2008 IAAF World Athletics Final – Results explained

These are the results of the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final, which took place in at the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion in Stuttgart, Germany on 13–14 September.

The year's top seven athletes, based on their points ranking of the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Tour, qualified to compete in each event, with an extra four athletes selected for races of 1500 metres and above. One additional athlete, a wildcard, was allocated to each event by the IAAF and replacement athletes were admitted to replace the qualified athletes that could not attend the final.^[1]

Track

Key

100 metres

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Reaction time	Notes
1			9.87	0.153
2			10.07	0.154
3			10.10	0.137
4			10.22	0.152
5			10.22	0.153
6			10.27	0.182
7			10.27	0.121
8			10.37	0.140

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Reaction time	Notes
1			10.94	0.180
2			11.06	0.169
3			11.06	0.152
4			11.21	0.171
5			11.22	0.153
6			11.22	0.154
7			11.23	0.136
8			11.25	0.155

200 metres

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Reaction time	Notes
1			20.57	0.149
2			20.58	0.160
3			20.61	0.153
4			20.66	0.162
5			20.66	0.164
6			20.88	0.185
7			21.02	0.151
8			21.23	0.139

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Reaction time	Notes
1			22.50	0.156
2			22.69	0.182
3			22.72	0.162
4			22.89	0.163
5			22.98	0.170
6			23.30	0.185
7			23.37	0.148
8			23.43	0.148

400 metres

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Reaction time	Notes
1			44.50	0.144
2			44.51	0.175
3			45.36	0.133
4			45.37	0.161
5			45.82	0.179
6			45.92	0.167
7			46.22	0.209
8			46.48	0.174

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Reaction time	Notes
1			50.41	0.173
2			50.83	0.234
3			51.30	0.231
4			51.54	0.387
5			51.55	0.231
6			51.65	0.263
7			51.85	0.192
8			51.86	0.206

800 metres

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)	Notes
1			1:49.05
2			1:49.22
3			1:49.40
4			1:49.40
5			1:50.03
6			1:50.70
7			1:50.75
8			1:55.69

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)	Notes
1			1:56.23
2			1:58.41
3			1:58.64
4			1:58.85
5			2:00.05
6			2:00.12
7			2:00.80
8			2:04.44

1500 metres

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)	Notes
1			3:37.92
2			3:37.93
3			3:38.22
4			3:38.35
5			3:38.50
6			3:38.79
7			3:39.62
8			3:39.90
9			3:41.70
10			3:43.91
—

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)	Notes
1			4:06.59
2			4:07.45
3			4:07.65
4			4:07.72
5			4:08.16
6			4:08.24
7			4:08.56
8			4:08.64
9			4:09.21
10			4:12.20
11			4:18.68

3000 metres

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)	Notes
1			8:02.97
2			8:03.55
3			8:03.56
4			8:03.63
5			8:04.07
6			8:04.30
7			8:04.78
8			8:05.87
9			8:05.97
10			8:06.33
11			8:07.59
12			8:09.41

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)	Notes
1			8:43.60
2			8:44.64
3			8:47.65
4			8:49.41
5			8:49.66
6			8:50.55
7			8:50.89
8			8:52.99
9			8:59.73
10			9:04.20
11			9:16.24

5000 metres

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)	Notes
1			13:22.81
2			13:23.02
3			13:23.37
4			13:23.73
5			13:24.13
6			13:24.75
7			13:25.21
8			13:36.33
9			13:41.43
10			13:46.04
—
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Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)	Notes
1			14:53.82
2			14:54.60
3			14:58.76
4			14:58.88
5			14:59.74
6			15:00.03
7			15:02.44
8			15:03.80
9			15:09.69
10			15:21.68
11			15:37.73
—

110/100 metres hurdles

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Reaction time	Notes
1			13.22	0.181
2			13.33	0.191
3			13.54	0.163
4			13.56	0.156
5			13.57	0.136
6			13.62	0.150
7			13.68	0.125
8			13.81	0.139

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Reaction time	Notes
1			12.56	0.128
2			12.56	0.148
3			12.67	0.182
4			12.76	0.137
5			12.81	0.139
6			12.82	0.137
7			13.06	0.156
—			12.54	0.154

• The original winner, Josephine Onyia, was retrospectively disqualified following a failed doping test.^[2]

400 metres hurdles

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Reaction time	Notes
1			48.96	0.175
2			49.00	0.166
3			49.22	0.185
4			49.52	0.276
5			49.95	0.158
6			51.13	0.161
7			51.38	0.212
8			52.02	0.172

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Reaction time	Notes
1			54.06	0.279
2			54.92	0.219
3			55.16	0.151
4			55.23	0.186
5			55.33	0.153
6			55.44	0.151
7			58.15	0.208
8			58.40	0.174

3000 metres steeplechase

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)	Notes
1			8:05.35
2			8:15.32
3			8:16.05
4			8:16.27
5			8:16.58
6			8:16.77
7			8:18.28
8			8:24.77
9			8:29.11
10			8:30.66
11			8:35.04
—

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)	Notes
1			9:21.73
2			9:24.03
3			9:24.38
4			9:31.89
5			9:35.27
6			9:36.72
7			9:37.89
8			9:39.72
9			10:03.20
—
—

Field

High jump

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			2.35
2			2.33
3			2.29
4			2.29
5			2.26
6			2.26
7			2.22
8			2.18

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			2.01
2			1.97
3			1.97
4			1.97
5			1.94
6			1.94
			1.99	DQ
			1.94	DQ

Pole vault

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			5.80
2			5.70
3			5.60
4			5.60
4			5.60
6			5.40
—
—

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			4.70
2			4.70
3			4.70
4			4.50
5			4.50
6			4.50
6			4.50
—

Long jump

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Wind	Notes
1			8.14	+0.6
2			8.13	+1.0
3			8.04	+0.7
4			8.03	+0.6
5			8.00	+1.1
6			7.99	+0.9
7			7.76	+0.8
8			7.54	+1.1

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Wind	Notes
1			6.71	+0.1
2			6.65	+0.1
3			6.64	+0.1
4			6.48	+0.4
5			6.46	0.0
6			6.37	+0.2
7			6.25	+0.1
8			6.00	-1.0

Triple jump

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Wind	Notes
1			17.24	+0.3
2			17.09	+0.1
3			17.01	-0.4
4			16.94	-0.2
5			16.94	+0.1
6			16.78	0.0
7			16.10	+0.2
8			15.66	-0.5

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Wind	Notes
1			14.78	+0.6
2			14.63	+0.6
3			14.63	+0.4
4			14.50	+1.3
5			14.46	+0.3
6			14.40	+0.8
7			13.89	-0.1
8			13.55	+1.4

Shot put

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			20.88
2			20.73
3			20.38
4			20.37
5			20.04
6			19.91
7			19.30
8			19.24

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			19.69
2			19.42
3			18.55
4			18.50
5			18.19
6			17.72
7			16.87
8			16.60

Discus throw

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			68.38
2			66.07
3			65.76
4			65.11
5			63.28
6			62.76
7			61.67
8			61.03

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			62.48
2			62.23
3			58.72
4			57.40
5			56.99
6			53.92
—			64.88
—

• The original winner, Yarelys Barrios, was retrospectively disqualified due to a failed doping test at the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Hammer throw

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			79.99
2			79.37
3			78.99
4			75.33
5			74.19
6			73.59
7			65.63
8			49.76

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			74.09
2			71.40
3			70.97
4			70.00
5			69.72
6			69.52
7			68.85
8			68.67

Javelin throw

+Men's
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			86.65
2			83.77
3			81.64
4			80.78
5			79.96
6			79.57
7			74.65
8			73.47

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result (m)	Notes
1			72.28
2			63.28
3			62.78
4			60.22
5			58.90
6			58.04
7			56.71
8			54.29

References

Results

• 6th IAAF World Athletics Final. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-03-24.

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20080214194403/http://www.iaaf.org/WAF08/index.html IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final, Stuttgart, Germany, 13-14 September 2008
2. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/deportes/espanola/Josephine/Onyia/suspendida/anos/TAS/elpepudep/20091007elpepudep_9/Tes La española Josephine Onyia, suspendida dos años por el TAS
3. https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-two-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-beijing-2008 IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008