2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships

The 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was the fifteenth edition of the international indoor track and field competition, organised by the IAAF. The event was held between 7–9 March 2014 at the Ergo Arena in Sopot, Poland.

Preparation

Host bidding

The IAAF announced on 1 September 2011 that it had received bids from Poland and Croatia to host the championships. Later Zagreb, Croatia withdrew due to lack of funding. On November 11, 2011 at a Council meeting in Monaco, the IAAF announced that Sopot, as the only remaining bidder, would host the championships. Budapest, Hungary had shown interest but eventually did not bid.

Venue

Ergo Arena

The Championships were held at the Ergo Arena, opened in 2010, on the border of the cities of Sopot and Gdańsk. For the Championships it seated 11,000.^[1]

For the competition a six-lane, banked 200-metre oval, with a blue surface, was installed on the arena floor, with an eight-lane straight-away track in the center for the 60-metre sprints and hurdles. The track officially opened on 16 February and almost 6000 people came to the ERGO Arena to mark its inauguration. The indoor portable banked track made by Mondo used the company's "Super X" rubberized surface (two layers, total 13.5 mm thick), which was used at both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.^[2] After the competition the track has been dismantled and moved permanently to the newly built indoor arena in Toruń.^[3]

American television coverage

The IAAF again chose not to get wide coverage in the large United States market. Instead they sold exclusive rights to Universal Sports, a network associated with NBC Sports.^[4] Universal Sports can only be seen in about ten percent of the households in the American market.^[5][6] Universal Sports limited other distribution of the content, even online content requiring login with cable subscription user names.^[7] For those viewers without access to Universal Sports, nationwide coverage of the entire meet was blacked out. IAAF supported the blackout of coverage. Unlike previous World Championship meetings, IAAF's YouTube channel provided only post race interviews and no coverage of the actual events at the meet.^[8]

Schedule

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Richard Kilty  Great Britain	6.49 PB	Marvin Bracy  United States	6.51	Femi Ogunode  Qatar	6.52
400 metres	Pavel Maslák  Czech Republic	45.24 NR	Chris Brown  Bahamas	45.58 PB	Kyle Clemons  United States	45.74
800 metres	Mohammed Aman  Ethiopia	1:46.40	Adam Kszczot  Poland	1:46.76	Andrew Osagie  Great Britain	1:47.10
1500 metres	Ayanleh Souleiman  Djibouti	3:37.52	Aman Wote  Ethiopia	3:38.08	Abdalaati Iguider  Morocco	3:38.21
3000 metres	Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku  Kenya	7:54.94	Bernard Lagat  United States	7:55.22	Dejen Gebremeskel  Ethiopia	7:55.39
60 metres hurdles	Omo Osaghae  United States	7.45 WL	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde  France	7.46	Garfield Darien  France	7.47 PB
4x400 metres relay	United States Kyle Clemons David Verburg Kind Butler III Calvin Smith Jr. Clayton Parros* Rickey Babineaux*	3:02.13 WR	Great Britain Conrad Williams Jamie Bowie Luke Lennon-Ford Nigel Levine Michael Bingham*	3:03.49	Jamaica Errol Nolan Allodin Fothergill Akheem Gauntlett Edino Steele Dane Hyatt* Jermaine Brown*	3:03.69 NR
High jump	Mutaz Essa Barshim  Qatar	2.38 m AR	Ivan Ukhov  Russia	2.38 m	Andriy Protsenko  Ukraine	2.36 m PB
Pole vault	Konstadinos Filippidis  Greece	5.80 m SB	Malte Mohr  Germany	5.80 m	Jan Kudlička  Czech Republic	5.80 m PB
Long jump	Mauro Vinícius da Silva  Brazil	8.28 m NR	Li Jinzhe  China	8.23 m SB	Michel Tornéus  Sweden	8.21 m SB
Triple jump	Lyukman Adams  Russia	17.37 m WL	Ernesto Revé  Cuba	17.33 m	Pedro Pablo Pichardo  Cuba	17.24 m
Shot put	Ryan Whiting  United States	22.05 m	David Storl  Germany	21.79 m SB	Tomas Walsh  New Zealand	21.26 m AR
Heptathlon	Ashton Eaton  United States	6632 pts WL	Andrei Krauchanka  Belarus	6303 pts NR	Thomas van der Plaetsen  Belgium	6259 pts NR

• Note: * = Relay athletes who only ran in heats

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce  Jamaica	6.98 WL	Murielle Ahouré  Ivory Coast	7.01 SB	Tianna Bartoletta  United States	7.06 SB
400 metres	Francena McCorory  United States	51.12	Kaliese Spencer  Jamaica	51.54 PB	Shaunae Miller  Bahamas	52.06
800 metres	Chanelle Price  United States	2:00.09 WL	Angelika Cichocka  Poland	2:00.45	Maryna Arzamasava  Belarus	2:00.79 PB
1500 metres	Abeba Aregawi  Sweden	4:00.61	Axumawit Embaye  Ethiopia	4:07.12 PB	Nicole Sifuentes  Canada	4:07.61 NR
3000 metres	Genzebe Dibaba  Ethiopia	8:55.04	Hellen Onsando Obiri  Kenya	8:57.72	Maryam Yusuf Jamal  Bahrain	8:59.16
60 metres hurdles	Nia Ali  United States	7.80 PB	Sally Pearson  Australia	7.85	Tiffany Porter  Great Britain	7.86 SB
4x400 metres relay	United States Natasha Hastings Joanna Atkins Francena McCorory Cassandra Tate Jernail Hayes* Monica Hargrove*	3:24.83 WL	Jamaica Patricia Hall Anneisha McLaughlin Kaliese Spencer Stephenie Ann McPherson Verone Chambers* Natoya Goule*	3:26.54 NR	Great Britain Eilidh Child Shana Cox Margaret Adeoye Christine Ohuruogu Victoria Ohuruogu*	3:27.90
High jump	Mariya Kuchina  Russia Kamila Lićwinko  Poland	2.00 m SB 2.00 m =NR	Not awarded		Ruth Beitia  Spain	2.00 m SB
Pole vault	Yarisley Silva  Cuba	4.70 m	Anzhelika Sidorova  Russia Jiřina Svobodová  Czech Republic	4.70 m 4.70 m	Not awarded
Long jump	Éloyse Lesueur  France	6.85 m	Katarina Johnson-Thompson  Great Britain	6.81 m PB	Ivana Španović  Serbia	6.77 m
Triple jump	Ekaterina Koneva  Russia	14.46 m	Olha Saladuha  Ukraine	14.45 m	Kimberly Williams  Jamaica	14.39 m SB
Shot put	Valerie Adams  New Zealand	20.67 m WL	Christina Schwanitz  Germany	19.94 m	Gong Lijiao  China	19.24 m SB
Pentathlon	Nadine Broersen  Netherlands	4830 pts WL,NR	Brianne Theisen-Eaton  Canada	4768 pts NR	Alina Fyodorova  Ukraine	4724 pts PB

• Note: * = Relay athletes who only ran in heats

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	8	2	2	12
2	Russia	3	2	0	5
3	Ethiopia	2	2	1	5
4	Great Britain	1	2	3	6
5	Jamaica	1	2	2	5
6	Poland	1	2	0	3
7	Cuba	1	1	1	3
	Czech Republic	1	1	1	3
	France	1	1	1	3
10	Kenya	1	1	0	2
11	New Zealand	1	0	1	2
	Qatar	1	0	1	2
	Sweden	1	0	1	2
14	Brazil	1	0	0	1
	Djibouti	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
18	Germany	0	3	0	3
19	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
20	Bahamas	0	1	1	2
	Belarus	0	1	1	2
	Canada	0	1	1	2
	China	0	1	1	2
24	Australia	0	1	0	1
	Ivory Coast	0	1	0	1
26	Bahrain	0	0	1	1
	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
Total		27	26	25	78

Disqualifications

Athletes with track boundary disqualifications

Athlete	Nation	Event
Edino Steele	Jamaica	Men's 400 m semi-final
Saddam Hussain	Pakistan	Men's 800 m heats
Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	Men's 800 m final
Aníta Hinriksdóttir	Iceland	Women's 800 m heats
Nicholas Willis	New Zealand	Men's 1500 m final
Rababe Arafi	Morocco	Women's 1500 m final
Heather Kampf	United States	Women's 1500 m final
Yoann Kowal	France	Men's 3000 m heats

A number of athletes were disqualified for stepping over the inside track boundary and onto the in-field. The most high profile of these disqualifications was Poland's Marcin Lewandowski in the men's 800 m final. The host nation athlete originally won the bronze medal but a single step on the in-field led to his disqualification and the promotion of Great Britain's Andrew Osagie into the third podium position.^[10]

There was a similar occurrence in the women's 1500 m final, where Rababe Arafi took the bronze and she also received the honour in a medal ceremony. Half an hour afterwards, a review of race footage led to her being disqualified with Canada's Nicole Sifuentes being promoted to bronze position.^[11] Nick Willis, the original men's 1500 m fourth placer, was another high-profile disqualification.^[12]

Outside of the in-field track infringements, there were a smaller number of disqualifications. Reflecting the more physical nature of indoor competition, Richard Buck, Lisanne de Witte and Ioan Zaizan were all disqualified for obstruction or jostling. Siologa Viliamu Sepa and Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla were removed for lane infringement, while Michael Herreros' performance was erased due to improper hurdling. No athletes fell foul of the false start rule.

Doping

Athletes disqualified for doping

Athlete	Nation	Event
Kseniya Ryzhova	Russia	Women's 4×400 m relay
Nataliia Lupu	Ukraine	Women's 800 meters
Anca Heltne	Romania	Women's shot put

The Russian women's 4×400 m relay team was disqualified after Kseniya Ryzhovas doping sample from 7 March was found positive for trimetazidine.^[13][14][15] Nataliia Lupu (UKR) was disqualified from the Women's 800 meters after her doping sample was found positive for Methylhexaneamine.^[16][17] The Romanian shot putter Anca Heltne took part in the championships but was disqualifed from all her results after a doping control carried out on 7 February 2014 showed she'd been using the anabolic steroids Dianabol and Oral Turinabol.^[18][19][20]

Records

One championship record was broken at the competition: the American men's 4×400 metres relay team ran a time of 3:02.13 minutes, which was also a world indoor record for the event (a time of 3:01.96 minutes was set by an American team in 2006 but this was not ratified due to a lack of a post-race EPO drug test).^[21][22] Six area (continental) indoor records were broken at the competition, as well as two men's heptathlon championship bests and numerous indoor national records in athletics.^[23]

Athlete	Nation	Event	Performance	Type
Levern Spencer	Saint Lucia	High jump	1.95 m	NR
Tomas Walsh	New Zealand	Shot put	20.41 m	NR
			21.26 m	AR
Franck Elemba	Republic of the Congo	Shot put	17.74 m	NR
Brianne Theisen-Eaton	Canada	Pentathlon	4768 pts	NR
Mitja Krevs	Slovenia	1500 metres	3:43.22 min	NR
Wesam Al-Massri	Palestine	1500 metres	3:53.84 min	NR
Nadine Broersen	Netherlands	High jump (in heptathlon)	1.93 m	NR
		Pentathlon	4830 pts	NR
Ashton Eaton	United States	60 metres hurdles (heptathlon)	7.64 sec	Championship best
Farkhod Kuralov	Tajikistan	800 metres	1:52.36 min	NR
Brice Etès	Monaco	800 metres	1:51.24 min	NR
Yvette Lewis	Panama	60 metres hurdles	7.91 sec	AR
Andrea Ivančević	Croatia	60 metres hurdles	8.10 sec	NR
			8.09 sec	NR
Gnima Faye	Senegal	60 metres hurdles	8.15 sec	NR
Lavonne Idlette	Dominican Republic	60 metres hurdles	8.16 sec	NR
Reza Ghasemi	Iran	60 metres	6.58 sec	NR
Sibusiso Matsenjwa	Swaziland	60 metres	6.88 sec	NR
Faresa Kapisi	American Samoa	60 metres	7.14 sec	NR
Benjamín Véliz	Nicaragua	60 metres	7.27 sec	NR
Adrian Strzałkowski	Poland	Long jump	8.18 m	NR
Luis Rivera	Mexico	Long jump	8.01 m	NR
Eliane Saholinirina	Madagascar	1500 metres	4:19.64	NR
Georgi Ivanov	Bulgaria	Shot put	21.02 m	NR
Zane Robertson	New Zealand	3000 metres	7:44.16 min	NR
Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel	Kuwait	60 metres hurdles	7.74 sec	NR
Amir Shaker	Iraq	60 metres hurdles	7.96 sec	NR
Iong Kim Fai	Macau	60 metres hurdles	8.34 sec	NR
Nelson Camilo Acebey	Bolivia	60 metres hurdles	8.48 sec	NR
Natalia Ducó	Chile	Shot put	17.24 m	NR
Patricia Taea	Cook Islands	60 metres	7.93 sec	NR
Lovelite Detenamo	Nauru	60 metres	7.94 sec	NR
Vitaliy Butrym Yevhen Hutsol Dmytro Bikulov Danylo Danylenko	Ukraine	4×400 metres relay	3:07.54 min	NR
Tobi Ogunmola Noah Akwu Salihu Isah Cristian Morton	Nigeria	4×400 metres relay	3:07.95 min	AR
Maria Enrica Spacca Elena Maria Bonfanti Marta Milani Chiara Bazzoni	Italy	4×400 metres relay	3:31.99 min	NR
Verone Chambers Anneisha McLaughlin Natoya Goule Stephenie Ann McPherson	Jamaica	4×400 metres relay	3:29.43 min	NR
Gerald Phiri	Zambia	60 metres	6.57 sec	NR
			6.52 sec	NR
Gabriel Mvumvure	Zimbabwe	60 metres	6.60 sec	NR
Nicole Sifuentes	Canada	1500 metres	4:07.61 min	NR
Andrei Krauchanka	Belarus	Heptathlon	6303 pts	NR
		High jump (in heptathlon)	2.21 m	Championship best
Thomas van der Plaetsen	Belgium	Heptathlon	6259 pts	NR
Oleksiy Kasyanov	Ukraine	1000 metres (in heptathlon)	2:39.44 min	NR
Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	400 metres	45.24 sec	NR
Kamila Lićwinko	Poland	High jump	2.00 m	NR
Su Bingtian	China	60 metres	6.52 sec	NR
Aitor Gomez	Gibraltar	1500 metres	4:07.34 min	NR
Mauro Vinícius da Silva	Brazil	Long jump	8.28 m	NR

Participating nations

References

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