2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships

The 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was held between 12 and 14 March at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar. The championships was the first of six IAAF World Athletics Series events to take place in 2010.

13th IAAF World Indoor Championships
Official competition logo
Dates	12 March–14 March
Host city	Doha, Qatar
Venue	Aspire Dome
Events	26
Participation	585 athletes from 146 nations
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Bidding and organisation

The IAAF announced on March 25, 2007, at an IAAF Council meeting in Mombasa, Kenya that it had received bids from Turkey and Qatar to host the championships. On November 25, in a Council meeting in Monaco, the IAAF announced that Doha would host the championships.^[1] This was the first time that a world athletics championship was held in the Middle-East and the second time the World Indoor Championships was held outside of Europe or North America (after the 1999 Championships in Japan).^[2]

The Aspire Zone during the 2006 Asian Games

The venue for the event was the indoor arena located within Doha's Aspire Zone – the ASPIRE Dome, which has previously hosted indoor athletics for the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships.^[3] The World Indoor Championships was the first of two significant athletics events to take place in Doha in 2010 – the inaugural 2010 IAAF Diamond League will begin with the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix meeting in May.^[4]

Prior to the championships, the Qatar organising committee held the Doha Indoor Athletics Meeting for Juniors as a test event for the venue. The meeting began on 26 February and featured junior athletes from 11 countries within the region competing in a total of 13 events.^[5]

The competition set a new high for the number of nations at the World Indoor Championships: 150 countries sent teams to the championships, with a total of 374 men and 283 women athletes entered to compete.^[2]

The competition mascot was an anthropomorphic caracal named Saham – the caracal is a medium-sized cat which is native to the Middle-East.^[6] The inclusion of a mascot follows on from the mainstream success of the 2009 World Championships in Athletics mascot – Berlino the Bear.^[7]

The IAAF extended live audio and video coverage of the championships to the internet for certain countries,^[8] including a deal with IEC in Sports which saw events available live and on-demand via Dailymotion. This was the first deal of its kind for the competition.^[9]

Drug tests

Anna Alminova, a Russian athlete who competed in the 1500 m failed a drug test while at the championships. She tested positive for pseudoephedrine, which was present in a cold medicine she was taking, and received a three-month ban.^[10]

Schedule

Legend

Key	P	Q	H	½	F
Value	Preliminary round	Qualifiers	Heats	Semifinals	Final

All dates are AST (UTC+3)

Men^[11]

Date →	12		13			14
Event ↓	M	A	M	A		M	A
60 m		H		1⁄2	F
400 m	H	1⁄2		F
800 m	H		1⁄2				F
1500 m		H		F
3000 m		H					F
60 m hurdles		H					1⁄2	F
4 × 400 m relay			H				F
Long jump		Q		F
Triple jump		Q					F
High jump		Q					F
Pole vault	Q			F
Shot put	Q			F
Heptathlon	F

Women^[11]

Date →	12		13			14
Event ↓	M	A	M	A		M	A
60 m		H					1⁄2	F
400 m	H	1⁄2		F
800 m	H						F
1500 m		H					F
3000 m		H		F
60 m hurdles		H		1⁄2	F
4 × 400 m relay							F
Long jump			Q				F
Triple jump	Q			F
High jump	Q			F
Pole vault		Q					F
Shot put			Q				F
Pentathlon			F

Results

Men

2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Dwain Chambers  Great Britain	6.48 WL	Mike Rodgers  United States	6.53	Daniel Bailey  Antigua and Barbuda	6.57
400 m details	Chris Brown  Bahamas	45.96 SB	William Collazo  Cuba	46.31 PB	Jamaal Torrance  United States	46.43
800 m details	Abubaker Kaki  Sudan	1:46.23 SB	Boaz Kiplagat Lalang  Kenya	1:46.39	Adam Kszczot  Poland	1:46.69
1500 m details	Deresse Mekonnen  Ethiopia	3:41.86	Abdalaati Iguider  Morocco	3:41.96	Haron Keitany  Kenya	3:42.32
3000 m details	Bernard Lagat  United States	7:37.97 SB	Sergio Sánchez  Spain	7:39.55	Sammy Alex Mutahi  Kenya	7:39.90
60 m hurdles details	Dayron Robles  Cuba	7.34 CR	Terrence Trammell  United States	7.36 NR	David Oliver  United States	7.44 PB
4 × 400 m relay details	United States Jamaal Torrance Greg Nixon Tavaris Tate Bershawn Jackson LeJerald Betters* Kerron Clement*	3:03.40 WL	Belgium Cedric van Branteghem Kévin Borlée Antoine Gillet Jonathan Borlée Nils Duerinck*	3:06.94 NR	Great Britain Conrad Williams Nigel Levine Christopher Clarke Richard Buck Luke Lennon-Ford*	3:07.52 SB
High jump details	Ivan Ukhov  Russia	2.36	Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia	2.31	Dusty Jonas  United States	2.31
Pole vault details	Steven Hooker  Australia	6.01 CR	Malte Mohr  Germany	5.70	Alexander Straub  Germany	5.65
Long jump details	Fabrice Lapierre  Australia	8.17	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena  South Africa	8.08 SB	Mitchell Watt  Australia	8.05
Triple jump details	Teddy Tamgho  France	17.90 WR	Yoandris Betanzos  Cuba	17.69 PB	Arnie David Girat  Cuba	17.36 SB
Shot put details	Christian Cantwell  United States	21.83	Ralf Bartels  Germany	21.44 PB	Dylan Armstrong  Canada	21.39
Heptathlon details	Bryan Clay  United States	6204	Trey Hardee  United States	6184	Aleksey Drozdov  Russia	6141
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Veronica Campbell-Brown  Jamaica	7.00 PB	Carmelita Jeter  United States	7.05	Ruddy Zang Milama  Gabon Sheri-Ann Brooks  Jamaica	7.14 7.14 PB
400 m details	Debbie Dunn  United States	51.04	Vania Stambolova  Bulgaria	51.50 SB	Amantle Montsho  Botswana	52.53
800 m details	Mariya Savinova  Russia	1:58.26 WL	Jenny Meadows  Great Britain	1:58.43 NR	Alysia Johnson  United States	1:59.60 PB
1500 m details	Kalkidan Gezahegne  Ethiopia	4:08.14	Natalia Rodríguez  Spain	4:08.30	Gelete Burka  Ethiopia	4:08.39
3000 m details	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	8:51.17	Vivian Cheruiyot  Kenya	8:51.85	Sentayehu Ejigu  Ethiopia	8:52.08
60 m hurdles details	LoLo Jones  United States	7.72 CR	Perdita Felicien  Canada	7.86 SB	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep  Canada	7.87
4 × 400 m relay details	United States Debbie Dunn DeeDee Trotter Natasha Hastings Allyson Felix	3:27.34 WL	Czech Republic Denisa Rosolová Jitka Bartoničková Zuzana Bergrová Zuzana Hejnová	3:30.05 SB	Great Britain Kim Wall Vicki Barr Perri Shakes-Drayton Lee McConnell	3:30.29 SB
High jump details	Blanka Vlašić  Croatia	2.00	Ruth Beitia  Spain	1.98	Chaunte Howard Lowe  United States	1.98 SB
Pole vault details	Fabiana Murer  Brazil	4.80	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.80 SB	Anna Rogowska  Poland	4.70
Long jump details	Brittney Reese  United States	6.70	Naide Gomes  Portugal	6.67	Keila Costa  Brazil	6.63 SB
Triple jump details	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan	15.14 WL	Yargelis Savigne  Cuba	14.86 SB	Anna Pyatykh  Russia	14.64 SB
Shot put details	Valerie Vili  New Zealand	20.49 AR	Anna Avdeyeva  Russia	19.47 SB	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	19.34 SB
Pentathlon details	Jessica Ennis  Great Britain	4937 CR	Nataliya Dobrynska  Ukraine	4851	Hyleas Fountain  United States	4753
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Bernard Lagat became the oldest athlete to win at the championships.^[12]

Teddy Tamgho, France's only medallist, set a world indoor record in the triple jump.^[13]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	4	6	18
2	Ethiopia (ETH)	3	0	2	5
3	Russia (RUS)	2	3	2	7
4	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	2	5
5	Australia (AUS)	2	0	1	3
6	Cuba (CUB)	1	3	1	5
7	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	1	2
	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	1	2
9	Bahamas (BAH)	1	0	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
	Sudan (SUD)	1	0	0	1
15	Spain (ESP)	0	3	0	3
16	Germany (GER)	0	2	2	4
	Kenya (KEN)	0	2	2	4
18	Canada (CAN)	0	1	2	3
19	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
26	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
27	Antigua and Barbuda (ATG)	0	0	1	1
	Botswana (BOT)	0	0	1	1
	Gabon (GAB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		26	26	27	79

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