2009 World Baseball Classic championship, Results, Final − Japan 5, South Korea 3
Japan drew first blood, scoring on a RBI single by Michihiro Ogasawara in the third inning. Shin-Soo Choo tied the score 1−all with a home run in the fifth inning. With runners on first and third, Hiroyuki Nakajima hit an RBI single to bring Seiichi Uchikawa home to give Japan the lead 2−1. South Korea failed to take advantage of Japanese pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma, who was visibly tired, when they failed to score in the seventh inning, when Iwakuma was relieved by Toshiya Sugiuchi after two outs. Uchikawa hit a single to start the eighth. Atsunori Inaba scored a double to put Uchikawa in scoring position, and Uchikawa scored on Akinori Iwamura's sacrifice fly. Hyun-wook Jong retired the remaining batters to close out the inning.


2009 World Baseball Classic championship, Results, Final − Japan 5, South Korea 3
Japan brought out their closer, Yu Darvish, for the bottom of the ninth with a 3−2 lead. Darvish struck out Keun-woo Jeong, but walked Hyun-soo Kim and Tae-kyun Kim to put South Koreans on first and second with one out. Darvish then struck out Choo and was one out away from saving the game. But Bum-ho Lee singled, driving in Jong-wook Lee for the game-tying run to make it 3–all and send the game into extra innings.


2009 World Baseball Classic championship, Results, Final − Japan 5, South Korea 3
Japan batted first, with Chang-yong Lim pitching for South Korea in the tenth. Uchikawa and Iwamura hit a single to put runners on first and third with two out. Ichiro was one strike away from ending the inning when he hit a line-drive single up the middle that scored Iwamura and Uchikawa. Lim then hit Nakajima with a pitch and intentionally walked Norichika Aoki to face Kenji Johjima who was hitless up to that point. Lim was able to strikeout Johjima and send the game to the bottom of the tenth. Darvish made short work of South Korea, capping with a strikeout of Keun-woo Jeong to clinch Japan's successful defense of their 2006 championship.


2009 World Baseball Classic championship, Results, Final − Japan 5, South Korea 3
Japan's Daisuke Matsuzaka was awarded the tournament MVP for the second consecutive time, with a 3−0 record and 2.45 ERA.


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters
The following is a list of squads for each nation competing at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. The tournament started on March 5, 2009.


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters
Each participating national federation had a deadline of January 19, 2009 to submit a 45-man provisional roster. Final rosters of 28 players, which also must include a minimum of 13 pitchers and two catchers, were submitted on February 24. If a player on the submitted roster is unable to play, usually due to injury, he can be substituted at any time before the start of the tournament. Roster changes during the competition are restricted to the breaks between rounds of competition—for example, a player who is injured during pool play could not be replaced during the pool phase, but could be replaced if his team advanced to the second round.


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters
Team affiliations on all rosters, and player ages, are current as of the opening day of the tournament.


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool A, China
Manager: 77  Terry CollinsCoaches: 66  Brent Strom, 72 Aiping Wang, 29 Sheng Yi


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool A, Chinese Taipei
Manager: 3 Chih-Hsien Yeh (葉志仙)Coaches: 88 Tai-Yuan Kuo (郭泰源), 26 Kong-Hui Wang (王光輝), 70 Wen-Sheng Lu (呂文生), 6 Chen Wei-Cheng (陳威成), 65 Lin Kun-Han (林琨瀚), 68 Cheng-Hao Wang


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool A, Japan
Manager: 83 Tatsunori Hara (原辰徳)Coaches: 3 Koichi Ogata, 72 Tsutomu Itoh, 71 Hisashi Yamada, 92 Tsuyoshi Yoda, 81 Kazunori Shinozuka, 63 Nobuhiro Takashiro


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool A, South Korea
Manager: 81 Kim In-sik (김인식, 金寅植)Coaches: 80 Kim Sung-han (김성한, 金城漢), 79 Yang Sang-moon (양상문, 楊相文), 78 Lee Soon-chul (이순철, 李順喆), 77 Ryu Joong-il (류중일, 柳仲逸), 75 Kang Sung-woo (강성우, 姜盛友), 76 Kim Min-ho (김민호, 金敏浩)


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool B, Australia
Manager: 24 Jon DeebleCoaches: 33 Paul Elliot, 10 Pat Kelly, 27 Graeme Lloyd, 2 Tony Harris, 43 Philip Dale


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool B, Cuba
Manager: 39 Higinio VélezCoaches: 41 Francisco Escaurido, 22 Enrique Cepero, 34 Jose Elosegui, 30 Pedro Perez, 21 Lourdes Gourriel


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool B, Mexico
Manager: 9 Vinny CastillaCoaches: 34 Fernando Valenzuela, 49 Teddy Higuera, 44 Armando Reynoso, 20 José Tolentino, 6 Ever Magallanes, 5 Houston Jiménez


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool B, South Africa
Manager: Rick MagnanteCoaches:  Lee Smith, Brian McArn, Mike Randall, Neil Adonis, Alan Phillips


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool C, Canada
Manager: 21 Ernie WhittCoaches: 3 Larry Walker, 49 Paul Quantrill, 42 Denis Boucher, 34 Tim Leiper, 27 Greg Hamilton, 20 Greg O'Halloran


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool C, Italy
Manager: 5 Marco MazzieriCoaches: 21 Mike Hargrove, 26 Tom Trebelhorn, 23 Alberto D'Auria, 1 William Holmberg, 31 Mike Piazza, 33 Gilberto Gerali


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool C, United States
Manager: 5 Davey JohnsonCoaches: 8 Reggie Smith, 27 Marcel Lachemann, 11 Barry Larkin, 3 Billy Ripken, 20 Mike Schmidt, 30 Mel Stottlemyre


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool C, Venezuela
Manager: 8 Luis SojoCoaches: 41 Andrés Galarraga, 20 Tony Armas, 34 Omar Malavé, 5 Oscar Escobar, 10 Roberto Espinoza, 33 Luis Dorante


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool D, Dominican Republic
Manager: 17 Felipe AlouCoaches: 55 Luis Pujols, 32 Mario Soto, 6 Junior Noboa, 4 Alfredo Griffin, 19 Luis Silverio, 31 Ramon Henderson


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool D, Netherlands
Manager: 6 Rod DelmonicoCoaches: Bert Blyleven, 26 Bill Froberg, 34 Wim Martinus, 32 Hensley Meulens, Jim Stoeckel, Ben Thijssen


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool D, Panama
Manager: 11 Héctor LópezCoaches: 53 Ricardo Medina, 56 Len Picota, 24 Allan Lewis, 43 Luis Ortiz, 5 Luis Molina


2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, Pool D, Puerto Rico
Manager: José OquendoCoaches: Carlos Arroyo, Eduardo Pérez, Iván DeJesús, Charlie Montoyo, Gil Rondon, Jerry Morales


2009 World Championships in Athletics
The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics (German: [Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften 2009]) were held in Berlin, Germany from 15–23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg Gate.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Bidding process
Berlin was announced the winning bidder by the IAAF on 6 December 2004 beating out bids from Split (Croatia), Valencia (Spain), Brisbane (Australia), Brussels (Belgium), Delhi (India), Casablanca (Morocco) and Daegu (South Korea). The city of Berlin and the Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband (German Athletics Association) are responsible for the organisation of the event. The Berlin Organising Committee 2009 GmbH, a corporation established by the DLV in 2005, will supervise the operative organisation of the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Costs
Building upon Germany's history of successful athletics events, including the 1974 and 2006 FIFA World Cups the 1993 World Championships in Athletics, the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, IAAF president Lamine Diack was confident of a well organised competition. The organizers announced a budget of €49.8 million to stage the event, which includes the travel and accommodation costs for all participating athletes. Revenues include €17 million from ticketing and €7 million from marketing. The city of Berlin will cover a deficit up to €20 million. The organising committee secured 9000 rooms in the city to account for accommodation, with the hope that the booking of the Hotel Estrel (950 rooms) and Hotel Berlin (650 rooms) for athletes would create an atmosphere similar to an Olympic Village.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Costs
Overall, the event was an economic success for the capital. A total of 417,156 tickets were sold over the nine-day period, and estimates placed the total visitor spend in the city at around €120 million. As a result, Berlin's mayor, Klaus Wowereit, stated that the city would consider applying to host another athletics event in the future, such as the 2016 European Athletics Championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Media and marketing
A limited edition €10 coin was produced for the event by the German government, which was only the third occasion that they had done so for a sporting event. The organising committee held a contest to decide the name of its mascot, a running anthropomorphic bear, and the name "Berlino" was chosen. The colour scheme of the event, including the official logo, advertising, and the Olympiastadion's track and field, was blue and green. The committee stated that blue represented reliability while green represented the event's environmental ambitions.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Media and marketing
The event featured a number of environmentally friendly initiatives, including: free public transport with every ticket sold, efforts to reduce energy usage, considerations for waste and recycling management, and environmentally conscious construction and building management. Furthermore, as part of the United Nations Environment Programme, forty-seven trees (one for each athletics event) were planted to create an "Avenue of Champions" in Berlin. The official song for the event was "Foot of the Mountain" by Norwegian group A-ha.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Media and marketing
The broadcasting rights for the Championships were sold to 213 countries, a new high for the event. ARD and ZDF were the host broadcasting TV networks and producers of the TV signal, and they founded a company named BERTA which provided the signal in high-resolution HDTV for TV stations around the world. The average viewing figures in Germany were 5 million with peaks of 9.9 and 8.6 million for the men's 100 metres final and the women's high jump, respectively. The average audience figures in France were 3.5–4 million, 2.5–3.5 million in the United Kingdom and 4–5 million in Japan.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Media and marketing
The IAAF website received a record number of page hits and unique users: having around 1 million unique users accessing the website on days five and six, and a total of over 90 million page views over the course of the nine days of the competition. Around 3500 media representatives were estimated to have attended the event.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Media and marketing
To provide the public with an opportunity to participate in the event, the local organizers also conducted a Champions Run 10K on 22 August between the scheduled time for the men's and women's marathons, using a portion of the official marathon course which passes various Berlin landmarks with a finish at the Brandenburg Gate. The field was limited to 10,000 runners.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Venues
The Championships were staged in the 74,845-seat Olympiastadion, which underwent a €242 million renovation ahead of the 2006 Football World Cup. The marathon races, as well as the racewalking events, had their start and finish at the Brandenburg Gate, with the race walks routed along the Unter den Linden boulevard and the marathon passing through Pariser Platz and going past Berlin's other points of interest. An estimated 400,000 tickets were sold by the event organisers for the event.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Venues
In memory of their historic Olympic achievements at the Olympiastadion in 1936, a meeting took place between the families of Luz Long and Jesse Owens. Long's long jump advice to rival Owens remains a prominent example of sportsmanship and friendship in athletics. A reward of US$100,000 was given to any athlete who broke a world record at the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Anti-doping program
The event featured one of the most comprehensive anti-doping initiatives ever undertaken by the IAAF. A total of 1000 samples were collected from athletes and tested at labs accredited by the World Anti- Doping Agency, and additional educational anti-doping activities were available. Diack stressed that samples are retained for future analysis, thus currently undetectable drugs could be tested for in the future, preventing athletes from flouting the anti-doping rules.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Organization, Anti-doping program
Two athletes failed anti-doping tests during the championships: Moroccan steeplechaser Jamel Chatbi tested positive for the stimulant clenbuterol and Nigerian hurdler Amaka Ogoegbunam was found to have Metenolone, an anabolic steroid, in her sample. Another Nigerian hurdler, Olutoyin Augustus, was banned from the championships for having abnormal levels of testosterone.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Men's results, Track
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2009 World Championships in Athletics, Men's results, Track
* Runners who participated in the heats only and received medals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Men's results, Field
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2009 World Championships in Athletics, Women's results, Track
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Women's results, Track
* Runners who participated in the heats only and received medals


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Women's results, Field
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2009 World Championships in Athletics, Medal table
* Number of gold medals for Spain reduced due to disqualification of Marta Domínguez


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Records
At the competition, three world records, nine Championship records, eight area records and 57 national records were broken.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 1 (15th)
Valeriy Borchin of Russia won gold in the men's 20 km race walk in a time of 1:18:41, Hao Wang of China won silver and Eder Sanchez of Mexico won bronze. Linet Chepkwemoi Masai of Kenya won gold in the women's 10,000m in 30:51.24, Meselech Melkamu of Ethiopia won silver and the bronze medal went to Wude Ayalew of Ethiopia. In the men's shot put, Christian Cantwell of the United States won gold with a mark of 22.03m. Tomasz Majewski of Poland took silver and Ralf Bartels of Germany took bronze.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 2 (16th)
In the women's 20 km race walk, the Olympic champion from last years games, Olga Kaniskina, took an expectant win by almost a full minute. In the women's shot put, the Olympic gold medallist from last years games and defending world champion, Valerie Vili, won with a throw of 20.44. In the men's 100 metres dash, Usain Bolt broke his own 100 metres sprint world record with a time of 9.58. The defending world champion, Tyson Gay finished second with a time of 9.71, a US national record. Britain's Jessica Ennis won the heptathlon title with a world-leading points score of 6731.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 3 (17th)
In the men's hammer throw, the Olympic champion Primož Kozmus of Slovenia, pulled off the win with a throw of 80.84m, which is a seasonal best. Szymon Ziółkowski of Poland achieved a result of 79.30m earning him a silver medal and the Russian athlete Aleksey Zagornyi earned third place with a throw of 78.09m.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 3 (17th)
In the men's 10,000 m final, Kenenisa Bekele won with a time of 26:43:31, which is a Championship record. Zersenay Tadese of Eritrea earned the silver medal with a time of 26:50:12 and Moses Ndiema Masai of Kenya took the bronze with a time of 26:57:39.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 3 (17th)
In women's 100 metres, Shelly-Ann Fraser of Jamaica triumphed with the time of 10.73s. Kerron Stewart finished second with a time of 10.75s and American Carmelita Jeter took the bronze medal with a time of 10.90s.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 3 (17th)
In women's pole vault final, the biggest surprise of the day was the Olympic champion and current world record holder, Yelena Isinbayeva, failing to clear any height. Anna Rogowska of Poland earned the gold with the result of 4.75m. Monika Pyrek and Chelsea Johnson shared second place with the result of 4.65m. As a result, for the first time in history of World Championships in Athletics, two Polish athletes took gold and silver medal in the same event. Poland is 16th nation to win gold and silver in the same event in the history of World Championships in Athletics. The previous 15 nations were: Canada, China, Cuba, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Jamaica, Kenya, Romania, Russia, Spain, United States and also Soviet Union and East Germany.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 3 (17th)
In women's triple jump final, Yargelis Savigne won the gold and Mabel Gay took second place. Both of the Cuban athletes did not cross the line of 15m.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 3 (17th)
In the women's 3000m steeplechase, Marta Dominguez of Spain won the gold with a time of 9:07:32. Yuliya Zarudneva won the silver and Milcah Chemos Cheywa earned the bronze medal.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 4 (18th)
In men's Triple Jump, Phillips Idowu of Great Britain, produced a world leading distance of 17.73m earning him a gold medal. Nelson Évora of Portugal achieved a result of 17.55m earning him a silver medal and the Cuban athlete Alexis Copello earned third place with a jump of 17.36m.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 5 (19th)
In the discus final, Robert Harting of Germany won gold in front of a home crowd, trowing 69.43 metres. Piotr Malachowski of Poland and Gerd Kanter of Estonia winning silver and bronze, respectively. Jamaican Brigitte Foster-Hylton ran a season's best of 12.51 in the Women's 100m hurdles to take gold. Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Canada (12.54) took silver and Jamaica's Delloreen Ennis-London won bronze.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 6 (20th)
In the men's 200 metres, Usain Bolt broke his own world record with a time of 19.19 seconds. Alonso Edward of Panama won silver with a national record of 19.81. Wallace Spearmon of the USA won bronze, in 19.85. In the women's 400m Hurdles, Melaine Walker of Jamaica won in 52.42sec, eight hundredths of a second outside Yulia Pechonkina's World record (52.34). Trey Hardee of the USA had won the Decathlon, but Leonel Suárez of Cuba reversed positions on Aleksandr Pogorelov in the final event.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 7 (21st)
In the 200m, Allyson Felix of the USA crossed the line first in 22.02 seconds with Double Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown from Jamaican coming second with 22.35. In the 400m men final, LaShawn Merritt and Jeremy Wariner battled it out with Merritt securing gold with 44.06. Wariner ran a season's best of 44.60, winning the silver medal.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 8 (22nd)
In the women's hammer throw, Anita Włodarczyk of Poland won gold medal with a distance of 77.96m, which is a new world record. Dwight Phillips, USA, won the men's world long jump title for the third time with a jump of 8.54 metres. Phillips received his gold medal from Jesse Owens' granddaughter Marlene Dortch. Godfrey Khotso Mokoena of South Africa won silver (8.47m). Jamaica's 4 × 100 m relay teams highlighted the day by capturing the gold medal in both disciplines.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Highlights, Day 9 (23rd)
Bai Xue of China wins gold in the women's marathon, Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia took the 5,000 metres world title, and Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway won the men's javelin with a throw of 89.59 metres. Brittney Reese won the women's long jump with 7.10 metres, beating defending champion Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia. In the last two events of the Championships, the United States won both 4 × 400 m relays.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Participating nations
The entry list released on the IAAF Website before the championships contained 2098 athletes from 202 countries and territories. Out of these athletes, a total of 1984 competed (1086 male, and 898 female) at the championships, with 201 of the 213 IAAF National Member Federations represented. The number of athletes competing at the event broke the previous championship record of 1,821 athletes set at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in Seville. The 100 metres race attracted 100 entries, while the Marathon race listed 101 athletes for competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics, Participating nations
The event was expected to be the largest sports gathering in 2009, continuing in the vein of the World Championships in Athletics being the third largest sports event after the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup.


2009 World Championships in Athletics qualification standards
The following marks are the A and B qualification standards for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Each country may send a maximum of four athletes who have attained the A qualification mark in each specific event. A maximum of three athletes can compete in that event, with the sole exception of the relays, in which four of a possible six athletes may compete. In the case that no athlete of that nationality has achieved the A standard in an event, a country may send two athletes with the B qualification times, of which only one may compete at the Championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics qualification standards
Area Champions (i.e. athletes who have won an event at their continental level championships) are granted automatic entrance, irrespective of whether they have achieved the qualification times. The reigning World Champion in each event is also granted a bye into the competition, and does not count as part of their country's quota of athletes in that event. Furthermore, host countries may enter one unqualified athlete if no one of the respective nationality has achieved the required mark.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres
The Men's 10,000 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 17 August. A large field of 31 athletes from 15 countries was set to participate in the final, although Irishman Martin Fagan did not start the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres
Kenenisa Bekele was the favourite before the race, having never lost a race over the distance and starting the race as the reigning Olympic and World champion, as well as the world record holder. Four-time major championship silver medallist Sileshi Sihine was another strong competitor, but he withdrew due to an injury and was replaced by Ethiopian team's reserve Imane Merga. Gebregziabher Gebremariam and Kenyans Moses Masai and Micah Kogo were other possible medallists, as well as the consistent Eritrean, Zersenay Tadese.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres
Tadese sprinted to lead the race at the start but he was soon overtaken by Nicholas Kemboi, who led until the 4000-metre mark. Tadese and Masai picked up the pace and the Eritrean fronted the fastest group of runners from 5000 metres onwards. After a kilometre further on, a group of four runners (Tadese, Masai, Bekele and Kogo) were clearly leading the race as the other competitors trailed off. Tadese continued to lead and picked up the pace once again, at which point Kogo dropped off, shortly followed by Masai. Bekele continued to follow Tadese waiting, and on the last lap the reigning champion finally took the lead, sprinting away to win the gold medal in a Championship record time of 26:46.31. Tadese took the silver, with a run of 26:50.12, and Masai maintained his third position for the bronze.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres
Ever the strongest performer, Bekele remained undefeated to win his fourth consecutive 10,000 m at the World Championships, but it was second-placed Tadese's first medal at the World Championships. Moses Masai's bronze was his family's second of the competition, as his sister Linet Masai had won the Women's 10,000 metres two days earlier.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres, Records
Prior to the competition, the following world and championship records were as follows.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres, Records
The following new Championship record was set during this competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 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 – Men's 100 metres
The men's 100 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 16. The two main contenders for the event were the reigning World Champion Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt, the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder. Gay entered the competition with a season's best of 9.77 seconds (an American record) while Bolt's season's best was 9.79 seconds. Four other competitors had broken the 10-second barrier during the last months before the World Championship: former world record holder Asafa Powell, Olympic finalist Churandy Martina and emerging sprinters Daniel Bailey and Mike Rodgers.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres
The first day saw a number of high-profile athletes eliminated; Derrick Atkins, the 2007 silver medallist, did not pass the first round. Churandy Martina, area record holders Samuel Francis and Olusoji Fasuba, Simeon Williamson, and 2003 gold medallist Kim Collins were all knocked out in the quarter finals. Also, a double false start meant disqualification for the new European junior record holder Christophe Lemaitre. Gay, Powell and Rodgers ended with the fastest times of the day, although Bolt and Bailey comfortably won heat five, exchanging smiles and glances in the process. The semi-finals saw Bolt—typically slow out of the blocks—false start for the first time over 100 m, but he eventually finished in 9.89 seconds (the fastest ever semi-final). Six of the eight qualifying athletes broke 10 seconds, and US champion Rodgers was the biggest name not to qualify.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres
The final, which was advertised in Berlin as "Das Duell" between Gay and Bolt, proved to be historic. By the 20-metre mark, Bolt had already taken a slight lead of 0.01 seconds, and he continued to pull away from the rest of the pack until the finish. He finished in a world record-breaking time of 9.58 seconds, beating Gay by some distance, even though the American had run 9.71 seconds, which was the third fastest time ever.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres
Bolt beat his own previous mark by over a tenth of a second, an achievement statisticians claimed was 20 years ahead of schedule in the long term scheme of the 100 metres world record progression. So emphatic was Bolt's winning time, that both bronze medal winner Powell and sixth placed Dwain Chambers said they were happy just taking part in the fastest race in history.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Records
The following new world, championship and North American records were set during the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the quarterfinals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Results, Quarterfinals
Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 1 fastest(q) advance to the semifinals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 4 of each Semifinal will be directly qualified(Q) for the Finals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
The  men's 110 metres hurdles at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium 19 and 20 August.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
Just as he had done at the 2008 Olympic final, former world record holder Liu Xiang missed the competition through injury, leaving the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder Dayron Robles as the favourite. Furthermore, two of the fastest hurdlers of the season, David Oliver and Dexter Faulk, had not been selected for the American team, which featured David Payne, Terrence Trammell, and Aries Merritt as the main challengers to Robles. Twenty-one-year-old Ryan Brathwaite was a much improved hurdler that season, and Dwight Thomas and Maurice Wignall of Jamaica were other contenders.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
The heats stage was one of the more eventful of the championships: Robles struggled to qualify in third as he was hampered by an injury, Merritt did not progress from his race (having earlier suffered a twisted ankle), and Andy Turner (another carrying an injury) was also eliminated. Dániel Kiss was the fastest of the round, setting a Hungarian record. Brathwaite was the only pre-race favourite to win in the heats, while Alexander John and Ji Wei were the other fastest hurdlers.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
In the semi finals, Trammell and Petr Svoboda were the top two in the first semi-final, and Payne and Brathwaite (who set a national record), took the second race. William Sharman set a personal best to win the third semi-final, which saw Robles pull up due to injury and Kiss eliminated.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
In the final, Brathwaite started poorly but was soon level with Payne and Trammell. The three remained even after the final hurdle and, with one hundredth of a second between them, it was a photo finish. Brathwaite emerged as the winner with a national record of 13.14 seconds, Trammell was the silver medallist, and Payne took the bronze. Sharman took fourth with a personal best of 13.30 seconds and Wignall finished fifth, clocking 13.31 seconds, his best of the year.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
Although he had entered the competition as an outside medal possibility, Brathwaite became the youngest ever champion in the event, and was also Barbados' first ever gold medallist in athletics at either the World Championships or the Olympic Games. Unable to capitalise on the absence of Xiang and Robles, perennial minor medallists Payne and Trammell again missed out on the gold medal. After Brathwaite, fourth-placed William Sharman was the other surprise of the race: he was a last minute addition to the British team, and his two personal best performances turned him from a rank outsider to Europe's fastest at the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles, 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 – Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Key:  Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Semi-finals
Qualification: First 2 in each semi-final (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres
The  men's 1500 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium between 15–19 August. Among the favoured athletes in the event were defending champion Bernard Lagat, European champion Mehdi Baala, and the Kenyan season leaders Asbel Kiprop, Haron Keitany and Augustine Choge.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres
All the favoured athletes progressed through a series of tactically-run heats on the first day of competition, with Baala, Kiprop, Choge and Deresse Mekonnen the four race winners. Moroccan Amine Laalou won the first semi-final, followed by Americans Lopez Lomong and Lagat, while Kiprop and Leonel Manzano both finished quickly to take the top two qualifying spots in the second race. The only high-profile athlete to be eliminated in the semi-finals was Keitany, who did not start, putting an end to any hopes of a Kenyan medal sweep.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres
The final race began slowly and, as the athletes reached the last lap, they remained in a tight pack led by Mekonnen. Choge and Mohamed Moustaoui closely followed as he approached the final straight, but the race remained open. Yusuf Saad Kamel took the lead in the final straight, scoring a surprise gold medal. Mekonnen maintained his pace to take the silver medal and defending champion Lagat had a quick burst near the finish to win the bronze. Kiprop, one of the pre-race favourites, left himself too much ground to cover, eventually ending up fourth, with Choge and Baala alongside him.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres
Bahrain's Kamel, born in Kenya as Gregory Konchellah, followed in the footsteps of his father Billy Konchellah, who won the 800 m at the 1987 and 1991 World Championships. Mekonnen's silver was Ethiopia's first ever World Championship medal in the 1500 m. Lagat's bronze was his third in the 1500 m, after his silver in 2001 and a gold in 2007.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 5 in each heat(Q) and the next 4 fastest(q) advance to the semifinal.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 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 – Men's 1500 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 5 in each semifinal(Q) and the next 2 fastest(q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
The men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held throughout the city of Berlin on August 15, beginning and ending at the Brandenburg Gate.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk, Competition notes
With the 2007 champion and 2008 Olympic silver medallist Jefferson Pérez having retired, the reigning Olympic champion Valeriy Borchin was regarded as strong favourite. He had recorded the world-leading time prior to the tournament and had been undefeated that season. The Olympic third and fourth-place finishers, Jared Tallent and Wang Hao, were regarded as the strongest challengers to Borchin. Italians Giorgio Rubino and Ivano Brugnetti were singled out as medal contenders, while former world record holder and three-time World silver medallist Paquillo Fernández was seen as being past his peak.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk, Competition notes
Borchin prevailed and was first to cross the line at the Brandenburg gate, with a winning time of 1:18:41. Chinese athlete Hao improved upon his previous best to take the silver medal while Mexican Eder Sánchez produced a season's best performance for the bronze medal. The veteran competitor Paquillo Fernández withdrew from the race before the halfway mark.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk, Competition notes
Despite becoming the reigning World and Olympic champion, Borchin stated that he needed to achieve much more to match the achievements of his sporting heroes Jefferson Pérez and Robert Korzeniowski.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk, Results
The medals of some of the athletics world championship events in 2009 were re-awarded 24 March 2016 as a result of doping disqualifications. Among these reallocations were the medals of the 20 km walk, which saw the Italian Giorgio Rubino, who originally finished fourth, awarded the bronze medal.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk, Results
This allowed Italy to enter the medal table, with another bronze medal awarded to Antonietta Di Martino in 2019.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk, Results
Key:  DNF = Did not finish, DQ = Disqualified, NR = National record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
The men's 200 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany on August 18 and August 20.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
The race favourites were Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt. Gay entered the competition as the reigning world champion, championship record holder, and 200 m world leader with 19.58 seconds. Bolt, the current Olympic champion and world record holder, had a season's best of 19.59 seconds. The last time the two athletes raced was at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, where Gay beat Bolt by a margin of 0.15 seconds. Osaka bronze medallist Wallace Spearmon was the only other athlete to run under twenty seconds that season and former Olympic champion Shawn Crawford was also competing. Up-and-coming athletes Alonso Edward, Steve Mullings and Ramil Guliyev were among the season's fastest sprinters prior to the championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
After hurting his groin during his American record run in the 100 metres two days earlier, Gay withdrew from the race, effectively rescinding his second world title. The withdrawal of Dwain Chambers, Churandy Martina and Jaysuma Saidy Ndure also reduced the quality of the field. There were no surprise eliminations in the heats, where Crawford, Mullings, Robert Hering, and Martial Mbandjock were the fastest qualifiers, and Mullings had the fastest time of the quarter-finals round, with all the favourite athletes progressing. On the second day of competition, German number one Hering was eliminated. Bolt and Spearmon were the two semi-final winners, while the third-fastest, 19-year-old Alonso Edward, demonstrated medal winning form.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
In the final race, Usain Bolt, the clear favourite, had another world record-breaking run following his 9.58 second record in the 100 metres four days earlier. After having the fastest reaction time of the race, Bolt came out of the bend in first place and extended his lead further in the home straight, beating his previous mark of 19.30 seconds set at the Olympics by 0.11 seconds to take the gold medal and Championship record. Crawford, second fastest at the bend, was overtaken by Edward and Spearmon and eventually finished fourth. Edward vastly improved his previous best to set a South American record of 19.81, while Spearmon was third with 19.85 seconds. At 19 years, 255 days old, silver medallist Edward became the youngest ever world medallist for the men's 200 m.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
Although the race between Gay and Bolt had not materialised, Bolt's world record of 19.19 seconds was a highlight of the championships. The overall quality of the event was also high: Edward had improved from 20.62 to 19.81 seconds over the course of one year. Also, with Crawford running 19.89 seconds, it was the first ever 200 m race to see four athletes run under 19.9 seconds. Bolt's winning margin of 0.62 seconds over second-placed Edward was the biggest in World Championship history. He received a $100,000 bonus for his performance, which was 0.13 seconds faster than Michael Johnson's former world record, a mark that had been regarded as one of the best records in the history of athletics.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 5 fastest(q) advance to the quarterfinals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres, Results, Quarterfinals
Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 4 fastest(q) advance to the semifinals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 4 of each Semifinal will be directly qualified (Q) for the Finals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
The Men's 3.000 metres Steeplechase at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, on August 16 and August 18, 2009. Keeping in line with previous major championships success, the four-man Kenyan team entered for the event contained a number of race favourites.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
The Kenyans were led by the reigning World and Olympic champion Brimin Kipruto, followed by 2004 Olympic champion and world-leader Ezekiel Kemboi, and finally Olympic medallists Paul Kipsiele Koech and Richard Mateelong. Two French athletes offered the strongest possibility of beating the Kenyans, with Olympic silver medallist Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad and European record holder Bouabdellah Tahri. Other possible medallists were the in-form Moroccan Jamel Chatbi and the European Champion Jukka Keskisalo.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
After Mekhissi-Benabbad pulled up due to injury in the heats, the chance of a Kenyan podium sweep increased. All three heats were won by a Kenyan athlete, and Kenyan-born Tareq Mubarak Taher, who now competes for Bahrain, was the fastest non-Kenyan qualifier. Chatbi, who had finished second in his heat, became the first athlete of the championships to test positive for banned substances. His "A" sample showed traces of clenbuterol and he was withdrawn from the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
In the final, South African Ruben Ramolefi lead early on, but he was soon overtaken by Koech and Kemboi. Around the halfway mark, a group of five athletes were leading the field: the four Kenyan runners and Frenchman Tahri. Defending champion Kipruto was the only one to fall away from the leading pack and Koech, Kemboi, Mateelong were the first to reach the home stretch. In a close finish, Kemboi won in 8:00.43, and Mateelong took the silver.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
Tahri made a strong run to the line to upset the Kenyan's podium sweep hopes, beating Koech to the bronze and setting a new European record in the process. The top four runners had all beaten Moses Kiptanui's fourteen-year-old Championship record in what was the fastest ever steeplechase race at the World Championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men'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 – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Heats
Key:  DNF = Did not finish, NR = National record, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Heats
DSQ - Disqualified (Chatbi disqualified due to violation of anti-doping rules)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Final
Key:  AR = Area record, CR = Championship record, DNS = Did not start, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics took place at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on August 21 and August 22. The two main contenders for the event were the reigning World Champions, the United States, and the reigning Olympic Champions, Jamaica. Jamaica held the world record at 37.10 (which was later rescinded), which was established at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, while the United States entered with the 2009 overall season-best 37.85.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, Medalists
* Runners who participated in the heats only and received medals.


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


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


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


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, Results, Final
Key:  CR = Championship record, NR = National record, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The men'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 – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
Britain's Conrad Williams looked to be leading the stagger on the first leg, but a late rush by Arismendy Peguero had the Dominican Republic making the handoff even, while USA put hurdler Angelo Taylor on the first leg, so they started with a slight deficit. Jeremy Wariner had won the previous two world championships in the open 400 metres, but lost his title a few days earlier. He had something to prove, flying through the turn, Wariner put the USA into the lead by the break.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
After he passed Yon Soriano on the inside, Soriano accelerated to challenge Wariner for the pole position. Warner held the pole, behind Soriano,  Ben Offereins was able to sneak Australia into third while Michael Bingham was being challenged by Piotr Klimczak for Poland. Bingham was able to get around Thomas and then Soriano, putting Great Britain into a solid second place by the straightaway, but Wariner was running away from the pack. Soriano paid for his exuberance and slowed down the home stretch as all the other teams passed him by the exchange.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
Warner had opened up a 15-metre gap, the USA had completed their exchange before the other teams arrived. Because of the change in positions, Bingham had to cross in front of several teams to make their exchange, and Kévin Borlée ran Belgium from last to fourth on the straight. Kerron Clement for USA and far behind him Robert Tobin for Great Britain had clear sailing, behind them Australia and Belgium came out of the exchange best. Tobin ran conservatively down the backstretch while Tristan Thomas accelerated to go around him on the turn.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
Coming off the turn, Tobin regained second position and was gaining on Clement. USA had new world champion LaShawn Merritt on the anchor he immediately started widening the gap on Martyn Rooney for Britain. Australia's Sean Wroe had a significant gap on Belgium, while Yannick Fonsat brought France from dead last to almost even with Belgium at the exchange. As Merritt kept widening the gap, Wroe was gaining on Rooney coming off the turn Wroe was perfectly positioned to punch for the silver medal position, but Rooney held him off, looking back to be sure he was holding clear. USA finished with a 25-metre lead.


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


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


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


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


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 18, 19 and 21 August.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres
The United States had a strong tradition in the event, with an American topping the Olympic 400 m podium every time since the 1988 Olympics. Similar to the 2007 World Championships, Jeremy Wariner and LaShawn Merritt were the clear favourites. However, on this occasion recent form favoured the Olympic champion Merritt instead of the reigning world champion Wariner. Both Americans were undefeated that season but Merritt held the world-leading time of 44.50 seconds. A gold or silver medallist outside of these two competitors seemed unlikely; Bahamian Chris Brown, Irishman David Gillick, Frenchman Leslie Djhone and the other two runners from the United States (Gil Roberts and Lionel Larry) were seen to be capable of a bronze at best.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres
On the first day, Ramon Miller surprised as the fastest qualifier in the heats, scoring a new personal best of 45 seconds. Tabarie Henry, Djhone and Renny Quow were the next fastest, and African record holder Gary Kikaya was most high-profile casualty of the first round, having been disqualified for a lane infraction.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres, Records
Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows.


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


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


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 15, 16 and 18 August.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
The United States hurdling team was by far the strongest entered by any country, comprising defending champion Kerron Clement, two-time Olympic champion Angelo Taylor, 2005 World Champion Bershawn Jackson, and the emerging Johnny Dutch. The world-leading 400 m hurdler L.J. van Zyl, veterans Danny McFarlane and Félix Sánchez, and the improving Isa Phillips and Javier Culson were also identified as possible medal contenders.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
In the heats, Briton Dai Greene completed an unexpected and comfortable win, while seventeen-year-old Jehue Gordon of Trinidad and Tobago surprised with a senior national record to qualify for the semis. In the semi-finals, van Zyl failed to qualify, following his pattern of poor performances at the biggest races of the season. Dutch and Phillips also failed to make the cut. Clement and Sánchez lead the way in the first semi, while Jackson and Greene (who set a personal best) took the top two spots in the other final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
In the final, Clement, Jackson and Culson all started the race well. However, it was the favourite, Clement, who took the gold medal: he was ahead at the final straight and did not relinquish his position, recording a world-leading time to win. Culson set a Puerto Rican record to take the silver, while Jackson fended off a challenge from national-record-breaking Gordon to keep third and win the bronze.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
Although Clement's winning time was the second slowest in the history of the Championships, it remained a close race for the silver and bronze medals, with just 0.6 seconds between the silver medallist and seventh-placed Greene. The race had a breadth of ages, with Trinidadian Gordon becoming the youngest ever finalist of any men's sprint event at the Championships, and 37-year-old McFarlane being the oldest ever to do the same feat. Clement became the third man to win two consecutive world titles in the event, after Ed Moses and Félix Sánchez.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 4 fastest(q) advance to the semifinals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, 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 – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 3 in each semifinal(Q) and the next 2 fastest(q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
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 – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Final
Key:  NR = National record, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
The men's 50 kilometre walk at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 21, 2009 on the streets of Berlin, Germany. The event started and finished at the Brandenburg Gate.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
Prior to the competition, previous winners did not appear to be medal prospects: the defending world champion Nathan Deakes missed the competition due to injury, and the reigning Olympic champion Alex Schwazer had failed to finish his sole 50 km race of the season. Frenchman Yohann Diniz, as the European Champion, was expected to perform well. The Russian team of world record holder Denis Nizhegorodov, Yuriy Andronov and former world champion Sergey Kirdyapkin appeared to be the strongest. Norwegians Erik Tysse and Trond Nymark were possible medallists as were Jesús Ángel García and Jared Tallent. Zhao Chengliang, Li Lei, and Xu Faguang were suggested as candidates to win the Chinese team's first medal of the championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
The final began in wet conditions, but Yuki Yamazaki and Luke Adams built up a considerable early lead. Tallent and Diniz caught up with them around the 5 km mark, but a large pack of walkers containing a number of contenders remained not far off the leaders. After the first hour, a six-strong pack of Nizhegorodov and Kirdyapkin, Tallent and Adams, and Yamazaki and Diniz had broken away from the rest. At the halfway point Yamazaki, after receiving a number of warnings, was disqualified and Schwazer decided to prematurely stop his own race.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
The remaining five stayed in contention until the 40 km mark, where Nizhegorodov pulled out, and Diniz and Adams began to drift away from the leaders. Kirdyapkin sped ahead of Tallent and Trond Nymark had a late burst and caught up with the leaders. Kirdyapkin won, almost three minutes ahead of the rest of the competition, and Nymark took second. García, with a late charge, was not far behind and won the bronze medal.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
The 2005 World Champion Kirdyapkin won his second title with a world-leading 3:38:35, the second fastest time of his career after his 2005 winning walk. It marked a racewalk Championship sweep for the Russians, with all three winners being coached by Viktor Chegin. Nymark won the first World Championship medal of career with a new Norwegian record, and veteran García won the fourth medal of his career, although his last came in 2001. A number of athletes set personal bests, including fourth placed Grzegorz Sudoł, but the season's fastest walkers had not performed well with Matej Tóth and Diniz finishing in tenth and twelfth, respectively.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
On January 15, 2015, Kirdyapkin's results were disqualified for doping violations. Most of Chegin's athletes have received similar bans. Nymark received the gold medal in a ceremony during the 2016 European Athletics Championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk, Results
Key:  DNF = Did not finish, DQ = Disqualified, NR = National record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres
The men's 5000 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics were held at the Olympic Stadium on 20 and 23 August


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
In hindsight, this race was the confluence of many of the greats. Kenenisa Bekele was already the world record holder, the Woolworth double (5 and 10) Olympic champion and the champion at 10,000 here. At 27, this would be his last successful major championship race. At 35, Bernard Lagat (a Kenyan transplant to USA) would continue to medal internationally for another 5 years. Lagat was the defending champion and was the second fastest 1500 runner of all time.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
Eliud Kipchoge had the championship record from 2003 and would go on to greater fame in marathon running, winning the Olympic gold medal in 2016 and setting the assisted world record in 2017, then the official record in 2018. A lesser known British runner named Mo Farah was making his first World Championship final after disappointment in the 2008 Olympics. Two years later, he would go on to start a 6 year long major championship winning streak that would encompass two Olympics and four World Championships in both the 5 and 10.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
With the mixture of strength runners like Bekele and Kipchoge, and kickers like Lagat and Farah, the strategy was a question mark. Could the strength runners burn off the kickers? Bekele started fast, and most of the field followed along in tow. Farah lagged 15 metres behind, 100 metres into the race. University of Wisconsin teammates Matt Tegenkamp and Chris Solinsky marked Bekele as the pace slowed at first. Bekele led with an uneven pace, running as fast as 60 seconds a lap and as slow as 64.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
Everybody else followed for 2300 metres until the Kenyan team, led by Joseph Ebuya all moved to the front as much to assert an even pace if not a fast pace. Bekele moved back to control the race, marked by Lagat, Kipchoge, Moses Ndiema Kipsiro and Kenyan transplant to Qatar, James Kwalia C'Kurui. Just under 800 metres to go, Ebuya stepped to the right and gave up. After coming to a virtual stop he jogged and rejoined the race well out of contention.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
The same five leaders remained together at the bell with Jesús España sprinting up to be in short lived contention. As they sped around the turn and into the backstretch, those five separated from the chasers. With España fading, Tegenkamp was the last left trying to bridge the gap. Bekele held the lead through the final turn, with Lagat moving into position to put his move on. Coming off the turn, Lagat pounced and took the lead, but only by inches. Side by side, Bekele on the inside and Lagat on the outside, the two sprinted shoulder to shoulder for 40 metres, then Bekele edged in front, slowly widening the gap for a little over a metre by the finish. Behind them Kwalia emerged from the group to take the bronze.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men'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 – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20, 21 and 23 August.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
In the first semifinals heat, Marcin Lewandowski fell over Bram Som who had tripped over Abubaker Kaki, who had fallen on his own account. After a protest, both Lewandowski and Som were allowed to compete in the final. With the extra athletes on the track the two time qualifiers, Alfred Kirwa Yego in lane 1 and Mbulaeni Mulaudzi in lane 8, had to share their lanes with Som in 1 and Lewandowski in 8.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
None of the people sharing lanes conceded space, Som leading Yego around the outside of the turn effectively boxing out Yego, Yusuf Saad Kamel and Yeimer López. With typically slow starters Nick Symmonds and Yuriy Borzakovskiy in the middle lanes, Som had a free run from the inside but Mulaudzi, Lewandowski and Amine Laâlou a strong wave from the outside to take the lead.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
Atypically, neither Symmonds nor Borzakovskiy were content to take the rear, both working their way through the crowd to join Mulaudzi at the front of the pack by the end of the first lap, exchanging arms and elbows in the process. Lewandowski was boxed in by the action on the outside and began to fall back through the pack while Symmonds took a strong position on Mulaudzi's shoulder, Laâlou right behind Mulaudzi with Som in their wake.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
Everyone held position on the backstretch save Borzakovskiy who noticeably fell back to behind Lewandowski on the back of the pack, which would be the normal place Borzakovskiy would launch his finishing kick, but not after losing so much ground. From the back group, through the final turn, Kamel went to the outside and started passing people, followed by Yego and then Borzakovskiy doing the same thing. Yego pulled out to lane 3 for running room, Borzakovskiy to lane 4, Kamel, Yego and Borzakovskiy, moving faster than the others ahead of them.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
Symmonds held second place until Kamel passed him, then the wind went out of his sails. Laâlou edged ahead but was getting passed by the rush. Mulaudzi was able to lean over the line in first, falling flat on his face just past the finish line. Yeo and Kamel crossed together with Yego getting the photo finish knod for silver. Borzakovskiy caught everyone else but ran out of track to get into the medals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres, Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.


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


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men'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 – Men's 800 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 – Men's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals
X: In the first semifinals heat, Marcin Lewandowski fell over Bram Som who had tripped over Abubaker Kaki, who had fallen on his own account. After a protest, both Lewandowski and Som were allowed to compete in the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 19 and August 20. The competition is notable for having the highest number of competitors (38) and the highest fraction of athletes (almost 90%) finishing the competition in the World Championships history.


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


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


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
The Men's Discus Throw event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 18 and August 19.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
As the only man to throw in excess of seventy metres that season, reigning world and Olympic champion Gerd Kanter of Estonia was the event favourite. Veteran athlete Virgilijus Alekna, the last athlete to beat Kanter in competition, was a strong medal possibility. Olympic silver medallist Piotr Malachowski was another contender, as was German Robert Harting who won silver at the previous world championships. The season had been of a high standard, with a number of athletes throwing over 65 m, including Frank Casañas, Bogdan Pishchalnikov and Zoltán Kővágó.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
On the first day of competition, qualification went smoothly as many of the highest ranked athletes qualified for the final on their first throw, with seven of them passing the automatic qualification mark of 64.50 m. Casañas and Estonia's number two Aleksander Tammert were the only high-profile athletes to be eliminated. Home competitor Harting had the best throw of the day (66.81), and Kővágó and Kanter were the next best qualifiers.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
In the final, Malachowski and Harting started very well on their first throws, with the former taking the lead with a Polish record-breaking throw, while the latter recorded a season's best. The pre-event favourites Kanter and Alekna were unable to challenge the two, as the Estonian took the bronze with his fourth round throw of 66.88 m and the Lithuanian never bettered his first throw of the day (66.36 m) and finished up in fourth place. Consistently throwing better than the rest of the field, Harting and Malachowski battled for the top spot. The Pole improved his lead with 69.15 m in the fifth round, another national record, but Harting took the gold with his final throw of the competition, recording a personal best of 69.43 m.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
The victory for the home athlete was marred by his controversial comments regarding an initiative by victims of doping in East Germany. Former East German athletes, who had suffered through the state-sponsored doping program in the 1980s, were distributing glasses outside the stadium to encourage people not to "turn a blind eye" to doping. Harting said that he wished his discus would bounce from the ground and hit wearers in the eyes, but he later retracted and apologise for his statement.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 64.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
The Men's Hammer Throw event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 17. With reigning champion Ivan Tsikhan banned from competition for doping offences, the 2008 Olympic gold and silver medallists Primož Kozmus and Krisztián Pars were the favourites in the event. Pars entered the competition with a world-leading throw of 81.43 m and an 18 competition win-streak. Belarusian Yuriy Shayunov and Russian Aleksey Zagornyi, the only other athletes to have thrown over eighty metres twice that season prior to the championships, were identified as possible podium finishers. Nicola Vizzoni, Igor Sokolov, Olli-Pekka Karjalainen, Szymon Ziółkowski, Koji Murofushi, and Libor Charfreitag were all predicted to have an outside chance of a medal.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
On the first day of competition, Kozmus was the first to pass the automatic qualifying mark of 77.50 m. Pars had the best effort of the day with 78.68 m, while former world champion Ziółkowski led group A with a throw of 77.89 m. Aspiring medallists Sokolov, Shayunov and Karjalainen all failed to progress to the final of the competition. On the final day of the hammer throw, the favourite Kozmus delivered a best of 80.15 m to take the gold medal, Slovenia's first ever in the World Championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
Ziółkowski's 79.30 m, the best of his season, was enough to take the silver – his first medal at a major championships since 2005. The level of the competition, however, failed to live up to expectations: the world-leader Pars started poorly and, after a number of fouls, he never regained ground and finished in fourth place. Furthermore, the performance of bronze medallist Zagornyi (78.09) was the shortest-ever distance of a medal winner in championship history.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men'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 – Men's hammer throw, Results, Final
Key:  NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result), SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
The men's high jump event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany was held between 19 August and 21 August 2009.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
The 2008 Olympic gold and silver medallists, Andrey Silnov and Germaine Mason, did not compete at the Championships and the reigning world champion, Donald Thomas had been in poor form that season. The Russian duo, Yaroslav Rybakov and world leader Ivan Ukhov, were the most favoured athletes. The 2005 world champion Yuriy Krymarenko and Olympic medallist Kyriakos Ioannou had performed sub-par prior to the competition. Andrey Tereshin, Jaroslav Bába and host representative Raúl Spank rounded out the likely medal candidates. In the qualification round, the two past champions (Thomas and Krymarenko) failed to make the qualifying mark of 2.30 m. All the favourites progressed, with Kyriakos Ioannou topping the rankings, while Mickael Hanany and Motswana Kabelo Kgosiemang jumped season's best to make the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
The final, held on 21 August, was delayed by 90 minutes due to heavy rainfall in Berlin, and this produced much lower results compared to the qualification for a majority of the jumpers. No medalling athlete reached the qualifying mark of 2.30 m that they had two days previously. Ivan Ukhov, who had a season's best of 2.40 m, finished with a best of 2.23 m, and Andra Manson similarly failed to match expectations. Only Rybakov, Ioannou, Spank and Sylwester Bednarek passed the 2.28 m height.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
Rybakov and Ioannou passed 2.32 m on their first attempts, while the other two athletes took two jumps for the height which were personal bests. These turned out to be the final passes of the competition and Rybakov beat Ioannou to the gold by having one less failed attempt in the competition, while Spank and Bednarek shared the bronze honours.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
This was Rybakov's first gold after three silvers in past world championships. Ioannou was Cyprus' only medallist from the championships that year. Joint-third Bednarek was a surprise medallist given that this was his first senior outdoor competition and he had started the season with a best of 2.26 m. The winning result of 2.32 m was the lowest winning result in the history of high jumping finals in the World Championships in Athletics, shared with the finals of 1983 and 2005.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 2.30 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men'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 – Men's javelin throw
The Men's Javelin Throw at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany on August 21 and August 23. The second qualification group was interrupted for one hour, after the 2nd throw, due to heavy rain.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 82.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump
The men's long jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20 and 22 August. The season had seen a number of athletes performing to a high level before the championships, with reigning World and Olympic champion Irving Saladino. The other athlete to jump that distance was Dwight Phillips, who is the world leader with a jump of 8.74 meters. Dwight Phillips took bronze in 2007 and is looking for his first win over Irving Saladino at an international level. Italy's Andrew Howe, the 2007 world silver medalist, withdrew from the Championships. Other expected to medal content are Olympic silver medalist Godfrey Khotso Mokoena and Olympic Bronze Medalist Ibrahim Camejo.


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


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 8.15 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump, Results, Qualification
Key:  NR = National record, NM = No mark, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon
The Men's Marathon at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 22, 2009 in the streets of Berlin, Germany.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault
The Men's Pole Vault event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany will be held between 20 August and 22 August 2009.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault
Reigning Olympic champion Steven Hooker came into the competition nursing a pulled hamstring incurred 12 days before the championships. Minimizing his effort, he only took one (successful) attempt in qualifying and two attempts in the final. Hooker waited until only three other competitors were left in the field. Hooker agonized in the pit after missing his attempt at 5.85, then watched Romain Mesnil clear. After one failure Renaud Lavillenie joined Hooker in passing to the next height while Maksym Mazuryk, who had passed to get to 5.85 exhausted his attempts. Constantly stretching and massaging his hamstring, Hooker successfully cleared 5.90 with room to spare, leaping from nothing to first place. Mesnil and Lavillenie could not answer.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 5.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men'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 – Men's shot put
The Men's Shot Put event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15. The Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski entered the competition as the world-leading athlete and one of the favourites. Much was expected of the four-man United States team, consisting of defending champion Reese Hoffa, Olympic silver medalist Christian Cantwell, former world champion Adam Nelson, and newcomer Dan Taylor.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
Cantwell won the competition, recording a world-leading 22.03 m throw to fend off second-placed Majewski (who managed 21.91 m). Former champions Hoffa and Nelson were beaten to the bronze medal by German Ralf Bartels, who threw a new personal best of 21.37 m to win the host nation's first medal of the tournament.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 20.30 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put, Results, Qualification
Key:  NM = No mark, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


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


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 16 and 18 August. The season had seen a number of athletes performing to a high level before the championships, with reigning World and Olympic champion Nelson Évora leading with 17.66 metres and all three athletes of the Cuban team having jumped over 17.60 m in the season. The other athlete to jump that distance was Phillips Idowu, who was keen make up for his loss to Évora in the 2008 Olympics. The Olympic medallists Évora, Idowu, and Leevan Sands, and the Cuban trio of David Giralt, Yoandris Betanzos and Alexis Copello, were judged to be the strongest competitors entering the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
In the qualifying rounds, Évora and Idowu were the first to pass the automatic qualifying mark of 17.15 metres, recording bests of 17.44 and 17.32 m respectively. Chinese jumper Li Yanxi was the third through the qualifying mark, and Sands and Giralt soon followed. The qualifying was not of the same standard as the 2008 Olympic final, as Copello and Dmitrij Valukevic rounded out the top twelve competitors with jumps under 17 m.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
In the final, Olympic champion Évora set the standard with a first jump of 17.54 m, Idowu also started well with a jump of 17.51 m. Giralt and Sands moved into third and fourth with jumps around the 17.2 m mark. Évora led the competition until round three, where Idowu produced a personal best and world-leading jump of 17.73 m to take the top spot. A large jump by Alexis Copello followed, but he was given the red flag, indicating a foul.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
Sands' season's best jump of 17.32 m moved him into the third medal spot, but it was Copello's final jump of 17.36 m that took the bronze medal. Évora's best also came in the final round, but the 17.55-metre jump did not rival that of Idowu. It was the thirty-one-year-old Briton's first ever major title, building on his silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.


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


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 17.15 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump, Results, Qualification
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 – Men's triple jump, Results, Final
Key:  SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
The women's 10,000 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 15 August. The Ethiopian team was particularly strong in the event, with two-time World Champion Tirunesh Dibaba, 5000 metres World Champion Meseret Defar, and African record holder Meselech Melkamu all vying for first place. The 2007 silver medallist Elvan Abeylegesse, Olympic bronze medallist Shalane Flanagan, and the World Cross Country Champion Florence Kiplagat were other athletes with strong medal possibilities.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
The race featured a number of surprises and upsets, beginning with the withdrawal of the defending champion Dibaba due to a leg injury, replaced by Wude Ayalew. The race started awkwardly when the outer alley of the starting group, led by Florence Kiplagat, broke to the inside at the gun. Essentially Masai, Ayalew, Grace Momanyi and the other five runners on the outside who followed Kiplagat ran a course some 14 meters shorter than the twelve runners from the other larger alley. But confused officials did not recall the start or issue any disqualifications for the incident.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
Still, Inês Monteiro took the early lead with the outer runners falling in behind her. By the end of the first lap Yukari Sahaku and Yurika Nakamura had emerged as the pacesetters. After a kilometer, the Russian duo of Liliya Shobukhova and Mariya Konovalova took the lead. Konovalova held the point, marked by Nakamura at an even, leisurely pace for this crowd until just after eight laps to go when Linet Masai, who had been hanging around the back of the tight pack made a quick move to the front. All three Ethiopians rushed to mark the move.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
By the end of the lap, 2007 medallist Abeylegesse dropped out of the race and a quintet of runners ( Masai, Melkamu, Defar, Ayalew and Grace Momanyi) had broken away from the rest of the pack. Lap times dropped from the 75 second average to 71, to 69. But Masai's pace slowed back to 70 then 71. Momanyi came up to take the lead with the Ethiopians changing their focus though Ayalew was struggling to keep on the back behind Masai. After taking the break for a lap, Masai returned to take the lead.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
As the runners approached the finish line for the bell, favourites Defar and Melkamu sprinted in front. Defar held the lead through the final turn, with Melkamu boxing Masai, neither could completely break away. With clear running room coming off the turn, Masai tried to get her long legs going. She wasn't able to make much progress, nor could Melkamu pass her teammate until Defar began to fade, unable to maintain her speed. Melkamu took the lead. 14 meters out, Masai passed Melkamu. Perhaps not noticing, Melkamu prematurely celebrated but Masai was a meter ahead to take the gold medal with a tactically-timed run. Defar, completely exhausted, eventually finished in fifth as Ayalew sprinted past Momanyi to take the bronze.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
Breaking a decade of Ethiopian dominance, nineteen-year-old Masai's gold medal was the first Kenyan victory in the event since the 1997 World Championships, and the country's first 10,000 m medal since 1999.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres
The women's 100 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 16 and August 17. The Jamaican team had three strong contenders for the 100 m title in reigning champion Veronica Campbell-Brown, Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser, and Kerron Stewart (who ran 10.75 seconds in July; the fastest in nine years). The American squad featured Muna Lee, Lauryn Williams, and an in-form Carmelita Jeter. Other medal contenders are Bahamians Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie and Chandra Sturrup, and Kelly-Ann Baptiste, who have all run under eleven seconds prior to the tournament.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres
Jeter was the fastest qualifier in the heats, and finished 0.02 seconds outside her personal best to win her quarter-final. Stewart was the fastest in the quarterfinals with 10.92 seconds, and Campbell-Brown won her race as the third athlete to run under eleven seconds that day. On the second day of competition, Shelly-Ann Fraser ran the fastest ever semi-final in 10.79 seconds, with Stewart just behind in 10.84 seconds. Jeter ran a personal best of 10.83 seconds to reach the final, in which half the competitors were Jamaican.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres
In the final, a quick start saw Fraser lead from the outset of the race and Stewart's late challenge was not enough to beat her compatriot. Stewart's personal-best-equalling 10.75 seconds earned her the silver medal, and Jeter took the bronze with a 10.90 second run, somewhat short of the time she produced in the semi-finals. The 2007 gold and silver medallists ran season's bests but missed out on the medals, with Campbell-Brown in fourth (10.95) and Williams in fifth (11.01).


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres
Fraser's win in 10.73 seconds was a Jamaican record and made her the joint third fastest 100 m athlete ever with Christine Arron. Furthermore, she became only the second woman to win consecutive Olympic and World Championship titles, after Gail Devers. As amazing as her start appeared, Fraser only had the fourth fastest reaction time in the field.


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


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 5 fastest(q) advance to the quarterfinals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Quarterfinals
Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 4 fastest(q) advance to the semifinals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 4 of each Semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
The  women's 100 metres hurdles at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium 18 and 19 August.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
The world leader Lolo Jones had not qualified for the championships, but a number of athletes had also posted fast times and scored major victories on the World Athletics Tour that season. Among the possible medallists were Americans Damu Cherry, Ginnie Powell. reigning Olympic champion Dawn Harper, and two-time world champion Michelle Perry. Canadians Priscilla Lopes-Schliep and 2003 champion Perdita Felicien were contenders for the title, and the new Oceanian record holder Sally McLellan had shown consistent form. Rounding out the favourites of the field, Jamaican athletes Brigitte Foster-Hylton and Delloreen Ennis-London were seeking to build on past championship successes.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
Michelle Perry's chance to gain a third gold ended in the heats, as she was hampered by an injury and finished seventh. Lopes-Schliep registered the fastest time of the first day, with 12.56 seconds. Harper was the fastest in the semi-finals with 12.48 seconds, a new personal best. Compatriot Cherry was the biggest name to be eliminated, unable to beat Irish athlete Derval O'Rourke to the fastest non-qualifying time.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
In the final, Harper had a slow start and clipped the second hurdle, effectively ruling her out of the medals. Foster-Hylton, Lopes-Schliep, O'Rourke, McLellan and Ennis-London were all equal at the halfway mark. Foster-Hylton pulled away to take the gold, with Lopes-Schliep holding off Ennis London to win the silver medal. Just behind the medallists were two athletes with unexpected performances: the unfavoured O'Rourke finished fourth with an Irish record while McLellan, one of the pre-race favourites, posted a modest time for fifth place.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
Foster-Hylton's gold medal was Jamaica's first in the event on the world stage, and also made her the oldest-ever winner of the sprint hurdles at the World Championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 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 100 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Key:  Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each semifinals (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
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 1500 metres
The  women's 1500 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium between 18–23 August. It was originally won by Natalia Rodríguez of Spain, but she was disqualified for tripping Gelete Burka of Ethiopia. Burka had been in the lead for the majority of the race, but Rodríguez had caught up and tripped Burka. Burka ended up finishing last and was visibly upset of what had happened. Rodríguez was disqualified. Defending champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain received the gold, Lisa Dobriskey of Great Britain received the silver, and Shannon Rowbury of the United States received the bronze. In addition, Mariem Alaoui Selsouli of Morocco was disqualified before the final for testing positive for Erythropoietin. She was not replaced.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 6 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, 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 1500 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 5 in each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk
The Women's 20 km Walk event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held throughout the city of Berlin on August 16, beginning and ending at the Brandenburg Gate.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk
Undefeated since May 2007, the Olympic and World champion Olga Kaniskina was a clear favourite. Russian champion and second fastest of the year Vera Sokolova was predicted as a possible medallist, as were Sabine Krantz and Kjersti Platzer who had both won on the racewalking circuit prior to the competition. Amongst the other fastest athletes before the championships were Russians Anisya Kirdyapkina and Larisa Emelyanova, while Olympic medallist Elisa Rigaudo and Universiade medallist Masumi Fuchise were suggested as other contenders for the podium.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk
Competing on the course along the Unter den Linden boulevard, German Sabine Krantz led early on, but dropped out halfway into the race, and Norwegian Platzer was disqualified with five kilometres to go. Kaniskina emerged as the clear winner, becoming the first woman to win the racewalking gold in consecutive championships. Forty-nine seconds behind her was the surprise silver medallist Olive Loughnane, who won Ireland's first championship medal since 2003, and her first ever medal at a major championships. Liu Hong took the bronze, while Russian teenager Kirdyapkina took fourth place.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk
Kaniskina's victory completed a Russian men's and women's 20 km double with Valeriy Borchin, and she received a winner's prize of $60,000 for her achievement. Her win highlighted her success in an event in which she had won an Olympic gold, two World Championships titles, and a gold in the World Cup in just three years.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk
On January 15, 2015, Kaniskina's results were disqualified for doping violations. Most of the athletes coached by Viktor Chegin have received similar bans. On July 6, 2016, Loughnane will receive the gold medal in a full ceremony at the 2016 European Athletics Championships.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk, Results
DNF = did not finish | DNS = did not start | DQ = disqualification | 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 200 metres
The women's 200 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 19, 20 and 21 August.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres
Olympic silver medalist and defending World champion Allyson Felix (USA) established herself as the pre-race favorite, having run under 22 seconds earlier in the season. Double Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown (JAM) suffered a toe injury and entered Berlin below her peak form.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres
In the final, Campbell-Brown and Allyson Felix both went out of the blocks quickly and entered the home straight even with one another. Felix, however, was able to hold her form as Campbell-Brown faltered, crossing the line in 22.02 seconds to win her third World 200m title. Campbell-Brown earned another silver medal in the 200m, and Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (BAH) won the bronze medal.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 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 200 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 200 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 3000 metres steeplechase
The Women's 3,000 metres Steeplechase event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 17. The Russian steeplechase team entered for the event was particularly strong, featuring world record holder and Olympic champion Gulnara Galkina, defending world champion Yekaterina Volkova, and third fastest of the year Yuliya Zarudneva. Other possible medallists included Marta Domínguez, who had the world-leading time prior to the competition, American record holder Jenny Barringer, and world junior record holder Ruth Bisibori.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase
On the first day of competition, Galkina won heat one, with Germany's Antje Möldner finishing not far behind with a national record-breaking run. African athletes Zemzem Ahmed and Gladys Kipkemoi shared the winning time in the second heat, a race which saw the defending champion Volkova eliminated from the competition.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase
In the final, the favourite Galkina led upon the final lap, when Domínguez and Zarudneva sped ahead of the field. Domínguez kicked in the final straight to take her first World Championship gold medal in 9:07.32. This was a Spanish record and the fourth fastest of all time, in what was only her ninth race in the steeplechase. Zarudneva held on for the silver medal and Milcah Chemos Cheywa, a Kenyan newcomer, took the bronze, both athletes with a personal best. The former champion Galkina had faded into fourth place, and out of the medals. A number of athletes in the rest of the field recorded personal bests, with highlights including Habiba Ghribi and Antje Möldner running national records, and Jennifer Barringer setting a new North American record.


2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase
On November 19, 2015, the Court of Arbitration for Sport found Domínguez guilty of an anti-doping rule violation and ordered that  all competitive results obtained by Domínguez from 5 August 2009 be disqualified. Earlier in 2015, silver medalist Yuliya Zarudneva (now known as Zaripova) received a doping ban that did not backdate to the 2009 World Championships,  In the past following a doping disqualification, the IAAF has not chosen to advance medals to athletes who later received doping bans themselves.