1989 IAAF World Cup
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The 5th IAAF World Cup in Athletics
IAAF World Cup in Athletics
The IAAF Continental Cup is an international athletics competition which comprises track and field events. It is the only world cup contested by teams representing entire continents, rather than just those of individual nations...

was an international track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations
International Association of Athletics Federations
The International Association of Athletics Federations is the international governing body for the sport of athletics. It was founded in 1912 at its first congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation...

, held on September 8–10, 1989, at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys is a stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Originally built in 1927 for the 1929 International Exposition in the city , it was renovated in 1989 to be the main stadium for the 1992 Summer Olympics...

 in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

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Men

Pos. Team Result
1 133
2 Europe 127
3 119
4 116,5
5 Africa 107
6 America 97
7 Asia 68,5
8 64,5
8 Oceania 64,5

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Women

Pos. Team Result
1 124
2 106
3 Americas 94
4 Europe 89
5 84,5
6 Asia 67,5
7 Africa 58
8 48
9 Oceania 40

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Men

100 metres
Great Britain
10.10
United States
10.15
Europe
10.17
200 metres
Americas
20.00
United States
20.36
Africa
20.38
400 metres
Americas
44.58
East Germany
44.86
Africa
44.97
800 metres
Great Britain
1:44.95
East Germany
1:45.04
Africa
1:45.08
1500 metres

Africa || 3:35.56
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Great Britain||3:35.79
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East Germany||3:35.87
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|5000 metres
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Africa ||13:23.14
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Europe||13:25.39
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Spain||13:25.94
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|10,000 metres
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Europe || 28:05.26
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Africa||28:06.43
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Spain||28:07.42
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|110 metre hurdles
|
United State || 12.87
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Great Britain||12.95
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Americas||13.21
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|400 metre hurdles
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United States || 48.74
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Africa||49.24
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Great Britain||49.42
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|3000 metre steeplechase
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Africa || 8:20.84
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Europe||8:21.75
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East Germany||8:23.21
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|4×100 metre relay
|valign=top| United States
Andre Cason
Andre Cason
Andre Cason is an American former sprinter. He was a member of the US 4 x 100 meters relay team that won the gold medal at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo with a world record time of 37.50 seconds...


Tony Dees
Tony Dees
Anthony Michael Dees is a former American hurdler.Dees won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind Mark McKoy...


Daron Council
Slip Watkins||38.29
|valign=top| Great Britain
Clarence Callender
John Regis
John Regis (athlete)
John Paul Lyndon Regis, MBE is a retired English sprinter. During his career, he won gold medals in the 200 metres at the 1989 World Indoor Championships and the 1990 European Championships, and a silver medal in the distance at the 1993 World Championships.He was a member of the British teams...


Marcus Adam
Marcus Adam
Marcus Adam is a retired English sportsperson, who represented Great Britain as both a sprinter and a bobsledder. Competing in athletics, he won the gold medal in the 200 metres at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, and also won gold and silver medals respectively in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1990...


Linford Christie
Linford Christie
Linford Cicero Christie OBE is a former sprinter from the United Kingdom. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games...

||38.34
|valign=top| Europe
Max Morinière
Max Morinière
Max Morinière is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Biography:At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a bronze medal in the 4x100 metres relay with his team mates Bruno Marie-Rose, Daniel Sangouma and Gilles Quenehervé.At the 1990 European Championships in Split the...


Gilles Quénéhervé
Gilles Quénéhervé
Gilles Quénéhervé is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.-Biography:At the 1987 World Championships in Rome he won the silver medal in a time of 20.16, which still stood as a French record for 21 years until it was broken by Christophe Lemaitre at the 2011 World...


Bruno Marie-Rose
Bruno Marie-Rose
Bruno Marie-Rose is a retired sprinter from France . He was a member of the French team which set a world record in the 4 x 100 metres relay in 1990 with a time of 37.79 seconds to win the gold medal at the European Championships...


Daniel Sangouma
Daniel Sangouma
Daniel Sangouma is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.-Biography:...

||38.47
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|4×400 metre relay
|valign=top| Americas
Lázaro Martínez
Lazaro Martínez
Lázaro Martínez Despaigne is a retired Cuban sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He won an Olympic silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. His personal best of 46.12 was set during the 1991 World Championships....


Sérgio Menezes
Howard Burnett
Howard Burnett (athlete)
Howard McNeal Burnett is a retired male sprinter from Jamaica, who mainly competed in the men's 400 metres during his career. He is a one-time Olympian, making his only appearance in 1988 , when he won the silver medal with the men's 4x400 m relay team. Burnett only ran in the qualifying...


Roberto Hernández||3:00.65
|valign=top| United States
Clarence Daniel
Oliver Bridges
Raymond Pierre
Raymond Pierre
Raymond Pierre is a former American track and field athlete, who competed in the sprinting events during his career. He is best known for winning the men's 400-meter dash event at the 1987 Pan American Games....


Antonio Pettigrew
Antonio Pettigrew
Antonio Pettigrew was an American sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters. He was born in Macon, Georgia....

||3:00.99
|valign=top| Africa
Simeon Kipkemboi
Simeon Kipkemboi
Simeon Kipkemboi is a former sprinter from Kenya, who represented his native East African country twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988 and 1992...


Lucas Sang
Lucas Sang
Lucas Sang was a Kenyan athlete who participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul. He was a member of the Kenyan 4 x 400 metre relay team, reaching the final and finishing eighth...


David Kitur
David Kitur
David Kitur is a retired Kenyan runner, who specialised in 400 metres.In 1983, at the inaugural world championships he was part of the Kenyan 4x400 metres relay team, which reached semifinals....


Gabriel Tiacoh
Gabriel Tiacoh
Gabriel Tiacoh was a sprinter from Côte d'Ivoire who specialised in the 400 metres. He is best known for winning his nation's sole Olympic medal thus far, in the 400 meters in 1984....

||3:01.88
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| High jump
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Europe || 2.34
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Great Britain||2.31
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Americas||2.25
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| Pole vault
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Europe ||5.75
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United States||5.70
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East Germany||5.55
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| Long jump
|
United States || 8.29
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Africa||8.00
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Great Britain||7.84
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| Triple jump
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United States || 17.49
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Soviet Union||17.31
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Great Britain||17.28
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| Shot put
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East Germany || 21.68
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Europe||21.40
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United States||21.10
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| Discus throw
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East Germany || 67.12
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Americas||66.72
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Europe||65.30
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| Hammer throw
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Europe || 77.68
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United States||76.38
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East Germany||76.28
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| Javelin throw
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Great Britain || 85.90
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Asia||82.56
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East Germany||80.30
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Women

100 metres
United States
11.18
Africa
11.23
East Germany
11.24
200 metres
East Germany
22.46
Africa
22.82
Americas
22.87
400 metres
Americas
50.60
East Germany
50.67
Africa
51.67
800 metres
Americas
1:54.44
East Germany
1:55.70
Europe
1:56.55
1500 metres
Europe
4:18.60
Soviet Union
4:19.44
East Germany
4:20.30
3000 metres
Europe
8:44.32
Soviet Union
8:49.42
United States
8:54.33
10,000 metres
East Germany
31:33.92
Europe
31:42.01
Soviet Union
32:15.53
100 metre hurdles
East Germany
12.60
Soviet Union
12.80
United States
12.86
400 metre hurdles
United States
53.84
Soviet Union
54.86
Europe
55.25
4×100 metre relay East Germany
Kerstin Behrendt
Kerstin Behrendt
Kerstin Behrendt is a former German athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres during her career....


Sabine Günther
Sabine Günther
Sabine Günther, née Rieger is a retired East German sprinter who competed mainly in the 200 metres.She won the 200 metres gold medal at the 1981 European Junior Championships...


Silke Möller
Silke Möller
Silke Möller, née Gladisch is a German athlete, who in the 1980s competed for East Germany as one of the best female sprinters in the world. Her best result was a world record in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the World cup in Canberra on October 6, 1985...


Cornelia Oschkenat
Cornelia Oschkenat
Cornelia Oschkenat, née Riefstahl is a German track and field athlete and Olympics participant, who represented East Germany...

42.21 Soviet Union
Natalya Kovtun
Natalya Kovtun
Natalya Kovtun is an athlete who represented the Soviet Union and later Russia. She specialized in the short sprints and also ran relay races, winning the silver medal in 4 x 100 m relay at the 1991 World Championships.-Achievements:-External links:...


Galina Malchugina
Galina Malchugina
Galina Malchugina is a retired sprinter from Russia. Competing for the Soviet relay team, she won medals at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics...


Tatyana Papilina
Natalya Voronova
42.76 United States
Sheila Echols
Sheila Echols
Sheila Ann Echols is a retired track and field athlete from the United States, who won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea, alongside team mates Alice Brown, 100 m gold medalist Florence Griffith Joyner and 100 m silver medalist Evelyn...


Esther Jones
Esther Jones
Esther Jones is a former sprinter who won an Olympic gold medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. -References:-External links:...


Dawn Sowell
Dawn Sowell
Dawn Sowell is an American sprinter who ran the fastest times in the 100 m and 200 m in 1989.Sowell attended Louisiana State University and she was tipped to be the next Florence Griffith-Joyner, but a hamstring injury in an event in New York in 1989 ended her career.-External links:**...


Wenda Vereen
42.83
4×400 metre relay Americas
Charmaine Crooks
Charmaine Crooks
Charmaine Crooks , is a Canadian athlete, five-time Olympian and Olympic Silver Medalist . Charmaine was born in Mandeville, Jamaica, but represented Canada for close to 20 years in athletics...


Pauline Davis
Grace Jackson
Grace Jackson
Grace Jackson is a retired Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres and 200 metres....


Ana Fidelia Quirot
Ana Fidelia Quirot
Ana Fidelia Quirot is a female athlete from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 m but was also successful over 400 m....

3:23.05 East Germany
Annett Hesselbarth
Annett Hesselbarth
Annett Hesselbarth is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.At the 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split she finished fourth in 400 m and won the 4x400 m relay for East Germany together with Grit Breuer, Manuela Derr and Petra Schersing...


Katrin Schreiter
Katrin Schreiter
Katrin Schreiter is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.At the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Seville Schreiter helped win the gold medal in an indoor world record time of 3:27.22 minutes. The teammates were Sandra Seuser, Annett Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer...


Christine Wachtel
Christine Wachtel
Christine Wachtel , is a German track and field athlete who won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1988 Olympic summer games in Seoul in the 800 metres run...


Grit Breuer
Grit Breuer
Grit Breuer is a former East German athlete, who competed in the women's 200m, 400m, 4x100m, and 4x400m events....

 
3:23.97 Soviet Union
Lyudmila Dzhigalova
Lyudmila Dzhigalova
Lyudmyla Stanislavivna Dzhyhalova is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres...


Yelena Golesheva
Marina Shmonina
Marina Shmonina
Marina Shmonina is an athlete who represented the Soviet Union and later Uzbekistan. She specialized in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay....


Yelena Ruzina
Yelena Ruzina
Yelena Ivanovna Ruzina is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She represented the Soviet Union....

3:26.15
High jump
Americas
2.04
Soviet Union
1.97
Europe
1.94
Long jump
Soviet Union
7.10
Europe
6.71
Oceania
6.64
Shot put
Asia
20.73
East Germany
20.62
Europe
20.10
Discus throw
East Germany
71.54
Asia
66.04
Americas
65.40
Javelin throw
East Germany
70.32
Asia
61.50
Americas
60.32

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