1999 Men’s World Outdoor Track and Field Championships

American sprinters highlighted the 1999 event, led by Michael Johnson, who set a world record in the 400 (43.18 seconds). Johnson also anchored the victorious U.S. 4 x 400 relay team, giving him an all-time best nine World Championship gold medals. Meanwhile, Maurice Greene won both the 100- and 200-meter titles, then he anchored the first place U.S. 4 x 100 relay squad. Greene became the first man in World Championship competition to complete the sprint double and the third athlete to win three golds in one year. Additionally, Maksim Tarasoy became the first man not named Sergey Bubka to win the pole vault World Championship, Haile Gebrselassie won the 10,000 for the fourth time in a row and Wilson Kipketer earned his third consecutive 800-meter World Championship gold.

7th IAAF World Championships in Athletics
Seville, Spain
August 20-29, 1999

• 100 meters
  GOLD Maurice Greene, USA 9.80
  SILVER Bruny Surin, CAN 9.84
  BRONZE Dwain Chambers, GBR 9.97

• 200 meters
  GOLD Maurice Greene, USA 19.90
  SILVER Claudinei da Silva, BRA 20.00
  BRONZE Francis Obikwelu, NGR 20.11

• 400 meters
  GOLD Michael Johnson, USA 43.18
  SILVER Sanderlei Parrela, BRA 44.29
  BRONZE Alejandro Cardenas, MEX 44.31

• 800 meters
  GOLD Wilson Kipketer, DEN 1:43.30
  SILVER Hezekiel Sepeng, RSA 1:43.32
  BRONZE Djabir Saïd-Guerni, ALG 1:44.18

• 1500 meters
  GOLD Hicham El Guerrouj, MAR 3:27.65
  SILVER Noah Ngeny, KEN 3:28.73
  BRONZE Reyes Estevez, ESP 3:30.57

• 5000 meters
  GOLD Salah Hissou, MAR 12:58.13
  SILVER Benjamin Limo, KEN 12:58.72
  BRONZE Mohammed Mourhit, BEL 12:58.80

• 10,000 meters
  GOLD Haile Gebrselassie, ETH 27:57.27
  SILVER Paul Tergat, KEN 27:58.56
  BRONZE Assefa Mezegebu, ETH 27:59.15

• Steeplechase
  GOLD Christopher Kosgei, KEN 8:11.76
  SILVER Wilson Boit Kipketer, KEN 8:12.09
  BRONZE Ali Ezzine, MAR 8:12.73

• Marathon
  GOLD Abel Anton, ESP 2:13:36
  SILVER Vincenzo Modica, ITA 2:14:03
  BRONZE Nobuyuki Sato, JPN 2:14:07

• 110-meter Hurdles
  GOLD Colin Jackson, GBR 13.04
  SILVER Anier García, CUB 13.07
  BRONZE Duane Ross, USA 13.12

• 400-meter Hurdles
  GOLD Fabrizio Mori, ITA 47.72
  SILVER Stéphane Diagana, FRA 48.12
  BRONZE Marcel Schelbert, SUI 48.13

• Discus Throw
  GOLD Anthony Washington, USA 69.08
  SILVER Jürgen Schult, GER 68.18
  BRONZE Lars Riedel, GER 68.09

• Shot Put
  GOLD C.J. Hunter, USA 21.79
  SILVER Oliver-Sven-Buder, GER 21.42
  BRONZE Aleksandr Bagach, UKR 21.26

• Javelin Throw
  GOLD Aki Parviainen, FIN 89.52
  SILVER Kostas Gatsioudis, GRE 89.18
  BRONZE Jan Zelezny, CZE 87.67

• Hammer Throw
  GOLD Karsten Kobs, GER 80.24
  SILVER Zsolt Nemeth, HUN 79.05
  BRONZE Vladislav Piskunov, UKR 79.03

• Long Jump
  GOLD Iván Pedroso, CUB 8.56
  SILVER Yago Lamela, ESP 8.40
  BRONZE Gregor Cankar, SLO 8.36

• High Jump
  GOLD Vyacheslav Voronin, RUS 2.37
  SILVER Mark Boswell, CAN 2.35
  BRONZE Martin Buss, GER 2.32

• Triple Jump
  GOLD Charles Friedek, GER 17.59
  SILVER Rostislav Dimitrov, BUL 17.49
  BRONZE Jonathan Edwards, GBR 17.48

• Pole Vault
  GOLD Maksim Tarasov, RUS 6.02
  SILVER Dmitriy Markov, AUS 5.90
  BRONZE Aleksandr Averbukh, ISR 5.80

• Decathlon
  GOLD Tomas Dvorak, CZE 8744
  SILVER Dean Macey, GBR 8556
  BRONZE Chris Huffins, USA 8547

• 20-kilometer Race Walk
  GOLD Ilya Markov, RUS 1:23:34
  SILVER Jefferson Perez, ECU 1:24:19
  BRONZE Daniel García, MEX 1:24:31

• 50-kilometer Race Walk
  GOLD German Skurygin, RUS 3:44:23
  SILVER Ivano Brugnetti, ITA 3:47:54
  BRONZE Nikolay Matyukhin, RUS 3:48:18

• 4 x 100-meter Relay
  GOLD United States (Jon Drummond, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene), 37.59
  SILVER Great Britain, 37.73
  BRONZE Nigeria, 37.91

• 4 x 400-meter Relay
  GOLD United States (Jerome Davis, Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, Michael Johnson), 2:56.45
  SILVER Poland, 2:58.91
  BRONZE Jamaica, 2:59.34

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