2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships

Summary

The 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was the 14th edition of the global-level indoor track and field competition and was held between March 9–11, 2012 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey.[1][2] It was the first of four IAAF World Athletics Series events in 2012, which includes the World Race Walking Cup, the World Junior Championships and the World Half Marathon Championships.

14th IAAF World Indoor Championships
Official competition logo
Dates9–11 March
Host cityIstanbul, Turkey
VenueAtaköy Athletics Arena
Events26
Participation629 athletes from
171 nations

Preparation

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The Ataköy Athletics Arena.

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 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In November 2007 at an IAAF Council meeting in Monaco, Doha was selected to host the 2010 edition, but due to the quality of the Istanbul bid, the Turkish city was chosen to host the following edition of the competition in 2012.[3] It will be the first time that Turkey has hosted a major global athletics event. Previously, the highest level events that the country had hosted included the Athletics at the 2005 Summer Universiade and lower-level sections of the European Cup/European Team Championships.

The events took place at the 7,450-seater Ataköy Athletics Arena, which was constructed especially for the event in the Ataköy neighborhood of Bakırköy next to the Sinan Erdem Dome.[4] The initial bid featured the Dome as the host stadium, but the venue was later changed as the Sinan Erdem Dome was host to the 2010 FIBA World Championship in the months before the event. The construction of the Ataköy Arena was behind schedule, leading to the cancellation of some tester events, meaning that the Turkish Indoor Championships in late January was the first competition to be held there.[5]

Schedule

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Key P Q H ½ F
Value Preliminary round Qualifiers Heats Semifinals Final
All dates are EET (UTC+2)
Men[6]
Date Mar 9 Mar 10 Mar 11
Event M A M A M A
60 m H ½ F
400 m H ½ F
800 m H F
1500 m H F
3000 m H F
60 m hurdles H ½ F
4 × 400 m relay H F
Long jump Q F
Triple jump Q F
High jump Q F
Pole vault F
Shot put Q F
Heptathlon F
Women[6]
Date Mar 9 Mar 10 Mar 11
Event M A M A M A
60 m H ½ F
400 m H ½ F
800 m H F
1500 m H F
3000 m H F
60 m hurdles H ½ F
4 × 400 m relay F
Long jump Q F
Triple jump Q F
High jump Q F
Pole vault F
Shot put Q F
Pentathlon F

Results

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Men

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2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres[7]
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Justin Gatlin
  United States
6.46 SB Nesta Carter
  Jamaica
6.54 Dwain Chambers
  Great Britain
6.60
400 metres[8]
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Nery Brenes
  Costa Rica
45.11 CR, NR Demetrius Pinder
  Bahamas
45.34 SB Chris Brown
  Bahamas
45.90 SB
800 metres[9]
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Mohammed Aman
  Ethiopia
1:48.36 Jakub Holuša
  Czech Republic
1:48.62 Andrew Osagie
  Great Britain
1:48.92
1500 metres[10]
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Abdalaati Iguider
  Morocco
3:45.21 Ilham Tanui Özbilen
  Turkey
3:45.35 Mekonnen Gebremedhin
  Ethiopia
3:45.90
3000 metres[11]
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Bernard Lagat
  United States
7:41.44 SB Augustine Kiprono Choge
  Kenya
7:41.77 Edwin Soi
  Kenya
7:41.78
60 metres hurdles[12]
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Aries Merritt
  United States
7.44 Liu Xiang
  China
7.49 Pascal Martinot-Lagarde
  France
7.53 PB
4 × 400 metres relay[13]
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  United States
Frankie Wright
Calvin Smith Jr.
Manteo Mitchell
Gil Roberts
Jamaal Torrance*
Quentin Iglehart-Summers*
3:03.94 SB   Great Britain
Conrad Williams
Nigel Levine
Michael Bingham
Richard Buck
Luke Lennon-Ford*
3:04.72 SB   Trinidad and Tobago
Lalonde Gordon
Renny Quow
Jereem Richards
Jarrin Solomon
3:06.85 NR
High jump[14]
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Dimitrios Chondrokoukis
  Greece
2.33 PB Andrey Silnov
  Russia
2.33 Ivan Ukhov
  Russia
2.31
Pole vault[15]
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Renaud Lavillenie
  France
5.95 WL Björn Otto
  Germany
5.80 Brad Walker
  United States
5.80
Long jump[16]
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Mauro Vinícius da Silva
  Brazil
8.23 Henry Frayne
  Australia
8.23 AR Aleksandr Menkov
  Russia
8.22
Triple jump[17]
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Will Claye
  United States
17.70 WL Christian Taylor
  United States
17.63 SB Lyukman Adams
  Russia
17.36 PB
Shot put[18]
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Ryan Whiting
  United States
22.00 WL David Storl
  Germany
21.88 PB Tomasz Majewski
  Poland
21.72 NR
Heptathlon[19]
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Ashton Eaton
  United States
6645 WR Oleksiy Kasyanov
  Ukraine
6071 Artem Lukyanenko
  Russia
5969
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

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2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres[20]
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Veronica Campbell-Brown
  Jamaica
7.01 WL Murielle Ahouré
  Ivory Coast
7.04 NR Tianna Bartoletta
  United States
7.09
400 metres[21]
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Sanya Richards-Ross
  United States
50.79 Aleksandra Fedoriva
  Russia
51.76 Natasha Hastings
  United States
51.82
800 metres[22]
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Pamela Jelimo
  Kenya
1:58.83 WL Nataliia Lupu
  Ukraine
1:59.67 PB Erica Moore
  United States
1:59.97 PB
1500 metres[23]
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Genzebe Dibaba
  Ethiopia
4:05.78 Mariem Alaoui Selsouli
  Morocco
4:07.78 Hind Déhiba
  France
4:10.30
3000 metres[24]
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Hellen Onsando Obiri
  Kenya
8:37.16 Meseret Defar
  Ethiopia
8:38.26 Gelete Burka
  Ethiopia
8:40.18
60 metres hurdles[25]
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Sally Pearson
  Australia
7.73 WL Tiffany Porter
  Great Britain
7.94 Alina Talay
  Belarus
7.97 SB
4 × 400 metres relay[26]
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  Great Britain
Shana Cox
Nicola Sanders
Christine Ohuruogu
Perri Shakes-Drayton
3:28.76 WL   United States
Leslie Cole
Natasha Hastings
Jernail Hayes
Sanya Richards-Ross
3:28.79 SB   Romania
Angela Moroșanu
Alina Panainte
Adelina Pastor
Elena Mirela Lavric
3:33.41 SB
High jump[27]
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Chaunté Lowe
  United States
1.98 Antonietta Di Martino
  Italy
Anna Chicherova
  Russia
Ebba Jungmark
  Sweden
1.95 SB

1.95

1.95 SB
  Not awarded
Pole vault[28]
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Yelena Isinbayeva
  Russia
4.80 Vanessa Boslak
  France
4.70 NR Holly Bleasdale
  United Kingdom
4.70
Long jump[29]
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Brittney Reese
  United States
7.23 CR Janay DeLoach
  United States
6.98 SB Shara Proctor
  Great Britain
6.89 NR
Triple jump[30]
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Yamilé Aldama
  Great Britain
14.82 SB Olga Rypakova
  Kazakhstan
14.63 Mabel Gay
  Cuba
14.29
Shot put[31]
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Valerie Adams
  New Zealand
20.54 AR Michelle Carter
  United States
19.58 SB Jillian Camarena-Williams
  United States
19.44
Pentathlon[32]
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Nataliya Dobrynska
  Ukraine
5013 WR Jessica Ennis
  Great Britain
4965 NR Austra Skujytė
  Lithuania
4802 NR
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

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)104519
2  Great Britain (GBR)2349
3  Ethiopia (ETH)2125
4  Kenya (KEN)2114
5  Russia (RUS)1348
6  Ukraine (UKR)1203
7  France (FRA)1124
8  Australia (AUS)1102
  Jamaica (JAM)1102
  Morocco (MAR)1102
11  Brazil (BRA)1001
  Costa Rica (CRC)1001
  Greece (GRE)1001
  New Zealand (NZL)1001
15  Germany (GER)0202
16  Bahamas (BAH)0112
17  China (CHN)0101
  Czech Republic (CZE)0101
  Italy (ITA)0101
  Ivory Coast (CIV)0101
  Kazakhstan (KAZ)0101
  Sweden (SWE)0101
  Turkey (TUR)0101
24  Belarus (BLR)0011
  Cuba (CUB)0011
  Lithuania (LTU)0011
  Poland (POL)0011
  Romania (ROU)0011
  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)0011
Totals (29 entries)26282579
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Photos from the games in Istanbul:

Participating nations

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References

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  1. ^ "2012 Dünya Salon Atletizm Şampiyonası" (in Turkish). Türkiye Atletizm federasyonu. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
  2. ^ Basic Information Guide – IAAF World Indoor Championships, Istanbul 2012 Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF (2011-09-24). Retrieved on 2011-12-17.
  3. ^ IAAF Council News highlights – Future Competition hosts agreed Archived 2009-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF (2007-11-24). Retrieved on 2011-12-17.
  4. ^ "Teams/Sport Facilities-Atakoy Athletics Arena". IAAF WIC Istanbul 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-03-19. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
  5. ^ MacKay, Duncan (2012-01-05). Turkish officials allay fears over World Indoor Championships venue. Inside the Games. Retrieved on 2012-01-05.
  6. ^ a b Competition Timetable Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine. Doha 2012. Retrieved on 2012-02-28.
  7. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  8. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  9. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  10. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  11. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  12. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  13. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's 4x400 metres relay (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  14. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's high jump (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  15. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's Pole vault (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  16. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's Long jump (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  17. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's triple jump (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  18. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's shot put (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  19. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Men's heptathlon (final results)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  20. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  21. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  22. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  23. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  24. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  25. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  26. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's 4x400 metres relay (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  27. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's high jump (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  28. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's pole vault (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  29. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's long jump (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  30. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's triple jump (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  31. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's shot put (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  32. ^ "2012 World Indoor Championships – Women's pentathlon (final results)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  33. ^ Medal Table
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  • Official entry standards
  • Turkish athletics history, at a glance – Istanbul 2012 Archived 2011-12-04 at the Wayback Machine from IAAF