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 | |
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Dates | 9–11 March |
Host city | Istanbul, Turkey |
Venue | Ataköy Athletics Arena |
Events | 26 |
Participation | 629 athletes from 171 nations |
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]
Key | P | Q | H | ½ | F |
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Value | Preliminary round | Qualifiers | Heats | Semifinals | Final |
Date | Mar 9 | Mar 10 | Mar 11 | |||||
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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 |
Date | Mar 9 | Mar 10 | Mar 11 | |||||
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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 |
2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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60 metres[7] |
Justin Gatlin United States |
6.46 SB | Nesta Carter Jamaica |
6.54 | Dwain Chambers Great Britain |
6.60 |
400 metres[8] |
Nery Brenes Costa Rica |
45.11 CR, NR | Demetrius Pinder Bahamas |
45.34 SB | Chris Brown Bahamas |
45.90 SB |
800 metres[9] |
Mohammed Aman Ethiopia |
1:48.36 | Jakub Holuša Czech Republic |
1:48.62 | Andrew Osagie Great Britain |
1:48.92 |
1500 metres[10] |
Abdalaati Iguider Morocco |
3:45.21 | Ilham Tanui Özbilen Turkey |
3:45.35 | Mekonnen Gebremedhin Ethiopia |
3:45.90 |
3000 metres[11] |
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] |
Aries Merritt United States |
7.44 | Liu Xiang China |
7.49 | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde France |
7.53 PB |
4 × 400 metres relay[13] |
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] |
Dimitrios Chondrokoukis Greece |
2.33 PB | Andrey Silnov Russia |
2.33 | Ivan Ukhov Russia |
2.31 |
Pole vault[15] |
Renaud Lavillenie France |
5.95 WL | Björn Otto Germany |
5.80 | Brad Walker United States |
5.80 |
Long jump[16] |
Mauro Vinícius da Silva Brazil |
8.23 | Henry Frayne Australia |
8.23 AR | Aleksandr Menkov Russia |
8.22 |
Triple jump[17] |
Will Claye United States |
17.70 WL | Christian Taylor United States |
17.63 SB | Lyukman Adams Russia |
17.36 PB |
Shot put[18] |
Ryan Whiting United States |
22.00 WL | David Storl Germany |
21.88 PB | Tomasz Majewski Poland |
21.72 NR |
Heptathlon[19] |
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)
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2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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60 metres[20] |
Veronica Campbell-Brown Jamaica |
7.01 WL | Murielle Ahouré Ivory Coast |
7.04 NR | Tianna Bartoletta United States |
7.09 |
400 metres[21] |
Sanya Richards-Ross United States |
50.79 | Aleksandra Fedoriva Russia |
51.76 | Natasha Hastings United States |
51.82 |
800 metres[22] |
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] |
Genzebe Dibaba Ethiopia |
4:05.78 | Mariem Alaoui Selsouli Morocco |
4:07.78 | Hind Déhiba France |
4:10.30 |
3000 metres[24] |
Hellen Onsando Obiri Kenya |
8:37.16 | Meseret Defar Ethiopia |
8:38.26 | Gelete Burka Ethiopia |
8:40.18 |
60 metres hurdles[25] |
Sally Pearson Australia |
7.73 WL | Tiffany Porter Great Britain |
7.94 | Alina Talay Belarus |
7.97 SB |
4 × 400 metres relay[26] |
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] |
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] |
Yelena Isinbayeva Russia |
4.80 | Vanessa Boslak France |
4.70 NR | Holly Bleasdale United Kingdom |
4.70 |
Long jump[29] |
Brittney Reese United States |
7.23 CR | Janay DeLoach United States |
6.98 SB | Shara Proctor Great Britain |
6.89 NR |
Triple jump[30] |
Yamilé Aldama Great Britain |
14.82 SB | Olga Rypakova Kazakhstan |
14.63 | Mabel Gay Cuba |
14.29 |
Shot put[31] |
Valerie Adams New Zealand |
20.54 AR | Michelle Carter United States |
19.58 SB | Jillian Camarena-Williams United States |
19.44 |
Pentathlon[32] |
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)
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Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | United States (USA) | 10 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
2 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
3 | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
4 | Kenya (KEN) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
5 | Russia (RUS) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
6 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
7 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
8 | Australia (AUS) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Jamaica (JAM) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Morocco (MAR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
11 | Brazil (BRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Costa Rica (CRC) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Greece (GRE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
15 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
16 | Bahamas (BAH) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
17 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Ivory Coast (CIV) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
24 | Belarus (BLR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Lithuania (LTU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (29 entries) | 26 | 28 | 25 | 79 |
Photos from the games in Istanbul: