Bryan Clay celebrates after the Decathlon's Shot Put (© Getty Images)
In the final edition of a seven part series to rekindle memories of this summer’s 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Helsinki, Finland (6 -14 August 2005), and to get to know the gold medallists a little better, we present the two Combined Events and the three Race Walks
Over the course of nine days competition in the Finnish capital, 3 World records, 10 Championship records, and 9 Area records were established, and 43 (22 men and 21 women) new individual event champions were crowned.
As well as publishing reports and flash interviews about each event, the IAAF website through its team of staff and freelance writers produced a feature story/interview with each of these 43 Helsinki world beaters.
Yet given the huge volume of news published during those nine days, some of these articles will no doubt have passed by in a blur, and so to enable us to get better acquainted with these stars, many of whom are from an emerging young generation, we are now pleased to offer links to each of their feature stories/interviews.
Chris Turner
IAAF Editorial Manager
Click on links below to go to the articles:
Men
Decathlon: Bryan Clay USA
Clay – I credit fans support for my personal bests in these conditions
20km Race Walk: Jefferson Perez ECU
The sacrifice of a friend pays dividend for Perez and Ecuador
50km Race Walk: Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS
Kirdyapkin - “I love to walk. I can just walk and walk for hours around the city”
Women
Heptathlon: Carolina Klüft SWE
Sensational duel
20km Race Walk: Olimpiada Ivanova RUS
Ivanova sets new World record in women's 20km Race Walk
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