7th IAAF World Indoor Championships
Dates	5 March–7 March
Host city	Maebashi, Japan
Venue	Green Dome Maebashi
Events	28
Participation	451 athletes from 115 nations
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The 7th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in the Green Dome Maebashi stadium in Maebashi, Japan from March 5 to March 7, 1999. It was the first time the Championships were staged outside Europe or North America. Primo Nebiolo, president of the IAAF, characterized the championships as "the greatest ever". There were a total number of 487 participating athletes from 115 countries.

Doping disqualifications

Four medalists were disqualified for doping; Rostislav Dimitrov of Bulgaria was stripped of the triple jump silver, Inger Miller of the USA was stripped of the 60 metre bronze, Vita Pavlysh of Ukraine was stripped of the shot put gold and Irina Korzhanenko of Russia was stripped of the shot put silver.^[1]

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Maurice Greene  United States	6.42 (CR)	Tim Harden  United States	6.43 (PB)	Jason Gardener  Great Britain	6.46 (AR)
200 m details	Frankie Fredericks  Namibia	20.10 (CR)	Obadele Thompson  Barbados	20.26 (AR)	Kevin Little  United States	20.48
400 m details	Jamie Baulch  Great Britain	45.73	Milton Campbell  United States	45.99	Alejandro Cárdenas  Mexico	46.02 (NR)
800 m details	Johan Botha  South Africa	1:45.47	Wilson Kipketer  Denmark	1:45.49	Nico Motchebon  Germany	1:45.74
1,500 m details	Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia	3:33.77 (CR)	Laban Rotich  Kenya	3:33.98	Andrés Manuel Díaz  Spain	3:34.46
3,000 m details	Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia	7:53.57	Paul Bitok  Kenya	7:53.79	Million Wolde  Ethiopia	7:53.85
60 m hurdles details	Colin Jackson  Great Britain	7.38 (CR)	Reggie Torian  United States	7.40	Falk Balzer  Germany	7.44
4 × 400 m relay details	United States (USA) Andre Morris Dameon Johnson Deon Minor Milton Campbell	3:02.83 (WR)	Poland (POL) Piotr Haczek Jacek Bocian Piotr Rysiukiewicz Robert Maćkowiak	3:03.01 (AR)	Great Britain (GBR) Allyn Condon Solomon Wariso Adrian Patrick Jamie Baulch	3:03.20 (NR)
High jump details	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba	2.36	Vyacheslav Voronin  Russia	2.36	Charles Austin  United States	2.33
Pole vault details	Jean Galfione  France	6.00 (CR)	Jeff Hartwig  United States	5.95 (AR)	Danny Ecker  Germany	5.85
Long jump details	Iván Pedroso  Cuba	8.62 (CR)	Yago Lamela  Spain	8.56 (AR)	Erick Walder  United States	8.30
Triple jump details	Charles Friedek  Germany	17.18 (PB)	LaMark Carter  United States1	16.98	Zsolt Czingler  Hungary	16.98
Shot put details	Aleksandr Bagach  Ukraine	21.41	John Godina  United States	21.06	Yuriy Bilonog  Ukraine	20.89
Heptathlon details	Sebastian Chmara  Poland	6386 (WL)	Erki Nool  Estonia	6374 (NR)	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	6319 (NR)

¹ Rostislav Dimitrov of Bulgaria originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified for doping.^[1]

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details *	Ekaterini Thanou  Greece	6.96	Gail Devers  United States	7.02	Philomena Mensah  Canada	7.07
200 m details	Ionela Târlea  Romania	22.39	Svetlana Goncharenko  Russia	22.69	Pauline Davis  Bahamas	22.70
400 m details	Grit Breuer  Germany	50.80	Falilat Ogunkoya  Nigeria	51.25	Jearl Miles Clark  United States	51.45
800 m details	Ludmila Formanová  Czech Republic	1:56.90 (CR)	Maria Mutola  Mozambique	1:57.17	Natalya Tsyganova  Russia	1:57.47 (NR)
1,500 m details	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	4:03.23 (CR)	Violeta Beclea  Romania	4:03.53 (PB)	Lidia Chojecka  Poland	4:05.86 (NR)
3,000 m details	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	8:36.42	Zahra Ouaziz  Morocco	8:38.43 (AR)	Regina Jacobs  United States	8:39.14 (AR)
60 m hurdles details	Olga Shishigina  Kazakhstan	7.86	Glory Alozie  Nigeria	7.87	Keturah Anderson  Canada	7.90
4 × 400 m relay details	Russia (RUS) Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Natalya Nazarova	3:24.25 (WR)	Australia (AUS) Susan Andrews Tania Van Heer Tamsyn Lewis Cathy Freeman	3:26.87 (AR)	United States (USA) Monique Hennagan Michelle Collins Zundra Feagin Shanelle Porter	3:27.59 (AR)
High jump details	Khristina Kalcheva  Bulgaria	1.99	Zuzana Hlavoňová  Czech Republic	1.96	Tisha Waller  United States	1.96
Pole vault details	Nastja Ryjikh  Germany	4.50 (CR)	Vala Flosadóttir  Iceland	4.45 (NR)	Nicole Rieger  Germany	4.35
					Zsuzsanna Szabó  Hungary
Long jump details	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	6.86 (PB)	Shana Williams  United States	6.82 (PB)	Iva Prandzheva  Bulgaria	6.78
Triple jump details	Ashia Hansen  Great Britain	15.02 (WL)	Iva Prandzheva  Bulgaria	14.94 (NR)	Šárka Kašpárková  Czech Republic	14.87 (NR)
Shot put details *	Svetlana Krivelyova  Russia	19.08	Krystyna Danilczyk  Poland	19.00	Teri Steer  United States	18.86
Pentathlon details	Le Shundra Nathan  United States	4753	Irina Belova  Russia	4691	Urszula Włodarczyk  Poland	4596

• American sprinter Inger Miller won the bronze but failed a post-race drug test (excessive caffeine) and was stripped of the medal.^[1][2]
• Vita Pavlysh of Ukraine failed a drug test and was stripped of her shot put gold medal.^[1]
• Irina Korzhanenko of Russia was stripped of the shot put silver.^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	8	8	19
2	Russia (RUS)	3	3	1	7
3	Romania (ROM)	3	1	0	4
4	Germany (GER)	3	0	4	7
5	Great Britain (GBR)	3	0	2	5
6	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	0	1	3
7	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	0	2
8	Poland (POL)	1	2	2	5
9	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	2	4
10	Bulgaria (BGR)	1	1	1	3
11	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
12	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
	Namibia (NAM)	1	0	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	1	0	0	1
17	Kenya (KEN)	0	2	0	2
	Nigeria (NGA)	0	2	0	2
19	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
20	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Barbados (BRB)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Iceland (ISL)	0	1	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	1	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	0	1	0	1
27	Canada (CAN)	0	0	2	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
29	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
Totals (30 entries)		28	28	29	85

Participating nations