2003 World Championships in Athletics

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.

Men's results

Track

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

|100 m

|Kim Collins ||10.07

|Darrel Brown ||10.08

|Darren Campbell || 10.08 (SB)

|200 m

|John Capel ||20.30

|Darvis Patton ||20.31

|Shingo Suetsugu ||20.38

|400 m

|Tyree Washington ||44.771

|Marc Raquil ||44.79 (NR)

|Michael Blackwood ||44.80

|800 m

|Djabir Saïd-Guerni ||1:44.81

|Yuriy Borzakovskiy ||1:44.84

|Mbulaeni Mulaudzi ||1:44.90

|1500 m

|Hicham El Guerrouj ||3:31.77

|Mehdi Baala ||3:32.31

|Ivan Heshko ||3:33.17

|5000 m

|Eliud Kipchoge ||12:52.79 (CR)

|Hicham El Guerrouj ||12:52.83

|Kenenisa Bekele ||12:53.12

|10,000 m

|Kenenisa Bekele ||26:49.57 (CR)

|Haile Gebrselassie ||26:50.77 (SB)

|Sileshi Sihine ||27:01.44

|Marathon

|Jaouad Gharib ||2:08:31 (CR)

|Julio Rey ||2:08:38

|Stefano Baldini ||2:09:14

|110 m hurdles

|Allen Johnson ||13.12

|Terrence Trammell ||13.20 (SB)

|Liu Xiang ||13.23

|400 m hurdles

|Félix Sánchez ||47.25 (WL)

|Joey Woody ||48.18 (SB)

|Periklís Iakovákis ||48.24

|3000 m steeplechase

|Saif Saaeed Shaheen ||8:04.39

|Ezekiel Kemboi ||8:05.11

|Eliseo Martin ||8:09.09 (PB)

|20 km race walk

|Jefferson Pérez ||1:17:21 (WBP)

|Paquillo Fernández ||1:18:00 (SB)

|Roman Rasskazov ||1:18:07 (SB)

|50 km race walk

|Robert Korzeniowski ||3:36:03 (WBP)

|German Skurygin ||3:36:42 (NR)

|Andreas Erm ||3:37:46 (NR)

|4 × 100 m relay

| John Capel Bernard Williams Darvis Patton Joshua J. Johnson||38.06

| Vicente de Lima Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Cláudio Roberto Souza||38.26 (SB)

| Timothy Beck Troy Douglas Patrick van Balkom Caimin Douglas Guus Hoogmoed*||38.87

|4 × 400 m relay

| Leslie Djhone Naman Keïta Stéphane Diagana Marc Raquil Ahmed Douhou*||2:58.962 (NR)

| Brandon Simpson Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke Michael Blackwood Michael Campbell* Lansford Spence*||2:59.60 (SB)

| Avard Moncur Dennis Darling Nathaniel McKinney Chris Brown Carl Oliver*||3:00.53 (SB)

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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.

Field

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

|rowspan=2|High jump

|Jacques Freitag ||2.35 (SB)

|Stefan Holm ||2.32

|Mark Boswell ||2.32 (SB)

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|rowspan=2|Long jump

|Dwight Phillips ||8.32

|James Beckford ||8.28 (SB)

|Yago Lamela ||8.22

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|rowspan=2|Pole vault

|Giuseppe Gibilisco ||5.90 (NR)

|Okkert Brits ||5.85 (SB)

|Patrik Kristiansson ||5.85 (PB)

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|rowspan=2|Triple jump

|Christian Olsson ||17.72

|Yoandri Betanzos ||17.28 (SB)

|Leevan Sands ||17.26

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|rowspan=2|Shot put

|Andrei Mikhnevich ||21.69 (PB)

|Adam Nelson ||21.26

|Yuriy Bilonoh ||21.10

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|rowspan=2|Discus

|Virgilijus Alekna ||69.69 (SB)

|Róbert Fazekas ||69.01

|Vasiliy Kaptyukh ||66.51 (SB)

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|rowspan=2|Javelin

|Sergey Makarov ||85.44

|Andrus Värnik ||85.17

|Boris Henry ||84.74

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|rowspan=2|Hammer

|Ivan Tikhon ||83.05

|Adrián Annus ||80.36

|Koji Murofushi ||80.12

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|rowspan=2|Decathlon

|Tom Pappas ||8750

|Roman Šebrle ||8634

|Dmitry Karpov ||8374 (NR)

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Women's results

Track

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

|rowspan=2|100 m

|||10.93 (PB)

|||11.02

|||11.03 (SB)

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|200 m

|||22.38 (PB)

|||22.47

|||22.59

|400 m

|||48.89 (PB)

|||49.43 (SB)

|||49.95 (SB)

|800 m

|||1:59.89

|||2:00.18

|||2:00.29

|1500 m

|||3:58.52 (CR)

|||3:59.04

|||3:59.95 (PB)

|5000 m

|||14:51.72

|||14:52.26

|||14:52.30

|10,000 m

|||30:04.18 (CR)

|||30:07.15 (PB)

|||30:07.20 (PB)

|Marathon

|||2:23:55 (CR)

|||2:24:14

|||2:25:09

|100 m hurdles

|||12.53 (NR)

|||12.57

|||12.67

|400 m hurdles

|||53.22 (PB)

|||53.65 (SB)

|||53.71

|20 km walk

|||1:26:52 (CR)

|||1:27:34

|||1:28:10 (NR)

|4 × 100 m relay

| Patricia Girard-Léno Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Christine Arron||41.78 (WL)

| Angela Williams Chryste Gaines Inger Miller Torri Edwards Lauryn Williams*||41.83 (SB)

| Olga Fyodorova Yuliya Tabakova Marina Kislova Larisa Kruglova||42.66

|4 × 400 m relay

| Demetria Washington Jearl Miles Clark Me'Lisa Barber Sanya Richards DeeDee Trotter*||3:22.63 (WL)

| Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Natalya Nazarova Olesya Zykina Yuliya Pechonkina (Nosova) Svetlana Pospelova* Svetlana Goncharenko*||3:22.91 (SB)

| Allison Beckford Lorraine Fenton (Graham) Ronetta Smith Sandie Richards Michelle Burgher*||3:22.92 (SB)

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Note: * Indicates medalists who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

|High jump

|||2.06 (WL, AR)

|||2.00

|Pole vault

|||4.75 (CR)

|||4.70 (SB)

|||4.65

|Long jump

|||6.99 (SB)

|||6.74

|||6.70 (SB)

|Triple jump

|||15.18 (SB)

|||15.05 (AR)

|||14.90 (NR)

|Shot put

|||20.63

|||20.12 (PB)

|||20.08 (SB)

|Discus throw

|||67.32 (SB)

|||67.14 (SB)

|||66.73 (PB)

|Hammer throw

|||73.33

|||71.71

|||70.92

|Javelin throw

|||66.52 (WL)

|||63.28

|||62.70

|rowspan="2"|Heptathlon

|||7001 (WL)

|||6755 (SB)

|||6524 (SB)

|colspan=6|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.

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Medal table

References

For more information about these results including in-depth results of all heats and finals that include photo finish, wind readings and reaction times see the link below.

IAAF Championship 2003