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Athletes who between them won 30 gold, 26 silver and 25 bronze medals in individual events at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Berlin, Germany (15 – 23 Aug), have been entered for this weekend’s IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki (12 / 13 September).
2009 World Championship medallists (with Berlin performance) competing in Thessaloniki
Gold medals
Usain Bolt JAM 9.58 (WR)
Usain Bolt JAM 19.19 (WR)
LaShawn Merritt USA 44.06 (WL)
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi RSA 1:45.29
Yusuf Saad Kamel BRN 3:35.93
Kenenisa Bekele ETH 13:17.09
Kenenisa Bekele ETH 26:46.31 (CR)
Ezekiel Kemboi KEN 8:00.43 (CR)
Ryan Brathwaite BAR 13.14 (NR)
Kerron Clement USA 47.91 (WL)
Yaroslav Rybakov RUS 2.32
Dwight Phillips USA 8.54
Phillips Idowu GBR 17.73 (WL)
Christian Cantwell USA 22.03 (WL)
Robert Harting GER 69.43 (PB)
Primož Kozmus SLO 80.84 (SB)
Andreas Thorkildsen NOR 89.59 (SB)
Shelly-Ann Fraser JAM 10.73 (WL)
Allyson Felix USA 22.02
Sanya Richards USA 49.00 (WL)
Maryam Yusuf Jamal BRN 4:03.74
Vivian Cheruiyot KEN 14:57.97
Brigitte Foster-Hylton JAM 12.51 (SB)
Melaine Walker JAM 52.42 (CR)
Blanka Vlašic CRO 2.04
Anna Rogowska POL 4.75
Brittney Reese USA 7.10 (WL)
Valerie Vili NZL 20.44
Dani Samuels AUS 65.44 (PB)
Steffi Nerius GER 67.30 (SB)
Silver medals
Tyson Gay USA 9.71 (NR)
Alfred Kirwa Yego KEN 1:45.35
Deresse Mekonnen ETH 3:36.01
Bernard Lagat USA 13:17.33
Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong KEN 8:00.89 (PB)
Romain Mesnil FRA 5.85 (SB)
Godfrey Khotso Mokoena RSA 8.47 (0.1)
Tomasz Majewski POL 21.91
Piotr Malachowski POL 69.15 (NR)
Szymon Ziólkowski POL 79.30 (SB)
Kerron Stewart JAM 10.75 (PB) 0.170
Shericka Williams JAM 49.32 (PB) 0.194
Lisa Dobriskey GBR 4:03.75
Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet KEN 14:58.33
Meselech Melkamu ETH 30:51.34
Priscilla Lopes-Schliep CAN 12.54
Lashinda Demus USA 52.96
Anna Chicherova RUS 2.02 (SB)
Monika Pyrek POL 4.65
Chelsea Johnson USA 4.65 (SB)
Tatyana Lebedeva RUS 6.97 (SB)
Mabel Gay CUB 14.61 (SB)
Nadine Kleinert GER 20.20 (PB)
Yarelis Barrios CUB 65.31 (SB)
Betty Heidler GER 77.12 (NR)
Barbora Špotáková CZE 66.42
Bronze medals
Asafa Powell JAM 9.84 (SB)
Wallace Spearmon USA 19.85 (SB)
Yusuf Saad Kamel BRN 1:45.35
Bernard Lagat USA 3:36.20
Bouabdellah Tahri FRA 8:01.18 (AR)
Bershawn Jackson USA 48.23
Renaud Lavillenie FRA 5.80
Mitchell Watt AUS 8.37
Ralf Bartels GER 21.37 (PB)
Gerd Kanter EST 66.88
Aleksey Zagornyi RUS 78.09
Carmelita Jeter USA 10.90
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie BAH 22.41
Antonina Krivoshapka RUS 49.71
Jennifer Meadows GBR 1:57.93 (PB)
Shannon Rowbury USA 4:04.18
Meseret Defar ETH 14:58.41
Wude Ayalew ETH 30:51.95
Milcah Chemos Cheywa KEN 9:08.57 (PB)
Delloreen Ennis-London JAM 12.55 (SB)
Josanne Lucas TRI 53.20 (NR)
Anna Pyatykh RUS 14.58
Nicoleta Grasu ROU 65.20 (SB)
Martina Hrasnová SVK 74.79
Maria Abakumova RUS 66.06
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Notes:
WR – World record subject to ratification by IAAF
AR – Area record
NR - National record
CR – Championship record
WL – World season lead
PB – athlete’s personal best
SB – athlete’s season’s best