The 9th

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. It was hosted by

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, September 21–22, 2002, in the Estadio La Peineta. The team winner of the men's competition was Africa, while the Russian team took the women's cup.

Overall results

Men

¹ Great Britain originally finished eighth, but were disqualified in August 2003 after Dwain Chambers admitted to using THG between the beginning of 2002 and August 2003. All other individual results were allowed to stand, but the IAAF ruled these athletes received no score.

Women

Medal summary

Men

''Europe'', , 13:32.82 , - , 110 metre hurdles ,
''Americas'' , , 13.10 ,
''United States'', , 13.45 ,
''Europe'', , 13.58 , - , 400 metre hurdles ,
''United States'' , , 48.27 ,
''Asia'', , 48.96 ,
''Great Britain'', , 49.18 , - , 3000 metre steeplechase ,
''Africa'' , , 8:25.34 ,
''Spain'', , 8:26.35 ,
''Asia'', , 8:30.66 , - , 4×100 metre relay , valign=top, ''United States''
Jon Drummond
Jason Smoots
Kaaron Conwright
Coby Miller, , 37.95 , valign=top, ''Americas''
Freddy Mayola

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Christopher Williams
Dominic Demeritte, , 38.32 , valign=top, ''Africa''
Idrissa Sanou
Uchenna Emedolu

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, , 38.63 , - , 4×400 metre relay , valign=top, ''Americas''
Félix Sánchez
Alleyne Francique
Michael McDonald
Michael Blackwood, , 2:59.19 , valign=top, ''Africa''

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Fernando Augustin
Eric Milazar, , 3:01.69¹ , valign=top, ''Asia''
Rohan Pradeep Kumara
Hamdan Al-Bishi
Sugath Thilakaratne
Fawzi Al Shammari, , 3:03.02 , - , High jump ,
''Europe'' , , 2.31 ,
''Americas'', , 2.29 ,
''Great Britain'', , 2.20 , - , Pole vault ,
''Africa'' , , 5.75 ,
''United States'', , 5.70 ,
''Germany'', , 5.40 , - , Long jump ,
''United States'' , , 8.21 ,
''Americas'', , 8.19 ,
''Spain'', , 8.11 , - , Triple jump ,
''Great Britain'' , , 17.34 ,
''United States'', , 17.23 ,
''Europe'', , 17.05 , - , Shot put ,
''United States'' , , 20.80 ,
''Oceania'', , 20.77 ,
''Germany'', , 20.67 , - , Discus throw ,
''Europe'' , , 71.25 ,
''Africa'', , 66.78 ,
''Spain'', , 64.64 , - , Hammer throw ,
''Europe'' , , 80.93 ,
''Asia'', , 80.08 ,
''Germany'', , 78.44 , - , Javelin throw ,
''Europe'' , , 86.44 ,
''Germany'', , 81.60 ,
''Americas'', , 79.77 ¹ The United States originally finished second in 2:59.21, but were disqualified in 2009 after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to using HGH and EPO between 1997 and 2003.

Women

¹ Marion Jones originally won this event in 10.90, but she was disqualified in 2007 after she admitted to drug use between 2000 and 2002.
² The United States originally finished second in 42.05, but were disqualified in 2007 after Marion Jones admitted to drug use between 2000 and 2002.
³ The United States originally finished second in 3:24.67, but were disqualified in 2004 after Michelle Collins admitted to drug use between 2000 and 2002.

Results

References

Official site
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