KOR

Contested by 1742 athletes from 199 countries

Number of countries providing:

Champions: 20; Medallists: 42; Finalists/top 8: 74

LOC Presidents: Kim Bum-il & Cho Hae-nyoung

Mascot: Sarbi (Sapsali dog, indigenous to Daegu)

The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics (Korean: 제13회 세계육상선수권대회]) was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011.

The United States topped the medal standings in the competition with 28 (12 gold, 9 silver, and 7 bronze). During the competition, 41 national records, 4 area records, 3 championship records, and 1 world record was set.

Bidding process

On 4 April 2006, the IAAF announced that nine countries (United States, South Korea, Australia, Sweden, Spain, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Croatia and Morocco) had submitted expressions of interest for hosting the 2011 World Championships.

Candidates

When the seeking deadline passed on 1 December 2006, four candidate cities (Brisbane, Daegu, Moscow and Gothenburg) had confirmed their candidatures. Gothenburg backed out later that month, citing lack of financial support from the Swedish government.

Brisbane was announced as the Australian candidate with the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre (formally ANZ Stadium) as the proposed venue for a championships to be held in July or August. The stadium previously hosted the 1982 Commonwealth Games and 2001 Goodwill Games. Brisbane also had an unsuccessful bid for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.

Daegu was the city chosen for the Korean bid, following on from an initial application to host the 2009 edition. Daegu had previously hosted the 2003 Summer Universiade and three matches of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The World Championships in Athletics had never been staged in mainland Asia, although it has taken place twice in Japan.

The Russian bid had Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium as the proposed venue. The city hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Among the intent candidates were Casablanca (Morocco) and Split (Croatia), both of which were failed bidders for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. The Spanish candidate was rumored to be either Madrid or Valencia, but Spain eventually settled for Barcelona as a candidate for the 2013 World Championships in Athletics. The United States intent candidate city matched those bidding for the 2016 Summer Olympics: Chicago, Los Angeles or San Francisco.

Selection

Results

Men

The events in the men's section ended with a world record in 4 x 100 metres relay set by Jamaica and several world's leading results. Jamaica dominated the sprinting events, while Kenya and Ethiopia dominated the longer track events. In the field events, the United States and Germany were most successful, winning four and three gold medals respectively. Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt, both from Jamaica, won two gold medals, being the most successful athletes in the men's events.

In the 100 m final the largely favored Usain Bolt was disqualified for a false start, enabling Yohan Blake to win the crown with a time of 9.92 s. In the 200 m Bolt won with a time of 19.40 s, which was the fastest time ever not to be a world record at that point. Blake and Bolt, along with countrymen Nesta Carter and Michael Frater, ran in the 4 x 100 metres relay, setting a new world record with a time of 37.04 s. In the 10,000 metres event, World Champion Kenenisa Bekele did not finish the race. The world record holder in 800 m, David Rudisha, won the event with his first gold medal at the World Championships. On the last day, Kenyan Abel Kirui became the first marathon winner to retain the title at the next World Championships.

Most of the field events ended with new winners, but Dwight Phillips retained the long jump title, becoming only the second man after Ivan Pedroso to win four golds at the World Championships in this event.

Ethiopia's Imane Merga was originally awarded the bronze medal in the Men's 5000 metres, but he was later disqualified for having run inside the curb of the running track for some 10 to 15 metres. His teammate Dejen Gebremeskel was elevated to the bronze medal as a result.

Cuba's Dayron Robles finished first in the race of the Men's 110 metres hurdles, but was disqualified for interfering with Liu Xiang twice before and over the last barrier. Jason Richardson was awarded the Gold, Liu the Silver, and Andy Turner promoted to the Bronze medal position.

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Yohan Blake  Jamaica (JAM)	9.92 SB	Walter Dix  United States (USA)	10.08	Kim Collins  Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)	10.09
200 metres	Usain Bolt  Jamaica (JAM)	19.40 WL	Walter Dix  United States (USA)	19.70 SB	Christophe Lemaitre  France (FRA)	19.80 NR
400 metres	Kirani James  Grenada (GRN)	44.60 PB	LaShawn Merritt  United States (USA)	44.63	Kévin Borlée  Belgium (BEL)	44.90
800 metres	David Rudisha  Kenya (KEN)	1:43.91	Abubaker Kaki  Sudan (SUD)	1:44.41	Yuriy Borzakovskiy  Russia (RUS)	1:44.49
1500 metres	Asbel Kiprop  Kenya (KEN)	3:35.69	Silas Kiplagat  Kenya (KEN)	3:35.92	Matthew Centrowitz  United States (USA)	3:36.08
5000 metres	Mo Farah  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13:23.36	Bernard Lagat  United States (USA)	13:23.64	Dejen Gebremeskel  Ethiopia (ETH)	13:23.92
10,000 metres	Ibrahim Jeilan  Ethiopia (ETH)	27:13.81	Mo Farah  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	27:14.07	Imane Merga  Ethiopia (ETH)	27:19.14
Marathon	Abel Kirui  Kenya (KEN)	2:07:38 SB	Vincent Kipruto  Kenya (KEN)	2:10:06	Feyisa Lilesa  Ethiopia (ETH)	2:10:32 SB
110 metres hurdles	Jason Richardson  United States (USA)	13.16	Liu Xiang  China (CHN)	13.27	Andy Turner  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13.44
400 metres hurdles	Dai Greene  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	48.26	Javier Culson  Puerto Rico (PUR)	48.44	L. J. van Zyl  South Africa (RSA)	48.80
3000 metres steeplechase	Ezekiel Kemboi  Kenya (KEN)	8:14.85	Brimin Kipruto  Kenya (KEN)	8:16.05	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad  France (FRA)	8:16.09
20 kilometres walk	Luis Fernando López  Colombia (COL)	1:20:38 SB	Wang Zhen  China (CHN)	1:20:54	Kim Hyun-sub  South Korea (KOR)	1:21:17
50 kilometres walk	Denis Nizhegorodov  Russia (RUS)	3:42:45 SB	Jared Tallent  Australia (AUS)	3:43:36 SB	Si Tianfeng  China (CHN)	3:44:40
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica (JAM) Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt Dexter Lee*	37.04 WR	France (FRA) Teddy Tinmar Christophe Lemaitre Yannick Lesourd Jimmy Vicaut	38.20 SB	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN) Jason Rogers Kim Collins Antoine Adams Brijesh Lawrence	38.49
4 × 400 metres relay	United States (USA) Greg Nixon Bershawn Jackson Angelo Taylor LaShawn Merritt Jamaal Torrance* Michael Berry*	2:59.31 WL	South Africa (RSA) Shane Victor Ofentse Mogawane Willem de Beer L. J. van Zyl Oscar Pistorius*	2:59.87	Jamaica (JAM) Allodin Fothergill Jermaine Gonzales Riker Hylton Leford Green Lansford Spence*	3:00.10
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) | * Runners who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Jesse Williams  United States (USA)	2.35	Aleksey Dmitrik  Russia (RUS)	2.35	Trevor Barry  Bahamas (BAH)	2.32 PB
Pole vault	Paweł Wojciechowski  Poland (POL)	5.90	Lázaro Borges  Cuba (CUB)	5.90 NR	Renaud Lavillenie  France (FRA)	5.85
Long jump	Dwight Phillips  United States (USA)	8.45 SB	Mitchell Watt  Australia (AUS)	8.33	Ngonidzashe Makusha  Zimbabwe (ZIM)	8.29
Triple jump	Christian Taylor  United States (USA)	17.96 WL	Phillips Idowu  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	17.77 SB	Will Claye  United States (USA)	17.50 PB
Shot put	David Storl  Germany (GER)	21.78 PB	Dylan Armstrong  Canada (CAN)	21.64	Christian Cantwell  United States (USA)	21.36
Discus throw	Robert Harting  Germany (GER)	68.97	Gerd Kanter  Estonia (EST)	66.95	Ehsan Haddadi  Iran (IRI)	66.08 SB
Javelin throw	Matthias de Zordo  Germany (GER)	86.27 SB	Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway (NOR)	84.78	Guillermo Martínez  Cuba (CUB)	84.30
Hammer throw	Koji Murofushi  Japan (JPN)	81.24 SB	Krisztián Pars  Hungary (HUN)	81.18 SB	Primož Kozmus  Slovenia (SLO)	79.39 SB
Decathlon	Trey Hardee  United States (USA)	8607	Ashton Eaton  United States (USA)	8505	Leonel Suárez  Cuba (CUB)	8501 SB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

During the championships, Russia was the most successful country in the women's events, winning seven gold medals, followed by the United States with six. Most successful female athlete was Allyson Felix having won two relay golds and silver and bronze in her individual events. On the first day of the Championships, the athletes of Kenya made an astonishing performance, winning all six medals available in the two events. Kenya also dominated the long-distance events, while Jamaica and the United States the sprinting. In the field events, Russia was dominant, winning four gold medals.

Following a series of retests of stored samples and biological passports, a number of athletes were stripped of medals because of doping.

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Carmelita Jeter  United States (USA)	10.90	Veronica Campbell-Brown  Jamaica (JAM)	10.97	Kelly-Ann Baptiste  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.98
200 metres	Veronica Campbell-Brown  Jamaica (JAM)	22.22 SB	Carmelita Jeter  United States (USA)	22.37	Allyson Felix  United States (USA)	22.42
400 metres	Amantle Montsho  Botswana (BOT)	49.56 NR	Allyson Felix  United States (USA)	49.59 PB	Francena McCorory  United States (USA)	50.45
800 metres	Caster Semenya  South Africa (RSA)	1:56.35 SB	Janeth Jepkosgei  Kenya (KEN)	1:57.42 SB	Alysia Johnson Montaño  United States (USA)	1:57.48 SB
1500 metres	Jennifer Simpson  United States (USA)	4:05.40	Hannah England  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	4:05.68	Natalia Rodríguez  Spain (ESP)	4:05.87
5000 metres	Vivian Cheruiyot  Kenya (KEN)	14:55.36	Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet  Kenya (KEN)	14:56.21	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia (ETH)	14:56.94
10,000 metres	Vivian Cheruiyot  Kenya (KEN)	30:48.98	Sally Kipyego  Kenya (KEN)	30:50.04	Linet Masai  Kenya (KEN)	30:53.59
Marathon	Edna Kiplagat  Kenya (KEN)	2:28:43	Priscah Jeptoo  Kenya (KEN)	2:29:00	Sharon Cherop  Kenya (KEN)	2:29:14 SB
100 metres hurdles	Sally Pearson  Australia (AUS)	12.28 CR, AR	Danielle Carruthers  United States (USA)	12.47 PB	Dawn Harper  United States (USA)	12.47 PB
400 metres hurdles	Lashinda Demus  United States (USA)	52.47 WL, NR	Melaine Walker  Jamaica (JAM)	52.73 SB	Natalya Antyukh  Russia (RUS)	53.85
3000 metres steeplechase	Habiba Ghribi  Tunisia (TUN)	9:11.97 NR	Milcah Chemos Cheywa  Kenya (KEN)	9:17.16	Mercy Wanjiku  Kenya (KEN)	9:17.88
20 kilometres walk	Liu Hong  China (CHN)	1:30:00	Elisa Rigaudo  Italy (ITA)	1:30:44 SB	Qieyang Shenjie  China (CHN)	1:31:14
4 × 100 metres relay	United States (USA) Bianca Knight Allyson Felix Marshevet Myers Carmelita Jeter Shalonda Solomon* Alexandria Anderson*	41.56 WL	Jamaica (JAM) Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Kerron Stewart Sherone Simpson Veronica Campbell-Brown Jura Levy*	41.70 NR	Ukraine (UKR) Olesya Povh Nataliya Pohrebnyak Mariya Ryemyen Hrystyna Stuy	42.51 SB
4 × 400 metres relay	United States (USA) Sanya Richards-Ross Allyson Felix Jessica Beard Francena McCorory Natasha Hastings* Keshia Baker*	3:18.09 WL	Jamaica (JAM) Rosemarie Whyte Davita Prendergast Novlene Williams-Mills Shericka Williams Shereefa Lloyd* Patricia Hall*	3:18.71 NR	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Perri Shakes-Drayton Nicola Sanders Christine Ohuruogu Lee McConnell	3:23.63
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) * Runners who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Anna Chicherova  Russia (RUS)	2.03	Blanka Vlašić  Croatia (CRO)	2.03 SB	Antonietta Di Martino  Italy (ITA)	2.00
Pole vault	Fabiana Murer  Brazil (BRA)	4.85 AR	Martina Strutz  Germany (GER)	4.80 NR	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia (RUS)	4.75 SB
Long jump	Brittney Reese  United States (USA)	6.82	Ineta Radēviča  Latvia (LAT)	6.76	Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova  Belarus (BLR)	6.74
Triple jump	Olha Saladukha  Ukraine (UKR)	14.94	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan (KAZ)	14.89	Caterine Ibargüen  Colombia (COL)	14.84
Shot put	Valerie Adams  New Zealand (NZL)	21.24 CR, AR	Jillian Camarena-Williams  United States (USA)	20.02	Gong Lijiao  China (CHN)	19.97
Discus throw	Li Yanfeng  China (CHN)	66.52	Nadine Müller  Germany (GER)	65.97	Yarelis Barrios  Cuba (CUB)	65.73 SB
Javelin throw	Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic (CZE)	71.58 SB	Sunette Viljoen  South Africa (RSA)	68.38 AR	Christina Obergföll  Germany (GER)	65.24
Hammer throw	Tatyana Lysenko  Russia (RUS)	77.13 SB	Betty Heidler  Germany (GER)	76.06	Zhang Wenxiu  China (CHN)	75.03
Heptathlon [a]	Jessica Ennis  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	6751	Jennifer Oeser  Germany (GER)	6572	Karolina Tymińska  Poland (POL)	6544
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

^Heptathlon Original gold medalist Tatyana Chernova of Russia was stripped of her gold medal on 29 November 2016 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, with Ennis and Oeser promoted to gold and silver respectively and the bronze awarded to Karolina Tymińska of Poland.

Anti-doping programme

On 4 November 2011 the IAAF reported that 2 of the 468 urine samples had produced adverse analytical findings. The samples of Portuguese runner Sara Moreira, a finalist in the women's steeplechase, and Korean relay runner Hee-Nam Lim had both tested positive for methylhexaneamine. Analysis of blood samples is still ongoing.

In March 2012 the Trinidad and Tobago track and field authorities announced that Semoy Hackett had tested positive for methylhexaneamine at the Trinidad and Tobago national championships prior to the World Championships. Her results in the women's 100 metres were annulled and the Trinidadian 4 x 100-metre relay team were also disqualified from fourth place.

Participating nations

Medal table

Initially, host nation South Korea failed to win any medals at these championships, a fate shared with Sweden in 1995 and Canada in 2001. This was changed in 2015, South Korean athlete Kim Hyun-sub was promoted from sixth place to bronze medalist in the 20 km walk after the disqualification of three Russian race walkers for doping offences.

Key

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	12	9	7	28
2	Kenya (KEN)	7	8	3	18
3	Jamaica (JAM)	4	4	1	9
4	Germany (GER)	3	4	1	8
5	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	3	3	2	8
6	Russia (RUS)	3	1	3	7
7	China (CHN)	2	2	4	8
8	South Africa (RSA)	1	2	1	4
9	Australia (AUS)	1	2	0	3
10	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	0	4	5
11	Colombia (COL)	1	0	1	2
	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
14	Botswana (BOT)	1	0	0	1
	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
	Grenada (GRN)	1	0	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
	Tunisia (TUN)	1	0	0	1
21	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	3	4
	France (FRA)	0	1	3	4
23	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
24	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	1	0	1
	Sudan (SUD)	0	1	0	1
33	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)	0	0	2	2
34	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)*	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	0	1	1
	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (42 nations)		47	47	47	141

2011 World Championships in Athletics qualification standards

The following marks are the A and B qualification standards for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. Each country may send a maximum of four athletes who have attained the A qualification mark in each specific event. A maximum of three athletes can compete in that event, with the sole exception of the relays, in which four of a possible six athletes may compete. In the case that no athlete of that nationality has achieved the A standard in an event, a country may send two athletes with the B qualification times, of which only one may compete at the Championships.

Area Champions (i.e. athletes who have won an event at their continental level championships) are granted automatic entrance, irrespective of whether they have achieved the qualification marks. The reigning World Champion in each event is also granted a bye into the competition, and does not count as part of their country's quota of athletes in that event. Furthermore, host countries may enter one unqualified athlete if no one of the respective nationality has achieved the required mark.

Qualification standards