# 2009 World Military Track and Field Championships

The 2009 World Military Track and Field Championship was the 43rd edition of the international athletics competition between military sports personnel. The competition was held from 6 to 13 June at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria. A total of 398 athletes (318 men and 80 women) from 33 nations competed in the 29-event programme.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Samuel Francis (QAT) | 10.23 | Ryan Moseley (AUT) | 10.30 | Emanuele Di Gregorio (ITA) | 10.32 |
| 200 metres | Simone Collio (ITA) | 20.84 | Eddy De Lépine (FRA) | 20.91 | Bruno Pacheco (BRA) | 20.94 |
| 400 metres | Piotr Klimczak (POL) | 46.52 | Marcin Marciniszyn (POL) | 46.62 | Wallace Vieira (BRA) | 46.71 |
| 800 metres | Bram Som (NED) | 1:46.98 | Mouhcine El Amine (MAR) | 1:47.63 | Sajjad Moradi (IRI) | 1:47.86 |
| 1500 metres | Abdelkader Bakhtache (FRA) | 3:43.60 | Samir Khadar (ALG) | 3:44.08 | Mohamed Hajjaj (MAR) | 3:44.93 |
| 5000 metres | James Kwalia (QAT) | 13:52.62 | Essa Ismail Rashed (QAT) | 13:56.53 | Rabah Aboud (ALG) | 14:01.26 |
| 10,000 metres | Essa Ismail Rashed (QAT) | 29:13.47 | Abraham Niyonkuru (BDI) | 29:37.14 | El Akhdar Hachani (TUN) | 29:42.11 |
| 110 metres hurdles | Gregory Sedoc (NED) | 13.47 | Ji Wei (CHN) | 13.56 | Yin Jing (CHN) | 13.64 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Christian Grossenbacher (SUI) | 51.26 | Thiago Sales (BRA) | 51.38 | Nate Garcia (USA) | 51.82 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Abdelkader Hachlaf (MAR) | 8:35.00 | Rabia Makhloufi (ALG) | 8:35.73 | Abubaker Ali Kamal (QAT) | 8:36.87 |
| 4×100 m relay | Brazil (BRA) Renan Oliveira Bruno Pacheco Rodrigo Pereira Nilson André | 40.00 | Poland (POL) Piotr Rysiukiewicz Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Kamil Masztak | 40.28 | Belgium (BEL) Damien Broothaerts Adrien Deghelt Denis Goossens Kevin Rans | 40.36 |
| 4×400 m relay | Algeria (ALG) Miloud Rahmani Faycal Doukhi Faycal Cherifi Hocine Lamada | 3:07.95 | Poland (POL) Daniel Dąbrowski Piotr Rysiukiewicz Piotr Klimczak Marcin Marciniszyn | 3:08.20 | Brazil (BRA) Thiago Sales Stefany Sergio da Silva Wagner Francisco Cardoso Wallace Vieira | 3:11.52 |
| High jump | Artsiom Zaitsau (BLR) | 2.26 m | Andrea Bettinelli (ITA) | 2.23 m | Peter Horák (SVK) | 2.20 m |
| Pole vault | Kevin Rans (BEL) | 5.55 m | Giorgio Piantella (ITA) | 5.55 m | Denis Goossens (BEL) | 5.55 m |
| Long jump | Yu Zhenwei (CHN) | 7.83 m (w) | Mohammad Arzandeh (IRI) | 7.70 m | Boris Bozhinov (BUL) | 7.68 m (w) |
| Triple jump | Momchil Karailiev (BUL) | 17.22 m | Ibrahim Mohamed Aboubaker (QAT) | 16.47 m | Mohammed Hamdi Awadh (QAT) | 16.17 m |
| Shot put | Ralf Bartels (GER) | 20.33 m | Miran Vodovnik (SLO) | 19.67 m | Andrei Siniakou (BLR) | 19.59 m |
| Discus throw | Piotr Małachowski (POL) | 64.94 m | Musab Ibrahim Al-Momani (JOR) | 62.36 m NR | Giovanni Faloci (ITA) | 61.77 m |
| Hammer throw | Pavel Kryvitski (BLR) | 78.98 m | Marco Lingua (ITA) | 78.80 m | Nicola Vizzoni (ITA) | 78.06 m |
| Javelin throw | Matthias de Zordo (GER) | 79.92 m | Mark Frank (GER) | 77.76 m | Robert Szpak (POL) | 77.50 m |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Inna Eftimova (BUL) | 11.49 | Bettina Müller-Weissina (AUT) | 11.53 | Marika Popowicz (POL) | 11.57 |
| 200 metres | Marta Jeschke (POL) | 23.31 | Marika Popowicz (POL) | 23.32 | Inna Eftimova (BUL) | 23.59 |
| 400 metres | Libania Grenot (ITA) | 51.29 | Vania Stambolova (BUL) | 51.47 | Claudia Hoffmann (GER) | 52.65 |
| 800 metres | Élodie Guégan (FRA) | 2:02.38 | Sylwia Ejdys (POL) | 2:02.76 | Halima Hachlaf (MAR) | 2:02.86 |
| 1500 metres | Sylwia Ejdys (POL) | 4:17.78 | Sophie Duarte (FRA) | 4:19.89 | Nadia Noujani (MAR) | 4:23.90 |
| 5000 metres | Federica Dal Ri (ITA) | 15:57.20 | Chen Xiaofang (CHN) | 16:03.75 | Kaltoum Bouaasayriya (MAR) | 16:10.51 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Vania Stambolova (BUL) | 55.30 | Benedetta Ceccarelli (ITA) | 57.67 | Madelene Rondón (VEN) | 57.77 |
| High jump | Venelina Veneva-Mateeva (BUL) | 1.88 m | Mirela Demireva (BUL) | 1.85 m | Gu Xuan (CHN) | 1.80 m |
| Long jump | Nina Kolarič (SLO) | 6.55 m | Vanessa Seles (BRA) | 6.30 m | Petia Dacheva (BUL) | 6.25 m (w) |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Bulgaria)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Poland | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 2 | Italy | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | Bulgaria* | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | Qatar | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | France | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Germany | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Belarus | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Brazil | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | China | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | Algeria | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 12 | Morocco | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 13 | Slovenia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Austria | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Iran | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | Burundi | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Jordan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | United States | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 21 | Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Venezuela | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (23 entries) | Totals (23 entries) | 29 | 29 | 29 | 87 |