The 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the

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(IAAF) was held in

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from March 10 to March 12, 2006 in the Olimpiyski Sport arena. The announcement by the IAAF in November 2003 was a blow to

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, which was also in the running to hold the event but Spain had already held the competition twice. This was the first major senior

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competition to be held in the country since the highly

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. The majority of athletes from

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and

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, amongst other countries, did not attend the Championships, due to the coinciding

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Results

Men

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, 2006 ,

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Women

, 2006 ,

†

Tatyana Kotova Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova (russian: Татьяна Владимировна Котова, born 11 December 1976) is a track and field athlete who competed for Russia in the long jump. Her personal best jump of 7.42 m at Annecy in 2002, is t ...

was the original winner with 7.00m, but was stripped of the title in 2013 after retested samples from the 2005 World Championships found her to have been doping. All her results from August 2005 to July 2007 were subsequently annulled.

Medal table

Participating nations

* (2) * (2) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (7) * (4) * (9) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (14) * (9) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (11) * (2) * (2) * (1) * (2) * (2) * (11) * (1) * (7) * (3) * (1) * (6) * (1) * (6) * (4) * (25) * (1) * (1) * (16) * (2) * (14) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (2) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (9) * (1) * (14) * (18) * (3) * (1) * (3) * (6) * (2) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (8) * (1) * (1) * (5) * (1) * (4) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (21) * (3) * (2) * (5) * (1) * (15) * (57) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (4) * (1) * (4) * (1) * (19) * (1) * (13) * (2) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (2) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (27) * (51) * (1) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (1)

External links

2006 Championships Official siteIAAF site

References

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