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The 5th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden on 5–13 August 1995.

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5th World Championships in Athletics
Host cityGothenburg, Sweden
Nations191
Athletes1804
Dates5–13 August 1995
Opened byKing Carl XVI Gustaf
Main venueUllevi Stadium
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This edition featured 1804 athletes from 191 nations.[1]

This competition saw the women run the 5000 m event at the World Championships for the first time. The race replaced the 3000 m event which had been run at all previous World Championships.


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Men's results

Track

1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

More information Event, Gold ...
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Donovan Bailey
 Canada
9.97 Bruny Surin
 Canada
10.03 Ato Boldon
 Trinidad and Tobago
10.03
200 m
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Michael Johnson
 United States
19.79
CR
Frankie Fredericks
 Namibia
20.12 Jeff Williams
 United States
20.18
400 m
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Michael Johnson
 United States
43.39
CR
Butch Reynolds
 United States
44.22 Greg Haughton
 Jamaica
44.56
800 m
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Wilson Kipketer
 Denmark
1:45.08 Arthémon Hatungimana
 Burundi
1:45.64 Vebjørn Rodal
 Norway
1:45.68
1,500 m
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Noureddine Morceli
 Algeria
3:33.73 Hicham El Guerrouj
 Morocco
3:35.28 Vénuste Niyongabo
 Burundi
3:35.56
5,000 m
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Ismael Kirui
 Kenya
13:16.77 Khalid Bouhlami
 Morocco
13:17.15 Shem Kororia
 Kenya
13:17.59
10,000 m
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Haile Gebrselassie
 Ethiopia
27:12.95
CR
Khalid Skah
 Morocco
27:14.53 Paul Tergat
 Kenya
27:14.70
Marathon
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Martín Fiz
 Spain
2:11:41 Dionicio Cerón
 Mexico
2:12:13 Luíz Antônio dos Santos
 Brazil
2:12:49
110 m hurdles
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Allen Johnson
 United States
13.00 Tony Jarrett
 Great Britain
13.04 Roger Kingdom
 United States
13.19
400 m hurdles
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Derrick Adkins
 United States
47.98 Samuel Matete
 Zambia
48.03 Stéphane Diagana
 France
48.14
3,000 m st.
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Moses Kiptanui
 Kenya
8:04.16
CR
Christopher Koskei
 Kenya
8:09.30 Saad Al-Asmari
 Saudi Arabia
8:12.95
AR
20 km walk
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Michele Didoni
 Italy
1:19:59 Valentí Massana
 Spain
1:20:23 Yevgeniy Misyulya
 Belarus
1:20:48
50 km walk
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Valentin Kononen
 Finland
3:43:42 Giovanni Perricelli
 Italy
3:45:11 Robert Korzeniowski
 Poland
3:45:57
4 × 100 m relay
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 Canada (CAN)
Donovan Bailey
Robert Esmie
Glenroy Gilbert
Bruny Surin
38.31  Australia (AUS)
Paul Henderson
Tim Jackson
Steve Brimacombe
Damien Marsh
38.50  Italy (ITA)
Giovanni Puggioni
Ezio Madonia
Angelo Cipolloni
Sandro Floris
39.07
4 × 400 m relay
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 United States (USA)
Marlon Ramsey
Derek Mills
Butch Reynolds
Michael Johnson
Kevin Lyles*
Darnell Hall*
2:57.32  Jamaica (JAM)
Michael McDonald
Davian Clarke
Danny McFarlane
Greg Haughton
Dennis Blake*
2:59.88  Nigeria (NGR)
Udeme Ekpeyong
Kunle Adejuyigbe
Jude Monye
Sunday Bada
3:03.18
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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

More information Event, Gold ...
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Long jump
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Iván Pedroso
 Cuba
8.70 James Beckford
 Jamaica
8.30 Mike Powell
 United States
8.29
Triple jump
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Jonathan Edwards
 Great Britain
18.29
(WR)
Brian Wellman
 Bermuda
17.62 Jérôme Romain
 Dominica
17.59
High jump
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Troy Kemp
 Bahamas
2.37 Javier Sotomayor
 Cuba
2.37 Artur Partyka
 Poland
2.35
Pole vault
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Sergey Bubka
 Ukraine
5.92 Maksim Tarasov
 Russia
5.86 Jean Galfione
 France
5.86
Shot put
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John Godina
 United States
21.47 Mika Halvari
 Finland
20.93 Randy Barnes
 United States
20.41
Discus throw
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Lars Riedel
 Germany
68.76
(CR)
Vladimir Dubrovshchik
 Belarus
65.98 Vasiliy Kaptyukh
 Belarus
65.88
Hammer throw
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Andrey Abduvaliyev
 Tajikistan
81.56 Igor Astapkovich
 Belarus
81.10 Tibor Gécsek
 Hungary
80.98
Javelin throw
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Jan Železný
 Czech Republic
89.58 Steve Backley
 Great Britain
86.30 Boris Henry
 Germany
86.08
Decathlon
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Dan O'Brien
 United States
8695 Eduard Hämäläinen
 Belarus
8489 Mike Smith
 Canada
8419
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Women's results

Track

1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

More information Event, Gold ...
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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 Gwen Torrence (USA)10.85  Merlene Ottey (JAM)10.94  Irina Privalova (RUS)10.96
200 m
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 Merlene Ottey (JAM)22.12  Irina Privalova (RUS)22.12  Galina Malchugina (RUS)22.37
400 m
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 Marie-José Pérec (FRA)49.28  Pauline Davis (BAH)49.96  Jearl Miles (USA)50.00
800 m
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 Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB)1:56.11  Letitia Vriesde (SUR)1:56.68
(AR)
 Kelly Holmes (GBR)1:56.95
1,500 m
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 Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)4:02.42  Kelly Holmes (GBR)4:03.04  Carla Sacramento (POR)4:03.79
5,000 m
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 Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL)14:46.47
(CR)
 Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)14:48.54  Zahra Ouaziz (MAR)14:53.77
10,000 m
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 Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)31:04.99  Derartu Tulu (ETH)31:08.10  Tegla Loroupe (KEN)31:17.66
Marathon
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 Manuela Machado (POR)2:25:39  Anuța Cătună (ROU)2:26:25  Ornella Ferrara (ITA)2:30:11
The marathon course was 400 m short of the normal distance.
100 m hurdles
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 Gail Devers (USA)12.68  Olga Shishigina (KAZ)12.80  Yuliya Graudyn (RUS)12.85
400 m hurdles
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 Kim Batten (USA)52.61
(WR)
 Tonja Buford (USA)52.62  Deon Hemmings (JAM)53.48
(NR)
10 km walk
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 Irina Stankina (RUS)42:13
(CR)
 Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)42:16  Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)42:20
4 × 100 m relay
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 United States (USA)
Celena Mondie-Milner
Carlette Guidry
Chryste Gaines
Gwen Torrence
D'Andre Hill*
42.12  Jamaica (JAM)
Dahlia Duhaney
Juliet Cuthbert
Beverly McDonald
Merlene Ottey
Michelle Freeman*
42.25  Germany (GER)
Melanie Paschke
Silke Lichtenhagen
Silke-Beate Knoll
Gabriele Becker
43.01
4 × 400 m relay
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 United States (USA)
Kim Graham
Rochelle Stevens
Camara Jones
Jearl Miles
Nicole Green*
3:22.29  Russia (RUS)
Tatyana Chebykina
Svetlana Goncharenko
Yuliya Sotnikova
Yelena Andreyeva
Tatyana Zakharova*
3:23.98  Australia (AUS)
Lee Naylor
Renée Poetschka
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Cathy Freeman
3:25.88
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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

More information Event, Gold ...
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Long jump
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 Fiona May (ITA)6.98  Niurka Montalvo (CUB)6.86  Irina Mushayilova (RUS)6.83
Triple jump
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 Inessa Kravets (UKR)15.50
(WR)
 Iva Prandzheva (BUL)15.18  Anna Biryukova (RUS)15.08
High jump
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 Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)2.01  Alina Astafei (GER)1.99  Inha Babakova (UKR)1.99
Shot put
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 Astrid Kumbernuss (GER)21.22  Huang Zhihong (CHN)20.04  Svetla Mitkova (BUL)19.56
Discus throw
details
 Ellina Zvereva (BLR)68.64  Ilke Wyludda (GER)67.20  Olga Chernyavskaya (RUS)66.86
Javelin throw
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 Natalya Shikolenko (BLR)67.56  Felicia Tilea (ROU)65.22  Mikaela Ingberg (FIN)65.16
Heptathlon
details
 Ghada Shouaa (SYR)6651  Svetlana Moskalets (RUS)6575  Rita Ináncsi (HUN)6522
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Medal table

Note that the host, Sweden, did not win any medals at these championships. This fate Sweden shares only with Canada (2001).

More information Rank, Nation ...
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)122519
2 Belarus (BLR)2327
3 Germany (GER)2226
 Italy (ITA)2226
5 Cuba (CUB)2204
6 Kenya (KEN)2136
7 Canada (CAN)2114
 Portugal (POR)2114
9 Ukraine (UKR)2013
10 Algeria (ALG)2002
11 Russia (RUS)14712
12 Jamaica (JAM)1427
13 Great Britain (GBR)1315
14 Bulgaria (BUL)1113
 Finland (FIN)1113
16 Bahamas (BAH)1102
 Ethiopia (ETH)1102
 Spain (ESP)1102
19 France (FRA)1023
20 Czech Republic (CZE)1001
 Denmark (DEN)1001
 Ireland (IRL)1001
 Syria (SYR)1001
 Tajikistan (TJK)1001
25 Morocco (MAR)0314
26 Romania (ROU)0202
27 Australia (AUS)0112
 Burundi (BDI)0112
29 Bermuda (BER)0101
 China (CHN)0101
 Kazakhstan (KAZ)0101
 Mexico (MEX)0101
 Namibia (NAM)0101
 Suriname (SUR)0101
 Zambia (ZAM)0101
36 Hungary (HUN)0022
 Poland (POL)0022
38 Brazil (BRA)0011
 Dominica (DMA)0011
 Nigeria (NGR)0011
 Norway (NOR)0011
 Saudi Arabia (KSA)0011
 Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)0011
Totals (43 entries)444444132
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