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1993 in the sport of athletics

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Field	Value
Title	1993 in athletics
Major world competitions	World Championships
World Indoor Championships
IAAF Athletes of the Year	Colin Jackson
Sally Gunnell
Previous	1992
Next	1994

World Indoor Championships |No. of world records = |IAAF Athletes of the Year = Colin Jackson Sally Gunnell

This article contains an overview of the year 1993 in athletics.

International events

African Championships
Asian Championships
Bolivarian Games
Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American Championships
East Asian Games
Maccabiah Games
Mediterranean Games
Chinese National Games
South American Championships
South Asian Games
Southeast Asian Games
World Championships
World Cross Country Championships
World Half Marathon Championships
World Indoor Championships
World Race Walking Cup
World Student Games

World records

Men

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
Mile	Noureddine Morceli	3:44.39	5 September	Rieti, Italy
10,000 metres	Richard Chelimo	27:07.91	5 July	Stockholm, Sweden
Yobes Ondieki	26:58.38	10 July	Oslo, Norway
110 m hurdles	Colin Jackson	12.91	20 August	Stuttgart, Germany
4 × 400 m Relay	USA
• Andrew Valmon
• Quincy Watts
• Butch Reynolds
• Michael Johnson	2:54.29	22 August	Stuttgart, Germany
High Jump	Javier Sotomayor	2.45m	27 July	Salamanca, Spain
Javelin (new)	Jan Železný	95.54m	6 April	Pietersburg, South Africa
Jan Železný	95.66m	29 August	Sheffield, Great Britain
Half Marathon	Benson Masya	1:00:24	3 April	The Hague, Netherlands

The relay team of the United States in the men's 4x100m, formed by Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell and Leroy Burrell, equal its own world record, set the previous year at the 1992 Summer Olympics, clocking 37.40 on 1993-08-21 at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. The first mark was set by Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell and Carl Lewis on 1992-08-08.

Women

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
1500 metres	Qu Yunxia	3:50.46	11 September	Beijing, PR China
3,000 metres	Zhang Linli	8:22.06	12 September	Beijing, PR China
Wang Junxia	8:12.19	12 September	Beijing, PR China
Wang Junxia	8:06.11	13 September	Beijing, PR China
10,000 metres	Wang Junxia	29:31.78	8 September	Beijing, PR China
20,000 metres	Izumi Maki	1:06:48.8	20 September	Amagasaki, Japan
400m Hurdles	Sally Gunnell	52.74	19 August	Stuttgart, Germany
Pole Vault	Sun Caiyun	4.11m	21 March	Guangzhou, China
60 meters	Irina Privalova	6.92	9 February	Madrid, Spain

Sun's PV of 4.11m was not officially recognised as a record as there were only 2 competitors (regulations require a minimum of 3)

Awards

Men

1993 TRACK & FIELD AWARDS	ATHLETE
IAAF World Athlete of the Year	Colin Jackson
Track & Field Athlete of the Year	Noureddine Morceli
European Athlete of the Year Award	Linford Christie
Best Male Track Athlete ESPY Award	Kevin Young

Women

1993 TRACK & FIELD AWARDS	ATHLETE
IAAF World Athlete of the Year	Sally Gunnell
Track & Field Athlete of the Year	Wang Junxia
European Athlete of the Year Award	Sally Gunnell
Best Female Track Athlete ESPY Award	Evelyn Ashford

Men's Best Year Performers

[[100 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 100 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Linford Christie	9.87
2.	Andre Cason	9.92
3.	Daniel Effiong	9.98
4.	Dennis Mitchell	9.99
5.	Leroy Burrell	10.02
Carl Lewis
Bruny Surin

[[200 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 200 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Frank Fredericks	19.85
2.	John Regis	19.94
3.	Carl Lewis	19.99
4.	Michael Marsh	20.04
5.	Michael Johnson	20.06

[[400 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 400 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Michael Johnson	43.65
2.	Butch Reynolds	44.12
3.	Quincy Watts	44.13
4.	Andrew Valmon	44.28
5.	Samson Kitur	44.34

[[800 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 800 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Nixon Kiprotich	1:43.54
2.	Martin Steele	1:43.84
3.	Paul Ruto	1:43.92
4.	Johnny Gray	1:44.03
5.	Sammy Kibet Langat	1:44.06

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 1,500 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Noureddine Morceli	3:29.20
2.	Fermín Cacho	3:32.01
3.	Abdi Bile	3:32.83
4.	Mohamed Suleiman	3:33.29
5.	Simon Doyle	3:33.39

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Noureddine Morceli	3:44.39
2.	Abdi Bile	3:51.66
3.	Steve Cram	3:52.17
4.	Jim Spivey	3:52.37
5.	Simon Doyle	3:52.56

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Noureddine Morceli	7:29.24
2.	Paul Bitok	7:34.98
3.	Moses Kiptanui	7:35.79
4.	Brahim Jabbour	7:36.54
5.	Jim Spivey	7:37.04

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 5,000 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ismael Kirui	13:02.75
2.	Haile Gebrselassie	13:03.17
3.	Khalid Skah	13:04.67
4.	Yobes Ondieki	13:05.09
5.	Richard Chelimo	13:05.14

[[10000 metres|10,000 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 10,000 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Yobes Ondieki	26:58.38
2.	Richard Chelimo	27:07.91
3.	William Sigei	27:16.81
4.	Khalid Skah	27:17.74
5.	Moses Tanui	27:18.32

[[Half Marathon]]

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Moses Tanui	1:00:15

[[Marathon (sport)|Marathon]]

:Main race this year: World Championships Marathon

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Dionicio Cerón	2:08:51
2.	Vincent Rousseau	2:09:13
3.	Kim Wan-Ki	2:09:25
4.	Gert Thys	2:09:31
5.	Cosmas Ndeti	2:09:33

[[Hurdling|110m Hurdles]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 110m Hurdles

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Colin Jackson	12.91
2.	Tony Jarrett	13.00
3.	Jack Pierce	13.06
4.	Mark McKoy	13.08
5.	Tony Dees	13.12

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 400m Hurdles

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Kevin Young	47.18
2.	Samuel Matete	47.60
Winthrop Graham
4.	Stéphane Diagana	47.64
5.	Eric Keter	48.24

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

:Main race this year: World Championships 3,000m Steeplechase

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Moses Kiptanui	8:06.36
2.	Patrick Sang	8:07.53
3.	Alessandro Lambruschini	8:08.78
4.	Matthew Birir	8:09.42
5.	Mark Croghan	8:09.76

[[High Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships High Jump

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Javier Sotomayor	2.45 WR
2.	Hollis Conway	2.38
Dragutin Topić
4.	Troy Kemp	2.37
Artur Partyka
Steve Smith

[[Long Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Long Jump

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Mike Powell	8.70
2.	Erick Walder	8.53
3.	Iván Pedroso	8.49
4.	Craig Hepburn	8.41
5.	Dion Bentley	8.39

[[Triple Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Triple Jump

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Mike Conley	17.86
2.	Yoelbi Quesada	17.68
3.	Leonid Voloshin	17.65
4.	Vasiliy Sokov	17.59
5.	Denis Kapustin	17.54

[[Discus throw|Discus]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Discus Throw

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Lars Riedel	68.42
2.	Mike Buncic	67.12
3.	Erik de Bruin	67.06
4.	Costel Grasu	66.90
5.	Dmitriy Shevchenko	66.90

[[Shot put|Shot Put]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Shot Put

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Werner Günthör	21.98
2.	Randy Barnes	21.80
3.	Kevin Toth	21.29
4.	Dragan Perić	21.26
5.	Mike Stulce	21.21

[[Hammer throw|Hammer]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Hammer Throw

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Andrey Abduvaliyev	82.78
2.	Sergey Kirmasov	82.54
3.	Igor Astapkovich	82.28
4.	Sergey Litvinov	82.16
5.	Aleksandr Seleznyov	81.70

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

:Main competition this year: World Championships Javelin Throw

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Jan Železný	95.66
2.	Raymond Hecht	88.90
3.	Patrik Bodén	88.26
4.	Mick Hill	86.94
5.	Vladimir Sasimovich	86.48

[[Pole Vault]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Pole Vault

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Sergey Bubka	6.05
2.	Rodion Gataullin	6.00
3.	Jean Galfione	5.93
4.	Maksim Tarasov	5.90
Denis Petushinskiy
Grigoriy Yegorov

[[Decathlon]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Decathlon

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Dan O'Brien	8817
2.	Eduard Hämäläinen	8724
3.	Paul Meier	8548
4.	Christian Schenk	8500
5.	Alain Blondel	8444

Women's Best Year Performers

[[60 meters]]

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Irina Privalova	6.92
2.	Gail Devers	6.95
3.	Merlene Ottey	7.01
4.	Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova	7.06
5.	Zhanna Block	7.07

[[100 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 100 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Merlene Ottey	10.82
Gail Devers
3.	Gwen Torrence	10.86
4.	Irina Privalova	10.94
5.	Mary Onyali	10.97

[[200 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 200 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Merlene Ottey	21.77
2.	Irina Privalova	21.88
3.	Gwen Torrence	21.92
4.	Marie-José Pérec	21.99
5.	Galina Malchugina	22.22

[[400 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 400 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ma Yuqin	49.81
2.	Jearl Miles	49.82
3.	Gwen Torrence	49.83
4.	Irina Privalova	49.89
5.	Juliet Campbell	50.11

[[800 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 800 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	1:55.43
2.	Liu Dong	1:55.54
3.	Qu Yunxia	1:56.24
4.	Ella Kovacs	1:56.58
5.	Argentina Paulino	1:56.62

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 1,500 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Qu Yunxia	3:50.46
2.	Wang Junxia	3:51.92
3.	Zhang Linli	3:57.46
4.	Wang Renmei (runner)	3:58.64
5.	Liu Li	3:59.34

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Violeta Szekely	4:21.69
2.	Lyudmila Rogachova	4:22.33
3.	Lyubov Kremlyova	4:22.46
4.	Sonia O'Sullivan	4:22.94
5.	Anna Brzezińska	4:23.08

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 3,000 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Wang Junxia	8:06.11 WR
2.	Qu Yunxia	8:12.18
3.	Zhang Linli	8:16.50
4.	Ma Liyan	8:19.78
5.	Zhang Lirong	8:21.84

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Sonia O'Sullivan	14:45.92
2.	Elana Meyer	14:46.41
3.	Annette Peters	14:56.07
4.	Maria Albertina Dias	15:05.12
5.	Zhong Huandi	15:05.69+

[[10000 metres|10,000 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 10,000 metres

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Wang Junxia	29:31.78 WR
2.	Zhong Huandi	30:13.37
3.	Zhang Lirong	31:09.25
4.	Ma Liyan	31:10.46
5.	Sally Barsosio	31:15.38

[[Half Marathon]]

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Valentina Yegorova	1:09:35

[[Marathon (sport)|Marathon]]

:Main race this year: World Championships Marathon

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Wang Junxia	2:24:07
2.	Qu Yunxia	2:24:32
3.	Zhang Linli	2:24:42
4.	Zhang Lirong	2:24:52
5.	Olga Markova	2:25:27

[[Hurdling|60 m hurdles]]

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ludmila Narozhilenko	7.70
2.	Julie Baumann	7.86
3.	Eva Sokolova	7.92
4.	LaVonna Martin-Floreal	7.99
5.	Patricia Girard	8.01

[[Hurdling|100m Hurdles]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 100m Hurdles

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Gail Devers	12.46
2.	Marina Azyabina	12.47
3.	Zhang Yu	12.64
4.	Lynda Goode	12.67
5.	Svetla Dimitrova	12.71

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 400m Hurdles

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Sally Gunnell	52.74
2.	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	52.79
3.	Margarita Ponomaryova	53.48
4.	Kim Batten	53.84
5.	Han Qing	53.96

[[High jump|High Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships High Jump

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Stefka Kostadinova	2.05 m
2.	Heike Henkel	2.01 m
3.	Tatyana Shevchik	2.00 m
Alina Astafei
Ioamnet Quintero

[[Long jump|Long Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Long Jump

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Heike Drechsler	7.21 m
2.	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	7.08 m
3.	Lyudmila Ninova	7.06 m
4.	Irina Mushailova	7.02 m
5.	Yao Weili	7.01 m

[[Triple jump|Triple Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Triple Jump

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Anna Biryukova	15.09 m
2.	Iolanda Chen	14.97 m
3.	Irina Mushailova	14.79 m
4.	Inna Lasovskaya	14.70 m
5.	Niurka Montalvo	14.51 m

[[Discus throw|Discus]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Discus Throw

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Larisa Korotkevich	68.14
2.	Olga Burova	67.40 m
3.	Ellina Zvereva	66.32 m
4.	Cao Qi	66.08 m
5.	Daniela Costian	66.02 m

[[Shot put|Shot Put]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Shot Put

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Svetlana Krivelyova	20.84 m
2.	Huang Zhihong	20.57 m
3.	Anna Romanova	20.24 m
4.	Wang Yawen	19.89 m
5.	Zhang Zhiying	19.77 m

[[Hammer throw|Hammer]]

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Olga Kuzenkova	64.64
2.	Svetlana Sudak	63.70
3.	Mihaela Melinte	62.52
4.	Aya Suzuki	60.90
5.	Natalya Vasilenko	59.80

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

:Main competition this year: World Championships Javelin Throw

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Trine Hattestad	72.12 m
2.	Natalya Shikolenko	68.96 m
3.	Karen Forkel	67.94 m
4.	Teresė Nekrošaitė	66.34 m
5.	Silke Renk	65.80 m

[[Heptathlon]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Heptathlon

RANK	1993 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	6837
2.	Sabine Braun	6797
3.	Ma Miaolan	6750
4.	Tatyana Blokhina	6703
5.	Svetlana Buraga	6635

Births

January 1 - Sifan Hassan, Ethiopian-born Dutch runner
March 7
- Roman Danyliuk, Ukrainian athlete
- Alysbeth Félix, Puerto Rican athlete
May 16 - Steven Solomon, Australian sprinter

Deaths

January 24 — Detlef Gerstenberg (35), East German hammer thrower (b. 1957)
November 9 — Anne Smith (52), British middle-distance runner (b. 1941)

References

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