List of medal sweeps at the World Athletics Championships
A podium sweep in athletics is when one team wins all available medals in a single event in a sporting event. At the highest level, that would be when one nation wins all the medals in an athletics event at the World Championships in Athletics. In athletics the maximum number of entrants from a single country in most events is three, allowing in theory for athletes from the same country to finish in all three top places.
Men
Carl Lewis has been a part of four American sweeps. Kenya has swept the 3000 metres steeplechase three times, with Ezekiel Kemboi and Brimin Kipruto a part of two of them.
Championships | Event | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Ref | |||
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Athlete | Result | Athlete | Result | Athlete | Result | ||||
1983 Helsinki | 100 m details | ![]() | Carl Lewis | 10.07 | Calvin Smith | 10.21 | Emmit King | 10.24 | [1] |
Long jump details | ![]() | Carl Lewis | 8.55 | Jason Grimes | 8.29 | Mike Conley | 8.12 | [2] | |
1991 Tokyo | 100 m details | ![]() | Carl Lewis | 9.86 WR | Leroy Burrell | 9.88 | Dennis Mitchell | 9.91 | [3] |
Long jump details | ![]() | Mike Powell | 8.95 WR | Carl Lewis | 8.91 | Larry Myricks | 8.42 | [4] | |
1997 Athens | 3000 m st. details | ![]() | Wilson Boit Kipketer | 8:05.84 | Moses Kiptanui | 8:06.04 | Bernard Barmasai | 8:06.04 | [5] |
2001 Edmonton | 20 km walk details | ![]() | Roman Rasskazov | 1:20:31 | Ilya Markov | 1:20:33 | Viktor Burayev | 1:20:36 | [6] |
2003 Paris | 10,000 m details | ![]() | Kenenisa Bekele | 26:49.57 CR | Haile Gebrselassie | 26:50.77 | Sileshi Sihine | 27:01.44 | [7] |
2005 Helsinki | 200 m details | ![]() | Justin Gatlin | 20.04 | Wallace Spearmon | 20.20 | John Capel | 20.31 | [8] |
2007 Osaka | 400 m details | ![]() | Jeremy Wariner | 43.45 | LaShawn Merritt | 43.96 | Angelo Taylor | 44.32 | [9] |
3000 m st. details | ![]() | Brimin Kipruto | 8:13.82 | Ezekiel Kemboi | 8:16.94 | Richard Mateelong | 8:17.59 | [10] | |
2015 Beijing | 3000 m st. details | ![]() | Ezekiel Kemboi | 8:11.28 | Conseslus Kipruto | 8:12.38 | Brimin Kipruto | 8:12.54 | |
2022 Eugene | 100 m details | ![]() | Fred Kerley | 9.86 | Marvin Bracy | 9.88 | Trayvon Bromell | 9.88 | |
200 m details | ![]() | Noah Lyles | 19.31 | Kenny Bednarek | 19.77 | Erriyon Knighton | 19.80 | ||
Shot put details | ![]() | Ryan Crouser | 22.94 m CR | Joe Kovacs | 22.89 m | Josh Awotunde | 22.29 m |
Women
Sweeps have only occurred eleven times in women's events. The 10,000 metres is the only event to have had three occurrences, in 2001, 2005 and 2011. Ethiopia had most sweeps, at four. Tirunesh Dibaba and her sister Ejegayehu Dibaba were both a part of two of those sweeps, another sister Genzebe Dibaba and cousin Derartu Tulu gave the family participation in all four Ethiopian sweeps. Tirunesh's husband, Sileshi Sihine, was a part of Ethiopia's men's sweep.
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Butler 2015, pp. 79–80
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 152
- ^ Butler 2015, pp. 80–81
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 153
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 128
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 193
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 119
- ^ Butler 2015, pp. 91–92
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 98
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 130
- ^ Butler 2015, pp. 308–309
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 248
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 254
- ^ Butler 2015, pp. 250–251
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 255
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 285
- ^ Butler 2015, pp. 255–256
- ^ Butler 2015, p. 261
References
- Butler, Mark, ed. (2015). IAAF Statistics Book – IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 (PDF). Monaco: IAAF Communications Department.
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