The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium, Stuttgart, Germany between August 13 and August 22 with the participation of 187 nations. Having originally being held every four years in 1983, 1987 and 1991 these championships began a two-year cycle between events.
The 1993 World Championships was the final time the women's 3000 m would be contested. At subsequent Championships the race was replaced by the longer 5000 m.
1 Michael Stulce of the United States originally finished third, but was disqualified after testing positive for excess testosterone and mestenolone.
Frederick Carlton Carl Lewis is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 to 1996 when he last won an Olympic event and he is one of only three Olympic athletes who won a gold medal in the same event in four consecutive Olympic Games. Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper who topped the rankings in the 100 m,200 m. He set world records in the 100 m,4 ×100 m and 4 ×200 m relays and his 65 consecutive victories in the long jump achieved over a span of 10 years is one of the sports longest undefeated streaks. Over the course of his athletics career, Lewis broke ten seconds for the 100 meters 15 times and 20 seconds for the 200 meters 10 times, Lewis long jumped over 28 feet 71 times. After retiring from his athletics career, Lewis became an actor and has appeared in a number of films, in 2011, he attempted to run for a seat as a Democrat in the New Jersey Senate, but was removed from the ballot due to the states residency requirement.
Lewis owns a marketing and branding company named C. L. E. G, which markets and brands products and services including his own. Frederick Carlton Lewis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 1,1961 and he grew up in a family of athletes. His mother was a hurdler on the 1951 Pan-Am team and his parents ran a local athletics club that provided a crucial influence on both Carl and his sister Carol. She became a long jumper, finishing 9th at the 1984 Olympics. Lewis was initially coached by his father, who coached other athletes to elite status. He achieved the ranking of fourth on the all-time World Junior list of long jumpers, many colleges tried to recruit Lewis, and he chose to enroll at the University of Houston where Tom Tellez was coach. Tellez would thereafter remain Lewis coach for his entire career, days after graduating from high school in 1979, Lewis broke the high school long jump record with a leap of 8.13 m. By the end of 1979, Lewis was ranked fifth in the world for the jump, according to Track.
Colin Ray Jackson, CBE is a Welsh former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. His world record of 12.91 seconds for the 110m hurdles stood for over a decade, Jackson won his first major medal, a silver, in the 110 m hurdles, at the age of nineteen at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. He soon established himself on the scene, taking bronze at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics. After winning another silver in the 60 metres hurdles at the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships, he won European and Commonwealth gold medals in 1990. The 1993 season saw him reach the pinnacle of his sport, after a silver at the 1993 Indoor Worlds and this mark was unbeaten for almost thirteen years and remains the world championship record. Jackson helped the British 4×100 metres relay team to the silver medal. This period was perhaps Jacksons most successful – he had a streak of 44 races undefeated between 1993 and 1995, in addition to European and Commonwealth golds outdoors in 1994, he set another world record, running 7.30 seconds in the 60 m hurdles.
A double gold at the 1994 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 60 m hurdles, injury affected his 1995–1996 seasons and he finished only fourth at the 1996 Olympics. He returned to the podium in 1997 but took silver twice – behind Anier García at the Indoor World Championships. After winning the European Championships for a consecutive time in 1998 he became world champion indoors. He finished fifth at the 2000 Summer Olympics and his last major medals came in 2002, taking European indoor and outdoor gold, after a period of sports management and coaching, he now works as a sports commentator for athletics and television presenter. He has appeared in Strictly Come Dancing in 2005, as well as a number of entertainment and factual TV shows. Jackson, born in Cardiff, South Wales, is of Jamaican, Taino and he is the brother of actress Suzanne Packer who played Tess Bateman in the BBC One hospital drama Casualty. Jackson grew up in Birchgrove, attending Birchgrove Primary School and Llanedeyrn High School and he played football and cricket for the county and rugby union and basketball for his school and joined the athletics club Birchgrove Harriers, which nurtured his talent.
Frank Frankie Fredericks is a former track and field athlete from Namibia. Running in the 100 metres and 200 metres, he won four medals at the Olympic Games, making him Namibias first. He won medals at the World Championships, World Indoor Championships, All-Africa Games. He is the world indoor record-holder for 200 metres, with a time of 19.92 seconds set in 1996, Fredericks has broken 20 seconds for the 200 metres 24 times. He holds the third-fastest non-winning time for the 200 metres, in August 1996, Fredericks ran 19.68 seconds in the Olympic final in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the oldest man to have broken 20 seconds for the 200 metres, on 12 July 2002 in Rome, Fredericks won the 200 metres in a time of 19.99 seconds at the age of 34 years 283 days. He is currently serving as a member in the IAAF. On March 3,2017, Fredericks was implicated in the IAAF corruption scandal, born in Windhoek on 2 October 1967, Frankie Fredericks was awarded a scholarship at Brigham Young University in the US in 1987.
During his college career, Fredericks earned numerous All-American citations and won three NCAA championships, in 1990, after his country had become independent of South Africa, Fredericks could participate in international competition. At the World Championships in 1991, Fredericks won a medal in the 200 m, finishing behind Michael Johnson. The following year, at the Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics, Fredericks became Namibias first Olympic medalist when he finished second in both the 100 m and 200 m. He won the medal in the mens 100-meter dash, with a time of 10.02 seconds. In 1993, in Stuttgart, he became the nations first World Champion, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, he won gold in the 200 m and bronze in the 100 m. His time of 19.97 seconds in the 200 metres is the current Commonwealth Games record, at the 1995 World Championships 100 m, after crossing the line he immediately went to help his friend Linford Christie who pulled a muscle in the race and signalled for help. This act of kindness endeared him to many athletics fans, for the 1996 Summer Olympics, Fredericks was among the title favourites for both the 100 m and 200 m.
Linford Cicero Christie OBE is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter. He was the first European to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m and he is a former world indoor record holder over 200 metres, and a former European record holder in the 60 metres,100 m and 4 ×100 metres relay. Christie was born in Saint Andrew, where he was brought up by his grandmother, at the age of seven he followed his parents, who had emigrated to Acton, England, five years before. He was educated at Henry Compton Secondary School in Fulham, London and he competed in the very first London Youth Games in 1977 for the borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. He joined the Air Training Corps in 1978,336 Squadron and he did not take up athletics seriously until he was 19. Christies early track career was not promising and he failed to make the Great Britain team for the 1984 Summer Olympics, not even being included in the sprint relay squad. It was not until he began to work in earnest under the coaching of Ron Roddan that he began to fulfill his potential.
In 1986, he was the winner of the 100 m at the European Championships and finished second in the same event at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Christies time was 9.97 seconds, a new European record by 0.03 seconds and only the time anyone had ever broken the ten-second barrier. Christie faced a disciplinary hearing himself in Seoul because of a drug test for the banned stimulant pseudoephedrine after he ran in the heats of the 200 m. The hearing panel decided by a vote to give Christie the benefit of the doubt. In the absence of his great rival Lewis, Christie ran 9.96 s in the final, and at the age of 32 years 121 days became the oldest Olympic 100 m champion by four years 38 days. In 1993, he became the first man in history to hold the Olympic, European and he was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. After 1994, he was less successful, Christie was disqualified in the 1996 Olympic final after two false starts. He retired from international competition in 1997, although he continued to make appearances at invitation meetings.