Track and field at the 2015 Military World Games

The track and field competition at the 2015 Military World Games was held from 4–11 October 2015 at the KAFAC Sports Complex in Mungyeong. The stadium is named after the Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps. The marathon races took place on 11 October and followed a route around the city with a finish point at the track and field main stadium.^[1][2] A number of para-athletics exhibition events were added to the programme for the first time, covering men's and women's shot put, and track races over 100 m, 200 m, and 1500 m for men.^[3][4]

The programme expanded to contain 40 athletics events – a new high. In track and field there were 20 events for men and 18 for women, while the marathon had individual and team aspects for both sexes (the team format being a new addition). Men's hammer throw, women's 400 metres hurdles, high jump and shot put all returned to the programme after being dropped at the previous edition. Women's discus throw made its debut at the games. The women's 10,000 metres was not contested on this occasion, however.^[3][5]

After an absence from the 2011 games, Russia returned and topped the medal table in the sport for the third time in its history.^[6] It sent a full strength team and came away with ten gold medals among a haul of nineteen. Bahrain has its most successful edition in clear second place with six golds and twelve medals in total (all its medallists were African-born). China had the third highest gold medals, with four, while Poland had the third greatest medal total at ten. Thirty nations reached the medal table. The host nation won one medal – a gold courtesy of men's pole vaulter Jin Min-sub.^[7]

A total of twelve games records were broken or equalled in the athletics competitions.^[8] Two athletes defended their 2011 titles: men's javelin thrower Ari Mannio and women's hammer thrower Zhang Wenxiu. It was Zhang's fourth successive gold medal, retaining her position as the only woman to win the event since its introduction in 2003, and she also improved the games record for a fourth time straight. The only athlete to win two individual titles, Ekaterina Koneva claimed a horizontal jumps double for Russia. Rosângela Santos won the most medals with a 100 metres individual and relay title double as well as a 200 metres bronze.

Four champions from the 2015 World Championships in Athletics were in attendance. Russia's Sergey Shubenkov (110 m hurdles) and Mariya Kuchina (high jump) won their disciplines, but Maryna Arzamasava (800 m) and Piotr Małachowski (discus throw) were both beaten into runner-up spots on the world military stage.^[9] Seventeen-year-old World Youth champion Salwa Eid Naser became the youngest winner of the women's 400 m title.^[10]

Records[]

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Yousef Masrahi	Men's 400 metres	Saudi Arabia	45.18	GR
Ali Al-Deraan	Men's 800 metres	Saudi Arabia	1:45.50	GR
Majd Eddin Ghazal	Men's high jump	Syria	2.31 m	GR, NR
El Hassan El-Abbassi	Men's 10,000 metres	Bahrain	27:41.76	GR
Rosângela Santos	Women's 100 metres	Brazil	11.17	GR
Nataliia Lupu	Women's 800 metres	Ukraine	1:59.99	GR
Ruth Jebet	Women's 3000 metres steeplechase	Bahrain	9:30.24	GR
Kemi Adekoya	Women's 400 metres hurdles	Bahrain	55.30	GR=
Zhang Li	Women's javelin throw	China	62.95 m	GR
Zhang Wenxiu	Women's hammer throw	China	74.87 m	GR
Ekaterina Koneva	Women's triple jump	Russia	14.28 m	GR
Ekaterina Renzhina Nadezhda Kotlyarova Kseniya Ryzhova Antonina Krivoshapka	Women's 4×400 metres relay	Russia	3:28.75	GR

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Barakat Al-Harthi (OMA)	10.16 NR	Reza Ghasemi (IRI)	10.18	Aziz Ouhadi (MAR)	10.25
200 metres details	Eseosa Desalu (ITA)	20.64	Serhiy Smelyk (UKR)	20.74	Aldemir da Silva Junior (BRA)	20.77
400 metres details	Yousef Masrahi (KSA)	45.18 GR	Arokia Rajiv (IND)	45.57	Abubakar Abbas (BHR)	45.73
800 metres details	Ali Al-Deraan (KSA)	1:45.50 GR	Jackson Kivuva (KEN)	1:45.70	Marcin Lewandowski (POL)	1:46.36
1500 metres details	Fouad Elkaam (MAR)	3:44.79	Benson Seurei (BHR)	3:44.98	(QAT)	3:45.64
5000 metres details	Albert Kibichii Rop (BHR)	13:23.70	Zouhair Aouad (BHR)	13:26.19	Emmanuel Kipsang (KEN)	13:31.48
10,000 metres details	El Hassan El-Abbassi (BHR)	27:41.76 GR	Emmanuel Kipsang (KEN)	28:03.86	Hassan Chani (BHR)	28:11.46
110 m hurdles details	Sergey Shubenkov (RUS)	13.43	Artur Noga (POL)	13.79	Dominik Bochenek (POL)	13.84
400 m hurdles details	Abdelmalik Lahoulou (ALG)	49.43	Timofey Chalyy (RUS)	49.88	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti (KEN)	49.91
3000 m s'chase details	Amor Ben Yahia (TUN)	8:24.68	(KEN)	8:25.54	Yoann Kowal (FRA)	8:26.71
4 × 100 m relay details	Poland (POL) Robert Kubaczyk Grzegorz Zimniewicz Kamil Masztak Dariusz Kuć	39.35	Dominican Republic (DOM) Mayobanex de Óleo Yohandris Andújar Stanly del Carmen Yancarlos Martínez	39.41	Sri Lanka (SRI) Yupun Abeykoon	39.43
4 × 400 m relay details	Russia (RUS) Timofey Chalyy Denis Alekseyev Ivan Shablyuev Pavel Ivashko	3:03.01	Algeria (ALG) Larbi Bourrada Abdelmalik Lahoulou	3:03.78	Venezuela (VEN) Arturo Ramírez Alberth Bravo José Meléndez Freddy Mezones	3:04.10
Marathon details	Alemu Bekele (BHR)	2:15:07	Marcin Chabowski (POL)	2:15:37	Linus Chumba (KEN)	2:16:51
Team marathon details	Poland (POL) Marcin Chabowski Henryk Szost	6:51:23	Ecuador (ECU)	7:07:23	Kenya (KEN) Linus Chumba Paul Malakwen Kosgei	7:08:00
High jump details	Majd Eddin Ghazal (SYR)	2.31 m GR, NR	Daniil Tsyplakov (RUS)	2.28 m	(IRI)	2.24 m
Pole vault details	Jin Min-sub (KOR)	5.40 m	Georgiy Gorokhov (RUS)	5.30 m	Paweł Wojciechowski (POL)	5.20 m
Long jump details	Pavel Shalin (RUS)	7.66 m	(ROM)	7.64 m	(CHN)	7.63 m
Triple jump details	Dmitriy Sorokin (RUS)	17.01 m	Aleksey Fyodorov (RUS)	16.56 m	Adrian Świderski (POL)	16.55 m
Shot put details	Darlan Romani (BRA)	20.08 m	Bob Bertemes (LUX)	19.60 m	Georgi Ivanov (BUL)	19.37 m
Discus throw details	Zoltán Kővágó (HUN)	66.01 m	Piotr Małachowski (POL)	62.12 m	Mahmoud Samimi (IRI)	60.97 m
Hammer throw details	Kirill Ikonnikov (RUS)	75.88 m	Yevhen Vynohradov (UKR)	74.77 m	(CHN)	66.98 m
Javelin throw details	Ari Mannio (FIN)	79.78 m	Júlio César de Oliveira (BRA)	78.62 m	Johannes Vetter (GER)	77.37 m

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Rosângela Santos (BRA)	11.17 GR	Nataliya Pohrebnyak (UKR)	11.46	Marika Popowicz (POL)	11.50
200 metres details	Edidiong Odiong (BHR)	23.18	Anna Kiełbasińska (POL)	23.33	Rosângela Santos (BRA)	23.38
400 metres details	Salwa Eid Naser (BHR)	51.39	Bianca Răzor (ROM)	51.81	Nataliya Pyhyda (UKR)	51.99
800 metres details	Nataliia Lupu (UKR)	1:59.99 GR	Maryna Arzamasava (BLR)	2:00.57	Angelika Cichocka (POL)	2:00.72
1500 metres details	Selah Busienei (KEN)	4:07.58	Margherita Magnani (ITA)	4:11.51	Florina Pierdevara (ROM)	4:14.94
5000 metres details	Pauline Korikwiang (KEN)	15:23.85	Volha Mazuronak (BLR)	15:35.21	Sabrina Mockenhaupt (GER)	15:35.75
100 m hurdles details	Yekaterina Galitskaya (RUS)	13.06	Katsiaryna Paplauskaya (BLR)	13.29	Nina Morozova (RUS)	13.38
400 m hurdles details	Kemi Adekoya (BHR)	55.30 GR	Hanna Ryzhykova (UKR)	55.74	Vania Stambolova (BUL)	57.45
3000 m s'chase details	Ruth Jebet (BHR)	9:30.24 GR	(KEN)	9:40.69	Tigest Mekonen (BHR)	9:41.46
4 × 100 m relay details	Brazil (BRA) Vitória Cristina Rosa Franciela Krasucki Rosângela Santos	43.87	Russia (RUS) Yekaterina Galitskaya Nadezhda Kotlyarova Ekaterina Renzhina Nina Morozova	44.20	China (CHN) Huang Guifen	45.05
4 × 400 m relay details	Russia (RUS) Ekaterina Renzhina Nadezhda Kotlyarova Kseniya Ryzhova Antonina Krivoshapka	3:28.75 GR	Ukraine (UKR) Olha Zemlyak Nataliya Pyhyda Hanna Ryzhykova Nataliia Lupu	3:30.66	Bahrain (BHR) Salwa Eid Naser Edidiong Odiong Iman Essa Kemi Adekoya	3:32.62 NR
Marathon details	Iwona Lewandowska (POL)	2:31:25	Ma Yugui (CHN)	2:31:40	Monika Stefanowicz (POL)	2:32:20
Team marathon details	Poland (POL) Iwona Lewandowska Monika Stefanowicz	7:41:32	China (CHN) Ma Yugui	7:52:09	United States (USA)	8:49:05
High jump details	Mariya Kuchina (RUS)	1.95 m	Iryna Herashchenko (UKR)	1.84 m	Alina Rotaru (ROM)	1.80 m
Long jump details	Ekaterina Koneva (RUS)	6.39 m	Volha Sudarava (BLR)	6.36 m	Alina Rotaru (ROM)	6.33 m
Triple jump details	Ekaterina Koneva (RUS)	14.28 m GR	Yulimar Rojas (VEN)	13.82 m	Ana José (DOM)	13.80 m
Shot put details	Gao Yang (CHN)	18.14 m	Irina Tarasova (RUS)	17.90 m	Auriol Dongmo Mekemnang (CMR)	17.64 m
Discus throw details	Feng Bin (CHN)	62.07 m	Andressa de Morais (BRA)	59.07 m	Yuliya Maltseva (RUS)	57.52 m
Hammer throw details	Zhang Wenxiu (CHN)	74.87 m GR	Anna Bulgakova (RUS)	68.01 m	Rosa Rodríguez (VEN)	67.54 m
Javelin throw details	Zhang Li (CHN)	62.95 m GR	Jucilene de Lima (BRA)	57.99 m	Nadeeka Lakmali (SRI)	55.79 m

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	10	7	2	19
2	Bahrain	7	2	4	13
3	Poland	4	4	7	15
4	China	4	2	3	9
5	Brazil	3	3	2	8
6	Kenya	2	4	4	10
7	Saudi Arabia	2	0	0	2
8	Ukraine	1	6	1	8
9	Algeria	1	1	0	2
	Italy	1	1	0	2
11	Morocco	1	0	1	2
12	Finland	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Oman	1	0	0	1
	South Korea*	1	0	0	1
	Syria	1	0	0	1
	Tunisia	1	0	0	1
18	Belarus	0	4	0	4
19	Romania	0	2	3	5
20	Iran	0	1	2	3
	Venezuela	0	1	2	3
22	Dominican Republic	0	1	1	2
23	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
	India	0	1	0	1
	Luxembourg	0	1	0	1
26	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
	Germany	0	0	2	2
28	Cameroon	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 nations)		42	42	41	125

References[]

Results

• Track & Field. Korea2015MWG. Retrieved on 2015-10-09.
• Track & Field Medallists by Event. Korea2015MWG. Retrieved on 2015-10-09.
• Track & Field Medal Standings. Korea2015MWG. Retrieved on 2015-10-09.

Records

• New Records. Korea2015MWG. Retrieved on 2015-10-09.

External links[]

• Official website (archived)