Athletics

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Men

100 metres men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	9"69
Silver	Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	9"89
Bronze	Walter Dix	United States	9"91

10000 metres men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	27'01"17
Silver	Sileshi Sihine	Ethiopia	27'02"77
Bronze	Micah Kogo	Kenya	27'04"11

110 metres hurdles men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Dayron Robles	Cuba	12"93
Silver	David Payne	United States	13"17
Bronze	David Oliver	United States	13"18

1500 metres men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Asbel Kiprop	Kenya	3'33"11
Silver	Nicholas Willis	New Zealand	3'34"16
Bronze	Mehdi Baala	France	3'34"21

200 metres men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	19"30
Silver	Shawn Crawford	United States	19"96
Bronze	Walter Dix	United States	19"98

20km race walk men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Valeriy Borchin	Russia	1h19'01
Silver	Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador	1h19'15
Bronze	Jared Tallent	Australia	1h19'42

3000 metres steeplechase men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Brimin Kiprop Kipruto	Kenya	8'10"34
Silver	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	France	8'10"49
Bronze	Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong	Kenya	8'11"01

4 × 100 metres relay men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Keston Bledman / Marc Burns / Emmanuel Callender / Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	38"06
Silver	Naoki Tsukahara / Shingo Suetsugu / Shinji Takahira / Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	38"15
Bronze	Vicente Lima / Sandro Viana / Bruno de Barros / José Carlos Moreira	Brazil	38"24

4 × 400 metres relay men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	LaShawn Merritt / Angelo Taylor / David Neville / Jeremy Wariner	United States	2'55"39
Silver	Andretti Bain / Michael Mathieu / Andrae Williams / Chris Brown	Bahamas	2'58"03
Bronze	Martyn Rooney / Andrew Steele / Robert Tobin / Michael Bingham	United Kingdom	2'58"51

400 metres hurdles men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Angelo Taylor	United States	47"25
Silver	Kerron Clement	United States	47"98
Bronze	Bershawn Jackson	United States	48"06

400 metres men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	LaShawn Merritt	United States	43"75
Silver	Jeremy Wariner	United States	44"74
Bronze	David Neville	United States	44"80

5000 metres men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	12'57"82
Silver	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya	13'02"80
Bronze	Edwin Cheruiyot Soi	Kenya	13'06"22

50km race walk men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Alex Schwazer	Italy	3h37'09
Silver	Jared Tallent	Australia	3h39'27
Bronze	Denis Nizhegorodov	Russia	3h40'14

800 metres men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1'44"65
Silver	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	1'44"70
Bronze	Alfred Kirwa Yego	Kenya	1'44"82

Decathlon

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Bryan Clay	United States	8791 pts
Silver	Andrei Krauchanka	Belarus	8551 pts
Bronze	Leonel Suárez	Cuba	8527 pts

Discus throw men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Gerd Kanter	Estonia	68,82 m
Silver	Piotr Małachowski	Poland	67,82 m
Bronze	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	67,79 m

Hammer throw men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	82,02 m
Silver	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus	81,61 m
Bronze	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus	81,51 m

High jump men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Andrey Silnov	Russia	2,36 m
Silver	Germaine Mason	United Kingdom	2,34 m
Bronze	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	2,34 m

Javelin throw men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway	90,57 m
Silver	Ainārs Kovals	Latvia	86,64 m
Bronze	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland	86,16 m

Long jump men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Irving Saladino	Panama	8,34 m
Silver	Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	8,24 m
Bronze	Ibrahim Camejo	Cuba	8,20 m

Men's marathon

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Samuel Wanjiru	Kenya	2h06'32
Silver	Jaouad Gharib	Morocco	2h07'16
Bronze	Tsegay Kebede	Ethiopia	2h10'00

Pole vault men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Steven Hooker	Australia	5,96 m
Silver	Evgeny Lukyanenko	Russia	5,85 m
Bronze	Derek Miles	United States	5,70 m

Shot put men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Tomasz Majewski	Poland	21,51 m
Silver	Christian Cantwell	United States	21,09 m
Bronze	Dylan Armstrong	Canada	21,04 m

Triple jump men

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Nelson Évora	Portugal	17,67 m
Silver	Phillips Idowu	United Kingdom	17,62 m
Bronze	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	17,59 m

Women

100 metres hurdles women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Dawn Harper	United States	12"54
Silver	Sally Pearson	Australia	12"64
Bronze	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep	Canada	12"64

100 metres women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Shelly-Ann Fraser	Jamaica	10"78
Silver	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	10"98
	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	10"98

10000 metres women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	29'54"66
Silver	Shalane Flanagan	United States	30'22"22
Bronze	Linet Chepkwemoi Masai	Kenya	30'26"50

1500 metres women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Nancy Jebet Lagat	Kenya	4'00"23
Silver	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4'01"63
Bronze	Nataliya Tobias	Ukraine	4'01"78

200 metres women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	21"74
Silver	Allyson Felix	United States	21"93
Bronze	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	22"00

20km race walk women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	1h26'31
Silver	Kjersti Tysse Plätzer	Norway	1h27'07
Bronze	Elisa Rigaudo	Italy	1h27'12

3000 metres steeplechase women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Gulnara Galkina-Samitova	Russia	8'58"81
Silver	Eunice Jepkorir	Kenya	9'07"41
Bronze	Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova	Russia	9'12"33

4 × 100 metres relay women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Olivia Borlée / Hanna Mariën / Élodie Ouédraogo / Kim Gevaert	Belgium	42"54
Silver	Franca Idoko / Gloria Kemasuode / Halimat Ismaila / Oludamola Osayomi	Nigeria	43"04
Bronze	Rosemar Coelho Neto / Lucimar de Moura / Thaissa Presti / Rosângela Santos	Brazil	43"14

4 × 400 metres relay women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Mary Wineberg / Allyson Felix / Monique Henderson / Sanya Richards	United States	3'18"54
Silver	Shericka Williams / Shereefa Lloyd / Rosemarie Whyte / Novelene Williams	Jamaica	3'20"40
Bronze	Christine Ohuruogu / Kelly Sotherton / Marilyn Okoro / Nicola Sanders	United Kingdom	3'22"68

400 metres hurdles women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Melaine Walker	Jamaica	52"64
Silver	Sheena Tosta	United States	53"70
Bronze	Tasha Danvers	United Kingdom	53"84

400 metres women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Christine Ohuruogu	United Kingdom	49"62
Silver	Shericka Williams	Jamaica	49"69
Bronze	Sanya Richards	United States	49"93

5000 metres women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	15'41"40
Silver	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	15'44"12
Bronze	Sylvia Kibet	Kenya	15'44"96

800 metres women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Pamela Jelimo	Kenya	1'54"87
Silver	Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei	Kenya	1'56"07
Bronze	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	1'56"73

Discus throw women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Stephanie Brown Trafton	United States	64,74 m
Silver	Olena Antonova	Ukraine	62,59 m
Bronze	Song Aimin	China	62,20 m

Hammer throw women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Yipsi Moreno	Cuba	75,20 m
Silver	Zhang Wenxiu	China	74,32 m
Bronze	Manuela Montebrun	France	72,54 m

Heptathlon

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Nataliya Dobrynska	Ukraine	6733 pts
Silver	Hyleas Fountain	United States	6619 pts
Bronze	Kelly Sotherton	United Kingdom	6517 pts

High jump women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Tia Hellebaut	Belgium	2,05 m
Silver	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	2,05 m
Bronze	Chaunté Howard	United States	1,99 m

Javelin throw women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Barbora Špotáková	Czech Republic	71,42 m
Silver	Christina Obergföll	Germany	66,13 m
Bronze	Goldie Sayers	United Kingdom	65,75 m

Long jump women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Maurren Maggi	Brazil	7,04 m
Silver	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	6,91 m
Bronze	Chelsea Hammond	Jamaica	6,79 m

Pole vault women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	5,05 m
Silver	Jennifer Stuczynski	United States	4,80 m
Bronze	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia	4,75 m

Shot put women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Valerie Vili	New Zealand	20,56 m
Silver	Misleydis González	Cuba	19,50 m
Bronze	Gong Lijiao	China	19,20 m

Triple jump women

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	15,39 m
Silver	Olga Rypakova	Kazakhstan	15,11 m
Bronze	Yargelis Savigne	Cuba	15,05 m

Women's marathon

Medal	Athlete	Country	Performance
Gold	Constantina Diță-Tomescu	Romania	2h26'44
Silver	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	2h27'06
Bronze	Zhou Chunxiu	China	2h27'07

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