2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships

13th IAAF World Indoor Championships
13th IAAF World Indoor Championships
	Official competition logo
Dates	12 March–14 March
Host city	Doha, Qatar
Venue	Aspire Dome
Events	26
Participation	585 athletes from ; 146 nations
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The 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was held between 12 and 14 March at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar. The championships was the first of six IAAF World Athletics Series events to take place in 2010.

Bidding and organisation

The IAAF announced on March 25, 2007, at an IAAF Council meeting in Mombasa, Kenya that it had received bids from Turkey and Qatar to host the championships. On November 25, in a Council meeting in Monaco, the IAAF announced that Doha would host the championships.^[1] This was the first time that a world athletics championship was held in the Middle-East and the second time the World Indoor Championships was held outside of Europe or North America (after the 1999 Championships in Japan).^[2]

The venue for the event was the indoor arena located within Doha's Aspire Zone – the ASPIRE Dome, which has previously hosted indoor athletics for the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships.^[3] The World Indoor Championships was the first of two significant athletics events to take place in Doha in 2010 – the inaugural 2010 IAAF Diamond League will begin with the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix meeting in May.^[4]

Prior to the championships, the Qatar organising committee held the Doha Indoor Athletics Meeting for Juniors as a test event for the venue. The meeting began on 26 February and featured junior athletes from 11 countries within the region competing in a total of 13 events.^[5]

The competition set a new high for the number of nations at the World Indoor Championships: 150 countries sent teams to the championships, with a total of 374 men and 283 women athletes entered to compete.^[2]

The competition mascot was an anthropomorphic caracal named Saham – the caracal is a medium-sized cat which is native to the Middle-East.^[6] The inclusion of a mascot follows on from the mainstream success of the 2009 World Championships in Athletics mascot – Berlino the Bear.^[7]

The IAAF extended live audio and video coverage of the championships to the internet for certain countries,^[8] including a deal with IEC in Sports which saw events available live and on-demand via Dailymotion. This was the first deal of its kind for the competition.^[9]

Drug tests

Anna Alminova, a Russian athlete who competed in the 1500 m failed a drug test while at the championships. She tested positive for pseudoephedrine, which was present in a cold medicine she was taking, and received a three-month ban.^[10]

Schedule

Legend
Key	P	Q	H	½	F
Value	Preliminary round	Qualifiers	Heats	Semifinals	Final

All dates are AST (UTC+3)

Men^[11]
Date →	12		13			14
Event ↓	M	A	M	A		M	A
60 m		H		1⁄2	F
400 m	H	1⁄2		F
800 m	H		1⁄2				F
1500 m		H		F
3000 m		H					F
60 m hurdles		H					1⁄2	F
4 × 400 m relay			H				F
Long jump		Q		F
Triple jump		Q					F
High jump		Q					F
Pole vault	Q			F
Shot put	Q			F
Heptathlon	F

Women^[11]
Date →	12		13			14
Event ↓	M	A	M	A		M	A
60 m		H					1⁄2	F
400 m	H	1⁄2		F
800 m	H						F
1500 m		H					F
3000 m		H		F
60 m hurdles		H		1⁄2	F
4 × 400 m relay							F
Long jump			Q				F
Triple jump	Q			F
High jump	Q			F
Pole vault		Q					F
Shot put			Q				F
Pentathlon			F

Results

Men

2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Dwain Chambers Great Britain	6.48 WL	Mike Rodgers United States	6.53	Daniel Bailey Antigua and Barbuda	6.57
400 m details	Chris Brown Bahamas	45.96 SB	William Collazo Cuba	46.31 PB	Jamaal Torrance United States	46.43
800 m details	Abubaker Kaki Sudan	1:46.23 SB	Boaz Kiplagat Lalang Kenya	1:46.39	Adam Kszczot Poland	1:46.69
1500 m details	Deresse Mekonnen Ethiopia	3:41.86	Abdalaati Iguider Morocco	3:41.96	Haron Keitany Kenya	3:42.32
3000 m details	Bernard Lagat United States	7:37.97 SB	Sergio Sánchez Spain	7:39.55	Sammy Alex Mutahi Kenya	7:39.90
60 m hurdles details	Dayron Robles Cuba	7.34 CR	Terrence Trammell United States	7.36 NR	David Oliver United States	7.44 PB
4 × 400 m relay details	United States Jamaal Torrance Greg Nixon Tavaris Tate Bershawn Jackson LeJerald Betters* Kerron Clement*	3:03.40 WL	Belgium Cedric van Branteghem Kévin Borlée Antoine Gillet Jonathan Borlée Nils Duerinck*	3:06.94 NR	Great Britain Conrad Williams Nigel Levine Christopher Clarke Richard Buck Luke Lennon-Ford*	3:07.52 SB
High jump details	Ivan Ukhov Russia	2.36	Yaroslav Rybakov Russia	2.31	Dusty Jonas United States	2.31
Pole vault details	Steven Hooker Australia	6.01 CR	Malte Mohr Germany	5.70	Alexander Straub Germany	5.65
Long jump details	Fabrice Lapierre Australia	8.17	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena South Africa	8.08 SB	Mitchell Watt Australia	8.05
Triple jump details	Teddy Tamgho France	17.90 WR	Yoandris Betanzos Cuba	17.69 PB	Arnie David Girat Cuba	17.36 SB
Shot put details	Christian Cantwell United States	21.83	Ralf Bartels Germany	21.44 PB	Dylan Armstrong Canada	21.39
Heptathlon details	Bryan Clay United States	6204	Trey Hardee United States	6184	Aleksey Drozdov Russia	6141
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Veronica Campbell-Brown Jamaica	7.00 PB	Carmelita Jeter United States	7.05	Ruddy Zang Milama Gabon Sheri-Ann Brooks Jamaica	7.14 7.14 PB
400 m details	Debbie Dunn United States	51.04	Vania Stambolova Bulgaria	51.50 SB	Amantle Montsho Botswana	52.53
800 m details	Mariya Savinova Russia	1:58.26 WL	Jenny Meadows Great Britain	1:58.43 NR	Alysia Johnson United States	1:59.60 PB
1500 m details	Kalkidan Gezahegne Ethiopia	4:08.14	Natalia Rodríguez Spain	4:08.30	Gelete Burka Ethiopia	4:08.39
3000 m details	Meseret Defar Ethiopia	8:51.17	Vivian Cheruiyot Kenya	8:51.85	Sentayehu Ejigu Ethiopia	8:52.08
60 m hurdles details	LoLo Jones United States	7.72 CR	Perdita Felicien Canada	7.86 SB	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep Canada	7.87
4 × 400 m relay details	United States Debbie Dunn DeeDee Trotter Natasha Hastings Allyson Felix	3:27.34 WL	Czech Republic Denisa Rosolová Jitka Bartoničková Zuzana Bergrová Zuzana Hejnová	3:30.05 SB	Great Britain Kim Wall Vicki Barr Perri Shakes-Drayton Lee McConnell	3:30.29 SB
High jump details	Blanka Vlašić Croatia	2.00	Ruth Beitia Spain	1.98	Chaunte Howard Lowe United States	1.98 SB
Pole vault details	Fabiana Murer Brazil	4.80	Svetlana Feofanova Russia	4.80 SB	Anna Rogowska Poland	4.70
Long jump details	Brittney Reese United States	6.70	Naide Gomes Portugal	6.67	Keila Costa Brazil	6.63 SB
Triple jump details	Olga Rypakova Kazakhstan	15.14 WL	Yargelis Savigne Cuba	14.86 SB	Anna Pyatykh Russia	14.64 SB
Shot put details	Valerie Vili New Zealand	20.49 AR	Anna Avdeyeva Russia	19.47 SB	Nadine Kleinert Germany	19.34 SB
Pentathlon details	Jessica Ennis Great Britain	4937 CR	Nataliya Dobrynska Ukraine	4851	Hyleas Fountain United States	4753
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	4	6	18
2	Ethiopia (ETH)	3	0	2	5
3	Russia (RUS)	2	3	2	7
4	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	2	5
5	Australia (AUS)	2	0	1	3
6	Cuba (CUB)	1	3	1	5
7	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	1	2
7	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	1	2
9	Bahamas (BAH)	1	0	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
	Sudan (SUD)	1	0	0	1
15	Spain (ESP)	0	3	0	3
16	Germany (GER)	0	2	2	4
16	Kenya (KEN)	0	2	2	4
18	Canada (CAN)	0	1	2	3
19	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
26	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
27	Antigua and Barbuda (ATG)	0	0	1	1
	Botswana (BOT)	0	0	1	1
	Gabon (GAB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		26	26	27	79