2005 World Championships in Athletics

The 10th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, will once again be held in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland (August 6, 2005 – August 14, 2005) the site of the first IAAF World Championships back in 1983. One theme of the championship is paralympic sports.

Helsinki Olympic Stadium during 2005 World Championships in Athletics

20 km walk in Mannerheimintie street in Helsinki, August 6, 2005

Previews:

• Day Five (Aug 10th)
• Day Six (Aug 11th)
• Day Seven (Aug 12th)
• Day Eight (Aug 13th)
• Day Nine (Aug 14th)

Background

With the addition of the womens 3000 metres steeplechase to the schedule, this years program of events is closer to parity for women and men. With the exception of the 50 km walk the women will compete in practically the same events. Two differences include that the short hurdles race is 100 metres for women and 110 metres for men, and that women compete in heptathlon, while men compete in decathlon.

Since the first World Championships in Helsinki 1983, seven new events have been added for women:

• 10000 metres, introduced in 1987
• 5000 metres, replaced 3000 metres in 1991
• triple jump, introduced in 1993
• 20 km walk introduced in 1999, replaced 10 km walk that first appeared in 1987
• pole vault, introduced in 1999
• hammer throw, introduced in 1999
• 3000 metres steeplechase, introduced in 2005

The games were originally set to be staged in London, England but wrangling within the government saw them unable to agree to build the required stadium and they therefore forfeited their chance of being hosts.

Helsinki was considered by many to be the outsider in the race to host the games with rival bids being presented by Berlin in Germany; Brussels in Belgium, Budapest in Hungary, Moscow in Russia and Rome in Italy.

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Men's results

Track

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Justin Gatlin   United States	9.88 SB	Michael Frater   Jamaica	10.05	Kim Collins   Saint Kitts and Nevis	10.05
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200 m
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400 m
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800 m
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1500 m
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5000 m
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10 000 m	Kenenisa Bekele   Ethiopia	27:08.33	Sileshi Sihine   Ethiopia	27:08.87	Moses Mosop   Kenya	27:08.96 (PB)
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Marathon
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110 m H
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400 m H	Bershawn Jackson   United States	47.30 (PB)	James Carter   United States	47.43 (PB)	Dai Tamesue   Japan	48.10 (PB)
	In driving rain, Dai Tamesue starts fast to take the early lead before being overtaken on the final bend. Bershawn Jackson shows better form in the final straight to stretch away from James Carter. Tamesue dives over the line for a bronze to edge out Kerron Clement of the USA who jogs over the line.
3000 m St.	Saif Saaeed Shaheen   Qatar	8:13.31	Ezekiel Kemboi   Kenya	8:14.95	Brimin Kipruto   Kenya	8:15.30
	A comfortable race for Said Saaeed Shaheen as Ezekiel Kemboi fails to mount a serious challenge. Brimin Kipruto finishes fast to edge Brahim Boulami into fourth place by two hundredths of a |second.
20 km Walk	Jefferson Perez   Ecuador	1:18:35 SB	Francisco Javier Fernandez   Spain	1:19:36	Juan Manuel Molina   Spain	1:19:44 PB
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50 km Walk
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Field

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump
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Pole Vault
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Triple Jump
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Shot Put	Adam Nelson   United States	21.73 SB	Rutger Smith   Netherlands	21.29	Ralf Bartels   Germany	20.99
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Discus	Virgilijus Alekna   Lithuania	70.17 CR	Gerd Kanter   Estonia	68.57	Michael Möllenbeck   Germany	65.95
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Javelin
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Hammer	Ivan Tikhon   Belarus	83.89 CR	Vadim Devyatovskiy   Belarus	82.19	Szymon Ziólkowski   Poland	79.35 (SB)
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Women's results

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Lauryn Williams   United States	10.93	Veronica Campbell   Jamaica	10.95 (SB)	Christine Arron   France	10.98
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400 m	Tonique Williams-Darling   Bahamas	49.55 (SB)	Sanya Richards   United States	49.74	Ana Guevara   Mexico	49.81
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800 m	Zulia Calatayud   Cuba	1:58.82	Hasna Benhassi   Morocco	1:59.42	Tatyana Andrianova   Russia	1:59.60
	Former World Champion Maria Mutola comes fourth.
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10 000 m	Tirunesh Dibaba   Ethiopia	30:24:02	Berhane Adere   Ethiopia	30:25:41 SB	Ejegayehu Dibaba   Ethiopia	30:26:00
	Fascinating race with Paula Radcliffe, using the race as preparation for the marathon, setting most of the pace before her lack of competitive 10k races this season saw her drop back with 3 laps to go. The three medal winners showed amazing acceleration with 1 lap to go, Adere kicking first but quickly covered by Tirunesh Dibaba with elder sister Ejegayehu unable to match their pace. Tirunesh kicked again and went past Adere with 250 metres to go to claim gold. Reigning Olympic champion Xing Huina could not cope with the acceleration and finished fourth.
Marathon
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3000 m St.	Dorcus Inzikuru   Uganda	9:18.24 (CR)	Yekaterina Volkova   Russia	9:20.49 (PB)	Jeruto Kiptum   Kenya	9:26.95 (NR)
	Dorcus Inzikuru wins Uganda's first ever gold medal in the World Championships
20 km Walk	Olimpiada Ivanova   Russia	1:25:41 WR	Ryta Turava   Belarus	1:27:05 NR	Susana Feitor   Portugal	1:28:44 SB
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Field

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump	Kajsa Bergqvist   Sweden	2.02m (WL)	Chaunte Howard   United States	2.00m (PB)	Emma Green   Sweden	1.96m (PB)
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Triple Jump	Trecia Smith   Jamaica	15.11 WL	Yargelis Savigne   Cuba	14.82 PB	Anna Pyatykh   Russia	14.78
	Trecia Smith makes the three longest jumps in the final to take the gold. Yargelis Savigne takes silver in her first international competition with Anna Pyatykh third. Pre-event favourite Tatjana Lebedeva from Russia did not take part because of injury.
Shot Put
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Hammer
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Javelin
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Heptathlon (100mH, HJ, SP, 200m, LJ, JT, 800m)	Carolina Klüft   Sweden	6887 (SB)	Eunice Barber   France	6824	Margaret Simpson   Ghana	6375
	(13.19 - 1.82 - 15.02 - 23.70 - 6.87 - 47.20 - 2:08.89)		(12.94 - 1.91 - 13.20 - 24.01 - 6.75 - 48.24 - 2:11.94)		(13.55 - 1.79 - 13.33 - 2.94 - 6.09 - 56.36 - 2:17.02)
	A close heptathlon saw Eunice Barber take the early lead after winning the 100 mH and HJ. A foot injury hampered Carolina Klüft who jumped 12 cm below her season best in the HJ, however, she struck back in the SP with a PB. After the first day, Barber had only a 2-point lead over Klüft. Day two started with the LJ, where Klüft was expected to jump poorly due to her injury. If she had problems she hid them well, winning with a SB. In the JT Margaret Simpson set a new PB with an impressive 56.36 m, this would propel her to Ghana's first ever world championship medal. Before the final event, Klüft's lead was 18 points and Barber needed to beat her by 1.5 sec in the 800 m to win the gold medal. Barber stuck to Kelly Sotherton, the eventual winner of the race, until the last 200 m but Klüft timed her race perfectly to beat Barber with another PB.

Exhibition Events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
T54 Wheelchair racing 100 m men	David Weir Great Britain	14.15 NR	Kenny van Weeghel Netherlands	14.19	Leo-Pekka Tähti Finland	14.22
	Paralympic champion Leo-Pekka Tähti got off to a good start, but a battle between Britain's David Weir and Dutchman Kenny van Weeghel pushed both of them forward in the latter stages. Weir eventually won out, breaking his own British record, which he set in the semifinal at the 2004 Paralympics, by 0.02 s.
T54 Wheelchair racing 200 m men
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F54 Wheelchair javelin men
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T12 Visually impaired 200m women
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Medals table

(Women's Long Jump, Women's 400m, Men's Javelin and Men's 1500m to be added)

(after 16 of 47 events)

Position:	Nation:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.	United States	4	2	0	6
2.	Ethiopia	2	2	1	5
3.	Sweden	2	0	1	3
4.	Belarus	1	2	0	3
4.	Jamaica	1	2	0	3
6.	Russia	1	1	2	4
7.	Cuba	1	1	0	2
8.	Ecuador	1	0	0	1
8.	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
8.	Qatar	1	0	0	1
8.	Uganda	1	0	0	1
12.	Kenya	0	1	3	4
13.	France	0	1	1	2
13.	Spain	0	1	1	2
15.	Estonia	0	1	0	1
15.	Morocco	0	1	0	1
15.	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
18.	Germany	0	0	2	2
19.	Ghana	0	0	1	1
19.	Japan	0	0	1	1
19.	Poland	0	0	1	1
19.	Portugal	0	0	1	1
19.	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	1	1

External links

• Results from the IAAF web site
• 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics Helsinki Official Site