1993 « IAAF World Indoor Championships

1993

1993:
IV WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS: – Toronto (CAN)

The magnificent silhouette of the Canada National Tower, the highest structure in the world with its 533 metres was the venue of the fourth edition of the
world championships which took place in “The Sky Dome” of Toronto between 12 and 14 March 1993. Three athletes highlighted the event, Dan
O’Brien of the USA scored 6476 points to smash the World record in an invitation Heptathlon event while his fellow American Harry ‘Butch’ Reynolds,
making his championship comeback following a 28-month suspension, took an overwhelming win in the 400m clocking 45.26. Inessa Kravets, now wearing the
Ukrainian vest, repeated her feat of 1991by winning with a world record, but this time she won an official gold medal because the event had become part of
the main programme. Kravets was measured at 14.47 in her fifth round leap to break Russia’s Iolanda Chen previous mark by one centimetre.

The USA team was the most successful squad with a huge haul of 17 medals (8/4/5) followed by Russia with 13 (6/4/3) while Canada and Great Britain tied for the third place (2/2/1) on both cases.

Gold Medallists
Event	Men	Women
60m	Bruny Surin (CAN) 6.50	Gail Devers (USA) 6.95
200m	James Trapp (USA) 20.63	Irina Privalova (RUS) 22.15
400m	Butch Reynolds (USA) 45.26	Sandie Richards (JAM) 50.93
800m	Tom McKean (GBR) 1:47.29	Maria Mutola (MOZ) 1:57.55
1.500m	Marcus O’Sullivan (IRL) 3:45.00	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (RUS) 4:09.29
3.000m	Gennaro Di Napoli (ITA) 7:50.26	Yvonne Murray (GBR) 8:50.55
60m hurdles	Mark McKoy (CAN) 7.41	Julie Baumann (SUI) 7.96
High jump	Javier Sotomayor (CUB) 2,41	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) 2,02
Pole vault	Rodion Gataullin (RUS) 5,90	-
Long jump	Iván Pedroso (CUB) 8,23	Marieta Ilcu (ROM) 6,84
Triple jump	Pierre Camara (FRA) 17,59	Inessa Kravets (UKR) 14,47 WR
Shot put	Mike Stulce (USA) 21,27	Svetlana Krivelyova (RUS) 19,57
Heptathlon	Dan O’Brien (USA) 6.476 WR	-
Pentathlon	-	Liliana Nastase (ROM) 4.686
4×400m	Estados Unidos 3:04.20	Jamaica 3:32.32
Relevo	Estados Unidos 3:15.10	Estados Unidos 3:45.90
3.000m walk	-	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS) 11:49.73
5.000m walk	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) 18:32.10	-

1993: IV WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS: - Toronto (CAN)

Heptathlon:

Dan O’Brien (USA) world record

800m:

María Mutola (MOZ) achieving the first of her seven world titles