1995 World Championships in Athletics

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.

5th World Championships in Athletics

Host city	Gothenburg, Sweden
Nations	191
Athletes	1804
Dates	5–13 August 1995
Opened by	King Carl XVI Gustaf
Main venue	Ullevi 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.

Men's results

Track

1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Donovan Bailey  Canada	9.97	Bruny Surin  Canada	10.03	Ato Boldon  Trinidad and Tobago	10.03
200 m details	Michael Johnson  United States	19.79 CR	Frankie Fredericks  Namibia	20.12	Jeff Williams  United States	20.18
400 m details	Michael Johnson  United States	43.39 CR	Butch Reynolds  United States	44.22	Greg Haughton  Jamaica	44.56
800 m details	Wilson Kipketer  Denmark	1:45.08	Arthémon Hatungimana  Burundi	1:45.64	Vebjørn Rodal  Norway	1:45.68
1,500 m details	Noureddine Morceli  Algeria	3:33.73	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	3:35.28	Vénuste Niyongabo  Burundi	3:35.56
5,000 m details	Ismael Kirui  Kenya	13:16.77	Khalid Bouhlami  Morocco	13:17.15	Shem Kororia  Kenya	13:17.59
10,000 m details	Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia	27:12.95 CR	Khalid Skah  Morocco	27:14.53	Paul Tergat  Kenya	27:14.70
Marathon details	Martín Fiz  Spain	2:11:41	Dionicio Cerón  Mexico	2:12:13	Luíz Antônio dos Santos  Brazil	2:12:49
110 m hurdles details	Allen Johnson  United States	13.00	Tony Jarrett  Great Britain	13.04	Roger Kingdom  United States	13.19
400 m hurdles details	Derrick Adkins  United States	47.98	Samuel Matete  Zambia	48.03	Stéphane Diagana  France	48.14
3,000 m st. details	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 details	Michele Didoni  Italy	1:19:59	Valentí Massana  Spain	1:20:23	Yevgeniy Misyulya  Belarus	1:20:48
50 km walk details	Valentin Kononen  Finland	3:43:42	Giovanni Perricelli  Italy	3:45:11	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland	3:45:57
4 × 100 m relay details	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 details	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
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)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

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

Track

1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Gwen Torrence (USA)	10.85	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	10.94	Irina Privalova (RUS)	10.96
200 m details	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	22.12	Irina Privalova (RUS)	22.12	Galina Malchugina (RUS)	22.37
400 m details	Marie-José Pérec (FRA)	49.28	Pauline Davis (BAH)	49.96	Jearl Miles (USA)	50.00
800 m details	Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB)	1:56.11	Letitia Vriesde (SUR)	1:56.68 (AR)	Kelly Holmes (GBR)	1:56.95
1,500 m details	Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)	4:02.42	Kelly Holmes (GBR)	4:03.04	Carla Sacramento (POR)	4:03.79
5,000 m details	Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL)	14:46.47 (CR)	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)	14:48.54	Zahra Ouaziz (MAR)	14:53.77
10,000 m details	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)	31:04.99	Derartu Tulu (ETH)	31:08.10	Tegla Loroupe (KEN)	31:17.66
Marathon details	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 details	Gail Devers (USA)	12.68	Olga Shishigina (KAZ)	12.80	Yuliya Graudyn (RUS)	12.85
400 m hurdles details	Kim Batten (USA)	52.61 (WR)	Tonja Buford (USA)	52.62	Deon Hemmings (JAM)	53.48 (NR)
10 km walk details	Irina Stankina (RUS)	42:13 (CR)	Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)	42:16	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	42:20
4 × 100 m relay details	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 details	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
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)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Long jump details	Fiona May (ITA)	6.98	Niurka Montalvo (CUB)	6.86	Irina Mushayilova (RUS)	6.83
Triple jump details	Inessa Kravets (UKR)	15.50 (WR)	Iva Prandzheva (BUL)	15.18	Anna Biryukova (RUS)	15.08
High jump details	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.01	Alina Astafei (GER)	1.99	Inha Babakova (UKR)	1.99
Shot put details	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 details	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
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

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	12	2	5	19
2	Belarus (BLR)	2	3	2	7
3	Germany (GER)	2	2	2	6
	Italy (ITA)	2	2	2	6
5	Cuba (CUB)	2	2	0	4
6	Kenya (KEN)	2	1	3	6
7	Canada (CAN)	2	1	1	4
	Portugal (POR)	2	1	1	4
9	Ukraine (UKR)	2	0	1	3
10	Algeria (ALG)	2	0	0	2
11	Russia (RUS)	1	4	7	12
12	Jamaica (JAM)	1	4	2	7
13	Great Britain (GBR)	1	3	1	5
14	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	1	3
	Finland (FIN)	1	1	1	3
16	Bahamas (BAH)	1	1	0	2
	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	1	0	2
	Spain (ESP)	1	1	0	2
19	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
20	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
	Syria (SYR)	1	0	0	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	1	0	0	1
25	Morocco (MAR)	0	3	1	4
26	Romania (ROU)	0	2	0	2
27	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
	Burundi (BDI)	0	1	1	2
29	Bermuda (BER)	0	1	0	1
	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	Namibia (NAM)	0	1	0	1
	Suriname (SUR)	0	1	0	1
	Zambia (ZAM)	0	1	0	1
36	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
38	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Dominica (DMA)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (43 entries)		44	44	44	132

Source:

References

• IAAF 1995 Championship

1. "iaaf.org - Osaka 2007 - History". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-04-03.