2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships
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The 10th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics
IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics
The International Association of Athletics Federations World Indoor Championships were inaugurated as the World Indoor Games in 1985 in Paris, France and were subsequently renamed in 1987 as they are known today.-History:...

under the auspices of 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...

 (IAAF) were held in the Budapest Arena, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 between March 5 and March 7, 2004. A total off 139 countries were represented by 677 athletes at the championships.

It was the second visit of the championships to Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

 having previously visited there 15 years earlier in 1989
1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 2nd IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Budapest Sportcsarnok in Budapest, Hungary from March 3 to March 5, 1989. There were a total number of 373 participating athletes from 62 countries.-Men:1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993...

. The newly built 13,000 capacity arena
Budapest Sports Arena
Budapest Sports Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Budapest, Hungary, the biggest of its kind in the country. The venue holds 12,500 people in its largest concert configuration, 11,390 for boxing and 9,479 for ice hockey.-History:...

 was built on the site of a former stadium that was destroyed by fire in 1999.

This was the last World Indoor Championships where the 200 m run was be contested. The race was removed because the tight bends involved in running indoors caused an enormous disadvantage to athletes drawn to run on the inside lanes.

Men

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2004
60 metres
|6.49 |6.52 |6.54 (=SB)
After twice finishing third in the event Jason Gardener knew it was time to step up. With the quickest time from the semi-finals he was brimming with confidence and equalled that time of 6.49 seconds to take the gold ahead of the 2001 200 m champion Crawford. The Greek Theodoridis ran a seasons best to take the third place medal ahead of Mickey Grimes
Mickey Grimes
Mickey Grimes is a former American sprinter who specialized over 100 and 200 metres. He won the 100 metres at the 2003 Pan American Games, but was later stripped of his title for testing positive for ephedrine. On May 25, 2004, he was tested positive for norandrosterone and was ruled ineligible...

 USA (4th in personal best), Matic Osovnikar
Matic Osovnikar
Matic Osovnikar is a Slovenian athlete specializing in the 100 metres.Osovnikar competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics where he achieved third place in his 100 metres heat, thus making through to the second round but narrowly missed out on a placing in the semi-finals after achieving fourth place in...

 (5th in Slovenian record), Francis Obikwelu
Francis Obikwelu
Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, born 22 November 1978 in Nigeria and a Portuguese citizen since 2001, is a sprint athlete specializing in 100 metres and 200 metres. He holds the record for the fastest time in the 100 m set by a European competitor with a time of 9.86 seconds...

 Portugal (6th), Simone Collio
Simone Collio
Simone Collio is an Italian sprinter who specializes in the 60 and 100 metres. His personal best times are 6.55 seconds in the 60 metres and 10.06 seconds in the 100 metres, the second all time best performance in the Italian ranking of 100 meters, after the 10"01 in altitude of Pietro...

 Italy (7th) and Niconnor Alexander (8th).
200 metres
|20.66 NR |20.72 |21.02
In a poor year for the event Demeritte improved on his third position from Birmingham in 2003 to take gold in a new Bahamian record of 20.66 seconds albeit the slowest winning time since 1991. No other competitor in the final could even raise themselves to a seasons best although there were national records in the heats for Heber Viera
Heber Viera
Heber Williams Viera da Silva is a Uruguayan sprinter who has been prominent in South American sprints since the turn of the century. He competed at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008, being knocked out in the heats each time.Viera represented Uruguay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...

 (21.36 s) of Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

, Marcelo Figueroa (22.8 s) El Salvador
El Salvador
El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

, Hamoud Abdallah Al-Dalhami (21.97 s) Oman
Oman
Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the...

 and Russel Roman (23.68 s) of Palau
Palau
Palau , officially the Republic of Palau , is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Philippines and south of Tokyo. In 1978, after three decades as being part of the United Nations trusteeship, Palau chose independence instead of becoming part of the Federated States of Micronesia, a...

 though none of these athletes progressed through their respective rounds.
400 metres
|45.88 (SB) |45.92 (SB) |46.30 (SB)
The medal winners all ran season's best times, though not breaking any records. The other finalists were Sofiane Labidi
Sofiane Labidi
Sofiane Labidi is a Tunisian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. His personal best time is 45.19 seconds, achieved in June 2004 in Seville.-Achievements:-References:...

 (4th) from Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

, Milton Campbell
Milton Campbell
Milton Campbell is a former track and field athlete from the United States who mainly competes in the 400 metres.His success comes during the indoor season...

 USA (5th) and Joe Mendel USA (6th).
800 metres
|1:45.71 |1:46.15 AR |1:46.26
Mulaudzi won South Africa's only medal of the championships beating Ramzi who became Bahrain's first ever medallist at either of the athletics world championships with an Asian record of 1:46.15, a four second improvement on his semi-final time from the 2003 championships. The other finalists were Amine Laalou
Amine Laâlou
Amine Laâlou is a male middle distance runner from Morocco, who specializes in middle-distance running. He has represented his country at the Summer Olympics on two occasions; in 2004 and 2008. He began his career as an 800 metres specialist and made his global debut at the 2003 World...

 Morocco (4th), William Yiampoy
William Yiampoy
William Oloonkishu Yiampoy is a Kenyan runner who specializes in the 800 metres. His personal best is 1:42.91 minutes, achieved in September 2002 in Rieti....

 Kenya (5th) and former World Junior Champion Joseph Mutua
Joseph Mutua
Joseph Mutua is a Kenyan runner who specializes in the 800 metres.His personal best time is 1:43.33 minutes, achieved in August 2002 in Zürich. He holds the African indoor record in 800 m with 1:44.71 minutes, achieved in January 2004 in Stuttgart.He twice competed at the Summer Olympics...

 Kenya a disappointing (6th).
1500 metres
|3:52.31 |3:52.34 |3:52.93
In a tactical ran race Korir, who had progressed from the qualifying round as a fastest loser, held off Heshko by just 3/100th's of a second with Rotich a further 1/2 second away in third. Rotich was only awarded the bronze 1 hour after the race when the athlete who had crossed the line in third place, Great Britain's Michael East, was disqualified for a pushing incident. Other finalists were Abdelkader Hachlaf
Abdelkader Hachlaf
Abdelkader Hachlaf is a Moroccan runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He was suspended between April 2004 and April 2006 after testing positive for the banned substance nandrolone in an IAAF out-of-competition test....

 Morocco (4th), James Thie Great Britain (5th), Mirosław Formela Poland (6th) and José Redolat Spain (7th) and Youssef Baba
Youssef Baba
Youssef Baba is an athlete from Morocco who specialises in middle distance running. He was born in Khenifra. He is member of Turkish multi sport club Fenerbahçe SK.-Achievements:- External links :*...

 Morocco (8th).
3000 metres
|7:56.34 |7:57.08 |7:57.87
On the comeback trail after pulling out of the 2003 outdoor championships
2003 World Championships in Athletics
The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from 23 August to 31 August 2003 in the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.-Track:...

 due to a suspect positive drug test Bernard was overjoyed at taking gold ahead of Silva and Geneti. The other finalists were Spanish pair Antonio David Jiménez
Antonio David Jiménez
Antonio David Jiménez Pentinel is a Spanish long-distance runner.He won the gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the 2002 European Athletics Championships in Munich...

 (4th) and Sergio Gallardo
Sergio Gallardo
Sergio Gallardo is a Spanish middle distance runner. He specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 1:48.12 min *1500 metres - 3:34.95 min *Mile - 3:56.78 min...

 (5th), Gert-Jan Liefers
Gert-Jan Liefers
Gerrit Jan 'Gert-Jan' Liefers is a Dutch middle distance runner, who came 8th in the 1500 m final at the 2004 Olympics. He was also a finalist in the same event in the 2001 and 2003 World Championships....

, Netherlands (6th), Kevin Sullivan
Kevin Sullivan (athlete)
Kevin Sullivan is a middle distance runner from Canada. He was born in Brantford, Ontario.-Athletic career:Sullivan competed in 1000 metre, 1500 metre, and mile events and represented Canada. His personal best times are 3:31.71 for the 1500 and 3:50.36 for the mile...

, Canada (7th), Moroccans Mohammed Amyne (8th) and Hicham Bellani
Hicham Bellani
Hicham Bellani is a Moroccan runner who specializes in the 3000 and 5000 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*1500 metres - 3:33.71 min *3000 metres - 7:33.71 min *5000 metres - 12:55.52 min...

 (9th), Australian Craig Mottram
Craig Mottram
Craig Mottram is an Australian long distance and middle distance runner.-Biography:Born on 18 June 1980 in Frankston, Victoria, Mottram specialises in the 5000 m event. He attended the prestigious Geelong Grammar School. At 6 feet 2 inches he is unusually tall for a distance runner.Amongst...

 (10th), Abiyote Abate
Abiyote Abate
Abiyote Abate is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who specialized in the 3000 and 5000 metres. He has not competed on top level since 2005.- Achievements :- Personal bests :...

, Ethiopia (11th) and Serhiy Lebid, Ukraine 12th.
60 metres hurdles
|7.36 CR |7.43 AR |7.48 NR
After only qualifying for the final by virtue of being a fastest loser, Allen Johnson claimed his third world indoor title, to go with his four previous outdoor titles, in a championship record of 7.36 seconds ahead of Liu of China (2nd in Asian record) who went one better than his third in Birmingham the year before and Wignall (3rd in Jamaican record) who edged out, by 1/100th of a second, Stanislavs Olijars of Latvia (4th in personal best). Other finalists were Yuniel Hernández
Yuniel Hernández
Yuniel Hernández Solar is a Cuban hurdler.His personal best time is 13.26 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Salamanca when he was still only 20 years old. The result places him sixth among Cuban 110 m hurdlers, behind Anier García, Dayron Robles, Emilio Valle, Alejandro Casañas and Yoel...

, Cuba (5th), Robert Kronberg
Robert Kronberg
Leif Robert Kronberg is a Swedish hurdler of Serbian descent.He finished 8th in the 110m hurdles final at the 2000 Olympics. He competed again in the 2004 Olympics, reaching the semi-finals. He has also been a regular competitor in the World Championships in Athletics, being present at every event...

, Sweden (6th in seasons best), Yoel Hernández, Cuba (7th) and Dwight Thomas
Dwight Thomas
Dwight Thomas O.D is a Jamaican sprinter mainly competing in the 100 metres event and more recently the 110m hurdles....

 Jamaica (8th).
4×400 metre relay
 Jamaica
Gregory Haughton
Leroy Colquhoun
Leroy Colquhoun
Leroy Colquhoun is a Jamaican sprinter. He won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a gold medal in the same event at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.-External links:...


Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald (athlete)
Michael L. McDonald was a Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Jamaica at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States where he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Roxbert Martin, Greg Haughton and Davian Clarke.A...


Davian Clarke
Davian Clarke
Davian Clarke is a Jamaican athlete, who mainly competes in the 400 metres. He won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1996 Olympics, and many relay medals followed, before he won his first individual medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.-Achievements:-External links:*...

3:05.21 WL  Russia
Dmitriy Forshev
Dmitriy Forshev
Dmitriy Forshev is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.Forshev won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates Boris Gorban, Andrey Rudnitskiy and Aleksandr Usov. At the 2005 European Indoor Championships Forshev...


Boris Gorban
Boris Gorban
Boris Gorban is a Russian athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.Gorban won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2001 World Indoor Championships, establishing a national record of 3:04.82 minutes together with teammates Aleksandr Ladeyshchikov, Ruslan Mashchenko and Andrey...


Andrey Rudnitskiy
Andrey Rudnitskiy
Andrey Rudnitskiy is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.Rudnitskiy won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates Dmitriy Forshev, Boris Gorban and Aleksandr Usov...


Aleksandr Usov
Aleksandr Usov
Aleksandr Usov is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.Usov won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates Dmitriy Forshev, Boris Gorban and Andrey Rudnitskiy...

3:06.23 (SB)  Republic of Ireland
Robert Daly
Robert Daly (sprinter)
Robert Daly is an Irish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.Daly won the bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates Gary Ryan, David Gillick and David McCarthy....


Gary Ryan
Gary Ryan
Gary Ryan is a former Irish sprinter who specialised in the 200 metres. On retirement he worked for the Irish athletics association as Director of Coaching before leaving in January, 2009 for a position with the National University of Ireland, Galway.Ryan won the bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres...


David Gillick
David Gillick
David Gillick is an Irish international track and field athlete. David began his education in Our Lady's Boys School and attended St.Benildus College secondary school in Kilmacud. He studied at Dublin Institute of Technology before moving to Loughborough to train as a full time athlete with coach...


David McCarthy
3:10.44
With the United States of America team being disqualified, after crossing the line in third place, for dropping the baton and the Bahamian team falling over this was one of the most eventful races of the championships. This left the way open for the reigning silver medalists Jamaica to step in and snatch the gold ahead of the Russians who took silver and Ireland, who had broken the national record in the heats, going home with the bronze. Switzerland took 4th place with the Bahamians picking themselves off the floor to take 5th.
High jump
2.35 2.32 (SB) 2.25
Sweden's Stefan Holm went one better than his silver at the outdoors in 2003 with a straight forward win clearing all of his five heights at the first attempt to finish with 2.35 m. Rybakov was the only competitor to mount a challenge but he could only mange 2.32 m. Five athletes were tied with jumps 10 cm behind the winner but countback saw Belarusian Gennadiy Moroz
Gennadiy Moroz
Hennazdy Maroz is a Belarusian high jumper.In 2003 he equalled his indoor personal best of 2.30 metres to win the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships. His outdoor personal best of 2.33 metres was set in July 2001 in Brest....

, Ukrainian Andriy Sokolovskyy
Andriy Sokolovskyy
Andriy Sokolovskyy is a Ukrainian high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.38 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Rome .-Achievements:-External links:...

 and Ireland's Adrian O'Dwyer miss out on the medals with Jamie Nieto
Jamie Nieto
Jamie Nieto in Seattle, Washington is an American high jumper and Actor who resides in Chula Vista, California. Nieto is currently training at the Olympic Training Center....

 of USA completing the final line up.
Pole vault
|5.80 (=PB) |5.70 (=SB) |5.70
In a below par pole vault Russian indoor national champion Pavlov took a surprise gold with a personal best of 5.80 m. followed by four athletes who all cleared 5.70 m. Ptácek took silver and Yurchenko bronze on countback ahead of Sweden's Patrik Kristiansson
Patrik Kristiansson
Arne Patrik Klüft is a Swedish pole vault athlete.He made his breakthrough in 1998 when he set a new Swedish record with 5.77 metres. In 2001 he jumped 5.83 and the following year 5.85...

 (4th), German Tim Lobinger
Tim Lobinger
Tim Lobinger is a German pole vaulter.His discipline is pole vault and he has been an elite competitor since the 1990s. His best results came in 1997 and 1999 when he jumped over 6.00 meters...

 (5th). 10 cm further behind were Italian Giuseppe Gibilisco
Giuseppe Gibilisco
Giuseppe Gibilisco is an Italian pole vaulter, who won the 2003 World Championships with a personal best of 5.90 m. He followed this with a bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics.-Career:...

 (6th) and Romain Mesnil
Romain Mesnil
Romain Mesnil is a French pole vaulter. His personal best is 5.95 metres, achieved in August 2003 in Castres...

 of France (7th). Netherland's Rens Blom
Rens Blom
Rens Blom is a former Dutch athlete competing in pole vault.-Biography:He achieved the result of 5.75 as early as in 2000, but five years passed without much progression. However, on June 8, 2004 in Zaragoza he set the current Dutch record with 5.81...

 failed to clear his opening height of 5.60 m. to finish in (8th).
Long jump
|8.40 |8.31 (SB) |8.28 (SB)
Savanté Stringfellow jumped exactly the same distance, 8.40 m, as he had when taking silver at the 2001 outdoors championships but this time got his hands on a gold medal. The 2003 outdoor silver medalist Beckford again finished second with Russian Shkurlatov completing the podium line up. Romanian Bogdan Tarus
Bogdan Tarus
Gabriel Bogdan Ţăruş was a Romanian athlete who competed in long jump. According to the IAAF, he jumped an exceptional 7.53 at the age of twelve . He has, however, not had much success in World Championships or Olympic Games. His personal best is 8.29 metres, achieved in 1996...

 (4th), Volodymyr Zyuskov
Volodymyr Zyuskov
Volodymyr Zyuskov is a male long jumper from Ukraine. His personal best jump is 8.31 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Kiev.-Achievements:-External links:...

, Ukraine (5th with a personal best), Great Britain's Chris Tomlinson
Chris Tomlinson
Christopher George Tomlinson is an English long jumper.Tomlinson began competing for Middlesbrough AC at the age of 10, mostly over 100m and 200m. He attended Nunthorpe Secondary School and to this day holds many of its year group records for triple and long jump...

 set a national record finishing (6th), Sosunov Kirill, Russia (7th) and former five-time champion Iván Pedroso
Iván Pedroso
Iván Lázaro Pedroso Soler is a retired Cuban athlete, specializing in long jump.In July 1990, still at the age of 17, Pedroso jumped more than 8 meters for the first time. Facing tough competition from Carl Lewis, Mike Powell and others, he still won numerous gold medals in international...

 could only manage 8th place.
Triple jump
|17.83 =WR |17.43 |17.36
Olsson retained his title here with a third round jump of 17.83 m to equal the seven year old indoor world record previously set by Cuba's Aliecer Urrutia
Aliecer Urrutia
Aliecer Urrutia Delgado is a retired male triple jumper from Cuba. Having set a personal best of 17.70 in 1996, he won a silver medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships. He shares the men's world indoor record with Christian Olsson of...

 in 1997. Gregório had his best performance by far in a major competition by taking home the silver with Betanzos taking the bronze. Other finalists were Belarusian Dmitriy Valyukevich (4th), Marian Oprea
Marian Oprea
Marian Oprea is a Romanian athlete, competing in triple jump, who won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games. His personal best is 17.81 meters....

, Romania (5th in seasons best), Ukrainian Savolaynen Mykola could not improve on the national record he set in qualifying to finish (6th), Danila Burkenya, Russia (7th) and France's Julien Kapek
Julien Kapek
Julien Kapek is a French triple jumper.His personal best is 17.38 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Tomblaine. This result places him fourth on the all-time French performers list, only behind Serge Hélan and Karl Taillepierre.-Achievements:-External links:...

 (8th).
Shot put
|21.49 |21.07 (PB) |20.99
The 23 year old Cantwell added to the IAAF World Athletics Final victory from 2003 to take his second major win with his second round throw of 21.49 m. Compatriot Hoffa, 3 years his senior, made his first podium finish in a championship with a personal best opening distance of 21.07 m. ahead of the more experienced Dane Olsen. The improving Tomasz Majewski
Tomasz Majewski
Tomasz Majewski is a Polish Olympic gold medalist shot putter. He is 204 cm tall and weighs 140 kg ....

 of Poland also raised his game to improve on the personal best he set in qualifying with a national record in the final but missed out on bronze by 16 cm. to take 4th place. The other finalists were reigning champion Manuel Martínez (5th), Belarusian Andrei Mikhnevich
Andrei Mikhnevich
Andrei Anatolyevich Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter with a personal best of 22.00 metres, set in 2008. He holds the Belarusian record indoors with a throw of 21.81 m at the national indoor championships....

 (6th), Great Britain's Carl Myerscough
Carl Myerscough
Carl Myerscough is an English athlete. He specialises in the Shot put event and is the British record holder as of 2006....

 (7th) and Yuriy Bilonoh
Yuriy Bilonoh
Yuriy Bilonoh is a Ukrainian shot putter. Born in Bilopillya, Sumy, he began athletics at a Children and Youth Sports School in Bilopillya, where his first trainer was Vladimir Belikov. Bilonoh won the gold medal in his event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the 2000 Olympics he had finished fifth....

 of Ukraine (8th).
Heptathlon
|6438 WL |6365 (PB) |6203 (SB)
With one event to go, Šebrle lay 32 points behind Clay, with Lobodin a further 168 points back in third. But despite a personal best in the 1,000 m. Clay trailed in a massive 50 seconds behind Roman. This handed the gold to the Czech to give him the title to add to the gold he had won in 2001. Clay held onto silver with Lobodin safely in third. In this invitation only event Kazakhstan's Dmitriy Karpov
Dmitriy Karpov
Dmitriy Karpov is an athlete from Kazakhstan who competes in decathlon and heptathlon...

 finished fourth ahead of reigning Olympic champion Erki Nool
Erki Nool
Erki Nool is an Estonian decathlete and politician.Nool is a winner of the gold medal for Decathlon in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Although Nool did not place first in any individual event, his total score was the highest...

 from Estonia (5th), Aleksandr Pogorelov
Aleksandr Pogorelov
Aleksandr Gennadiyevich Pogorelov is a Russian decathlete.-Achievements:-External links:...

 of Russia (6th), former silver medalist Jón Arnar Magnússon
Jón Arnar Magnússon
Jón Arnar Magnússon is a former decathlete from Iceland. He has won silver and bronze medals at world indoor championships, all in heptathlon, as decathlon is unsuitable for indoor contests...

 of Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

 in (7th) and Ranko Leskovar of Slovenia in (8th).

Women

2001 | 2003 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008
60 metres
|7.08 (SB) |7.12 (NR) |7.12
Gail Devers took her third 60 m gold, to add to her 60 m hurdles title won in 2003, ahead of Gevaert (Belgian record) who pipped Nestsiarenka to silver in a photo finish
Photo finish
A photo finish occurs in a sporting race, when two competitors cross the finishing line at near the same time. As the naked eye may not be able to discriminate between which of the competitors crossed the line first, a strip photo, a series of rapidly triggered photographs, or a video taken at the...

 though both were given the same time. Other finalists were former bronze medalist Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards is an American sprinter. She was a rising young star in 100 and 200 metres, winning an Olympic medal in 4×100 metres relay in 2000. In 2003 she won six medals in major international competitions, including one World Championship gold...

 USA (4th), Muriel Hurtis
Muriel Hurtis
Muriel Hurtis-Houairi is a track and field athlete from France who specialises in the 200 metres. She came to prominence in 2002 when she won the 200 m gold medals at both the European Indoor Championships and the European Athletics Championships...

 France (5th in seasons best), Yuliya Tabakova
Yuliya Tabakova
Yuliya Gennadiyevna Tabakova , is a Russian track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Russia.She won the silver medal in the 4x100m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.-External links:...

 Russia (6th), Christine Arron France (7th) and Natalya Safronnikova
Natalya Safronnikova
Natallia Safronnikava, née Vinogradova is a Belarusian sprinter who mainly competes in the 200 metres.She won her first international medal at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and entered the podium again in 2004...

 Russia (8th).
200 metres
|23.13 |23.15 |23.18
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Anastasiya Alexandrovna Kapachinskaya is a sprint athlete.At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2004 she won the 200 m, but was stripped of the title after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol...

 had crossed the line first and been awarded the gold medal but this was later taken back after she tested positive for the anabolic steroid
Anabolic steroid
Anabolic steroids, technically known as anabolic-androgen steroids or colloquially simply as "steroids", are drugs that mimic the effects of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone in the body. They increase protein synthesis within cells, which results in the buildup of cellular tissue ,...

 stanozolol. This moved Safronnikava up to the gold medal position, 2 places better than her only other medal performance at the indoor championships in 2001 though her winning time of 23.13 s was the slowest the title had been won in. Goncharenko moved into silver position the same place that she had finished in 1999 and one better than her 1997 finish, and Mayr-Krifka took a surprise bronze. The other finalists were Maryna Maydanova
Maryna Maydanova
Maryna Maydanova is a Ukrainian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.She won the gold medal at the 2003 European U23 Championships, finished fourth at the 2004 World Indoor Championships and eighth at the 2004 World Athletics Final...

 and Nataliya Pygyda both of Ukraine.
400 metres
|50.19 CR |50.65 (PB) |50.87 NR
In a quickly run race Natalya took gold in a championship record of 50.19 seconds to retain her title with her two main challengers both running personal bests to claim the minor medals. The other finalists were Ionela Târlea ROM, Clay Julian USA and Fani Halkia
Faní Halkiá
Fani Chalkia is a Greek hurdler.Chalkia won the gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. During the semifinals Halkia set an Olympic record of 52.77 seconds....

 GRE.
800 metres
|1:58.50 |1:58.72 (SB) |1:59.50 NR
Mutola took her record sixth individual gold in the event ahead of world record holder and main rival Jolanda. Joanne ran a personal best in taking the bronze setting a new national record of 1:59.50. Jennifer Toomey USA (4th) and Tatyana Andrianova
Tatyana Andrianova
Tatyana Nikolayevna Andrianova is a Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres. She did not compete in the 2006 and 2007 seasons, but improved on her personal best time in 800 metres in 2008....

 RUS (5th) also set PB's with Olga Raspopova RUS coming in sixth.
1500 metres
|4:06.40 |4:08.18 NR |4:08.26
Dulecha became Ethiopia's first ever women's 1,500 m medalist at the championships with a surprise win taking the gold ahead of Douma-Hussar (2nd), who set a Canadian national record and Samitova (3rd). It was by far Kutre's best performance at a major competition although she had set a junior world record at the distance outdoors back in 1997. The other finalists were Daniela Yordanova
Daniela Yordanova
Daniela Yordanova is a Bulgarian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. She tested positive for testosterone in an out-of-competition doping test in Sofia on 13 June 2008, which eventually got her kicked out of the 2008 Summer Olympics...

, Bulgaria (4th), Nataliya Tobias
Nataliya Tobias
Nataliya Viktorivna Tobias , née Sydorenko is a female middle distance runner from Ukraine, who specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:She also competed at the 2004 Olympics....

, Ukraine (5th), Yuliya Kosenkova
Yuliya Kosenkova
Yuliya Kosenkova is a former Russian middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:00.2 min *1500 metres - 4:03.66 min *One mile - 4:29.32 min...

 Russia (6th), Alesya Turova, Belarus (7th), Lidia Okninska, Poland (8th) and Great Britain's Kelly Holmes
Kelly Holmes
Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...

 who had probably been the favourite going into the race but took a fall just after half way through the race and could not make up the ground eventually finishing 9th.
3000 metres
|9:11.22 |9:11.43 |9:12.15
In the slowest women's 3,000 m the championship had seen, and 22 seconds slower than the quickest heat, 2003 bronze medalist Defar turned the tables on reigning champion Adere with Culpepper taking third. The other finalists were Spain's Marta Domínguez
Marta Domínguez
Marta Domínguez Azpeleta is a Spanish runner. She was accused of drug dealing and but later acquitted .Dominguez currently competes mainly in 3000 m steeplechase, a distance in which she was the 2009 world champion...

 (4th), Great Britain's Joanne Pavey (5th), Yelena Zadorozhnaya
Yelena Zadorozhnaya
Yelena Zadorozhnaya is a Russian runner who specializes in the 3000, 5000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:02.31 min *1500 metres - 3:59.94 min *One mile - 4:21.57 min...

, Russia (6th), Sabrina Mockenhaupt
Sabrina Mockenhaupt
Sabrina Mockenhaupt is a German long-distance runner who specialises in long-distance track events and the marathon. She is a two-time winner of the Cologne Marathon and has also won the Frankfurt Marathon and the Berlin Half Marathon...

, Germany (7th), Ukraine's Maryna Dubrova
Maryna Dubrova
Maryna Dubrova is a Ukrainian long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*1500 metres - 4:06.94 min *3000 metres - 8:50.34 min *5000 metres - 15:02.73 min *Half marathon - 1:17:52 min...

 (8th), Maria McCambridge, Ireland (9th), Belgian Veerle Dejaeghere (10th) and Galina Bogomolova
Galina Bogomolova
Galina Yevgeniyevna Bogomolova is a Russian long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres and the marathon....

 (11th). Great Britain's Hayley Tullett
Hayley Tullett
Hayley Tullett is a Welsh middle distance runner mainly competing over 1500 metres. Her main claim to fame is the bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships...

 had qualified for the final but did not start due to injury.
60 metres hurdles
|7.75 CR |7.78 |7.82 NR
Canadian Felicien edged out reigning champion Devers by just 3/100th's of a second with Ferga-Khodadin third in a French national record. Other finalists were Joanna Hayes
Joanna Hayes
Joanna Dove Hayes is an American hurdler, who won the gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics....

, USA (4th), Susanna Kallur
Susanna Kallur
Susanna Elisabeth Kallur is a Swedish athlete competing mainly in sprint hurdles. She has won several international medals, including the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2006 European Athletics Championships...

, Sweden (5th), Lacena Golding-Clarke
Lacena Golding-Clarke
Lacena Golding-Clarke is a retired female hurdling athlete from Jamaica. She represented Jamaica at the Summer Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2004, and took part in the World Championships in Athletics on five separate occasions.She began her career as a long jumper and she participated in this event...

, Jamaica (6th), Flóra Redoúmi
Flora Redoumi
Flora Redoumi is a Greek hurdler.She was born in Athens.She finished fifth at the 2002 European Indoor Championships, seventh at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships and seventh at the 2006 IAAF World Cup....

, Greece (7th) and Nicole Ramalalanirina
Nicole Ramalalanirina
Nicole Ramalalanirina is a French athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. She changed nationality from her native Madagascar in 1998....

, France (8th).
4×400 metre relay
 Russia
Olesya Krasnomovets
Olga Kotlyarova
Olga Kotlyarova
Olga Kotlyarova is a Russian runner. She used to compete mainly in 400 metres, and has an Olympic bronze medal from 2000 in relay...


Tatyana Levina
Tatyana Levina
Tatyana Levina is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.-Achievements:-External links:...


Natalya Nazarova
Natalya Nazarova
Natalya Viktorovna Nazarova is a sprint athlete.She was born in Moscow.Following a personal best time of 49.65 seconds run a fortnight earlier, Natalya had lost form by the start of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and only just made the final finishing 8th...

3:23.88 WR  Belarus
Natalya Sologub
Anna Kozak
Anna Kozak
Anna Kozak is a Belarusian sprinter.Together with Natallia Solohub, Ilona Usovich and Svetlana Usovich she won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. For the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships, the Belarusian team had substituted Svetlana Usovich with...


Ilona Usovich
Ilona Usovich
Ilona Usovich is a Belarusian sprinter.Together with Natallia Solohub, Anna Kozak and Svetlana Usovich she won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. The next year Ilona finished 4th over 400 metres at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships...


Svetlana Usovich
3:29.96 NR  Romania
Angela Morosanu
Angela Morosanu
Angela Moroşanu is a female track and field sprinter from Romania.Moroşanu was discovered by Albu Ştefan who became her first trainer whilst she was at school in Belceşti, a village 40 km from Iaşi. She started out competing for sports clubs in Iaşi and Bacău...


Alina Râpanu
Maria Rus
Ionela Târlea
3:30.06 NR
A scintillating run by the Russian women's team saw them take gold in a world record time of 3:23.88. The second placed Belarusians broke their national record to claim silver and the Romanians did the same to take the bronze. Poland also broke their national record but finished without a medal in 4th with the Jamaican ladies finishing 5th and the Greek team, who also set a national record in the heats coming in 6th. An inexperienced USA team could only manage fourth place in their first round heat.
High jump
|2.04 =WL |2.00 |1.97
Two 22-year-old Russians took the main medals with Slesarenko beating her compatriot Chicherova with a near faultless display, failing on only one of her jumps. Blanka took bronze on countback ahead of Ukrainian Vita Palamar
Vita Palamar
Vita Palamar is a female high jumper from Ukraine. Her personal best jump is 2.01 metres, achieved in Zürich in August 2003. She set an indoor best of 1.96 m to win the Hochsprung mit Musik in 2001.-Achievements:-External links:...

 (4th) and Daniela Rath
Daniela Rath
Daniela Mareen Rath is a German high jumper.She finished fifth at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest. She also competed at the World Championships in 2001 and 2003, but failed to qualify for the finals....

 of Germany (6th) all clearing 1.97 m. Spain's Marta Mendía
Marta Mendía
Marta Mendía Valencia is a female high jumper from Spain. Her current personal best jumps are 1.95 metres and 1.96 metres .-Achievements:-External links:*...

 set a personal best in qualifying for the final but ended up in 7th place ahead of Bulgarian Venelina Veneva
Venelina Veneva
Venelina Veneva-Mateeva is a Bulgarian high jumper. Talented at a young age, she jumped 1.93 metres indoor in 1990 to record a world best performance by a 15-year-old. She did not improve this result outdoor until 1995...

 (8th) and Viktoriya Styopina
Viktoriya Styopina
Vita Styopina is a Ukrainian high jumper. She won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, setting a new personal best of 2.02 in the process.She jumped an indoor personal best of 1.94 m to win the 2000 edition of the Hochsprung mit Musik....

 of Ukraine in 9th.
Pole vault
|4.86 WR |4.81 AR |4.70
With three former winners of the title along with the previous years silver medalist this was always going to be a fascinating contest in this relatively young event. The 21 year old world junior record holder Isinbayeva added to her growing reputation with a world record clearance of 4.86 m. to improve on her silver from a year ago and her bronze at the 2003 outdoors championship taking the gold ahead of the reigning Olympic champion Dragila in silver and reigning world champion Feofanova, bronze. Jillian Schwartz
Jillian Schwartz
Jillian Schwartz is an American-born pole vaulter who competes internationally for Israel. She represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics and competed at four consecutive World Championships in Athletics from 2003 to 2009...

 of USA set a personal best in 4th place ahead of Vanessa Boslak
Vanessa Boslak
Vanessa Boslak is a French pole vaulter.Her personal best is 4.70 metres, achieved in Malaga in June 2006 and during the final of the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan .-Achievements:...

 who set a French national record in finishing equal fifth with Monika Pyrek
Monika Pyrek
Monika Pyrek is a Polish pole vaulter.Born in Gdynia, competing at the 2004 Olympics, she placed fourth with 4.55 metres, just behind another Polish pole vaulter born in Gdynia, Anna Rogowska. Monika Pyrek won a silver medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics with the result 4.60 m...

 of Poland. Pyrek compatriot Anna Rogowska
Anna Rogowska
Anna Rogowska is a Polish pole vaulter, current reigning World Champion.-Career:Born in Gdynia, she won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics, narrowly beating Monika Pyrek, another Polish pole vaulter born in Gdynia. Early 2005 brought success as she won the silver medal in the European Indoor...

 took 7th place with a disappointing 8th place for 1999 champion Nastja Ryjikh
Anastasija Reiberger
Anastasija Reiberger, née Ryjikh is a Russian-born German pole vaulter. She is the older sister of fellow pole vaulter Lisa Ryzih. Her greatest success was the gold medal in the 1999 World Indoor Championships....

.
Long jump
|6.98 WL |6.93 (SB) |6.92 NR
Lebedeva, fresh from her world record in the triple jump the previous day, jumped a world leading distance of 6.98 m to record her second gold medal ahead of reigning champion Kotova who jumped a seasons best and Sweden's heptathlete queen Klüft who set a national record. The other finalists were China's Yingnan Guan (4th), Latvia's Valentīna Gotovska
Valentina Gotovska
Valentīna Gotovska is a retired Latvian long jumper.Her personal best jump is 6.91 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Tartu. In her earlier career she was a high jumper, with a personal best of 1.97 metres from 1990. Gotovska retired after the 2005 season.-Achievements:-External links:...

 (5th), Italy's Fiona May
Fiona May
Fiona May was an athlete who competed for the Great Britain and later Italy in the long jump. She won the World Championships twice and two Olympic silver medals...

 (6th), Spain's Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner is a Spanish long jumper.She took the gold medal the World Junior Championships in 2000. At the 2006 World Indoor Championships she came close to her first major international senior medal, when she finished fourth with 6.76 metres - the same result as the bronze medalist Naide...

 (7th) Adina Anton
Adina Anton
Adina Anton is a Romanian long jumper. She finished 5th in the long jump final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. Anton was the 2002 World Junior champion and also competed in the 2004 Olympics....

 of Romania who finished 8th.
Triple jump
|15.36 WR |14.90 AR |14.73
Lebedeva first qualifying jump put her through to the final where her second round jump of 15.25 m gave her a comfortable lead over the field. She then opted out of her third and fifth round jumps saving herself in case a big jump was required in the final round. Her nearest rival Aldama had recorded 14.90 m also in the second round to lie in silver medal position with Devetzí's fourth round 14.73 m giving her bronze. Tatyana decided to take her last jump in the knowledge that gold medal was hers and produced a world record jump of 15.36 m. She followed this up by winning the long jump also the following day. The other finalists were Trecia Smith
Trecia Smith
Trecia-Kaye Smith is a Jamaican athlete competing mainly in triple jump. In college, she competed for the University of Pittsburgh from 1996–1999 and was a seven-time NCAA national champion , 15-time All-American, a 14-time Big East Conference...

 (4th in a Jamaican record), Italy's Magdelin Martinez
Magdelin Martinez
Magdelín Martínez Castillo is a female triple jumper, competing internationally for Italy....

 (5th), Françoise Mbango Etone
Françoise Mbango Etone
Françoise Mbango Etone is a female track and field athlete, competing internationally for France, formerly of the Cameroon. She was a gold medalist in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She retained her title with an Olympic record distance of 15.39m at the Beijing...

 of Cameroon (6th), Romania's Adelina Gavrila
Adelina Gavrila
Adelina Gavrilă is a Romanian triple jumper.She was a bronze medalist at the 1996 World Junior Championships. In 1998 she broke the 14-metre barrier for the first time, with 14.53 metres...

 (7th), Olena Hovorova
Olena Hovorova
Olena Ivanivna Hovorova , also known as Yelena Govorova, is a former Ukrainian track and field athlete who specialised in triple jump competitions. She won the triple jump bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with her personal best jump of 14.96 metres...

, Ukraine (8th), Mabel Gay
Mabel Gay
Mabel Gay Tamayo is a Cuban triple jumper. Her personal best jump is 14.66 metres, achieved in March 2007 in Havana.-Achievements:-References:...

, Cuba (9th), Baya Rahouli
Baya Rahouli
Baya Rahouli is an Algerian athlete who competes in the triple jump. She is a former African record holder in this event, and has two African championship titles, beating Françoise Mbango Etone and Kéné Ndoye on both occasions...

, Algeria (10th), Italy's Simona La Mantia
Simona La Mantia
Simona La Mantia is an Italian triple jumper. She represented Italy at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2005 World Championships in Athletics...

 (11th) and Natallia Safronava
Natallia Safronava
Natallia Safronava, née Klimovets is a Belarusian triple jumper.Her personal best jump is 14.65 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Minsk. She has 6.66 metres in the long jump, achieved in July 2006 in Brest.-Achievements:...

 of Belarus (12th).
Shot put
|19.90 (SB) |19.31 (SB) |19.05 (SB)
In an amazing turn of events Ukrainian Vita Pavlysh
Vita Pavlysh
Vita Pavlysh is a former athlete who specialised in the shot put....

 finished first only to be stripped of her title when receiving a lifetime ban after testing positive for anabolic steroids again. This was a repeat of the events following the 1999 Indoor Championship when she had also taken the gold only for it to be taken away when she was given a two year ban for the same offence. This left Krivelyova to actually be awarded first place ahead of Cumbá and Kleinert. The other finalists were Krystyna Zabawska
Krystyna Zabawska
Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska is a former Polish shot putter.She was born as Krystyna Danilczyk in Kopczany near Dąbrowa Białostocka. She has competed under her maiden name and as Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska, as well as Krystyna Zabawska...

 tantalisingly just 5 cm. back in 4th, China's Li Meiju
Li Meiju
Li Meiju is a Chinese shot putter.Her personal best put is 19.19 metres, achieved in the qualifying round of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Achievements:-References:...

 (5th), Misleydis González
Misleydis González
Misleydis González Tamayo is a female shot putter from Cuba. Her personal best throw is 19.50 metres, achieved in August 2008 in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-Achievements:-References:...

 of Cuba 6th, and two-time silver medalist Nadzeya Astapchuk of Belarus 7th.
Pentathlon
|4759 WL |4727 NR |4679 NR
With the lowest ever winning number of points, Gomes, who had led from the third event held on from Dobrynska by 32 points with Lithuanian Skujyte a further 48 points behind in the bronze medal position. The second- and third-place finishers set national records as did Karin Ruckstuhl
Karin Ruckstuhl
Karin Nathalie Ruckstuhl is a Dutch heptathlete.-Biography:Her first major championship was the 2002 European Athletics Championships and she finished 13th in the heptathlon...

 of Netherlands who was (4th). Belgium's Tia Hellebaut
Tia Hellebaut
Tia Hellebaut is a Belgian track and field athlete who started out in the heptathlon, but afterwards specialized in the high jump event. She has cleared 2.05 metres both indoors and outdoors....

 came (5th), Irina Butor
Irina Butor
-Achievements:-External links:...

 of Belarus (6th), Larisa Netšeporuk
Larisa Netseporuk
Larissa Netšeporuk is a retired heptathlete who represented Ukraine and Estonia.-Achievements:-External links:...

 of Estonia (7th) with Kim Schiemenz of USA completing the line up in (8th) place.

Medal table

1 8 6 5 19
2 4 5 1 10
3 2 1 1 4
2 1 1 4
5 2 0 1 3
6 1 2 2 5
7 1 2 1 4
8 1 1 1 3
9 1 1 0 2
1 1 0 2
11 1 0 1 2
 United Kingdom 1 0 1 2
13 1 0 0 1
1 0 0 1
1 0 0 1
16 0 2 1 3
17 0 1 1 2
18 0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
23 0 0 2 2
0 0 2 2
0 0 2 2
26 0 0 1 1
 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
 Lithuania 0 0 1 1

Participating nations

(2) (2) (1) (1) (8) (3) (9) (3) (1) (16) (11) (1) (1) (2) (10) (7) (1) (1) (3) (10) (1) (1) (1) (1) (9) (1) (1) (3)
(11) (2) (11) (2) (2) (2) (1) (2) (7) (1) (6) (25) (2) (21) (3) (25) (19) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (17) (2) (1) (1) (13) (1)
(14) (24) (3) (1) (3) (6) (1) (1) (3) (1) (1) (2) (2) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (2) (1) (1) (1) (10) (1) (2)
(1) (11) (2) (1) (3) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (18) (8) (2) (1) (18) (50) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (2) (1)
(1) (1) (1) (9) (1) (4) (1) (32) (3) (16) (5) (1) (2) (1) (1) (3) (1) (1) (1) (2) (23) (48) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1)

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