Seville (Spain)
8th – 10th March 1991
(Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo)
60 m - 08-03-1991
1. Andre Cason - USA - 6.54
2. Linford Christie - Great Britain - 6.55
3. Chidi Imoh - Nigeria - 6.60
Eight national records were set in the heats.
200 m - 10-03-1991
1. Nikolay Antonov - Bulgaria - 20.67
2. Linford Christie - Great Britain - 20.72
3. Ade Mafe - Great Britain - 20.92
Five national records were set in the heats.
400 m - 10-03-1991
1. Devon Morris - Jamaica - 46.17
2. Samson Kitur - Kenya - 46.21
(national record)
3. Cayetano Cornet - Spain - 46.52
Five more national records were set in the heats
and the semifinals.
800 m - 10-03-1991
1. Paul Ereng - Kenya - 1:47.08
2. Tomás de Teresa - Spain - 1:47.82
3. Simon Hoogewerf - Canada - 1:47.88
(national record)
Six more national records were set in the heats.
1500 m - 09-03-1991
1. Noureddine Morceli - Algeria - 3:41.57
2. Fermín Cacho - Spain - 3:42.68
3. Mário Silva - Portugal - 3:43.85
3000 m - 10-03-1991
1. Frank O'Mara - Ireland - 7:41.14
(Championship record)
2. Hammou Boutayeb - Morocco - 7:43.64
3. Robert Denmark - Great Britain - 7:43.90
(national record)
4. Mogens Guldberg - Denmark - 7:44.76
(national record)
6. Pascal Thiébaut - France - 7:47:51
(national record)
8. Mathias Ntawulikura - Rwanda - 7:48.92
(national record)
9. Jacinto Navarrete - Colombia - 7:49.46
(South American indoor record)
One more South American indoor record and
five more national records were set in the heats.
60 m hurdles - 09-03-1991
1. Greg Foster - USA - 7.45
2. Igor Kazanov - Soviet Union - 7.47
3. Mark McKoy - Canada - 7.49
Six national records were set in the heats
and the semifinals.
4 x 400 m - 13-03-1993
It was the first time that this event was contested at the World Indoor Championships
1. Germany - 3:03.05
(Rico Lieder, Jens Carlowitz, Karsten Just, Thomas Schönlebe)
(World record and
Championship record)
2. United States - 3:03.24
(Raymond Pierre, Charles Jenkins Jr., Andrew Valmon, Antonio McKay)
(North American record)
3. Italy - 3:07.30
(Marco Vaccari, Vito Petrella, Alessandro Aimar, Andrea Nuti)
(national record)
4. Australia - 3:08.49
(Oceanic record)
One more Championship record,
one more Oceanic record and
two more national records were set in the heats.
5000 metres walk - 10-03-1991
1. Mikhail Shchennikov - Russia - 18:23.55
(World record)
2. Giovanni De Benedictis - Italy - 18:23.60
(national record)
3. Frants Kostyukevich - Soviet Union - 18:47.05
4. Miguel Ángel Prieto - Spain - 18:53.83
(national record)
8. Jimmy McDonald - Ireland - 19:24.91
(national record)
One South American indoor record was set in the heats.
long jump - 09-03-1991
1. Dietmar Haaf - Germany - 8,15 m
2. Jaime Jefferson - Cuba - 8,04 m
3. Giovanni Evangelisti - Italy - 7,93 m
Two national records were set in the qualification.
triple jump - 10-03-1991
1. Igor Lapshin - Soviet Union - 17,31 m
2. Leonid Voloshin - Soviet Union - 17,04 m
3. Tord Henriksson - Sweden - 16,80 m
One national record was set in the qualification.
high jump - 10-03-1991
1. Hollis Conway - USA - 2,40 m
(national record)
2. Artur Partyka - Poland - 2,37 m
(equalsnational record)
3=. Javier Sotomayor - Cuba - 2,31 m
3=. Aleksey Yemelin - Soviet Union - 2,31 m
8. Tim Forsyth - Australia - 2,28 m
(equals Ocianic record)
pole vault - 09-03-1991
1. Sergey Bubka - Soviet Union - 6,00 m
(Championship record)
2. Viktor Ryzhenkov - Soviet Union - 5,80 m
3. Ferenc Salbert - France - 5,70 m
6. Peter Widén - Sweden - 5,60 m
(equals national record)
shot put - 08-03-1993
1. Werner Günthör - Switzerland - 21,17 m
2. Klaus Bodenmüller - Austria - 20,42 m
3. Ron Backes - USA - 20,06 m