1998 IAAF World Cup explained

1998 IAAF World Cup
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Colour:	81BEF7
Host City:	Johannesburg, South Africa
Dates:	11–13 September 1998
Stadium:	Johannesburg Stadium
Athletes Participating:	?
Events:	39
Previous:	1994 London
Next:	2002 Madrid

The 8th IAAF World Cup in Athletics were held 11–13 September 1998 at the Johannesburg Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Overall results

Men Pos. Team Result 1 Africa 110 2 Europe 109 3 Germany 102 4 Americas 97 5 United States 94 6 Great Britain 89 7 Asia 64 8 Oceania 53

Women Pos. Team Result 1 United States 96 2 Europe 94 3 Africa 88 4 Russia 87 5 Americas 81 6 Germany 75 7 Asia 45 8 Oceania 42

Medal summary

Men

100 metres	Americas	9.87 (NR)	Africa	9.92	Great Britain	10.03
200 metres	Africa	19.97	United States	20.38	Europe	20.40
400 metres	Great Britain	45.33	United States	45.37	Americas	45.45
800 metres	Germany	1:48.66	United States	1:48.73	Americas	1:48.92
1500 metres

Africa || 3:40.87|
Europe||3:40.95|
Great Britain||3:40.99|-|3000 metres|}
Germany || 7:56.24|
Europe|| 7:56.47|
Africa||7:59.46|-|5000 metres|
Africa ||13:46.57|
Oceania||13:53.66|}
Germany||13:58.40|-|110 metre hurdles|
Germany || 13.10|
Great Britain||13.11 |
Americas||13.14 |-|400 metre hurdles|
Africa || 48.08|
Asia|| 48.17 |
Americas||48.40|-|3000 metre steeplechase|
Germany || 8:31.25|
Africa||8:31.85|
Asia||8:39.69|-|4 × 100 metre relay|valign=top| Great Britain
Allyn Condon
Marlon Devonish
Julian Golding
Dwain Chambers||38.09 |valign=top| United States
Jonathan Carter
Curtis Perry
Allen Johnson
Tim Harden||38.25 |valign=top| Africa
Seun Ogunkoya
Leonard Myles-Mills
Frankie Fredericks
Eric Nkansah||38.29|-|4 × 400 metre relay|valign=top| Great Britain
Mark Hylton
Jamie Baulch
Sean Baldock
Iwan Thomas||2:59.71¹|valign=top| Americas
Michael McDonald
Troy McIntosh
Alejandro Cárdenas
Roxbert Martin||2:59.77|valign=top| Africa
Clement Chukwu
Ibrahima Wade
Arnaud Malherbe
Davis Kamoga||3:03.26|-| High jump|
United States || 2.31|
Americas||2.28|
Europe||2.28|-| Pole vault|
Europe ||5.85|
Germany||5.80|
United States||5.70|-| Long jump|
Americas || 8.37|
Oceania||8.32|
Africa||8.26|-| Triple jump|
Germany || 17.42|
Europe||17.32|
Americas||17.25|-| Shot put|
United States || 21.48|
Europe||20.45|
Germany||20.42 |-| Discus throw|
Europe || 69.66 |
Germany||67.47 |
Africa||65.73|-| Hammer throw|
Europe || 82.68|
Germany||80.13 |
Asia||79.40 |-| Javelin throw |
Great Britain || 88.71|
Europe||86.96 |
Germany||84.92|}¹ The United States originally won this event in 2:59.28, but were disqualified in 2009 after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to using HGH and EPO between 1997 and 2003.

Women

100 metres	United States	10.65	Americas	10.97	Africa	11.05
200 metres	United States	21.62	Africa	22.25	Europe	22.35
400 metres	Africa	49.52	Germany	49.86	Americas	50.33
800 metres	Africa	1:59.88	Russia	2:00.20	Americas	2:00.56
1500 metres	Russia	4:09.41	Africa	4:10.30	Europe	4:11.66
3000 metres	Europe	9:00.54	Africa	9:01.35	United States	9:11.15
5000 metres	Europe	16:24.52	United States	16:26.24	Africa	16:38.81
100 metre hurdles	Africa	12.58	United States	12.67	Russia	12.77
400 metre hurdles	Africa	52.96	Americas	53.03	United States	53.17
4 × 100 metre relay	valign=top	United States Cheryl Taplin Chryste Gaines Inger Miller Carlette Guidry	42.00	valign=top	Americas Tayna Lawrence Chandra Sturrup Beverly McDonald Philomena Mensah	42.44	valign=top	Germany Melanie Paschke Gabi Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier Andrea Philipp	42.81
4 × 400 metre relay	valign=top	Germany Anke Feller Uta Rohländer Ulrike Urbansky Grit Breuer	3:24.26	valign=top		3:24.39	valign=top	Russia Natalya Khrushcheleva Svetlana Goncharenko Yekaterina Bakhvalova Olga Kotlyarova	3:25.15
High jump	Europe	1.98	Africa	1.96	United States	1.93
Long jump	Germany	7.07	United States	7.00	Asia	6.74
Triple jump	Europe	14.64	Russia	14.36	Americas	14.29
Shot put	Europe	20.59	Russia	19.04	United States	18.79
Discus throw	Germany	67.07	Europe	66.25	Russia	64.38
Javelin throw	Oceania	69.85	Americas	65.50	Europe	64.24

References

• IAAF homepage with Results
• Full Results by IAAF