2001 World Championships in Athletics

The 8th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between 3 and 12 August 2001 and was the first time the event had visited North America. The music for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies was composed by Canadian composers Jan Randall and Cassius Khan. The ceremonies also featured a thousand-strong voice choir, and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

Edmonton defeated bids from Paris, France (which hosted the next edition) and the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States to host the event.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Edmonton had previously hosted the 1978 Commonwealth Games and the 1983 Summer Universiade.

Men's results

Track

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005

100 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	9.82 (WL)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	9.942 (PB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	9.98
200 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	20.04	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	20.20	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	20.30 (NR St.Kitts)
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400 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	44.64	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	44.87	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	44.98
800 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:43.70	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:44.55	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:44.63 (PB)
1500 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	3:30.68	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	3:31.10	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	3:31.54 (SB)
5000 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	13:00.77	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	13:03.471	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	13:05.20
10,000 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	27:53.25	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	27:53.97	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	27:54.41
Marathon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	2:12:42 (SB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	2:12:43	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	2:13:18
110 m hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	13.04 (WL)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	13.07 (SB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	13.25 (NR)
400 m hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	47.49 (WL)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	47.54 (NR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	47.89 (NR)
3000 m st. Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	8:15.16	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	8:16.21	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	8:16.59
20 km walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:20:31	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:20:33	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:20:36
50 km walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	3:42.08 (WL)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	3:43:07 (SB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	3:46:12 (PB)
4 × 100 m relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flaglink Morne Nagel Corne Du Plessis Lee-Roy Newton Mathew Quinn	38.47 (NR)	Template:Flaglink Marc Burns Ato Boldon Jaycey Harper Darrel Brown	38.58 (NR)	Template:Flaglink Matthew Shirvington Paul Di Bella Steve Brimacombe Adam Basil	38.83 (SB)
4 × 400 m relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flaglink Avard Moncur Chris Brown Troy McIntosh Tim Munnings Carl Oliver*	2:58.194 (NR)	Template:Flaglink Brandon Simpson Christopher Williams Greg Haughton Danny McFarlane Michael Blackwood* Mario Watts*	2:58.39 (SB)	Template:Flaglink Rafał Wieruszewski Piotr Haczek Piotr Długosielski Piotr Rysiukiewicz Jacek Bocian*	2:59.71 (SB)
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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.
¹ Ali Saïdi-Sief of Algeria originally finished second in the 5000 m in 13:02.16, but he was disqualified after he tested positive for nandrolone.
² Tim Montgomery (USA) originally came second in the men's 100 meters in 9.85, but he was disqualified in 2005 after he admitted to drug use as a result of the BALCO scandal.
³ The USA originally finished first in 37.96 (Mickey Grimes, Bernard Williams, Dennis Mitchell, Tim Montgomery), but they were disqualified in 2005 after Tim Montgomery admitted to drug use as a result of the BALCO scandal.
⁴ The United States (Leonard Byrd, Antonio Pettigrew, Derrick Brew, Angelo Taylor) originally finished first in 2:57.54, but were disqualified in 2008 after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to using HGH and EPO between 1997 and 2003.

Field

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

High jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	2.36 (WL)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	2.33 (PB Rybakov) (SB Voronin)
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Pole vault Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	6.05 (CR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	5.85	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	5.85 (SB)
Long jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	8.40	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	8.24	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	8.21 (SB)
Triple jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	17.92 (WL)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	17.47	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	17.44 (PB)
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	21.87	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	21.24	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	20.93 (SB)
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	69.72 (CR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	69.40	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	67.61 (PB)
Hammer throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	83.38 (CR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	82.92	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	80.27 (SB)
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	92.80 (CR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	91.31	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	89.95
Decathlon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	8902 (CR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	8815 (NR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	8603 (PB)
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Women's results

Track

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005

100 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	10.82 (WL)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	10.912 (SB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	11.02
200 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	22.521	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	22.85	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	22.882
400 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	49.86 (NR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	49.88 (SB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	49.97 SB
800 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:57.17	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:57.20 (SB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:57.35 (SB)
1500 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	4:00.57 (SB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	4:01.70	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	4:02.40
5000 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	15:03.39	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	15:06.59	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	15:10.17
10,000 m Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	31:48.81	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	31:48.85	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	31:49.98
Marathon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	2:26:01	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	2:26:06	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	2:26:18
100 m hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	12.42 (WL)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	12.54 SB	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	12.58 (SB)
400 m hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	53.34 (WL)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	54.27	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	54.51
20 km walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:27:48 (CR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:28:49 (PB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1:28:56
4 × 100 m relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flaglink Melanie Paschke Gabi Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier Marion Wagner	42.323 (SB)	Template:Flaglink Sylviane Félix Frédérique Bangué Muriel Hurtis Odiah Sidibé	42.39 (SB)	Template:Flaglink Juliet Campbell Merlene Frazer Beverly McDonald Astia Walker Elva Goulbourne*	42.40 (SB)
4 × 400 m relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:Flaglink Sandie Richards Catherine Scott-Pomales Debbie-Ann Parris Lorraine Fenton Michelle Burgher* Deon Hemmings*	3:20.65 (WL)	Template:Flaglink Florence Ekpo-Umoh Shanta Ghosh Claudia Marx Grit Breuer	3:21.97 (SB)	Template:Flaglink Irina Rosikhina Yuliya Pechonkina Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Olesya Zykina Natalya Shevtsova*	3:24.92
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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.
¹ Kelli White originally finished third in the 200 m in 22.56, but she was disqualified in 2004 after she admitted to using steroids as a result of the BALCO doping scandal.
²Marion Jones (USA) finished second in the 100m in 10.85 and first in the 200m in 22.39, but she was disqualified in 2005 after she admitted to using steroids as a result of the BALCO doping scandal.
³ The USA team of Kelli White, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, and Marion Jones originally finished first in a time of 41.71, but were disqualified in 2004 after Kelli White admitted to using steroids as a result of the BALCO doping scandal.

Field

1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007

High jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	2.00 (SB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	2.00	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	1.97
Pole vault Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	4.75 (CR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	4.75 (CR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	4.55
Long jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	7.02	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	7.01	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	6.88
Triple jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	15.25 (WL)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	14.60	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	14.58
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	20.61 (NR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	19.86 (PB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	19.41
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	67.101	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	66.24	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	65.50 (SB)
Hammer throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	70.65 (AR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	70.61	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	68.87
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	69.53 (CR)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	65.78	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	64.69
Heptathlon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	6694 (SB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	6539 (SB)	Template:FlagIOC2medalist	6472 (PB)
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¹Natalya Sadova of Russia originally won the gold medal in discus throw (68.57), but she was later disqualified after she tested positive for caffeine.

Medal table

Note that the host nation Canada did not win any medals at these championships. This makes Canada only the second championship host with such a distinction, after Sweden in 1995.

See also

• 2001 in athletics (track and field)

References

• 2001 IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Official website