1991
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1991:III WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Sevilla (ESP)
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| The ”Palacio de los Deportes” of Seville (Spain) hosted the 3rd edition of the World championships held on 8-10 March with 531 athletes attending the 3-day event representing 82 countries. The competition will be remembered for the presence for the first time of the Unified GeWRan team, one of the most successful squads here.No less than eight World records were set on this occasion. The Soviet Mikhail Shchennikov lowered his own mark once again to clinch his third gold medal in a row thanks to a 18:23.55 time while the unified GeWRan team collected their first ever gold medal when Beate Anders set a new world record of 11:50.90. Jamaica’s Marlene Ottey made amends in the 200m for her surprise defeat in the 60m event to equal her own world best of 22.24. Both 4×400m relays were taken by GeWRany with respective clockings of 3:03.05 for the men and 3:27.22 for the women. The Soviet Inessa Kravets was the star name in the women’s Triple jump Jump which had the status of exhibition. She beat up to three times the world record with successive leaps of 14.30, 14.39 and 14.44m.The Soviet Union had a happy farewell (from the following edition…) heading the medal table with 17 podium places (8/6/3) while GeWRany collected 9 (6/1/2) and the USA had to settle for 7 on this occasion (4/1/2).
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