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	2003 World Championships in Athletics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from August 23 to August 31, 2003 in the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
		Reigning World and Olympic Champion Maurice Greene was eliminated in the semi-finals, being out of shape all season, leaving the final without a clear favourite.
		World Record holder and double World Champion Jonathan Edwards announced his retirement after the Championships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_World_Championships_in_Athletics (936 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Sports \| On the run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 2003 World Athletics Championships were one of the best the world has witnessed; bringing to spectators intense competition and brilliant races.
		Though she is likely to lose at least one of her gold medals, world track officials said they need to do more research before deciding on her punishment and passing the case on to US officials.
		World track officials said Sunday that White had passed a drug test after her win in the 200.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/654/sp6.htm (908 words)

	TDK Europe - Sports
		The 9th IAAF World Championships in Athletics was one of the top five sporting events worldwide.
		TDK's involvement with the 9th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Paris 2003 included global brand exposure through the male athletes bibs, advertising boards around the track's perimeter, on composite boards and on all official print material.
		For all world records broken by the male competitors, TDK did award the athlete 100,000 US dollars, and was given the honour of joining the medal presentation ceremony.
	www.tdk-europe.com /en/sport/paris2003.php (183 words)

	Sporting Life - Athletics World Championships 2003
		The error robbed the 2001 World Student Games champion of a certain bronze and possibly silver medal and while it was a lesson which hurt it could help win her a World Championships medal.
		Currently ranked third in the world this year, Danvers insists she is more determined than ever to produce the goods in what will be her second World Championships.
		As far as she is concerned the hard-luck story is in the past as she plots the downfall of world number one Jana Pittman of Australia and European champion Ionela Tirlea of Romania in the Stade de France.
	www.sportinglife.com /athletics/worldchamps2003/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=others/03/08/10/ATHLETICS_Paris_Danvers.html (488 words)

	Sporting Life - Athletics World Championships 2003
		Sonia O'Sullivan trailed in last in the 5,000m in what may be her last World Championships appearance.
		World Championships 400m hurdles hope Chris Rawlinson appears to be on the mend.
		Denise Lewis is confident she can be in the running for a medal at the World Championships.
	www.sportinglife.com /athletics/worldchamps2003/news (1478 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		The son of a farmer, Kenenisa Bekele was inspired to begin running by the athletic feats of fellow Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.
		After setting a world junior record for the 3,000m in 2001, Bekele achieved his first senior success at the 2002 World Cross Country Championships in Dublin, where he became the first man to win the long and short races at the same championships.
		At the 2003 World Championships of Athletics, Bekele won the 10,000m and finished third in the 5,000m.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=131273 (236 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)

	SI.com - Athletics - World Athletics Championships History - Thursday August 14, 2003 11:00 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	Vanguard - Sports : Little hope for Nigeria, as World Athletics Championships begin
		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 men’s 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.
		That would mean three consecutive World Championships without a medal, after empty shows in Edmonton in Canada in 2001 and at the Paris 2003 championships.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/sports/august05/06082005/sp406082005.html (1144 words)

	Runner's & Triathlete's Web Athletics: World Indoor Championships Day 3 - Mutola Gets 8th ...
		The Kenyan, annually among the fastest runners in the world, reached the line in a modest 1:47.15, but the time didn’t reflect the tactical precision he finally produced to win the first major title of his career.
		It was also the first indoor medal for the Kenyan, the 2003 World champion in the 5000 metres.
		The Russian pair of Yelena Soboleva, the recently-minted world indoor record holder in the 1500 meters, and Yuliya Chizhenko, were expected to be in the hunt for top honors in their specialty.
	www.runnersweb.com /running/news/rw_news_20060313_RRW_Moscow_Day3.html (963 words)

	Sweden to bid for World Championships in Athletics - Athletics
		Yngve Andersson, president of the Swedish Athletics Association, cited the 'unique atmosphere' during the European championships in Gothenburg and said the association hoped the government would be willing to reconsider its recent decision not to back the bid, pending a major review of funding for major sports events.
		The 2007 world championships were to be staged in Osaka, Japan and Berlin was to host the 2009 world championships.
		A decision on the coming world championships was due next March at a meeting of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
	sport.monstersandcritics.com /athletics/article_1228102.php/... (308 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Sports \| World Athletics Championships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		BERHANE Adere unleashed a devastating sprint finish to claim the first track gold at the World Athletics Championships in the women's 10,000m in Paris.
		Gebrselassie, who is dubbed the Emperor, was bidding for his fifth world title but he was delighted to settle for silver behind his fellow countryman.
		At the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, Drummond ran his opening leg of the 400 relay with an Afro comb tucked in his sock.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/653/sp5.htm (1109 words)

	Sprintic.com \| News \| Leonard Scott and Me'Lisa Barber won 60m at World Indoors
		His time of 6.50 equalled the world leading mark he had run in the semi-finals, having entered the Championships with the fastest time this year of 6.52.
		Barber, 25, has gold medals from the 4 x 400m Relay at the 2003 World Championships of Athletics in Paris and the 4 x 100m at the 2005 World Championships of Athletics in 2005.
		It was so close that Barber and her American teammate, Lauryn Williams, the outdoor World sprint champion, could not be separated on times, both closing with world leading marks this year of 7.01.
	www.sprintic.com /news/52 (470 words)

	Healthy Kidney 10K (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Athletics runs in the Letherby family: As a young boy, he was inspired by the success of his mother, who competed for Australia in the World Cross Country Championships and World Cup Marathon in the early 1980s, and his sister was a top Australian race walker with five national medals to her credit.
		Maiyo served as a pacemaker in NYRR's World Championships 10,000-meter Qualifier last July, hanging on and winning the race in a 28:26.15 solo effort after most of the field dropped out in oppressively hot and humid conditions.
		He represented Australia in the marathon at the 2003 IAAF World Championships in Athletics, finishing 55th, and most recently finished seventh in the Commonwealth Games marathon in March.
	www.nyrr.org /kidney/bios.php (1516 words)

	American Track and Field -- Feature Article
		Denis, France - By the time the 2003 World Championships in Athletics were four hours old, the stadium had already caught fire.
		Aziami, 22, became the first woman athlete to represent Afghanistan in the world track and field championships when she crossed the line of the third heat of the women's 100-meter prelims.
		Those shoes, by the way, were bought for her in Paris after it was determined that her regular training shoes simply weren't good enough for a world championships competitor.
	www.american-trackandfield.com /features/dailydispatchau24.html (786 words)

	World Athletics Championships Kick off Tomorrow
		Ethiopia’s chances have been further enhanced by the withdrawal of Britain’s world Marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe and the weak Kenyan challenge that comes solely in the form of Commonwealth champion Selina Kosgei, who surprisingly is the only Kenyan woman to have a qualifying time at this distance.
		But fellow Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele will start the favorite in the distance hoping to grace his debut at the world championships with gold in a magical year for the 21-year-old.
		In the women’s Marathon, the nation’s hopes will be on Abera’s new-wed wife Elfnesh Alemu as she aims to grab and tear apart her nearly-woman tag and a world class field to take the country’s first medal, preferably gold, at the world championships.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/08/22-08-03/World.htm (536 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)

	Hall of Fame / WICA 2003
		The World Indoor Championships in Athletics (WICA) was the most significant athletics event to be staged in the UK since the 1948 Olympic Games, and was a huge triumph for the City of Birmingham and The NEC Group which hosted the event.
		The mission statement was “To deliver an outstanding sporting spectacle of world significance, which inspires athletics excellence, celebrates cultural diversity and enhances Birmingham’s reputation as a leading international city.” The main organisers and stakeholders were Birmingham City Council, UK Sport and UK Athletics, whilst the event remained under the jurisdiction of the IAAF.
		The athletics warm-up hall is an integral part of the arena and measures 72m x 20m.
	www.necgroup.co.uk /visitor/halloffame/wica.asp (1482 words)

	Aggreko Supplies the Power at the Special Olympics (June 2003)
		European Football Championships - During the summer of 2000, Aggreko supplied nearly 40 generators and 40km of cable plus distribution equipment to cover broadcasting requirements at all 31 matches in 8 stadiums throughout Belgium and The Netherlands.
		2003 World Ski Championship St Moritz — In February 2003, Aggreko successfully completed the contract to deliver temporary power and climate control services to the FIS World Alpine Ski Championships.
		Aggreko is the world leader in the supply of temporary power, air-conditioning, temperature control and oil-free compressed air.
	www.aggreko.com /ourcompany/2003-News/Aggreko-Supplies-the-Power-at-the-Special-Olympics-June-2003.asp (870 words)

	Tirunesh Dibaba - Derartu Tulu’s cousin
		Ethiopia’s current Junior World Cross Country champion Tirunesh Dibaba has revealed that she is the cousin of two-time Olympic and one-time world 10,000m champion Derartu Tulu.
		And the 17-year-old also says she is getting ready to fight for honors on the track at the next the World Athletics Championships in Paris, France, in August.
		After the euphoria of the Cross Country championship, Tirunesh has now set her sights on glory on the truck with qualifying for the World Championships in Paris on the top of her agenda.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/05/02-05-03/Tirunesh.htm (429 words)

	BC Athletics Bulletin
		Athletes placing in the top 3 at their high school senior championships are automatically eligible to compete in the National Junior Championships if they are age-eligible.
		NOTE: All athletes MUST be registered for the year 2003 with their Provincial Branch, prior to entry to the National Junior Championships.
		BC Athletics is considering putting on a Level I Coaching Clinic in Abbotsford in June.
	www.bcathletics.org /main/bulletin/2003-11.htm (1052 words)

	CNN.com - Rugby World Cup tests for steroid - Oct. 24, 2003
		The rugby World Cup anti-doping committee said new laboratory procedures and methods developed to analyze the drug were being implemented to handle the Cup testing.
		A test for THG was devised at the Olympic doping control laboratory in Los Angeles after a tip-off by an athletics coach who provided officials with a used syringe containing the substance.
		The International Association of Athletics Federations earlier this week said it would retest about 400 samples from the World Championships held in France in August to check for THG.
	cnn.com /2003/SPORT/10/23/rugby.tests.ap/index.html (218 words)

	Athletics Canada -Athletics Canada Names 2003 World Indoor Championships Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ottawa, ON - Athletics Canada will be sending a small but focused seven-person team to compete at the 9th IAAF World Indoor Championships taking place in Birmingham, UK from March 14th - 16th, 2003.
		In general, athletes had to demonstrate the ability to place in the top eight in the world," says Alex Gardiner, head coach of the national team.
		While in Birmingham, the Canadian team will be sporting Nike national team apparel as part of a new sponsorship agreement with Nike being the exclusive clothing supplier of Canada's national track and field teams leading into the 2004 Olympics and beyond.
	www.athletics.ca /article.asp?id=433 (314 words)

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