1991 world championships in athletics

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.

Medal Winners

Medal table by country

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b>Country:	!align="center" bgcolor="gold"\|Gold:	!align="center" bgcolor="silver"\|Silver:	!align="center" bgcolor="bronze"\|Bronze:	Total:
.	USA	10	10	8	28
.	USSR	9	9	11	29
.	Germany	5	4	8	17
.	Kenya	4	3	1	8
.	Great Britain	2	2	3	7
.	China	2	1	1	4
.	Algeria	2	0	1	3
.	Jamaica	1	1	3	5
.	Finland	1	1	1	3
0=	France	1	1	0	2
0=	Japan	1	1	0	2
2=	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
2=	Italy	1	0	0	1
2=	Poland	1	0	0	1
2=	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
2=	Zambia	1	0	0	1
7.	Cuba	0	2	0	2
8=	Canada	0	1	1	2
8=	Hungary	0	1	1	2
8=	Romania	0	1	1	2
1=	Brazil	0	1	0	1
1=	Djibouti	0	1	0	1
1=	Ethiopia	0	1	0	1
1=	Namibia	0	1	0	1
1=	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
1=	Norway	0	1	0	1
1=	Sweden	0	1	0	1
8.	Morocco	0	0	2	2
9.	Spain	0	0	1	1

Track

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00 m Men	Carl Lewis, USA	Leroy Burrell, USA	Dennis Mitchell, USA
00 m Women	Katrin Krabbe, Germany	Gwen Torrence, USA	Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
00 m Hurdles Women	Lyudmila Narozhilenko, USSR	Gail Devers-Roberts, USA	Natalya Grigoryeva, USSR
10 m Hurdles Men	Greg Foster, USA	Jack Pierce, USA	Tony Jarrett, Great Britain
00 m Men	Michael Johnson, USA	Frankie Fredericks, Namibia	Atlee Mahorn, Canada
00 m Women	Katrin Krabbe, Germany	Gwen Torrence, USA	Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
00 m Men	Antonio Pettigrew, USA	Roger Black, Great Britain	Danny Everett, USA
00 m Women	Marie-Jos Perec, France	Grit Breuer, Germany	Sandra Myers, Spain
00 m Hurdles Men	Samuel Matete, Zambia	Winthrop Graham, JAmaica	Kriss Akabusi, Great Britain
00 m Hurdles Women	Tatyana Ledovskaya, USSr	Sally Gunnell, Great Britain	Janeene Vickers, USA
00 m Men	Billy Konchellah, Kenya	Jos Barbosa, Brazil	Mark Everett, USA
00 m Women	Liliya Nurutdinova, USSR	Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuba	Ella Kovacs, Romania
500 m Men	Noureddine Morceli, Algeria	Wilfred Kirochi, Kenya	Hauke Fuhlbrgge, Germany
500 m Women	Hassiba Boulmerka, Algeria	Tatyana Dorovskikh, USSR	Lyudmila Rogachova, USSR
,000 m Steeplechase Men	Moses Kiptanui, Kenya	Patrick Sang, Kenya	Azzedine Brahmi, Algeria
,000 m Men	Yobes Ondieki, Kenya	Fita Bayissa, Ethiopia	Brahim Boutayeb, Morocco
,000 m Women	Tatyana Dorovskikh, USSR	Yelena Romanova, USSR	Susan Sirma, Kenya
0,000 m Men	Moses Tanui, Kenya	Richard Chelimo, Kenya	Khalid Skah, Morocco
0,000 m Women	Liz McColgan, Great Britain	Zhong Huandi, China	Wang Xiuting, China
arathon Men	Hiromi Taniguchi, Japan	Ahmed Salah, Djibouti	Steve Spence, USA
arathon Women	Wanda Panfil, Poland	Sachiko Yamashita, Japan	Katrin Drre, Germany
0 km Walk Women	Alina Ivanova, USSR	Madelein Svensson, Sweden	Sari Essayah, Finland
0 km Walk Men	Maurizio Damilano, Italy	Mikhail Shchennikov, USSR	Yevgeniy Misyulya, USSR
0 km Walk Men	Aleksandr Potashov, USSR	Andrey Perlov, USSR	Hartwig Gauder, Germany
x 100 m Relay Men	USA	France	Great Britain
x 100 m Women	Jamaica	USSR	Germany
x 400 m Men	Great Britain	USA	Jamaica
x 400 m Women	USSR	USA	Germany

Field

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

References

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

1991 World Championships In Athletics

Medal Winners

Medal table by country

Track

Field

References

See Also