2013 World Championships in Athletics

Dates	10–18 August 2013

The Luzhniki Stadium.

The 14th World Championships in Athletics are held in Moscow, Russia from 10–18 August 2013.

Bidding process

When the seeking deadline passed on 1 December 2006, four candidate cities (Barcelona, Brisbane, Moscow and Gothenburg) had confirmed their candidatures. Gothenburg backed out later that month, citing lack of financial support from the Swedish government. The IAAF announced Moscow the winning candidate at the IAAF Council Meeting in Mombasa on 27 March 2007.

Candidates

Barcelona, Spain

The city hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Barcelona was chosen over Madrid and Valencia, which were at one point outlined as possible candidates.

Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane was announced as the Australian candidate with Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre (formally ANZ Stadium) the proposed venue. The venue previously hosted the 1982 Commonwealth Games and 2001 Goodwill Games. The event would have been held in July/August 2011 if Brisbane had been successful. It was a failed bidder for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, which was eventually won by Berlin.

Melbourne, the host of the 2006 Commonwealth Games, was named as a possible candidate for 2013 if Brisbane's bid for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was unsuccessful.

Moscow, Russia

Deputy Mayor of Moscow Valery Vinogradov announced on 13 March 2006 that Moscow would bid for the Championships and suggested that they would use Luzhniki Stadium for the event. The city hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

In addition, Moscow confirmed their candidature to host the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.

Event schedule

See also: 2013 World Championships in Athletics qualification standards

2013 World Championships Athletics panorama.

Medal summary

Men

Track

Usain Bolt of Jamaica, winner of the men's 100 metres, here during the heats.

File:Mohammad Aman winning in Moscow 800m.jpg

Mohammad Aman of Ethiopia after winning men's 800m.

Mo Farah after winning the 10,000 metres

Medalists of the 110 metres hurdles

Aleksandr Ivanov of Russia, winner of the 20 km walk

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Usain Bolt  Jamaica	9.77 SB	Justin Gatlin  United States	9.85 SB	Nesta Carter  Jamaica	9.95
200 metres
400 metres	LaShawn Merritt  United States	43.74 WL,PB	Tony McQuay  United States	44.40 PB	Luguelín Santos  Dominican Republic	44.52 SB
800 metres	Mohammed Aman  Ethiopia	1:43.31 SB	Nick Symmonds  United States	1:43.55 SB	Ayanleh Souleiman  Djibouti	1:43.76
1500 metres
5000 metres	Mo Farah  Great Britain and Northern Ireland
10,000 metres	Mo Farah  Great Britain and Northern Ireland	27:21.71 SB	Ibrahim Jeilan  Ethiopia	27:22.23 SB	Paul Tanui  Kenya	27:22.61
Marathon
110 metres hurdles	David Oliver  United States	13.00 WL	Ryan Wilson  United States	13.13	Sergey Shubenkov  Russia	13.24
400 metres hurdles	Jehue Gordon  Trinidad and Tobago	47.69 WL, NR	Michael Tinsley  United States	47.70 PB	Emir Bekrić  Serbia	48.05 NR
3000 metres steeplechase	Ezekiel Kemboi  Kenya	8:06.01	Conseslus Kipruto  Kenya	8:06.37	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad  France	8:07.86
20 kilometres walk	Aleksandr Ivanov  Russia	1:20:58 PB	Chen Ding  China	1:21:09 SB	Miguel Ángel López  Spain	1:21:21 SB
50 kilometres walk	Robert Heffernan  Ireland	3:37:56 WL	Mikhail Ryzhov  Russia	3:38:58 PB	Jared Tallent  Australia	3:40:03 SB
4 × 100 metres relay
4 × 400 metres relay

Field

Raphael Holzdeppe and Björn Otto of Germany the gold and bronze medalist of the men's pole vault.

Ashton Eaton of United States, winner of the men's decathlon.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Bohdan Bondarenko  Ukraine	2.41 CR, NR	Mutaz Essa Barshim  Qatar	2.38	Derek Drouin  Canada	2.38 NR
Pole vault	Raphael Holzdeppe  Germany	5.89	Renaud Lavillenie  France	5.89	Björn Otto  Germany	5.82
Long jump	Aleksandr Menkov  Russia	8.56 WL,PB	Ignisious Gaisah  Netherlands	8.29 NR	Luis Rivera  Mexico	8.27
Triple jump
Shot put
Discus throw	Robert Harting  Germany	69.11	Piotr Małachowski  Poland	68.36	Gerd Kanter  Estonia	65.19
Javelin throw
Hammer throw	Paweł Fajdek  Poland	81.97 WL,PB	Krisztián Pars  Hungary	80.30	Lukáš Melich  Czech Republic	79.36
Decathlon	Ashton Eaton  United States	8809 WL	Michael Schrader  Germany	8670 PB	Damian Warner  Canada	8512 PB

Women

Track

Christine Ohuruogu after winning the 400 metres.

Abeba Aregawi won the 1500 metres.

File:Tirunesh Dibaba Moscow Championshiops Celebrating.jpg

Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia after becoming only the second person to win 5 individual titles at the World Championships

Edna Kiplagat after winning the marathon.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce  Jamaica	10.71 WL	Murielle Ahouré  Ivory Coast	10.93	Carmelita Jeter  United States	10.94
200 metres
400 metres	Christine Ohuruogu  Great Britain and Northern Ireland	49.41 NR	Amantle Montsho  Botswana	49.41	Antonina Krivoshapka  Russia	49.78
800 metres
1500 metres	Abeba Aregawi  Sweden	4:02.67	Jennifer Simpson  United States	4:02.99	Hellen Onsando Obiri  Kenya	4:03.86
5000 metres
10,000 metres	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia	30:43.35	Gladys Cherono  Kenya	30:45.17	Belaynesh Oljira  Ethiopia	30:46.98
Marathon	Edna Kiplagat  Kenya	2:25:44	Valeria Straneo  Italy	2:25:58 SB	Kayoko Fukushi  Japan	2:27:45
100 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles	Zuzana Hejnová  Czech Republic	52.83 WL,NR	Dalilah Muhammad  United States	54.09	Lashinda Demus  United States	54.27
3000 metres steeplechase	Milcah Chemos Cheywa  Kenya	9:11.65 WL	Lydiah Chepkurui  Kenya	9:12.55 PB	Sofia Assefa  Ethiopia	9:12.84 SB
20 kilometres walk	Elena Lashmanova  Russia	1:27:08	Anisya Kirdyapkina  Russia	1:27:11	Liu Hong  China	1:28:10
4 × 100 metres relay
4 × 400 metres relay

Field

Brittney Reese of the United States, winner of the women's long jump.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump
Pole vault	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.89 SB	Jenn Suhr  United States	4.82	Yarisley Silva  Cuba	4.82
Long jump	Brittney Reese  United States	7.01	Blessing Okagbare  Nigeria	6.99	Ivana Španović  Serbia	6.82 NR
Triple jump	Caterine Ibargüen  Colombia	14.85 WL	Ekaterina Koneva  Russia	14.81	Olha Saladuha  Ukraine	14.65
Shot put	Valerie Adams  New Zealand	20.88	Christina Schwanitz  Germany	20.41 PB	Gong Lijiao  China	19.95
Discus throw	Sandra Perković  Croatia	67.99	Mélina Robert-Michon  France	66.28 NR	Yarelys Barrios  Cuba	64.96
Hammer throw	Tatyana Lysenko  Russia	78.80 CR	Anita Wlodarczyk  Poland	78.46 NR	Zhang Wenxiu  China	75.58 'SB"
Javelin throw
Heptathlon	Hanna Melnychenko  Ukraine	6586 PB	Brianne Theisen-Eaton  Canada	6530 PB	Dafne Schippers  Netherlands	6477 NR

Medal table

1	Russia (RUS)	5	3	2	10
2	United States (USA)	4	8	2	14
3	Kenya (KEN)	3	3	2	8
4	Germany (GER)	2	2	1	5
5	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	1	2	5
6	Jamaica (JAM)	2	0	1	3
	Ukraine (UKR)	2	0	1	3
8	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2	0	0	2
9	Poland (POL)	1	2	0	3
10	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	1	2
11	Colombia (COL)	1	0	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	1	0	0	1
17	France (FRA)	0	2	1	3
18	China (CHN)	0	1	3	4
19	Canada (CAN)	0	1	2	3
20	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	1	2
21	Botswana (BOT)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	1	0	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	0	1
28	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	2	2
	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	2	2
30	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Djibouti (DJI)	0	0	1	1
	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Total		30	30	30	90

Participating nations

• Afghanistan (1)
• Albania (2)
• Algeria (11)
• American Samoa (1)
• Andorra (1)
• Angola (1)
• Anguilla (1)
• Antigua and Barbuda (1)
• Argentina (8)
• Armenia (1)
• Aruba (1)
• Australia (47)
• Austria (2)
• Azerbaijan (2)
• Bahamas (26)
• Bahrain (10)
• Bangladesh (1)
• Barbados (9)
• Belarus (27)
• Belgium (17)
• Benin (1)
• Bermuda (2)
• Bhutan (1)
• Bolivia (2)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
• Botswana (11)
• Brazil (32)
• British Virgin Islands (3)
• Brunei (1)
• Bulgaria (10)
• Burkina Faso (1)
• Burundi (1)
• Cambodia (1)
• Cameroon (1)
• Canada (46)
• Cape Verde (1)
• Cayman Islands (1)
• Central African Republic (1)
• Chad (1)
• Chile (7)
• China (53)
• Colombia (20)
• Comoros (1)
• Congo (1)
• Cook Islands (1)
• Costa Rica (1)
• Croatia (7)
• Cuba (25)
• Cyprus (2)
• Czech Republic (28)
• DR Congo (1)
• Denmark (2)

• Djibouti (1)
• Dominica (1)
• Dominican Republic (10)
• Ecuador (12)
• Egypt (4)
• El Salvador (1)
• Equatorial Guinea (1)
• Eritrea (10)
• Estonia (9)
• Ethiopia (46)
• Fiji (2)
• Finland (10)
• France (52)
• French Polynesia (1)
• Gabon (2)
• Gambia (1)
• Georgia (2)
• Germany (67)
• Ghana (1)
• Gibraltar (1)
• Great Britain (60)
• Greece (17)
• Grenada (2)
• Guam (1)
• Guatemala (6)
• Guinea (1)
• Guinea-Bissau (1)
• Guyana (3)
• Haiti (1)
• Honduras (1)
• Hong Kong (6)
• Hungary (11)
• Iceland (1)
• India (15)
• Indonesia (1)
• Iran (6)
• Iraq (1)
• Ireland (11)
• Israel (3)
• Italy (57)
• Ivory Coast (3)
• Jamaica (45)
• Japan (41)
• Jordan (1)
• Kazakhstan (17)
• Kenya (49)
• Kiribati (1)
• Kuwait (1)
• Kyrgyzstan (2)
• Laos (1)
• Latvia (10)
• Lesotho (3)

• Lithuania (14)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Macau (1)
• North Macedonia (1)
• Madagascar (2)
• Malawi (1)
• Malaysia (1)
• Maldives (1)
• Mali (1)
• Malta (1)
• Marshall Islands (1)
• Mauritania (1)
• Mauritius (1)
• Mexico (16)
• Micronesia (1)
• Moldova (4)
• Monaco (1)
• Mongolia (2)
• Montenegro (2)
• Montserrat (1)
• Morocco (21)
• Mozambique (1)
• Myanmar (1)
• Namibia (6)
• Netherlands (23)
• New Zealand (9)
• Nicaragua (1)
• Niger (1)
• Nigeria (17)
• North Korea (4)
• Northern Mariana Islands (1)
• Norway (11)
• Oman (1)
• Pakistan (1)
• Palau (1)
• Palestine (1)
• Panama (1)
• Papua New Guinea (2)
• Paraguay (1)
• Philippines (1)
• Peru (2)
• Poland (55)
• Portugal (12)
• Puerto Rico (4)
• Qatar (5)
• Romania (18)
• Russia (119)
• Rwanda (2)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis (6)

• Saint Lucia (3)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2)
• Samoa (1)
• San Marino (1)
• São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
• Saudi Arabia (11)
• Senegal (5)
• Serbia (8)
• Seychelles (1)
• Sierra Leone (1)
• Singapore (1)
• Slovakia (11)
• Slovenia (9)
• Solomon Islands (1)
• Somalia (1)
• South Africa (30)
• South Korea (16)
• Spain (41)
• Sri Lanka (8)
• Sudan (1)
• Suriname (1)
• Eswatini (1)
• Sweden (24)
• Switzerland (18)
• Syria (1)
• Chinese Taipei (7)
• Tajikistan (2)
• Tanzania (2)
• Thailand (2)
• East Timor (1)
• Togo (1)
• Tonga (1)
• Trinidad and Tobago (21)
• Tunisia (4)
• Turkey (10)
• Turkmenistan (1)
• Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
• Tuvalu (1)
• Uganda (12)
• Ukraine (61)
• United Arab Emirates (1)
• United States (137)
• Uruguay (1)
• Uzbekistan (3)
• Vanuatu (1)
• Venezuela (15)
• Vietnam (1)
• U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
• Yemen (1)
• Zambia (3)
• Zimbabwe (2)

Broadcasting

• TyC Sports
• ORF Sport +
• Canvas, La Deux
• BHT 1
• SporTV
• BNT 1
• Caracol TV
• HRT 2
• ČT sport
• DR3
• Canal 4
• ETV
• Eurosport, EBU
• Yle
• France 2
• ARD, ZDF
• STAR Sports (only in Score Tonight)
• TEN Sports
• IBA 1
• Rai Sport 1
• TVJ
• TBS
• LTV 7
• LRT
• NOS
• NRK1, NRK2
• TEN Sports
• TVP
• RTP2
• Russia 2
• RTS 2
• Dvojka
• RTV Slo 2
• SuperSport
• Teledeporte
• TV4
• TRT Spor
• BBC Sport
• NTU
• Most of the coverage of the World Championships were denied to the large American television audience because the IAAF sold exclusive rights to Universal Sports, a marginal network associated with NBC Sports. Because of their new business model which significantly cut their availability in order to strongarm rights fees, Universal Sports can only be seen in about 10 percent of the households in the U.S. market. While NBC provided an hour and a half of coverage on weekend days, Universal Sports kept a tight lid on other distribution of the content, even online content requiring login with cable subscription user names. Since authorized accounts were not available to the millions of cable subscribers whose cable service providers do not have a contract with Universal Sports, nationwide coverage of the entire meet was limited to 6 hours of weekend coverage. IAAF supported the coverage embargo, by providing in the form of short youtube highlight clips, only a small fraction of the online coverage they provided from Daegu two years earlier, instead promoting an internet radio feed and twitter updates.

External links

• Official website
• Official IAAF website for the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.
• IAAF Entry Standards (PDF)