throw Women	Xu Demei , China	Petra Meier , Germany	Silke Renk , Germany
Discus Men	Lars Riedel , Germany	Erik de Bruin , Netherlands	Attila Horváth , Hungary
Discus Women	Tsvetanka Khristova , Bulgaria	Ilke Wyludda , Germany	Larisa Mikhalchenko , USSR
Hammer Men	Yuriy Sedykh, USSR	Igor Astapkovich , USSR	Heinz Weis , Germany
Shot Put Men	Werner Günthör , Switzerland	Lars Nilsen , Norway	Aleksandr Klimenko , USSR
Shot Put Women	Huang Zhihong , China	Natalya Lisovskaya , USSR	Svetlana Krivelyova, USSR
pole vault Men	Sergey Bubka, USSR	István Bagyula , Hungary	Maksim Tarasov , USSR
Heptathlon Women	Sabine Braun , Germany	Liliana Nastase , Romania	Irina Belova , USSR
Decathlon Men	Dan O'Brien , USA	Mike Smith, Canada	Christian Schenk , Germany

References

http://www2.iaaf.org/results/past/WCH91/index.html

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1991 World Championships in Athletics

Medal Winners

Medal table by country

Track

Field

References

See Also

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