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The IAAF World Indoor Championships is a biennial indoor track and field competition served as the global championship for that version of the sport. Organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the competition was inaugurated as the World Indoor Games in 1985 in Paris, France and were subsequently renamed in 1987 as they are known today.

They have been held every two years except for when they were held in consecutive years 2003 and 2004 to facilitate the need for them to be held in alternate years to the main IAAF World Championships (outdoors) in the future.

Championships

Edition	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	Events	Nations	Athletes	Top of the medal table
–	1985	Paris	France	18–19 January 1985	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	24	69	319	East Germany
1	1987	Indianapolis	United States	6–8 March 1987	Hoosier Dome	24	85	419	Soviet Union
2	1989	Budapest	Hungary	3–5 March 1989	Budapest Sportcsarnok	24	62	373	Soviet Union
3	1991	Seville	Spain	8–10 March 1991	Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo	26[a]	80	518	Soviet Union
4	1993	Toronto	Canada	12–14 March 1993	SkyDome	27[b]	93	537	Russia
5	1995	Barcelona	Spain	10–12 March 1995	Palau Sant Jordi	27	131	594	Russia
6	1997	Paris	France	7–9 March 1997	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy [1]	28	118	712	United States
7	1999	Maebashi	Japan	5–7 March 1999	Green Dome Maebashi	28	115	451	United States
8	2001	Lisbon	Portugal	9–11 March 2001	Pavilhão Atlântico	28	136	510	United States
9	2003	Birmingham	United Kingdom	14–16 March 2003	National Indoor Arena	28	131	583	United States
10	2004	Budapest	Hungary	5–7 March 2004	Budapest Sports Arena	28	139	677	Russia
11	2006	Moscow	Russia	10–12 March 2006	Olimpiysky Stadium	26	129	562	United States
12	2008	Valencia	Spain	7–9 March 2008	Luis Puig Palace	26	147	574	United States
13	2010	Doha	Qatar	12–14 March 2010	Aspire Dome	26	146	585	United States
14	2012	Istanbul	Turkey	9–11 March 2012	Ataköy Athletics Arena	26	171	629	United States
15	2014	Sopot	Poland	7–9 March 2014	Ergo Arena	26	134	538	United States
16	2016	Portland	United States	17–20 March 2016	Oregon Convention Center	26	137	487	United States
17	2018	Birmingham	United Kingdom	1–4 March 2018	National Indoor Arena	26	134	554	United States
18	2020	Nanjing	China	13–15 March 2020	Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium

Events

The events held have remained more or less the same since they originated, with the main alterations coming in the earlier years.

The 4 x 400 m relay race for both men and women was added to the full schedule in 1991 with the women's triple jump, the latter as an exhibition event before gaining full status at the following championships.

1993 saw the last time the racewalking events were included, and a 1600 m medley relay was tried but was dropped for future games; both were due to poor interest. This same year, a men's heptathlon and women's pentathlon were successfully introduced as non-championship events and have remained in place since.

In 1997 the women's pole vault entered the fray, two years before it made an appearance at the games' outdoor counterpart.

The 200 m was removed from the 2006 championships in Moscow onwards, as the event was deemed unfair and the results had become too predictable: the tight bends involved in the race meant any athletes not drawn in one of the outside lanes had minimal or no chance of winning.

Outstanding achievements

Seven gold medals

Mozambique's Maria de Lurdes Mutola won seven gold, one silver and one bronze medal in the women's 800 m from 1993 to 2008.

Natalya Nazarova has won seven gold and one silver medal from 1999 to 2008 in the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay.

Five gold medals

Cuban Iván Pedroso won five straight golds in the men's long jump from 1993–2001.
Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria won five gold medals in the women's high jump.

Four gold medals

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  Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia won three golds in the 3,000 m and one in the 1,500 m.


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  Sergey Bubka won four pole vault gold medals (three while competing for the Soviet Union and one for Ukraine).


• Cuban Javier Sotomayor won four gold and one bronze medal in the men's high jump.


• 
  Stefan Holm of Sweden has won four gold medals in the men's high jump.


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  Meseret Defar of Ethiopia has won four gold, one silver and one bronze medal in the women's 3,000 m.


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  Mikhail Shchennikov of Russia has won four gold medals in the 5000 m walk.

Championship records

Key to tables:
  Disqualified

X = annulled due to doping violation

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Championships	Place	Ref	Video
60 m	6.37	Christian Coleman	United States	3 March 2018	2018 Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	[1]
400 m	45.11	Nery Brenes	Costa Rica	10 March 2012	2012 Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	[2]	[2]
800 m	1:42.67	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	9 March 1997	1997 Championships	Paris, France		[3]
1500 m	3:33.77	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	7 March 1999	1999 Championships	Maebashi, Japan
3000 m	7:34.71	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	9 March 1997	1997 Championships	Paris, France
60 m hurdles	7.34	Dayron Robles	Cuba	14 March 2010	2010 Championships	Doha, Qatar	[3]	[4]
High jump	2.43 m	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	4 March 1989	1989 Championships	Budapest, Hungary
Pole vault	6.02 m	Renaud Lavillenie	France	17 March 2016	2016 Championships	Portland, United States	[4]
Long jump	8.62 m	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	7 March 1999	1999 Championships	Maebashi, Japan
Triple jump	17.90 m	Teddy Tamgho	France	14 March 2010	2010 Championships	Doha, Qatar	[5]	[5]
Shot put	22.31 m	Tomas Walsh	New Zealand	3 March 2018	2018 Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	[6]
Heptathlon	6645 pts	Ashton Eaton	United States	9–10 March 2012	2012 Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	[7]
	6.79 (60 m), 8.16 m (long jump), 14.56 m (shot put), 2.03 m (high jump) / 7.68 (60 m hurdles), 5.20 m (pole vault), 2:32.77 (1000 m)
4 × 400 m relay	3:01.77	Karol Zalewski Rafał Omelko Łukasz Krawczuk Jakub Krzewina	Poland	4 March 2018	2018 Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	[8]

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Championships	Place	Ref	Video
60 m	6.95	Gail Devers	United States	12 March 1993	1993 Championships	Toronto, Canada
400 m	50.04	Olesya Forsheva	Russia	12 March 2006	2006 Championships	Moscow, Russia
800 m	1:56.90	Ludmila Formanová	Czech Republic	7 March 1999	1999 Championships	Maebashi, Japan
1500 m	3:59.41 X	Yuliya Fomenko	Russia	9 March 2008	2008 Championships	Valencia, Spain
	3:59.75	Gelete Burka	Ethiopia	9 March 2008	2008 Championships	Valencia, Spain
3000 m	8:33.82	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	4 March 1989	1989 Championships	Budapest, Hungary
60 m hurdles	7.70	Kendra Harrison	United States	3 March 2018	2018 Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	[9]
High jump	2.05 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	8 March 1987	1987 Championships	Indianapolis, United States
Pole vault	4.95 m	Sandi Morris	United States	3 March 2018	2018 Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	[10]
Long jump	7.23 m	Brittney Reese	United States	11 March 2012	2012 Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	[11]	[6]
Triple jump	15.36 m	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	6 March 2004	2004 Championships	Budapest, Hungary
Shot put	20.67 m	Valerie Adams	New Zealand	8 March 2014	2014 Championships	Sopot, Poland
	20.85 m X	Nadzeya Ostapchuk	Belarus	14 March 2010	2010 Championships	Doha, Qatar	[12]
Pentathlon	5013 pts	Nataliya Dobrynska	Ukraine	9 March 2012	2012 Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	[13]
	8.38 (60 m hurdles), 1.84 m (high jump), 16.51 m (shot put), 6.57 m (long jump), 2:11.15 (800 m)
4 × 400 m relay	3:23.85	Quanera Hayes Georganne Moline Shakima Wimbley Courtney Okolo	United States	4 March 2018	2018 Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	[14]

Heptathlon disciplines

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Championships	Place	Ref	Video
60 m	6.61	Chris Huffins	United States	8 March 1997	1997 Championships	Paris, France
Long jump	8.16 m	Ashton Eaton	United States	9 March 2012	2012 Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	[15]	[7]
Shot put	17.17 m	Aleksey Drozdov	Russia	12 March 2010	2010 Championships	Doha, Qatar	[16]
High jump	2.21 m	Andrei Krauchanka	Belarus	7 March 2014	2014 Championships	Sopot, Poland	[17]
60 m hurdles	7.64	Ashton Eaton	United States	8 March 2014	2014 Championships	Sopot, Poland	[18]
Pole vault	5.50 m	Erki Nool	Estonia	7 March 1999	1999 Championships	Maebashi, Japan
1000 m	2:29.04	Curtis Beach	United States	19 March 2016	2016 Championships	Portland, United States	[19]

Pentathlon disciplines

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Championships	Place	Ref
60 m hurdles	7.91	Jessica Ennis	Great Britain	9 March 2012	2012 Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	[20]
High jump	1.99 m	Tia Hellebaut	Belgium	7 March 2008	2008 Championships	Valencia, Spain
Shot put	17.18 m	Nataliya Dobrynska	Ukraine	7 March 2008	2008 Championships	Valencia, Spain
Long jump	6.69 m	Natalya Sazanovich	Belarus	9 March 2001	2001 Championships	Lisbon, Portugal
800 m	2:08.09	Jessica Ennis	Great Britain	9 March 2012	2012 Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	[21]

Records in defunct events

Men's events

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Championships	Place	Ref
200 m	20.10	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	6 March 1999	1999 Championships	Maebashi, Japan
5000 m walk	18:23.55	Mikhail Shchennikov	Soviet Union	10 March 1991	1991 Championships	Seville, Spain
Distance medley relay (non-championship event)	3:15.10	Mark Everett James Trapp Kevin Little Butch Reynolds	United States	14 March 1993	1993 Championships	Toronto, Canada

Women's events

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Championships	Place	Ref
200 m	22.15	Irina Privalova	Russia	14 March 1993	1993 Championships	Toronto, Canada
3000 m walk	11:49.73	Yelena Nikolayeva	Russia	12 March 1993	1993 Championships	Toronto, Canada
Distance medley relay (non-championship event)	3:45.90	Joetta Clark Wendy Vereen Kim Batten Jearl Miles	United States	14 March 1993	1993 Championships	Toronto, Canada

All-time medal table

Medal table includes 1985–2018 Championships.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	120	79	73	272
2	Russia	52	48	45	145
3	Ethiopia	27	10	13	50
4	Great Britain	20	34	31	85
5	Soviet Union	19	17	17	53
6	Jamaica	17	23	11	51
7	Cuba	17	16	17	50
8	Germany	16	24	24	64
9	France	15	12	21	48
10	East Germany	12	7	5	24
11	Sweden	11	8	8	27
12	Kenya	10	14	15	39
13	Ukraine	9	14	11	34
14	Romania	9	10	9	28
15	Bulgaria	9	5	7	21
16	Czech Republic	8	8	11	27
17	Canada	8	4	15	27
18	Australia	7	9	5	21
19	Morocco	7	6	8	21
20	Mozambique	7	1	1	9
21	Italy	6	6	12	24
22	Netherlands	6	3	5	14
23	Ireland	6	2	2	10
24	Poland	5	11	17	33
25	Greece	5	3	5	13
26	New Zealand	5	1	4	10
27	Brazil	4	5	6	15
28	Portugal	4	5	4	13
29	Belarus	3	12	8	23
30	Bahamas	3	7	10	20
31	China	3	7	8	18
32	Kazakhstan	3	5	1	9
33	South Africa	3	4	2	9
34	Spain	2	20	15	37
35	Nigeria	2	6	3	11
36	Czechoslovakia	2	4	2	8
37	Hungary	2	2	3	7
38	Burundi	2	2	0	4
39	Switzerland	2	1	4	7
40	Croatia	2	1	3	6
41	Sudan	2	1	1	4
–	Authorised Neutral Athletes[1]	2	1	0	3
42	Grenada	2	0	0	2
	Venezuela	2	0	0	2
44	Belgium	1	4	4	9
45	Qatar	1	3	2	6
46	Denmark	1	3	1	5
47	Ivory Coast	1	3	0	4
48	Brunei	1	1	3	5
49	Bermuda	1	1	1	3
	Serbia	1	1	1	3
51	Ghana	1	1	0	2
	Namibia	1	1	0	2
53	Norway	1	0	2	3
54	Algeria	1	0	1	2
55	Costa Rica	1	0	0	1
	Djibouti	1	0	0	1
	Finland	1	0	0	1
58	Austria	0	4	0	4
59	Trinidad and Tobago	0	2	5	7
60	Slovenia	0	2	2	4
61	Estonia	0	2	1	3
	Iceland	0	2	1	3
63	Cameroon	0	2	0	2
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	2	0	2
65	Barbados	0	1	1	2
	Latvia	0	1	1	2
67	Botswana	0	1	0	1
	Cayman Islands	0	1	0	1
	Panama	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
	U.S. Virgin Islands	0	1	0	1
72	Japan	0	0	3	3
73	FR Yugoslavia	0	0	2	2
	Lithuania	0	0	2	2
	Mexico	0	0	2	2
76	Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	1	1
	British Virgin Islands	0	0	1	1
	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0	0	1	1
	Dominican Republic	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia	0	0	1	1
	Senegal	0	0	1	1
	Suriname	0	0	1	1
Totals (83 nations)		492	499	505	1496

Notes

^[1]  ANA was the name, under which Russian athletes competed in the 2018 Championships. Their medals were not included in the official medal table.^[22]

All-time placing table

In the IAAF placing table the total score is obtained from assigning eight points to the first place and so on to one point for the eight place. Points are shared in situations where a tie occurs.

Updated after 2016 Championships^[23]

Rank	Country				4	5	6	7	8	Medals	Points
1	United States	108	66+1=	62+2=	62+1=	43+2=	41+3=	28+1=	32+1=	239	2429.5
2	Russia	50+1=	42+3=	37+1=	25+1=	35	29+1=	20+1=	10	134	1358
3	Germany	28	28	28+2=	27+1=	30+1=	21+2=	19	20+3	86	989
4	Great Britain	16	30+1=	22+1=	20+1=	23+1=	20+3=	15	9+1	70	788.5
5	Cuba	16	17	13+2=	12	19+2=	10	13+1=	7	48	543
6	France	12	11	18+1	16+1=	14+1=	20+2=	13	15	42	536.5
7	Jamaica	16	20	10+1=	13+1=	18	11	5	5	47	523
8	Soviet Union	21	17	15+1=	16	7	5+1=	4	3	54	519
9	Spain	2	21	13	14+1=	15+2=	18	13+1=	11+1=	36	475.5
10	Poland	2+1=	10	13+2=	21+1=	8+2=	18+3=	6	8	28	412

See also

• International Athletics Championships and Games

Notes

References

External links

• International Association of Athletics Federation


• 
  Event History 1987–2003 from BBC