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Topic: 1999 World Championships in Athletics

	1999 World Championships in Athletics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 7th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29.
		One of the main highlights of the games was the World Record set in the 400 metre sprint by the outstanding Michael Johnson of the United States of America in a time of 43.18 seconds.
		German Skurygin (RUS) originally won the gold medal in the 50 km Walk with a time of 3:44:23, but he was later disqualified for doping, in November 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1999_World_Championships_in_Athletics (166 words)

	Chess champion Kasparov to speak April 22 : 4/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The top chess player in the world since 1985, Kasparov is perhaps best known for his loss in a 1997 contest to a 1.4-ton IBM supercomputer named Deep Blue that reportedly could analyze 200 million chess moves per second.
		In 1976 he won the U.S.S.R. youth championships, and in 1980, at age 17, he won the world youth championships and became a grandmaster.
		When he was crowned world chess champion in 1985, he was the youngest champion ever to hold the title.
	www.stanford.edu /group/news/report/news/1999/april14/kasparov-414.html (500 words)

	South Africa : Provisional team for Paris World Championships - Time-to-Run South Africa - Headline and international ...
		Athletics South Africa have announced their provisional selections for the 9th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Paris, France, 23-31 August 2003.
		The team is lead by defending women’s World High Jump champion Hestrie Cloete, who took the Commonwealth Games and African Championships golds last summer, before ending her season on a 2.02m winning high when beating Sweden's Kajsa Bergqvist to the IAAF World Cup title in Madrid last September.
		1999 World and 1996 Olympic 800 metres silver medallist Hezekiel Sepeng is the biggest omission from the provisional squad, having achieved the qualifying standard but having not competed during the South African domestic season.
	www.time-to-run.com /sa/news/2003/150503.htm (239 words)

	Osleidys Menéndez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Osleidys Menéndez (born November 14, 1979 in Martí) is a Cuban athlete competing in the javelin throw.
		She is the current Olympic and World champion, as well as holding the world record.
		This biographical article relating to Cuban athletics (track and field) is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Osleidys_Men%C3%A9ndez (125 words)

	"All Systems Go" for the Technology Infrastructure at IAAF Championships : FUJITSU Canada
		The 8th IAAF World Championships in Athletics are being held in Edmonton on August 3–12, 2001.
		The Championships are the world's premier track and field competition and third largest sporting event — after the Summer Olympic Games and World Cup Soccer - based on a television viewing audience of four billion.
		The 8th IAAF World Championships were awarded to Edmonton, Canada, at a meeting of the IAAF Council in November 1998.
	www.fujitsu.com /ca/en/news/pr/fc_20010801-01.html (674 words)

	Sports Venue Technology - 2005 World Athletics Championships, United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		In April 2000 the IAAF accepted London’s bid to host the 2005 IAAF World Championships, an event considered to be the most important international sports event in the UK since the 1966 World Cup and one of the top three sports events on the international calendar.
		At the beginning of October 2001, the British Government announced that it was to withdraw London as the venue for the 10th IAAF World Championships.
		The only other occasion that a successful "host" city was unable to stage the athletics championships in their 18-year history was back in 1997 when Athens replaced Mexico City, because of a major earthquake that had hit the Mexican capital.
	www.sportsvenue-technology.com /projects/2005_athletics (1162 words)

	SUPPLEMENT NO
		Last year, funding was allocated in the general operating budget to increase the per diem for women's officials from $30 to the same per diem paid to men's officials ($75) for the 1999 championship, and the cabinet would like to maintain those per diems.
		Bylaws 18.2.4.1 and 18.2.4.2.1 currently specify that a championship may be established in a new women's sport if at least 40 institutions sponsor the sport, and that such legislation may be proposed after the sport has met the minimum requirement for two consecutive years.
		The officials would be selected randomly by a computer from the pool of 96 officials who officiated the 1999 men's championship and the 96 officials who officiated the 1999 women's championship.
	www.ncaa.org /databases/reports/1/199904mc/199904_d1_mc_agenda_s5.html (3530 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Sports \| Annals of the Men's World Handball Championships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		In 1938, the first field handball world championship was played in Germany.
		Both disciplines had their fans: in 1955, 50,000 spectators watched the final of the field handball World Championships between Germany and Switzerland (25-13) in Berlin, but the indoor final between Sweden and Czechoslovakia in East Berlin in 1958, which ended 22-12, was also played in a packed hall in front of 6,500 spectators.
		Throughout their history, the World Championships were dominated by teams from the former Soviet Union and Germany, with Romania and Yugoslavia third and fourth in this hall of fame.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/431/sp3.htm (618 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Johnson, Greene make history
		Michael Johnson became the most decorated gold medallist in athletics World Championship history with nine titles, nailing the last by anchoring the United States to a convincing gold in the 4x400 metres relay.
		Ukraine's Inga Bobakova improved from her 1991 World and 1996 Olympic bronze medals by winning the gold with 1.99 metres, on a countback against the Russian duo of Yelena Yelesina and Svetlana Lapina.
		World record holder and two-times World and Olympic champion Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic got the bronze with 87.67 metres.
	www.rediff.com /sports/1999/aug/30ath.htm (1050 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/index.htm (349 words)

	CNN/SI - Athletics - Bubka to miss world championships - Tuesday August 10, 1999 11:20 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The 35-year-old Ukrainian, who set his world record of 6.14 meters (20-1 3-4) at Sestriere, Italy, in 1994, is still recovering from last year's surgery on his Achilles tendon, said the coach of the Ukrainian track and field team, Valeriy Aleksandrov.
		Bubka, who has set the world record 35 times, had disappointing perfrmances in several meets last year and has been low in recovering from his injury.
		The World Championships, which are held every two years, are scheduled to start in Seville, Spain, on Aug. 20.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1999/08/10/bubka_worlds (267 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Athletics \| Proud of Paula
		Having watched his daughter go from finishing 299th at the English Schools cross country championships to winning the world junior cross title a few years later, Radcliffe is more aware than anyone else of her fierce determination to succeed.
		Paula went on to claim consecutive senior world cross country titles in 2001 and 2002, but a series of heart-breaking defeats saw her denied a gold at the World championships until last summer.
		At the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville, she took 10,000m silver after being out-kicked on the last lap by Gete Wami, while at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the Worlds in Edmonton in 2001 she agonisingly finished fourth after a characteristic display of front-running.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/athletics/4509960.stm (809 words)

	Welcome to rediff.com: World Athletics Championship 2003
		Greece's Mirela Manjani added the World title to the European crown she won in Munich last summer, recapturing the World title which she won in Seville in 1999, and is fast developing...
		On the occasion of the World Championships 2003, Tommie Smith, the 200m Olympic champion in Mexico, has been invited by the mayor of Saint-Denis to be a speaker...
		Kim Collins, crowned the world's fastest man after the tightest 100 metres finish in the history of the World Championships, claims he is, "all raw talent.
	www.rediff.com /sports/ath_feat.htm (1019 words)

	IAAF World Track & Field Championships, August 25, 1999
		Fighting for a medal until the very end, Curt Clausen turned in the greatest World Championship performance in US walking history with his fourth place finish in 3 hours, 50 minutes, and 55 seconds at Seville, Spain.
		On a steamy Seville morning, the World Championships 5O-K walk, the longest individual footrace (31.1 miles) of the meet, was a struggle of mind over body.
		He arrived in Spain as the third-string member of his team, despite a fifth place finish at the walking World Cup in May. His only previous appearance at a world championship was six years ago, when he finished 22nd.
	members.aol.com /rayzwocker/worldclass/82599.htm (1803 words)

	World Athletics Championships: The wide world of drugs
		as unstoppably as a hammer thrower's perspiration in the last major athletics championship of the 20th century.
		Which is really the point, or at least the point as athletics, in its biggest week of the year, would like us to see it.
		It is tempting, in the face of all these allegations, the routine protestations of innocence, the confusion and deliberate muddying of waters, to conclude that athletics has a particularly bad case of the illness which is bedevilling all of sport.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/08/21/sohay21.html (1483 words)

	Greek Press on the 6th World Athletics Championships
		World shot put champion Aleksandr Bagach was stripped of his gold medal yesterday and lost $60,000 prize money after testing positive for the stimulant ephedrine.
		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.
		Haile Gkebresselassie, Ethiopian world record winner in the 10 thousand meter race decided to compete in the world championships in Athens because it was a national duty saying, "I'll carry the national banner, represent my country and lead the Ethiopian team.
	www.hri.org /news/special/wac97.greek.html (11836 words)

	9th IAAF World Championships in Athletics - Paris 2003 St-Denis - official web site
		The 6th World Championships in Athletics were marked by the emergence of a new star.
		The second World Championships in Athletics are remembered for Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s double gold medal in the heptathlon and long jump, a breathtaking performance she matched the following year at the Seoul Olympics.
		The final of the 400m hurdles at the 1987 World Championships had all the ingredients of a classic — the aging champion, the old rival and the hungry pretender battling it out in one last head-to-head.
	www.paris2003saintdenis.org /en/competition/retroarchives.html (839 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		Deakes has featured as a major player on the global scene since placing seventh over 20km on his senior debut at the 1999 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Seville and at his home Olympics in Sydney he finished sixth in the 50km and eighth in the 20km event.
		At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton he finished an agonising fourth in the shorter event and although he won bronze in the 20km event at the 2004 Athens Olympics he was heartbreakingly disqualified in the latter stages of the 50km when in contention for more honours.
		His 50km World record time wiped four minutes from his personal best yet Deakes did not even believe he was in the best shape of his career when taking the record.
	www.iaaf.net /news/Kind=2/newsId=37046.html (1369 words)

	CNN/SI - Athletics - World Championships Notebook - Tuesday August 17, 1999 12:28 PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Posted: Tuesday August 17, 1999 12:28 PM The 60,000-seat Olympic Stadium already has been used for competition, but parking lots and walking paths still are unfinished.
		The opening ceremony for the World Championships is called "Hercules' Children," and will feature Spanish dancer Joaquin Cortes.
		Unlike other individual events at the outdoor championships which have qualifying standards, the International Amateur Athletic Federation has invited the best 12 athletes according to their rankings of Aug. 10, with a maximum of three per country, to compete in the pole vault and hammer throw.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1999/08/17/worlds_notebook (598 words)

	Jana Pittman - Athletics Gold
		Her times continued to improve during 1999 and 2000 and it became apparent she would challenge for a place in the Sydney Olympic team as well as the World Junior Championships.
		Injuries eventually kept her out of the 2001 World Championships and affected her 2002 domestic season but she seemed to be improving, under new coach Craig Hilliard at the AIS.
		Jana is possibly Australia's best chance of success at the Paris World Championships and her clashes with 25 year old Russian, Yulia Pechonkina, the world's best 400m Hurdler in 2002, will be a highlight.
	www.geocities.com /geetee/bios/prof_jana.html (813 words)

	Pole Vault Canada
		Athletics Canada is committed to entering its best possible team at the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie.
		Athletics Canada will arrange travel details based on the needs of the respective speed/power and endurance groups.
		Athletes who wish to participate in the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie are required to comply with Athletics Canada travel plans, including set dates of arrival and departures, participation in pre-competition and pre-championships training camps and competitions; and team delivery specifics during the games as it pertains to training schedules, travel and accommodation schedules.
	www.vaultworld.com /canada/events/Frank.html (2495 words)

	Assessment of British team's performance in 1999 World Championships
		BRITISH PLACINGS/POINTS IN IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ATHLETICS
		In previous years the success of British teams in major events has often been judged solely by medal count or the good or bad performances of one or two star performers.
		Prior to the opening of the championships I assessed each athletes par performance, based on form and reputation, as given in the table below.
	www.gbrathletics.com /h/99wc.htm (382 words)

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