# 1998 IAAF World Cup – Results

These are the results of the 1998 IAAF World Cup, which took place in Johannesburg, South Africa on 11, 12 and 13 September 1998.

## Results
### 100 m

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 AME Obadele Thompson 9.87 (CR) 2 AFR Seun Ogunkoya 9.92 (PB) 3 GBR Dwain Chambers 10.03 (PB) 4 USA Tim Harden 10.03 (SB) 5 OCE Matt Shirvington 10.07 (PB) 6 EUR Haralabos Papadias 10.15 (PB) 7 GER Marc Blume 10.30 (PB) 8 ASI Zhou Wei 10.37 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 USA Marion Jones 10.65 (CR) 2 AME Chandra Sturrup 10.97 3 AFR Mary Onyali 11.05 (SB) 4 EUR Zhanna Pintusevich 11.08 5 RUS Irina Privalova 11.15 6 GER Andrea Philipp 11.25 7 OCE Lauren Hewitt 11.36 (PB) 8 ASI Yan Jiankui 11.47 |

### 200 m

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Frankie Fredericks 19.97 (CR) 2 USA Gentry Bradley 20.38 (SB) 3 EUR Troy Douglas 20.40 (SB) 4 ASI Koji Ito 20.40 (SB) 5 GBR Douglas Turner 20.51 (SB) 6 AME Sebastián Keitel 20.62 7 OCE Darryl Wohlsen 20.75 8 GER Manuel Milde 20.85 (PB) | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 USA Marion Jones 21.62 (CR) 2 AFR Falilat Ogunkoya 22.25 3 EUR Zhanna Pintusevich 22.35 (SB) 4 AME Beverly McDonald 22.36 5 RUS Irina Privalova 22.61 (SB) 6 GER Melanie Paschke 22.70 (SB) 7 OCE Tania Van Heer 22.93 8 ASI Yan Jiankui 23.19 |

### 400 m

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GBR Iwan Thomas 45.33 2 USA Jerome Young 45.37 3 AME Troy McIntosh 45.45 4 AFR Clement Chukwu 45.56 5 EUR Ashraf Saber 46.54 6 ASI Sugath Tillakaratne 46.70 7 OCE Patrick Dwyer 46.99 8 GER Stefan Letzelter 47.12 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Falilat Ogunkoya 49.52 (SB) 2 GER Grit Breuer 49.86 3 AME Sandie Richards 50.33 4 EUR Helena Fuchsová 50.40 5 RUS Olga Kotlyarova 51.20 6 USA Kim Graham 52.10 7 ASI Damayanthi Darsha 53.30 8 OCE Jane Arnott 54.36 |

### 800 m

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GER Nils Schumann 1:48.66 2 USA Mark Everett 1:48.73 3 AME Norberto Tellez 1:48.92 4 AFR Japheth Kimutai 1:49.16 5 EUR André Bucher 1:49.55 6 GBR Andrew Hart 1:50.07 7 OCE Shaun Farrell 1:50.69 8 ASI Cheng Bin 1:53.11 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Maria de Lurdes Mutola 1:59.88 2 RUS Yelena Afanasyeva 2:00.20 3 AME Letitia Vriesde 2:00.56 4 USA Jearl Miles Clark 2:01.58 5 EUR Malin Ewerlöf 2:02.61 6 ASI Zhang Jian 2:03.09 7 GER Heike Meissner 2:04.50 8 OCE Tamsyn Lewis 2:06.64 |

### 1500 m

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Laban Rotich 3:40.87 2 EUR Rui Silva 3:40.95 3 GBR Anthony Whiteman 3:40.99 4 ASI Mohamed Sulaiman 3:46.93 5 OCE Hamish Christensen 3:48.64 6 GER Mark Ostendarp 3:49.56 7 USA Jason Pyrah 3:52.10 8 AME Steve Agar 3:57.36 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 RUS Svetlana Masterkova 4:09.41 2 AFR Jackline Maranga 4:10.30 3 EUR Carla Sacramento 4:11.66 4 USA Suzy Favor-Hamilton 4:12.52 5 GER Luminița Zaituc 4:16.80 6 AME Leah Pells 4:18.37 7 OCE Mandy Giblin 4:29.50 8 ASI Liu Jing DNS |

### 3000 m

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GER Dieter Baumann 7:56.24 2 EUR Isaac Viciosa 7:56.47 3 AFR Tom Nyariki 7:59.46 4 AME Pablo Olmedo 8:10.58 5 ASI Toshinari Takaoka 8:12.19 6 USA Dan Browne 8:15.88 7 GBR Neil Caddy 8:16.81 8 OCE Alan Bunce 8:20.98 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Gabriela Szabo 9:00.54 2 AFR Zahra Ouaziz 9:01.35 3 USA Regina Jacobs 9:11.15 4 ASI Wang Chunmei 9:14.50 (PB) 5 RUS Olga Yegorova 9:16.72 6 GER Luminița Zaituc 9:18.01 7 AME Kathy Butler 9:30.34 8 OCE Natalie Harvey 9:38.22 |

### 5000 m

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Daniel Komen 13:46.57 2 OCE Shaun Creighton 13:53.66 3 GER Dieter Baumann 13:58.40 4 AME Pablo Olmedo 14:01.66 5 GBR Keith Cullen 14:13.32 6 USA Dan Browne 14:22.48 7 EUR Abdellah Béhar 14:24.41 8 ASI Chand Gulab DNF | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Sonia O'Sullivan 16:24.52 2 USA Regina Jacobs 16:26.24 3 AFR Berhane Adere 16:38.81 4 AME Nora Rocha 16:44.60 5 GER Irina Mikitenko 16:46.60 6 ASI Liu Shixiang 16:51.74 7 RUS Svetlana Baigulova 17:00.29 8 OCE Melissa Moon 17:10.48 |

### 3000 m Steeplechase

* Men
* Pos.
* Team
* Competitor
* Result
* 1
* GER
* Damian Kallabis
* 8:31.25
* 2
* AFR
* Bernard Barmasai
* 8:31.85
* 3
* ASI
* Saad Shaddad Al-Asmari
* 8:39.69
* 4
* EUR
* Alessandro Lambruschini
* 8:54.10
* 5
* GBR
* Christian Stephenson
* 8:55.67
* 6
* AME
* Wander do Prado Moura
* 8:59.06
* 7
* USA
* Pascal Dobert
* 9:08.36
* 8
* OCE
* Stephen Thurston
* 9:37.13

### 100/110 m hurdles

| Men (110 m) Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GER Falk Balzer 13.10 2 GBR Colin Jackson 13.11 3 AME Anier García 13.14 4 EUR Robin Korving 13.25 5 ASI Chen Yanhao 13.49 6 OCE Rod Zuyderwyk 13.78 7 AFR Shawn Bownes 21.33 8 USA Reggie Torian 30.29 | Women (100 m) Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Glory Alozie 12.58 2 USA Angie Vaughn 12.67 3 RUS Irina Korotya 12.77 4 AME Dionne Rose 12.78 5 GER Caren Soon 12.87 6 OCE Debbie Edwards 13.30 - EUR Nicole Ramalalanirina DNF - ASI Olga Shishigina DNF |

### 400 m hurdles

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Samuel Matete 48.08 (SB) 2 ASI Mubarak Al-Nubi 48.17 (PB) 3 AME Dinsdale Morgan 48.40 4 EUR Paweł Januszewski 48.49 5 USA Joey Woody 48.55 6 GER Steffen Kolb 49.77 7 GBR Anthony Borsumato 49.86 8 OCE Zid Abou Hamed 50.50 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 AFR Nezha Bidouane 52.96 (CR) 2 AME Deon Hemmings 53.03 (SB) 3 USA Kim Batten 53.17 4 EUR Ionela Târlea 54.01 5 GER Silvia Rieger 54.22 (PB) 6 RUS Anna Knoroz 56.09 7 ASI Li Rui 57.64 8 OCE Evette Cordy 58.00 |

### High jump

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 USA Charles Austin 2.31 2 AME Javier Sotomayor 2.28 3 EUR Sergey Klyugin 2.28 4 GER Martin Buss 2.25 5 ASI Zhou Zhongge 2.15 =6 OCE Nick Moroney 2.10 =6 AFR Abderrahmane Hammad 2.10 =6 GBR Dalton Grant 2.10 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Monica Dinescu-Iagăr 1.98 2 AFR Hestrie Storbeck 1.96 (PB) 3 USA Tisha Waller 1.93 4 RUS Yelena Gulyayeva 1.93 5 ASI Miki Imai 1.93 6 GER Alina Astafei 1.90 7 OCE Alison Inverarity 1.85 8 AME Juana Rosario 1.85 |

### Pole vault

* Men
* Pos.
* Team
* Competitor
* Result
* 1
* EUR
* Maksim Tarasov
* 5.85
* 2
* GER
* Tim Lobinger
* 5.80
* 3
* USA
* Jeff Hartwig
* 5.70
* 4
* ASI
* Igor Potapovich
* 5.60
* 5
* AFR
* Riaan Botha
* 5.60
* 6
* GBR
* Mike Edwards
* 5.40
* 7
* OCE
* Paul Burgess
* 5.20
* 8
* AME
* Ricardo Diez
* 5.00

### Long jump

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 AME Iván Pedroso 8.37 2 OCE Jai Taurima 8.32 (PB) 3 AFR Hatem Mersal 8.26 (PB) 4 EUR Kirill Sosunov 8.08 5 USA Roland McGhee 7.79 6 ASI Masaki Morinaga 7.76 7 GER Kofi Amoah Prah 7.75 8 GBR Steve Phillips 7.66 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GER Heike Drechsler 7.07 2 USA Marion Jones 7.00 3 ASI Guan Yingnan 6.74 4 RUS Lyudmila Galkina 6.73 5 EUR Tünde Vaszi 6.72 6 OCE Nicole Boegman 6.64 7 AFR Chioma Ajunwa 6.62 8 AME Flora Hyacinth 6.02 |

### Triple jump

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GER Charles Friedek 17.42 (SB) 2 EUR Denis Kapustin 17.32 3 AME Yoelbi Quesada 17.25 4 AFR Andrew Owusu 17.21 5 USA LaMark Carter 17.20 6 OCE Andrew Murphy 16.89 (SB) 7 GBR Larry Achike 16.69 8 ASI Duan Qifeng 14.09 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Olga Vasdeki 14.64 (CR) 2 RUS Tatyana Lebedeva 14.36 3 AME Yamilé Aldama 14.29 4 ASI Ren Ruiping 14.04 5 USA Sheila Hudson-Strudwick 13.76 (SB) 6 AFR Baya Rahouli 13.69 7 OCE Nicole Mladenis 12.86 8 GER Nkechi Madubuko 12.76 |

### Shot put

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 USA John Godina 21.48 2 EUR Aleksandr Bagach 20.45 3 GER Oliver-Sven Buder 20.42 4 AFR Burger Lambrechts 20.29 (PB) 5 GBR Mark Proctor 19.66 6 AME Yojer Medina 19.08 7 OCE Justin Anlezark 18.26 8 ASI Bilal Saad Mubarak 18.21 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Vita Pavlysh 20.59 2 RUS Irina Korzhanenko 19.04 3 USA Connie Price-Smith 18.79 4 AME Yumileidi Cumbá 18.76 5 ASI Li Meisu 18.00 6 GER Nadine Kleinert 17.60 7 OCE Tania Lutton 15.73 8 AFR Mariam Nnodu-Ibekwe 15.60 |

### Discus

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 EUR Virgilijus Alekna 69.66 (CR) 2 GER Lars Riedel 67.47 3 AFR Frantz Kruger 65.73 (PB) 4 USA John Godina 65.15 5 GBR Robert Weir 64.39 (SB) 6 AME Alexis Elizalde 62.53 7 ASI Li Shaojie 61.37 8 OCE Ian Winchester 60.56 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GER Franka Dietzsch 67.07 2 EUR Nicoleta Grasu 66.25 3 RUS Natalya Sadova 64.38 4 OCE Beatrice Faumuina 63.77 5 ASI Liu Fengying 60.42 6 USA Kristin Kuehl 59.88 7 AFR Elizna Naudé 51.39 8 AME Elisângela Adriano 51.26 |

### Hammer

* Men
* Pos.
* Team
* Competitor
* Result
* 1
* EUR
* Tibor Gécsek
* 82.68 (CR)
* 2
* GER
* Heinz Weis
* 80.13
* 3
* ASI
* Andrey Abduvaliyev
* 79.40
* 4
* AME
* Alberto Sánchez
* 73.71
* 5
* GBR
* Michael Jones
* 72.89
* 6
* USA
* Jud Logan
* 70.51
* 7
* AFR
* Chris Harmse
* 68.34
* 8
* OCE
* Justin McDonald
* 59.62

### Javelin

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GBR Steve Backley 88.71 (CR) 2 EUR Sergey Makarov 86.96 (SB) 3 GER Raymond Hecht 84.92 4 AFR Marius Corbett 83.53 5 AME Emeterio González 80.72 6 OCE Adrian Hatcher 73.75 7 ASI Zhang Lianbiao 68.35 8 USA Ed Kaminski DNS | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 OCE Joanna Stone 69.85 (PB) 2 AME Sonia Bisset 65.50 3 EUR Mikaela Ingberg 64.24 4 RUS Tatyana Shikolenko 63.77 5 GER Tanja Damaske 62.51 6 ASI Li Lei 59.45 7 USA Windy Dean 52.46 8 AFR Lindy Leveau 43.18 |

### 4 × 100 m relay

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GBR Allyn Condon, Marlon Devonish, Julian Golding, Dwain Chambers 38.09 2 USA Jonathan Carter, Curtis Perry, Allen Johnson, Tim Harden 38.25 3 AFR Seun Ogunkoya, Leonard Myles-Mills, Frankie Fredericks, Eric Nkansah 38.29 4 AME Bradley McCuaig, Édson Ribeiro, Sebastián Keitel, Claudinei da Silva 38.33 5 OCE Darryl Wohlsen, Damien Marsh, David Baxter, Matt Shirvington 38.78 6 EUR Thierry Lubin, Frederic Krantz, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims 38.80 7 GER Patrick Schneider, Holger Blume, Manuel Milde, Marc Blume 38.89 8 ASI Zhou Wei, Lin Wei, Yin Hanzhao, Han Chaoming 39.35 | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 USA Cheryl Taplin, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, Carlette Guidry-White 42.00 2 AME Tanya Lawrence, Chandra Sturrup, Beverly McDonald, Philomena Mensah 42.44 3 GER Melanie Paschke, Gabi Rockmeier, Birgit Rockmeier, Andrea Philipp 42.81 4 AFR Chioma Ajunwa, Endurance Ojokolo, Rose Aboaja, Mary Onyali 42.91 5 RUS Irina Privalova, Oksana Ekk, Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova, Irina Korotya 43.11 6 OCE Tania Van Heer, Lauren Hewitt, Sharon Cripps, Anna Smythe 43.40 7 EUR Katia Benth, Frederique Bangué, Fabe Dia, Petya Pendareva 43.70 8 ASI Saraswati Dey, Rachita Mistry, E.B. Shyla, Yan Jiankui 47.12 |

### 4 × 400 m relay

| Men Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GBR Mark Hylton, Jamie Baulch, Sean Baldock, Iwan Thomas 2:59.71 2 AME Michael McDonald, Troy McIntosh, Alejandro Cárdenas, Roxbert Martin 2:59.77 3 AFR Clement Chukwu, Ibrahima Wade, Arnaud Malherbe, Davis Kamoga 3:01.08 4 GER Klaus Ehmsperger, Jens Dautzenberg, Marc Alexander Scheer, Nils Schumann 3:03.65 5 ASI Ibrahim Ismail Faraj, Sugath Tillakaratne, Kenji Tabata, Masayoshi Kan 3:03.94 6 EUR Konstantinos Kenteris, Marc Foucan, Marco Vaccari, Pawel Januszewski 3:03.95 7 OCE Casey Vincent, Michael Hazel, Scott Thom, Brad Jamieson 3:08.57 DSQ USA Mark Everett, Antonio Pettigrew, Joey Woody, Jerome Young | Women Pos. Team Competitor Result 1 GER Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer, Ulrike Urbansky, Grit Breuer 3:24.26 2 AME Norfalia Carabalí, Deon Hemmings, Andrea Blackett, Sandie Richards 3:24.39 3 RUS Natalya Khrushchelyova, Svetlana Goncharenko, Yekaterina Bakhvalova, Olga Kotlyarova 3:25.15 4 USA Monique Hennagan, Rochelle Stevens, Kim Graham, Jearl Miles Clark 3:25.34 5 EUR Ionela Târlea, Yelena Rurak, Tetyana Tereshchuk, Helena Fuchsová 3:26.34 6 OCE Lee Naylor, Anna Smythe, Tamsyn Lewis, Tania Van Heer 3:31.67 7 AFR Ony Paule Ratsimbazafy, Amy Mbacké Thiam, Tacko Diouf, Falilat Ogunkoya 3:35.28 8 ASI Li Rui, Chen Yuxiang, Svetlana Bodritskaya, Damayanthi Darsha 3:43.60 |