World Indoor Athletics Championships 2018

17th World Indoor Athletics Championships
Arena Birmingham (2014)
city	Birmingham , UK
Stadion	Arena Birmingham
participating countries	144
Participating athletes	632 (298 w, 334 m)
Competitions	26th
opening	1st March 2018
Final day	4th March 2018
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The 17th IAAF World Indoor Championships took place from March 1st to 4th, 2018 in Birmingham , United Kingdom .

The British city was awarded the IAAF contract in 2013 . She had applied for the 2016 indoor world championships , but because IAAF events were planned in Great Britain in 2016 (half marathon) and 2017 (outdoor world championships), the American city of Portland was preferred and Birmingham was designated as the venue for the indoor world championships for 2018.

The competitions took place in the 8,000-seat Birmingham Arena , where the 2003 World Indoor Championships were held. Around 400 athletes from 150 nations were expected. According to the preliminary start list, a total of 632 athletes, 334 men and 298 women, from 144 countries competed.

Attendees

A total of 632 athletes, 334 men and 298 women, from 144 nations took part.

• : The German Athletics Association (DLV) nominated 12 female and 11 male athletes. Furthermore, Malaika Mihambo and Marc Reuther were invited by the IAAF World Athletics Association based on the ranking process. However, Reuther had to because of a flu infection cancel, and Sosthene Moguenara moved for Alexandra Westerwelle after that could not start because of muscular problems.
• : The Austrian Athletics Association nominated four athletes, one man and three women.
• : The Swiss Athletics , the umbrella organization for all athletics clubs in Switzerland, nominated one man and five women for the competitions.

Participating Nations

•  Egypt (1)
•  Albania (1)
•  US Virgin Islands (1)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (1)
•  Equatorial Guinea (1)
•  Argentina (1)
•  Armenia (1)
•  Aruba (1)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Ethiopia (11)
•  Australia (7)
• Authorized Neutral Athletes (8)
•  Bahamas (5)
•  Bahrain (5)
•  Bangladesh (1)
•  Belgium (7)
•  Belize (1)
•  Bermuda (1)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
•  Brazil (8)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Bulgaria (5)
•  Burkina Faso (1)
•  Burundi (3)
•  Cayman Islands (1)
•  Chile (1)
•  People's Republic of China (13)
•  Cook Islands (1)
•  Costa Rica (2)
•  Dominica (1)
•  Dominican Republic (6)
•  Denmark (1)
•  Germany (24)
•  Djibouti (3)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Ivory Coast (6)
•  Estonia (2)
•  Fiji (1)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (11)
•  French Polynesia (1)
•  Ghana (3)
•  Gibraltar (1)
•  Grenada (3)
•  Greece (9)
•  Guinea-Bissau (1)
•  Haiti (1)
•  Honduras (1)
•  Hong Kong (1)
•  India (1)
•  Indonesia (1)
•  Iran (1)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Ireland (5)
•  Iceland (1)
•  Italy (13)
•  Jamaica (30)
•  Japan (1)
•  Jordan (1)
•  Cambodia (1)
•  Cameroon (1)
•  Canada (15)
•  Kazakhstan (5)
•  Qatar (3)
•  Kenya (8)
•  Kyrgyzstan (1)
•  Comoros (1)
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
•  Republic of the Congo (1)
•  Croatia (2)
•  Cuba (8)
•  Kuwait (2)
•  Latvia (4)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Lithuania (2)
•  Macau (1)
•  Madagascar (1)
•  Maldives (1)
•  Mali (1)
•  Malta (1)
•  Northern Mariana Islands (1)
•  Morocco (7)
•  Mauritius (1)
•  North Macedonia (1)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Micronesia (1)
•  Moldova (1)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Montserrat (1)
•  Namibia (1)
•  Nauru (1)
•  New Zealand (4)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  Netherlands (9)
•  Nigeria (9)
•  Norway (4)
•  Oman (1)
•  Austria (4)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Papua New Guinea (1)
•  Paraguay (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Philippines (1)
•  Poland (27)
•  Portugal (8)
•  Puerto Rico (1)
•  Romania (4)
•  Solomon Islands (1)
•  Zambia (1)
•  San Marino (1)
•  St. Kitts and Nevis (1)
•  St. Lucia (2)
•  St. Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (3)
•  Sweden (14)
•  Switzerland (6)
•  Serbia (5)
•  Seychelles (1)
•  Sierra Leone (1)
•  Slovakia (3)
•  Slovenia (2)
•  Somalia (1)
•  Spain (17)
•  Sudan (1)
•  South Africa (6)
•  South Sudan (1)
•  Swaziland (1)
•  Tajikistan (1)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (12)
•  Czech Republic (23)
•  Turkey (1)
•  Turkmenistan (1)
•  Tuvalu (1)
•  Ukraine (17)
•  Hungary (5)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  Vanuatu (1)
•  Venezuela (2)
•  United States (69)
•  United Kingdom (36)
•  Belarus (9)
•  Cyprus (1)

Results men

60 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Christian Coleman	United States	6.37 CR
2	Su Bingtian	CHN	6.42 AIR
3	Ronnie Baker	United States	6.44
4th	Xie Zhenye	CHN	6.52 PB
5	Hassan Taftian	IRI	6.53
6th	Ján Volko	CZE	6.59
7th	Sean Safo-Antwi	GHA	6.60
8th	Emre Zafer Barnes	DOOR	6.64

March 3, 2018

400 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Pavel Maslák	CZE	45.47 SB
2	Michael Cherry	United States	45.84
3	Deon Lendore	TTO	46.37
4th	Aldrich Bailey	United States	46.44
-	Óscar Husillos	ESP	DQ
-	Luguelin Santos	DOM	DQ

March 3, 2018

800 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Adam Kszczot	POLE	1: 47.47
2	Drew Windle	United States	1: 47.99
3	Saúl Ordóñez	ESP	1: 48.01
4th	Elliot Giles	GBR	1: 48.22
5	Álvaro de Arriba	ESP	1: 48.51
6th	Mostafa Smaili	MAR	1: 48.75

March 3, 2018

1500 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Samuel Tefera	ETH	3: 58.19
2	Marcin Lewandowski	POLE	3: 58.39
3	Abdalaati Iguider	MAR	3: 58.43
4th	Aman Wote	ETH	3: 58.64
5	Ben Blankenship	United States	3: 58.89
6th	Jake Wightman	GBR	3: 58.91
7th	Craig Engels	United States	3: 58.92
8th	Chris O'Hare	GBR	4: 00.65

4th March 2018

3000 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Yomif Kejelcha	ETH	8: 14.41
2	Selemon Barega	ETH	8: 15.59
3	Bethwell Birgen	KEN	8: 15.70
4th	Hagos Gebrhiwet	ETH	8: 15.76
5	Nobility Mechaal	ESP	8: 16.13
6th	Younès Essalhi	MAR	8: 16.63
7th	Davis Kiplangat	KEN	8: 18.03
8th	Clemens lead stone	GER	8: 18.24

4th March 2018

60 m hurdles

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Andrew Pozzi	GBR	7.46 SB
2	Jarret Eaton	United States	7.47
3	Aurel Manga	FRA	7.54
4th	Aries Merritt	United States	7.56
5	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde	FRA	7.68
6th	Gabriel Constantino	BRA	7.71
7th	Roger Iribarne	CUB	7.77
-	Milan Traikovitz	CYP	DQ

4th March 2018

4 × 400 m relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	Poland	Karol Zalewski Rafał Omelko Łukasz Krawczuk Jakub Krzewina	3: 01.77 WE
2	United States	Fred Kerley Michael Cherry Aldrich Bailey Vernon Norwood	3: 01.97 SB
3	Belgium	Dylan Borlée Jonathan Borlée Jonathan Sacoor Kevin Borlée	3: 02.51 NIR
4th	Trinidad and Tobago	Deon Lendore Jereem Richards Asa Guevara Lalonde Gordon	3: 02.52 NIR
5	Czech Republic	Michal Desenský Patrik Šorm Filip Šnejdr Pavel Maslák	3: 04.87 SB
6th	United Kingdom	Owen Smith Grant Plenderleith Jamal Rhoden-Stevens Lee Thompson	3: 05.08 SB

4th March 2018

high jump

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Danil Lysenko	ANA	2.36
2	Mutaz Essa Barshim	QAT	2.33
3	Mateusz Przybylko	GER	2.29
4th	Erik Kynard	United States	2.29
5	Sylwester Bednarek	POLE	2.25
6th	Maksim Nedassekau	BLR	2.20
	Donald Thomas	BAH	2.20
	Wang Yu	CHN	2.20

1st March 2018

Pole vault

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Renaud Lavillenie	FRA	5.90
2	Sam Kendricks	United States	5.85
3	Piotr Lisek	POLE	5.85
4th	Kurtis Marshal	OUT	5.80 PB
5	Emmanouil Karalis	GRE	5.80 PB
	Raphael Holzdeppe	GER	5.80
7th	Konstandinos Filippidis	GRE	5.70
	Armand Duplantis	SWE	5.70

4th March 2018

Long jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Juan Miguel Echevarría	CUB	8.46 WL
2	Luvo Manyonga	RSA	8.44 AIR
3	Marquis Dendy	United States	8.42 PB
4th	Jarrion Lawson	United States	8.14
5	Shi Yuhao	CHN	8.12
6th	Ruswahl Samaai	RSA	8.05 SB
7th	Radek Juška	CZE	7.99 SB
8th	Eusebio Cáceres	ESP	7.91

2nd March 2018

Triple jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Will Claye	United States	17.43 WL
2	Almir dos Santos	BRA	17.41 PB
3	Nelson Évora	POR	17.40 NIR
4th	Alexis Copello	AZE	17.17 SB
5	Chris Carter	United States	17.15
6th	Hugues Fabrice Zango	BUR	17.11
7th	Zhu Yaming	CHN	16.87 PB
8th	Dong bin	CHN	16.84 SB

March 3, 2018

Shot put

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Tomas Walsh	NZL	22.31 CR
2	David Storl	GER	21.44 SB
3	Tomáš Staněk	CZE	21.44
4th	Darlan Romani	BRA	21.37 AIR
5	Mesud Pezer	BIH	21.15 NIR
6th	Darrell Hill	United States	21.06 PB
7th	Ryan Whiting	United States	21.03 SB
8th	Konrad Bukowiecki	POLE	20.99

March 3, 2018

Heptathlon

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Kevin Mayer	FRA	6348 WL
2	Damian Warner	CAN	6343 NIR
3	Maicel Uibo	EST	6265 PB
4th	Kai Kazmirek	GER	6238 PB
5	Eelco Sintnicolaas	NED	5997 SB
6th	Zach Ziemek	United States	5941
7th	Ruben Gado	FRA	5927
8th	Dominik Distelberger	AUT	5908

2nd / 3rd March 2018

Results women

60 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Murielle Ahouré	CIV	6.97 WL
2	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	CIV	7.05 PB
3	Mujinga Kambundji	SUI	7.05
4th	Elaine Thompson	JAM	7.08
5	Dafne Schippers	NED	7.10
6th	Michelle-Lee Ahye	TTO	7.13 SB
7th	Carolle Zahi	FRA	7.19
8th	Remona Burchell	JAM	7.50

2nd March 2018

400 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Courtney Okolo	United States	50.55 PB
2	Shakima Wimbley	United States	51.47
3	Eilidh Doyle	GBR	51.60 SB
4th	Justyna Święty-Ersetic	POLE	51.85
5	Tovea Jenkins	JAM	52.12 PB
6th	Zoey Clark	GBR	52.16

March 3, 2018

800 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Francine Niyonsaba	BDI	1: 58.31 WL
2	Ajeé Wilson	United States	1: 58.99 PB
3	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	GBR	1: 59.81 PB
4th	Habitam Alemu	ETH	2: 01.10
5	Raevyn Rogers	United States	2: 01.44
6th	Selina Büchel	SUI	2: 03.01

4th March 2018

1500 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Genzebe Dibaba	ETH	4: 05.27
2	Laura Muir	GBR	4: 06.23
3	Sifan Hassan	NED	4: 07.26
4th	Shelby Houlihan	United States	4: 11.93
5	Winny Chebet	KEN	4: 12.08
6th	Aisha Praught-Leer	JAM	4: 12.86
7th	Beatrice Chepkoech	KEN	4: 13.59
8th	Rababe Arafi	MAR	4: 14.94

March 3, 2018

3000 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Genzebe Dibaba	ETH	8: 45.05
2	Sifan Hassan	NED	8: 45.68 SB
3	Laura Muir	GBR	8: 45.78 SB
4th	Bright Obiri	KEN	8: 49.66
5	Shelby Houlihan	United States	8: 50.38
6th	Fantu Worku	ETH	8: 50.54
7th	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	GER	8: 51.79
8th	Katie Mackey	United States	8: 56.62

1st March 2018

60 m hurdles

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Kendra Harrison	United States	7.70 CR
2	Christina Manning	United States	7.79
3	Nadine Visser	NED	7.84
4th	Sharika Nelvis	United States	7.86
5	Cindy Roleder	GER	7.87
6th	Isabelle Pedersen	NOR	7.94
7th	Tobi Amusan	NGR	8.05
8th	Devynne Charlton	BAH	8.18

March 3, 2018

4 × 400 m relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Quanera Hayes Georganne Moline Shakima Wimbley Courtney Okolo	3: 23.85 CR
2	Poland	Justyna Święty-Ersetic Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz Aleksandra Gaworska Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik	3: 26.09 NIR
3	United Kingdom	Meghan Beesley Hannah Williams Amy Allcock Zoey Clark	3: 29.38 SB
4th	Ukraine	Tetjana Melnyk Kateryna Klymjuk Hanna Jaroschtschuk-Ryschykowa Anastassija Bryshina	3: 31.32 SB
5	Italy	Raphaela Boaheng Lukudo Ayomide Folorunso Chiara Bazzoni Maria Enrica Spacca	3: 31.55 NIR
-	Jamaica	Tovea Jenkins Janieve Russell Anastasia Le-Roy Stephenie Ann McPherson	DQ

4th March 2018

high jump

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Marija Lassizkene	ANA	2.01
2	Vashti Cunningham	United States	1.93
3	Alessia consolation	ITA	1.93 SB
4th	Morgan Lake	GBR	1.93 SB
5	Julia Levchenko	UKR	1.89
6th	Mirela Demirewa	BUL	1.80
7th	Erika Kinsey	SWE	1.84
	Iryna Herashchenko	UKR	1.84
	Inika McPherson	United States	1.84

1st March 2018

Pole vault

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Sandi Morris	United States	4.95 CR
2	Anselika Sidorova	ANA	4.90 PB
3	Ekaterini Stefanidi	GRE	4.80
4th	Eliza McCartney	OUT	4.75 AIR
5	Katie Nageotte	United States	4.70
6th	Alysha Newman	CAN	4.70 NIR
7th	Yarisley Silva	CUB	4.60 SB
8th	Nina Kennedy	OUT	4.60

March 3, 2018

Long jump

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ivana Španović	SRB	6.96 WL
2	Brittney Reese	United States	6.89 SB
3	Sosthene Moguenara	GER	6.85 SB
4th	Quanesha Burks	United States	6.81 PB
5	Malaika Mihambo	GER	6.64
6th	Khaddi Sagnia	SWE	6.64
7th	Christabel Nettey	CAN	6.63 SB
8th	Ksenija Balta	EST	6.57

4th March 2018

Triple jump

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Yulimar Rojas	VEN	14.63 WL
2	Kimberly Williams	JAM	14.48 PB
3	Ana Peleteiro	ESP	14.40 PB
4th	Andreea Panțuroiu	ROU	14.33 PB
5	Keturah Orji	United States	14.31
6th	Paraskevi Papachristou	GRE	14.05
7th	Viktoria Prokopenko	ANA	14.05
8th	Tori Franklin	United States	14.03

March 3, 2018

Shot put

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Anita Marton	HUN	19.62 WL
2	Danniel Thomas-Dodd	JAM	19.22 NIR
3	Gong Lijiao	CHN	19.08 SB
4th	Gao Yang	CHN	18.77 PB
5	Paulina Guba	POLE	18.54
6th	Alyona Dubitskaya	BLR	18.21 SB
7th	Yaniuvis Lopéz	CUB	18.19 PB
8th	Jeneva Stevens	United States	18.18

2nd March 2018

Pentathlon

space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Katarina Johnson-Thompson	GBR	4750 SB
2	Ivona Dadic	AUT	4700 SB
3	Yorgelis Rodríguez	CUB	4637 NIR
4th	Eliška Klučinová	CZE	4579
5	Erica Bougard	United States	4571
6th	Xénia Krizsán	HUN	4559
7th	Alina Schuch	UKR	4466
8th	Lecabela Quaresma	POR	4424 SB

2nd March 2018

Medal table

Eleven out of 26 titles went to European athletes - including Russian athletes under neutral flags. A total of 16 European nations won medals. Eight gold medals went to North and South America, six world titles to Africa and one victory to Oceania.

rank	nation				Σ
1	United States	6th	10	2	18th
2	Ethiopia	4th	1	0	5
3	Poland	2	2	1	5
4th	United Kingdom	2	1	4th	7th
5	France	2	0	1	3
6th	Ivory Coast	1	1	0	2
7th	Cuba	1	0	1	2
	Czech Republic	1	0	1	2
9	Burundi	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Serbia	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
14th	Jamaica	0	2	0	2
15th	Germany	0	1	2	3
	Netherlands	0	1	2	3
17th	People's Republic of China	0	1	1	2
18th	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Qatar	0	1	0	1
	South Africa	0	1	0	1
23	Spain	0	0	2	2
24	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Kenya	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1
total		24	25th	26th	75

Note: The IAAF does not include the three medals won by Authorized Neutral Athletes (2 × gold, 1 × silver) in the official medal table.

Subsequent award of medals

After the disqualifications of doping offenders , Joachim Olsen , Ralf Bartels , Tianna Bartoletta , Concepción Montaner , Marija Šestak and Hyleas Fountain received their medals from past indoor world championships in a ceremonial act. Were prevented Naide Gomes , Li Meiju , Misleydis González , Olga Rypakowa , Valerie Adams , Nadine Kleinert and Michelle Carter . The Czech 4 x 400 meter relay from 2010 will be awarded its medals at the IAAF Continental Cup in Ostrava in September 2018.

Web links

• Official website (English)
• iaaf.org: IAAF Council Meeting, Monaco, 15 Nov - World Indoors: Portland 2016 and Birmingham 2018 Article from 15 November 2013 (English)
• Preliminary entry list - athletes by discipline and season best performance , (pdf 271 kB)
• Preliminary entry list - athletes by nation , (pdf 265 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Alexandra Dersch: Flash News of the Day - Start list of the Indoor World Championships online ( memento of the original from February 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, February 26, 2018, accessed February 26, 2018 
2. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF News - 1st Official Bulletin - IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 , on: iaaf.org, Newsletter, Edition 186 September 27, 2017, accessed September 27, 2017
3. ↑ Statistics of the participants at the IAAF
4. ↑ Eberhard Vollmer / alex: Klosterhalfen and Pinto lead German indoor world championship team , nomination, on: Leichtathletik.de, from February 21, 2018, accessed February 21, 2018
5. ↑ Peter Schmitt: Sosthene Moguenara joins the German World Championship team , Indoor World Championship Birmingham, on: Leichtathletik.de, from February 27, 2018, accessed March 1, 2018
6. ↑ Pamela Ruprecht: Flash News of the Day - European athletes win eleven of 26 gold medals in Birmingham  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, March 6, 2018, accessed March 6, 2018  
7. ↑ medal table at www.iaaf.com; accessed on March 5, 2018 ( English )
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Six World Indoor Championships medals to be reallocated in Birmingham , Press Release Birmingham, UK, from: iaaf.org, February 27, 2018, accessed March 1, 2018