The 4th World Championships in Athletics (), under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Neckarstadium, Stuttgart, Germany between 13 and 22 August with the participation of 187 nations. Originally held every four years in 1983, 1987 and 1991, these championships began a two-year cycle between events.

Event

The 1993 World Championships was the final time the women's 3000 m would be contested. At subsequent Championships the race was replaced by the longer 5000 m.

Men's results

Track

1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

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|100 m<br>

|||9.87<br><small>(AR)</small>

|||9.92

|||9.99

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|200 m<br>

|||19.85<br><small>(CR/AR)</small>

|||19.94

|||19.99

|-

|400 m<br>

|||43.65<br><small>(CR)</small>

|||44.13

|||44.54

|-

|800 m<br>

|||1:44.71

|||1:44.86

|||1:44.89

|-

|1500 m<br>

|||3:34.24

|||3:35.56

|||3:35.96

|-

|5000 m<br>

|||13:02.75

|||13:03.17

|||13:05.40

|-

|10,000 m<br>

|||27:46.02

|||27:46.54

|||28:06.02

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|Marathon<br>

|||2:13:57

|||2:14:11

|||2:15:12

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|110 m hurdles<br>

|||12.91<br><small>(WR)</small>

|||13.00

|||13.06

|-

|400 m hurdles<br>

|||47.18

|||47.60

|||47.62

|-

|3000 m steeplech.<br>

|||8:06.36<br><small>(CR)</small>

|||8:07.53

|||8:08.78

|-

|20&nbsp;km walk<br>

|||1:22:31

|||1:23:06

|||1:23:18

|-

|50&nbsp;km walk<br>

|||3:41:41

|||3:42:02

|||3:42:50

|-

|4 × 100 m relay<br>

|<br>Jon Drummond<br>Andre Cason<br>Dennis Mitchell<br>Leroy Burrell<br>Calvin Smith*||37.48

|<br>Colin Jackson<br>Tony Jarrett<br>John Regis<br>Linford Christie<br>Jason John*<br>Darren Braithwaite*||37.77<br><small>(AR)</small>

|<br>Robert Esmie<br>Glenroy Gilbert<br>Bruny Surin<br>Atlee Mahorn||37.83<br><small>(NR)</small>

|-

|4 × 400 m relay<br>

|<br>Andrew Valmon<br>Quincy Watts<br>Butch Reynolds<br>Michael Johnson<br>Antonio Pettigrew*<br>Derek Mills*||2:54.29<br><small>(WR)</small>

|<br>Kennedy Ochieng<br>Simon Kemboi<br>Abednego Matilu<br>Samson Kitur||2:59.82

|<br>Rico Lieder<br>Karsten Just<br>Olaf Hense<br>Thomas Schönlebe||2:59.99

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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997

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|Long jump<br>

|||8.59

|||8.16

|||8.15

|-

|Triple jump<br>

|||17.86

|||17.65

|||17.44

|-

|High jump<br>

|||2.40<br><small>(CR)</small>

|||2.37

|||2.37

|-

|rowspan="2"|Pole vault<br>

|rowspan="2"|||rowspan="2"|6.00<br><small>(CR)</small>

|rowspan="2"|||rowspan="2"|5.90<br><small>(AR)</small>

|||rowspan="2"|5.80

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|

|-

|Shot put<br>

|||21.97

|||21.80

|||20.40<sup>1</sup>

|-

|Discus throw<br>

|||67.72

|||66.90

|||66.12

|-

|Hammer throw<br>

|||81.64<br><small>(AR)</small>

|||79.88

|||79.54

|-

|Javelin throw<br>

|||85.98<br><small>(CR)</small>

|||84.78

|||82.96

|-

|Decathlon<br>

|||8817<br><small>(CR)</small>

|||8724

|||8548

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<sup>1</sup> Michael Stulce of the United States originally finished third, but was disqualified after testing positive for excess testosterone and mestanolone.

Women's results

Track

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

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|-

|100 m<br>

|Gail Devers<br>||10.82<br>CR

|Merlene Ottey<br>||10.82<br>CR

|Gwen Torrence<br>||10.89

|-

|200 m<br>

|Merlene Ottey<br>||21.98

|Gwen Torrence<br>||22.00

|Irina Privalova<br>||22.13

|-

|400 m<br>

|Jearl Miles<br>||49.82

|Natasha Kaiser-Brown<br>||50.17

|Sandie Richards<br>||50.44

|-

|800 m<br>

|Maria Mutola<br>||1:55.43<br>AR

|Lyubov Gurina<br>||1:57.10

|Ella Kovacs<br>||1:57.92

|-

|1500 m<br>

|Liu Dong<br>||4:00.50

|Sonia O'Sullivan<br>||4:03.48

|Hassiba Boulmerka<br>||4:04.29

|-

|3000 m<br>

|Qu Yunxia<br>||8:28.71<br>CR

|Zhang Linli<br>||8:29.25

|Zhang Lirong<br>||8:31.95

|-

|10,000 m<br>

|Wang Junxia<br>||30:49.30<br>CR

|Zhong Huandi<br>||31:12.55

|Sally Barsosio<br>||31:15.38

|-

|Marathon<br>

|Junko Asari<br>||2:30:03

|Manuela Machado<br>||2:30:54

|Tomoe Abe<br>||2:31:01

|-

|100 m hurdles<br>

|Gail Devers<br>||12.46<br>AR

|Marina Azyabina<br>||12.60

|Lynda Tolbert<br>||12.67

|-

|400 m hurdles<br>

|Sally Gunnell<br>||52.74<br>WR

|Sandra Farmer-Patrick<br>||52.79<br>AR

|Margarita Ponomaryova<br>||53.48

|-

|10&nbsp;km walk<br>

|Sari Essayah<br>||42:59

|Ileana Salvador<br>||43:08

|Encarna Granados<br>||43:21

|-

|4 × 100 m relay<br>

|<br>Olga Bogoslovskaya<br>Galina Malchugina<br>Natalya Voronova<br>Irina Privalova<br>Marina Trandenkova*||41.49 CR

|<br>Michelle Finn<br>Gwen Torrence<br>Wendy Vereen<br>Gail Devers<br>Sheila Echols*||41.49 CR

|<br>Michelle Freeman<br>Juliet Campbell<br>Nikole Mitchell<br>Merlene Ottey<br>Dahlia Duhaney*||41.94=NR

|-

|4 × 400 m relay<br>

|<br>Gwen Torrence<br>Maicel Malone<br>Natasha Kaiser<br>Jearl Miles<br>Terri Dendy*<br>Michelle Collins*||3:16.71 CR

|<br>Yelena Rouzina<br>Tatyana Alekseyeva<br>Margarita Ponomaryova<br>Irina Privalova<br>Yelena Golesheva*<br>Vera Sychugova* ||3:18.38

|<br>Linda Keough<br>Phylis Smith<br>Tracy Goddard<br>Sally Gunnell||3:23.41

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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1987 |1991 |1993 |1995 |1997

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|-

|Long jump<br>

|Heike Drechsler<br> ||7.11

|Larysa Berezhna<br>||6.98

|Renata Nielsen<br> ||6.76

|-

|Triple jump<br>

|Anna Biryukova<br>||15.09<br>WR

|Yolanda Chen<br>||14.70

|Iva Prandzheva<br>||14.23

|-

|High jump<br>

|Ioamnet Quintero<br>||1.99

|Silvia Costa<br>||1.97

|Sigrid Kirchmann<br>||1.97<br>NR

|-

|Shot put<br>

|Huang Zhihong<br>||20.57

|Svetlana Krivelyova<br>||19.97

|Kathrin Neimke<br>||19.71

|-

|Discus throw<br>

|Olga Chernyavskaya<br>||67.40

|Daniela Costian<br>||65.36

|Min Chunfeng<br>||65.26

|-

|Javelin throw<br>

|Trine Hattestad<br>||69.18

|Karen Forkel<br>||65.80

|Natalya Shikolenko<br>||65.64

|-

|Heptathlon<br>

|Jackie Joyner-Kersee<br>||6837

|Sabine Braun<br>||6797

|Svetlana Buraga<br>||6635

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Medal table

See also

  • 1993 in athletics (track and field)

References

;Notes

;Sources

  • IAAF 1993