2010_IAAF_World_Indoor_Championships

2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships

2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships

International athletics championship event

The 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was held between 12 and 14 March at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar. The championships was the first of six IAAF World Athletics Series events to take place in 2010.

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Bidding and organisation

The IAAF announced on March 25, 2007, at an IAAF Council meeting in Mombasa, Kenya that it had received bids from Turkey and Qatar to host the championships. On November 25, in a Council meeting in Monaco, the IAAF announced that Doha would host the championships.[1] This was the first time that a world athletics championship was held in the Middle-East and the second time the World Indoor Championships was held outside of Europe or North America (after the 1999 Championships in Japan).[2]

The Aspire Zone during the 2006 Asian Games

The venue for the event was the indoor arena located within Doha's Aspire Zone – the ASPIRE Dome, which has previously hosted indoor athletics for the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships.[3] The World Indoor Championships was the first of two significant athletics events to take place in Doha in 2010 – the inaugural 2010 IAAF Diamond League will begin with the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix meeting in May.[4]

Prior to the championships, the Qatar organising committee held the Doha Indoor Athletics Meeting for Juniors as a test event for the venue. The meeting began on 26 February and featured junior athletes from 11 countries within the region competing in a total of 13 events.[5]

The competition set a new high for the number of nations at the World Indoor Championships: 150 countries sent teams to the championships, with a total of 374 men and 283 women athletes entered to compete.[2]

The competition mascot was an anthropomorphic caracal named Saham – the caracal is a medium-sized cat which is native to the Middle-East.[6] The inclusion of a mascot follows on from the mainstream success of the 2009 World Championships in Athletics mascot – Berlino the Bear.[7]

The IAAF extended live audio and video coverage of the championships to the internet for certain countries,[8] including a deal with IEC in Sports which saw events available live and on-demand via Dailymotion. This was the first deal of its kind for the competition.[9]

Drug tests

Anna Alminova, a Russian athlete who competed in the 1500 m failed a drug test while at the championships. She tested positive for pseudoephedrine, which was present in a cold medicine she was taking, and received a three-month ban.[10]

Schedule

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Results

Men

2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

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Women

2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

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Medal table

Bernard Lagat became the oldest athlete to win at the championships.[12]
Teddy Tamgho, France's only medallist, set a world indoor record in the triple jump.[13]
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Participating nations

References

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    Follow Doha 2010 – Read, Listen, Watch.... IAAF (2010-03-11). Retrieved on 2010-03-11.
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    Athletics: New partnership agreement with Dailymotion for live and VOD broadcast of the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF (2010-03-11). Retrieved on 2010-03-11.
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    IAAF Newsletter Edition 112 Archived 2012-10-25 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF (2010-04-27). Retrieved on 2010-04-27.
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    Landells, Steve (2010-03-14). Doha 2010 - Lagat makes 3000m win look easy. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-17.
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    Jalava, Mirko (2010-03-14). Doha 2010 - Tamgho triples to 17.90 World Indoor record! - UPDATED. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-17.
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