The 2010

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was held between 12 and 14 March at the

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. The championships was the first of six IAAF World Athletics Series events to take place in

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Bidding and organisation

The

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announced on March 25, 2007, at an IAAF Council meeting in

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that it had received bids from

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and

to host the championships. On November 25, in a Council meeting in

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, the IAAF announced that

would host the championships. This was the first time that a world athletics championship was held in the

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and the second time the World Indoor Championships was held outside of

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(after the 1999 Championships in

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).Record breaking gathering expected in Doha - 150 countries confirm participation

. Retrieved on 2010-03-04. Asian Games Doha 2006 fireworks

The venue for the event was the

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located within Doha's

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– the

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, which has previously hosted

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for the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. 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. 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. 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. The competition mascot was an anthropomorphic

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named Saham – the caracal is a medium-sized

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which is native to the Middle-East. The inclusion of a mascot follows on from the mainstream success of the

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mascot – Berlino the Bear. The IAAF extended live audio and video coverage of the championships to the

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for certain countries, including a deal with IEC in Sports which saw events available live and on-demand via

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. This was the first deal of its kind for the competition.

Drug tests

Anna Alminova, a

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n athlete who competed in the 1500 m failed a drug test while at the championships. She tested positive for

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, which was present in a cold medicine she was taking, and received a three-month ban.IAAF Newsletter Edition 112
.

(2010-04-27). Retrieved on 2010-04-27.

Schedule

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Results

Men

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, 2010 ,

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Women

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Medal table

Participating nations

* (2) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (6) * (3) * (2) * (13) * (10) * (1) * (2) * (9) * (8) * (9) * (1) * (7) * (1) * (6) * (1) * (1) * (15) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (13) * (2) * (17) * (1) * (5) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (14) * (3) * (8) * (2) * (24) * (1) * (1) * (30) * (1) * (13) * (1) * (7) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (8) * (1) * (13) * (1) * (6) * (8) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (2) * (5) * (1) * (1) * (5) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (4) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (15) * (5) * (1) * (6) * (3) * (5) * (42) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (2) * (2) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (4) * (3) * (2) * (8) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (3) * (1) * (18) * (51) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1)

References

External links

Official siteDoha 2010 Statistics Handbook - Part OneDoha 2010 Statistics Handbook - Part Two
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