1995
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1995: WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Barcelona (ESP)
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| The World indoor championships returned to Spain. Only three years after the Olympic Games took place in Barcelona the action came-back to the “Palau Sant Jordi” one of the facilities which hosted the Olympics. The event was celebrated on 10-12 March 1995 and offered quality perfoWRances but only one world record could be set, the women’s Triple jump Jump, an event which had seen World records at the last two championships. Russia’s Iolanda Chen produced a huge third round effort which was measured at 15.03, a new world record by 13 centimetres. Canada’s Bruny Surin retained his 1993 title with a season’s world best time (6.46) which was also a championship record. Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj made a major breakthrough here thanks to a 1500 fine win while Russia’s Irina Privalova ran the fourth fastest ever 400m time in her first foray at the distance indoors with a 50.23 perfoWRance to her credit.Russia headed the medal table with 10 medals (5/2/3) while the USA managed 15 but only four of them were gold (4/5/6) and Cuba took the third spot thanks to a 4-medal tally (4/1/0).
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 The championship Opening Ceremony in the Barcelona’s Palau Saint Jordi |
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