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{{Infobox Athletics Championships
| Name = 4th IAAF World Indoor Championships
| Logo = Toronto 1993 logo.jpg
| Size = 
| Host city = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| Optional caption = 
| Nations participating = 93
| Athletes participating = 537<ref>(558 when counting non-championship events)</ref>
| Events = 27 (+4 non-championship)
| Dates = March 12–14
| Stadium = [[Skydome]]
| Previous = [[1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships|1991 Seville]]
| Next = [[1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships|1995 Barcelona]]
}}

The '''4th [[IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics]]''' were held at the [[Skydome]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada from March 12 to March 14, 1993. It was the last Indoor Championships to feature the 5,000 and 3,000 metres [[race walking|race walk]] events. In addition, it was the first Indoor Championships to include [[heptathlon]] and [[pentathlon]], albeit as non-championship events. There were a total number of 537 athletes participated from 93 countries.

==Results==

===Men===
[[1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships#Men|1989]] | [[1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships#Men|1991]] | 1993 | [[1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships#Men|1995]] | [[1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships#Men|1997]]
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|60 metres|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Bruny Surin]] | CAN}} || 6.50<br /><small>('''CR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Frankie Fredericks]] | NAM}} || 6.51<br /><small>('''NR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Talal Mansour]] | QAT}} || 6.57
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|200 metres|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[James Trapp]] | USA}} || 20.63
| {{flagmedalist |[[Damien Marsh]] | AUS}} || 20.71
| {{flagmedalist |[[Kevin Little (athlete)|Kevin Little]] | USA}} || 20.72
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|400 metres|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Butch Reynolds]] | USA}} || 45.26<br /><small>('''CR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Sunday Bada]] | NGR}} || 45.75
| {{flagmedalist |[[Darren Clark]] | AUS}} || 46.45
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|800 metres|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Tom McKean]] | GBR}} || 1:47.29
| {{flagmedalist |[[Charles Nkazamyampi]] | BDI}} || 1:47.62
| {{flagmedalist |[[Nico Motchebon]] | GER}} || 1:48.15
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|1500 metres|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Marcus O'Sullivan]] | IRL}} || 3:45.00
| {{flagmedalist |[[David Maxwell Strang|David Strang]] | GBR}} || 3:45.30
| {{flagmedalist |[[Branko Zorko]] | CRO}} || 3:45.39
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|3000 metres|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Gennaro Di Napoli]] | ITA}} || 7:50.26
| {{flagmedalist |[[Eric Dubus]] | FRA}} || 7:50.57
| {{flagmedalist |[[Enrique Molina (athlete)|Enrique Molina]] | ESP}} || 7:51.10
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|60 metres hurdles|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Mark McKoy]] | CAN}} || 7.41<br /><small>('''CR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Colin Jackson]] | GBR}} || 7.43
| {{flagmedalist |[[Tony Dees]] | USA}} || 7.43
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|High jump|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Javier Sotomayor]] | CUB}} || 2.41
| {{flagmedalist |[[Patrik Sjöberg]] | SWE}} || 2.39
| {{flagmedalist |[[Steve Smith (British high jumper)|Steve Smith]] | GBR}} || 2.37
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Pole vault|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Rodion Gataullin]] | RUS|1991}} || 5.90
| {{flagmedalist |[[Grigoriy Yegorov]] | KAZ}} || 5.80
| {{flagmedalist |[[Jean Galfione]] | FRA}} || 5.80
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Long jump|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Iván Pedroso]] | CUB}} || 8.23
| {{flagmedalist |[[Joe Greene (athlete)|Joe Greene]] | USA}} || 8.13
| {{flagmedalist |[[Jaime Jefferson]] | CUB}} || 7.98
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Triple jump|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Pierre Camara]] | FRA}} || 17.59<br /><small>('''CR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Māris Bružiks]] | LAT}} || 17.36
| {{flagmedalist |[[Brian Wellman]] | BER}} || 17.27
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Shot put|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Mike Stulce]] | USA}} || 21.27
| {{flagmedalist |[[Jim Doehring]] | USA}} || 21.08
| {{flagmedalist |[[Aleksandr Bagach]] | UKR}} || 20.63
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|4 × 400 metres relay|Men}}
| {{flagteam|USA}}<br />[[Darnell Hall]]<br />[[Brian Irvin]]<br />[[Jason Rouser]]<br />[[Mark Everett (runner)|Mark Everett]] || 3:04.20
| {{flagteam|TRI}}<br />[[Dazel Jules]]<br />[[Alvin Daniel]]<br />[[Neil de Silva]]<br />[[Ian Morris (athlete)|Ian Morris]] || 3:07.02<br /><small>(NR)</small>
| {{flagteam|JPN}}<br />[[Masayoshi Kan]]<br />[[Seiji Inagaki]]<br />[[Yoshihiko Saito]]<br />[[Hiroyuki Hayashi (athlete)|Hiroyuki Hayashi]] || 3:07.30
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|5000 metres walk|Men}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Mikhail Shchennikov]] | RUS|1991}} || 18:32.10
| {{flagmedalist |[[Robert Korzeniowski]] | POL}} || 18:35.91
| {{flagmedalist |[[Mikhail Orlov (racewalker)|Mikhail Orlov]] | RUS|1991}} || 18:43.48
|}

* For [[doping (sport)|doping]] offenses, the Bulgarians [[Daniel Ivanov (long jumper)|Daniel Ivanov]] and [[Nikolai Raev]] were disqualified from the bronze medals in long and triple jump respectively.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/sporting-digest-drugs-in-sport-1454957.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/sporting-digest-drugs-in-sport-1454957.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Sporting Digest: Drugs in sport|date=13 April 1993|work=The Independent|access-date=6 January 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Istanbul 2012">{{Citation | title = Istanbul 2012 – Notes on contents| url = http://www.iaaf.org/download/downloadresultinfo?filename=74b8a25a-f82e-4c55-98c1-6a590d37c4ed.pdf&urlSlug=istanbul-2012-statistics-book-part-2-of-5| publisher = [[IAAF]] | page = 45| access-date = 31 May 2015 }}</ref>

===Women===
[[1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships#Women|1989]] | [[1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships#Women|1991]] | 1993 | [[1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships#Women|1995]] | [[1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships#Women|1997]]
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|60 metres|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Gail Devers]] | USA}} || 6.95<br /><small>('''CR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Irina Privalova]] | RUS|1991}} || 6.97
| {{flagmedalist |[[Zhanna Tarnopolskaya]] | UKR}} || 7.21
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|200 metres|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Irina Privalova]] | RUS|1991}} || 22.15<br /><small>('''CR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Melinda Gainsford]] | AUS}} || 22.73
| {{flagmedalist |[[Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova|Natalya Voronova]] | RUS|1991}} || 22.90
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|400 metres|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Sandie Richards]] | JAM}} || 50.93<br /><small>('''NR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Tatyana Alekseyeva]] | RUS|1991}} || 51.03
| {{flagmedalist |[[Jearl Miles]] | USA}} || 51.37
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|800 metres|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Maria Mutola]] | MOZ}} || 1:57.55<br /><small>('''CR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Svetlana Masterkova]] | RUS|1991}} || 1:59.18
| {{flagmedalist |[[Joetta Clark]] | USA}} || 1:59.86
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|1500 metres|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Yekaterina Podkopayeva]] | RUS|1991}} || 4:09.29
| {{flagmedalist |[[Violeta Beclea]] | ROU}} || 4:09.41
| {{flagmedalist |[[Sandra Gasser]] | SUI}} || 4:10.99
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|3000 metres|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Yvonne Murray]] | GBR}} || 8:50.55
| {{flagmedalist |[[Margareta Keszeg]] | ROU}} || 9:02.89
| {{flagmedalist |[[Lynn Jennings]] | USA}} || 9:03.78
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|60 metres hurdles|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Julie Baumann]] | SUI}} || 7.86
| {{flagmedalist |[[LaVonna Martin]] | USA}} || 7.99
| {{flagmedalist |[[Patricia Girard]] | FRA}} || 8.01
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|High jump|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Stefka Kostadinova]] | BUL}} || 2.02
| {{flagmedalist |[[Heike Henkel]] | GER}} || 2.02
| {{flagmedalist |[[Inga Babakova]] | UKR}} || 2.00
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Long jump|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Marieta Ilcu]] | ROU}} || 6.84
| {{flagmedalist |[[Susen Tiedtke]] | GER}} || 6.84
| {{flagmedalist |[[Inessa Kravets]] | UKR}} || 6.77
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Triple jump|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Inessa Kravets]] | UKR}} || 14.47<br /><small>('''CR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Yolanda Chen]] | RUS|1991}} || 14.36
| {{flagmedalist |[[Inna Lasovskaya]] | RUS|1991}} || 14.35
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Shot put|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Svetlana Krivelyova]] | RUS|1991}} || 19.57
| {{flagmedalist |[[Stephanie Storp]] | GER}} || 19.37
| {{flagmedalist |[[Zhang Liuhong]] | CHN}} || 19.32
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|4 × 400 metres relay|Women}}
| {{JAM}}<br />[[Deon Hemmings]],<br />[[Beverly Grant (athlete)|Beverly Grant]],<br />[[Cathy Rattray-Williams]],<br />[[Sandie Richards]] || 3:32.32
| {{flagu|United States}}<br />[[Trevaia Williams]],<br />[[Terri Dendy]],<br />[[Dyan Webber]],<br />[[Natasha Kaiser-Brown]] || 3:32.50
| none || none
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|3000 metres walk|Women}}
| {{flagmedalist |[[Yelena Nikolayeva (racewalker)|Yelena Nikolayeva]] | RUS|1991}} || 11:49.73<br /><small>('''CR''')</small>
| {{flagmedalist |[[Kerry Saxby-Junna]] | AUS}} || 11:53.82
| {{flagmedalist |[[Ileana Salvador]] | ITA}} || 11:55.35
|}

* The Russian 4 × 400 m relay team won the event and was awarded the gold medal, but was later disqualified when [[Marina Shmonina]] was found to have been doping.<ref name="Istanbul 2012" /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418110343/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sh/marina-shmonina-1.html Sport References: Marina Shmonina]</ref>

==Non-championship events==
Some events were contested without counting towards the total medal status. The 1600 metres medley relay consisted of four legs over 800 m, 200 m, 200 m and 400 m.

{| {{MedalistTable|columns=2}}
|-
| Men's heptathlon<br />{{DetailsLink|1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's heptathlon}}
| [[Dan O'Brien]] <br />{{flagu|United States}} || 6476
| [[Mike Smith (decathlon)|Mike Smith]] <br />{{flagu|Canada}} || 6279
| [[Eduard Hämäläinen]] <br />{{flag|Belarus|1991}} || 6075
|-
| rowspan=2 | Women's pentathlon<br />{{DetailsLink|1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's pentathlon}}
| [[Liliana Nastase]] <br />{{ROM}} || 4686
| [[Urszula Włodarczyk]] <br />{{flagu|Poland}} || 4667
| [[Birgit Clarius]] <br />{{flagu|Germany}} || 4641
|-
| colspan=6 | [[Irina Belova (athlete)|Irina Belova]] (RUS) won the women's pentathlon and was awarded the gold medal, but was later disqualified when she was found to have been doping.<ref name="Istanbul 2012" /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174512/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/irina-belova-1.html Sports Reference – Irina Belova]</ref>
|-
| Men's 1600 metres<br />Medley Relay
| {{flagu|United States}}<br />[[Mark Everett (runner)|Mark Everett]],<br />[[James Trapp]],<br />[[Kevin Little (athlete)|Kevin Little]],<br />[[Butch Reynolds]] || 3:15.10
| {{flagu|Brazil}}<br />[[Gilmar dos Santos]],<br />[[André Domingos]],<br />[[Sidney de Souza (athlete)|Sidnei de Souza]],<br />[[Eronilde de Araújo]] || 3:16.11
| {{flagu|Canada}}<br />[[Freddie Williams (athlete)|Freddie Williams]],<br />[[Ricardo Greenidge]],<br />[[Peter Ogilvie]],<br />[[Mark Jackson (athlete)|Mark Jackson]] || 3:16.93
|-
| rowspan=2 | Women's 1600 metres<br />Medley Relay
| {{flagu|United States}}<br />[[Joetta Clark]],<br />[[Wendy Vereen]],<br />[[Kim Batten]],<br />[[Jearl Miles]] || 3:45.90
| {{flagu|Canada}}<br />[[Donalda Duprey]],<br />[[Sonia Paquette]],<br />[[Mame Twumasi]],<br />[[Alanna Yakiwchuk]] || 3:56.34
| none || none
|-
| colspan=6 | The Russian women's 1600 metres medley relay team, composed of [[Yelena Afanasyeva (athlete)|Yelena Afanasyeva]], [[Marina Shmonina]], [[Yelena Rusina]] and [[Yelena Andreyeva]], originally won the event, but were later disqualified when Shmonina was found to have been doping.<ref name="Istanbul 2012" />
|}

==Medal table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = 
 | flag_template  = 
 | event          = 
 | team           = 
 | gold_RUS = 6 | silver_RUS = 4 | bronze_RUS = 3 | name_RUS = {{country|Russia|1991}}
 | gold_USA = 5 | silver_USA = 4 | bronze_USA = 5
 | gold_GBR = 2 | silver_GBR = 2 | bronze_GBR = 1
 | gold_CUB = 2 | silver_CUB = 0 | bronze_CUB = 1
 | gold_CAN = 2 | silver_CAN = 0 | bronze_CAN = 0
 | gold_JAM = 2 | silver_JAM = 0 | bronze_JAM = 0
 | gold_ROM = 1 | silver_ROM = 2 | bronze_ROM = 0
 | gold_FRA = 1 | silver_FRA = 1 | bronze_FRA = 2
 | gold_UKR = 1 | silver_UKR = 0 | bronze_UKR = 4
 | gold_ITA = 1 | silver_ITA = 0 | bronze_ITA = 1
 | gold_SUI = 1 | silver_SUI = 0 | bronze_SUI = 1
 | gold_BUL = 1 | silver_BUL = 0 | bronze_BUL = 0
 | gold_IRL = 1 | silver_IRL = 0 | bronze_IRL = 0
 | gold_MOZ = 1 | silver_MOZ = 0 | bronze_MOZ = 0
 | gold_AUS = 0 | silver_AUS = 3 | bronze_AUS = 1
 | gold_GER = 0 | silver_GER = 3 | bronze_GER = 1
 | gold_BDI = 0 | silver_BDI = 1 | bronze_BDI = 0
 | gold_KAZ = 0 | silver_KAZ = 1 | bronze_KAZ = 0
 | gold_LAT = 0 | silver_LAT = 1 | bronze_LAT = 0
 | gold_NAM = 0 | silver_NAM = 1 | bronze_NAM = 0
 | gold_NGR = 0 | silver_NGR = 1 | bronze_NGR = 0
 | gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 1 | bronze_POL = 0
 | gold_SWE = 0 | silver_SWE = 1 | bronze_SWE = 0
 | gold_TRI = 0 | silver_TRI = 1 | bronze_TRI = 0
 | gold_BER = 0 | silver_BER = 0 | bronze_BER = 1
 | gold_CHN = 0 | silver_CHN = 0 | bronze_CHN = 1
 | gold_JPN = 0 | silver_JPN = 0 | bronze_JPN = 1
 | gold_QAT = 0 | silver_QAT = 0 | bronze_QAT = 1
 | gold_CRO = 0 | silver_CRO = 0 | bronze_CRO = 1
 | gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 0 | bronze_ESP = 1
}}

==Participating nations==
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* {{ANG}} (1)
* {{ARG}} (2)
* {{ARM}} (1)
* {{ARU}} (1)
* {{flagu|Australia}} (10)
* {{AUT}} (6)
* {{AZE}} (5)
* {{BAH}} (2)
* {{flag|Belarus|1991}} (6)
* {{flagu|Belgium}} (7)
* {{BER}} (2)
* {{BOL}} (1)
* {{BOT}} (1)
* {{flagu|Brazil}} (8)
* {{BUL}} (7)
* {{BDI}} (2)
* {{flagu|Canada}} (37)
* {{CPV}} (1)
* {{CAF}} (1)
* {{flagu|Chile}} (2)
* {{flagu|China}} (12)
* {{TPE}} (2)
* {{CRO}} (1)
* {{CUB}} (13)
* {{CZE}} (8)
* {{DEN}} (3)
* {{DMA}} (1)
* {{EST}} (2)
* {{flag|Ethiopia|1991}} (1)
* {{FIN}} (9)
* {{flagu|France}} (15)
* {{flagu|Germany}} (29)
* {{GHA}} (2)
* {{flagu|Great Britain}} (26)
* {{GRE}} (7)
* {{flag|Hong Kong|1959}} (1)
* {{HUN}} (6)
* {{ISL}} (2)
* {{IRL}} (6)
* {{ISR}} (2)
* {{flagu|Italy}} (19)
* {{CIV}} (2)
* {{JAM}} (15)
* {{flagu|Japan}} (8)
* {{KAZ}} (3)
* {{KEN}} (3)
* {{KUW}} (1)
* {{Flag|Kyrgyzstan|1992}} (1)
* {{LAT}} (5)
* {{country|Lithuania|1988}} (6)
* {{MAD}} (2)
* {{MAS}} (2)
* {{MLI}} (1)
* {{MSR}} (1)
* {{flagu|Mexico}} (1)
* {{MDA}} (2)
* {{MAR}} (6)
* {{MOZ}} (1)
* {{NAM}} (1)
* {{flagu|Netherlands}} (9)
* {{flagu|New Zealand}} (1)
* {{NGR}} (2)
* {{NOR}} (6)
* {{PAR}} (1)
* {{PHI}} (1)
* {{flagu|Poland}} (6)
* {{flagu|Portugal}} (7)
* {{PUR}} (2)
* {{QAT}} (2)
* {{ROM}} (19)
* {{country|Russia|1991}} (34)
* {{country|Saint Lucia|1979}} (1)
* {{ESA}} (2)
* {{SEN}} (1)
* {{SLE}} (1)
* {{SVK}} (4)
* {{SLO}} (3)
* {{flag|South Africa|1928}} (5)
* {{KOR}} (2)
* {{flagu|Spain}} (18)
* {{flag|Swaziland}} (2)
* {{flagu|Sweden}} (9)
* {{flagu|Switzerland}} (7)
* {{TOG}} (1)
* {{TRI}} (4)
* {{TUR}} (2)
* {{UGA}} (2)
* {{UKR}} (13)
* {{flagu|United States}} (56)
* {{ISV}} (1)
* {{UZB}} (1)
* {{ZAI}} (1)
* {{flag|Zambia|1964}} (1)
{{div col end}}

==See also==
* [[1993 in athletics (track and field)]]

==References==

{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wi.htm GBR Athletics]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120313035936/http://www.athletics.com.au/history/international/int129.htm Athletics Australia]
* [http://www.maik-richter.de/] (German)

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