🏆 Athletics

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Men

100 metres men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	9"69
🥈Silver	Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	9"89
🥉Bronze	Walter Dix	United States	9"91

10000 metres men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	27'01"17
🥈Silver	Sileshi Sihine	Ethiopia	27'02"77
🥉Bronze	Micah Kogo	Kenya	27'04"11

110 metres hurdles men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Dayron Robles	Cuba	12"93
🥈Silver	David Payne	United States	13"17
🥉Bronze	David Oliver	United States	13"18

1500 metres men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Asbel Kiprop	Kenya	3'33"11
🥈Silver	Nicholas Willis	New Zealand	3'34"16
🥉Bronze	Mehdi Baala	France	3'34"21

200 metres men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	19"30
🥈Silver	Shawn Crawford	United States	19"96
🥉Bronze	Walter Dix	United States	19"98

20km race walk men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Valeriy Borchin	Russia	1h19'01
🥈Silver	Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador	1h19'15
🥉Bronze	Jared Tallent	Australia	1h19'42

3000 metres steeplechase men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Brimin Kiprop Kipruto	Kenya	8'10"34
🥈Silver	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	France	8'10"49
🥉Bronze	Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong	Kenya	8'11"01

4 × 100 metres relay men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Keston Bledman / Marc Burns / Emmanuel Callender / Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	38"06
🥈Silver	Naoki Tsukahara / Shingo Suetsugu / Shinji Takahira / Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	38"15
🥉Bronze	Vicente Lima / Sandro Viana / Bruno de Barros / José Carlos Moreira	Brazil	38"24

4 × 400 metres relay men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	LaShawn Merritt / Angelo Taylor / David Neville / Jeremy Wariner	United States	2'55"39
🥈Silver	Andretti Bain / Michael Mathieu / Andrae Williams / Chris Brown	Bahamas	2'58"03
🥉Bronze	Martyn Rooney / Andrew Steele / Robert Tobin / Michael Bingham	United Kingdom	2'58"51

400 metres hurdles men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Angelo Taylor	United States	47"25
🥈Silver	Kerron Clement	United States	47"98
🥉Bronze	Bershawn Jackson	United States	48"06

400 metres men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	LaShawn Merritt	United States	43"75
🥈Silver	Jeremy Wariner	United States	44"74
🥉Bronze	David Neville	United States	44"80

5000 metres men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	12'57"82
🥈Silver	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya	13'02"80
🥉Bronze	Edwin Cheruiyot Soi	Kenya	13'06"22

50km race walk men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Alex Schwazer	Italy	3h37'09
🥈Silver	Jared Tallent	Australia	3h39'27
🥉Bronze	Denis Nizhegorodov	Russia	3h40'14

800 metres men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1'44"65
🥈Silver	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	1'44"70
🥉Bronze	Alfred Kirwa Yego	Kenya	1'44"82

Decathlon

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Bryan Clay	United States	8791 pts
🥈Silver	Andrei Krauchanka	Belarus	8551 pts
🥉Bronze	Leonel Suárez	Cuba	8527 pts

Discus throw men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	68,82 m
🥈Silver	Piotr Małachowski	Poland	67,82 m
🥉Bronze	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	67,79 m

Hammer throw men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	82,02 m
🥈Silver	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus	81,61 m
🥉Bronze	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus	81,51 m

High jump men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Andrey Silnov	Russia	2,36 m
🥈Silver	Germaine Mason	United Kingdom	2,34 m
🥉Bronze	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	2,34 m

Javelin throw men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway	90,57 m
🥈Silver	Ainārs Kovals	Latvia	86,64 m
🥉Bronze	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland	86,16 m

Long jump men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Irving Saladino	Panama	8,34 m
🥈Silver	Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	8,24 m
🥉Bronze	Ibrahim Camejo	Cuba	8,20 m

Men's marathon

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Samuel Wanjiru	Kenya	2h06'32
🥈Silver	Jaouad Gharib	Morocco	2h07'16
🥉Bronze	Tsegay Kebede	Ethiopia	2h10'00

Pole vault men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Steven Hooker	Australia	5,96 m
🥈Silver	Evgeny Lukyanenko	Russia	5,85 m
🥉Bronze	Derek Miles	United States	5,70 m

Shot put men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	21,51 m
🥈Silver	Christian Cantwell	United States	21,09 m
🥉Bronze	Dylan Armstrong	Canada	21,04 m

Triple jump men

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Nelson Évora	Portugal	17,67 m
🥈Silver	Phillips Idowu	United Kingdom	17,62 m
🥉Bronze	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	17,59 m

Women

100 metres hurdles women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Dawn Harper	United States	12"54
🥈Silver	Sally Pearson	Australia	12"64
🥉Bronze	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep	Canada	12"64

100 metres women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Shelly-Ann Fraser	Jamaica	10"78
🥈Silver	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	10"98
	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	10"98

10000 metres women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	29'54"66
🥈Silver	Shalane Flanagan	United States	30'22"22
🥉Bronze	Linet Chepkwemoi Masai	Kenya	30'26"50

1500 metres women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Nancy Jebet Lagat	Kenya	4'00"23
🥈Silver	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4'01"63
🥉Bronze	Nataliya Tobias	Ukraine	4'01"78

200 metres women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	21"74
🥈Silver	Allyson Felix	United States	21"93
🥉Bronze	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	22"00

20km race walk women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	1h26'31
🥈Silver	Kjersti Tysse Plätzer	Norway	1h27'07
🥉Bronze	Elisa Rigaudo	Italy	1h27'12

3000 metres steeplechase women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Gulnara Galkina-Samitova	Russia	8'58"81
🥈Silver	Eunice Jepkorir	Kenya	9'07"41
🥉Bronze	Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova	Russia	9'12"33

4 × 100 metres relay women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Olivia Borlée / Hanna Mariën / Élodie Ouédraogo / Kim Gevaert	Belgium	42"54
🥈Silver	Franca Idoko / Gloria Kemasuode / Halimat Ismaila / Oludamola Osayomi	Nigeria	43"04
🥉Bronze	Rosemar Coelho Neto / Lucimar de Moura / Thaissa Presti / Rosângela Santos	Brazil	43"14

4 × 400 metres relay women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Mary Wineberg / Allyson Felix / Monique Henderson / Sanya Richards	United States	3'18"54
🥈Silver	Shericka Williams / Shereefa Lloyd / Rosemarie Whyte / Novelene Williams	Jamaica	3'20"40
🥉Bronze	Christine Ohuruogu / Kelly Sotherton / Marilyn Okoro / Nicola Sanders	United Kingdom	3'22"68

400 metres hurdles women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Melaine Walker	Jamaica	52"64
🥈Silver	Sheena Tosta	United States	53"70
🥉Bronze	Tasha Danvers	United Kingdom	53"84

400 metres women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Christine Ohuruogu	United Kingdom	49"62
🥈Silver	Shericka Williams	Jamaica	49"69
🥉Bronze	Sanya Richards	United States	49"93

5000 metres women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	15'41"40
🥈Silver	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	15'44"12
🥉Bronze	Sylvia Kibet	Kenya	15'44"96

800 metres women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Pamela Jelimo	Kenya	1'54"87
🥈Silver	Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei	Kenya	1'56"07
🥉Bronze	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	1'56"73

Discus throw women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Stephanie Brown Trafton	United States	64,74 m
🥈Silver	Olena Antonova	Ukraine	62,59 m
🥉Bronze	Song Aimin	China	62,20 m

Hammer throw women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Yipsi Moreno	Cuba	75,20 m
🥈Silver	Zhang Wenxiu	China	74,32 m
🥉Bronze	Manuela Montebrun	France	72,54 m

Heptathlon

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Nataliya Dobrynska	Ukraine	6733 pts
🥈Silver	Hyleas Fountain	United States	6619 pts
🥉Bronze	Kelly Sotherton	United Kingdom	6517 pts

High jump women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Tia Hellebaut	Belgium	2,05 m
🥈Silver	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	2,05 m
🥉Bronze	Chaunté Howard	United States	1,99 m

Javelin throw women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Barbora Špotáková	Czech Republic	71,42 m
🥈Silver	Christina Obergföll	Germany	66,13 m
🥉Bronze	Goldie Sayers	United Kingdom	65,75 m

Long jump women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Maurren Maggi	Brazil	7,04 m
🥈Silver	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	6,91 m
🥉Bronze	Chelsea Hammond	Jamaica	6,79 m

Pole vault women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	5,05 m
🥈Silver	Jennifer Stuczynski	United States	4,80 m
🥉Bronze	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia	4,75 m

Shot put women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Valerie Vili	New Zealand	20,56 m
🥈Silver	Misleydis González	Cuba	19,50 m
🥉Bronze	Gong Lijiao	China	19,20 m

Triple jump women

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	15,39 m
🥈Silver	Olga Rypakova	Kazakhstan	15,11 m
🥉Bronze	Yargelis Savigne	Cuba	15,05 m

Women's marathon

Gold	Athlete	Country	Performance
🥇Gold	Constantina Diță-Tomescu	Romania	2h26'44
🥈Silver	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	2h27'06
🥉Bronze	Zhou Chunxiu	China	2h27'07