2005 World Championships in Athletics

2005 World Championships in Athletics
Host city	Helsinki, Finland
Date(s)	6 August – 14 August 2005
Main Stadium	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Nations participating	196
Athletes participating	1,891
Events	47
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Helsinki Olympic Stadium at the opening day of the 2005 World Championships in Athletics.

The 10th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland (6 August 2005 – 14 August 2005), the site of the first IAAF World Championships in 1983. One theme of the 2005 championships was paralympic sports, some of which were included as exhibition events. Much of the event was played in extremely heavy rainfall.

Background

With the addition of the women's 3000 metres steeplechase to the schedule, this year's program of events was closer to parity for women and men. With the exception of the 50 km walk the women competed in practically the same events as the men. Two differences remaining from before, though, were the short hurdles race (100 metres for women vs. 110 metres for men), and the multi-event competition (heptathlon for women vs. decathlon for men).

Since the first World Championships in Helsinki 1983, seven new events have been added for women:

• 10000 metres, introduced in 1987
• 5000 metres, replaced 3000 metres in 1995
• triple jump, introduced in 1993
• 20 km walk introduced in 1999, replaced 10 km walk that first appeared in 1987
• pole vault, introduced in 1999
• hammer throw, introduced in 1999
• 3000 metres steeplechase, introduced in 2005

The games were originally set to be staged in London, England but wrangling within the government saw them unable to agree to build the required stadium at Picketts Lock therefore forfeiting their chance of being hosts.

Helsinki was considered by many to be the outsider in the race to host the games with rival bids being presented by Berlin in Germany; Brussels in Belgium, Budapest in Hungary, Moscow in Russia and Rome in Italy.

Drug testing

The IAAF conducted their largest ever anti-doping program at an athletics event for the championships, with 705 athletes subjected to a total 884 of tests.^[1] There were two athletes who failed drugs tests: Indian discus thrower Neelam Jaswant Singh tested positive for the stimulant pemoline, and Vladyslav Piskunov, a Ukrainian hammer thrower, tested positive for the steroid drostanolone.^[2] Singh received a two year ineligibility ban,^[3] while Piskunov received a life ban from athletics as this was his second offence.^[4]

Men's results

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Justin Gatlin  United States	9.88 SB	Michael Frater  Jamaica	10.05	Kim Collins  Saint Kitts and Nevis	10.05
200 m details	Justin Gatlin  United States	20.04	Wallace Spearmon  United States	20.20	John Capel  United States	20.31 SB
	Justin Gatlin wins the 200 metres, becoming the second athlete to win a sprint double in a single World Championships (Maurice Greene was the first, in 1999). Tyson Gay finishes fourth (20.34) to complete an American 1-2-3-4, the first time any nation has achieved this in a world championship athletics event. Usain Bolt of Jamaica pulls a muscle at about 150 m into the race and finishes last.
400 m details	Jeremy Wariner  United States	43.93 WL	Andrew Rock  United States	44.35 PB	Tyler Christopher  Canada	44.44 NR
	Olympic champion Wariner wins easily, with his first time under 44 seconds.
800 m details	Rashid Ramzi  Bahrain	1:44.24 PB	Yuriy Borzakovskiy  Russia	1:44.51	William Yiampoy  Kenya	1:44.55
	Yuriy Borzakovskiy starts his trademark sprint finish at 200m to go, but was boxed in behind Mehdi Baala of France which allowed Rashid Ramzi to win his second gold in the championships.
1500 m details	Rashid Ramzi  Bahrain	3:37.88	Adil Kaouch  Morocco	3:38.00 SB	Rui Silva  Portugal	3:38.02
	This was the first 800-1500 m double in open global championship since New Zealand's Peter Snell achieved it at the Rome Olympics in 1964. Ramzi, near the front at the bell, kicked with 300 metres to go and made another decisive move with 200 to go.
5000 m details	Benjamin Limo  Kenya	13:32.55	Sileshi Sihine  Ethiopia	13:32.81	Craig Mottram  Australia	13:32.96
	A slow pace race, ending in a sprint for the line in the last lap. Defending champion Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya just misses out of the bronze. (13:33.04)
10,000 m details	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	27:08.33	Sileshi Sihine  Ethiopia	27:08.87	Moses Mosop  Kenya	27:08.96 PB
	The pace was slow for the first sixteen laps until Bekele surged to the front with a 62-second seventeenth lap, whittling the pack down to nine men. The pace would dawdle again, the ninth kilometre was the slowest since the first in 2:48, though the last one was run in a furious 2:29. The pack of nine was still together at the bell, although somewhat strung out. Bekele ran the last lap in 54 seconds, holding off the challenge of Mosop thanks to help from Sihine and Dinkessa, who boxed him on the penultimate straight. Bekele would then hold off a charge from Sihine, while Dinkessa faded to seventh due to his exertions.
Marathon details	Jaouad Gharib  Morocco	2:10:10	Christopher Isengwe  Tanzania	2:10:21 PB	Tsuyoshi Ogata  Japan	2:11:16 SB
	Gharib attacked just before 30 km mark, getting Italian Olympic champion Stefano Baldini with him. Baldini had cramps few kilometres later and he retired after 35 kilometres.
110 m H details	Ladji Doucouré  France	13.07	Liu Xiang  China	13.08	Allen Johnson  United States	13.10
	In a very tight race, Frenchman Ladji Doucouré wins the 110 m hurdles, battling with Allen Johnson in the middle lanes and just crossing the line ahead of the fast finishing Liu Xiang.
400 m H details	Bershawn Jackson  United States	47.30 PB	James Carter  United States	47.43 PB	Dai Tamesue  Japan	48.10 PB
	In driving rain, Dai Tamesue starts fast to take the early lead before being overtaken on the final bend. Bershawn Jackson shows better form in the final straight to stretch away from James Carter. Tamesue dives over the line for a bronze to edge out Kerron Clement of the USA who jogs over the line.
3000 m SC details	Saif Saaeed Shaheen  Qatar	8:13.31	Ezekiel Kemboi  Kenya	8:14.95	Brimin Kipruto  Kenya	8:15.30
	A comfortable race for Said Saaeed Shaheen as Ezekiel Kemboi fails to mount a serious challenge. Brimin Kipruto finishes fast to edge Brahim Boulami into fourth place by two hundredths of a second.
20 km Walk details	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	1:18:35 SB	Francisco Javier Fernandez  Spain	1:19:36	Juan Manuel Molina  Spain	1:19:44 PB
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50 km Walk details	Sergey Kirdyapkin  Russia	3:38:08 PB	Aleksey Voyevodin  Russia	3:41:25	Alex Schwazer  Italy	3:41:54 NR
	Sergey Kirdyapkin, the former junior world champion led from early on and secures the global title in a personal best time. At around the 20 km mark he was caught by Aleksey Voyevodin, but by 40 km Kirdyapkin had shaken off his fellow Russian, who went on to earn silver in 3:41.25. Italian Alex Schwazer powers through late on to claim the bronze in a national record 3:41.54. There were fourteen disqualifications, and seven athletes did not finish.
4 X 100 m details	France Ladji Doucouré Ronald Pognon Eddy De Lépine Lueyi Dovy	38.08 WL	Trinidad and Tobago Kevon Pierre Marc Burns Jacey Harper Darrel Brown	38.10 NR	United Kingdom Jason Gardener Marlon Devonish Christian Malcolm Mark Lewis-Francis	38.27 SB
	The United Kingdom just beat Jamaica (38.28, SB) and Australia (38.32, SB) to bronze medal position. The United States' team does not participate, having bungled their first relay stick handoff in their qualification heat the previous day.
4 X 400 m details	United States Andrew Rock Derrick Brew Darold Williamson Jeremy Wariner	2:56.91 WL	Bahamas Nathaniel McKinney Avard Moncur Andrae Williams Chris Brown	2:57.32 NR	Jamaica Sanjay Ayre Brandon Simpson Lansford Spence Davian Clarke	2:58.07 SB
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Field

2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High Jump details	Yuriy Krymarenko  Ukraine	2.32	Víctor Moya  Cuba	2.29
			Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia
	Surprise winner. Also seven athletes achieved 2.29m. Olympic champion Stefan Holm failed to make the podium
Pole Vault details	Rens Blom  Netherlands	5.80 SB	Brad Walker  United States	5.75	Pavel Gerasimov  Russia	5.65 SB
	In rain and heavy wind, Rens Blom wins the first Dutch gold medal at a World Championship.
Long Jump details	Dwight Phillips  United States	8.60 WL	Ignisious Gaisah  Ghana	8.34 NR	Tommi Evilä  Finland	8.25
	Dwight Phillips takes the gold comfortably with his first jump, but the contest for the other medals is fierce. Tommi Evilä wins Finland's only medal of the championships, just beating Salim Sdiri of France and Joan Lino Martínez of Spain to third place.
Triple Jump details	Walter Davis  United States	17.57 SB	Yoandri Betanzos  Cuba	17.42 SB	Marian Oprea  Romania	17.40
	Leevan Sands, of the Bahamas, in bronze medal position for a long time, is pipped to fourth by Marian Oprea's last jump.
Shot Put details	Adam Nelson  United States	21.73 SB	Rutger Smith  Netherlands	21.29	Ralf Bartels  Germany	20.99
	After two Olympic and two World Championship silver medals, Adam Nelson finally takes his first gold at the international level.
Discus details	Virgilijus Alekna  Lithuania	70.17 CR	Gerd Kanter  Estonia	68.57	Michael Möllenbeck  Germany	65.95
	Defending champion Virgilijus Alekna takes home the gold with the competition's only longer-than-70 m throw. Fellow Balt Gerd Kanter is the runner-up.
Javelin details	Andrus Värnik  Estonia	87.17	Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway	86.18	Sergey Makarov  Russia	83.54
	Surprise winner Andrus Värnik takes Estonia's first gold medal at the World Championships, beating the reigning Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen by 99 cm. Finland's young star Tero Pitkämäki throws below his usual level in the heavy rain, and finishes fourth (81.27 m).
Hammer details	Ivan Tikhon  Belarus	83.89 CR	Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus	82.60	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland	79.35 SB
	Tikhon had no marking until after his second throw.
Decathlon details	Bryan Clay  United States	8732 WL	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	8521	Attila Zsivóczky  Hungary	8385
	Aleksandr Pogorelov just loses the bronze after the 1500 m.
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Women's results

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Lauryn Williams  United States	10.93	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	10.95 SB	Christine Arron  France	10.98
	Lauryn Williams obtains a surprise victory beating the favourite Christine Arron that finished only third behind also Veronica Campbell.
200 m details	Allyson Felix  United States	22.16	Rachelle Boone-Smith  United States	22.31	Christine Arron  France	22.31 SB
	Veronica Campbell ran a terrible bend (she runs out of her lane) and finished fourth.
400 m details	Tonique Williams-Darling  Bahamas	49.55 SB	Sanya Richards  United States	49.74	Ana Guevara  Mexico	49.81
	In a high quality final (despite heavy rainfall), Tonique Williams-Darling overtakes Sanya Richards just before the finish.
800 m details	Zulia Calatayud  Cuba	1:58.82	Hasna Benhassi  Morocco	1:59.42	Tatyana Andrianova  Russia	1:59.60
	Former world champion Maria de Lurdes Mutola comes fourth.
1500 m details	Tatyana Tomashova  Russia	4:00.35 SB	Olga Yegorova  Russia	4:01.46	Bouchra Ghezielle  France	4:02.45
	Yuliya Chizhenko finished second in 4:00.93, but she was disqualified for obstructing Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain, therefore Olga Yegorova gets the silver and Bouchra Ghezielle of France gets the bronze.
5000 m details	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia	14:38.59 CR	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	14:39.54	Ejegayehu Dibaba  Ethiopia	14:42.47
	Tirunesh Dibaba becomes the first woman to win the 5000 m and 10000 m at the same championships. Also, as in the 10000 m race, the winner's elder sister Ejegayehu Dibaba takes the bronze, stepping onto an entirely Ethiopian podium. Ethiopia claim the first four places, the second time that a country has ever achieved this (after the USA Men's 200m above).
10 000 m details	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia	30:24.02	Berhane Adere  Ethiopia	30:25.41 SB	Ejegayehu Dibaba  Ethiopia	30:26.00
	Fascinating race with Paula Radcliffe, using the race as preparation for the marathon, setting most of the pace before her lack of competitive 10k races this season sees her drop back with three laps to go. The three medal winners shows amazing acceleration with one lap to go, Berhane Adere kicking first but quickly covered by Tirunesh Dibaba with elder sister Ejegayehu Dibaba unable to match their pace. Tirunesh kicks again and goes past Adere with 250 metres to go to claim the gold. Reigning Olympic champion Xing Huina cannot cope with the acceleration and finishes fourth.
Marathon details	Paula Radcliffe  United Kingdom	2:20:57 CR	Catherine Ndereba  Kenya	2:22:01 SB	Constantina Tomescu  Romania	2:23:19
	Paula Radcliffe sets the pace of the race, leading all the way from start to finish. Constantina Tomescu is able to keep up with Radcliffe the longest, but begins to fall behind after the 25 km mark and at the end finds herself overtaken by the defending champion Catherine Ndereba. Derartu Tulu finishes fourth.
100 m H details	Michelle Perry  United States	12.66	Delloreen Ennis-London  Jamaica	12.76	Brigitte Foster-Hylton  Jamaica	12.76
	A dramatic race, as Olympic champion Joanna Hayes loses her balance after the second last hurdle, runs into the last hurdle, and comes last.
400 m H details	Yuliya Pechonkina  Russia	52.90 WL	Lashinda Demus  United States	53.27 PB	Sandra Glover  United States	53.32 PB
	Yuliya Pechonkina wins the gold. The USA appeals after Pechonkina appears to have not jumped over the first hurdle correctly, but the appeal fails.
3000 m steeplechase details	Dorcus Inzikuru  Uganda	9:18.24 CR	Yekaterina Volkova  Russia	9:20.49 PB	Jeruto Kiptum  Kenya	9:26.95 NR
	Dorcus Inzikuru wins Uganda's first ever gold medal in the World Championships
20 km Walk details	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	1:25:41 WL	Ryta Turava  Belarus	1:27:05 NR	Susana Feitor  Portugal	1:28:44 SB
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4 X 100 m details	United States Angela Daigle Muna Lee Me'Lisa Barber Lauryn Williams	41.78 WL	Jamaica Daniele Browning Sherone Simpson Aleen Bailey Veronica Campbell	41.99 SB	Belarus Yulia Nestsiarenka Natalya Sologub Alena Nevmerzhitskaya Oksana Dragun	42.56 NR
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4 X 400 m details	Russia Yuliya Pechonkina Olesya Krasnomovets Natalya Antyukh Svetlana Pospelova	3:20.95	Jamaica Shericka Williams Novlene Williams Ronetta Smith Lorraine Fenton	3:23.29 SB	United Kingdom Lee McConnell Donna Fraser Nicola Sanders Christine Ohuruogu	3:24.44 SB
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Field

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	2.02 WL	Chaunte Howard  United States	2.00 PB	Emma Green  Sweden	1.96 PB
	The weather conditions during final were not the best, and may well have hampered performances. Kajsa Bergqvist showed what willpower and dedication can achieve, as she claimed her first world championship gold medal after clearing 2.02m with only one foul in her entire series of jumps despite being having only recovered from injury within the past few months. Newcomer Chaunte Howard was the only real threat to Kajsa, and a big surprise, seemingly to herself as much as to the spectators. Her respectable jump technique and result make her someone to keep an eye on in the future. Swede Emma Green continued her quick rise to the elite level, taking the bronze in her first ever major championships.
Pole vault details	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	5.01 WR	Monika Pyrek  Poland	4.60	Pavla Hamáčková  Czech Republic	4.50
	Already having secured her victory by doing the competition's only 4.70 m jump, Yelena Isinbayeva breaks her own world record from three weeks ago by 1 centimetre.
Long jump details	Tianna Madison  United States	6.89 PB	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	6.79	Eunice Barber  France	6.76
	An unexpected win for Tianna Madison, as Tatyana Kotova finishes second for the third World Outdoor Championships in a row.
Triple jump details	Trecia Smith  Jamaica	15.11 WL	Yargelis Savigne  Cuba	14.82 PB	Anna Pyatykh  Russia	14.78
	Trecia Smith makes the three longest jumps in the final to take the gold. Yargelis Savigne takes silver in her first international competition with Anna Pyatykh third. Pre-event favourite Tatyana Lebedeva from Russia, who would go on to be the sole winner of the 2005 Golden League jackpot, did not take part because of injury.
Shot Put details	Nadzeya Astapchuk  Belarus	20.51	Olga Ryabinkina  Russia	19.64	Valerie Vili  New Zealand	19.62
	20 year old Valerie Vili earns a surprise bronze, as Nadzeya Astapchuk wins her first Outdoor World Championships Gold.
Discus details	Franka Dietzsch  Germany	66.56 SB	Natalya Sadova  Russia	64.33	Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová  Czech Republic	63.19
	Dominating the competition in her second podium performance over the course of eight World Championships, Franka Dietzsch gets the gold medal, as she did in Sevilla six years ago.
Hammer details	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	75.10 SB	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	73.08	Tatyana Lysenko  Russia	72.46
	Olga Kuzenkova added the world hammer title to the Olympic crown she had won in Athens the previous year. She achieved this after gaining the silver medal at the three previous championships.
Javelin details	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba	71.70 WR	Christina Obergföll  Germany	70.03 AR	Steffi Nerius  Germany	65.96
	A high-quality contest where Olympic champion Osleidys Menéndez sets a new world record whereas Christina Obergföll sets a new European record.
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	6887 SB	Eunice Barber  France	6824	Margaret Simpson  Ghana	6375
	(13.19 - 1.82 - 15.02 - 23.70 - 6.87 - 47.20 - 2:08.89)		(12.94 - 1.91 - 13.20 - 24.01 - 6.75 - 48.24 - 2:11.94)		(13.55 - 1.79 - 13.33 - 24.94 - 6.09 - 56.36 - 2:17.02)
	A close heptathlon saw Eunice Barber take the early lead after winning the 100 mH and HJ. A foot injury hampered Carolina Klüft who jumped 12 cm below her season best in the HJ, however, she struck back in the SP with a PB. After the first day, Barber had only a 2-point lead over Klüft. Day two started with the LJ, where Klüft was expected to jump poorly due to her injury. If she had problems she hid them well, winning with an SB. In the JT Margaret Simpson set a new PB with an impressive 56.36 m, this would propel her to Ghana's first ever world championship medal. Before the final event, Klüft's lead was 18 points and Barber needed to beat her by 1.5 sec in the 800 m to win the gold medal. Barber stuck to Kelly Sotherton, the eventual winner of the race, until the last 200 m but Klüft timed her race perfectly to beat Barber with another PB.
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Exhibition events

Paralympic exhibition events at the World Championships:

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
T54 Wheelchair racing 100 m men	David Weir  United Kingdom	14.15 NR	Kenny van Weeghel  Netherlands	14.19	Leo-Pekka Tähti  Finland	14.22
	Paralympic champion Leo-Pekka Tähti got off to a good start, but a battle between Britain's David Weir and Dutchman Kenny van Weeghel pushed both of them forward in the latter stages. Weir eventually won out, breaking his own British record, which he set in the semifinal at the 2004 Paralympics, by 0.02 s.
T54 Wheelchair racing 200 m men	David Weir  United Kingdom	25.47	Kenny van Weeghel  Netherlands	25.80	Supachai Koysub  Thailand	26.03
	Weir completes a widely anticipated double.
F54 Wheelchair javelin men	Jacques Martin  Canada	24.97	Markku Niinimäki  Finland	23.82	Gerasimos Vrionis  Greece	16.75
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T12 Visually impaired 200m women	Adria Santos  Brazil	26.99	Purificacion Santamarta  Spain	27.08	Paraskeví Kantza  Greece	28.32 (PB)
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Medals table

Contestants of the men's 20 km race walking event, seen in Helsinki's Mannerheimintie road.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	United States	14	8	3	25
2.	Russia	7	8	5	20
3.	Ethiopia	3	4	2	9
4.	Cuba	2	4	0	6
5.	Belarus	2	2	1	5
6.	France	2	1	4	7
7.	Sweden	2	0	1	3
8.	Bahrain	2	0	0	2
9.	Jamaica	1	5	2	8
10.	Kenya	1	2	4	7
11.	Morocco	1	2	0	3
12.	Germany	1	1	3	5
13.	Bahamas	1	1	0	2
13.	Estonia	1	1	0	2
13.	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
16.	Great Britain	1	0	2	3
17.	Ecuador	1	0	0	1
17.	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
17.	Qatar	1	0	0	1
17.	Uganda	1	0	0	1
17.	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
22.	Czech Republic	0	1	2	3
23.	Ghana	0	1	1	1
23.	Poland	0	1	1	2
23.	Spain	0	1	1	2
26.	Norway	0	1	0	1
26.	China	0	1	0	1
26.	Tanzania	0	1	0	1
26.	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	0	1
30.	Japan	0	0	2	2
30.	Portugal	0	0	2	2
30.	Romania	0	0	2	2
33.	Australia	0	0	1	1
33.	Canada	0	0	1	1
33.	Finland	0	0	1	1
33.	Hungary	0	0	1	1
33.	Italy	0	0	1	1
33.	Mexico	0	0	1	1
33.	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
33.	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	1	1

10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics commemorative coin

See also

• To commemorate the 2005 World Championships in Athletics the Finnish government issued a high value commemorative euro coin, the €20 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics commemorative coin, minted in 2005. The obverse of the coin features Helsinki Olympic Stadium and above the stadium random waves express the feeling of the games.
• Apocalyptica performed at the opening ceremony of the event.
• Geir Rönning, Finland's Eurovision Song Contest 2005 entrant, sang "Victory" the official song of the 2005 IAAF World Championships.
• 2005 in athletics (track and field)

References

External links

• Results from the IAAF web site