IX World Championships in Athletics
Championnats du monde d'athlétisme-Saint-Denis

Host city	Saint-Denis, France
Nations	198
Athletes	1679
Dates	23–31 August 2003
Opened by	Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Closed by	IAAF President Lamine Diack
Main venue	Stade de France
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The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from 23 August to 31 August 2003 in the streets of Paris and the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Kim Collins  Saint Kitts and Nevis	10.07	Darrel Brown  Trinidad and Tobago	10.08	Darren Campbell  Great Britain	10.08 (SB)
200 m details	John Capel  United States	20.30	Darvis Patton  United States	20.31	Shingo Suetsugu  Japan	20.38
400 m details	Tyree Washington  United States	44.771	Marc Raquil  France	44.79 (NR)	Michael Blackwood  Jamaica	44.80
800 m details	Djabir Saïd-Guerni  Algeria	1:44.81	Yuriy Borzakovskiy  Russia	1:44.84	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi  South Africa	1:44.90
1500 m details	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	3:31.77	Mehdi Baala  France	3:32.31	Ivan Heshko  Ukraine	3:33.17
5000 m details	Eliud Kipchoge  Kenya	12:52.79 (CR)	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	12:52.83	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	12:53.12
10,000 m details	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	26:49.57 (CR)	Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia	26:50.77 (SB)	Sileshi Sihine  Ethiopia	27:01.44
Marathon details	Jaouad Gharib  Morocco	2:08:31 (CR)	Julio Rey  Spain	2:08:38	Stefano Baldini  Italy	2:09:14
110 m hurdles details	Allen Johnson  United States	13.12	Terrence Trammell  United States	13.20 (SB)	Liu Xiang  China	13.23
400 m hurdles details	Félix Sánchez  Dominican Republic	47.25 (WL)	Joey Woody  United States	48.18 (SB)	Periklís Iakovákis  Greece	48.24
3000 m steeplechase details	Saif Saaeed Shaheen  Qatar	8:04.39	Ezekiel Kemboi  Kenya	8:05.11	Eliseo Martin  Spain	8:09.09 (PB)
20 km race walk details	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	1:17:21 (WBP)	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	1:18:00 (SB)	Roman Rasskazov  Russia	1:18:07 (SB)
50 km race walk details	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland	3:36:03 (WBP)	German Skurygin  Russia	3:36:42 (NR)	Andreas Erm  Germany	3:37:46 (NR)
4 × 100 m relay details	United States (USA) John Capel Bernard Williams Darvis Patton Joshua J. Johnson	38.06	Brazil (BRA) Vicente de Lima Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Cláudio Roberto Souza	38.26 (SB)	Netherlands (NED) Timothy Beck Troy Douglas Patrick van Balkom Caimin Douglas Guus Hoogmoed*	38.87
4 × 400 m relay details	France (FRA) Leslie Djhone Naman Keïta Stéphane Diagana Marc Raquil Ahmed Douhou*	2:58.962 (NR)	Jamaica (JAM) Brandon Simpson Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke Michael Blackwood Michael Campbell* Lansford Spence*	2:59.60 (SB)	Bahamas (BAH) Avard Moncur Dennis Darling Nathaniel McKinney Chris Brown Carl Oliver*	3:00.53 (SB)
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.
¹ Jerome Young of the United States originally finished first in 44.50, but was disqualified after he tested positive for drugs in 2004.
² The United States (Calvin Harrison, Tyree Washington, Derrick Brew, Jerome Young) originally finished first in 2:58.88, but were disqualified after Jerome Young and Calvin Harrison both tested positive for drugs in 2004.

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Jacques Freitag  South Africa	2.35 (SB)	Stefan Holm  Sweden	2.32	Mark Boswell  Canada	2.32 (SB)
Long jump details	Dwight Phillips  United States	8.32	James Beckford  Jamaica	8.28 (SB)	Yago Lamela  Spain	8.22
Pole vault details	Giuseppe Gibilisco  Italy	5.90 (NR)	Okkert Brits  South Africa	5.85 (SB)	Patrik Kristiansson  Sweden	5.85 (PB)
Triple jump details	Christian Olsson  Sweden	17.72	Yoandri Betanzos  Cuba	17.28 (SB)	Leevan Sands  Bahamas	17.26
Shot put details	Andrei Mikhnevich  Belarus	21.69 (PB)	Adam Nelson  United States	21.26	Yuriy Bilonoh  Ukraine	21.10
Discus details	Virgilijus Alekna  Lithuania	69.69 (SB)	Róbert Fazekas  Hungary	69.01	Vasiliy Kaptyukh  Belarus	66.51 (SB)
Javelin details	Sergey Makarov  Russia	85.44	Andrus Värnik  Estonia	85.17	Boris Henry  Germany	84.74
Hammer details	Ivan Tikhon  Belarus	83.05	Adrián Annus  Hungary	80.36	Koji Murofushi  Japan	80.12
Decathlon details	Tom Pappas  United States	8750	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	8634	Dmitry Karpov  Kazakhstan	8374 (NR)
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)

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Torri Edwards  United States	10.93 (PB)	Chandra Sturrup  Bahamas	11.02	Ekaterini Thanou  Greece	11.03 (SB)
200 m details	Anastasiya Kapachinskaya  Russia	22.38 (PB)	Torri Edwards  United States	22.47	Muriel Hurtis  France	22.59
400 m details	Ana Guevara  Mexico	48.89 (PB)	Lorraine Fenton  Jamaica	49.43 (SB)	Amy Mbacké Thiam  Senegal	49.95 (SB)
800 m details	Maria Mutola  Mozambique	1:59.89	Kelly Holmes  Great Britain	2:00.18	Natalya Khrushchelyova  Russia	2:00.29
1,500 m details	Tatyana Tomashova  Russia	3:58.52 (CR)	Süreyya Ayhan  Turkey	3:59.04	Hayley Tullett  Great Britain	3:59.95 (PB)
5,000 m details	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia	14:51.72	Marta Domínguez  Spain	14:52.26	Edith Masai  Kenya	14:52.30
10,000 m details	Berhane Adere  Ethiopia	30:04.18 (CR)	Werknesh Kidane  Ethiopia	30:07.15 (PB)	Sun Yingjie  China	30:07.20 (PB)
Marathon details	Catherine Ndereba  Kenya	2:23:55 (CR)	Mizuki Noguchi  Japan	2:24:14	Masako Chiba  Japan	2:25:09
100 m hurdles details	Perdita Felicien  Canada	12.53 (NR)	Brigitte Foster  Jamaica	12.57	Miesha McKelvy  United States	12.67
400 m hurdles details	Jana Pittman  Australia	53.22 (PB)	Sandra Glover  United States	53.65 (SB)	Yuliya Pechonkina  Russia	53.71
20 km walk details	Yelena Nikolayeva  Russia	1:26:52 (CR)	Gillian O'Sullivan  Ireland	1:27:34	Valentina Tsybulskaya  Belarus	1:28:10 (NR)
4 × 100 m relay details	France (FRA) Patricia Girard-Léno Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Christine Arron	41.78 (WL)	United States (USA) Angela Williams Chryste Gaines Inger Miller Torri Edwards Lauryn Williams*	41.83 (SB)	Russia (RUS) Olga Fyodorova Yuliya Tabakova Marina Kislova Larisa Kruglova	42.66
4 × 400 m relay details	United States (USA) Demetria Washington Jearl Miles Clark Me'Lisa Barber Sanya Richards DeeDee Trotter*	3:22.63 (WL)	Russia (RUS) Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Natalya Nazarova Olesya Zykina Yuliya Pechonkina (Nosova) Svetlana Pospelova* Svetlana Goncharenko*	3:22.91 (SB)	Jamaica (JAM) Allison Beckford Lorraine Fenton (Graham) Ronetta Smith Sandie Richards Michelle Burgher*	3:22.92 (SB)
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 medalists who ran in preliminary rounds.

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Hestrie Cloete  South Africa	2.06 (WL, AR)	Marina Kuptsova  Russia	2.00	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	2.00
Pole vault details	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.75 (CR)	Annika Becker  Germany	4.70 (SB)	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.65
Long jump details	Eunice Barber  France	6.99 (SB)	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	6.74	Anju Bobby George  India	6.70 (SB)
Triple jump details	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	15.18 (SB)	Françoise Mbango Etone  Cameroon	15.05 (AR)	Magdelín Martínez  Italy	14.90 (NR)
Shot put details	Svetlana Krivelyova  Russia	20.63	Nadzeya Astapchuk  Belarus	20.12 (PB)	Vita Pavlysh  Ukraine	20.08 (SB)
Discus throw details	Irina Yatchenko  Belarus	67.32 (SB)	Anastasia Kelesidou  Greece	67.14 (SB)	Ekaterini Voggoli  Greece	66.73 (PB)
Hammer throw details	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	73.33	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	71.71	Manuela Montebrun  France	70.92
Javelin throw details	Mirela Manjani  Greece	66.52 (WL)	Tatyana Shikolenko  Russia	63.28	Steffi Nerius  Germany	62.70
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	7001 (WL)	Eunice Barber  France	6755 (SB)	Natallia Sazanovich  Belarus	6524 (SB)
	Swedish Carolina Klüft won with big margin following a breaking of her personal best in six of the seven events and the totals. She was the third woman ever to score more than 7000 points.
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)

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	7	1	16
2	Russia (RUS)	7	7	5	19
3	France (FRA)*	3	3	2	8
4	Ethiopia (ETH)	3	2	2	7
5	Belarus (BLR)	3	1	3	7
6	Sweden (SWE)	2	1	2	5
7	Kenya (KEN)	2	1	1	4
	South Africa (RSA)	2	1	1	4
9	Morocco (MAR)	2	1	0	3
10	Greece (GRE)	1	1	3	5
11	Cuba (CUB)	1	1	0	2
12	Italy (ITA)	1	0	2	3
13	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
14	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	0	1
	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	Dominican Republic (DOM)	1	0	0	1
	Ecuador (ECU)	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	1	0	0	1
	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
	Qatar (QAT)	1	0	0	1
	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)	1	0	0	1
24	Jamaica (JAM)	0	4	2	6
25	Spain (ESP)	0	3	2	5
26	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	0	2
27	Germany (GER)	0	1	3	4
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	3	4
29	Bahamas (BAH)	0	1	2	3
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
31	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Cameroon (CMR)	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
38	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	3	3
39	China (CHN)	0	0	2	2
40	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Senegal (SEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (43 entries)		46	46	46	138

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