The 8th 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...

were held September 11-13, 1998 at the Johannesburg Stadium

Johannesburg Stadium

Johannesburg Stadium is a stadium, in the Doornfontein suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. The stadium has a sweeping roof and can accommodate 37,500 people....

 in Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

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Men

Pos.	Team	Result
1	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...	110
2	Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...	109
3	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	102
4	Americas Americas The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...	97
5	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	94
6	Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...	89
7	Asia Asia Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...	64
8	Oceania Oceania Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...	53

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Women

Pos.	Team	Result
1	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	96
2	Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...	94
3	Africa Africa Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...	88
4	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	87
5	Americas Americas The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...	81
6	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	75
7	Asia Asia Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...	45
8	Oceania Oceania Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...	42

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Men

100 metres	Americas	9.87 (NR)	Africa	9.92	Great Britain	10.03
200 metres	Africa	19.97	United States	20.38	Europe	20.40
400 metres	Great Britain	45.33	United States	45.37	Americas	45.45
800 metres	Germany	1:48.66	United States	1:48.73	Americas	1:48.92
1500 metres

Africa || 3:40.87
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Europe||3:40.95
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Great Britain||3:40.99
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|3000 metres
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Germany || 7:56.24
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Europe|| 7:56.47
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Africa||7:59.46
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|5000 metres
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Africa ||13:46.57
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Oceania||13:53.66
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Germany||13:58.40
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|110 metre hurdles
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Germany || 13.10
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Great Britain||13.11
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Americas||13.14
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|400 metre hurdles
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Africa || 48.08
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Asia|| 48.17
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Americas||48.40
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|3000 metre steeplechase
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Germany || 8:31.25
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Africa||8:31.85
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Asia||8:39.69
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|4×100 metre relay
|valign=top| Great Britain
Allyn Condon

Allyn Condon

Allyn Condon is an English former sprinter and current bobsleigher. At the Vancouver Olympic Games in 2010 he became the second person to have competed for Great Britain in both the summer and winter Olympic games having already competed in the Sydney Olympics in 2000.-Athletics:Condon has been...

Marlon Devonish

Marlon Devonish

Marlon Ronald Devonish, MBE is an English sprint athlete.He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester. Early in his career he was successful at both 100 and 200 metre distances, winning English Schools and European Junior titles at both, but in recent...

Julian Golding

Julian Golding

Julian Emmanuel Golding is an English sprinter.Julian Golding was born in Harlesden North West London. He enjoyed playing all sports before taking up athletics seriously in 1991...

Dwain Chambers

Dwain Chambers

Dwain Anthony Chambers is an English sprinter of Afro-Caribbean descent. He has won medals on the international stage numerous times and is one of the fastest European sprinters in the history of recorded athletics. His primary event is the 100 metres sprint, in which he has the second...

||38.09
|valign=top| United States
Jonathan Carter
Curtis Perry
Allen Johnson

Allen Johnson

Allen Kenneth Johnson is a retired hurdling athlete and won Olympic Gold in the 110 metre high hurdles at the 1996 games in Atlanta, Georgia....

Tim Harden

Tim Harden

Tim Harden is a former American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. Tim graduated from Northeast High School in Kansas City, Missouri in 1992...

||38.25
|valign=top| Africa
Seun Ogunkoya

Seun Ogunkoya

Seun Ogunkoya is a Nigerian sprinter and two-time African Championships gold medalist over 100 metres.-Career peak:He was born in Akure and is a cousin of Falilat Ogunkoya. He improved his personal bests from 10.43 seconds in 1995 to 10.15 seconds in April 1996 in Makurdi, at the 10th National...

Leonard Myles-Mills

Leonard Myles-Mills

Leonard Myles-Mills is a Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres.He has won a gold medal at the 1999 All-Africa Games, a silver medal at the 2003 All-Africa Games and a bronze medal at the 1998 African Championships. In 1999 he set a new African indoor record in 60 metres with 6.45 seconds...

Frankie Fredericks

Frankie Fredericks

Frank Fredericks is a former athlete from Namibia. Running in the 100 metres and 200 metres, he won four silver medals at the Olympic Games , making him Namibia's first and so far only Olympic medalist...

Eric Nkansah

Eric Nkansah

Eric Nkansah Appiah is a Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres.He is one of the current national record holders in 4 x 100 m relay with 38,12 seconds, achieved at the 1997 World Championships in Athens where the Ghanaian team finished fifth in the final.Participating in the 2004 Summer...

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|4×400 metre relay
|valign=top| Great Britain
Mark Hylton

Mark Hylton

Mark David Hylton is a former British 400 metres sprinter. Hylton won a silver medal in the relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta....

Jamie Baulch

Jamie Baulch

James Steven Baulch , but raised by foster parents in Risca, near Newport, is a British sprint athlete and television presenter. He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. As a member of British 4 x 400 metres relay teams, he won a gold medal at the 1997 World...

Sean Baldock
Iwan Thomas

Iwan Thomas

Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE is a sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400 m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion...

||2:59.71¹
|valign=top| Americas
Michael McDonald

Michael McDonald (athlete)

Michael L. McDonald was a Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Jamaica at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States where he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Roxbert Martin, Greg Haughton and Davian Clarke.A...

Troy McIntosh

Troy McIntosh

Troy McIntosh is a male sprinter from The Bahamas.-Achievements:-External links:...

Alejandro Cárdenas

Alejandro Cárdenas

Alejandro Manuel Cárdenas Robles is a retired track & field athlete from Mexico. He is married to high jumper athlete Romary Rifka....

Roxbert Martin

Roxbert Martin

Roxbert Martin is a former Jamaican 400 metres runner, who was selected for the Jamaican 4x400 metres relay team at the 1996 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal...

||2:59.77
|valign=top| Africa
Clement Chukwu

Clement Chukwu

Clement Chukwu is a former Nigerian athlete who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres.Chukwu attended Eastern Michigan University....

Ibrahima Wade

Ibrahima Wade

Ibrahima Wade is a French sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He switched nationality from his birth country Senegal in 2000.His personal best time is 45.05 seconds, achieved in August 1998 in Dakar...

Arnaud Malherbe

Arnaud Malherbe

Arnaud Malherbe is a South African sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in March 1999 in Roodepoort. It is also the current South African Record...

Davis Kamoga

Davis Kamoga

Davis Kamoga is a Ugandan athlete competing in 400 m. He won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia....

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| High jump
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United States || 2.31
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Americas||2.28
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Europe||2.28
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| Pole vault
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Europe ||5.85
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Germany||5.80
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United States||5.70
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| Long jump
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Americas || 8.37
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Oceania||8.32
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Africa||8.26
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| Triple jump
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Germany || 17.42
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Europe||17.32
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Americas||17.25
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| Shot put
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United States || 21.48
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Europe||20.45
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Germany||20.42
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| Discus throw
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Europe || 69.66
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Germany||67.47
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Africa||65.73
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| Hammer throw
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Europe || 82.68
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Germany||80.13
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Asia||79.40
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| Javelin throw
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Great Britain || 88.71
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Europe||86.96
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Germany||84.92
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¹ The United States originally won this event in 2:59.28, but were disqualified in 2009 after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to using HGH and EPO between 1997 and 2003.

Women

100 metres	United States	10.65	Americas	10.97	Africa	11.05
200 metres	United States	21.62	Africa'	22.25	Europe	22.35
400 metres	Africa	49.52	Germany	49.86	Americas	50.33
800 metres	Africa	1:59.88	Russia	2:00.20	Americas	2:00.56
1500 metres	Russia	4:09.41	Africa	4:10.30	Europe	4:11.66
3000 metres	Europe	9:00.54	Africa	9:01.35	United States	9:11.15
5000 metres	Europe	16:24.52	United States	16:26.24	Africa	16:38.81
100 metre hurdles	Africa	12.58	United States	12.67	Russia	12.77
400 metre hurdles	Africa	52.96	Americas	53.03	United States	53.17
4×100 metre relay	United States Cheryl Taplin Chryste Gaines Chryste Gaines Chryste Dionne Gaines is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.... Inger Miller Inger Miller Inger Miller is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is the daughter of Lennox Miller, an Olympic champion runner from Jamaica.... Carlette Guidry Carlette Guidry-White Carlette D. Guidry is a former American sprinter who won the Olympic gold medal of the 4 x 100 metres relay in 1992 in Barcelona and again in 1996 in Atlanta. She also competed in the individual 200m race in 1992 and 1996...	42.00	Americas Tayna Lawrence Tayna Lawrence Tayna Lawrence is a Track and Field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay race.... Chandra Sturrup Chandra Sturrup Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005... Beverly McDonald Beverly McDonald Beverly McDonald is a Jamaican sprinter. Her accomplishments include winning the silver medal in the 4x100m relay at the 2000 Olympics and the gold medal in the same event at the 2004 Olympics... Philomena Mensah Philomena Mensah Philomena Mensah is a Canadian sprinter. Born in Accra, she previously represented Ghana, but emigrated to Canada following the 1994 Commonwealth Games...	42.44	Germany Melanie Paschke Melanie Paschke Melanie Paschke is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay.Her personal best time in the 100 metres is 11.04 seconds, achieved in June 1995 in Bremen... Gabi Rockmeier Gabi Rockmeier Gabrielle Rockmeier is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres.Her personal best time is 22.68 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Stuttgart.She is the twin sister of Birgit Rockmeier.... Birgit Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier is a German sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Her personal best time is 22.90 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Stuttgart. Since 1999 she represents the sports club LG Olympia Dortmund.... Andrea Philipp Andrea Philipp Andrea Philipp is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.Her personal best time in the 200 metres is 22.25 seconds, achieved during the heats at the 1999 World Championships in Seville...	42.81
4×400 metre relay	Germany Anke Feller Anke Feller Anke Feller is a retired German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.Her personal best time is 51.82 seconds, achieved in July 1999 in Erfurt.-Achievements:-References:... Uta Rohländer Uta Rohländer Uta Rohländer, married Fromm is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, she won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay with her teammates Linda Kisabaka, Anja Rücker and Grit Breuer.Her personal best time is 50.33 seconds, achieved in... Ulrike Urbansky Ulrike Urbansky Ulrike Urbansky is a German hurdler who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. Her personal best time is 54.57 seconds, achieved in July 2000 in Barcelona.- Achievements :- External links :... Grit Breuer Grit Breuer Grit Breuer is a former East German athlete, who competed in the women's 200m, 400m, 4x100m, and 4x400m events....	3:24.26	Americas Norfalia Carabali Deon Hemmings Deon Hemmings Deon Hemmings is a former female 400 metres hurdler.Hemmings was the first ever Jamaican woman to win an Olympic Gold when she won the 400m Hurdles at the 1996 Olympics breaking the Olympic record which stood to 2004... Andrea Blackett Andrea Blackett Andrea Blackett is a Barbadian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. She is also an assistant women's track coach at her alma mater, Rice University.-Education:... Sandie Richards Sandie Richards Alexandra Richards is a Jamaican track and field athlete. She was a bronze medalist in the 4x400 m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece....	3:24.39	Russia Natalya Khrushcheleva Svetlana Goncharenko Svetlana Goncharenko Svetlana Goncharenko is a former Russian athlete who mainly competed in the 200 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay runner, winning the bronze medal in 4x400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics.... Yekaterina Bakhvalova Olga Kotlyarova Olga Kotlyarova Olga Kotlyarova is a Russian runner. She used to compete mainly in 400 metres, and has an Olympic bronze medal from 2000 in relay...	3:25.15
High jump	Europe	1.98	Africa	1.96	United States	1.93
Long jump	Germany	7.07	United States	7.00	Asia	6.74
Triple jump	Europe	14.64	Russia	14.36	Americas	14.29
Shot put	Europe	20.59	Russia	19.04	United States	18.79
Discus throw	Germany	67.07	Europe	66.25	Russia	64.38
Javelin throw	Oceania	69.85	Americas	65.50	Europe	64.24