Athletics at the 2001 Goodwill Games

Dates	4–7 September
Host city	Brisbane, Australia
Venue	ANZ Stadium
Events	44
Participation	337 athletes from 51 nations
Records set	1 world record 7 Games records
← 1998 New York 2001 Goodwill Games

At the 2001 Goodwill Games, the athletics events were held at the ANZ Stadium in Brisbane, Australia from 4–7 September. A total of 44 events were contested, with 22 events each for male and female athletes.^[1]

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Olimpiada Ivanova	20,000 metres track walk	Russia	1:26:52.3	WR
Key:0000WR — World record • AR — Area record • GR — Games record • NR — National record

Medal summary

Main article: Athletics at the 2001 Goodwill Games – Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Dwain Chambers (GBR)	10.11	Tim Montgomery (USA)	10.27	Matt Shirvington (AUS)	10.30
200 metres	Shawn Crawford (USA)	20.17	Christopher Williams (JAM)	20.38	Joshua J. Johnson (USA)	20.54
400 metres	Leonard Byrd (USA)	45.02	Greg Haughton (JAM)	45.31	Avard Moncur (BAH)	45.56
800 metres	William Yiampoy (KEN)	1:46.49	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana (BDI)	1:46.79	Wilfred Bungei (KEN)	1:47.15
One mile	Noah Ngeny (KEN)	3:56.64	Kevin Sullivan (CAN)	3:56.81	Laban Rotich (KEN)	3:56.88
5000 metres	Paul Bitok (KEN)	15:26.10	Luke Kipkosgei (KEN)	15:26.61	John Kibowen (KEN)	15:26.63
10,000 metres	Assefa Mezgebu (ETH)	28:06.48	Benjamin Maiyo (KEN)	28:06.80	Albert Chepkurui (KEN)	28:06.86
110 metre hurdles	Allen Johnson (USA)	13.16	Anier García (CUB)	13.20	Larry Wade (USA)	13.46
400 metre hurdles	Félix Sánchez (DOM)	48.47	Llewellyn Herbert (RSA)	48.93	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily (KSA)	48.94
3000 metre steeplechase	Brahim Boulami (MAR)	8:17.73	Reuben Kosgei (KEN)	8:18.63	Stephen Cherono (KEN)	8:19.98
4 × 100 metre relay	Great Britain (GBR) Jonathan Barbour Christian Malcolm Marlon Devonish Dwain Chambers	38.71	Australia (AUS) Matt Shirvington Paul Di Bella Steve Brimacombe Adam Basil	38.92	Jamaica (JAM) Maurice Wignall Julien Dunkley Raymond Stewart Christopher Williams	39.12
4 × 400 metre relay^[2]	Jamaica (JAM) Michael McDonald Danny McFarlane Ian Weakley Michael Blackwood	3:01.57	Bahamas (BAH) Tim Munnings Troy McIntosh Carl Oliver Avard Moncur	3:01.67	Poland (POL) Rafał Wieruszewski Jacek Bocian Filip Walotka Paweł Januszewski	3:04.79
20,000 m track walk	Nathan Deakes (AUS)	1:19:48.1	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	1:19:52.0	Roman Rasskazov (RUS)	1:21:09.0
High jump	Stefan Holm (SWE)	2.33	Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS)	2.31	Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS)	2.31
Pole vault	Tim Mack (USA)	5.80	Aleksandr Averbukh (ISR)	5.80	Dmitri Markov (AUS)	5.75
Long jump	James Beckford (JAM)	8.16	Hussein Taher Al-Sabee (KSA)	8.07	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	7.97
Triple jump	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	17.26	Christian Olsson (SWE)	16.85	LaMark Carter (USA)	16.83
Shot put	Adam Nelson (USA)	20.91	John Godina (USA)	20.76	Manuel Martínez (ESP)	20.44
Discus throw	Dmitriy Shevchenko (RUS)	67.84	Frantz Kruger (RSA)	66.07	Virgilijus Alekna (LTU)	63.53
Hammer throw	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	82.94	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	80.71	Balázs Kiss (HUN)	79.51
Javelin throw	Jan Železný (CZE)	87.52	Breaux Greer (USA)	85.86	Ēriks Rags (LAT)	84.68
Decathlon	Tomáš Dvořák (CZE)	8514	Tom Pappas (USA)	8420	Erki Nool (EST)	8323

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Marion Jones (USA)	10.84	Zhanna Pintusevich-Block (UKR)	11.01	Chandra Sturrup (BAH)	11.13
200 metres	Debbie Ferguson (BAH)	22.80	Juliet Campbell (JAM)	23.17	Myriam Léonie Mani (CMR)	23.18
400 metres	Ana Guevara (MEX)	50.32	Lorraine Fenton (JAM)	50.76	Amy Mbacké Thiam (SEN)	51.25
800 metres	Maria Mutola (MOZ)	1:58.76	Kelly Holmes (GBR)	1:59.27	Stephanie Graf (AUT)	2:00.93
One mile	Violeta Szekely (ROM)	4:38.03	Tatyana Tomashova (RUS)	4:38.13	Carla Sacramento (POR)	4:39.18
5000 metres	Olga Yegorova (RUS)	15:12.22	Berhane Adere (ETH)	15:12.97	Kathy Butler (GBR)	15:17.96
10,000 metres	Derartu Tulu (ETH)	31:48.19	Ayelech Worku (ETH)	31:48.57	Susie Power (AUS)	31:50.36
100 metre hurdles	Gail Devers (USA)	12.61	Jenny Adams (USA)	12.87	Anjanette Kirkland (USA)	12.92
400 metre hurdles	Tatyana Tereshchuk (UKR)	54.47	Tonja Buford-Bailey (USA)	54.75	Yuliya Nosova (RUS)	55.27
3000 metre steeplechase	Melissa Rollison (AUS)	9:30.70	Irene Limika (KEN)	9:39.65	Yekaterina Volkova (RUS)	9:41.54
4 × 100 metre relay	World Select team Glory Alozie (NGA) Mercy Nku (NGA) Myriam Léonie Mani (CMR) Zhanna Pintusevich-Block (UKR)	42.95	United States (USA) Jenny Adams Kelli White Inger Miller Chryste Gaines	42.98	Jamaica (JAM) Astia Walker Juliet Campbell Beverly McDonald Merlene Frazer	43.13
4 × 400 metre relay	United States (USA) Jearl Miles Clark Monique Hennagan Michelle Collins Suziann Reid	3:24.63	Jamaica (JAM) Sandie Richards Catherine Scott Debbie-Ann Parris Lorraine Fenton	3:24.87	World Select team Daimí Pernía Zulia Calatayud Kaltouma Nadjina Ana Guevara	3:28.07
20,000 metres track walk	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:26:52.3 WR^[3]	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	1:27:49.3	Eva Pérez (ESP)	1:32:22.4
High jump	Hestrie Cloete (RSA)	2.00	Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)	1.97	Amy Acuff (USA) Vita Palamar (UKR)	1.93
Pole vault	Stacy Dragila (USA)	4.55	Svetlana Feofanova (RUS)	4.45	Tatiana Grigorieva (AUS)	4.45
Long jump	Maurren Maggi (BRA)	6.94	Bronwyn Thompson (AUS)	6.88	Tatyana Kotova (RUS)	6.84
Triple jump	Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)	14.58	Tereza Marinova (BUL)	14.37	Olena Hovorova (UKR)	14.25
Shot put	Larisa Peleshenko (RUS)	18.65	Yumileidi Cumbá (CUB)	18.41	Krystyna Zabawska (POL)	18.23
Discus throw	Ellina Zvereva (BLR)	66.36	Natalya Sadova (RUS)	64.11	Franka Dietzsch (GER)	62.59
Hammer throw	Kamila Skolimowska (POL)	70.31	Olga Kuzenkova (RUS)	69.98	Manuela Montebrun (FRA)	69.80
Javelin throw	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	66.14	Nikola Tomecková (CZE)	64.70	Mikaela Ingberg (FIN)	60.68
Heptathlon	Natalya Roshchupkina (RUS)	6373	Yelena Prokhorova (RUS)	6352	Natalya Sazanovich (BLR)	6323

Medal table

* Host nation (Australia)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	9	5	7	21
2	Russia (RUS)	5	7	7	19
3	Kenya (KEN)	3	4	5	12
4	United Kingdom (UKB)	3	1	1	5
5	Cuba (CUB)	2	2	0	4
5	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	2	0	4
7	Australia (AUS)*	2	1	4	7
8	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	1	0	3
8	South Africa (SAF)	2	1	0	3
10	Jamaica (JAM)	1	8	0	9
11	Poland (POL)	1	2	1	4
12	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	0	3
13	Bahamas (BAH)	1	1	2	4
13	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	2	4
15	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	1	2
15	World Select team	1	0	1	2
17	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
	Dominican Republic (DOM)	1	0	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
24	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Burundi (BDI)	0	1	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
30	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	2	2
30	Spain (ESP)	0	0	2	2
32	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Cameroon (CMR)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Senegal (SEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (40 entries)		44	44	44	132

Participation

Australia (52)
Austria (1)
Bahamas (6)
Belarus (8)
Bermuda (1)
Brazil (2)
Bulgaria (2)
Burundi (2)
Cameroon (1)
Canada (4)
Chad (1)
Croatia (1)
Cuba (13)
Czech Republic (3)
Dominican Republic (1)
Estonia (3)
Ethiopia (8)
Finland (3)
France (2)
Germany (4)
Ghana (1)
Great Britain (11)
Haiti (1)
Hungary (1)
Israel (1)
Italy (2)
Jamaica (21)
Japan (1)
Kenya (21)
Latvia (1)
Lithuania (1)
Mauritius (2)
Mexico (1)
Morocco (2)
Mozambique (1)
Netherlands (2)
New Zealand (2)
Nigeria (1)
Poland (11)
Portugal (1)
Romania (1)
Russia (37)
Saudi Arabia (3)
Senegal (1)
Slovenia (2)
South Africa (3)
Spain (6)
Sweden (3)
Trinidad and Tobago (1)
Ukraine (6)
United States (71)

References

General

Goodwill Games results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2009-07-30.
2001 Summer Goodwill Games - Athletics

Specific

^ 2001 Goodwill Games Sports Archived May 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Goodwill Games. Retrieved on 2009-07-30.
^ The United States team featuring Leonard Byrd, Derrick Brew, Antonio Pettigrew and Michael Johnson had originally finished first with the result of 3:00.52 but later after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs all relay results between 1997 and 2003 in which he participated were nulled. It is unknown if the medals were re-awarded.
^ Ivanova sets first track world record at Goodwill Games. Sports Illustrated (2001-09-06). Retrieved on 2009-07-30.

2001 in the sport of athletics

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World

Regional

Championships	Arab Balkan Outdoor Indoor Central American and Caribbean Melanesian South American
Games	Bolivarian Games Central American Games East Asian Games Games of the Small States of Europe Goodwill Games Island Games Jeux de la Francophonie Maccabiah Games Mediterranean Games Southeast Asian Games South Pacific Mini Games
Cross country	Asian Balkan European South American
Other	European Cup 10,000 m Combined Events Mountain Running Race Walking Throwing Pan American Race Walking
Age group	African U20 Asian U20 CARIFTA Games Central American U20/U18 Central American and Caribbean U14 European U20 U23 Youth Olympic Festival Leeward Islands U20 Pan American U20 South American U20

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