This article mainly reviews the 7th World Athletics Championships. This World Championships was held in Seville, a city in southern Spain. It was held from August 21 to August 29, 1999 local time in Seville. The venue was It's Seville's La Catuja Stadium. This competition is the seventh event held two years after the sixth World Athletics Championships. It is the last comprehensive high-level track and field event held in the 20th century. There are 46 competition events in this competition, 24 for men and 22 for women. Compared with the previous competition, women's pole vault and women's hammer throw have been added. The women's 20-kilometer race walk has replaced the women's 10-kilometer (10,000-meter) race walk. There are a total of 1,750 people. Athletes participated, and the number of participants showed a streamlined trend for the first time compared with the previous session. The Chinese team sent a representative team of 33 people to participate, and the results improved. Two world records were broken in this competition, namely the men's 400 meters and the women's pole vault.
In the men's sprint field of the seventh World Athletics Championships, the United States' dominance has recovered, but it is still not as good as its peak. In the men's 100 meters and 200 meters, the first athlete to win both world championships appeared. American star Green broke the world championship record in the men's 100 meters and defeated Canadian star Su Lin to win the championship. The men's 200 meters also defeated the previous championship. Third runner-up Brazilian Silva won the championship, and in the men's 4Γ100 meters, Green led the U.S. relay team to regain the gold medal in this event, becoming the major gold medalist of the year; in the men's 400 meters, the American star Johnson won again to break the world record way to achieve four consecutive World Championships. In the men's 110-meter hurdles, the British star Jackson won the championship again after six years, and the Cuban player Garcia won the silver. The last champion, the American Alan Johnson, retired in the semi-finals; in the men's 400-meter hurdles, the Italian Mori won the championship. The champion French player Diagana won the silver; in the men's 4Γ400 meters, Poland won the championship for the first time, and the original champion American relay team had its results canceled due to doping issues.
In the women's sprint field of the 7th World Athletics Championships, the United States still has certain advantages. In the women's 100 meters, American player Jones broke the world championship record and defended her title. She defeated compatriot Miller, and Miller won the gold medal in the women's 200 meters. She defeated two Jamaican athletes; in the women's 100 meters hurdles, an American veteran Devers won again, and Swedish star Enqvist, the previous champion, won the bronze. In the women's 400 meters, Australia's famous player Freeman defended his title; in the women's 400 meters hurdles, Cuba's Pernia won the gold, the previous champion Morocco's Bidoni won the silver, and the previous runner-up Hemmings of Jamaica won the bronze; In the 4Γ100m, the Bahamas unexpectedly won the gold, while the United States only finished fourth; in the womenβs 4Γ400m, Russia defeated the United States and Germany to win the championship.
In the men's middle-distance running field of the 7th World Athletics Championships, the majority of runners successfully defended their titles. In the men's 800-meter race, the previous world record holder, the Danish star Kipket, achieved three consecutive championships; in the men's 1,500-meter race, the previous world record holder, the Moroccan star Gueroy, defended his title by breaking the world championship record. Street third runner-up Spaniard Estevez finished third again; in the men's 10,000 meters, Ethiopian star Gebrselassie, who held the world record at the time, successfully defended his title and achieved four consecutive championships. Kenyan star Taggart won the silver again; men's marathon On the field, Spanish player Anton defended his title. He was the first player to defend his title at the World Championships in this event. In the men's 5,000-meter race, the last 10,000-meter third runner-up Moroccan Sisso broke the world championship record and defeated Kenyan Limo to win the championship; in the men's 3,000-meter obstacle course, the last runner-up Kenyan Koski won the championship, and the previous champion Wilson Boy Te Kipket won the silver medal.
In the women's middle-distance running field of the 7th World Athletics Championships, athletes from all over the world faced off. In the women's 800 meters, Czech player Fomanova narrowly defeated Mozambique's Mutola to win the gold medal by 0.04 seconds. Russian star Mastkova won the bronze, but Masterkova defeated the previous runner-up in the women's 1500 meters. American Jacobs won the gold medal.In the women's 5,000 meters, Romania's Saab won the gold medal by breaking the World Championship record; in the women's 10,000 meters, Ethiopian Wami also broke the world championship record and won the gold, and the British star Radcliffe won the silver; in the women's marathon, North Korea Famous player Zheng Chengyu defeated Japanese player Yuri Ichihashi to win the only gold medal and medal in the World Athletics Championships in North Korea's history. Romanian star Simon, the last third place, won the bronze this time.
In the menβs jumping field of the 7th World Athletics Championships, Russia has a relatively dominant advantage. In the men's high jump, Russian player Voronin won the championship; in the men's pole vault, Russian star Tarasov, who had been suppressed by Bubka in many competitions, won the championship in a world championship record-breaking way, and Australian star Markov won the silver medal. In the men's long jump, Cuban star Pedroso achieved three consecutive championships; in the men's triple jump, German player Friedecker won the championship, and world record holder British star Edwards won the bronze.
In the women's jumping field of the 7th World Athletics Championships, European athletes are more dominant. In the women's high jump, the multi-time medalist Ukrainian star Babakova, the last runner-up, finally won the championship. She defeated two Russian players; in the women's long jump, the last women's long jump runner-up, Montalvo, who transferred from Cuba to Spain, won the championship. In the gold medal, Italian star May won the silver, and American Jones, who won the women's 100-meter gold medal, won the bronze; in the women's triple jump, Greece's Chiamita defeated Cuba's Adama to win the championship, and her teammate Vasdeki won the bronze. In the women's pole vault arena, the women's pole vault, which participated in the world competition for the first time, broke the world record, and the American star Dilla Guilla won the championship.
In the men's throwing competition of the 7th World Athletics Championships, the United States has a relatively dominant advantage. In the men's shot put competition, the last third place player Hunter of the United States defeated the last runner-up Germany's Bude to win the championship, and the Ukrainian player Bagach, who was released from the ban, won the bronze; in the men's discus competition, the American player Washington won the gold medal in a way that broke the competition record. The 40-year-old German veteran Schulte won the silver, and the German star Riedel, who aims to win five consecutive championships, won the bronze. In the men's hammer throw competition, Germany's Kobus won the championship; in the men's javelin throw competition, Finland's Paveainen, who performed poorly last time, and world record holder Czech star Zelezny won the first and third place respectively. Greece, the third place last time The famous player Gadiotis won the silver medal.
In the women's throwing competition of the 7th World Athletics Championships, Germany has a relatively dominant advantage. In the women's shot put competition, German player Kunbenus achieved three consecutive championships, her teammate Kleinert won the silver medal, and Russian veteran Kriveljova won a medal again after many years and finished third; in the women's discus competition, German player Dickey won the championship, while Greek player Clacido and Romanian player Grasu won the second and third places respectively. In the women's hammer throw, which had just joined the World Series family, Romania's Melint, the world record holder at the time, won the championship, and Russia's Kutsenkova won the silver; in the women's javelin, Greece's Mangani won the championship, and Belarus's Shik Lenko, who transferred to Russia Winning the silver, the previous champion Norwegian Hartstad won the bronze.
The all-around and walking competitions at the 7th World Athletics Championships were very exciting. In the men's decathlon, the Czech star Dvorak won two consecutive championships; in the women's heptathlon, the French star Babel won the gold, the last runner-up British player Lewis won another silver, and the Syrian star Shuya won the bronze. In the race walking competition, in the men's 20-kilometer race walk, Russia's Markov won the championship, Ecuador's famous player Perez won the silver, and the previous champion, Mexican CΓ³rdoba, won the bronze; in the men's 50-kilometer race walk, Italian player Brugnetti won the championship. , the original champion Russian skater Skurijin had his results canceled due to drug involvement; in the women's 20-kilometer race walk, Chinese athletes won gold and silver, with Liu Hongyu winning gold and Wang Yan winning silver.
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In the seventh World Track and Field Championships, the United States' dominance returned, relying on the performance of men's sprinting to firmly rank first.Russia ranked second relying on its strength in the men's jumping event, Germany ranked third relying on its strength in the throwing event, Greece ranked fourth, Morocco, which performed well in the men's middle and long distance running, ranked fifth, and Cuba and Italy tied for sixth. China won one gold and one silver at the World Athletics Championships, and its performance has improved. However, the breadth of competitive events has declined, and its traditional strengths have declined. It only relies on race walking to save a certain face.
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