Sevilla (Spain)
20th - 29th August 1999
(Estadio Olímpico)
100 m
1. Marion Jones - USA - 10.70
2. Inger Miller - USA - 10.79
3. Ekaterini Thanou - Greece - 10.84
200 m
1. Inger Miller - USA - 21.77
2. Beverly McDonald - Jamaica - 22.22
3=. Merlene Frazer - Jamaica - 22.26
3=. Andrea Philipp - Germany - 22.26
400 m
1. Cathy Freeman - Australia - 49.67
2. Anja Rücker - Germany - 49.74
3. Lorraine Graham - Jamaica - 49.92
800 m
1. Ludmila Formanová - Czech Republic - 1:56.68
2. Maria Lurdes Mutola - Mozambique - 1:56.72
3. Svetlana Masterkova - Russia - 1:56.93
1500 m
1. Svetlana Masterkova - Russia - 3:59.53
2. Regina Jacobs - USA - 4:00.35
3. Kutre Dulecha - Ethiopia - 4:00.96
5000 m
1. Gabriela Szabo - Romania - 14:41.82
(Championship record)
2. Zahra Ouaziz - Morocco - 14:43.15
3. Ayelech Worku - Ethiopia - 14:44.22
10000 m
1. Gete Wami - Ethiopia - 30:24.56
(Championship record)
2. Paula Radcliffe - Great Britain - 30:27.13
3. Tegla Loroupe - Kenya - 30:32.03
marathon
1. Jong Song-Ok - North Korea - 2:26:59
(national record)
2. Ari Ichihashi - Japan - 2:27:02
3. Lidia Simon - Romania - 2:27:41
100 m hurdles
1. Gail Devers - USA - 12.37
2. Glory Alozie - Nigeria - 12.44
3. Ludmila Engquist - Sweden - 12.47
400m hurdles
1. Daimi Pernia - Cuba - 52.89
2. Nezha Bidouane - Morocco - 52.90
3. Deon Hemmings - Jamaica - 53.16
4. Andrea Blackett - Barbados - 53.36
(national rercord)
20 km walk
1. Liu Hongyu - China - 1:30:50
(Championship record)
2. Wang Yan - China - 1:30:52
3. Kerry Saxby-Junna - Australia - 1:31:18
4 x 100 m
1. Bahamas - 41.92
(Savatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson)
2. France - 42.06 (national record)
(Patricia Girard, Muriel Hurtis, Katia Benth, Christine Arron)
3. Jamaica - 42.15
(Aleen Bailey, Merlene Frazer, Beverly McDonald, Peta-Gaye Dowdie)
4 x 400 m
1. Russia - 3:21.98
(Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko, Olga Kotlyarova, Natalya Nazarova)
2. United States - 3:22.09
(Suziann Reid, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Michelle Collins, Jearl Miles Clark)
3. Germany - 3:22.43
(Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer-Fromm, Anja Rücker, Grit Breuer)
long jump
1. Niurka Montalvo - Spain - 7,06 m
(national record)
2. Fiona May - Italy - 6,94 m
3. Marion Jones - USA - 6,83 m
triple jump
1. Paraskevi Tsiamita - Greece - 14,88 m
2. Yamilé Aldama - Cuba - 14,61 m
3. Olga Vasdeki - Greece - 14,61 m
high jump
1. Inga Babakova - Ukraine - 1,99 m
2. Yelena Yelesina - Russia - 1,99 m
3. Svetlana Lapina - Russia - 1,99 m
pole vault
(First time this event was included in the World Championships)
1. Stacy Dragila - USA - 4,60 m
(World record)
2. Anzhela Balakhonova - Ukraine - 4,55 m
(European record)
3. Tatiana Grigorieva - Australia - 4,45 m
4. Zsuzsanna Szabó - Hungary - 4,40 m
(national record)
shot put
1. Astrid Kumbernuss - Germany - 19,85 m
2. Nadine Kleinert - Germany - 19,61 m
3. Svetlana Krivelyova - Russia - 19,43 m
discus throw
1. Franka Dietzsch - Germany - 68,14 m
2. Anastasia Kelesidou - Greece - 66,05 m
3. Nicoleta Grasu - Romania - 65,35 m
javelin throw
1. Mirela Manjani-Tzelili - Greece - 67,09 m
2. Tatyana Shikolenko - Russia - 66,37 m
3. Trine Solberg-Hattestad - Norway - 66,06 m
7. Wei Jianhua - China - 62,97 m
(Asian record)
hammer throw
1. Mihaela Melinte - Romania - 75,20 m
(Championship record)
2. Olga Kuzenkova - Russia - 72,56 m
3. Lisa Misipeka - American Samoa - 66,06 m
heptathlon
1. Eunice Barber - France - 6861 points
(national record)
2. Denise Lewis - Great Britain - 6724 points
3. Ghada Shouaa - Syria - 6500 points
