Athletics

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
(Edmonton)

MEN

4x100m relay: United States (Mickey Grimes, Bernard Williams, Dennis Mitchell, Tim Montgomery) 37.96s 1, South Africa (Morne Nagel, Corne Du Plessis, Lee-Roy Newton, Mathew Quinn) 38.47 2, Trinidad and Tabago (Marc Burns, Ato Boldon, Jaycey Harper, Darrel Brown) 38.58 3, Australia 38.83 4, Japan 38.96 5, Ivory Coast 39.18 6, Poland 39.71 7, Brazil DNF.

4x400m relay: United States (Leonard Byrd, Antonio Pettigrew, Derrick Brew, Angelo Taylor) 2:57.54 1, Bahamas (Avard Moncur, Christopher Brown, Troy McIntosh, Timothy Munnings) 2:58.19 2, Jamaica (Brandon Simpson, Christopher Williams, Gregory Haughton, Danny McFarlane) 2:58.39 3, Poland 2:59.71 4, Brazil 3:01.09 5, Britain 3:01.26 6, Spain 3:02.24 7, Germany 3:03.52 8.

1500m: Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco) 3:30.68 1, Bernard Lagat (Kenya) 3:31.10 2, Driss Maazouzi (France) 3:31.54 3, William Chirchir (Kenya) 3:31.91 4, Reyes Estevez (Spain) 3:32.34 5, Jose Antonio Redolat (Spain) 3:34.29 6, Rui Silva (Portugal) 3:35.74 7, Abdelkader Hachlaf (Morocco) 3:36.54 8, Gert-Jan Liefers (Netherlands) 3:36.99 9, Paul McMullen (United States) 3:39.35 10.

Javelin: Jan Zelezny (Czech Republic) 92.78m 1, Aki Parviainen (Finland) 91.32 2, Konstadinos Gatsioudis (Greece) 89.94 3, Breaux Greer (United States) 87.00 4, Raymond Hecht (Germany) 86.46 5, Boris Henry (Germany) 85.52 6, Sergey Makarov (Russia) 83.64 7, Eriks Rags (Latvia) 82.80 8, Rongxiang Li (China) 81.78 9, Alexandr Ivanov (Russia) 80.54 10.

WOMEN

4x400m relay: Jamaica (Sandie Richards, Catherine Scott, Debbie-Ann Parris, Lorraine Fenton) 3:20.65 1, Germany (Florence Ekpo-Umoh, Shanta Ghosh, Claudia Marx, Grit Breuer) 3:21.97 2, Russia (Irina Rosikhina, Yuliya Nosova, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Olesya Zykina) 3:24.92 3, United States 3:26.88 4, Britain 3:26.94 5, France 3:27.54 6, Poland 3:27.78 7, Canada 3:27.93 8.

800m: Maria Mutola (Mozambique) 1:57.17 1, Stephanie Graf (Austria) 1:57.20 2, Letitia Vriesde (Surinam) 1:57.35 3, Faith Macharia (Kenya) 1:58.98 4, Diane Cummins (Canada) 1:59.49 5, Kelly Holmes (Britain) 1:59.76 6, Mayte Martinez (Spain) 2:00.09 7, Ivonne Teichmann (Germany) 2:04.33 8.

High jump: Hestrie Cloete (South Africa) 2m 1, Inha Babakova (Ukraine) 2m 2, Kajsa Bergqvist (Sweden) 1.97 3, Venelina Veneva (Bulgaria) 1.97 4, Vita Palamar (Ukraine) 1.94 5, Blanka Vlasic (Croatia) 1.94 6, Monica Iagar-Dinescu (Romania) 1.90 7, Dora Gyorffy (Hungary) 1.90 7, Oana Musunoiu-Pantelimon (Romania) 1.90 9, Yelena Gulyayeva (Russia) 1.90 10, Amy Acuff (United States) 1.90 10.

Marathon: Lidia Simon (Romania) 2:26:01 1, Reiko Tosa (Japan) 2:26:06 2, Svetlana Zakharova (Russia) 2:26:18 3, Yoko Shibui (Japan) 2:26:33 4, Sonja Krolik (Germany) 2:28:17 5, Florence Barsosio (Kenya) 2:28:36 6, Shitaye Gemeche (Ethiopia) 2:28:40 7, Lyubov Morgunova (Russia) 2:28:54 8, Kazumi Matsuo (Japan) 2:29:57 9, Constantina Dita (Romania) 2:30:38 10.