Track and field at the 2015 Military World Games

The track and field competition at the 2015 Military World Games was held from 4–8 October 2015 at the KAFAC Sports Complex in Mungyeong. The stadium is named after the Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps. The marathon races took place on 11 October and followed a route around the city with a finish point at the track and field main stadium.^[1][2] A number of para-athletics exhibition events were added to the programme for the first time, covering men's and women's shot put, and track races over 100 m, 200 m, and 1500 m for men.^[3][4]

The programme expanded to contain 40 athletics events – a new high. In track and field there were 20 events for men and 18 for women, while the marathon had individual and team aspects for both sexes (the team format being a new addition). Men's hammer throw, women's 400 metres hurdles, high jump and shot put all returned to the programme after being dropped at the previous edition. Women's discus throw made its debut at the games. The women's 10,000 metres was not contested on this occasion, however.^[3][5]

After an absence from the 2011 games, Russia returned and topped the medal table in the sport for the third time in its history.^[6] It sent a full strength team and came away with ten gold medals among a haul of nineteen. Bahrain has its most successful edition in clear second place with six golds and twelve medals in total (all its medallists were African-born). China had the third highest gold medals, with four, while Poland had the third greatest medal total at ten. Thirty nations reached the medal table. The host nation won one medal – a gold courtesy of men's pole vaulter Jin Min-sub.^[7]

A total of twelve games records were broken or equalled in the athletics competitions.^[8] Two athletes defended their 2011 titles: men's javelin thrower Ari Mannio and women's hammer thrower Zhang Wenxiu. It was Zhang's fourth successive gold medal, retaining her position as the only woman to win the event since its introduction in 2003, and she also improved the games record for a fourth time straight. The only athlete to win two individual titles, Ekaterina Koneva claimed a horizontal jumps double for Russia. Rosângela Santos won the most medals with a 100 metres individual and relay title double as well as a 200 metres bronze.

Four champions from the 2015 World Championships in Athletics were in attendance. Russia's Sergey Shubenkov (110 m hurdles) and Mariya Kuchina (high jump) won their disciplines, but Maryna Arzamasava (800 m) and Piotr Małachowski (discus throw) were both beaten into runner-up spots on the world military stage.^[9] Seventeen-year-old World Youth champion Salwa Eid Naser became the youngest winner of the women's 400 m title.^[10]

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Yousef Masrahi	Men's 400 metres	Saudi Arabia	45.18	GR
Ali Al-Deraan	Men's 800 metres	Saudi Arabia	1:45.50	GR
Majededdin Ghazal	Men's high jump	Syria	2.31 m	GR, NR
El Hassan El-Abbassi	Men's 10,000 metres	Bahrain	27:41.76	GR
Rosângela Santos	Women's 100 metres	Brazil	11.17	GR
Nataliia Lupu	Women's 800 metres	Ukraine	1:59.99	GR
Ruth Jebet	Women's 3000 metres steeplechase	Bahrain	9:30.24	GR
Kemi Adekoya	Women's 400 metres hurdles	Bahrain	55.30	GR=
Zhang Li	Women's javelin throw	China	62.95 m	GR
Zhang Wenxiu	Women's hammer throw	China	74.87 m	GR
Ekaterina Koneva	Women's triple jump	Russia	14.28 m	GR
Ekaterina Renzhina Nadezhda Kotlyarova Kseniya Ryzhova Antonina Krivoshapka	Women's 4×400 metres relay	Russia	3:28.75	GR

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Barakat Al-Harthi (OMA)	10.16 NR	Reza Ghasemi (IRI)	10.18	Aziz Ouhadi (MAR)	10.25
200 metres	Eseosa Desalu (ITA)	20.64	Serhiy Smelyk (UKR)	20.74	Aldemir da Silva Junior (BRA)	20.77
400 metres	Yousef Masrahi (KSA)	45.18 GR	Arokia Rajiv (IND)	45.57	Abubakar Abbas (BHR)	45.73
800 metres	Ali Al-Deraan (KSA)	1:45.50 GR	Jackson Kivuva (KEN)	1:45.70	Marcin Lewandowski (POL)	1:46.36
1500 metres	Fouad Elkaam (MAR)	3:44.79	Benson Seurei (BHR)	3:44.98	Said Aden Said (QAT)	3:45.64
5000 metres	Albert Kibichii Rop (BHR)	13:23.70	Zouhair Aouad (BHR)	13:26.19	Emmanuel Kipsang (KEN)	13:31.48
10,000 metres	El Hassan El-Abbassi (BHR)	27:41.76 GR	Emmanuel Kipsang (KEN)	28:03.86	Hassan Chani (BHR)	28:11.46
110 m hurdles	Sergey Shubenkov (RUS)	13.43	Artur Noga (POL)	13.79	Dominik Bochenek (POL)	13.84
400 m hurdles	Abdelmalik Lahoulou (ALG)	49.43	Timofey Chalyy (RUS)	49.88	Boniface Mucheru Tumuti (KEN)	49.91
3000 m s'chase	Amor Ben Yahia (TUN)	8:24.68	Patrick Chukor (KEN)	8:25.54	Yoann Kowal (FRA)	8:26.71
4 × 100 m relay	Poland (POL) Robert Kubaczyk Grzegorz Zimniewicz Kamil Masztak Dariusz Kuć	39.35	Dominican Republic (DOM) Mayobanex de Óleo Yohandris Andújar Stanly del Carmen Yancarlos Martínez	39.41	Sri Lanka (SRI) Vinoj Muthumuni Mohamed Abdul Ladeef Mohamed Abdul Rasheed Yupun Abeykoon	39.43
4 × 400 m relay	Russia (RUS) Timofey Chalyy Denis Alekseyev Ivan Shablyuev Pavel Ivashko	3:03.01	Algeria (ALG) Miloud Laredj Soufiane Bouhadda Larbi Bourrada Abdelmalik Lahoulou	3:03.78	Venezuela (VEN) Arturo Ramírez Alberth Bravo José Meléndez Freddy Mezones	3:04.10
Marathon	Alemu Bekele (BHR)	2:15:07	Marcin Chabowski (POL)	2:15:37	Linus Chumba (KEN)	2:16:51
Team marathon	Poland (POL) Błażej Brzeziński Marcin Chabowski Henryk Szost	6:51:23	Ecuador (ECU) Manuel Cañar Sandoval Angel Chasi Toalombo Marco Erazo Montero	7:07:23	Kenya (KEN) William Chebor Linus Chumba Paul Malakwen Kosgei	7:08:00
High jump	Majededdin Ghazal (SYR)	2.31 m GR, NR	Daniil Tsyplakov (RUS)	2.28 m	Mohammadreza Vazifedoost (IRI)	2.24 m
Pole vault	Jin Min-sub (KOR)	5.40 m	Georgiy Gorokhov (RUS)	5.30 m	Paweł Wojciechowski (POL)	5.20 m
Long jump	Pavel Shalin (RUS)	7.66 m	Valentin Toboc (ROM)	7.64 m	Lu Tianje (CHN)	7.63 m
Triple jump	Dmitriy Sorokin (RUS)	17.01 m	Aleksey Fyodorov (RUS)	16.56 m	Adrian Świderski (POL)	16.55 m
Shot put	Darlan Romani (BRA)	20.08 m	Bob Bertemes (LUX)	19.60 m	Georgi Ivanov (BUL)	19.37 m
Discus throw	Zoltán Kővágó (HUN)	66.01 m	Piotr Małachowski (POL)	62.12 m	Mahmoud Samimi (IRI)	60.97 m
Hammer throw	Kirill Ikonnikov (RUS)	75.88 m	Yevhen Vynohradov (UKR)	74.77 m	Guo Kun (CHN)	66.98 m
Javelin throw	Ari Mannio (FIN)	79.78 m	Júlio César de Oliveira (BRA)	78.62 m	Johannes Vetter (GER)	77.37 m

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Rosângela Santos (BRA)	11.17 GR	Nataliya Pohrebnyak (UKR)	11.46	Marika Popowicz (POL)	11.50
200 metres	Edidiong Odiong (BHR)	23.18	Anna Kiełbasińska (POL)	23.33	Rosângela Santos (BRA)	23.38
400 metres	Salwa Eid Naser (BHR)	51.39	Bianca Răzor (ROM)	51.81	Nataliya Pyhyda (UKR)	51.99
800 metres	Nataliia Lupu (UKR)	1:59.99 GR	Maryna Arzamasava (BLR)	2:00.57	Angelika Cichocka (POL)	2:00.72
1500 metres	Selah Busienei (KEN)	4:07.58	Margherita Magnani (ITA)	4:11.51	Florina Pierdevara (ROM)	4:14.94
5000 metres	Pauline Korikwiang (KEN)	15:23.85	Volha Mazuronak (BLR)	15:35.21	Sabrina Mockenhaupt (GER)	15:35.75
100 m hurdles	Yekaterina Galitskaya (RUS)	13.06	Katsiaryna Paplauskaya (BLR)	13.29	Nina Morozova (RUS)	13.38
400 m hurdles	Kemi Adekoya (BHR)	55.30 GR	Hanna Ryzhykova (UKR)	55.74	Vania Stambolova (BUL)	57.45
3000 m s'chase	Ruth Jebet (BHR)	9:30.24 GR	Agnes Jesang (KEN)	9:40.69	Tigest Mekonen (BHR)	9:41.46
4 × 100 m relay	Brazil (BRA) Aline Torres Sena Vitória Cristina Rosa Franciela Krasucki Rosângela Santos	43.87	Russia (RUS) Yekaterina Galitskaya Nadezhda Kotlyarova Ekaterina Renzhina Nina Morozova	44.20	China (CHN) Xie Zeru Wang Xuan Yang Hongguang Huang Guifen	45.05
4 × 400 m relay	Russia (RUS) Ekaterina Renzhina Nadezhda Kotlyarova Kseniya Ryzhova Antonina Krivoshapka	3:28.75 GR	Ukraine (UKR) Olha Zemlyak Nataliya Pyhyda Hanna Ryzhykova Nataliia Lupu	3:30.66	Bahrain (BHR) Salwa Eid Naser Edidiong Odiong Iman Essa Kemi Adekoya	3:32.62 NR
Marathon	Iwona Lewandowska (POL)	2:31:25	Ma Yugui (CHN)	2:31:40	Monika Stefanowicz (POL)	2:32:20
Team marathon	Poland (POL) Olha Kalendarova-Ochal Iwona Lewandowska Monika Stefanowicz	7:41:32	China (CHN) Li Ruiling Luo Chuan Ma Yugui	7:52:09	United States (USA) Meghan Curran Brenda Schrank Emily Shertzer	8:49:05
High jump	Mariya Kuchina (RUS)	1.95 m	Iryna Herashchenko (UKR)	1.84 m	Alina Rotaru (ROM)	1.80 m
Long jump	Ekaterina Koneva (RUS)	6.39 m	Volha Sudarava (BLR)	6.36 m	Alina Rotaru (ROM)	6.33 m
Triple jump	Ekaterina Koneva (RUS)	14.28 m GR	Yulimar Rojas (VEN)	13.82 m	Ana José (DOM)	13.80 m
Shot put	Gao Yang (CHN)	18.14 m	Irina Tarasova (RUS)	17.90 m	Auriol Dongmo Mekemnang (CMR)	17.64 m
Discus throw	Feng Bin (CHN)	62.07 m	Andressa de Morais (BRA)	59.07 m	Yuliya Maltseva (RUS)	57.52 m
Hammer throw	Zhang Wenxiu (CHN)	74.87 m GR	Anna Bulgakova (RUS)	68.01 m	Rosa Rodríguez (VEN)	67.54 m
Javelin throw	Zhang Li (CHN)	62.95 m GR	Jucilene de Lima (BRA)	57.99 m	Nadeeka Lakmali (SRI)	55.79 m

Medal table

Track and field

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	10	7	2	19
2	Bahrain	6	2	4	12
3	China	4	0	3	7
4	Brazil	3	3	2	8
5	Kenya	2	4	2	8
6	Saudi Arabia	2	0	0	2
7	Ukraine	1	6	1	8
8	Poland	1	3	6	10
9	Algeria	1	1	0	2
	Italy	1	1	0	2
11	Morocco	1	0	1	2
12	Finland	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Oman	1	0	0	1
	South Korea*	1	0	0	1
	Syria	1	0	0	1
	Tunisia	1	0	0	1
18	Belarus	0	4	0	4
19	Romania	0	2	3	5
20	Iran	0	1	2	3
	Venezuela	0	1	2	3
22	Dominican Republic	0	1	1	2
23	India	0	1	0	1
	Luxembourg	0	1	0	1
25	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
	Germany	0	0	2	2
27	Cameroon	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka	0	0	1	1
Totals (30 nations)		38	38	37	113

Marathon

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland	3	1	1	5
2	Bahrain	1	0	0	1
3	China	0	2	0	2
4	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
5	Kenya	0	0	2	2
6	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		4	4	4	12

References

Results

• Track & Field. Korea2015MWG. Retrieved on 2015-10-09.
• Track & Field Medallists by Event. Korea2015MWG. Retrieved on 2015-10-09.
• Track & Field Medal Standings. Korea2015MWG. Retrieved on 2015-10-09.

Records

• New Records. Korea2015MWG. Retrieved on 2015-10-09.

External links

• Official website (archived)