Track and field at the 2011 Military World Games
# Track and field at the 2011 Military World Games

The track and field competition at the 2011 Military World Games was held from 17–23 July 2011 at the Estádio Olímpico João Havelange in Rio de Janeiro. The programme contained 35 athletics events, 20 for men and 15 for women. The marathon races (held in conjunction with the annual Rio de Janeiro Marathon) took place on 17 July while the track and field events were held in the stadium from 19–23 July.

The host nation Brazil topped the medal table with eight gold medals and fourteen in total. Kenya was a close runner-up, with six golds and a total of fifteen medals after strong performances in the middle to long distance running events. Poland, Qatar and Ukraine were other countries which performed well. Twenty-six nations had a medal-winning athlete in the track and field competition.

The marathon competition returned, after a break at the 2007 edition, but the racewalk and decathlon were dropped. Despite the increased number of women's track events, only three field events were contested by female athletes.

Qatar's Femi Ogunode was the only athlete to win two individual events, taking the 100 metres and 200 metres titles in Games records. Ana Cláudia Silva of Brazil won the women's 200 m and the 4×100 metres relay, as well as the 100 m silver, while her compatriot Geisa Coutinho won the 400 m and featured in both of Brazil's winning relay teams. Keila Costa came close to a long jump/triple jump double, but was narrowly beaten by Simona La Mantia in the latter event.

A total of ten Games records were broken during the five-day competition. Chinese Olympic medallist Zhang Wenxiu won the women's hammer throw in a Games record – a feat also achieved by Poland's Paweł Wojciechowski in the men's pole vault. The men's 400 metres was won by Sajjad Hashemi in an Iranian national record time.

## Records

| Name | Event | Country | Record | Type |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Femi Seun Ogunode | Men's 100 metres | Qatar | 10.07 s | GR |
| Femi Seun Ogunode | Men's 200 metres | Qatar | 20.46 s | GR |
| Sajjad Hashemi | Men's 400 metres | Iran | 45.81 s | NR |
| Girmay Hadgu | Men's 800 metres | Eritrea | 1:47.20 min | NR |
| Mark Kiptoo | Men's 5000 metres | Kenya | 13:06.17 min | GR |
| Agus Prayogo | Men's 5000 metres | Indonesia | 14:02.12 min | NR |
| Mutaz Barshim | Men's high jump | Qatar | 2.29 m | GR |
| Paweł Wojciechowski | Men's pole vault | Poland | 5.81 m | GR |
| Ana Cláudia Silva | Women's 400 metres | Brazil | 23.01 s | GR |
| Geisa Coutinho | Women's 400 metres | Brazil | 51.08 s | GR |
| Alina Talay | Women's 100 m hurdles | Belarus | 12.95 s | GR |
| Zhang Wenxiu | Women's hammer throw | China | 74.29 s | GR |
| Geisa Coutinho Vanda Gomes Ana Cláudia Silva Franciela Krasucki | Women's 4 × 100 m relay | Brazil | 43.73 s | GR |
| Key:0000WR — World record • AR — Area record • GR — Games record • NR — National record |||||

## Medal summary

### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 100 metres details | Femi Seun Ogunode (QAT) | 10.07 GR | Aziz Ouhadi (MAR) | 10.17 SB | Nilson André (BRA) | 10.34 |
| 200 metres details | Femi Seun Ogunode (QAT) | 20.46 GR | Aziz Ouhadi (MAR) | 20.62 | Yoel Tapia (DOM) | 20.88 SB |
| 400 metres details | Sajjad Hashemi (IRI) | 45.81 NR | Mark Mutai (KEN) | 45.91 SB | Arismendy Peguero (DOM) | 45.95 SB |
| 800 metres details | Marcin Lewandowski (POL) | 1:45.77 | Jackson Kivuva (KEN) | 1:45.93 | Geoffrey Matum (KEN) | 1:45.94 SB |
| 1500 metres details | Gideon Gathimba (KEN) | 3:40.62 | Mohamed Moustaoui (MAR) | 3:41.04 | Imad Touil (ALG) | 3:41.24 |
| 5000 metres details | Mark Kiptoo (KEN) | 13:06.17 GR | Vincent Kiprop (KEN) | 13:06.31 | Bilisuma Gelassa (BHR) | 13:06.73 |
| 10,000 metres details | Josphat Kiprono Menjo (KEN) | 28:36.92 | Ali Hasan Mahboob (BHR) | 28:37.08 | Kiplimo Kimutai (KEN) | 28:45.27 |
| Marathon details | Patrick Tambwe Ngoie (FRA) | 2:18:17 | Rachid Ghanmouni (FRA) | 2:18:43 | Paul Kosgei (KEN) | 2:20:43 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Dominik Bochenek (POL) | 13.74 | Ji Wei (CHN) | 13.81 | Mariusz Kubaszewski (POL) | 13.87 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Raphael Fernandes (BRA) | 50.50 SB | Víctor Solarte (VEN) | 50.60 SB | Leonardo Capotosti (ITA) | 50.86 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Simon Ayeko (UGA) | 8:29.39 | Abdelkader Hachlaf (MAR) | 8:29.43 | Abubaker Ali Kamal (QAT) | 8:30.71 |
| High jump details | Mutaz Barshim (QAT) | 2.29 GR | Yuriy Krymarenko (UKR) | 2.23 | Dmytro Dem'yanyuk (UKR) | 2.20 |
| Pole vault details | Paweł Wojciechowski (POL) | 5.81 GR | Łukasz Michalski (POL) | 5.65 | Fábio Gomes da Silva (BRA) | 5.60 |
| Long jump details | Yu Zhenwei (CHN) | 8.05 SB | Zhang Xiaoyi (CHN) | 7.90 | Víctor Castillo (VEN) | 7.81 SB |
| Triple jump details | Jefferson Sabino (BRA) | 16.89 SB | Issam Nima (ALG) | 16.49 | Dzmitry Dziatsuk (BLR) | 16.38 |
| Shot put details | Andriy Semenov (UKR) | 20.02 | Candy Arnd Bauer (GER) | 19.14 | Andrei Siniakou (BLR) | 18.10 |
| Discus throw details | Mahmoud Samimi (IRI) | 61.36 | Rashid Al-Dosari (QAT) | 61.21 | Musab Momani (JOR) | 60.97 |
| Javelin throw details | Ari Mannio (FIN) | 82.48 | Spyridon Lempessis (GRE) | 76.35 | Matija Kranjc (SLO) | 74.71 |
| 4×100 metres relay details | Brazil Vicente de Lima Ailson Feitosa Basílio de Moraes Nilson André | 39.53 | Poland Grzegorz Zimniewicz Kamil Masztak Robert Kubaczyk Marcin Marciniszyn | 39.63 | Sri Lanka Shareef Safran Ranil Jayawaradena Gihan Chamara Shehan Ambepitiya | 40.02 |
| 4×400 metres relay details | Poland Piotr Klimczak Daniel Dąbrowski Kacper Kozłowski Marcin Marciniszyn | 3:04.55 | Kenya Kipkemboi Soi Jonathan Kibet Geoffrey Matum Mark Mutai | 3:07.87 | India Riju Kallammarukunnal Premanand Jayakumar Mortaja Shake Kunhu Puthenpurakkal | 3:08.31 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 100 metres details | Mariya Ryemyen (UKR) | 11.34 | Ana Cláudia Silva (BRA) | 11.37 | Olesya Povh (UKR) | 11.49 |
| 200 metres details | Ana Cláudia Silva (BRA) | 23.01 GR | Mariya Ryemyen (UKR) | 23.27 | Olesya Povh (UKR) | 23.40 |
| 400 metres details | Geisa Coutinho (BRA) | 51.08 GR | Olga Tereshkova (KAZ) | 51.27 | Jailma de Lima (BRA) | 51.77 SB |
| 800 metres details | Maryna Arzamasava (BLR) | 2:01.39 | Margarita Matsko (KAZ) | 2:01.83 SB | Hellen Obiri (KEN) | 2:01.86 |
| 1500 metres details | Nancy Langat (KEN) | 4:15.42 | Denise Krebs (GER) | 4:15.87 | Geneb Regasa (BHR) | 4:16.31 |
| 5000 metres details | Shitaye Habtegebrel (BHR) | 15:52.84 | Tejitu Chalchissa (BHR) | 15:54.51 | Rebecca Cheptegei (UGA) | 16:00.26 |
| 10,000 metres details | Doris Changeywo (KEN) | 33:38.93 | Lineth Chepkurui (KEN) | 33:39.13 | Kareema Saleh Jasim (BHR) | 33:45.34 |
| Marathon details | Kim Kum-Ok (PRK) | 2:35:22 | Wei Yanan (CHN) | 2:36:19 | Helalia Johannes (NAM) | 2:37:15 |
| 100 metres hurdles details | Alina Talay (BLR) | 12.95 GR | Veronica Borsi (ITA) | 13.08 PB | Ekaterina Poplavskaya (BLR) | 13.12 SB |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Mercy Njoroge (KEN) | 9:36.92 | Irini Kokkinariou (GRE) | 9:39.53 SB | Salima El Ouali Alami (MAR) | 9:42.51 PB |
| Long jump details | Keila Costa (BRA) | 6.41 SB | Vanessa Seles (BRA) | 6.28 SB | Ruslana Tsykhotska (UKR) | 6.23 |
| Triple jump details | Simona La Mantia (ITA) | 14.19 | Keila Costa (BRA) | 14.11 SB | Ruslana Tsykhotska (UKR) | 14.05 |
| Hammer throw details | Zhang Wenxiu (CHN) | 74.29 GR | Nataliya Zolotukhina (UKR) | 67.93 | Rosa Rodríguez (VEN) | 67.16 |
| 4×100 metres relay details | Brazil Geisa Coutinho Vanda Gomes Ana Cláudia Silva Franciela Krasucki | 43.73 GR | Poland Marika Popowicz Daria Korczyńska Marta Jeschke Ewelina Ptak | 44.35 | Ukraine Yevgeniya Snihur Olena Chebanu Mariya Ryemyen Olesya Povh | 45.00 |
| 4×400 metres relay details | Brazil Vanda Gomes Christiane dos Santos Geisa Coutinho Jailma de Lima | 3:32.42 | Dominican Republic Raysa Sánchez Margarita Manzueta Marleny Mejía Yolanda Osana | 3:38.75 | Sri Lanka Menaka Wickramasinghe Champika Dilrukshi Sva Kusumawathi Chandrika Subashini | 3:44.32 |

### Medal table

* Host nation (Brazil)

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Brazil (BRA)* | 8 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| 2 | Kenya (KEN) | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 |
| 3 | Poland (POL) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 4 | Qatar (QAT) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Ukraine (UKR) | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | China (CHN) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 7 | Belarus (BLR) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | Iran (IRI) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Bahrain (BHR) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Uganda (UGA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Morocco (MAR) | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 16 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Greece (GRE) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 19 | Dominican Republic (DOM) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 19 | Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 21 | Algeria (ALG) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 23 | India (IND) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | Jordan (JOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | Namibia (NAM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | Slovenia (SLO) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (26 entries) | Totals (26 entries) | 35 | 35 | 35 | 105 |
