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

Women[]

1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Irina Sergeyeva  Soviet Union	7.02 (CR)	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	7.08	Liliana Allen  Cuba	7.12 (NR)
200 metres details	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	22.24 (CR)	Irina Sergeyeva  Soviet Union	22.41	Grit Breuer  Germany	22.58
400 metres details	Diane Dixon  United States	50.64 (CR)	Sandra Myers  Spain	50.99	Anita Protti  Switzerland	51.41 (NR)
800 metres details	Christine Wachtel  Germany	2:01.51	Violeta Beclea  Romania	2:01.75	Ella Kovacs  Romania	2:01.79
1500 metres details	Lyudmila Rogachova  Soviet Union	4:05.09	Ivana Kubešová  Czechoslovakia	4:06.22	Tudorita Chidu  Romania	4:06.27
3000 metres details	Marie-Pierre Duros  France	8:50.69	Margareta Keszeg  Romania	8:51.51	Lyubov Kremlyova  Soviet Union	8:51.90
60 metres hurdles details	Lyudmila Narozhilenko  Soviet Union	7.88	Monique Ewanjé-Épée  France	7.90	Aliuska López  Cuba	8.03
3000 metres walk details	Beate Anders  Germany	11:50.90 (CR)	Kerry Saxby  Australia	12:03.21	Ileana Salvador  Italy	12:07.67
4 × 400 metres relay details	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 details	Heike Henkel  Germany	2.00	Tamara Bykova  Soviet Union	1.97	Heike Balck  Germany	1.94
Long jump details	Larisa Berezhnaya  Soviet Union	6.84	Heike Drechsler  Germany	6.82	Marieta Ilcu  Romania	6.74
Shot put details	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 details	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 nations)		26	26	27	79

Participating nations[]

See also[]

• 1991 in athletics (track and field)

External links[]

• GBR Athletics
• Athletics Australia