1999 « IAAF World Indoor Championships

1999

1999:
VII CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO EN PISTA CUBIERTA – Maebashi (JPN)

The
event moved to the Far East, more precisely to the Japanese city of Maebashi
which hosted the 7th edition of the World indoor championships on 5-7 March
1999. 487 athletes attended the competition representing 115 countries. The
three-day event witnessed two new World bests at both 4×400 relays. On the
men’s side the USA team recorded 3:02.83 while the Russian squad bettered its
own previous mark by over two seconds by clocking 3:24.25. In addition, the
competition was full of thrilling moments as it happened in the men’s Long
Jump. Cuba’s Ivan Pedroso, bidding for a fourth consecutive title opened with
8.46m but Spain’s Yago Lamela leapt 8.56 in the final round to smash Robert
Emmyan’s European record and leave Pedroso with just one chance to remain as
world indoor champion. The then 27-year-old Cuban produced a huge 8.62 PB to
regain the lead and manage the second best jump in history after Carl Lewis’s
world record of 8.79.

The USA team was capable of gaining 19 medals (3/8/8)
bettering the Russian’s tally of 7 (3/3/1) with Romania in third with 4
(3/1/0).

Gold Medallists
Event	Men	Women
60m	Maurice Green (USA) 6.42	Katerína Thánou (GRE) 6.96
200m	Frankie Fredericks (NAM) 20.10	Ionela Tirlea (ROM) 22.39
400m	Jamie Baulch (GBR) 45.73	Grit Breuer (GER) 50.80
800m	Johan Botha (RSA) 1:45.47	Ludmila FoWRanová (CZE) 1:56.90
1.500m	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) 3:33.77	Gabriela Szabo (ROM) 4:03.23
3.000m	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) 7:53.57	Gabriela Szabo (ROM) 8:36.42
60m hurdles	Colin Jackson (GBR) 7.38	Olga Shishigina (KAZ) 7.86
High jump	Javier Sotomayor (CUB) 2,36	Khristina Kalcheva (BUL) 1,99
Pole vault	Jean Galfione (FRA) 6,00	Nastja Ryshich (GER) 4,50
Long jump	Iván Pedroso (CUB) 8,62	Tatyana Kotova (RUS) 6,86
Triple jump	Charles Friedek (GER) 17,18	Ashia Hansen (GBR) 15,02
Shot put	Aleksandr Bagach (UKR) 21,41	Svetlana Krivelyova (RUS) 19,08
Heptathlon	Sebastian Chmara (POL) 6.386	-
Pentathlon	-	DeDee Nathan (USA) 4.753
4×400m	Estados Unidos 3:02.83 WR	Rusia 3:34.25 WR

1999: VII CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO EN PISTA CUBIERTA - Maebashi (JPN)

800m:

Ludmila Formanová (CZE)

800m:

Johan Botha (RSA)

Gabriela Szabo, double world champion in 1.500m and 3.000m