The 11th
IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics
The World Athletics Indoor Championships are a biennial indoor track and field competition served as the global championship for that version of the sport. Organised by the World Athletics, the competition was inaugurated as the ''World Indoor G ...
under the auspices of the
International Association of Athletics Federations
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(IAAF) was held in
Moscow
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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
Madrid
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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
athletics
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* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competi ...
competition to be held in the country since the highly
boycotted
1980 Summer Olympics.
The majority of athletes from
Great Britain
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,
Australia and
Jamaica
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, amongst other countries, did not attend the Championships, due to the coinciding
2006 Commonwealth Games.
Results
Men
2003 ,
2004 , 2006 ,
2008
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,
2010
Women
2003 ,
2004 , 2006 ,
2008
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,
2010
†
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 th ...
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
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External links
2006 Championships Official siteIAAF site
References
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World Athletics Indoor Championships
IAAF World Indoor Championships
The World Athletics Indoor Championships are a biennial indoor track and field competition served as the global championship for that version of the sport. Organised by the World Athletics, the competition was inaugurated as the ''World Indoor G ...
IAAF World Indoor Championships
The World Athletics Indoor Championships are a biennial indoor track and field competition served as the global championship for that version of the sport. Organised by the World Athletics, the competition was inaugurated as the ''World Indoor G ...
International athletics competitions hosted by Russia
March 2006 sports events in Europe
2006 in Moscow
Sports competitions in Moscow
Athletics in Moscow