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 (USA)	6.54	Linford Christie (GBR)	6.55	Chidi Imoh (NGR)	6.60
200 metres	Nikolay Antonov (BUL)	20.67	Linford Christie (GBR)	20.72	Ade Mafe (GBR)	20.92
400 metres	Devon Morris (JAM)	46.17	Samson Kitur (KEN)	46.21	Cayetano Cornet (ESP)	46.52
800 metres	Paul Ereng (KEN)	1:47.08	Tomás de Teresa (ESP)	1:47.82	Simon Hoogewerf (CAN)	1:47.88
1500 metres	Noureddine Morceli (ALG)	3:41.57	Fermín Cacho (ESP)	3:42.68	Mário Silva (POR)	3:43.85
3000 metres	Frank O'Mara (IRL)	7:41.14 (CR)	Hammou Boutayeb (MAR)	7:43.64	Robert Denmark (GBR)	7:43.90
60 metres hurdles	Greg Foster (USA)	7.45	Igors Kazanovs (URS)	7.47	Mark McKoy (CAN)	7.49
5000 metres walk	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	18:23.55 (CR)	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	18:23.60	Frants Kostyukevich (URS)	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 (USA)	2.40	Artur Partyka (POL)	2.37	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.31
					Aleksey Yemelin (URS)
Pole vault	Sergey Bubka (URS)	6.00	Viktor Ryzhenkov (URS)	5.80	Ferenc Salbert (FRA)	5.70
Long jump	Dietmar Haaf (GER)	8.15	Jaime Jefferson (CUB)	8.04	Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)	7.93
Triple jump	Igor Lapshin (URS)	17.31	Leonid Voloshin (URS)	17.04	Tord Henriksson (SWE)	16.80
Shot put	Werner Günthör (SUI)	21.17	Klaus Bodenmüller (AUT)	20.42	Ron Backes (USA)	20.06

Women

1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Irina Sergeyeva (URS)	7.02 (CR)	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	7.08	Liliana Allen (CUB)	7.12 (NR)
200 metres	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	22.24 (CR)	Irina Sergeyeva (URS)	22.41	Grit Breuer (GER)	22.58
400 metres	Diane Dixon (USA)	50.64 (CR)	Sandra Myers (ESP)	50.99	Anita Protti (SUI)	51.41 (NR)
800 metres	Christine Wachtel (GER)	2:01.51	Violeta Beclea (ROU)	2:01.75	Ella Kovacs (ROU)	2:01.79
1500 metres	Lyudmila Rogachova (URS)	4:05.09	Ivana Kubešová (TCH)	4:06.22	Tudorita Chidu (ROU)	4:06.27
3000 metres	Marie-Pierre Duros (FRA)	8:50.69	Margareta Keszeg (ROU)	8:51.51	Lyubov Kremlyova (URS)	8:51.90
60 metres hurdles	Lyudmila Narozhilenko (URS)	7.88	Monique Ewanjé-Épée (FRA)	7.90	Aliuska López (CUB)	8.03
3000 metres walk	Beate Anders (GER)	11:50.90 (CR)	Kerry Saxby (AUS)	12:03.21	Ileana Salvador (ITA)	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 (GER)	2.00	Tamara Bykova (URS)	1.97	Heike Balck (GER)	1.94
Long jump	Larisa Berezhnaya (URS)	6.84	Heike Drechsler (GER)	6.82	Marieta Ilcu (ROU)	6.74
Shot put	Sui Xinmei (CHN)	20.54 (CR)	Huang Zhihong (CHN)	20.33	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	20.00

Non-championship event

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Triple jump	Inessa Kravets (URS)	14.44 (CR)	Li Huirong (CHN)	13.98	Sofiya Bozhanova (BUL)	13.62

Medal table

1	Soviet Union	7	6	4	17
2	Germany	6	1	2	9
3	United States	4	1	2	7
4	Jamaica	2	1	0	3
5	France	1	1	1	3
6	China	1	1	0	2
	Kenya	1	1	0	2
8	Switzerland	1	0	1	2
9	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
	Ireland	1	0	0	1
12	Spain	0	3	1	4
13	Romania	0	2	3	5
14	Great Britain	0	2	2	4
15	Italy	0	1	3	4
	Cuba	0	1	3	4
17	Australia	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
22	Canada	0	0	2	2
23	Nigeria	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1

Participating nations

4

See also

• 1991 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics
• Athletics Australia