The 5th IAAF World Cup in Athletics

IAAF World Cup in Athletics

The IAAF Continental Cup is an international athletics competition which comprises track and field events. It is the only world cup contested by teams representing entire continents, rather than just those of individual nations...

was an international track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations

International Association of Athletics Federations

The International Association of Athletics Federations is the international governing body for the sport of athletics. It was founded in 1912 at its first congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation...

, held on September 8–10, 1989, at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys

Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys

Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys is a stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Originally built in 1927 for the 1929 International Exposition in the city , it was renovated in 1989 to be the main stadium for the 1992 Summer Olympics...

 in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Spain

Spain

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Men

Pos.	Team	Result
1		133
2	Europe	127
3		119
4		116,5
5	Africa	107
6	America	97
7	Asia	68,5
8		64,5
8	Oceania	64,5

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Women

Pos.	Team	Result
1		124
2		106
3	Americas	94
4	Europe	89
5		84,5
6	Asia	67,5
7	Africa	58
8		48
9	Oceania	40

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Men

100 metres	Great Britain	10.10	United States	10.15	Europe	10.17
200 metres	Americas	20.00	United States	20.36	Africa	20.38
400 metres	Americas	44.58	East Germany	44.86	Africa	44.97
800 metres	Great Britain	1:44.95	East Germany	1:45.04	Africa	1:45.08
1500 metres

Africa || 3:35.56
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Great Britain||3:35.79
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East Germany||3:35.87
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|5000 metres
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Africa ||13:23.14
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Europe||13:25.39
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Spain||13:25.94
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|10,000 metres
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Europe || 28:05.26
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Africa||28:06.43
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Spain||28:07.42
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|110 metre hurdles
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United State || 12.87
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Great Britain||12.95
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Americas||13.21
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|400 metre hurdles
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United States || 48.74
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Africa||49.24
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Great Britain||49.42
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|3000 metre steeplechase
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Africa || 8:20.84
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Europe||8:21.75
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East Germany||8:23.21
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|4×100 metre relay
|valign=top| United States
Andre Cason

Andre Cason

Andre Cason is an American former sprinter. He was a member of the US 4 x 100 meters relay team that won the gold medal at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo with a world record time of 37.50 seconds...

Tony Dees

Tony Dees

Anthony Michael Dees is a former American hurdler.Dees won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind Mark McKoy...

Daron Council
Slip Watkins||38.29
|valign=top| Great Britain
Clarence Callender
John Regis

John Regis (athlete)

John Paul Lyndon Regis, MBE is a retired English sprinter. During his career, he won gold medals in the 200 metres at the 1989 World Indoor Championships and the 1990 European Championships, and a silver medal in the distance at the 1993 World Championships.He was a member of the British teams...

Marcus Adam

Marcus Adam

Marcus Adam is a retired English sportsperson, who represented Great Britain as both a sprinter and a bobsledder. Competing in athletics, he won the gold medal in the 200 metres at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, and also won gold and silver medals respectively in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1990...

Linford Christie

Linford Christie

Linford Cicero Christie OBE is a former sprinter from the United Kingdom. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games...

||38.34
|valign=top| Europe
Max Morinière

Max Morinière

Max Morinière is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Biography:At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a bronze medal in the 4x100 metres relay with his team mates Bruno Marie-Rose, Daniel Sangouma and Gilles Quenehervé.At the 1990 European Championships in Split the...

Gilles Quénéhervé

Gilles Quénéhervé

Gilles Quénéhervé is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.-Biography:At the 1987 World Championships in Rome he won the silver medal in a time of 20.16, which still stood as a French record for 21 years until it was broken by Christophe Lemaitre at the 2011 World...

Bruno Marie-Rose

Bruno Marie-Rose

Bruno Marie-Rose is a retired sprinter from France . He was a member of the French team which set a world record in the 4 x 100 metres relay in 1990 with a time of 37.79 seconds to win the gold medal at the European Championships...

Daniel Sangouma

Daniel Sangouma

Daniel Sangouma is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.-Biography:...

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|4×400 metre relay
|valign=top| Americas
Lázaro Martínez

Lazaro Martínez

Lázaro Martínez Despaigne is a retired Cuban sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He won an Olympic silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. His personal best of 46.12 was set during the 1991 World Championships....

Sérgio Menezes
Howard Burnett

Howard Burnett (athlete)

Howard McNeal Burnett is a retired male sprinter from Jamaica, who mainly competed in the men's 400 metres during his career. He is a one-time Olympian, making his only appearance in 1988 , when he won the silver medal with the men's 4x400 m relay team. Burnett only ran in the qualifying...

Roberto Hernández||3:00.65
|valign=top| United States
Clarence Daniel
Oliver Bridges
Raymond Pierre

Raymond Pierre

Raymond Pierre is a former American track and field athlete, who competed in the sprinting events during his career. He is best known for winning the men's 400-meter dash event at the 1987 Pan American Games....

Antonio Pettigrew

Antonio Pettigrew

Antonio Pettigrew was an American sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters. He was born in Macon, Georgia....

||3:00.99
|valign=top| Africa
Simeon Kipkemboi

Simeon Kipkemboi

Simeon Kipkemboi is a former sprinter from Kenya, who represented his native East African country twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988 and 1992...

Lucas Sang

Lucas Sang

Lucas Sang was a Kenyan athlete who participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul. He was a member of the Kenyan 4 x 400 metre relay team, reaching the final and finishing eighth...

David Kitur

David Kitur

David Kitur is a retired Kenyan runner, who specialised in 400 metres.In 1983, at the inaugural world championships he was part of the Kenyan 4x400 metres relay team, which reached semifinals....

Gabriel Tiacoh

Gabriel Tiacoh

Gabriel Tiacoh was a sprinter from Côte d'Ivoire who specialised in the 400 metres. He is best known for winning his nation's sole Olympic medal thus far, in the 400 meters in 1984....

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| High jump
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Europe || 2.34
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Great Britain||2.31
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Americas||2.25
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| Pole vault
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Europe ||5.75
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United States||5.70
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East Germany||5.55
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| Long jump
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United States || 8.29
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Africa||8.00
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Great Britain||7.84
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| Triple jump
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United States || 17.49
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Soviet Union||17.31
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Great Britain||17.28
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| Shot put
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East Germany || 21.68
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Europe||21.40
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United States||21.10
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| Discus throw
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East Germany || 67.12
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Americas||66.72
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Europe||65.30
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| Hammer throw
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Europe || 77.68
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United States||76.38
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East Germany||76.28
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| Javelin throw
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Great Britain || 85.90
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Asia||82.56
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East Germany||80.30
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Women

100 metres	United States	11.18	Africa	11.23	East Germany	11.24
200 metres	East Germany	22.46	Africa	22.82	Americas	22.87
400 metres	Americas	50.60	East Germany	50.67	Africa	51.67
800 metres	Americas	1:54.44	East Germany	1:55.70	Europe	1:56.55
1500 metres	Europe	4:18.60	Soviet Union	4:19.44	East Germany	4:20.30
3000 metres	Europe	8:44.32	Soviet Union	8:49.42	United States	8:54.33
10,000 metres	East Germany	31:33.92	Europe	31:42.01	Soviet Union	32:15.53
100 metre hurdles	East Germany	12.60	Soviet Union	12.80	United States	12.86
400 metre hurdles	United States	53.84	Soviet Union	54.86	Europe	55.25
4×100 metre relay	East Germany Kerstin Behrendt Kerstin Behrendt Kerstin Behrendt is a former German athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres during her career.... Sabine Günther Sabine Günther Sabine Günther, née Rieger is a retired East German sprinter who competed mainly in the 200 metres.She won the 200 metres gold medal at the 1981 European Junior Championships... Silke Möller Silke Möller Silke Möller, née Gladisch is a German athlete, who in the 1980s competed for East Germany as one of the best female sprinters in the world. Her best result was a world record in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the World cup in Canberra on October 6, 1985... Cornelia Oschkenat Cornelia Oschkenat Cornelia Oschkenat, née Riefstahl is a German track and field athlete and Olympics participant, who represented East Germany...	42.21	Soviet Union Natalya Kovtun Natalya Kovtun Natalya Kovtun is an athlete who represented the Soviet Union and later Russia. She specialized in the short sprints and also ran relay races, winning the silver medal in 4 x 100 m relay at the 1991 World Championships.-Achievements:-External links:... Galina Malchugina Galina Malchugina Galina Malchugina is a retired sprinter from Russia. Competing for the Soviet relay team, she won medals at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics... Tatyana Papilina Natalya Voronova	42.76	United States Sheila Echols Sheila Echols Sheila Ann Echols is a retired track and field athlete from the United States, who won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea, alongside team mates Alice Brown, 100 m gold medalist Florence Griffith Joyner and 100 m silver medalist Evelyn... Esther Jones Esther Jones Esther Jones is a former sprinter who won an Olympic gold medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. -References:-External links:... Dawn Sowell Dawn Sowell Dawn Sowell is an American sprinter who ran the fastest times in the 100 m and 200 m in 1989.Sowell attended Louisiana State University and she was tipped to be the next Florence Griffith-Joyner, but a hamstring injury in an event in New York in 1989 ended her career.-External links:**... Wenda Vereen	42.83
4×400 metre relay	Americas Charmaine Crooks Charmaine Crooks Charmaine Crooks , is a Canadian athlete, five-time Olympian and Olympic Silver Medalist . Charmaine was born in Mandeville, Jamaica, but represented Canada for close to 20 years in athletics... Pauline Davis Grace Jackson Grace Jackson Grace Jackson is a retired Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres and 200 metres.... Ana Fidelia Quirot Ana Fidelia Quirot Ana Fidelia Quirot is a female athlete from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 m but was also successful over 400 m....	3:23.05	East Germany Annett Hesselbarth Annett Hesselbarth Annett Hesselbarth is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.At the 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split she finished fourth in 400 m and won the 4x400 m relay for East Germany together with Grit Breuer, Manuela Derr and Petra Schersing... Katrin Schreiter Katrin Schreiter Katrin Schreiter is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.At the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Seville Schreiter helped win the gold medal in an indoor world record time of 3:27.22 minutes. The teammates were Sandra Seuser, Annett Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer... Christine Wachtel Christine Wachtel Christine Wachtel , is a German track and field athlete who won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1988 Olympic summer games in Seoul in the 800 metres run... Grit Breuer Grit Breuer Grit Breuer is a former East German athlete, who competed in the women's 200m, 400m, 4x100m, and 4x400m events....	3:23.97	Soviet Union Lyudmila Dzhigalova Lyudmila Dzhigalova Lyudmyla Stanislavivna Dzhyhalova is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres... Yelena Golesheva Marina Shmonina Marina Shmonina Marina Shmonina is an athlete who represented the Soviet Union and later Uzbekistan. She specialized in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.... Yelena Ruzina Yelena Ruzina Yelena Ivanovna Ruzina is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She represented the Soviet Union....	3:26.15
High jump	Americas	2.04	Soviet Union	1.97	Europe	1.94
Long jump	Soviet Union	7.10	Europe	6.71	Oceania	6.64
Shot put	Asia	20.73	East Germany	20.62	Europe	20.10
Discus throw	East Germany	71.54	Asia	66.04	Americas	65.40
Javelin throw	East Germany	70.32	Asia	61.50	Americas	60.32

External links

• World Cup Results
• Full Results by IAAF