1998 IAAF World Cup – Results explained

These are the results of the 1998 IAAF World Cup, which took place in Johannesburg, South Africa on 11, 12 and 13 September 1998.

Results

100 m

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1AMEObadele Thompson9.87 (CR)
2AFRSeun Ogunkoya9.92 (PB)
3GBRDwain Chambers10.03 (PB)
4USATim Harden10.03 (SB)
5OCEMatt Shirvington10.07 (PB)
6EURHaralabos Papadias10.15 (PB)
7GERMarc Blume10.30 (PB)
8ASI10.37
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1USAMarion Jones10.65 (CR)
2AMEChandra Sturrup10.97
3AFRMary Onyali11.05 (SB)
4EURZhanna Pintusevich11.08
5RUSIrina Privalova11.15
6GERAndrea Philipp11.25
7OCELauren Hewitt11.36 (PB)
8ASIYan Jiankui11.47

200 m

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1AFR 19.97 (CR)
2USA 20.38 (SB)
3EUR 20.40 (SB)
4ASI 20.40 (SB)
5GBR 20.51 (SB)
6AME Sebastián Keitel20.62
7OCE 20.75
8GER 20.85 (PB)
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1USA 21.62 (CR)
2AFR 22.25
3EUR 22.35 (SB)
4AME 22.36
5RUS Irina Privalova22.61 (SB)
6GER 22.70 (SB)
7OCE 22.93
8ASI 23.19

400 m

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GBRIwan Thomas45.33
2USAJerome Young45.37
3AME45.45
4AFRClement Chukwu45.56
5EURAshraf Saber46.54
6ASISugath Tillakaratne46.70
7OCEPatrick Dwyer46.99
8GERStefan Letzelter47.12
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1AFRFalilat Ogunkoya49.52 (SB)
2GERGrit Breuer49.86
3AMESandie Richards50.33
4EURHelena Fuchsová50.40
5RUSOlga Kotlyarova51.20
6USAKim Graham52.10
7ASIDamayanthi Darsha53.30
8OCEJane Arnott54.36

800 m

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GER 1:48.66
2USA Mark Everett1:48.73
3AME 1:48.92
4AFR Japheth Kimutai1:49.16
5EUR 1:49.55
6GBR 1:50.07
7OCE 1:50.69
8ASI Cheng Bin1:53.11
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1AFRMaria de Lurdes Mutola1:59.88
2RUSYelena Afanasyeva2:00.20
3AMELetitia Vriesde2:00.56
4USAJearl Miles Clark2:01.58
5EURMalin Ewerlöf2:02.61
6ASIZhang Jian2:03.09
7GERHeike Meissner2:04.50
8OCETamsyn Lewis2:06.64

1500 m

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1AFR3:40.87
2EURRui Silva3:40.95
3GBRAnthony Whiteman3:40.99
4ASIMohamed Sulaiman3:46.93
5OCEHamish Christensen3:48.64
6GERMark Ostendarp3:49.56
7USAJason Pyrah3:52.10
8AMESteve Agar3:57.36
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1RUS 4:09.41
2AFR 4:10.30
3EUR 4:11.66
4USA 4:12.52
5GER 4:16.80
6AME 4:18.37
7OCE 4:29.50
8ASILiu JingDNS

3000 m

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GERDieter Baumann7:56.24
2EURIsaac Viciosa7:56.47
3AFR7:59.46
4AMEPablo Olmedo8:10.58
5ASIToshinari Takaoka8:12.19
6USA8:15.88
7GBRNeil Caddy8:16.81
8OCEAlan Bunce8:20.98
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1EURGabriela Szabo9:00.54
2AFRZahra Ouaziz9:01.35
3USARegina Jacobs9:11.15
4ASIWang Chunmei9:14.50 (PB)
5RUSOlga Yegorova9:16.72
6GERLuminița Zaituc9:18.01
7AMEKathy Butler9:30.34
8OCE9:38.22

5000 m

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1AFRDaniel Komen13:46.57
2OCEShaun Creighton13:53.66
3GERDieter Baumann13:58.40
4AMEPablo Olmedo14:01.66
5GBRKeith Cullen14:13.32
6USADan Browne14:22.48
7EURAbdellah Béhar14:24.41
8ASIDNF
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1EURSonia O'Sullivan16:24.52
2USARegina Jacobs16:26.24
3AFRBerhane Adere16:38.81
4AMENora Rocha16:44.60
5GERIrina Mikitenko16:46.60
6ASILiu Shixiang16:51.74
7RUSSvetlana Baigulova17:00.29
8OCEMelissa Moon17:10.48

3000 m Steeplechase

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GERDamian Kallabis8:31.25
2AFRBernard Barmasai8:31.85
3ASISaad Shaddad Al-Asmari8:39.69
4EURAlessandro Lambruschini8:54.10
5GBRChristian Stephenson8:55.67
6AMEWander do Prado Moura8:59.06
7USAPascal Dobert9:08.36
8OCEStephen Thurston9:37.13
 

100/110 m hurdles

Men (110 m)

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GER 13.10
2GBR 13.11
3AME 13.14
4EUR 13.25
5ASI 13.49
6OCE 13.78
7AFRShawn Bownes21.33
8USA 30.29
 

Women (100 m)

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1AFR 12.58
2USA 12.67
3RUS 12.77
4AME 12.78
5GER 12.87
6OCE 13.30
-EUR DNF
-ASI Olga ShishiginaDNF

400 m hurdles

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1AFR 48.08 (SB)
2ASI 48.17 (PB)
3AME Dinsdale Morgan48.40
4EUR Paweł Januszewski48.49
5USA 48.55
6GER 49.77
7GBR Anthony Borsumato49.86
8OCE Zid Abou Hamed50.50
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1AFR Nezha Bidouane52.96 (CR)
2AME 53.03 (SB)
3USA Kim Batten53.17
4EUR 54.01
5GER 54.22 (PB)
6RUS 56.09
7ASI 57.64
8OCE Evette Cordy58.00

High jump

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1 USACharles Austin2.31
2AMEJavier Sotomayor2.28
3EUR2.28
4GER2.25
5ASI2.15
=6OCE2.10
=6AFRAbderrahmane Hammad2.10
=6GBRDalton Grant2.10
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1EURMonica Dinescu-Iagăr1.98
2AFRHestrie Storbeck1.96 (PB)
3USATisha Waller1.93
4RUSYelena Gulyayeva1.93
5ASIMiki Imai1.93
6GER1.90
7OCEAlison Inverarity1.85
8AMEJuana Rosario1.85

Pole vault

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1EUR Maksim Tarasov5.85
2GER 5.80
3USA Jeff Hartwig5.70
4ASI Igor Potapovich5.60
5AFR Riaan Botha5.60
6GBR 5.40
7OCE 5.20
8AME Ricardo Diez5.00
 

Long jump

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1AMEIván Pedroso8.37
2OCEJai Taurima8.32 (PB)
3AFRHatem Mersal8.26 (PB)
4EURKirill Sosunov8.08
5USARoland McGhee7.79
6ASIMasaki Morinaga7.76
7GERKofi Amoah Prah7.75
8GBRSteve Phillips7.66
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GERHeike Drechsler7.07
2USAMarion Jones7.00
3ASIGuan Yingnan6.74
4RUSLyudmila Galkina6.73
5EURTünde Vaszi6.72
6OCENicole Boegman6.64
7AFRChioma Ajunwa6.62
8AMEFlora Hyacinth6.02

Triple jump

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GER 17.42 (SB)
2EUR Denis Kapustin17.32
3AME Yoelbi Quesada17.25
4AFR Andrew Owusu17.21
5USA LaMark Carter17.20
6OCE Andrew Murphy16.89 (SB)
7GBR 16.69
8ASI Duan Qifeng14.09
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1EUR 14.64 (CR)
2RUS Tatyana Lebedeva14.36
3AME Yamilé Aldama14.29
4ASI 14.04
5USA Sheila Hudson-Strudwick13.76 (SB)
6AFR Baya Rahouli13.69
7OCE 12.86
8GER Nkechi Madubuko12.76

Shot put

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1USAJohn Godina21.48
2EURAleksandr Bagach20.45
3GEROliver-Sven Buder20.42
4AFRBurger Lambrechts20.29 (PB)
5GBRMark Proctor19.66
6AMEYojer Medina19.08
7OCEJustin Anlezark18.26
8ASIBilal Saad Mubarak18.21
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1EURVita Pavlysh20.59
2RUSIrina Korzhanenko19.04
3USAConnie Price-Smith18.79
4AMEYumileidi Cumbá18.76
5ASILi Meisu18.00
6GERNadine Kleinert17.60
7OCETania Lutton15.73
8AFR Mariam Nnodu-Ibekwe15.60

Discus

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1EURVirgilijus Alekna69.66 (CR)
2GERLars Riedel67.47
3AFRFrantz Kruger65.73 (PB)
4USAJohn Godina65.15
5GBRRobert Weir64.39 (SB)
6AMEAlexis Elizalde62.53
7ASILi Shaojie61.37
8OCEIan Winchester60.56
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GERFranka Dietzsch67.07
2EURNicoleta Grasu66.25
3RUSNatalya Sadova64.38
4OCEBeatrice Faumuina63.77
5ASILiu Fengying60.42
6USAKristin Kuehl59.88
7AFRElizna Naudé51.39
8AMEElisângela Adriano51.26

Hammer

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1EUR Tibor Gécsek82.68 (CR)
2GER 80.13
3ASI 79.40
4AME Alberto Sánchez73.71
5GBR 72.89
6USA 70.51
7AFR 68.34
8OCEJustin McDonald59.62
 

Javelin

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GBR 88.71 (CR)
2EUR 86.96 (SB)
3GER 84.92
4AFR 83.53
5AME 80.72
6OCE Adrian Hatcher73.75
7ASI 68.35
8USA Ed KaminskiDNS
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1OCE 69.85 (PB)
2AME Sonia Bisset65.50
3EUR 64.24
4RUS 63.77
5GER 62.51
6ASI Li Lei59.45
7USA 52.46
8AFR Lindy Leveau43.18

4 × 100 m relay

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GBRAllyn Condon, Marlon Devonish, Julian Golding, Dwain Chambers38.09
2USAJonathan Carter, Curtis Perry, Allen Johnson, Tim Harden38.25
3AFRSeun Ogunkoya, Leonard Myles-Mills, Frankie Fredericks, Eric Nkansah38.29
4AMEBradley McCuaig, Édson Ribeiro, Sebastián Keitel, Claudinei da Silva38.33
5OCEDarryl Wohlsen, Damien Marsh, David Baxter, Matt Shirvington38.78
6EURThierry Lubin, Frederic Krantz, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims38.80
7GERPatrick Schneider, Holger Blume, Manuel Milde, Marc Blume38.89
8ASIZhou Wei, Lin Wei, Yin Hanzhao, Han Chaoming39.35
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1USACheryl Taplin, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, Carlette Guidry-White42.00
2AMETanya Lawrence, Chandra Sturrup, Beverly McDonald, Philomena Mensah42.44
3GERMelanie Paschke, Gabi Rockmeier, Birgit Rockmeier, Andrea Philipp42.81
4AFRChioma Ajunwa, Endurance Ojokolo, Rose Aboaja, Mary Onyali42.91
5RUSIrina Privalova, Oksana Ekk, Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova, Irina Korotya43.11
6OCETania Van Heer, Lauren Hewitt, Sharon Cripps, Anna Smythe43.40
7EURKatia Benth, Frederique Bangué, Fabe Dia, Petya Pendareva43.70
8ASISaraswati Dey, Rachita Mistry, E.B. Shyla, Yan Jiankui47.12

4 × 400 m relay

Men

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GBRMark Hylton, Jamie Baulch, Sean Baldock, Iwan Thomas2:59.71
2AMEMichael McDonald, Troy McIntosh, Alejandro Cárdenas, Roxbert Martin2:59.77
3AFRClement Chukwu, Ibrahima Wade, Arnaud Malherbe, Davis Kamoga3:01.08
4GERKlaus Ehmsperger, Jens Dautzenberg, Marc Alexander Scheer, Nils Schumann3:03.65
5ASIIbrahim Ismail Faraj, Sugath Tillakaratne, Kenji Tabata, Masayoshi Kan3:03.94
6EURKonstantinos Kenteris, Marc Foucan, Marco Vaccari, Pawel Januszewski3:03.95
7OCE3:08.57
DSQUSAMark Everett, Antonio Pettigrew, Joey Woody, Jerome Young
 

Women

Pos.TeamCompetitorResult
1GERAnke Feller, Uta Rohländer, Ulrike Urbansky, Grit Breuer3:24.26
2AMENorfalia Carabalí, Deon Hemmings, Andrea Blackett, Sandie Richards3:24.39
3RUSNatalya Khrushchelyova, Svetlana Goncharenko, Yekaterina Bakhvalova, Olga Kotlyarova3:25.15
4USAMonique Hennagan, Rochelle Stevens, Kim Graham, Jearl Miles Clark3:25.34
5EURIonela Târlea, Yelena Rurak, Tetyana Tereshchuk, Helena Fuchsová3:26.34
6OCELee Naylor, Anna Smythe, Tamsyn Lewis, Tania Van Heer3:31.67
7AFROny Paule Ratsimbazafy, Amy Mbacké Thiam, Tacko Diouf, Falilat Ogunkoya3:35.28
8ASILi Rui, Chen Yuxiang, Svetlana Bodritskaya, Damayanthi Darsha3:43.60

References

Competition results