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1989 in the sport of athletics

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Field	Value
Title	1989 in athletics
Major world competitions	World Indoor Championships
Previous	1988
Next	1990

|No. of world records =

This article contains an overview of the year 1989 in athletics.

International Events

African Championships
Asian Championships
Balkan Games
Central American and Caribbean Championships
Bolivarian Games
European Indoor Championships
Jeux de la Francophonie
South American Championships
World Cross Country Championships
World Indoor Championships
World Student Games

World records

Men

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
3,000 metres	Said Aouita	7:29.45	20 August	Köln, West Germany
10,000 metres	Arturo Barrios	27:08.23	18 August	Berlin, West Germany
110 m hurdles	Roger Kingdom	12.92	16 August	Zürich, Switzerland
3,000 m steeplechase	Peter Koech	8:05.35	3 July	Stockholm, Sweden
4 × 200 metres relay	Santa Monica TC
• Danny Everett
• Leroy Burrell
• Floyd Heard
• Carl Lewis	1:19.38	23 August	Koblenz, West Germany
High Jump	Javier Sotomayor	2.44m	29 July	San Juan, Puerto Rico

Women

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
Mile	Paula Ivan	4:15.61	10 July	Nice, France
Half Marathon	Ingrid Kristiansen	1:08:31	16 September	New Bedford, United States

Men's Best Year Performers

[[100 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Leroy Burrell	9.94
2.	Raymond Stewart	9.97
3.	Frank Fredericks	10.02
4.	Dennis Mitchell	10.03
5.	Andre Cason	10.04

[[200 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Robson da Silva	19.96
2.	Dennis Mitchell	20.09
Floyd Heard
4.	Mark Witherspoon	20.12
5.	Joe DeLoach	20.13

[[400 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Antonio Pettigrew	44.27
2.	Butch Reynolds	44.30
3.	Danny Everett	44.36
4.	Steve Lewis	44.47
5.	Roberto Hernández	44.58

[[800 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Paul Ereng	1:43.16
2.	Nixon Kiprotich	1:43.38
—	Sebastian Coe	1:43.38
4.	Johnny Gray	1:43.39
5.	Abdi Bile	1:43.60

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Abdi Bile	3:30.55
2.	Saïd Aouita	3:30.63
3.	Wilfred Kirochi	3:32.57
4.	Gennaro di Napoli	3:32.98
5.	José Luis González	3:33.33

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Abdi Bile	3:49.90
2.	Saïd Aouita	3:50.09
3.	Wilfred Kirochi	3:50.49
4.	Joe Falcon	3:51.07
5.	Dieter Baumann	3:51.15

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Saïd Aouita	7:29.45
2.	Yobes Ondieki	7:35.01
3.	Arturo Barrios	7:35.71
4.	Dieter Baumann	7:38.93
5.	Vincent Rousseau	7:39.41

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Yobes Ondieki	13:04.24
2.	Saïd Aouita	13:06.26
3.	Arturo Barrios	13:07.79
4.	Brahim Boutayeb	13:12.10
5.	Sydney Maree	13:13.84

[[10000 metres|10,000 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Arturo Barrios	27:08.23
2.	Salvatore Antibo	27:16.50
3.	Addis Abebe	27:17.82
4.	Francesco Panetta	27:24.16
5.	John Ngugi	27:28.07

[[Half Marathon]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Matthew Temane	1:01:10

[[Marathon (sport)|Marathon]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Juma Ikangaa	2:08:01
2.	Belayneh Dinsamo	2:08:40
3.	Douglas Wakiihuri	2:09:03
4.	Abebe Mekonnen	2:09:06
—	Steve Moneghetti	2:09:06

[[Hurdling|110m Hurdles]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Roger Kingdom	12.92
2.	Colin Jackson	13.11
3.	Greg Foster	13.19
4.	Renaldo Nehemiah	13.20
5.	Tonie Campbell	13.22

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Kevin Young	47.86
2.	Andre Phillips	47.94
3.	Winthrop Graham	48.20
4.	Danny Harris	48.27
5.	David Patrick	48.33

[[Steeplechase (athletics)|3,000m Steeplechase]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Peter Koech	8:05.35
2.	Patrick Sang	8:06.03
3.	Julius Kariuki	8:12.18
4.	Joseph Mahmoud	8:13.38
5.	Graeme Fell	8:15.80

[[High Jump]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Javier Sotomayor	2.44
2.	Patrik Sjöberg	2.40
3.	Hollis Conway	2.39
4.	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko	2.37
5.	Carlo Thränhardt	2.34
Rudolf Povarnitsyn
Dalton Grant

[[Long Jump]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Larry Myricks	8.70
2.	Carl Lewis	8.54
3.	Mike Powell	8.49
4.	Leroy Burrell	8.37
5.	Vladimir Ratushkov	8.33

[[Triple Jump]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Volodymyr Inozemtsev	17.62
2.	Oleg Sakirkin	17.58
3.	Mike Conley	17.57
4.	Charles Simpkins	17.53
5.	Kenny Harrison	17.47

[[Discus throw|Discus]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Wolfgang Schmidt	70.92
2.	Mike Buncic	68.88
3.	Luis Delís	68.28
4.	Jürgen Schult	68.12
5.	Vésteinn Hafsteinsson	67.64

[[Shot put|Shot Put]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Ulf Timmermann	22.19
2.	Randy Barnes	22.18
Werner Günthör
4.	Jim Doehring	21.57
5.	Aleksandr Bagach	21.42

[[Hammer throw|Hammer]]

Main article: 1989 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Heinz Weis	82.84
2.	Igor Astapkovich	82.52
3.	Vasiliy Sidorenko	82.30
4.	Yuriy Syedikh	81.92
5.	Andrey Abduvaliyev	81.00

[[Javelin throw|Javelin (new design)]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi	87.60
2.	Steve Backley	85.90
3.	Tom Petranoff	85.34
4.	Volker Hadwich	84.84
5.	Peter Borglund	84.76

[[Pole Vault]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Sergey Bubka	6.00
—	Rodion Gataullin	6.00
3.	Joe Dial	5.90
4.	Grigoriy Yegorov	5.81
Tim Bright

[[Decathlon]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Dave Johnson	8549
2.	Christian Plaziat	8485
3.	Richardas Malakhovskis	8437
4.	Christian Schenk	8351
5.	Michael Smith	8317

Women's Best Year Performers

[[60 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Nelli Cooman	7.05
2.	Gwen Torrence	7.07
3.	Merlene Ottey	7.10
4.	Alice Brown	7.11
5.	Olga Bogoslovskaya	7.12

[[100 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Dawn Sowell	10.78
2.	Merlene Ottey	10.95
3.	Laurence Bily	11.04
4.	Evelyn Ashford	11.05
5.	Sheila Echols	11.07

[[200 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Dawn Sowell	22.04
2.	Evette de Klerk	22.06
3.	Merlene Ottey	22.21
4.	Silke Möller	22.23
5.	Dannette Young	22.29

[[400 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ana Fidelia Quirot	50.01
2.	Pauline Davis	50.18
3.	Grit Breuer	50.48
4.	Grace Jackson	50.63
5.	Tatyana Alekseyeva	50.74

[[800 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ana Fidelia Quirot	1:54.44
2.	Sigrun Wodars	1:55.70
3.	Doina Melinte	1:56.55
4.	Dalia Matuseviciene	1:57.27
5.	Olga Dogadina	1:58.0

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Paula Ivan	3:59.23*
2.	Doina Melinte	4:00.89
3.	Svetlana Kitova	4:02.08
4.	Yvonne Murray	4:03.13
5.	Yvonne Mai	4:03.15

Ivan ran 3:59.23 for 1500m on her way to the mile world record of 4:15.61 in Nice.

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Paula Ivan	4:15.61
2.	Doina Melinte	4:20.39
3.	Svetlana Kitova	4:22.52
4.	Lynn Williams	4:24.75
5.	Bev Nicholson	4:27.19

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Paula Ivan	8:38.48
2.	Yvonne Murray	8:38.51
3.	Marie-Pierre Duros	8:38.97
4.	Elly van Hulst	8:40.85
5.	PattiSue Plumer	8:42.12

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Kathrin Ulrich	14:59.01
2.	PattiSue Plumer	15:00.00
3.	Lynn Williams	15:01.30
4.	Liz McColgan	15:14.54
5.	Päivi Tikkanen	15:15.76

[[10000 metres|10,000 metres]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ingrid Kristiansen	30:48.51
2.	Kathrin Ulrich	31:33.92
3.	Viorica Ghican	31:46.43
4.	Iris Biba	31:52.09
5.	Akemi Matsuno	31:54.0

[[Half Marathon]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ingrid Kristiansen	1:08:31

[[Marathon (sport)|Marathon]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ingrid Kristiansen	2:24:33
2.	Veronique Marot	2:25:56
3.	Wanda Panfil	2:27:05
4.	Mun Gyong-Ae	2:27:16
5.	Kim Jones	2:27:54

[[Hurdling|60m Hurdles]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Cornelia Oschkenat	7.73
2.	Ludmila Narozhilenko	7.77
3.	Yordanka Donkova	7.78
4.	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	7.81
5.	Yelizaveta Chernyshova	7.82

[[Hurdling|100m Hurdles]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Cornelia Oschkenat	12.60
2.	Monique Éwanjé-Épée	12.65
3.	Yelizaveta Chernyshova	12.68
Mihaela Pogăcean
5.	Ludmila Narozhilenko	12.69

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	53.37
2.	Myrtle Bothma	53.82
3.	Petra Krug	54.35
4.	Debbie Flintoff-King	54.42
5.	Sally Gunnell	54.64

[[High jump|High Jump]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Silvia Costa	2.04 m
2.	Heike Balck	2.01 m
3.	Jan Wohlschlag	2.00 m
Alina Astafei
Heike Henkel

[[Long jump|Long Jump]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Galina Chistyakova	7.24 m
2.	Helga Radtke	7.15 m
3.	Larisa Berezhnaya	7.12 m
4.	Marieta Ilcu	7.08 m
5.	Nijolé Medvedeva	6.98 m

[[Shot put|Shot Put]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Li Meisu	20.82 m
2.	Heike Hartwig	20.78 m
3.	Zhihong HuangCHN	20.73 m
4.	Astrid Kumbernuss	20.54 m
5.	Natalya Lisovskaya	20.50 m

[[Javelin throw|Javelin (old design)]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Petra Felke	76.88
2.	Trine Hattestad	71.12
3.	Beate Koch	70.76
4.	Karen Forkel	70.12
5.	Natalya Shikolenko	69.38

[[Heptathlon]]

RANK	1989 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Larisa Nikitina	7007
2.	Anke Behmer	6686
3.	Remigija Nazaroviené	6604
4.	Liliana Nastase	6602
5.	Sabine Braun	6575

Marathons

International Races

DATE	MARATHON	NATION	MEN'S WINNER	TIME	WOMEN'S WINNER	TIME
January 15	Hamilton	BER Bermuda	GBR James Doig	2:26:46	USA Sally Zimmer	2:58:40
January 15	Marrakech	MAR Morocco	BEL Jean Weyts	2:15:49	USA Janis Klecker	2:39:19
January 29	Osaka	JPN Japan	—	—	NZL Lorraine Moller	2:30:21
February 5	Oita	JPN Japan	JPN Satoru Shimizu	2:12:26	—	—
February 5	Valencia	ESP Spain	POL Miroslaw Dzienisik	2:19:09	ESP Elisenda Pucurull	2:46:19
February 12	Manila	PHI Philippines	BRA Osmiro Souza da Silva	2:24:35	ITA Cesarina Taroni	2:55:00
February 26	Seville	ESP Spain	TAN Suleiman Nyambui	2:16:59	ESP Consuelo Alonso	2:51:33
March 5	Los Angeles	USA United States	CAN Arthur Boileau	2:13:01	URS Zoya Ivanova	2:34:42
March 12	Arusha	TAN Tanzania	TAN Simon Naali	2:14:40	TAN Blanka James	3:23:03
March 12	Hong Kong	HKG Hong Kong	GBR Kevin Ball	2:38:44	HKG Ko Funglong	3:41:59
March 19	Barcelona	ESP Spain	USA Douglas Kurtis	2:16:37	BEL Martine Vandegehuchte	2:37:41
March 19	Tokyo	JPN Japan	JPN Hiromi Taniguchi	2:09:34	—	—
April 9	Bremem	FRG West Germany	FRG Heinz-Bernhardt Burger	2:16:42	ROM Ewa Wrzosek	2:48:46
April 16	Rotterdam	NED Netherlands	ETH Belayneh Dinsamo	2:08:39	ROM Elena Murgoci	2:32:03
April 16	Vienna	AUT Austria	TAN Alfredo Shahanga	2:10:28	FRG Christa Vahlensieck	2:34:46
April 17	Boston	USA United States	ETH Abebe Mekonnen	2:09:06	NOR Ingrid Kristiansen	2:24:33
April 23	Budapest	HUN Hungary	GDR Stefan Seidemann	2:19:52	TCH Dana Hajna	2:45:50
April 23	London	UK United Kingdom	KEN Douglas Wakiihuri	2:09:03	GBR Veronique Marot	2:25:56
April 23	Lyon	FRA France	ALG Mohamed Youkmane	2:14:42	FRA M Carrara	2:58:59
April 23	Munich	FRG West Germany	FRG Herbert Steffny	2:11:30	BRA Janete Mayal	2:37:04
April 23	Rotorua	NZL New Zealand	NZL Paul Ballinger	2:18:21	NZL Bernardine Portenski	2:46:02
April 30	Les Herbiers	FRA France	HUN Csaba Szűcs	2:14:29	POL Lydia Camberg	2:43:07
April 30	Madrid	ESP Spain	BRA Jose Cesar Sousa	2:15:16	ESP Elena Cobos	2:41:14
April 30	Paris	FRA France	GBR Steve Brace	2:13:03	JPN Kazue Kojima	2:29:23
May 1	Belfast	NIR Northern Ireland	ENG Ian Bloomfield	2:20:45	IRL Rosaleen Hayden	2:58:31
May 1	Rome	ITA Italy	ITA Guido Genicco	2:20:43	KEN Pascaline Wangui	2:46:28
May 7	Amsterdam	NED Netherlands	NED Gerard Genicco	2:13:52	POL Gabriela Gorzynska	2:47:16
May 7	Long Beach	USA United States	NZL Rex Wilson	2:12:27	CHN Wen Yanming	2:43:33
May 7	Pittsburgh	USA United States	USA Kenneth Martin	2:15:28	USA Margareth Groos	2:32:39
May 7	Vancouver	CAN Canada	ISR Shem-Tov Sabag	2:19:41	CAN Anne Mangal	2:50:05
May 21	Hamburg	FRG West Germany	BRA Nivaldo Filho	2:13:21	NED Jolanda Homminga	2:40:28
June 3	Stockholm	SWE Sweden	GBR David Clarke	2:13:24	SWE Evy Palm	2:33:26
June 4	Auckland	NZL New Zealand	NZL Murray Fleming	2:18:28	NZL Helen Moros	2:46:35
June 11	Redcliffe	AUS Australia	GBR Lawrence Adams	2:22:51	AUS Jan Fedrick	2:51:09
June 25	Rio de Janeiro	BRA Brazil	BRA Joao de Souza	2:16:07	BRA Evany Souza	2:53:47
July 9	San Francisco	USA United States	South Africa Ernest Tjela	2:15:01	USA Stephanie Robertson	3:09:08
July 15	Nuremberg	FRG West Germany	AUT Andreas Achleitner	2:32:03	FRG Ulrike Pietzsch	3:03:07
July 23	Brisbane	AUS Australia	AUS Bradley Camp	2:10:11	AUS Jan Fedrick	2:51:30
July 30	Blumenau	BRA Brazil	BRA Valmir de Carvalho	2:17:52	BRA Nercy Freitas de Costa	2:47:47
August 12	Helsinki	FIN Finland	FIN Jouni Kortelainen	2:18:58	FIN Ritva Lemettinen	2:40:30
August 13	Adelaide	AUS Australia	AUS John Duck	2:25:50	GBR Leslie Watson	2:49:49
August 20	Reykjavik	ISL Iceland	GBR Robin Nash	2:25:49	NED Wilma Rusman	2:47:25
August 26	Rio de Janeiro	BRA Brazil	BRA Jose Carlos Santana	2:18:19	BRA Marinete Quintanilha	2:56:44
September 9	Oslo	NOR Norway	GBR Ronald Boreham	2:19:05	URS Olga Durynina	2:38:15
September 17	Buenos Aires	ARG Argentina	ARG Juan Pablo Juarez	2:16:03	ARG Ana Maria Nielsen	2:43:58
September 24	Brussels	BEL Belgium	GBR Pavel Klimes	2:16:46	BEL Nelly Aerts	2:36:49
September 24	Ciudad Mexico	MEX Mexico	ETH Tesfaye Tafa	2:17:54	MEX Maria Flora Morena	2:44:34
September 24	Montreal	CAN Canada	CAN Peter Maher	2:20:07	CAN Helene Rochefort	2:39:46
September 24	Portland	USA United States	JPN Tsugumichi Sadakata	2:18:45	USA Debra Myra	2:44:09
October 1	Berlin	—	TAN Alfredo Shahanga	2:10:11	FIN Päivi Tikkanen	2:28:45
October 8	Melbourne	AUS Australia	JPN Takeshi Soh	2:18:13	AUS Colleen Stephens	'2:49:18
October 8	Penang	MAS Malaysia	MAS Amaran Raman	2:35:09	IND Sunita Anand Godara	3:03:02
October 8	Venice	ITA Italy	ITA Marco Milani	2:16:08	ITA Emma Scaunich	2:36:02
October 15	Beijing	CHN China	DEN Peter Dall	2:12:47	PRK Mun Gyong-Ae	2:27:16
October 15	Istanbul	TUR Turkey	TUR Aydin Ceken	2:27:41	—	—
October 22	Athens	GRE Greece	NED Jan van Rijthoven	2:23:19	USA Leslie Lewis	2:37:42
October 22	Frankfurt	FRG West Germany	FRG Herbert Steffny	2:13:51	FRG Iris Biba	2:33:14
October 22	Hamilton	NZL New Zealand	NZL Robert Schuddeboom	2:25:23	NZL Irene Wilson	3:23:45
October 22	Split	CRO Croatia	NED Michel de Maat	2:26:16	URS Tatyana Ulyanova	3:10:18
October 29	Chicago	USA United States	GBR Paul Davies-Hale	2:11:25	USA Lisa Weidenbach	2:28:15
October 30	Dublin	IRE Ireland	IRE John Griffin	2:16:45	IRE Pauline Nolen	2:44:32
November 5	New York City	USA United States	TAN Juma Ikangaa	2:08:01	NOR Ingrid Kristiansen	2:25:30
November 6	Lisbon	POR Portugal	POR Joaquim Silva	2:16:56	BRA Evany Souza	2:47:27
November 12	Iraklion	GRE Greece	USA Christopher Prior	2:19:05	GBR Glynis Penny	2:45:27
November 19	Rome	ITA Italy	ALG Mohamed Salmi	2:13:17	KEN Pascaline Wangui	2:39:10
November 19	Tokyo	JPN Japan	—	—	URS Lyubov Klochko	2:31:33
November 26	Bangkok	THA Thailand	USA Douglas Kurtis	2:20:15	ITA Cesarina Taroni	2:47:53
November 26	Kawaguchiko	JPN Japan	POL Wieslaw Perszke	2:18:10	JPN Reiko Hirosawa	2:53:55
December 3	Fukuoka	JPN Japan	POR Manuel Matias	2:12:54	—	—
December 10	Honolulu	USA United States	TAN Simon Naali	2:11:47	NED Carla Beurskens	2:31:50

Births

January 1 — Fatih Avan, Turkish javelin thrower
January 24 — Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter
February 25 — Vira Rebryk, Ukrainian javelin thrower
June 15 — Teddy Tamgho, French triple jumper
June 24 — Teklemariam Medhin, Eritrean long-distance runner
July 1 — Abdinasir Said Ibrahim, Somali distance runner
August 16 — Wang Hao, Chinese race walker
September 12 — Aberu Kebede, Ethiopian long distance runner
December 5 — Linet Masai, Kenyan distance runner

Deaths

June 22 — Lee Calhoun (56), American athlete (b. 1933)

References

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