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2003

2003:
IX WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Birmingham (GBR)

The
British city of Birmingham hosted the 9th edition of the World indoor championships. The even took place at the “National Indoor Arena” between 14 and 16 March 2003. The women’s Pole Vault was centre stage thanks to Russia’s Svetlana Feofanova outstanding perfoWRance of 4.80m on her second try to break the word record. There was no stopping Sweden’s Carolina Kluft as the reigning World Junior Champion won with the second-highest score in
history, 4933 points. The men’s 400m provided the clash of the championships, America’s Tyree Washington versus defending champion and local favourite Daniel Caines with the foWRer clinching a tight win, 45.34 for Caines’s 45.43. Sweden’s Christian Olsson recorded a superb 17.70m win, the sixth longest in history.

The USA collected 16 medals(9/3/4) to dominate the event well ahead of Russia with 12 (5/5/2) and Sweden with 4 medals, all of them golds.

Official Website – Birmingham’2003

Gold Medallists
Event	Men	Women
60m	Justin Gatlin (USA) 6.46	Zhanna Block (UKR) 7.04
200m	Marlon Devonish (GBR) 20.62	Muriel Hurtis (FRA) 22.54
400m	Tyree Washington (USA) 45.34	Natalya Nazarova (RUS) 50.83
800m	David Krummenacker (USA) 1:45.69	Maria Mutola (MOZ) 1:58.94
1.500m	Driss Maazouzi (FRA) 3:42.59	Regina Jacobs (USA) 4:01.67
3.000m	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) 7:40.97	Berhane Adere (ETH) 8:40.25
60m hurdles	Allen Johnson (USA) 7.47	Gail Devers (USA) 7.81
High jump	Stefan Holm (SWE) 2,35	Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) 2,01
Pole vault	Tim Lobinger (GER) 5,80	Svetlana Feofanova (RUS) 4,80 WR
Long jump	Dwight Phillips (USA) 8,29	Tatyana Kotova (RUS) 6,84
Triple jump	Christian Olsson (SWE) 17,70	Ashia Hansen (GBR) 15,01
Shot put	Manuel Martínez (ESP) 21,24	Irina Korzhanenko (RUS) 20,55
Heptathlon	Tom Pappas (USA) 6.361	-
Pentathlon	-	Carolina Klüft (SWE) 4.933
4×400m	Estados Unidos 3:04.09	Rusia 3:28.45

2003: IX WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Birmingham (GBR)

Shot put:

Manuel Martínez (ESP)

Pértiga:

Svetlana Feofanova (RUS) world record