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{{Infobox Athletics Championships
|Name =7th IAAF World Indoor Championships
|Logo = Maebashi 1999 logo.jpg
|Size = 150px
|Host city =[[Maebashi, Gunma|Maebashi]], [[Japan]]
|Optional caption = 
|Nations participating = 115
|Athletes participating = 451
|Events = 28
|Dates = 5 March–7 March
|Stadium = [[Green Dome Maebashi]]
|Previous = [[1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships|1997 Paris]]
|Next = [[2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships|2001 Lisbon]]
}}

The '''7th [[IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics]]''' were held in the [[Green Dome Maebashi]] stadium in [[Maebashi, Gunma|Maebashi]], [[Japan]] from March 5 to March 7, 1999. It was the first time the Championships were staged outside [[Europe]] or [[North America]]. [[Primo Nebiolo]], president of the [[IAAF]], characterized the championships as "the greatest ever". There were a total number of 487 participating athletes from 115 countries.

==Doping disqualifications==
Four medalists were disqualified for doping; [[Rostislav Dimitrov]] of Bulgaria was stripped of the triple jump silver, [[Inger Miller]] of the USA was stripped of the 60 metre bronze, [[Vita Pavlysh]] of Ukraine was stripped of the shot put gold and [[Irina Korzhanenko]] of Russia was stripped of the shot put silver.<ref name="Sopot 2014">{{ Citation | title = IAAF Statistics Book – World Indoor Championships SOPOT 2014 | url = http://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/2014/Sopot2014/projet/SOPOT-2014.pdf#page=49 | publisher = [[IAAF]] | editor=Mark Butler | chapter= DOPING VIOLATIONS AT IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS | pages = 47–48 | access-date = 27 September 2015 }}</ref>

==Results==
===Men===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
|60 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Maurice Greene (athlete)|Maurice Greene]]|USA}} ||6.42<br><small>('''CR''')</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Tim Harden]]|USA}}||6.43<br><small>(PB)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Jason Gardener]]|GBR}}||6.46<br><small>(AR)</small>
|-
|200 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 200 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Frankie Fredericks]]|NAM}}||20.10<br><small>('''CR''')</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Obadele Thompson]]|BAR}}||20.26<br><small>(AR)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Kevin Little (athlete)|Kevin Little]]|USA}}||20.48
|-
|400 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Jamie Baulch]]|GBR}}||45.73
|{{flagmedalist|[[Milton Campbell]]|USA}}||45.99
|{{flagmedalist|[[Alejandro Cárdenas]]|MEX}}||46.02<br><small>(NR)</small>
|-
|800 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Johan Botha (athlete)|Johan Botha]]|RSA}}||1:45.47
|{{flagmedalist|[[Wilson Kipketer]]|DEN}}||1:45.49
|{{flagmedalist|[[Nico Motchebon]]|GER}}||1:45.74
|-
|1500 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Haile Gebrselassie]]|ETH|1996}}||3:33.77<br><small>('''CR''')</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Laban Rotich]]|KEN}}||3:33.98
|{{flagmedalist|[[Andrés Manuel Díaz]]|ESP}}||3:34.46
|-
|3000 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Haile Gebrselassie]]|ETH|1996}}||7:53.57
|{{flagmedalist|[[Paul Bitok]]|KEN}}||7:53.79
|{{flagmedalist|[[Million Wolde]]|ETH|1996}}||7:53.85
|-
|60 m hurdles<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Colin Jackson]]|GBR}}||7.38<br><small>('''CR''')</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Reggie Torian]]|USA}}||7.40
|{{flagmedalist|[[Falk Balzer]]|GER}}||7.44
|-
|4 × 400 m relay<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay}}
|{{flagteam|USA}}<br>[[Andre Morris]]<br>[[Dameon Johnson]]<br>[[Deon Minor]]<br>[[Milton Campbell]]||3:02.83<br><small>('''WR''')</small>
|{{flagteam|POL}}<br>[[Piotr Haczek]]<br>[[Jacek Bocian]]<br>[[Piotr Rysiukiewicz]]<br>[[Robert Maćkowiak]]||3:03.01<br><small>(AR)</small>
|{{flagteam|GBR}}<br>[[Allyn Condon]]<br>[[Solomon Wariso]]<br>[[Adrian Patrick]]<br>[[Jamie Baulch]]||3:03.20<br><small>(NR)</small>
|-
|High jump<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's high jump}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Javier Sotomayor]]|CUB}}||2.36
|{{flagmedalist|[[Vyacheslav Voronin]]|RUS}}||2.36
|{{flagmedalist|[[Charles Austin (high jumper)|Charles Austin]]|USA}}||2.33
|-
|Pole vault<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's pole vault}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Jean Galfione]]|FRA}}||6.00<br><small>('''CR''')</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Jeff Hartwig]]|USA}}||5.95<br><small>(AR)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Danny Ecker]]|GER}}||5.85
|-
|Long jump<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's long jump}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Iván Pedroso]]|CUB}}||8.62<br><small>('''CR''')</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Yago Lamela]]|ESP}}||8.56<br><small>(AR)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Erick Walder]]|USA}}||8.30
|-
|Triple jump<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's triple jump}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Charles Friedek]]|GER}}||17.18<br><small>(PB)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[LaMark Carter]]|USA}}<sup>'''1'''</sup> ||16.98
|{{flagmedalist|[[Zsolt Czingler]]|HUN}}||16.98
|-
|Shot put<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's shot put}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Aleksandr Bagach]]|UKR}}||21.41
|{{flagmedalist|[[John Godina]]|USA}}||21.06
|{{flagmedalist|[[Yuriy Bilonog]]|UKR}}||20.89
|-
|Heptathlon<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's heptathlon}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Sebastian Chmara]]|POL}}||6386<br><small>(WL)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Erki Nool]]|EST}}||6374<br><small>(NR)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Roman Šebrle]]|CZE}}||6319<br><small>(NR)</small>
|-
|}

<sup>1</sup> [[Rostislav Dimitrov]] of Bulgaria originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified for doping.<ref name="Sopot 2014"/>

===Women===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
|60 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres}} *
|{{flagmedalist|[[Ekaterini Thanou]]|GRE}}||6.96
|{{flagmedalist|[[Gail Devers]]|USA}}||7.02
|{{flagmedalist|[[Philomena Mensah]]|CAN}} ||7.07
|-
|200 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 200 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Ionela Târlea]]|ROU}}||22.39
|{{flagmedalist|[[Svetlana Goncharenko]]|RUS}}||22.69
|{{flagmedalist|[[Pauline Davis-Thompson|Pauline Davis]]|BAH}}||22.70
|-
|400 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Grit Breuer]]|GER}}||50.80
|{{flagmedalist|[[Falilat Ogunkoya]]|NGR}}||51.25
|{{flagmedalist|[[Jearl Miles Clark]]|USA}}||51.45
|-
|800 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Ludmila Formanová]]|CZE}}||1:56.90<br><small>('''CR''')</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Maria Mutola]]|MOZ}}||1:57.17
|{{flagmedalist|[[Natalya Tsyganova]]|RUS}}||1:57.47<br><small>(NR)</small>
|-
|1500 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Gabriela Szabo]]|ROU}}||4:03.23<br><small>('''CR''')</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Violeta Beclea-Szekely|Violeta Beclea]]|ROU}}||4:03.53<br><small>(PB)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Lidia Chojecka]]|POL}}||4:05.86<br><small>(NR)</small>
|-
|3000 m<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Gabriela Szabo]]|ROU}}||8:36.42
|{{flagmedalist|[[Zahra Ouaziz]]|MAR}}||8:38.43<br><small>(AR)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Regina Jacobs]]|USA}}||8:39.14<br><small>(AR)</small>
|-
|60 m hurdles<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Olga Shishigina]]|KAZ}}||7.86
|{{flagmedalist|[[Glory Alozie]]|NGR}}||7.87
|{{flagmedalist|[[Keturah Anderson]]|CAN}}||7.90
|-
|4 × 400 m relay<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay}}
|{{flagteam|RUS}}<br>[[Tatyana Chebykina]]<br>[[Svetlana Goncharenko]]<br>[[Olga Kotlyarova]]<br>[[Natalya Nazarova]] ||3:24.25<br><small>('''WR''')</small>
|{{flagteam|AUS}}<br>[[Susan Andrews]]<br>[[Tania Van Heer]]<br>[[Tamsyn Lewis]]<br>[[Cathy Freeman]]||3:26.87<br><small>(AR)</small>
|{{flagteam|USA}}<br>[[Monique Hennagan]]<br>[[Michelle Collins (athlete)|Michelle Collins]]<br>[[Zundra Feagin-Alexander|Zundra Feagin]]<br>[[Shanelle Porter]]||3:27.59<br><small>(AR)</small>
|-
|High jump<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's high jump}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Khristina Kalcheva]]|BUL}}||1.99
|{{flagmedalist|[[Zuzana Hlavoňová]]|CZE}}||1.96
|{{flagmedalist|[[Tisha Waller]]|USA}}||1.96
|-
|rowspan="2"|Pole vault<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's pole vault}}
|rowspan="2"|{{flagmedalist|[[Anastasija Reiberger|Nastja Ryjikh]]|GER}}||rowspan="2"|4.50<br><small>('''CR''')</small>
|rowspan="2"|{{flagmedalist|[[Vala Flosadóttir]]|ISL}}||rowspan="2"|4.45<br><small>(NR)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Nicole Rieger-Humbert|Nicole Rieger]]|GER}}||rowspan="2"|4.35
|-
|{{flagmedalist|[[Zsuzsanna Szabó-Olgyai|Zsuzsanna Szabó]]|HUN}}
|-
|Long jump<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's long jump}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Tatyana Kotova]]|RUS}}||6.86<br><small>(PB)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Shana Williams]]|USA}}||6.82<br><small>(PB)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Iva Prandzheva]]|BUL}}||6.78
|-
|Triple jump<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's triple jump}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Ashia Hansen]]|GBR}}||15.02<br><small>(WL)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Iva Prandzheva]]|BUL}}||14.94<br><small>(NR)</small>
|{{flagmedalist|[[Šárka Kašpárková]]|CZE}}||14.87<br><small>(NR)</small>
|-
|Shot put<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's shot put}} *
|{{flagmedalist|[[Svetlana Krivelyova]]|RUS}}||19.08
|{{flagmedalist|[[Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska|Krystyna Danilczyk]]|POL}}||19.00
|{{flagmedalist|[[Teri Steer-Tunks|Teri Steer]]|USA}}||18.86
|-
|Pentathlon<br>{{DetailsLink|1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's pentathlon}}
|{{flagmedalist|[[Le Shundra Nathan]]|USA}}||4753
|{{flagmedalist|[[Irina Belova (athlete)|Irina Belova]]|RUS}}||4691
|{{flagmedalist|[[Urszula Włodarczyk]]|POL}}||4596
|}
*American sprinter [[Inger Miller]] won the bronze but failed a post-race drug test (excessive caffeine) and was stripped of the medal.<ref name="Sopot 2014"/><ref>Morfey, Alex (2001-10-13). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/3014716/Athletics-Miller-failed-drug-test-in-1999.html Athletics: Miller failed drug test in 1999]. ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. Retrieved on 2010-02-07.</ref>
*[[Vita Pavlysh]] of Ukraine failed a [[drug test]] and was stripped of her shot put gold medal.<ref name="Sopot 2014"/>
*[[Irina Korzhanenko]] of Russia was stripped of the shot put silver.<ref name="Sopot 2014"/>

==Medal table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = 
 | flag_template  = 
 | event          = 
 | team           = 
 | gold_USA = 3 | silver_USA = 8 | bronze_USA = 8
 | gold_RUS = 3 | silver_RUS = 3 | bronze_RUS = 1
 | gold_ROM = 3 | silver_ROM = 1 | bronze_ROM = 0
 | gold_GER = 3 | silver_GER = 0 | bronze_GER = 4
 | gold_GBR = 3 | silver_GBR = 0 | bronze_GBR = 2
 | gold_ETH = 2 | silver_ETH = 0 | bronze_ETH = 1 | name_ETH = {{flagteam|ETH|1996}}
 | gold_CUB = 2 | silver_CUB = 0 | bronze_CUB = 0
 | gold_POL = 1 | silver_POL = 2 | bronze_POL = 2
 | gold_CZE = 1 | silver_CZE = 1 | bronze_CZE = 2
 | gold_BGR = 1 | silver_BGR = 1 | bronze_BGR = 1
 | gold_UKR = 1 | silver_UKR = 0 | bronze_UKR = 1
 | gold_FRA = 1 | silver_FRA = 0 | bronze_FRA = 0
 | gold_GRE = 1 | silver_GRE = 0 | bronze_GRE = 0 | name_GRE = {{flaglinkteam|GRE}}
 | gold_KAZ = 1 | silver_KAZ = 0 | bronze_KAZ = 0
 | gold_NAM = 1 | silver_NAM = 0 | bronze_NAM = 0
 | gold_RSA = 1 | silver_RSA = 0 | bronze_RSA = 0
 | gold_KEN = 0 | silver_KEN = 2 | bronze_KEN = 0
 | gold_NGA = 0 | silver_NGA = 2 | bronze_NGA = 0
 | gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 1 | bronze_ESP = 1
 | gold_AUS = 0 | silver_AUS = 1 | bronze_AUS = 0
 | gold_BRB = 0 | silver_BRB = 1 | bronze_BRB = 0
 | gold_DEN = 0 | silver_DEN = 1 | bronze_DEN = 0
 | gold_EST = 0 | silver_EST = 1 | bronze_EST = 0
 | gold_ISL = 0 | silver_ISL = 1 | bronze_ISL = 0
 | gold_MAR = 0 | silver_MAR = 1 | bronze_MAR = 0
 | gold_MOZ = 0 | silver_MOZ = 1 | bronze_MOZ = 0
 | gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 2
 | gold_CAN = 0 | silver_CAN = 0 | bronze_CAN = 2
 | gold_BAH = 0 | silver_BAH = 0 | bronze_BAH = 1
 | gold_MEX = 0 | silver_MEX = 0 | bronze_MEX = 1
}}

==Participating nations==
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*{{ALG}} (4)
*{{AND}} (1)
*{{AIA}} (1)
*{{ATG}} (1)
*{{ARG}} (1)
*{{ARM}} (1)
*{{AUS}} (12)
*{{AUT}} (6)
*{{BAH}} (5)
*{{BHR}} (1)
*{{BAR}} (1)
*{{Flag|Belarus|1995}} (2)
*{{BEL}} (2)
*{{BEN}} (1)
*{{BER}} (1)
*{{BHU}} (1)
*{{BOL}} (1)
*{{BIH}} (1)
*{{BOT}} (1)
*{{BRA}} (1)
*{{BUL}} (10)
*{{BDI}} (2)
*{{CAN}} (4)
*{{CAF}} (1)
*{{CHA}} (2)
*{{CHN}} (10)
*{{TPE}} (1)
*{{CIV}} (1)
*{{CRO}} (1)
*{{CUB}} (9)
*{{CYP}} (1)
*{{CZE}} (10)
*{{flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1960}} (1)
*{{DEN}} (1)
*{{DMA}} (1)
*{{DOM}} (1)
*{{EGY}} (1)
*{{GEQ}} (1)
*{{ERI}} (1)
*{{EST}} (1)
*{{flag|Ethiopia|1996}} (2)
*{{FIN}} (1)
*{{FRA}} (17)
*{{GAB}} (1)
*{{flag|Georgia|1990}} (1)
*{{GER}} (24)
*{{GHA}} (1)
*{{GBR2}} (24)
*{{flaglinkteam|Greece}} (8)
*{{GUA}} (1)
*{{GUI}} (1)
*{{GUY}} (1)
*{{HAI}} (1)
*{{HKG}} (1)
*{{HUN}} (7)
*{{ISL}} (3)
*{{IRL}} (3)
*{{ISR}} (2)
*{{ITA}} (7)
*{{JAM}} (15)
*{{JPN}} (30)
*{{KAZ}} (4)
*{{KEN}} (5)
*{{Flag|Kyrgyzstan|1992}} (1)
*{{LAO}} (1)
*{{LAT}} (1)
*{{flag|Lesotho|1987}} (1)
*{{LBR}} (1)
*{{flag|Lithuania|1988}} (2)
*{{MAD}} (1)
*{{flag|Malawi|1964}} (1)
*{{MAS}} (1)
*{{MDV}} (1)
*{{MRI}} (1)
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*{{MSR}} (1)
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*{{NGR}} (8)
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*{{PNG}} (1)
*{{PHI}} (1)
*{{POL}} (20)
*{{POR}} (1)
*{{CGO}} (1)
*{{ROM}} (10)
*{{RUS}} (26)
*{{flag|Rwanda|1962}} (1)
*{{ESA}} (1)
*{{SLE}} (1)
*{{SIN}} (1)
*{{SVK}} (2)
*{{SLO}} (8)
*{{SOL}} (1)
*{{RSA}} (2)
*{{ESP}} (18)
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*{{flag|Swaziland}} (1)
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*{{flag|Zambia|1964}} (1)
*{{ZIM}} (1)
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==See also==
* [[1999 in athletics (track and field)]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050815082516/http://www2.iaaf.org/wic99/ 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships Official Website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071027184345/http://www.athletics.com.au/history/international/int174.htm Athletics Australia]
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