2001 world championships in athletics

The 2001 World Championships in Athletics were held at the Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between August 3 and August 12 and was the first time the event had visited North America.

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	8	5	5	18
.	Russia	6	7	6	19
.	Kenya	3	3	2	8
.	Germany	3	3	1	7
.	Cuba	3	1	2	6
.	Ethiopia	2	3	3	8
.	Romania	2	1	1	4
.	Morocco	2	1	0	3
.	Poland	2	0	2	4
0.	Czech Republic	2	0	0	2
1.	Belarus	1	3	0	4
2.	Jamaica	1	2	3	6
3.	Bahamas	1	2	0	3
4=	Greece	1	1	2	4
4=	Italy	1	1	2	4
6.	Ukraine	1	1	1	3
7.	South Africa	1	1	0	2
8=	Australia	1	0	1	2
8=	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
0=	Dominican Republic	1	0	0	1
0=	Mozambique	1	0	0	1
0=	Senegal	1	0	0	1
0=	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
4=	Japan	0	2	1	3
4=	Spain	0	2	1	3
6=	Finland	0	1	1	2
6=	France	0	1	1	2
6=	Sweden	0	1	1	2
9=	Austria	0	1	0	1
9=	Cameroon	0	1	0	1
9=	Estonia	0	1	0	1
9=	Israel	0	1	0	1
9=	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
4.	Mexico	0	0	2	2
5=	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
5=	Haiti	0	0	1	1
5=	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
5=	Portugal	0	0	1	1
5=	St Kitts and Nevis	0	0	1	1
5=	Surinam	0	0	1	1
5=	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1

Track

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00 m Men	Maurice Greene, USA	Tim Montgomery, USA	Bernard Williams, USA
00 m Women	Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukraine	Marion Jones, USA	Ekaterini Thanou, Greece
00 m Hurdles Women	Anjanette Kirkland, USA	Gail Devers, USA	Olga Shishigina, Kazakhstan
10 m Hurdles Men	Allen Johnson, USA	Anier Garca , Cuba	Dudley Dorival, Haiti
00 m Men	Konstantinos Kenteris, Greece	Christopher Williams, Jamaica	Kim Collins, St. Kitts & Nevis, & Shawn Crawford, USA (tied)
00 m Women	Marion Jones, USA	Debbie Ferguson, Bahamas	LaTasha Jenkins, USA
00 m Men	Avard Moncur, Bahamas	Ingo Schultz , Germany	Greg Haughton, Jamaica
00 m Women	Amy Mback Thiam, Senegal	Lorraine Fenton, Jamaica	Ana Guevara, Mexico
00 m Hurdles Men	Flix Snchez, Dominican Republic	Fabrizio Mori, Italy	Dai Tamesue, Japan
00 m Hurdles Women	Nezha Bidouane, Morocco	Yuliya Nosova, Russia	Daim Perna, Cuba
00 m Men	Andr Bucher, Switzerland	Wilfred Bungei, Kenya	Pawel Czapiewski, Poland
00 m Women	Maria Mutola, Mozambique	Stephanie Graf, Austria	Letitia Vriesde, Surinam
500 m Men	Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco	Bernard Lagat, Kenya	Driss Maazouzi, France
500 m Women	Gabriela Szabo , Romania	Violeta Szekely, Romania	Natalya Gorelova, Russia
,000 m Steeplechase Men	Reuben Kosgei, Kenya	Ali Ezzine, Morocco	Bernard Barmasai, Kenya
,000 m Men	Richard Limo, Kenya	Million Wolde, Ethiopia	John Kibowen, Kenya
,000 m Women	Olga Yegorova, Russia	Marta Domnguez, Spain	Ayelech Worku, Ethiopia
0,000 m Men	Charles Kamathi, Kenya	Assefa Mezegebu, Ethiopia	Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopia
0,000 m Women	Derartu Tulu, Ethiopia	Berhane Adere, Ethiopia	Gete Wami, Ethiopia
arathon Men	Gezahegne Abera, Ethiopia	Simon Biwott, Kenya	Stefano Baldini, Italy
arathon Women	Lidia Simon , Romania	Reiko Tosa, Japan	Svetlana Zakharova, Russia
0 km Walk Men	Roman Rasskazov, Russia	Ilya Markov, Russia	Viktor Burayev, Russia
0 km Walk Women	Olimpiada Ivanova, Russia	Valentina Tsybulskaya, Belarus	Elisabetta Perrone, Italy
0 km Walk Men	Robert Korzeniowski, Poland	Jess ngel Garca, Spain	Edgar Hernndez, Mexico
x 100 m Relay Men	USA	South Africa	Trinidad & Tobago
x 100 m Women	Germany	France	Jamaica
x 400 m Men	USA	Bahamas	Jamaica
x 400 m Women	Jamaica	Germany	Russia

Field

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a href="/encyclopedia/Long-Jump" title="Long Jump">Long Jump Men	Ivn Pedroso, Cuba	Savant Stringfellow, USA	Carlos Calado, Portugal
a href="/encyclopedia/Long-Jump" title="Long Jump">Long Jump Women	Fiona May, Italy	Tatyana Kotova, Russia	Niurka Montalvo, Spain
a href="/encyclopedia/Triple-Jump" title="Triple Jump">Triple Jump Men	Jonathan Edwards, Great Britain	Christian Olsson, Sweden	Igor Spasovkhodskiy, Russia
a href="/encyclopedia/Triple-Jump" title="Triple Jump">Triple Jump Women	Tatyana Lebedeva, Russia	Franoise Mbango Etone, Cameroon	Tereza Marinova, Bulgaria
a href="/encyclopedia/high-jump" title="high jump">high jump Men	Martin Buss, Germany	Yaroslav Rybakov & Vyacheslav Voronin Russia (tied)
a href="/encyclopedia/high-jump" title="high jump">high jump Women	Hestrie Cloete, South Africa	Inga Babakova, Ukraine	Kajsa Bergqvist, Sweden
a href="/encyclopedia/javelin-throw" title="javelin throw">javelin throw Men	Jan Zelezn, Czech Republic	Aki Parviainen, Finland	Kostas Gatsioudis, Greece
a href="/encyclopedia/javelin-throw" title="javelin throw">javelin throw Women	Osleidys Menndez, Cuba	Mirela Tzelili, Greece	Sonia Bicet, Cuba
a href="/encyclopedia/Discus" title="Discus">Discus Men	Lars Riedel, Germany	Virgilijus Alekna, Lithuania	Michael Mllenbeck, Germany
a href="/encyclopedia/Discus" title="Discus">Discus Women	Natalya Sadova, Russia	Ellina Zvereva, Belarus	Nicoleta Grasu, Romania
ammer Men	Szymon Zilkowski, Poland	Koji Murofushi, Japan	Ilya Konovalov, Russia
ammer Women	Yipsi Moreno, Cuba	Olga Kuzenkova, Russia	Bronwyn Eagles, Australia
a href="/encyclopedia/Shot-Put" title="Shot Put">Shot Put Men	John Godina, USA	Adam Nelson, USA	Arsi Harju, Finland
a href="/encyclopedia/Shot-Put" title="Shot Put">Shot Put Women	Yanina Korolchik, Belarus	Nadine Kleinert-Schmitt, Germany	Vita Pavlysh, Ukraine
a href="/encyclopedia/pole-vault" title="pole vault">pole vault Men	Dmitri Markov, Australia	Aleksandr Averbukh, Israel	Nick Hysong, USA
a href="/encyclopedia/pole-vault" title="pole vault">pole vault Women	Stacy Dragila, USA	Svetlana Feofanova, Australia	Monika Pyrek, Poland
a href="/encyclopedia/Heptathlon" title="Heptathlon">Heptathlon Women	Yelena Prokhorova, Russia	Natalya Sazanovich, Belarus	Shelia Burrell, USA
a href="/encyclopedia/Decathlon" title="Decathlon">Decathlon Men	Tomš Dvork, Czech Republic	Erki Nool, Estonia	Dean Macey, Great Britain

References

http://www2.iaaf.org/WCH01/results/

2001 World Championships In Athletics

Medal Winners

Medal table by country

Track

Field

References

See Also