2003 World Championships in Athletics explained

IX World Championships in Athletics French: Championnats du monde d'athlétisme-Saint-Denis
Host City:	Saint-Denis, France
Nations:	198
Athletes:	1679
Dates:	23–31 August 2003
Opened By:	Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Closed By:	IAAF President Lamine Diack
Stadium:	Stade de France
Previous:	Edmonton 2001

The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from 23 August to 31 August 2003 in the streets of Paris and the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.

Men's results

Track

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

100 m	Kim Collins Saint Kitts and Nevis	10.07	Darrel Brown Trinidad and Tobago	10.08	Darren Campbell	10.08 (SB)
200 m	John Capel	20.30	Darvis Patton	20.31	Shingo Suetsugu	20.38
400 m	Tyree Washington	44.77^1	Marc Raquil	44.79 (NR)	Michael Blackwood Jamaica	44.80
800 m	Djabir Saïd-Guerni Algeria	1:44.81	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	1:44.84	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi South Africa	1:44.90
1500 m	Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco	3:31.77	Mehdi Baala	3:32.31	Ivan Heshko Ukraine	3:33.17
5000 m	Eliud Kipchoge Kenya	12:52.79 (CR)	Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco	12:52.83	Kenenisa Bekele Ethiopia	12:53.12
10,000 m	Kenenisa Bekele Ethiopia	26:49.57 (CR)	Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia	26:50.77 (SB)	Sileshi Sihine Ethiopia	27:01.44
Marathon	Jaouad Gharib Morocco	2:08:31 (CR)	Julio Rey	2:08:38	Stefano Baldini	2:09:14
110 m hurdles	Allen Johnson	13.12	Terrence Trammell	13.20 (SB)	Liu Xiang	13.23
400 m hurdles	Félix Sánchez Dominican Republic	47.25 (WL)	Joey Woody	48.18 (SB)	Periklís Iakovákis Greece	48.24
3000 m steeplechase	Saif Saaeed Shaheen Qatar	8:04.39	Ezekiel Kemboi Kenya	8:05.11	Eliseo Martin	8:09.09 (PB)
20 km race walk	Jefferson Pérez Ecuador	1:17:21 (WBP)	Paquillo Fernández	1:18:00 (SB)	Roman Rasskazov	1:18:07 (SB)
50 km race walk	Robert Korzeniowski Poland	3:36:03 (WBP)	German Skurygin	3:36:42 (NR)	Andreas Erm	3:37:46 (NR)
4 × 100 m relay	John Capel Bernard Williams Darvis Patton Joshua J. Johnson	38.06	Vicente de Lima Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Cláudio Roberto Souza	38.26 (SB)	Timothy Beck Troy Douglas Patrick van Balkom Caimin Douglas Guus Hoogmoed	38.87
4 × 400 m relay	Leslie Djhone Naman Keïta Stéphane Diagana Marc Raquil Ahmed Douhou	2:58.96^2 (NR)	Brandon Simpson Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke Michael Blackwood Michael Campbell Lansford Spence	2:59.60 (SB)	Avard Moncur Dennis Darling Nathaniel McKinney Chris Brown Carl Oliver	3:00.53 (SB)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.
¹ Jerome Young of the United States originally finished first in 44.50, but was disqualified after he tested positive for drugs in 2004.
² The United States (Calvin Harrison, Tyree Washington, Derrick Brew, Jerome Young) originally finished first in 2:58.88, but were disqualified after Jerome Young and Calvin Harrison both tested positive for drugs in 2004.

Field

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

High jump	Jacques Freitag South Africa	2.35 (SB)	Stefan Holm Sweden	2.32	Mark Boswell	2.32 (SB)
Long jump	Dwight Phillips	8.32	James Beckford Jamaica	8.28 (SB)	Yago Lamela	8.22
Pole vault	Giuseppe Gibilisco	5.90 (NR)	Okkert Brits South Africa	5.85 (SB)	Patrik Kristiansson Sweden	5.85 (PB)
Triple jump	Christian Olsson Sweden	17.72	Yoandri Betanzos Cuba	17.28 (SB)	Leevan Sands Bahamas	17.26
Shot put	Andrei Mikhnevich Belarus	21.69 (PB)	Adam Nelson	21.26	Yuriy Bilonoh Ukraine	21.10
Discus	Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania	69.69 (SB)	Róbert Fazekas Hungary	69.01	Vasiliy Kaptyukh Belarus	66.51 (SB)
Javelin	Sergey Makarov	85.44	Andrus Värnik Estonia	85.17	Boris Henry	84.74
Hammer	Ivan Tikhon Belarus	83.05	Adrián Annus Hungary	80.36	Koji Murofushi	80.12
Decathlon	Tom Pappas	8750	Roman Šebrle Czech Republic	8634	Dmitry Karpov Kazakhstan	8374 (NR)

Women's results

Track

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

100 m		10.93 (PB)		11.02		11.03 (SB)
200 m		22.38 (PB)		22.47		22.59
400 m		48.89 (PB)		49.43 (SB)		49.95 (SB)
800 m		1:59.89		2:00.18		2:00.29
1,500 m		3:58.52 (CR)		3:59.04		3:59.95 (PB)
5,000 m		14:51.72		14:52.26		14:52.30
10,000 m		30:04.18 (CR)		30:07.15 (PB)		30:07.20 (PB)
Marathon		2:23:55 (CR)		2:24:14		2:25:09
100 m hurdles		12.53 (NR)		12.57		12.67
400 m hurdles		53.22 (PB)		53.65 (SB)		53.71
20 km walk		1:26:52 (CR)		1:27:34		1:28:10 (NR)
4 × 100 m relay	Patricia Girard-Léno Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Christine Arron	41.78 (WL)	Angela Williams Chryste Gaines Inger Miller Torri Edwards Lauryn Williams*	41.83 (SB)	Olga Fyodorova Yuliya Tabakova Marina Kislova Larisa Kruglova	42.66
4 × 400 m relay	Demetria Washington Jearl Miles Clark Me'Lisa Barber Sanya Richards DeeDee Trotter	3:22.63 (WL)	Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Natalya Nazarova Olesya Zykina Yuliya Pechonkina (Nosova) Svetlana Pospelova Svetlana Goncharenko	3:22.91 (SB)	Allison Beckford Lorraine Fenton (Graham) Ronetta Smith Sandie Richards Michelle Burgher	3:22.92 (SB)

Note: * Indicates medalists who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

High jump		2.06 (WL, AR)		2.00		2.00
Pole vault		4.75 (CR)		4.70 (SB)		4.65
Long jump		6.99 (SB)		6.74		6.70 (SB)
Triple jump		15.18 (SB)		15.05 (AR)		14.90 (NR)
Shot put		20.63		20.12 (PB)		20.08 (SB)
Discus throw		67.32 (SB)		67.14 (SB)		66.73 (PB)
Hammer throw		73.33		71.71		70.92
Javelin throw		66.52 (WL)		63.28		62.70
Heptathlon		7001 (WL)		6755 (SB)		6524 (SB)
	Swedish Carolina Klüft won with big margin following a breaking of her personal best in six of the seven events and the totals. She was the third woman ever to score more than 7000 points.

References

For more information about these results including in-depth results of all heats and finals that include photo finish, wind readings and reaction times see the link below.

• IAAF Championship 2003