2008 IAAF World Athletics Final – Results

These are the results of the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final, which took place in at the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion in Stuttgart, Germany on 13–14 September.

The year's top seven athletes, based on their points ranking of the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Tour, qualified to compete in each event, with an extra four athletes selected for races of 1500 metres and above. One additional athlete, a wildcard, was allocated to each event by the IAAF and replacement athletes were admitted to replace the qualified athletes that could not attend the final.IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final, Stuttgart, Germany, 13-14 September 2008. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-03-25.

Track Key

Events100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 3000 m 5000 m 110/100 m h 400 m h 3000 m st

100 metres

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Time (sec) Reaction time Notes 1 Asafa Powell 9.87 0.153 2 Nesta Carter 10.07 0.154 3 Michael Frater 10.10 0.137 4 Kim Collins 10.22 0.152 5 Marc Burns 10.22 0.153 6 Mike Rodgers 10.27 0.182 7 Ronald Pognon 10.27 0.121 8 Marlon Devonish 10.37 0.140

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Time (sec) Reaction time Notes 1 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 10.94 0.180 2 Kerron Stewart 11.06 0.169 3 Marshevet Myers 11.06 0.152 4 Carmelita Jeter 11.21 0.171 5 Torri Edwards 11.22 0.153 6 Lauryn Williams 11.22 0.154 7 Chandra Sturrup 11.23 0.136 8 Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie 11.25 0.155

200 metres

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Time (sec) Reaction time Notes 1 Stéphane Buckland 20.57 0.149 2 Paul Hession 20.58 0.160 3 Brendan Christian 20.61 0.153 4 Christopher Williams 20.66 0.162 5 Rodney Martin 20.66 0.164 6 Brian Dzingai 20.88 0.185 7 Marlon Devonish 21.02 0.151 8 Joel Brown 21.23 0.139

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Time (sec) Reaction time Notes 1 Sanya Richards-Ross 22.50 0.156 2 Marshevet Myers 22.69 0.182 3 Kerron Stewart 22.72 0.162 4 Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie 22.89 0.163 5 Carmelita Jeter 22.98 0.170 6 Lauryn Williams 23.30 0.185 7 Yulia Gushchina 23.37 0.148 8 Muriel Hurtis 23.43 0.148

400 metres

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Time (sec) Reaction time Notes 1 LaShawn Merritt 44.50 0.144 2 Jeremy Wariner 44.51 0.175 3 Chris Brown 45.36 0.133 4 Angelo Taylor 45.37 0.161 5 Martyn Rooney 45.82 0.179 6 Gary Kikaya 45.92 0.167 7 Kamghe Gaba 46.22 0.209 8 Johan Wissman 46.48 0.174

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Time (sec) Reaction time Notes 1 Sanya Richards-Ross 50.41 0.173 2 Christine Ohuruogu 50.83 0.234 3 Novlene Williams-Mills 51.30 0.231 4 Amantle Montsho 51.54 0.387 5 Shericka Williams 51.55 0.231 6 Mary Wineberg 51.65 0.263 7 Tatyana Firova 51.85 0.192 8 Shereefa Lloyd 51.86 0.206

800 metres

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Time (min) Notes 1 Alfred Kirwa Yego 1:49.05 2 Abraham Chepkirwok 1:49.22 3 Yusuf Saad Kamel 1:49.40 4 Marcin Lewandowski 1:49.40 5 Amine Laalou 1:50.03 6 Mbulaeni Mulaudzi 1:50.70 7 Richard Kiplagat 1:50.75 8 Steffen Co 1:55.69

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Time (min) Notes 1 Pamela Jelimo 1:56.23 2 Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei 1:58.41 3 Marilyn Okoro 1:58.64 4 Kenia Sinclair 1:58.85 5 Lucia Klocová 2:00.05 6 Elisa Cusma Piccione 2:00.12 7 Jennifer Meadows 2:00.80 8 Yuliya Krevsun 2:04.44

1500 metres

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Time (min) Notes 1 Haron Keitany 3:37.92 2 Asbel Kiprop 3:37.93 3 Nicholas Willis 3:38.22 4 Gideon Mwangi Gathimba 3:38.35 5 Yusuf Saad Kamel 3:38.50 6 Bernard Lagat 3:38.79 7 Belal Ali Mansoor 3:39.62 8 Mohamed Moustaoui 3:39.90 9 Abdalaati Iguider 3:41.70 10 Nicholas Kiptanui Kemboi 3:43.91 — Deresse Mekonnen

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Time (min) Notes 1 Maryam Yusuf Jamal 4:06.59 2 Gelete Burka 4:07.45 3 Iryna Lishchynska 4:07.65 4 Lisa Dobriskey 4:07.72 5 Shannon Rowbury 4:08.16 6 Nuria Fernández 4:08.24 7 Sylwia Ejdys 4:08.56 8 Erin Donohue 4:08.64 9 Sarah Jamieson 4:09.21 10 Agnes Samaria 4:12.20 11 Btissam Lakhouad 4:18.68

3000 metres

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Time (min) Notes 1 Bernard Lagat 8:02.97 2 Edwin Cheruiyot Soi 8:03.55 3 Matthew Tegenkamp 8:03.56 4 Mike Kipruto Kigen 8:03.63 5 James Kwalia C'Kurui 8:04.07 6 Mark Kosgei Kiptoo 8:04.30 7 Chris Solinsky 8:04.78 8 Abraham Chebii 8:05.87 9 Mohamed Farah 8:05.97 10 Isaac Kiprono Songok 8:06.33 11 Boniface Kiprotich Songok 8:07.59 12 Shadrack Kosgei 8:09.41

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Time (min) Notes 1 Meseret Defar 8:43.60 2 Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot 8:44.64 3 Jane Jepkosgei Kiptoo 8:47.65 4 Zakia Mrisho 8:49.41 5 Linet Chepkwemoi Masai 8:49.66 6 Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet 8:50.55 7 Stephanie Twell 8:50.89 8 Wude Ayalew 8:52.99 9 Laura Whittle 8:59.73 10 Viola Jelagat Kibiwot 9:04.20 11 Sara Slattery 9:16.24

5000 metres

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Time (min) Notes 1 Edwin Cheruiyot Soi 13:22.81 2 Moses Ndiema Kipsiro 13:23.02 3 Micah Kipkemboi Kogo 13:23.37 4 Mark Kosgei Kiptoo 13:23.73 5 Eliud Kipchoge 13:24.13 6 Tariku Bekele 13:24.75 7 Silas Kipruto 13:25.21 8 Boniface Toroitich Kiprop 13:36.33 9 Bernard Kiprop Kipyego 13:41.43 10 Moses Ndiema Masai 13:46.04 — Markos Geneti — Ali Abdosh

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Time (min) Notes 1 Meseret Defar 14:53.82 2 Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot 14:54.60 3 Meselech Melkamu 14:58.76 4 Linet Chepkwemoi Masai 14:58.88 5 Priscah Jepleting Cherono 14:59.74 6 Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet 15:00.03 7 Grace Kwamboka Momanyi 15:02.44 8 Jane Jepkosgei Kiptoo 15:03.80 9 Lucy Wangui Kabuu 15:09.69 10 Zakia Mrisho 15:21.68 11 Peninah Biwott Jepchumba 15:37.73 — Ejegayehu Dibaba

110/100 metres hurdles

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Time (sec) Reaction time Notes 1 David Oliver 13.22 0.181 2 Petr Svoboda 13.33 0.191 3 Ryan Wilson 13.54 0.163 4 Aries Merritt 13.56 0.156 5 Marcel van der Westen 13.57 0.136 6 Tyron Akins 13.62 0.150 7 Andy Turner 13.68 0.125 8 Joel Brown 13.81 0.139

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Time (sec) Reaction time Notes 1 LoLo Jones 12.56 0.128 2 Delloreen Ennis-London 12.56 0.148 3 Dawn Harper Nelson 12.67 0.182 4 Brigitte Foster-Hylton 12.76 0.137 5 Priscilla Lopes-Schliep 12.81 0.139 6 Sally Pearson 12.82 0.137 7 Joanna Hayes 13.06 0.156 — Josephine Onyia 12.54 0.154 The original winner, Josephine Onyia, was retrospectively disqualified following a failed doping test.La española Josephine Onyia, suspendida dos años por el TAS. El País (2009-10-07). Retrieved on 2009-10-07.

400 metres hurdles

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Time (sec) Reaction time Notes 1 Kerron Clement 48.96 0.175 2 Danny McFarlane 49.00 0.166 3 Isa Phillips 49.22 0.185 4 Markino Buckley 49.52 0.276 5 L.J. van Zyl 49.95 0.158 6 Marek Plawgo 51.13 0.161 7 Reuben McCoy 51.38 0.212 8 LaRon Bennett 52.02 0.172

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Time (sec) Reaction time Notes 1 Melaine Walker 54.06 0.279 2 Anastasiya Rabchenyuk 54.92 0.219 3 Tiffany Williams 55.16 0.151 4 Yevgeniya Isakova 55.23 0.186 5 Sheena Tosta 55.33 0.153 6 Anna Jesień 55.44 0.151 7 Christine Spence 58.15 0.208 8 Tasha Danvers 58.40 0.174

3000 metres steeplechase

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Time (min) Notes 1 Paul Kipsiele Koech 8:05.35 2 Ezekiel Kemboi 8:15.32 3 Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong 8:16.05 4 Tareq Mubarak Taher 8:16.27 5 Benjamin Kiplagat 8:16.58 6 Mustafa Mohamed 8:16.77 7 Bouabdellah Tahri 8:18.28 8 Michael Kipkorir Kipyego 8:24.77 9 Brimin Kiprop Kipruto 8:29.11 10 Wesley Kiprotich 8:30.66 11 Collins Kosgei 8:35.04 — Hamid Ezzine

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Time (min) Notes 1 Gulnara Galkina 9:21.73 2 Eunice Jepkorir Kertich 9:24.03 3 Ruth Bisibori Nyangau 9:24.38 4 Wioletta Frankiewicz 9:31.89 5 Cristina Casandra 9:35.27 6 Donna MacFarlane 9:36.72 7 Ancuta Bobocel 9:37.89 8 Helen Clitheroe 9:39.72 9 Zemzem Ahmed 10:03.20 — Yekaterina Volkova — Victoria Mitchell

Field EventsHigh jump Pole vault Long jump Triple jump Shot put Discus Hammer Javelin

High jump

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Andrey Silnov 2.35 2 Stefan Holm 2.33 3 Jesse Williams 2.29 4 Yaroslav Rybakov 2.29 5 Linus Thörnblad 2.26 6 Germaine Mason 2.26 7 Jamie Nieto 2.22 8 Kabelo Kgosiemang 2.18

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Blanka Vlašić 2.01 2 Tia Hellebaut 1.97 3 Ariane Friedrich 1.97 4 Chaunté Lowe 1.97 5 Marina Aitova 1.94 6 Ruth Beitia 1.94 Anna Chicherova 1.99 DQ Elena Slesarenko 1.94 DQ

Pole vault

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Derek Miles 5.80 2 Brad Walker 5.70 3 Maksym Mazuryk 5.60 4 Evgeniy Lukyanenko 5.60 4 Alexander Straub 5.60 6 Fabian Schulze 5.40 — Sergey Kucheryanu — Denys Yurchenko

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Silke Spiegelburg 4.70 2 Svetlana Feofanova 4.70 3 Monika Pyrek 4.70 4 Yuliya Golubchikova 4.50 5 Tatyana Polnova 4.50 6 Carolin Hingst 4.50 6 Fabiana Murer 4.50 — Elena Isinbaeva

Long jump

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Wind Notes 1 Fabrice Lapierre 8.14 +0.6 2 Hussein Taher Al-Sabee 8.13 +1.0 3 Mohamed Salman Al Khuwalidi 8.04 +0.7 4 Luis Felipe Méliz 8.03 +0.6 5 Sebastian Bayer 8.00 +1.1 6 Miguel Pate 7.99 +0.9 7 Ndiss Kaba Badji 7.76 +0.8 8 Nils Winter 7.54 +1.1

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Wind Notes 1 Naide Gomes 6.71 +0.1 2 Ksenija Balta 6.65 +0.1 3 Tatyana Lebedeva 6.64 +0.1 4 Grace Upshaw 6.48 +0.4 5 Oksana Udmurtova 6.46 0.0 6 Karin Mey Melis 6.37 +0.2 7 Tatyana Kotova 6.25 +0.1 8 Funmi Jimoh 6.00 -1.0

Triple jump

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Wind Notes 1 Nelson Évora 17.24 +0.3 2 Jadel Gregório 17.09 +0.1 3 Randy Lewis 17.01 -0.4 4 Walter Davis 16.94 -0.2 5 Dmitrij Valukevic 16.94 +0.1 6 Leevan Sands 16.78 0.0 7 Charles Michael Friedek 16.10 +0.2 8 Ndiss Kaba Badji 15.66 -0.5

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Wind Notes 1 Anna Pyatykh 14.78 +0.6 2 Tatyana Lebedeva 14.63 +0.6 3 Marija Šestak 14.63 +0.4 4 Françoise Mbango Etone 14.50 +1.3 5 Oksana Udmurtova 14.46 +0.3 6 Olga Saladukha 14.40 +0.8 7 Dana Veldáková 13.89 -0.1 8 Gisele de Oliveira 13.55 +1.4

Shot put

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Tomasz Majewski 20.88 2 Christian Cantwell 20.73 3 Dan Taylor 20.38 4 Reese Hoffa 20.37 5 Dorian Scott 20.04 6 Peter Sack 19.91 7 Dylan Armstrong 19.30 8 Garrett Johnson 19.24

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Valerie Adams 19.69 2 Nadine Kleinert 19.42 3 Misleydis González 18.55 4 Cleopatra Borel 18.50 5 Christina Schwanitz 18.19 6 Elizabeth Wanless 17.72 7 Kristin Heaston 16.87 8 Anca Heltne 16.60

Discus throw

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Gerd Kanter 68.38 2 Piotr Małachowski 66.07 3 Robert Harting 65.76 4 Zoltán Kövágó 65.11 5 Gábor Máté 63.28 6 Ehsan Hadadi 62.76 7 Mario Pestano 61.67 8 Virgilijus Alekna 61.03

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Nicoleta Grasu 62.48 2 Stephanie Brown Trafton 62.23 3 Vera Pospíšilová-Cechlová 58.72 4 Anna Söderberg 57.40 5 Aretha Thurmond 56.99 6 Becky Breisch 53.92 — Yarelys Barrios 64.88 — Beatrice Faumuina The original winner, Yarelys Barrios, was retrospectively disqualified due to a failed doping test at the 2008 Summer Olympics. IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008. Olympic.org (2016-09-01). Retrieved 2018-04-24.

Hammer throw

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Primož Kozmus 79.99 2 Krisztián Pars 79.37 3 Koji Murofushi 78.99 4 Szymon Ziólkowski 75.33 5 Ali Mohamed Al-Zankawi 74.19 6 Marco Lingua 73.59 7 Artem Rubanko 65.63 8 Miloslav Konopka 49.76

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Yipsi Moreno 74.09 2 Martina Hrasnová 71.40 3 Anita Wlodarczyk 70.97 4 Ivana Brkljacic 70.00 5 Betty Heidler 69.72 6 Manuela Montebrun 69.52 7 Stéphanie Falzon 68.85 8 Clarissa Claretti 68.67

Javelin throw

+Men's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Vadims Vasilevskis 86.65 2 Andreas Thorkildsen 83.77 3 Tero Pitkämäki 81.64 4 Eriks Rags 80.78 5 Tero Järvenpää 79.96 6 Ainars Kovals 79.57 7 Alexander Vieweg 74.65 8 Tom Goyvaerts 73.47

+Women's Rank Athlete Nation Result (m) Notes 1 Barbora Špotáková 72.28 2 Christina Obergföll 63.28 3 Steffi Nerius 62.78 4 Zahra Bani 60.22 5 Linda Stahl 58.90 6 Goldie Sayers 58.04 7 Barbara Madejczyk 56.71 8 Mercedes Chilla 54.29

References

Results 6th IAAF World Athletics Final. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-03-24.