The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6.
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Ben Johnson won the 100 m in 9.83, but was disqualified by the IAAF after Johnson admitted to the use of performance enhancing drugs in 1988.
Giovanni Evangelisti of Italy was originally came third in the long jump at 8.37 m, but it was later determined that field officials had entered a fake result for a jump of 7.85m. [1]