The 2nd IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Budapest Sportcsarnok in Budapest, Hungary from March 3 to March 5, 1989. There were a total number of 373 participating athletes from 62 countries.

Results

Men

1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Andrés Simón  Cuba	6.52	John Myles-Mills  Ghana	6.59	Pierfrancesco Pavoni  Italy	6.61
200 metres details	John Regis  Great Britain	20.54 (CR)	Ade Mafe  Great Britain	20.87	Kevin Little  United States	21.12
400 metres details	Antonio McKay  United States	45.59 (CR)	Ian Morris  Trinidad and Tobago	46.09	Cayetano Cornet  Spain	46.40
800 metres details	Paul Ereng  Kenya	1:44.84 (WR)	José Luíz Barbosa  Brazil	1:45.55	Tonino Viali  Italy	1:46.95
1500 metres details	Marcus O'Sullivan  Ireland	3:36.64 (CR)	Hauke Fuhlbrügge  East Germany	3:37.80	Jeff Atkinson  United States	3:38.12
3000 metres details	Saïd Aouita  Morocco	7:47.94 (CR)	José Luis González  Spain	7:48.66	Dieter Baumann  West Germany	7:50.47
60 metres hurdles details	Roger Kingdom  United States	7.43 (CR)	Colin Jackson  Great Britain	7.45	Igors Kazanovs  Soviet Union	7.59
5000 metres walk details	Mikhail Shchennikov  Soviet Union	18:27.10 (CR)	Roman Mrázek  Czechoslovakia	18:28.90	Frants Kostyukevich  Soviet Union	18:34.07
High jump details	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba	2.43 (WR)	Dietmar Mögenburg  West Germany	2.35	Patrik Sjöberg  Sweden	2.35
Pole vault details	Radion Gataullin  Soviet Union	5.85 (CR)	Grigoriy Yegorov  Soviet Union	5.80	Joe Dial  United States	5.70
Long jump details	Larry Myricks  United States	8.37 (CR)	Dietmar Haaf  West Germany	8.17	Mike Conley  United States	8.11
Triple jump details	Mike Conley  United States	17.65 (CR)	Jorge Reyna  Cuba	17.41	Juan Miguel López  Cuba	17.28
Shot put details	Ulf Timmermann  East Germany	21.75	Randy Barnes  United States	21.28	Georg Andersen  Norway	20.98 (NR)

Women

1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Nelli Fiere-Cooman  Netherlands	7.05 (CR)	Gwen Torrence  United States	7.07	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	7.10
200 metres details	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	22.34 (CR)	Grace Jackson  Jamaica	22.95	Natalya Kovtun  Soviet Union	23.28
400 metres details	Helga Arendt  West Germany	51.52 (CR)	Diane Dixon  United States	51.77	Jillian Richardson  Canada	52.02
800 metres details	Christine Wachtel  East Germany	1:59.24 (CR)	Tatyana Grebenchuk  Soviet Union	1:59.53	Ellen Kiessling  East Germany	1:59.68
1500 metres details	Doina Melinte  Romania	4:04.79 (CR)	Svetlana Kitova  Soviet Union	4:05.71	Yvonne Mai  East Germany	4:06.09
3000 metres details	Elly van Hulst  Netherlands	8:33.82 (WR)	Liz McColgan  Great Britain	8:34.80	Margareta Keszeg  Romania	8:48.70
60 metres hurdles details	Yelizaveta Chernyshova  Soviet Union	7.82 (CR)	Lyudmila Narozhilenko  Soviet Union	7.83	Cornelia Oschkenat  East Germany	7.86
3000 metres walk details	Kerry Saxby  Australia	12:01.65 (CR)	Beate Anders  East Germany	12:07.73	Ileana Salvador  Italy	12:11.33
High jump details	Stefka Kostadinova  Bulgaria	2.02	Tamara Bykova  Soviet Union	2.02	Heike Redetzky  West Germany	1.94
Long jump details	Galina Chistyakova  Soviet Union	6.98	Marieta Ilcu  Romania	6.86	Larisa Berezhnaya  Soviet Union	6.82
Shot put details	Claudia Losch  West Germany	20.45	Huang Zhihong  China	20.25	Christa Wiese  East Germany	19.75

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	5	4	13
2	United States (USA)	4	3	4	11
3	East Germany (GDR)	2	2	4	8
4	West Germany (FRG)	2	2	2	6
5	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	1	4
6	Netherlands (NED)	2	0	0	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	1	3	0	4
8	Jamaica (JAM)	1	1	1	3
	Romania (ROU)	1	1	1	3
10	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
	Kenya (KEN)	1	0	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	0	1
15	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
16	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Ghana (GHA)	0	1	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	1	0	1
21	Italy (ITA)	0	0	3	3
22	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		24	24	24	72

Participating nations