2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Heats
Key:  NR = National record, PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Final
Key:  AR = Area record, NR = National record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Final
Note: Marta Domínguez was disqualified in November 2015, but redistribution of the medals is not confirmed yet.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
The women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 21 and August 22.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Records
No new world or championship record was set during this competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Results, Heats
The first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualify.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Results, Heats
Key:  DNF = Did not finish, DNS = Did not start, NR = National record, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
The women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 22 and August 23.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Medalists
* Runners who participated in the heats only and received medals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Medalists
* *Original medalists Russia forfeited results and medals as a result of disqualification of Kapachinskaya.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Records
No new world or championship record was set during this competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Heats
Key:  DQ = Disqualified, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Final
Key:  SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 15, 16 and 18 August. The world-leader prior to the competition, Sanya Richards, was regarded as the favourite in the event, although her previous failure to convert circuit dominance to major championship success raised some doubts. Reigning Olympic and world champion Christine Ohuruogu entered the championships as only the 25th fastest in the world that year, although a low-key run up also preceded her previous victories. Jamaicans Shericka Williams and Novlene Williams-Mills were predicted as possible medallists, while Russian Antonina Krivoshapka held the second fastest time in the world prior to the tournament.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
All the favoured athletes made it through the heats and Motswana Amantle Montsho, a 2008 Olympic finalist, had the fastest time of the day with 50.65 seconds. Unusually, two of the race favourites, Richards and Ohuruogu, faced each other in the first round, with the Richards taking first place. The two faced each other again in the semi-finals, and Richards again beat the defending champion. The other two semi-finals were much faster, however, with five athletes breaking 50 seconds. Shericka Williams and Debbie Dunn set personal bests to qualify in the second final, and Montsho and Williams-Mills had run season's best to qualify – Aliann Pompey's national record was not enough to reach the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
In the final, Richards started the race quickly, leading the first 100 m. Krivoshapka pulled slightly ahead of her at the halfway, but Richards regained the lead on the final bend. She remained in front through the home straight and won in a world-leading 49 seconds flat. Williams overtook Krivoshapka on the final stretch to take silver with a personal best of 49.32 seconds, and the Russian retained third place for the bronze. Williams-Mills was close behind for fourth place, but it was Ohuruogu's fifth-place finish that drew more attention.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
Richards, often the fastest 400 m runner on the athletics circuit, won her first major gold medal of her career with the 38th sub-50 clocking of her career – the most of any athlete. After a lacklustre season, the 2007 World Champion Ohuruogu could not repeat the performance that had made her Olympic champion the previous year. Shericka Williams had twice lowered her personal best, and her silver medal winning performance was 0.02 seconds outside of Lorraine Fenton's Jamaican record. Krivoshapka's bronze was Russia's first medal in the event in the post-Soviet era.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 6 fastest(q) advance to the semifinals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats
Key:  PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each semifinal(Q) and the next 2 fastest(q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
Key:  DNF = Did not finish, NR = National record, PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Final
Key:  PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
The women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 17, 18 and 20 August.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
In the four major championships between 2004 and 2008, the twelve available medals were won by eleven different athletes. Yuliya Pechonkina was the only athlete to reach the podium twice in that period, having won the 2005 World Championships and won the silver at the same event two years later. With such a quick turnover, it was expected that new athletes would again be possible medallists, especially as Pechonkina and reigning champion Jana Pittman-Rawlinson had withdrawn prior to the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
However, 2005 medallist Lashinda Demus appeared to be a likely contender, having set the world-leading time of 52.63 seconds a month before the competition (significantly faster than any other athlete at that point in the season). Angela Moroşanu, Josanne Lucas were amongst the season's fastest hurdlers, but the gold and silver medallists from the Beijing Olympics, Melaine Walker and Sheena Tosta had not shown strong form.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
Demus and Moroşanu recorded the fastest times on the first day of the competition, which saw no surprise eliminations. Kaliese Spencer was the third fastest, making her seem a possible finalist. Reigning Olympic champion Walker was the fastest in the semi-finals, with Lucas the second fastest in a national record time. Spencer, winner of the second race, was initially disqualified but was reinstated upon review. Amaka Ogoegbunam, a Nigerian athlete, tested positive for metenolone (an anabolic steroid) after the semi-finals, becoming the second athlete of the competition to fail a drugs test after Jamel Chatbi.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
In the final race, Demus and Walker started fastest, with Lucas and Spencer not far behind. Demus took the lead near the final stretch but took the last two hurdles badly, allowing Walker to pass her to take the gold medal. Walker's time of 52.42 s was a Championship record and North American record, and only 0.08 seconds away from Pechonkina's world record. Bronze medallist Lucas had improved her national record by a significant amount (0.78 seconds) and fourth placed Spencer had set a new personal best.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
Walker had won despite modest performances in the season prior to the competition, while Demus failed to match her world-leading time she had set at the Herculis meeting in Monaco. Walker's run, which capped an Olympic and World double, was the second fastest in the history of the event. Josanne Lucas had significantly improved over the course of a year, knocking two seconds off her personal best, demonstrating her potential as a future medallist.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 4 in each heat(Q) and the next 4 fastest(q) advance to the semifinals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest(q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres
The women's 5000 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics were held at the Olympic Stadium on 19 and 22 August


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 5 in each heat(Q) and the next 5 fastest(q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres, Final
Key:  CR = Championship record, DNF = Did not finish, DNS = Did not start, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 19 August. Prior to the championships, there was no clear favourite for the race – the twenty fastest times of the season had been run by seventeen different athletes. The reigning World and Olympic champions, Janeth Jepkosgei and Pamela Jelimo, had not shown the dominance of previous seasons.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
The two fastest runners of the season, Caster Semenya and Maggie Vessey, had recently set personal bests but lacked any major championships experience, while third best Anna Alminova was a 1500 metres specialist. European Indoor Champion Mariya Savinova and Svetlana Klyuka, fourth at the Olympics, were other strong competitors. The 2007 World medallists Hasna Benhassi and Mayte Martínez, and Olympic finalist Yuliya Krevsun were also predicted as medal possibilities.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
The events in the heats resulted in a surprise decision: world-leader Semenya accidentally tripped Jepkosgei and the defending champion finished last in the first heat. The Kenyan athletics federation appealed the decision and she was reinstated to run in the second semi-final, and Semenya was not disqualified as her actions were deemed unintentional. Yuliya Krevsun, Elisa Cusma Piccione, and Zulia Calatayud were the fastest of the heat winners on the first day of competition. With only eight places on offer, there were a number of high-profile scalps in the semi-finals. The first race saw past medallists Calatayud and Benhassi fail to qualify, Svetlana Klyuka was fifth in the second heat, while Vessey and Jelimo dropped out in the third semi-final of the day. Caster Semenya was the fastest in the preliminaries with 1:58.66.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
In the final, Semenya lead the race from the halfway mark, and continued to increase her lead from that point onwards, winning her first World Championship gold medal in a time of one minute and 55.45 seconds. Krevsun was in second place near the end of final straight, but she faded a little and allowed Jepkosgei and Jenny Meadows to challenge her position. With just a tenth of a second between second and fourth, Krevsun fell behind the Kenyan and British athletes, who ended up with the silver and bronze medals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
Semenya's victory was one of the focal points of the championship, not just because of her achievement on the track at such a young age, but also because of the events that followed. Having beaten her previous 800 m best by four seconds at the African Junior Championships just a month earlier, her quick improvements came under scrutiny. The combination of her rapid athletic progression and her appearance culminated in the IAAF asking her to take a gender test to ascertain whether she was female. A number of South African governing bodies came to the defence of Semenya, saying the athlete had been treated unfairly, and world record holder Michael Johnson was highly critical of the way that the sensitive issue had been dealt with publicly.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 6 fastest(q) advance to the semi-finals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats
Key:  NR = National record, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Results, Semi-finals
Janeth Jepkosgei was tripped in the first round heats, and after protest by the Kenyan Federation, was added to the semi-finals; she will run in lane 7 of heat 2 along with Hazel Clark. The ruling was that the trip was accidental, by Caster Semenya, who was therefore not disqualified.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Results, Semi-finals
Qualification: First 2 in each semifinals(Q) and the next 2 fastest(q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Results, Final
Key:  PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
The women's discus throw at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 19 and August 21.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
Reigning Olympic champion Stephanie Brown Trafton was the favourite for the gold. She had set a career best and had the four longest throws of any athlete that season, although she had not competed since late June. Franka Dietzsch was another prominent performer: the 41-year-old was the defending champion and was making her 10th appearance of the tournament, but a weak season had underlined her waning powers. Cuban Yarelis Barrios looked set to build upon her World and Olympic silver medals from the last two years and Aimin Song had also performed well during the season. Veteran athletes Nicoleta Grasu and Natalya Sadova were also favoured to be among the top performers of the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
Chinese athletes led the qualification rounds with Ma Xuejun and Song topping their respective groups. Newcomers Żaneta Glanc and Dani Samuels rounded out the top four qualifiers. Dietzsch sole legal throw of the competition was not enough for qualification, leaving Nadine Müller as the only host competitor to make the final. Brown Trafton edged into the final, needed all three throws to take a best non-qualifier's position.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
In the final, Grasu and Barrios quickly established themselves with marks of 65.20 m and 64.44 m, respectively, in the first two throws. Samuels, Glanc and Müller proved themselves on their third attempts, each throwing over 62 metres. Brown Trafton and Ma Xuejun both threw poorly and were among the four athletes eliminated after three throws. Personal bests of 64.76 and 65.44 m in the fourth and fifth round put Samuels in the lead. On the final throws, Song threw only enough to move up to fifth place, leader Grasu fouled but Barrios responded, although her mark of 65.31 m guaranteed her only second place.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
Samuels was a surprise winner: at 19 years old, she was the youngest ever World discus champion, and she had progressed from Youth champion, to Junior winner, to the senior title in just four years. Barrios had matched her silver medal achievement at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and Grasu's bronze was her fourth medal in her career at the World Championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 61.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw
The Women's Hammer Throw event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 20 and August 22.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw, Records
Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 72.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw, Results, Qualification
Key:  NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result), Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw, Results, Final
Key:  NR = National record, PB = Personal best, WR = World record


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
The Women's Heptathlon at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 16 and August 17. A number of high-profile heptathletes did not feature at the competition, including defending champion Carolina Klüft and 2007 bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton, who were both injured, and Olympic silver medallist Hyleas Fountain, who failed to qualify at the national championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
Nataliya Dobrynska, the 2008 Olympic champion, was highly favoured to win the event, while Great Britain's Jessica Ennis was predicted to improve upon her own world leading mark of 6587 points. Tatyana Chernova, Ukrainians Hanna Melnychenko and Lyudmyla Yosypenko, and Germans Jennifer Oeser and Lilli Schwarzkopf were cited as medal contenders.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
After the first day, Ennis had built up a considerable lead, winning three of the four events and ending the day more than three hundred points ahead of second-ranked Dobrynska. Ennis' first day total of 4124 points was the third highest ever first day score in the heptathlon, behind Kluft and world record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee. On the second day, unusually for a heptathlon competition, Linda Züblin set a Swiss record in the javelin throw.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
Ennis maintained her lead with competitive marks in the long jump and javelin throw (her weaker events) and she won the final 800 metres race, gaining her first major championship gold medal and setting a world leading mark and much improved personal best of 6731 points. Olympic champion Dobrynska faded into fourth place on the final day, while Jennifer Oeser set a personal best for the silver medal and Kamila Chudzik took bronze, Poland's first ever heptathlon medal at the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
The competition represented a breakthrough for Ennis, who had missed the 2008 Beijing Olympics through injury and whose previous best result was fourth place at the 2007 World Championships. She was Great Britain's first gold medallist of the tournament, and she became the country's third woman multi-eventer to win a major global championship, after former Olympic champions Mary Peters and Denise Lewis.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Results, Javelin throw
Key:  NR = National record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Results, Final standings
Key:  DNF = Did not finish, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
The women's high jump event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany was held between 18 August and 20 August 2009.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
Reigning champion Blanka Vlašić had spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons largely unbeaten, but high-profile losses in the Olympic high jump final and the 2008 IAAF Golden League final spelled the end for her lengthy winning streak. The rise of Germany's Ariane Friedrich in the 2009 season had seen her take the European Indoor title and make the world-leading jump of 2.06 m. Having beaten Vlašić in three of their five meetings that season, she was one of Germany's best prospects for a gold medal on home turf. Outside of the two top high jumpers, Antonietta Di Martino and Ruth Beitia had also performed well that season and 2004 Olympic gold medallist Yelena Slesarenko was another strong contender.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
Vlašić had an unexpected setback before the qualifiers, suffering a deep gash in her head after hitting a doorway, but after receiving stitches she arrived at the stadium in time for the competition. All the expected finalists made their way through the qualification rounds.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
All but three of the twelve finalists managed the 1.95 m automatic qualifying mark, with Meike Kröger being a surprise second finalist for the host nation through her best non-qualifying mark of 1.92 m. Although the event was largely portrayed as a head-to-head between Vlašić and Friedrich, Russian Anna Chicherova proved to be a significant contender in the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
Performing before a sold-out stadium, Di Martino and Beitia finished their competition with a best of 1.99 m, leaving Vlašić, Friedrich and Chicherova to compete for the medals. The Russian took the lead, managing 2.02 m on her first attempt, while the Croatian and the German needed two and three jumps, respectively. Vlašić was the first over 2.04 m and Chicherova recorded three fouls, unable to pass the height. Friedrich, who was in third place, twice failed the height and raised the bar to 2.06 m to try to take the gold medal position. Her final effort, although close, was not enough and she finished with the bronze. Vlašić then raised the bar to the world record of 2.10 m, but failed to jump the height.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
Friedrich did not repeat the form which had seen her set a national record of 2.06 m at the Olympiastadion two months earlier, leaving Vlašić and Chicherova to repeat their gold and silver medal performances of the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. Vlašić, who became the first to win consecutive world titles in the event since Hestrie Cloete, said that she was surprised that 2.04 m had been enough for the gold medal and she expected to go much higher. Second-placed Chicherova said neither she, nor athletics commentators, had expected her to win the silver medal, but she had overcome prior injury concerns. Although gold had not materialised for Friedrich, she was happy with her bronze medal – her first at a World Championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 1.95 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump, Results, Qualification
Key:  Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
The Women's Javelin Throw at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics will be held at the Olympic Stadium on August 16 and August 18. The event featured four athletes whose ability was so much better than the opposition that Mirko Jalava of the IAAF said it would be a "major surprise" should another athlete beat them to the podium.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
The Olympic champion and world record holder Barbora Špotáková, and Beijing silver medallist Mariya Abakumova, had not matched their Olympic form of the previous year but remained strong contenders for the competition. The other two athletes came from the German team, which was headed by world-leader and two-time World medallist Christina Obergföll, as well as the veteran Steffi Nerius who won silver in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Osleidys Menéndez, Sunette Viljoen and Madara Palameika were the outside contenders.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
A modest qualifying round was highlighted by Abakumova's world-leading throw of 68.92 m, while German number three Linda Stahl and Slovenian Martina Ratej threw season's bests to qualify as the second and third best throwers. The first round saw the elimination of two of the season's top-six athletes, Palameika and Viljoen. On the final day, Nerius opened the competition in style with a season's best 67.30 m on her first throw, while Špotáková and Monica Stoian completed the top three with 64.94 and 	64.51 m respectively.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
With a throw of 65.39 m Mariya Abakumova moved into the bronze medal position, and she would remain there for the rest of the event. Obergföll and Stahl moved into the top six in round three, but the positions remained static thereafter. Neither Špotáková nor Abakumova (whose qualifying throw would have won the final) could find the form to dislodge Nerius from the gold medal spot. The 37-year-old German won her first ever World Championship gold medal in Berlin, in what was her final year in competitive athletics.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying distance 62.00 (Q) or the least 12 best athletes and ties (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw, Results, Qualification
Key:  Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
The women's long jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 21 and 23 August.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
In the final, Olympic champion Maurren Higa Maggi took the early lead as the first jumper in the competition. After three fouls, the second legal jump of the competition took Brittney Reese into the lead with a 6.92m. Tatyana Lebedeva's second round 6.97m put her into the lead for six jumps until Reese could take her third jump. Her season best tying 7.10 m (23 ft 3 1⁄2 in) settled the competition. No athlete improved over the final three rounds.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
In 2017, silver medalist Lebedeva's 2008 Olympic doping sample was retested and found positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol). Her Olympic medal was revoked. Ordinarily, a doping violation is followed by a two year ban which would include this championship. No changes in medals have been announced yet.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 6.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump, Results, Qualification
Key: DNS = Did not start, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump, Results, Final
Key: NR = National record, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon
The Women's Marathon event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 23, 2009 in the streets of Berlin, Germany. The race started at 11:15h local time.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault
The Women's Pole Vault event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany was held between 15 August and 17 August 2009. Yelena Isinbayeva was the strong favourite prior to the competition, a position enhanced further by the withdrawal of 2008 Olympic silver medallist Jennifer Stuczynski. Anna Rogowska was the only athlete to beat Isinbayeva in the buildup to the event. Fabiana Murer and Monika Pyrek had both registered strong season's bests but had suffered from indifferent form. European Indoor medallists Yuliya Golubchikova and Silke Spiegelburg rounded out the list of the season's highest jumping athletes.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault
In the qualifiers, the automatic progression mark of 4.60 m was not needed, as eleven athletes reached 4.55 m and Kristina Gadschiew progressed with 4.50 m. All four Russian athletes reached the final, as did all three vaulters of the host nation's team. Veteran American athlete and former world record holder Stacy Dragila closed her major championship career with a jump of 4.25 m, as she announced her intention to retire at the end of the season.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault
On the final day of the event, European Indoor champion Golubchikova was the first to experience disappointment, as a fall in the warm up left her unable to compete in the final. The Brazilian and British champions, Murer and Kate Dennison failed at the 4.65 m mark. Pyrek and American Chelsea Johnson passed that height on their first attempt, while Rogowska and home favourite Spiegelburg completed it on their second try. Rogowska was the only athlete to vault 4.75 m, at which point reigning champion Isinbayeva entered the competition. The Russian failed to clear the height and, after raising the bar, failed twice more and finished last in the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault
Given that Isinbayeva had a season's best of 4.80 m, an opener of 4.75 m was a risky decision that back fired for the athlete, resulting in her first major championship loss since 2003 and her first ever non-medalling performance in international competition. Rogowska, who had beaten her at the London Grand Prix a month earlier, won her first gold medal at a major championships, breaking Isinbayeva's dominance of the event. Pyrek repeated her form of the 2005 Championships to take a silver medal along with Chelsea Johnson, a relatively unknown athlete competing at her first major championships. For the first time in history of World Championships in Athletics, two Polish athletes took gold and silver medal in the same event.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 4.60 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault, Results, Qualification
Key:  NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result), NR = National record, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault, Results, Final
Key:  DNS = Did not start, NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result), SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
The women's shot put at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 16. Having set a world-leading and Oceanian record of 20.69 m in May, Valerie Vili was a strong favourite and defending champion. The seven best marks of the season all belonged to Vili, and only Anna Avdeyeva and Natallia Mikhnevich had thrown further than twenty metres that season. Former world champion Nadezhda Ostapchuk, Olympic medallist Nadine Kleinert and Gong Lijiao were other athletes who had a chance of reaching the podium.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
Home competitor Kleinert took an early lead with a new personal best of 20.06 m. In the second round, Gong moved up into second place with 19.89 m, a personal best that eventually won her the bronze medal. Vili responded with 20.25 m in the third round, and Kleinert also improved to 20.20 m. Vili proved superior, however, throwing over twenty metres three more times and finishing with a best of 20.44 m. This gave Vili her second World Championships gold medal. Avdeyeva and Mikhnevich rounded out the top five, both with 19.66 m marks.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 18.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put, Results, Qualification
Key:  PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
The Women's Triple Jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics will be held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 17. Cuban Yargelis Savigne had registered nine of the ten farthest jumps pre-championships and was seen as a strong favourite. The twice world gold medallist Tatyana Lebedeva and world-leader Nadezhda Alekhina were also considered possible medallists. The reigning Olympic champion, Françoise Mbango, had failed to perform well in the buildup to the championships and did not start the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
In the qualifying rounds, Asian record holder Xie Limei had the biggest jump of the day with 14.62 m, improving on her previous season's best by more than 40 cm. Savigne, Lebedeva, and Mabel Gay were the only other athletes to reach the 14.45 m automatic qualifying mark in what was a largely modest qualifying round.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
The jumps in the final of the competition were not of the standard shown in previous years, and favourite Savigne was largely unchallenged. She took the gold with a best of 14.95 m to become only the second athlete to win consecutive world titles in the event (after Lebedeva's 2001 and 2003 double). Second-placed Gay (14.61) won her first ever World Championship medal and Pyatykh reached the podium with a mark of 14.58 m. Biljana Topic set a Serbian record of 14.52 m for fourth place, but no other athletes managed beyond 14.50 m.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 14.45 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump, Results, Qualification
Key:  DNS = Did not start, PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Club Challenge
The 2009 World Club Challenge was contested by Super League XIII champions, Leeds Rhinos, competing in their second consecutive World Club Challenge, and 2008 NRL Premiers, the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. For the first time since 2003, the Australian champions defeated their English counterparts.


2009 World Club Challenge
The match featured 28 penalties and two punch-ups which resulted in rival Props Josh Perry (Manly) and Jamie Peacock (Leeds) sin-binned in the 20th minute. with Manly's three quick tries in the first seven minutes after the break proving decisive. Leeds scored three tries of their own towards the end of the match, but by then it was too late.


2009 World Club Challenge, Qualification, Leeds Rhinos
Leeds Rhinos qualified through being the 2008 Super League champions, defeating St. Helens 24 - 16 in the Grand Final. The Yorkshire club had already completed their first three rounds of Super League XIV before contesting the world Club Challenge, with wins in all of them.


2009 World Club Challenge, Qualification, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles
The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles clinched the 2008 National Rugby League Premiership with a 40-0 thrashing of the Melbourne Storm - an Australian grand final record, earning them a place in the World Club Challenge. Five months later they travelled to England, while other NRL clubs were starting pre-season trial matches against one another. Showing how serious Manly were, the week before the World Club Challenge the Sea Eagles had a warm-up match against Super League club Harlequins RL at The Stoop in London, winning 34-26.


2009 World Club Challenge, Qualification, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles
Manly played the first half against the Harlequins with their bench players, and their regular starters only had the second half to work out any cobwebs as most had not played since either the Grand Final or the 2008 World Cup which had concluded four months before the WCC. It was the second time in a row a visiting team had played a warm-up match before the WCC with Melbourne having done so in 2008.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
The last time the Sea Eagles had played in England was in the 1987 World Club Challenge, a game their coach Des Hasler played in. They lost to Wigan that night and were hoping to win their first World Club title this time around. Leeds had played in the Challenge twice before, defeating their Australian counterparts on both occasions. After their victory over the Melbourne Storm the previous year, the Rhinos were hoping to become the first team in history to win consecutive titles.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
The first 20 minutes of the match were played from end to end in a very even contest. A legal tackle by Manly's Anthony Watmough in the 16th minute on Leeds' pint sized scrum-half Rob Burrow knocked him out and he played no further part in the match. In the 20th minute a brawl erupted, front rowers Jamie Peacock and Josh Perry the main combatants. Both players were sent to the sin-bin and a penalty awarded to Manly.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
Sea Eagles captain Matt Orford opted to attack Leeds' line and Brett Stewart broke through the defence from dummy half to score the first points just after a quarter of the match had passed. Orford converted the try so Manly had a 6–0 lead.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
Seven minutes later the Sea Eagles were again down in the Rhinos' half when Orford put a short ball onto the chest of a flying Anthony Watmough from 30 metres out to race through the defence and score (video replays suggested that Orford's pass to Watmough might have gone forward, but it was ruled ok by referee Jason Robinson). Orford's conversion pushed the Australian club's lead out to 12–0.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
Manly could have put the game beyond doubt seven minutes before half-time when Watmough charged onto a pass and broke through flimsy defence before popping a soft pass to a flying Brett Stewart who somehow managed to drop the ball with a try under the posts seemingly seconds away. In the 37th minute Leeds were just into Manly's half when they kicked ahead, regathered and got the ball to Danny McGuire who made it over the line but had the ball stripped from his grasp by Matt Orford in a one-on-one tackle before he could ground it. Jamie Jones-Buchanan was there to press the ball to the turf however, so the try was given by the video referee. Kevin Sinfield missed the relatively easy conversion, so Leeds were down 12–4. The score did not change during the remaining few minutes of the half.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
Leeds started the 2nd half making a small break down the left hand side in the first minute after replacement Manly hooker Heath L'Estrange had given away a penalty. In the resulting play, McGuire got the ball to Ryan Hall who passed inside to Keith Senior who had the ball stripped on-on-one tackle by Jamie Lyon. The 2nd minute of play saw Manly make a break from the halfway line with Adam Cuthbertson getting the ball out to Michael Robertson on the left wing.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
Leeds winger (and former Manly player from 2003–05) Scott Donald attempted to tackle Robertson but he managed to get a pass away. Leeds centre Carl Ablett failed to gather the loose ball and managed to knock the ball straight into the waiting hands of Brett Stewart who had originally overrun the ball. The Manly fullback picked the ball up 12 metres out from the line and with no one to beat scored his second try of the night. Orford missed the conversion, and the score was 16–4 in favour of the visiting team.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
The Sea Eagles scored again one minute later as they were returning the ball from the kick-off. Michael Robertson made another break down the right wing and centre kicked ahead for Brett Stewart who got a perfect bounce. Stewart came close to scoring but was forced to swerve soon after gathering the ball by a converging Ryan Hall who was flying in off his wing. Hall finally brought the Manly fullback down just 10 metres from the Rhino's line.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
From dummy half the ball then went left to Watmough at first receiver before Leeds' defence could regather and he went over for his second try of the game. Orford kicked the extras so Manly had gotten away to a 22–4 lead.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
When returning the following kick-off as well the Sea Eagles scored again, this time Shane Rodney made a break 25 metres from his own line and got to the Leeds 40 metre line before finding L'Estrange in support who in turn popped a pass to Steve Matai who had an easy 20 metre run to the line (even had Matai been caught, he still had an un-marked Robertson in support).


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
Manly had scored their 3rd try in only 6 minutes and 45 seconds of the second half which had taken the game away from Leeds and silenced the mostly pro-Rhinos crowd, though there were a few Manly supporters scattered throughout the stadium and a group of supporters had come from Sydney to watch the Sea Eagles with Sky Sports television commentator Eddie Hemmings telling the audience that his director was finding them in the crowd as he himself was an Australian and just happened to be a Manly-Warringah fan. Orford missed the conversion so the Manly lead was 26–4.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
In the 64th minute, after Leeds got repeat sets of six down near Manly's line, they moved the ball from one side of the field out to the other, a quick no-look pass from Ali Lautiiti sending Keith Senior over the line. Sinfield kicked the extras so the Rhinos were down 26–10 with fifteen minutes remaining. After 71 and a half minutes, 30 metres out from Manly's line, Lautiiti made a run from dummy-half down the left side and threw another deft no-look pass to Ryan Hall who scored in the corner.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
Sinfield's kick from the sideline bounced through off one of the posts leaving the score at 26–16 with seven minutes of the match remaining. Another fight broke out in the 75th minute and again Leeds were penalised. The Sea Eagles opted to take the kick for goal, which Orford did successfully giving them a 28–16 lead. This made their lead 12 points with only 3 minutes remaining.


2009 World Club Challenge, Match details
Leeds got one more try in the final minute of the game, Keith Senior making a break from 60 metres out down the left wing before finding Danny McGuire in support to score in the corner just seconds before the final hooter. Sinfield's sideline conversion attempt was missed, so the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles had won the World Club Challenge for the first time, by a score of 28–20. Second-rower Anthony Watmough was named man-of-the-match.


2009 World Cup (men's golf)
The 2009 Omega Mission Hills World Cup took place from 26 November to 29 November at Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China. It was the 55th World Cup. 28 countries competed as two-man teams. The team purse was $5,500,000 with $1,700,000 going to the winner. The event was won by Italy with a score of 259 (−29).


2009 World Cup (men's golf), Qualification and format
The leading 18 available players from the Official World Golf Ranking on 1 September 2009 qualified. These 18 players then selected a player from their country to compete with them. The person they pick had to be ranked within the top 100 on the Official World Golf Ranking as of 1 September. If there was no other player from that country within the top 100 then the next highest ranked player would be their partner.


2009 World Cup (men's golf), Qualification and format
If there was no other available player from that country within the top 500, then the exempt player could choose whoever he wants as long as they are a professional from the same country. World qualifiers were held in September. Nine countries earned their spot in the World Cup, three each from the European, Asian, and South American qualifiers. The host country, China, rounded out the field.


2009 World Cup (men's golf), Qualification and format
The event was a 72-hole stroke play team event with each team consisting of two players. The first and third days were fourball play and the second and final days were foursomes play.


2009 World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships
The 2009 World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships is the 2nd edition of the World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships, and was held at Baku Sports Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan from June 11 to June 14, 2009.


2009 World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships
The participating male and female teams are divided into six groups each and the top four countries at the previous championship and the host country are seeded. Top six teams and two best-record teams among the second-placed teams in the men's and women's division of the preliminary round advance to the quarterfinal round. The quarterfinal, semifinal and final matches are conducted in a single elimination format.


2009 World Cup of Curling
The 2009 Grey Power World Cup of Curling was held October 21-25 at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.


2009 World Cup of Curling
The 2009 World Cup was the first Grand Slam event of the 2009-10 curling season. It was the first Grand Slam to be held in the Greater Toronto Area.


2009 World Cup of Curling
Previously, this event was known as the Masters of Curling, but in 2009 it was changed to the World Cup of Curling . The 2009 event will have a majority of its teams from outside of Canada. The event will feature one team from every country that will send a team to the men's Olympic event, except Canada, which will have five teams (the four teams that have already qualified for the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials plus defending Olympic champions, team Brad Gushue.


2009 World Cup of Curling
The total purse of the event was $100,000, with the Howard rink winning $24,000 of that.


2009 World Cup of Curling
For the third event in a row, Howard faced off against Koe in the final. Howard defended his previous three titles by winning his fourth straight event, and his eighth Grand Slam title. Koe has yet to win a title, having now lost six Grand Slam finals.


2009 World Cup of Curling, Three Nations Cup
In addition to the World Cup, which is a men's event, a women's "Three Nations Cup" was held. This small event featured teams Shannon Kleibrink and Stefanie Lawton of Canada as well as Wang Bingyu of China and Eve Muirhead of Great Britain. Many of the top women's teams however could not participate, as they were playing in the 2009 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic. The event was a round robin event, which was won by Great Britain's Eve Muirhead.


2009 World Cup of Pool
The 2009 World Cup of Pool (also known as the 2009 PartyPoker World Cup of Pool due to sponsorship) was a professional nine-ball pool, and the fourth World Cup of Pool, a scotch doubles knockout championship representing 32 national teams. The cup was played at the Annex of SM City North EDSA in Quezon City, Philippines from 1 to 6 September 2009. The Korean pair of Ga Young Kim and Yun Mi Lim were the first all-female team to participate at the event. The tournament featured a prize fund of $250,000 with the winner receiving $60,000. It was sponsored by online poker website partypoker.


2009 World Cup of Pool
The defending champions were Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening representing the US, who had won the 2008 event 11–7 over the English team of Daryl Peach and Mark Gray in the final. The USA team were defeated in the quarter-finals by the Chinese pair of Fu Jian-bo and Li He-wen 5–9. The event was won by the Filipino team of Francisco Bustamante and Efren Reyes, who defeated the Germans Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann in the 2009 final 11–9. The event was organised and later broadcast by Matchroom Sport worldwide, and locally live on Solar Sports and CS9.


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament format
The 2009 World Cup of Pool was a pairs nine-ball tournament played at the Annex of SM City North EDSA in Quezon City, Philippines. The tournament was played between 1–6 September 2009 as scotch doubles, with players taking shots alternatively. Matches were played as a race-to-eight racks until the quarter-finals, which were race-to-nine along with the semi-finals, and the final was a race-to-11 racks. The tournament was a single elimination bracket, consisting of 32 teams. Of the 32 teams, 16 were seeded; whilst 16 were unseeded.


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament format
The defending champions were the USA team of Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening who defeated Dennis Orcollo and Francisco Bustamante in the final of the 2008 event. The two other previous winners of the event also participated. The event was sponsored by online poker website partypoker, and organised by Matchroom Sport. The tournament was broadcast live locally on Solar Sports and CS9 and 31 one-hour episode were produced by Matchroom Sport broadcast worldwide.


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament format, Prize fund
Prize money for the event featured $250,000 with $60,000 being awarded to the winning team. This was similar to that of the previous year's event. Money earned by the team was shared between their players. A breakdown of prize money is shown below:


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament format, Teams
Participating nations for the event were announced on 31 July 2009, with 31 countries participating and two teams representing the host nation Philippines. The teams were announced on 14 August with all three prior winners of the competition participating. An all-female team, representing Korea, competed at the event for the first time. The teams are listed below:


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament summary, Early rounds
The tournament began on 1 September 2009, with the first round played until 3 September. The opening match of the tournament saw the French pair of Stephan Cohen and Vincent Facquet take an 8–1 victory over the Canadian team. The first two rounds were played as a race-to-eight-racks. The defending champion USA duo of Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening met the Maltese team of Alex Borg and Tony Drago in the opening match. The match was tied at 7–7, but a dry break by Drago allowed the USA team to win 8–7. The unseeded Indonesian pair won their opening round match over the Indian team 8–3 to draw the US in the second round.


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament summary, Early rounds
An all-female team competed for the first time at the event, with the Koreans Ga Young Kim and Yun Mi Lim. The pair led 3–0 before being defeated 5–8 by the ninth seed and 2007 championship winning team of Li He-wen and Fu Jian-bo from China, who won six racks in-a-row. The Filipino A side of Ronnie Alcano and Dennis Orcollo won their match against the Thai team 8–5, despite trailing 4–5.


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament summary, Early rounds
Japan were trailing 3–6 behind in their match against Croatia, before winning six straight racks to win 8–6. German Thorsten Hohmann commented that he would want to play with his partner Ralf Souquet above any other player after his first round match. The team defeated the Hong Kong duo of Kenny Kwok and Lee Chenman in a whitewash 8–0. Mika Immonen and Markus Juva, the 2007 runners-up Finland played Sweden in the first round. The Finnish team won 8–3 over Tom Storm and Marcus Chamat.


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament summary, Early rounds
The second round was played from 4 to 5 September. Thirteenth seed Spain played the fourth seed English side of Darren Appleton and Imran Majid. In the 13th rack, with the match tied at 6–6, David Alcaide called a foul on himself that neither the referee or the English side had seen. The English side won this, and the next rack to win 8–6 and eliminate the Spanish team. Following the match the reigning ten-ball world championship winner Darren Appleton called Alcaide a "great sportsman".


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament summary, Early rounds
The Philippine B side played the Italian team in the second round. The Italian team were trailing at 4–6, when referee Cielo Lopez deemed that the hair on Bruno Muratore's left arm had touched the cue ball. Later television replays were inconclusive if the foul was justified. The Italian team won only one more rack and were defeated 5–8. The Philippine A side of Orcollo and Alcano won eight straight racks after trailing 0–3 to the Russians to win 8–3. Russia's Ruslan Chinachov was only 17 years old; but missed some "crucial shots" during the match.


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament summary, Later rounds (quarter-final—final)
The quarter-finals were all played on 5 September as a race-to-nine racks. Both home Philippines teams reached the quarter-finals. Alcano and Orcollo defeated the Polish team of Radosław Babica and Mateusz Śniegocki. The Philippines trailed at both 0–2 and 4–2 before eventually winning 9–5. The other Filipino team played the English side, who won only one rack, when trailing by three racks, and eventually lost 1–9. Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening, the defending champions, were defeated by the Chinese team. China were 1–3 behind, but won seven racks in a row, and eventually won 9–5. The final quarter-final featured the German team of Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann defeating the Netherlands duo of Niels Feijen and Nick van den Berg 9–7.


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament summary, Later rounds (quarter-final—final)
The semi-finals were played on 6 September, as race-to-nine racks matches. The first semi-final, the Chinese and Filipino teams were at hill-hill 8–8. In the deciding rack, the Chinese team had the break, but Fu missed a two-ball combination on the second shot. The Filipino team of Reyes and Bustamante ran the rest of the rack to win 9–8. The second semi-final featured the other Philippine team face the Germans. The German team prevented an all home-nation final, winning 9–6.


2009 World Cup of Pool, Tournament summary, Later rounds (quarter-final—final)
The final was also played on 6 September as a race-to-11 racks match. Germany won the lag and broke first, but failed to win any of the first three racks. The German team won five straight racks to lead 5–3, before the Philippines tied the match 6–6. Rack 14 was a long rack, with a prolonged bout of safety play with Reyes and Bustamante both missing long pots. Souquet himself converted a long shot at the 9-ball to put the Germans up 8–6. The Filipino team won four of the next five racks to get to the hill at 10–9 ahead. The Filipino team won the next rack to win the match 11–9 and the tournament.


2009 World Cup of Pool, Results
Below is the results from the event. Teams in bold denote match winners. Numbers to the left of teams represents the team's seedings.


2009 World Cup of Softball
The fourth World Cup of Softball was held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA between July 16 and July 20, 2009. USA won their third World Cup by defeating Australia 3-1 in the Championship game.


2009 World Deaf Ice Hockey and Curling Championships
The 2009 World Deaf Ice Hockey and Curling Championships was held from April 10 to 18 in Winnipeg, Canada and was the first winter sporting event at which deaf hockey and curling athletes competed at an elite level.


2009 World Deaf Ice Hockey and Curling Championships
About 250 athletes from Canada, Great Britain, Russia, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and the United States participated in the event. More than 800 fans and participants were involved as well.


2009 World Deaf Ice Hockey and Curling Championships
To qualify for the games, athletes must have a hearing loss of at least 55 dB in their "better ear". Hearing aids, cochlear implants and the like are not allowed to be used in competition, to place all athletes on the same level. Other examples of ways the games vary from hearing competitions are the manner in which they are officiated. The hockey arenas are set up with strobe lights instead of blowing a whistle.


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2009 World Fencing Championships
2009 World Fencing Championships was held at the Antalya Expo Center in Antalya, Turkey. The event took place from September 30 to October 8, 2009.


2009 World Figure Skating Championships
The 2009 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2008–09 season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2009 World Figure Skating Championships
Results from these World Championships were used to determine the majority of the spots available for each country at the 2010 Winter Olympics: 24 spots in singles, 16 in pairs, and 19 in ice dancing, with the remaining spots determined at an Olympic qualifying event in the fall of 2009. As every year, Worlds also determined the entries by country for the following year's event.


2009 World Figure Skating Championships
The event was held in the Staples Center at L.A. Live in Los Angeles, California, USA from March 23 to 29, 2009.


2009 World Figure Skating Championships, Qualification
The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2008. The corresponding competition for younger skaters was the 2009 World Junior Championships.


2009 World Figure Skating Championships, Qualification
Based on the results of the 2008 World Championships, each country was allowed between one and three entries per discipline. National associations selected their entries based on their own criteria.


2009 World Figure Skating Championships, Competition notes
It was the first time that skaters represented Montenegro at an ISU Championship and the first time skaters represented Brazil and Ireland at the World Championships.


2009 World Figure Skating Championships, Competition notes
Kim Yuna set an ISU world record of 76.12 points for the ladies short program and a world record of 207.71 points for the ladies overall score.


2009 World Figure Skating Championships, Competition notes
In the men's short program, Sergei Voronov and Jeremy Abbott tied with a total score of 72.15. The tie was broken by the technical mark and so Voronov placed 9th in that segment and Abbott 10th.


2009 World Figure Skating Championships, Competition notes
It was the second year in a row that the world champion did not attempt or complete a quadruple jump, leading to continued criticism from bronze medalist Brian Joubert. Patrick Chan, the silver medalist, would then criticize Joubert, saying he was only concerned about quads and not the whole program. See also quadruple jump controversy for more.


2009 World Figure Skating Championships, Results, Men
Evan Lysacek became the first American to win since Todd Eldredge in 1996. His victory was described as unexpected, since he was not able to attempt a quadruple jump due to injury.


2009 World Football Challenge
The 2009 World Football Challenge was the first World Football Challenge event, an exhibition international club football competition featuring football clubs from Europe and North America, which has been held first in summer of 2009. Chelsea are the 2009 champions.


2009 World Football Challenge, Format
In 2009, each team played the other three teams in the tournament once in a round-robin tournament format, with each game played at a neutral venue in the United States. Chelsea emerged as the World Football Challenge champion for 2009. The following four clubs participated in the 2009 tournament:


2009 World Football Challenge, Venues
Six cities served as the venues of the 2009 World Football Challenge.


2009 World Football Challenge, Rules
Clubs received one point for each goal scored in regulation time (up to three goals per game). Clubs earned three points for a win that does not go into penalty kicks. After 90 minutes of play, if the match was tied, each team received one point and the winner of the penalty kicks received an additional point. The team with the highest overall number of points determined the World Football Challenge champion.


2009 World Games
The 2009 World Games (Chinese: 2009年世界運動會; pinyin: 2009 Nián shìjiè yùndònghuì) the eighth edition of the World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (under the name Chinese Taipei) from 16 July 2009 to 26 July 2009. The games featured sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games.


2009 World Games
Nearly 6,000 athletes, officials, coaches, referees and others from 101 countries participated in the 2009 Kaohsiung World Games, setting a record high for the multi-sport competition. The International World Games Association (IWGA) President Ron Froehlich praised the July 16–26 games as the "best games ever."


2009 World Games, Emblem
The design of the emblem for The World Games 2009 is based on the first Chinese character in the city’s name. The character " kao" (高) means high or superior in English. The toponym stylized as a multicolored ribbon aims to create an atmosphere of festivity and celebration. The warm colors, orange and magenta, at the top and green and blue at the bottom symbolize the sun rising over the ocean and mirror Kaohsiung well: a passionate city with plenty of sunshine – a vibrant metropolis by the sea.


2009 World Games, Mascots
Gao Mei (高妹) and Syong Ge (雄哥) are named after the host city, Kaohsiung (according to Tongyong Pinyin). They are intended to personify it as "a city of the sea and the sun", to emphasize "ecology and environmental protection", and to symbolize the "friendliness and hospitality" of the city's residents.


2009 World Games, Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony, on July 16, was held in the Main Stadium, and involved 4,000 performers. It was designed to provide "a platform for the world to understand Taiwan better", and focused on music, dancing and depictions of Taiwanese culture, including its aboriginal culture. The ceremony was watched by an estimated 100 million people worldwide.


2009 World Games, Opening ceremony
Among the foreign dignitaries in attendance was the President of Nauru, Marcus Stephen, one of Taiwan's diplomatic allies and himself a former athlete, having won seven gold medals in weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games.


2009 World Games, Opening ceremony
Although China had sent athletes to compete, they were absent from the opening ceremony, reportedly due to Ma Ying-jeou inaugurating the Games in his capacity as the head of state.


2009 World Games, News Conference
Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu said the city has shown "soft" power in staging The World Games that concluded and praised Kaohsiung residents for their passion in participating in the event. The mayor spoke at a news conference held after the closing ceremony during which International World Games Association (IWGA) President Ron Froehlich praised the July 16–26 games as the "best games ever."


2009 World Games, News Conference
Chen noted that after the city was awarded the right to host the Games in 2005, it was determined to make it a success, and she said the city showed "confidence and competence" in staging the first international sports event held in Taiwan after "numerous daunting coordination challenges." She also praised the maturity of Kaohsiung residents, saying that their enthusiastic participation and passionate cheering for athletes from every country was "touching." Revenues from ticket sales at The World Games have been initially estimated at NT$65 million. Chen noted Froehlich's praise of Kaohsiung, which she said has displayed friendship, cooperation and community participation, and offered her best wishes to Cali, Colombia, which will host the next World Games in 2013.


2009 World Games, News Conference
She said Kaohsiung is an open, rich and pluralistic city that respects human rights and tolerates different views and politicalstances as long as they are expressed in a peaceful manners. Concerning the absence of the athletes from China, which was reported to be a boycott, from the opening and closing ceremonies of The World Games, she said that as a big country, she expected it to show more grace and tolerance.


2009 World Games, Sports, Official sports
The 2009 World Games programme featured 31 official sports, and 5 invitational sports. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events, which were contested in each sports discipline.


2009 World Games, Doping
On 16 September 2009, the IWGA announced that there had been several doping violations at the recently completed 2009 Games. On 26 October 2009, the IWGA Anti- Doping Panel decided on punitive measures against five medal-winners (four bodybuilders and a sumo athlete). The measures included the stripping of three gold and two silver medals, as well as lifetime bans from The World Games for three bodybuilders. The IWGA has made no announcement of reallocation of the forfeited bodybuilding medals. The International Sumo Federation reallocated the medals for the affected sumo event.


2009 World Games, Doping
In 2010, all medals in the sport of bodybuilding were removed from the medal table at the host organizer's website (worldgames2009.tw, "The World Games 2009 Kaohsiung"), which is now archived. However, all medals as first bestowed still appear at The World Games website (theworldgames.org) in both look-up and full result reports. The sport of bodybuilding has not appeared at a subsequent edition of The World Games.


2009 World Games, Medal table, Official sports
The medal tally during the eighth World Games is as follows. Russia finished at the top of the final medal table. Excluded are four bodybuilding medals forfeited for doping and not reallocated. In two events there were two bronze medals awarded because of ties for third-place: women's 100m finswimming and women's life saving combined relay.


2009 World Games, Calendar
In the following calendar for The World Games 2009, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport were held. Each bullet in these boxes is an event final, the number of bullets per box representing the number of finals that were contested on that day. On the left the calendar lists each sport with events held during the Games, and at the right how many gold medals were won in that sport. There is a key at the top of the calendar to aid the reader.


2009 World Grand Prix (darts)
The 2009 Skybet World Grand Prix was the twelfth instance of the darts tournament held by the Professional Darts Corporation, the World Grand Prix. It was held from 5–11 October 2009. It was staged at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. The event featured a tournament record prize fund of £350,000 with £100,000 going to the winner.


2009 World Grand Prix (darts)
Phil Taylor successfully defended his title, beating Raymond van Barneveld 6-3 in the final to win the World Grand Prix for the ninth time.


2009 World Grand Prix (darts), Format
The tournament's usual format was in play with the usual 501 legs double-in double-out format (the World Grand Prix remains the only televised darts tournament to use the double-in format). The first round's games were best of 3 sets - the quickfire nature of this round means shocks are frequent in this round, not least involving eight-time champion Phil Taylor who, three times, has gone out in the first round here. Second round games were best of 5 sets, the quarter finals best of 7 sets, the semi finals best of 9 sets, and the final was best of 11 sets. All sets were best of 5 legs/first to three legs.


2009 World Grand Prix (darts), Prize money
A tournament record prize fund of £350,000 was available to the participants, divided based on the following performances:


2009 World Grand Prix (darts), Qualification
The field of 32 players was mostly made up from the top 16 players in the  on September 7, following the two Players Championship events in Salzburg, Austria. The top 8 from these rankings were also the seeded players. The remaining 16 places went to the top 12 non-qualified players from the , and then to the top 4 non-qualified residents of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland from the 2009 Players Championship Order of Merit who have competed in at least six Players Championship events.


2009 World Grand Prix (darts), Television coverage and sponsorship
As usual and since its inception the tournament was screened by Sky Sports.


2009 World Grand Prix (darts), Television coverage and sponsorship
The tournament was sponsored for the last time by Sky Bet after five years.


2009 World Indoor Archery Championships
The 2009 World Indoor Target Archery Championships were held in Rzeszów, Poland from April 3 to 8, 2009. A total of 37 countries participated.


2009 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The 2009 World Indoor Bowls Championships  was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, from 05-26 January 2009. The event was sponsored by Potters Holidays.


2009 World Indoor Bowls Championship
Billy Jackson won the Men's singles defeating Robert Weale in the final.


2009 World Interuniversity Games
The 2009 World Interuniversity Games were the 11th edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS, and took place in Milan, Italy, from October 12 to October 16, 2009.


2009 World Interuniversity Games, Hosting
After 5 years, the Games were once again held in Italy. After Rome 2003, Milan in the Lombardy region hosted the 2009 Games. The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore acted as the host university.


2009 World Interuniversity Games, Competitions
Teams participated in 8 different competitions (5 sports). For the first time a Golf and Pitch&Putt competition was held.


2009 World Jiu-Jitsu Championship
The 2009 World Jiu-Jitsu Championship was held at California State University in Long Beach, California, USA, on March 27, 28 and 29, 2009.


2009 World Jiu-Jitsu Championship
The competition was sponsored by the United States Brazilian jiu-jitsu Federation.


2009 World Jiu-Jitsu Championship
In the adult and juvenile category, 'Alliance' came in first. Gracie Humaita won first place among the female contenders, and Gracie Barra took first place in the novice category.


2009 World Judo Championships
The 2009 World Judo Championships was held in the Ahoy indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on 26 to 30 August.


2009 World Judo Championships
Women's heavyweight champion Tong Wen was stripped of her gold medal because of a doping offence, but was later reinstated.


2009 World Junior A Challenge
The 2009 World Junior A Challenge was an international Junior "A" ice hockey tournament hosted by Hockey Canada. The 2009 World Junior A Challenge was hosted by the Canadian City of Summerside, Prince Edward Island from November 1 to November 8, 2009 at the Consolidated Credit Union Place.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Teams
The two host Canadian teams will return, along with Russia, Belarus, and United States. Replacing Germany at this event will be Sweden attending for the first time in the tournament's four-year history.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Exhibition
The first game of exhibition for the 2009 tournament was between Canada West and Belarus at the Charlottetown Civic Centre in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on October 29, 2009. After a scoreless first period, Belarus jumped to a 2–0 lead in the second. Canada West scored twice in the third, including the tying goal with one second of play remaining to force overtime. Overtime was scoreless, which led to a shootout. Kellen Jones of Canada West scored the only goal of the shootout to get the 1–0 shootout win on three penalty shots each.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Exhibition
The same night, at the Colchester Legion Stadium in Truro, Nova Scotia, the Maritime Junior A Hockey League All-Stars challenged Canada East. The Maritimers led 3-1 after the first period and 5-4 after the second. In the third, Canada East scored the lone goal to force overtime. OT solved nothing and led to a lengthy shootout. The MJAHL's Nick Huard made it 1–0 on the first shot, Canada East's Andrew Calof made it 1–1 on the next shot.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Exhibition
The MJAHL's Darcy Ashley made it 2–1 on the third shot and Canada East's Brock Higgs scored to knot it at 2 on the sixth shot. After the first six shooters, the shootout became sudden death. All of the next eight penalty shots were stopped before the MJAHL's Stuart Lenehan made it 3–2 on the 15th shot of the shootout. Jeff Vanderlugt of Canada East tied it at 3 on the next shot.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Exhibition
On the 17th shot of the shootout, the MJAHL's Matt Milson made it 4-3 and on the 18th Canada East's Kyle Just could not beat the MJAHL's Kirk Rafuse, ending the game as a 6–5 shootout victory for the MJAHL All-Stars. The irony of this MJAHL victory is that the Canada East squad represents the MJAHL at the WJAC, and that the Canada East active roster has no MJAHL players on it.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Exhibition
On the second and final day of exhibition games, October 30, 2009, The MJAHL All-Stars concluded their involvement in the 2009 WJAC with a 5–4 victory over Belarus at the Amherst Stadium in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Despite being outshot, the Maritimers led 2-0 and 5–2 at different parts of the game and survived the late rally by Belarus. At the O'Leary Community Sports Centre in O'Leary, Prince Edward Island, Canada East routed Russia 9–1. The Canadians jumped to an early 4–0 lead and finished the first leading 4–1. After the second it was 7–1.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Exhibition
Canada East fumbled the Russian net with shots, leading in the category 44–28. The final game of the night was between the United States and Canada West at the Montague and Area Wellness Centre in Montague, Prince Edward Island, a rematch of the 2008 World Junior A Challenge final. Despite being tied 2–2 at the end of the first, the defending champs from the United States scored three unanswered goals to finish off the game 5–2. Canada West outshot them 30–27.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Round Robin
The Canada West squad and Russia kicked off the 2009 WJAC festivities on November 1, 2009. Despite outshooting the Russians, the Russians played a tight defensive game and held on to a tight 2–1 victory to take early control of Pool A. In the late game, Canada East and the United States squared off in a fierce battle. Tied 4-4 after regulation and overtime, the game went to a shootout. Canada East went 3 for 3 on the shootout to win the game, while the United States managed 2 for 3 because they did not manage to score on their final shot, picking up only the regulation tie.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Round Robin
On the second day of the round robin, Russia played Sweden. This was Sweden's first ever WJAC game. Despite being badly outshot by the Swedes, the Russians put on another defensive clinic and won the game 3–2 in a shootout to clinch Pool A's top spot. In the second game of the day, Canada East and Belarus squared off in a real barn burner. Combining for 12 goals, the Canadians won 7–5 to clinch the top spot of Pool B for the playoff round.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Round Robin
To start the final day of the round robin, Canada West took on Sweden. Despite badly outshooting the Canadians, the Swedes could not keep the puck out of their own net resulting in a 6–3 loss. Canada West finishes second in Pool A, while Sweden finishes third in Pool A. In the final game of the round robin, the United States bombed the Belorussians 6–1 to take the second seed in Pool B, the third seed in Pool B automatically went to Belarus with the loss.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Quarter-final
On November 5, 2009, the United States and Sweden met in the early game of the quarter-final. In a tight battle the USA maintained the scoring edge to relegate Sweden to the 5th place game on Saturday with a 3–1 win. In the late game, Canada West dominated the Belorussians with a 7–3 victory. Belarus will meet Sweden in the aforementioned 5th place game, while the United States will play Russia in Semi-final A and the two Canadian squads will face-off in Semi-final B.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, 5th place and semifinal
On November 6, in Semi-final A, Russia and the United States squared off for a berth into the Gold Medal game. The Americans had built up an early 4–0 lead by the halfway point of the game, but the Russians stormed back to make it 4-3 late in the game. The Americans scored two late goals to clinch the victory and a chance for their second straight gold medal; the Russian were forced to play for bronze. In Semi-final B, the two Canadian teams met in the tournament for the first time since 2007.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, 5th place and semifinal
Canada West led 2-1 after one and 7-1 after two, as Canada East were chased out of the building with a 9–1 loss. Kunyk scored a hat-trick for Canada West in the win. Canada West competed against the United States in the Gold Medal Game, a rematch of the 2008 World Junior A Challenge, while Canada East and Russia played for Bronze.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, 5th place and semifinal
The next day, Sweden and Belarus fought for fifth place in the tournament. Kachan and Remezov had given Belarus a 2–0 lead by the end of the second. Dyk and Almquist scored to tie it up early in the third. Remezov scored again for Belarus and soon after Johansson scored to tie it for Sweden. Late in the game Drozd scored for Belarus to give them a 4–3 edge, then Mallauka capped it off with an empty-net goal to finish off the Swedes.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Bronze and Gold
In the Bronze Medal Game, Canada East dropped a 6-2 decision to Russia. For the first time in tournament history the Eastern Canadians walk away without a medal, but for the first time since the 2006 World Junior A Challenge Russia finishes higher than fourth.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Summary, Bronze and Gold
The Gold Medal Game was a tight affair. Canada West and the United States were tied 0-0 after the first and 1-1 after the second. Early in the third, the Americans made it 2-1 and held on for the victory. Canada West's Sean Bonar was selected as the tournament MVP.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Belarus
Players: Stanislau Artynski, Siarhei Bahaleisha, Aliaksandr Baradulia, Valeri Bojarskih, Kiryl Brykun, Siarhei Drozd, Dzianis Hrybko, Allaksandr Kachan, Siahei Karolik, Mikhail Kharamanda, Viacheslau Makritski, Siarhei Maliauka, Raman Malinouski, Evgeniy Nagachev, Viachaslau Raitsou, Nikita Remezov, Aliaksei Sardovik, Siarhei Sheleh, Ilya Silik, Aliaksandr Siomachkin, Dzmitry Volkau, Kanstantin Zholudzeu.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Canada East
Players: Nick Avgerinos, Simon Bessette, Andrew Calof, Colin Campbell, Greg Carey, Scott Dawson, Matt Ginn, Sacha Guimond, Alex Guptill, Brock Higgs, Sean Hoyt, Kyle Just, Jacob Laliberté, Lucas Lessio, Jonathon Milley, Jordan Mustard, David Pratt, Ben Reinhardt, David Roy, Jordan Ruby, Jeff Vanderlugt, Tyler Wilson.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Canada East
Staff: Todd Gill, James Richmond, Patrice Bosch, Troy Ryan, Marty Abrams, Lawrence McKinnon, Carter Walsh, Ralph Manning, Jack Ferguson.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Canada West
Players: Mathew Bodie, Sean Bonar, Clarke Breitkreuz, Kyle Breukelman, Daniel Carr, John Dunbar, Lee Christensen, Madison Dias, Grayson Downing, Tanner Fritz, Curtis Gedig, Kirby Halcrow, Connor Jones, Kellen Jones, Cody Kunyk, Joey Laleggia, Ryan Marshall, Wes McLeod, Brendan O'Donnell, Dustin Pearson, Cam Reid, Peter Stoykewych.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Canada West
Staff: Rylan Ferster, Barry Butler, Larry Wintoneak, Jomar Cruz, Leonard Strandberg, Harley Palmer, Bill Marr.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Russia
Players: Artur Amirov, Viktor Antipin, Daniil Apalkov, Zakhar Arzamastsev, Sergey Barbashev, Kirill Brashkin, Emil Galimov, Ivan Gavrilenko, Efim Gurkin, Nikita Gusev, Ildar Isangulov, Vladislav Kartaev, Sergey Kostenko, Ivan Krasnov, Jan Krasovskiy, Pavel Kulikov, Alexander Kuznetsov, Nikita Lukin, Roman Lyubimov, Alexey Marchenko, Vladislav Namestnikov, Pavel Suchkov, Maxim Tomkin, Nail Yakupov, Ignat Zemchenko, Seman Zherebtsov, Vitaly Zotov, Gleb Zyryanov.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Russia
Staff: Mikhail Vasiliev, Viktor Krutov, Vladimir Koluzganov, Vladimir Myshkin, Boris Dlugach, Alexander Berdinskikh, Sergey Fedotov, Boris Sapronenkov, Alexey Zharov, Sergey Boroday.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Sweden
Players: Johan Alm, Adam Almquist, Nils Andersson, Victor Berglind, Mattias Bäckman, Sebastian Dyk, Jesper Fast, Mattias Franzén, Petter Granberg, Jonas Gunnarsson, Jonathan Johansson, Karl Johansson, Calle Järnkrok, Johan Larsson, Patrik Nemeth, Joakim Nordström, Sebastian Ottosson, Adam Pettersson, Ludvig Rensfeldt, Johan Sundström, Fredric Weigel, Oskar Östlund.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, Sweden
Staff: Stephan Lundh, Björn Liljander, Jonas Fransson, Krister Holm, Jan Johansson, Fredrik Carls, Lars Nygren.


2009 World Junior A Challenge, Rosters, United States
Players: Kevin Albers, Beau Bennett, Mac Bennett, Shane Berschbach, Connor Brickley, Jeff Costello, Chris Crane, Derek DeBlois, Nic Dowd, David Gerths, Kevin Gravel, Nick Jensen, Matt Leitner, Kevin Lind, Eric Mihalik, Nick Mattson, Eamonn McDermott, John Parker, Mike Parks, Nick Sorkin, Colten St. Clair, Willie Yanakeff.


2009 World Junior Curling Championships
The 2009 World Junior Curling Championships were held from 5 March 2009 to 15 March 2009 in the newly completed Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre, which was the site for curling during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.


2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international competition in the 2008–09 season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", they are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The event was held between February 22 and March 1, 2009 at the Winter Sports Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event had been provisionally scheduled to be held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, however, due to financial reasons, the Czech Figure Skating Association could not host. Therefore, on October 13, 2008, the International Skating Union definitively assigned the World Junior Championships to Sofia.


2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Qualification
The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2008, but had not yet turned 19. The upper age limit for men competing in pairs and dance was 21.


2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Qualification
The term "Junior" refers to the age level rather than necessarily the skill level. Therefore, some of the skaters competing have competed nationally and internationally at the senior level, but are still age-eligible for World Juniors. Regardless of whether they have competed as seniors, all competitors perform programs that conform to the ISU rules for junior level competition in terms of program lengths, jumping passes, etc.


2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Number of entries per discipline
All members nations have one entry in each discipline by default. Member nations may earn more than entry based on their performance at the previous year's championships.


2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Number of entries per discipline
The following countries earned more than one entry to the 2009 World Junior Championships based on their performance at the 2008 World Junior Championships.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2009 WJHC), was the 33rd edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was hosted in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Games were held at the Ottawa Civic Centre and Scotiabank Place. The tournament set a record for WJC attendance at 453,282. Canada won the gold medal for a record-tying fifth consecutive time.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Bid process
Five potential bid groups formally submitted their bids before the March 31, 2006, deadline and made their final presentations to the selection committee in Calgary on April 18, 2006:


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Bid process
On May 3, 2006, Hockey Canada and the Canadian Hockey League announced that Ottawa was chosen to host the 2009 tournament.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top division, Relegation round
The results from matches between teams from the same group in the preliminary round are carried forward to this round.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top division, Relegation round, Schedule
Germany and  Kazakhstan are relegated to Division I for the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top division, Top 10 scorers
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Top division, Goaltending leaders
TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:09:50, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division I
The following teams took part in the Division I tournament. Group A was played in Herisau, Switzerland between December 14 and December 20, 2008. Group B was played in Aalborg, Denmark between December 15 and December 21, 2008:


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division I, Group A
Switzerland is promoted to the Top Division and  Estonia is relegated to Division II for the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division I, Group B
Austria is promoted to the Top Division and  Hungary is relegated to Division II for the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division II
The following teams took part in the Division II tournament. Group A was played in Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania between December 15 and December 21, 2008. Group B was played in Logroño, Spain between January 10 and January 15, 2009:


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division II, Group A
Japan was promoted to Division I for the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division II, Group B
China, having been relegated to Division III in 2008, was returned to Division II after  New Zealand forfeited due to finances.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division II, Group B
Croatia was promoted to Division I for the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division III
The Division III tournament was to have been played in North Korea, but was cancelled. The division was scheduled to include the following:


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships rosters, NHL prospects by team
There were 72 NHL-drafted prospects playing in the tournament. In addition, six of the top-ten ranked players in the 2009 draft participated. The Latvian and Kazakh teams did not have any NHL prospects on their rosters.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division I
The 2009 IIHF World U20 Championship Division I took place between December 14 and December 21, 2008 in Herisau, Switzerland and Aalborg, Denmark. Teams were divided into two groups, with Group A playing in Switzerland, and Group B playing in Denmark. The winner of each group is promoted to the Top Division for the 2010 IIHF World U20 Championship, while the last place teams in each group are relegated to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U20 Championship.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division I, Group B
Switzerland and Austria were promoted to the top division for the 2010 Championships, while Estonia and Hungary were relegated to Division II.


2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division II
The 2009 IIHF World U20 Championship Division II took place between December 15 and December 21, 2008 in Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania and between January 10 to January 15 in Logroño, Spain. Teams are divided into two groups, with Group A playing in Romania, and Group B playing in Spain. The winner of each group will be promoted to Division I for the 2010 IIHF World U20 Championship, while the last place teams in each group were saved from relegation to Division III for the 2010 IIHF World U20 Championship due to 2009's Division III tournament being cancelled.


2009 World Junior Table Tennis Championships
The Volkswagen 2009 World Junior Table Tennis Championships were held in Cartagena, Colombia, from 9 to 16 December 2009. It was organised by the  Federación Colombiana de Tenis de Mesa under the auspices and authority of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).


2009 World Ladies Snooker Championship
The 2009 World Ladies Snooker Championship was the 2009 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship, first held in 1976, and was played at Cambridge Snooker Centre from 4 to 8 April. The tournament was won by Reanne Evans, who achieved her fifth consecutive world title by defeating Maria Catalano 5–2 in the final. Evans received £800 prize money for her win. She also made the highest break of the tournament, 89.


2009 World Ladies Snooker Championship
There were four round-robin qualifying groups of seven players each, with the top two players in each group progressing into the knockout stage. Hannah Jones, aged 12, won the under-21 title in an event run alongside the main tournament. Jones, partnering Jaique Ip, also won the double competition.


2009 World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge
The 2009 World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge was the 6th edition of the global Mountain running competition, World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships, organised by the World Mountain Running Association.


2009 World Marathon Cup
The 2009 World Marathon Cup was the 13th edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Berlin, Germany, inside of the 2009 World Championships.


2009 World Marathon Cup
The Russian women's team fell from the third to the fifth place, after Nailiya Yulamanova (eighth place; 2:27:08 h) had been disqualified because of doping. The Russian men's team (seventh place) dropped out of the rankings after the disqualification of Mikhail Lemaev (45th place; 2:21:47 h).


2009 World Masters (darts)
The 2009 Winmau World Masters was the fourth major tournament on the BDO/WDF calendar for 2009. It took place from September 4–6 in the Bridlington Spa Royal Hall. It was shown on the BBC. The men's final was won by Martin Adams, who beat Robbie Green by 7 sets to 6. The women's final was won by Linda Ithurralde, who beat Trina Gulliver by 4 legs to 3.


2009 World Masters (darts), Men's Draw
Scores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)


2009 World Masters Athletics Championships
The eighteenth World Masters Athletics Championships were held in Lahti, Finland, from July 28-August 8, 2009. The World Masters Athletics Championships serve the division of the sport of athletics for people over 35 years of age, referred to as masters athletics.


2009 World Masters Athletics Championships
A full range of track and field events were held, along with a cross country race and a marathon.


2009 World Masters Games
The Sydney 2009 World Masters Games, the seventh edition of a four–yearly event that has developed into the world’s largest multi-sport event in terms of participation, was held from 10 October to 18 October 2009 in Sydney, the largest city in Australia and the capital city of New South Wales.


2009 World Masters Games
Open to sportspeople of all abilities and most ages – the minimum age criterion ranges between 25 and 35 years depending on the sport – the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games included competitors from more than 100 countries who competed in 28 sports.


2009 World Masters Games
Many of the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games sports competitions took place at 2000 Olympic Games venues, something that was not the case to any significant degree at any of the previous six World Masters Games. The Sydney International Regatta Centre, the Sydney International Shooting Centre and several Sydney Olympic Park facilities, including the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, the Sydney Olympic Park Archery Centre and the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre to list just three, were just some of the sites at which Sydney 2009 World Masters Games competitors competed.


2009 World Masters Games, Sports
The Sydney 2009 World Masters Games featured 28 sports – 15 core sports that are mandatory for all events under the auspices of the International Masters Games Association and 13 optional sports that the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games Organising Committee proposed to the International Masters Games Association.


2009 World Masters Games, Advisory Committee
Appointed by the New South Wales Government to advise the New South Wales Minister for Sport and Recreation and the Chief Executive Officer of the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games Organising Committee on all aspects of the planning and staging of the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games, the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games Advisory Committee, as of March 2009, comprised these seven people:


2009 World Masters Games, Organising Committee
Headed by Shane O'Leary, the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games Organising Committee comprised five divisions with, as of March 2009, its key personnel being:


2009 World Matchplay
The 2009 Stan James World Matchplay was the 16th annual staging of the World Matchplay tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament took place from 19–26 July 2009. As usual it was staged at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool.


2009 World Matchplay
World number one Phil Taylor successfully defended his title, beating Terry Jenkins in the final to win his tenth World Matchplay.


2009 World Matchplay, Prize fund
The prize fund was increased to £400,000, which was £100,000 more than the last World Matchplay.


2009 World Matchplay, Qualification
The qualification process for the World Matchplay differed this year. The top 16 in the  after the 2009 UK Open qualified automatically as the 16 seeds. The other 16 places would be made up of the 16 highest ranked players (not already in the top 16) from the  - decided by the various Player Championship events taking place on the PDC Pro Tour from January 2009 - the cutoff point was the Las Vegas Players Championship just before the 2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic.


2009 World Men's Curling Championship
The 2009 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as 2009 Ford World Men's Curling Championship presented by Atlantic Lottery for sponsorship reasons) was held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada from April 4–12, 2009, at the Moncton Coliseum. The event, which formally celebrated 50 years of World Men's Curling (1959-2009) plus the 225th anniversary of the host province of New Brunswick, kicked off with a three-hour extravaganza combining the Opening Ceremonies and Opening Banquet, an unprecedented start to the World Men's Curling Championship.


2009 World Men's Curling Championship, Qualification
Two teams from the Americas region (including Canada as host), two Pacific region teams (via the 2008 Pacific Curling Championships) and eight teams from the European region (via the 2008 European Curling Championships). For the first time ever, a third country from the Americas expressed intent to participate in the qualification process, necessitating a qualifying tournament between the United States and Brazil held between January 30 and February 1, 2009. Canada, as defending champions and hosts do not have to qualify, as they automatically get to participate.


2009 World Men's Curling Championship, Teams
Skip : Kevin Martin Third: John Morris Second: Marc Kennedy Lead: Ben Hebert Alternate: Terry Meek