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	IAAF World Championships in Athletics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The World Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
		The idea of having an Athletics World Championships was around well before the competitions first event in 1983.
		Prior to the inaugral IAAF World Championships in Helsinki in 1983 there had been several single events and races in the years leading up to them which were considered World Championships in those events.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/World_athletics_championships (500 words)

	Little hope for Nigeria, as World Athletics Championships begin - OnlineNigeria.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Blog It Nigerian athletics buffs do not expect their team to return from the 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, beginning in Helsinki, Finland today, with a clutch of gold medals, after inadequate preparation and the inexplicable decision of the new board of Athletics Federation of Nigeria to leave out the menâs 4x400m relay team.
		Incidentally, the World Championships began as a quadrennial affair in Helsinki in 1983, where the greatest talent of them all, Carl Fitzgerald Lewis, was born.
		Lewis repeated the three-gold feat at the 1987 championships in Rome, Italy, where he lost the 100m final to Canadian, Ben Johnson, in a thunderbolt race that the Canadian won in 9.83seconds, with the American one-tenth of a second behind.
	nm.onlinenigeria.com /templates?a=4362&z=1 (1113 words)

	Mark McKoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McKoy came to the international athletics scene in 1982 by winning a gold in 110 m hurdles and silver in 4x100 m relay race at Commonwealth Games.
		In the next year McKoy finished fourth at the first World Championships and repeated this place at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
		McKoy made a come-back at the 1991 World Championships, finishing again fourth in 110 m hurdles.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_McKoy (339 words)

	1987 Definition / 1987 Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On January 3, 1987 she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
		He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970, the state Senate from 1970 to 1980, and state treasurer from 1980 to his death in 1987.
		1987 is a research and development company focused on energy generating devices.
	www.elresearch.com /1987 (1249 words)

	SI.com - Athletics - World Athletics Championships History - Thursday August 14, 2003 11:00 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Czechoslovak Jarmila Kratochvilova was untouchable in the women's 400 and 800, setting a world record in the one-lap event while East Germans Marlies Goehr and Marita Koch demonstrated the strength of the formidable East German women's team with wins in the 100 and 200 respectively.
		Athletics, the most elemental of sports, had never seemed so attractive in the clear, clean Nordic air.
		The mark is one of a dozen women's world records set in the 1980s which have survived into the new millennium.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/2003/08/14/worlds_history (1639 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Athletics \| World Indoors 2004 \| Records reign indoors
		In an effort to embrace global athletics in 1987, the inaugural IAAF World Indoor Championships were held in America.
		Ereng only entered the championships at the last minute and then waited to the bell before making his move from fifth to first to claim the first of two gold medals at the championships.
		The final record was broken in the penultimate event in the championships when Russia's women successfully defended their 4x400m title with a time they again broke in 1999.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/world_indoors_2004/2828989.stm (1424 words)

	2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 9th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham,UK between 14 March and 16 March 2003.
		It was the first time the Championships had been held in the UK.
		This page was last modified 02:56, 15 January 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_IAAF_World_Indoor_Championships (90 words)

	Patrik Sjöberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patrik Sjöberg (born January 5, 1965) is a Swedish high jumper and previous world record holder.
		The record jump took place at DN-Galan, an annual athletics event in Stockholm, June 20, 1987.
		At the time, it was a world record.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrik_Sj%C3%B6berg (176 words)

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		Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metres
		Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metres
		Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 1,500 metres
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/Image:Bulgaria-flag-large.png.wikipedia (758 words)

	ESPN.com - OLY - Athletics-History of the world championships 1983-95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The championships were the brainchild of the late International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Primo Nebiolo, who had big ambitions for his sport.
		The outstanding athlete of the championships was the graceful American Carl Lewis, who won the 100 metres and long jump and then produced a startling anchor leg on the 4x100 relay.
		The sensations of the championships were the Chinese women, under the gaze of their chain-smoking coach Ma Junren.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/wire?section=trackandfield&id=2118260 (870 words)

	Wimbledon Championships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		1) " Wimbledon" -- In the context of Wimbledon Championships
		2) " Championships" -- In the context of Wimbledon Championships
		The last World Championships decided at an the Olympic Winter Games were in Sa 5: Between 1930 and 1939, Canadian teams won 8 world championships.
	www.cabaret-54.com /dust18948-wimbledonchampionships.html (353 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - World Championships in Athletics ...
		Paris, France - Hestrie Cloete concealed heartbreak to score a soaring triumph when she retained the World High Jump title during a dramatic final session at the ninth World Athletics Championships in the Stade de France.
		This made her the equal third best outdoor performer in history, behind Stefka Kostadinova's 1987 world mark of 2.09, and Lyudmila Andonova (2.07 - 1984).
		1 September 2003 - Paris, France - This is a farewell to the World Championships in Athletics, and...
	www.iaaf.org /WCH03/news/Kind=2/newsId=23080.html (753 words)

	RWI - RWI at the WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS (WOMEN'S 20K) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Unlike the last world competition when the USA sent two 20-something young women and an over-30 competitor, the Americans will rely on known quantities at the 8th World Championships to bring home the honors.
		Her longtime nemesis, Australia's Kerry Saxby-Junna, who placed third at the World Championships in 1999, will be 40 when the walkers leave Commonwealth Stadium tomorrow evening at 7:15 PM local time.
		Zenner has intermediate championships on her resume and is very fast in the 3000 kilometer and mile distance, but this is the 20K and against 1999 World Cup opponents she had a slow 1:40.38 for 64th place.
	www.worldwidewalkers.net /NEWS/summer2001/womens20K.html (853 words)

	Gelindo Bordin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gelindo Bordin (Vicenza, April 2, 1959) is a former Italian athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
		His next international competition was at the 1987 World Championships in Rome.
		Bordin successfully defended his European marathon title in 1990, becoming the first man to win the title twice, but at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, he finished in a disappointing eighth place.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gelindo_Bordin (276 words)

	IAAF World Track & Field Championships, August 21, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		World Championships history was made Friday evening as the women's 20-K race walk made its debut, supplanting the 10-K track race, which had been on the Worlds program since the 1987 Rome meet.
		After winning the walking World Cup in May, she won the world title on Friday with a spirited finish to defeat compatriot Wang Yan, crossing the line in 1:30:50.
		Fedoskina was disqualified two kms from the finish while challenging the two Chinese walkers Her dreams of a world- championship medal shattered, she broke down in tears at the roadside.
	members.aol.com /rayzwocker/worldclass/82799.htm (1511 words)

	Greek Press on the 6th World Athletics Championships
		That was good enough not only to win New Zealand's first world championship title, but also their first ever world medal.
		The 28-year-old Sidoti, whose best result previously in world championships was a ninth place in 1991 and 1993, went on to record a comfortable victory in 42 minutes 55.49 seconds.
		Marie-Jose Perec's world championship campaign ended in tears on the training track yesterday when she pulled a leg muscle while warming up and was forced to pull out of the 200 meters semifinals.
	www.hri.org /news/special/wac97.greek.html (11826 words)

	Encyclopedia: World athletics championships
		The IAAF said the American is free to compete at the Golden League meeting in Brussels and the World Athletics final.
		Hestrie Cloete concealed heartbreak to score a soaring triumph when she retained the World High Jump title during a dramatic final session at the ninth World Athletics Championships...
		After a slow start in oppressive heat, the Paris world championships burst into life in cool autumn weather over the final weekend.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/World-athletics-championships (277 words)

	Gatlin Sweeps Sprints at World Championships :: Five former Vols compete at Worlds
		Former Vol sprinter Justin Gatlin established himself as track and field's brightest star with a sweep of the 100 meters and 200 this week at the 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland.
		With only one day left in the nine-day world championships and only seven events left to be scored, Gatlin's two gold medals rank tied for third on the national gold medal count.
		The world championships experience came to a close Friday for the former Volunteers in the always thrilling, always treacherous 4x100 relay.
	utsports.collegesports.com /sports/m-track/spec-rel/081205aab.html (1202 words)

	Roger Black - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roger has a collection of fifteen medals from major senior athletics competitions to add to his two European junior championship gold medals.
		Black was also part of the British 4400 relay team which upset the heavy favourites USA to win the gold medal in the 1991 World* Championships in Tokyo.
		His greatest achievement in track and field undoubtedly was in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta when in the final of the 400m he finished in a very brave second place behind Michael Johnson, winning the silver medal in the process, which was absolutely no disgrace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_Black (309 words)

	World Championships burst into life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The ninth world championships did lack the dramatic confrontations of the past, such as Carl Lewis versus Ben Johnson over the 100 in 1987 in Rome or the Lewis-Mike Powell long jump competition in Tokyo four years later.
		The United States resurrected their championships on the final day when Johnson overhauled Britain's Dwain Chambers in the final metres to anchor the Americans to victory.
		But any championships in which the U.S. do not win the men's 100 gold are regarded as a qualified success only by the Americans.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2003/sep/01athchamp.htm (734 words)

	RW : IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Edmonton, Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The world-record tally for previous World Championships: Helsinki 1983, 1; Rome 1987, 1; Tokyo 1991, 3; Stuttgart 1993, 5; Gothenburg 1995, 3.
		Bob Kennedy withdraws from World Championships Bob Kennedy, this year's national champion at the 5000 meters, has withdrawn from the World Championships starting this weekend, citing low iron and an underactive thyroid.
		Kenyans sending a strong team to The World's Kenya will send a team of just twenty-three to the 8th IAAF World Championships in Athletics but though short on numbers the quality of these athletes is simply outstanding.
	www.runnersworld.com /events/edmonton01/home.html (4309 words)

	CBC.CA - IAAF World Track and Field Championships
		But Ben Johnson’s world record was eliminated, and his gold medal stripped, after the sprinter admitted -- in the wake of his disgrace in the 1988 Seoul Olympics -- to taking drugs at the time of the championships.
		After dominating the world of sprinting for over a decade, Lewis did not qualify for the 100m in Stuttgart, but he did come away with a bronze in the 200m.
		The performance of the championships came from Michael Johnson, who not only set a world record in capturing his fourth title in the 400m, but captured his unprecedented eighth gold medal at the championships.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/iaaf/history (1252 words)

	CBC Sports Online: Newsmaker: The world's fastest man
		The world record in the 100-metre dash was first recognized in 1912 by the International Association of Athletics Federations, track and field's world governing body.
		Amazingly, Paddock broke four world records on the day — 100 metres, 200 metres, 300 yards and 300 metres — and equalled the world's record in the 100-yard dash.
		Lewis and fellow American Leroy Burell traded the world record three times between 1991 and 1994 before Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey, fresh off his victory in the 100-metres at the 1995 world championships, shocked the world at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, winning the gold medal in a world-record time of 9.84 seconds.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/columns/newsmakers/fastest_man.html (1367 words)

	Welcome to the Track World Championships - Time-to-Run - runner's track information
		In 1983 Helsinki held the inaugural World Championships, and since then the IAAF has had countries host this prestigious Championships, second only to the Olympic Games.
		Johannesburg, Wednesday, 20 July 2005 - Athletics South Africa (ASA) today announced that its team to the IAAF World Championships in Helsinki would attend an international training camp in their final preparation for the World Championships.
		Athletics Canada is pleased to announce 28 athletes who have been selected to the national team which will represent Canada at the 2005 IAAF World Championships in Athletics taking place in Helsinki, Finland, August 5-15.
	www.time-to-run.com /track/worldchamps (349 words)

	CNN/SI - Athletics - IAAF studies package deal for world championships - Sunday November 22, 1998 03:29 PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nebiolo said the International Amateur Athletic Federation was studying the possibility of awarding the championships of 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 at one time.
		Nebiolo said the proposed package would also include the venues for the world indoor championships, the World Cup and other 'most important events' during the eight-year time frame.
		Last Thursday, the IAAF awarded the 2001 world championships to Edmonton, Canada, the first ever North American venue for the IAAF's premier event.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1998/11/22/iaaf_package (423 words)

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