17th IAAF World Indoor Championships
Dates	1–4 March
Host city	Birmingham, United Kingdom
Venue	Arena Birmingham
Events	26
Participation	554 athletes from 134 nations
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The 17th IAAF World Indoor Championships was held from 1 to 4 March 2018 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. This was the city's second hosting of the event as it previously did so in 2003.

Bidding process

Birmingham bid for the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships as well as the 2018 event. Portland was selected unanimously to host the 2016 event with Birmingham being the only other bidder.^[1] With Portland then out of the running for the 2018 event Birmingham was selected as the host of the 2018 event.^[2] The reason Portland was selected for 2016 and Birmingham for 2018 is that the IAAF wanted more time between events in the UK with London hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics as well as the 2017 World Championships in Athletics along with Cardiff hosting the 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.^[3] Portland would become the beginning of a similar sequence for the US, with the 2021 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon and the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Venue

The event took place at the National Indoor Arena with seating for 8,000 spectators.^[4]

Schedule

All dates are GMT (UTC±0)

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Entry standards

The qualification period for all events runs from 1 January 2017 to 19 February 2018 (midnight Monaco time), except for the Combined Events where the qualification period runs from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017 and the five best athletes from the 2018 Indoor Lists (as at 12 February 2018). Twelve athletes will be invited in the Heptathlon and in the Pentathlon as follows: the winner of the 2017 Combined Events Challenge. One athlete which may be invited at the discretion of the IAAF. In total no more than two male and two female athletes from any one Member will be invited. Upon refusals or cancellations, the invitations shall be extended to the next ranked athletes in the same lists respecting the above conditions.^[7]

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details[8]	Christian Coleman  United States	6.37 CR	Su Bingtian  China	6.42 AR	Ronnie Baker  United States	6.44
400 metres details[9]	Pavel Maslák  Czech Republic	45.47 SB	Michael Cherry  United States	45.84	Deon Lendore  Trinidad and Tobago	46.37
800 metres details[10]	Adam Kszczot  Poland	1:47.47	Drew Windle  United States	1:47.99	Saúl Ordóñez  Spain	1:48.01
1500 metres details[11]	Samuel Tefera  Ethiopia	3:58.19	Marcin Lewandowski  Poland	3:58.39	Abdelaati Iguider  Morocco	3:58.43
3000 metres details[12]	Yomif Kejelcha  Ethiopia	8:14.41	Selemon Barega  Ethiopia	8:15.59	Bethwell Birgen  Kenya	8:15.70
60 metres hurdles details[13]	Andrew Pozzi  Great Britain	7.46 SB	Jarret Eaton  United States	7.47	Aurel Manga  France	7.54
4 × 400 metres relay details[14]	Poland (POL) Karol Zalewski Rafał Omelko Łukasz Krawczuk Jakub Krzewina Patryk Adamczyk*	3:01.77 WR	United States (USA) Fred Kerley Michael Cherry Aldrich Bailey Vernon Norwood Marqueze Washington* Paul Dedewo*	3:01.97 SB	Belgium (BEL) Dylan Borlée Jonathan Borlée Jonathan Sacoor Kevin Borlée	3:02.51 NR
High jump details[15]	Danil Lysenko  Authorised Neutral Athletes	2.36 m	Mutaz Essa Barshim  Qatar	2.33 m	Mateusz Przybylko  Germany	2.29 m
Pole vault details[16]	Renaud Lavillenie  France	5.90 m	Sam Kendricks  United States	5.85 m	Piotr Lisek  Poland	5.85 m
Long jump details[17]	Juan Miguel Echevarría  Cuba	8.46 m WL	Luvo Manyonga  South Africa	8.44 m AR	Marquis Dendy  United States	8.42 m PB
Triple jump details[18]	Will Claye  United States	17.43 m WL	Almir dos Santos  Brazil	17.41 m PB	Nelson Évora  Portugal	17.40 m NR
Shot put details[19]	Tomas Walsh  New Zealand	22.31 m CR, AR	David Storl  Germany	21.44 m SB	Tomáš Staněk  Czech Republic	21.44 m
Heptathlon details[20]	Kevin Mayer  France	6348 pts WL	Damian Warner  Canada	6343 pts NR	Maicel Uibo  Estonia	6265 pts PB

• Note: * = Relay athletes who only ran in heats

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details[21]	Murielle Ahouré  Ivory Coast	6.97 WL, NR	Marie-Josée Ta Lou  Ivory Coast	7.05 PB	Mujinga Kambundji  Switzerland	7.05
400 metres details[22]	Courtney Okolo  United States	50.55 PB	Shakima Wimbley  United States	51.47	Eilidh Doyle  Great Britain	51.60 SB
800 metres details[23]	Francine Niyonsaba  Burundi	1:58.31 WL, NR	Ajeé Wilson  United States	1:58.99 PB	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke  Great Britain	1:59.81 PB
1500 metres details[24]	Genzebe Dibaba  Ethiopia	4:05.27	Laura Muir  Great Britain	4:06.23	Sifan Hassan  Netherlands	4:07.26
3000 metres details[25]	Genzebe Dibaba  Ethiopia	8:45.05	Sifan Hassan  Netherlands	8:45.68 SB	Laura Muir  Great Britain	8:45.78 SB
60 metres hurdles details[26]	Kendra Harrison  United States	7.70 CR, =AR	Christina Manning  United States	7.79	Nadine Visser  Netherlands	7.84
4 × 400 metres relay details[27]	United States (USA) Quanera Hayes Georganne Moline Shakima Wimbley Courtney Okolo Joanna Atkins* Raevyn Rogers*	3:23.85 CR	Poland (POL) Justyna Święty-Ersetic Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz Aleksandra Gaworska Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik Joanna Linkiewicz* Natalia Kaczmarek*	3:26.09 NR	Great Britain (GBR) Meghan Beesley Hannah Williams Amy Allcock Zoey Clark Anyika Onuora*	3:29.38 SB
High jump details[28]	Mariya Lasitskene  Authorised Neutral Athletes	2.01 m	Vashti Cunningham  United States	1.93 m	Alessia Trost  Italy	1.93 m SB
Pole vault details[29]	Sandi Morris  United States	4.95 m CR, WL	Anzhelika Sidorova  Authorised Neutral Athletes	4.90 m PB	Katerina Stefanidi  Greece	4.80 m
Long jump details[30]	Ivana Španović  Serbia	6.96 WL	Brittney Reese  United States	6.89 m SB	Sosthene Moguenara-Taroum  Germany	6.85 m SB
Triple jump details[31]	Yulimar Rojas  Venezuela	14.63 m WL	Kimberly Williams  Jamaica	14.48 m PB	Ana Peleteiro  Spain	14.40 m PB
Shot put details[32]	Anita Márton  Hungary	19.62 m WL, NR	Danniel Thomas-Dodd  Jamaica	19.22 m NR	Gong Lijiao  China	19.08 m SB
Pentathlon details[33]	Katarina Johnson-Thompson  Great Britain	4750 pts SB	Ivona Dadic  Austria	4700 SB	Yorgelis Rodríguez  Cuba	4637 pts NR

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	6	10	2	18
2	Ethiopia (ETH)	4	1	0	5
3	Poland (POL)	2	2	1	5
4	Great Britain (GBR)*	2	1	4	7
–	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)[1]	2	1	0	3
5	France (FRA)	2	0	1	3
6	Ivory Coast (CIV)	1	1	0	2
7	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	1	2
	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	1	2
9	Burundi (BDI)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
	Serbia (SRB)	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	1	0	0	1
14	Jamaica (JAM)	0	2	0	2
15	Germany (GER)	0	1	2	3
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	2	3
17	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
18	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	0	1
23	Spain (ESP)	0	0	2	2
24	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Kenya (KEN)	0	0	1	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 entries)		26	26	26	78

Notes

^[1] IAAF does not include the three medals (2 gold, 1 silver) won by athletes competing as Authorised Neutral Athletes in their official medal table.^[34]

Participating nations

In brackets the number of athletes participating.

Disqualifications

This championship was notable for the large number of disqualifications, primarily lane violations (IAAF rule 163.3(a)). One entire heat of the Men's 400 metres was disqualified, a World Championship first. Some athletes appeared to have difficulty with the steep banking of the track. Accusations were raised about the heavy handedness of the officiating and inconsistencies relative to similar acts committed by star British athletes at the 2017 Outdoor World Championships held in London just 5 and a half months earlier.^[36]