1999 World Championships in Athletics
Track
1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds. ¹ German Skurygin of Russia originally won the gold medal in the 50 km walk in 3:44:23, but was disqualified after he tested positive for drugs in November 2001.

1999 World Championships in Athletics

Section Title: Track
Table Section Text: 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds. ¹ German Skurygin of Russia originally won the gold medal in the 50 km walk in 3:44:23, but was disqualified after he tested positive for drugs in November 2001.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze

100 m details	Maurice Greene United States	9.80 (CR)	Bruny Surin Canada	9.84 (=NR)	Dwain Chambers Great Britain	9.97 (PB)

200 m details	Maurice Greene United States	19.90 (SB)	Claudinei da Silva Brazil	20.00 (PB)	Francis Obikwelu Nigeria	20.11

400 m details	Michael Johnson United States	43.18 (WR)	Sanderlei Claro Parrela Brazil	44.29 (AR)	Alejandro Cárdenas Mexico	44.31 (NR)

800 m details	Wilson Kipketer Denmark	1:43.30	Hezekiél Sepeng South Africa	1:43.32	Djabir Saïd-Guerni Algeria	1:44.18 (NR)

1500 m details	Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco	3:27.65 (CR)	Noah Ngeny Kenya	3:28.73 (NR)	Reyes Estévez Spain	3:30.57 (PB)

5000 m details	Salah Hissou Morocco	12:58.13 (CR)	Benjamin Limo Kenya	12:58.72	Mohammed Mourhit Belgium	12:58.80

10,000 m details	Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia	27:57.27	Paul Tergat Kenya	27:58.56	Assefa Mezgebu Ethiopia	27:59.15

Marathon details	Abel Antón Spain	2:13:36	Vincenzo Modica Italy	2:14:03	Nobuyuki Sato Japan	2:14:07

110 m hurdles details	Colin Jackson Great Britain	13.04 (SB)	Anier García Cuba	13.07 (NR)	Duane Ross United States	13.12 (PB)

400 m hurdles details	Fabrizio Mori Italy	47.72 (WL)	Stéphane Diagana France	48.12 (SB)	Marcel Schelbert Switzerland	48.13 (NR)

3000 m st. details	Christopher Kosgei Kenya	8:11.76	Wilson Boit Kipketer Kenya	8:12.09	Ali Ezzine Morocco	8.12.73

20 km walk details	Ilya Markov Russia	1:23:34	Jefferson Pérez Ecuador	1:24:19	Daniel García Mexico	1:24:31

50 km walk details	Ivano Brugnetti Italy	3:47:541 (PB)	Nikolay Matyukhin Russia	3:48:18	Curt Clausen United States	3:50:55

4 × 100 m relay details	United States (USA) Jon Drummond Tim Montgomery Brian Lewis Maurice Greene	37.59 (WL)	Great Britain (GBR) Jason Gardener Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Dwain Chambers Allyn Condon*	37.73 (AR)	Brazil (BRA) Raphael de Oliveira Claudinei da Silva Édson Ribeiro André da Silva	38.052 (AR)

4 × 400 m relay details	Poland (POL) Tomasz Czubak Robert Maćkowiak Jacek Bocian Piotr Haczek Piotr Długosielski*	2:58.913 (SB)	Jamaica (JAM) Michael McDonald Greg Haughton Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke Paston Coke* Omar Brown*	2:59.34	South Africa (RSA) Jopie van Oudtshoorn Hendrick Mokganyetsi Adriaan Botha Arnaud Malherbe	3:00.20 (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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Michael Johnson of the United States has set a world of 43.18 seconds in the 400 metres.

final_sentence: Michael Johnson of the United States has set a world of 43.18 seconds in the 400 metres.