1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships

3rd IAAF World Indoor Championships
Dates	8 March–10 March
Host city	Seville, Spain
Venue	Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo
Events	26 (+1 non-championship)
Participation	518 athletes from 80 nations
← 1989 Budapest 1993 Toronto →

The 3rd IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo in Seville, Spain from March 8 to March 10, 1991. It was the first Indoor Championships to include relay races as well as women's triple jump, albeit as a non-championship event. There were a total number of 518 athletes participated from 80 countries.

Results

Men

1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Andre Cason United States	6.54	Linford Christie Great Britain	6.55	Chidi Imoh Nigeria	6.60
200 metres	Nikolay Antonov Bulgaria	20.67	Linford Christie Great Britain	20.72	Ade Mafe Great Britain	20.92
400 metres	Devon Morris Jamaica	46.17	Samson Kitur Kenya	46.21	Cayetano Cornet Spain	46.52
800 metres	Paul Ereng Kenya	1:47.08	Tomás de Teresa Spain	1:47.82	Simon Hoogewerf Canada	1:47.88
1500 metres	Noureddine Morceli Algeria	3:41.57	Fermín Cacho Spain	3:42.68	Mário Silva Portugal	3:43.85
3000 metres	Frank O'Mara Ireland	7:41.14 (CR)	Hammou Boutayeb Morocco	7:43.64	Robert Denmark Great Britain	7:43.90
60 metres hurdles	Greg Foster United States	7.45	Igors Kazanovs Soviet Union	7.47	Mark McKoy Canada	7.49
5000 metres walk	Mikhail Shchennikov Soviet Union	18:23.55 (CR)	Giovanni De Benedictis Italy	18:23.60	Frants Kostyukevich Soviet Union	18:47.05
4 × 400 metres relay	Germany (GER) Rico Lieder, Jens Carlowitz, Karsten Just, Thomas Schönlebe	3:03.05 (WR)	United States (USA) Raymond Pierre, Charles Jenkins, Andrew Valmon, Antonio McKay, Clifton Campbell, Willie Smith	3:03.24 (AR)	Italy (ITA) Marco Vaccari, Vito Petrella, Alessandro Aimar, Andrea Nuti	3:05.51 (NR)
High jump	Hollis Conway United States	2.40	Artur Partyka Poland	2.37	Javier Sotomayor Cuba	2.31
					Aleksey Yemelin Soviet Union
Pole vault	Sergey Bubka Soviet Union	6.00	Viktor Ryzhenkov Soviet Union	5.80	Ferenc Salbert France	5.70
Long jump	Dietmar Haaf Germany	8.15	Jaime Jefferson Cuba	8.04	Giovanni Evangelisti Italy	7.93
Triple jump	Igor Lapshin Soviet Union	17.31	Leonid Voloshin Soviet Union	17.04	Tord Henriksson Sweden	16.80
Shot put	Werner Günthör Switzerland	21.17	Klaus Bodenmüller Austria	20.42	Ron Backes United States	20.06

Women

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Irina Sergeyeva Soviet Union	7.02 (CR)	Merlene Ottey Jamaica	7.08	Liliana Allen Cuba	7.12 (NR)
200 metres	Merlene Ottey Jamaica	22.24 (CR)	Irina Sergeyeva Soviet Union	22.41	Grit Breuer Germany	22.58
400 metres	Diane Dixon United States	50.64 (CR)	Sandra Myers Spain	50.99	Anita Protti Switzerland	51.41 (NR)
800 metres	Christine Wachtel Germany	2:01.51	Violeta Beclea Romania	2:01.75	Ella Kovacs Romania	2:01.79
1500 metres	Lyudmila Rogachova Soviet Union	4:05.09	Ivana Kubešová Czechoslovakia	4:06.22	Tudorita Chidu Romania	4:06.27
3000 metres	Marie-Pierre Duros France	8:50.69	Margareta Keszeg Romania	8:51.51	Lyubov Kremlyova Soviet Union	8:51.90
60 metres hurdles	Lyudmila Narozhilenko Soviet Union	7.88	Monique Ewanjé-Épée France	7.90	Aliuska López Cuba	8.03
3000 metres walk	Beate Anders Germany	11:50.90 (CR)	Kerry Saxby Australia	12:03.21	Ileana Salvador Italy	12:07.67
4 × 400 metres relay	Germany (GER) Sandra Seuser, Katrin Schreiter, Annett Hesselbarth, Grit Breuer	3:27.22 (WR)	Soviet Union (URS) Marina Shmonina, Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Margarita Ponomaryova, Aelita Yurchenko	3:27.95 (NR)	United States (USA) Terri Dendy, Lillie Leatherwood, Jearl Miles, Diane Dixon	3:29.00 (AR)
High jump	Heike Henkel Germany	2.00	Tamara Bykova Soviet Union	1.97	Heike Balck Germany	1.94
Long jump	Larisa Berezhnaya Soviet Union	6.84	Heike Drechsler Germany	6.82	Marieta Ilcu Romania	6.74
Shot put	Sui Xinmei China	20.54 (CR)	Huang Zhihong China	20.33	Natalya Lisovskaya Soviet Union	20.00

Non-championship event

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Triple jump	Inessa Kravets Soviet Union	14.44 (CR)	Li Huirong China	13.98	Sofiya Bozhanova Bulgaria	13.62

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	7	6	4	17
2	Germany (GER)	6	1	2	9
3	United States (USA)	4	1	2	7
4	Jamaica (JAM)	2	1	0	3
5	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
6	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
	Kenya (KEN)	1	1	0	2
8	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
9	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
12	Spain (ESP)	0	3	1	4
13	Romania (ROM)	0	2	3	5
14	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	2	4
15	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	3	4
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	3	4
17	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
22	Canada (CAN)	0	0	2	2
23	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		26	26	27	79

Participating nations

• Algeria (4)
• Andorra (1)
• Angola (2)
• Anguilla (1)
• Argentina (2)
• Australia (12)
• Austria (9)
• Bahamas (3)
• Belgium (3)
• Bermuda (1)
• Bolivia (2)
• Botswana (1)
• Brazil (6)
• Bulgaria (8)
• Burundi (2)
• Cameroon (2)
• Canada (14)
• Chile (3)
• China (13)
• Chinese Taipei (2)
• Colombia (2)
• Cuba (13)
• Cyprus (1)
• Czechoslovakia (16)
• Denmark (2)
• Dominican Republic (2)
• Ecuador (2)
• Ethiopia (2)
• Finland (6)
• France (17)
• Germany (43)
• Ghana (2)
• Great Britain (21)
• Greece (4)
• Guinea (1)
• Hungary (7)
• Iceland (3)
• Ireland (6)
• Israel (2)
• Italy (17)
• Ivory Coast (2)
• Jamaica (10)
• Japan (4)
• Kenya (6)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Madagascar (1)
• Malaysia (1)
• Mauritius (1)
• Morocco (8)
• Netherlands (8)
• Netherlands Antilles (1)
• New Zealand (2)
• Nigeria (5)
• Norway (5)
• Pakistan (1)
• Paraguay (1)
• Peru (2)
• Poland (10)
• Portugal (5)
• Republic of the Congo (2)
• Romania (18)
• Rwanda (1)
• Senegal (3)
• Sierra Leone (1)
• South Korea (1)
• Soviet Union (42)
• Spain (36)
• Swaziland (2)
• Sweden (5)
• Switzerland (3)
• Tanzania (2)
• Trinidad and Tobago (5)
• Tunisia (1)
• Turkey (1)
• Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
• United States (49)
• United States Virgin Islands (2)
• Uruguay (2)
• Yugoslavia (5)
• Zambia (2)

See also

• 1991 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics
• Athletics Australia