The 8th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between August 3 and August 12 and was the first time the event had visited North America.

Men's Results

Track

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m details	Maurice Greene  United States	9.82 WL	Bernard Williams  United States	9.94 PB	Ato Boldon  Trinidad and Tobago	9.98
200m details	Konstantinos Kenteris  Greece	20.04	Christopher Williams  Jamaica	20.20	Kim Collins  Saint Kitts and Nevis Shawn Crawford  United States	20.20 NR (St.Kitts)
400m details	Avard Moncur  Bahamas	44.64	Ingo Schultz  Germany	44.87	Greg Haughton  Jamaica	44.98
800m details	André Bucher  Switzerland	1:43.70	Wilfred Bungei  Kenya	1:44.55	Pawel Czapiewski  Poland	1:44.63 PB
1,500m details	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	3:30.68	Bernard Lagat  Kenya	3:31.10	Driss Maazouzi  France	3:31.54 SB
5,000m details	Richard Limo  Kenya	13:00.77	Million Wolde  Ethiopia	13:03.47	John Kibowen  Kenya	13:05.20
10,000m details	Charles Kamathi  Kenya	27:53.25	Assefa Mezegebu  Ethiopia	27:53.97	Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia	27:54.41
Marathon details	Gezahegne Abera  Ethiopia	2:12:42 SB	Simon Biwott  Kenya	2:12:43	Stefano Baldini  Italy	2:13:18
110m hurdles details	Allen Johnson  United States	13.04 WL	Anier García  Cuba	13.07 SB	Dudley Dorival  Haiti	13.25 NR
400m hurdles details	Felix Sanchez  Dominican Republic	47.49 WL	Fabrizio Mori  Italy	47.54 NR	Dai Tamesue  Japan	47.89 NR
3000 m St.	Reuben Kosgei  Kenya	8:15.16	Ali Ezzine  Morocco	8:16.21	Bernard Barmasai  Kenya	8:16.59
20km walk details	Roman Rasskazov  Russia	1:20:31	Ilya Markov  Russia	1:20:33	Viktor Burayev  Russia	1:20:36
50km walk details	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland	3:42.08 WL	Jesús Ángel García  Spain	3:43:07 SB	Edgar Hernández  Mexico	3:46:12 PB
4x100m relay details	Morne Nagel, Corne Du Plessis, Lee-Roy Newton, Matthew Quinn  South Africa	38.47 NR	Marc Burns, Ato Boldon, Jaycey Harper, Darrel Brown  Trinidad and Tobago	38.58 NR	Matthew Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Steve Brimacombe, Adam Basil  Australia	38.83 SB
4x400m relay details	Leonard Byrd, Antonio Pettigrew, Derrick Brew, Angelo Taylor  United States	2:57.54 WL	Avard Moncur, Chris Brown, Troy Mcintosh, Tim Munnings  Bahamas	2:58.19 NR	Brandon Simpson, Christopher Williams, Greg Haughton, Danny McFarlane  Jamaica	2:58.39 SB
AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

Ali Saidi-Sief of Algeria originally finished second in the 5000 m, but he was disqualified after he tested positive for nandrolone.

Tim Montgomery (USA) came second in the men's 100 meters with a time of 9.85, and was part of the 4x100m USA team that finished first in 37.96 (Mickey Grimes, Bernard Williams, Dennis Mitchell, Tim Montgomery), but he was disqualified as a result of the BALCO drug scandal.

Field

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Martin Buß  Germany	2.36 WL	Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia Vyacheslav Voronin  Russia	2.33 PB (Rybakov) SB (Voronin)
Pole vault details	Dmitri Markov  Australia	6.05 CR	Aleksandr Averbukh  Israel	5.85	Nick Hysong  United States	5.85 SB
Long jump details	Iván Pedroso  Cuba	8.40	Savanté Stringfellow  United States	8.24	Carlos Calado  Portugal	8.21 SB
Triple jump details	Jonathan Edwards  United Kingdom	17.92 WL	Christian Olsson  Sweden	17.47	Igor Spasovkhodskiy  Russia	17.44 PB
Shot put details	John Godina  United States	21.87	Adam Nelson  United States	21.24	Arsi Harju  Finland	20.93 SB
Discus throw details	Lars Riedel  Germany	69.72 CR	Virgilijus Alekna  Lithuania	69.40	Michael Möllenbeck  Germany	67.61 PB
Hammer throw details	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland	83.38 CR	Koji Murofushi  Japan	82.92	Ilya Konovalov  Russia	80.27 SB
Javelin throw details	Jan Železný  Czech Republic	92.80 CR	Aki Parviainen  Finland	91.31	Konstadinos Gatsioudis  Greece	89.95
Decathlon details	Tomáš Dvořák  Czech Republic	8902 CR	Erki Nool  Estonia	8815 NR	Dean Macey  United Kingdom	8603 PB
AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

Women's Results

Track

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m details	Zhanna Pintusevich-Block  Ukraine	10.82 WL	Ekaterini Thanou  Greece	10.91 SB	Chandra Sturrup  Bahamas	11.02
200m details	Debbie Ferguson  Bahamas	22.52	LaTasha Jenkins  United States	22.85	Cydonie Mothersill  Cayman Islands	22.88
400m details	Amy Mbacke Thiam  Senegal	49.86 NR	Lorraine Fenton  Jamaica	49.88 SB	Ana Guevara  Mexico	49.97 SB
800m details	Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique	1:57.17	Stephanie Graf  Austria	1:57.20 SB	Letitia Vriesde  Suriname	1:57.35 SB
1,500m details	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	4:00.57 SB	Violeta Beclea Szekely  Romania	4:01.70	Natalya Gorelova  Russia	4:02.40
5,000m details	Olga Yegorova  Russia	15:03.39	Marta Dominguez  Spain	15:06.59	Ayelech Worku  Ethiopia	15:10.17
10,000m details	Derartu Tulu  Ethiopia	31:48.81	Berhane Adere  Ethiopia	31:48.85	Gete Wami  Ethiopia	31:49.98
Marathon details	Lidia Simon  Romania	2:26:01	Reiko Tosa  Japan	2:26:06	Svetlana Zakharova  Russia	2:26:18
100m hurdles details	Anjanette Kirkland  United States	12.42 WL	Gail Devers  United States	12.54 SB	Olga Shishigina  Kazakhstan	12.58 SB
400m hurdles details	Nezha Bidouane  Morocco	53.34 WL	Yuliya Pechonkina  Russia	54.27	Daimi Pernia  Cuba	54.51
20km walk details	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	1:27:48 CR	Valentina Tsybulskaya  Belarus	1:28:49 PB	Elisabetta Perrone  Italy	1:28:56
4x100m relay details	Melanie Paschke, Gaby Rockmeier, Birgit Rockmeier, Marion Wagner  Germany	42.32 SB	Sylviane Félix, Frédérique Bangué, Muriel Hurtis, Odiah Sidibé  France	42.39 SB	Juliet Campbell, Merlene Frazer, Beverly McDonald, Astia Walker  Jamaica	42.40 SB
4x400m relay details	Sandie Richards, Catherine Scott-Pomales, Debbie-Ann Parris, Lorraine Fenton  Jamaica	3.20.65 WL	Florence Ekpo-Umoh, Shanta Ghosh, Claudia Marx, Grit Breuer  Germany	3.21.97 SB	Irina Rosikhina, Yuliya Pechonkina, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Olesya Zykina  Russia	3.24.92
AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

Kelli White finished third in the 200 m (22.56), and was part of the winning 4x100m relay team (Kelli White, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, Marion Jones; 41.71), but she was disqualified after she admitted to using steroids as a result of the BALCO doping scandal.

Marion Jones (USA) finished second in the 100m and first in the 200m, but she was disqualified following her admission to using steroids as a result of the BALCO doping scandal.

Field

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Hestrie Cloete (Storbeck)  South Africa	2.00 SB	Inha Babakova  Ukraine	2.00	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	1.97
Pole vault details	Stacy Dragila  United States	4.75 CR	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.75 CR	Monika Pyrek  Poland	4.55
Long jump details	Fiona May  Italy	7.02	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	7.01	Niurka Montalvo  Spain	6.88
Triple jump details	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	15.25 WL	Françoise Mbango-Etone  Cameroon	14.60	Tereza Marinova  Bulgaria	14.58
Shot put details	Yanina Karolchik  Belarus	20.61 NR	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	19.86 PB	Vita Pavlysh  Ukraine	19.41
Discus throw details	Ellina Zvereva  Belarus	67.10	Nicoleta Grasu  Romania	66.24	Anastasia Kelesidou  Greece	65.50 SB
Hammer throw details	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	70.65 AR	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	70.61	Bronwyn Eagles  Australia	68.87
Javelin throw details	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba	69.53 CR	Mirela Manjani (Tzelili)  Greece	65.78	Sonia Bisset  Cuba	64.69
Heptathlon details	Yelena Prokhorova  Russia	6694 SB	Natalya Sazanovich  Belarus	6539 SB	Shelia Burrell  United States	6472 PB
AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

Natalya Sadova of Russia originally won the gold medal in discus throw (68.57), but she was later disqualified after she tested positive for caffeine.

Medals Table

Position:	Nation:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.	United States	6	5	3	14
2.	Russia	5	7	6	18
3.	Kenya	3	3	2	8
4.	Germany	3	3	1	7
5.	Cuba	3	1	2	6
6.	Ethiopia	2	3	3	8
7=	Belarus	2	2	0	4
7=	Romania	2	2	0	4
9.	Bahamas	2	1	1	4
10.	Morocco	2	1	0	3
11.	Poland	2	0	2	4
12=	Czech Republic	2	0	0	2
12=	South Africa	2	0	0	2
14.	Jamaica	1	2	3	6
15.	Greece	1	2	2	5
16.	Italy	1	1	2	4
17.	Ukraine	1	1	1	3
18.	Australia	1	0	2	3
19.	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
20=	Dominican Republic	1	0	0	1
20=	Mozambique	1	0	0	1
20=	Senegal	1	0	0	1
20=	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
24=	Japan	0	2	1	3
24=	Spain	0	2	1	3
26=	Finland	0	1	1	2
26=	France	0	1	1	2
26=	Sweden	0	1	1	2
26=	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	1	2
30=	Austria	0	1	0	1
30=	Cameroon	0	1	0	1
30=	Estonia	0	1	0	1
30=	Israel	0	1	0	1
30=	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
35.	Mexico	0	0	2	2
36=	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
36=	Cayman Islands	0	0	1	1
36=	Haiti	0	0	1	1
36=	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
36=	Portugal	0	0	1	1
36=	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	1	1
36=	Suriname	0	0	1	1

See also

• 2001 in athletics (track and field)

References

• 2001 IAAF World Championships in Athletics - Official website