1985 JM « IAAF World Indoor Championships

1985 JM

1985:
WORLD INDOOR GAMES – Paris (FRA)

The 1985 IAAF World Indoor Games were held in the “Palais Omnisports Paris-Bercy” on 18/19 January. The event was attended by 319 athletes from 69 countries. The East GeWRan teenager Thomas Schoenlebe produced the best perfoWRance of the 1985 Games in front a capacity crowd of 15,000 spectators by substantially improving Antonio McKay’s world best of 45.79 thanks to a 45.60 clocking. Other remarkable perfoWRances came from Bulgaria’s 19-year-old Stefka Kostadinova who went over 1,97 in the women’s High Jump, Marita Koch (GDR), author of a 23.09 200m perfoWRance, the Soviet Sergey Bubka, who had a winning 5,75 clearance in the Pole Vault and the Czech Remigius Machura, a surprise winner in the men’s Shot Put with a 21,22m heave.

The GDR dominated the medal table with a 6-medal tally (four golds and two silvers) followed by the Soviet team which collected 8 (3/1/4) and France with 5 medals (2/3/2).

Gold Medallists
Event	Men	Women
60m	Ben Johnson (CAN) 6.62	Silke Gladisch (GDR) 7.20
200m	Aleksandr Yevgenyev (URS) 20.95	Marita Koch (GDR) 23.09
400m	Thomas Schönlebe (GDR) 45.60 WR	Diane Dixon (USA) 53.35
800m	Colomán Trabado (ESP) 1:47.42	Cristeana Cojocaru (ROM) 2:04.22
1.500m	Mike Hillardt (AUS) 3:40.27	Elly van Hulst (NED) 4:11.41
3.000m	Joao Campos (POR) 7:57.63	Debbie Scott (CAN) 9:04.99
60m hurdles	Stéphane Caristan (FRA) 7.67	Xénia Siska (HUN) 8.03
High jump	Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) 2,32	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) 1,97
Pole vault	Sergey Bubka (URS) 5,75	-
Long jump	Jan Leitner (TCH) 7,96	Helga Radtke (GDR) 6,88
Triple jump	Khristo Markov (BUL) 17,22	-
Shot put	Remigius Machura (TCH) 21,22	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) 20,07
3.000m walk	-	Giuliana Salce (ITA) 12:53.42
5.000m walk	Gérard Leliévre (FRA) 19:06.20	-

400m:

Thomas Schönlebe (GDR) world record

800m:

A Spanish 1-2 with Colomán Trabado (gold) and Benjamín Fernández (silver)