The 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations was held in Moscow from March 10 to March 12, 2006 in the Olimpiyski Sport arena.

The announcement by the IAAF in November 2003 was a blow to Madrid, which was also in the running to hold the event but Spain had already held the competition twice. This was the first major senior athletics competition to be held in the country since the highly boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics.

The majority of athletes from Great Britain, Australia and Jamaica, amongst other countries, did not attend the Championships, due to the coinciding 2006 Commonwealth Games.

[edit] Results

[edit] Men

2003 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Leonard Scott  United States	6.50 (WL)	Andrey Yepishin  Russia	6.52 (NR)	Terrence Trammell  United States	6.54
400 m	Alleyne Francique  Grenada	45.54 (SB)	California Molefe  Botswana	45.75	Chris Brown  Bahamas	45.78 (NR)
800 m	Wilfred Bungei  Kenya	1:47.15	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi  South Africa	1:47.16	Yuriy Borzakovskiy  Russia	1:47.38
1500 m	Ivan Heshko  Ukraine	3:42.08	Daniel Kipchirchir Komen  Kenya	3:42.55	Elkanah Onkware Angwenyi  Kenya	3:42.98
3000 m	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	7:39.32	Saif Saaeed Shaheen  Qatar	7:41.28	Eliud Kipchoge  Kenya	7:42.58
60 m H	Terrence Trammell  United States	7.43 (WL)	Dayron Robles  Cuba	7.46 (PB)	Dominique Arnold  United States	7.52
4 X 400 m	United States Tyree Washington LaShawn Merritt Milton Campbell Wallace Spearmon	3:03.24	Poland Daniel Dąbrowski Marcin Marciniszyn Rafał Wieruszewski Piotr Klimczak	3:04.67 (SB)	Russia Konstantin Svechkar Aleksandr Derevyagin Yevgeniy Lebedev Dmitriy Petrov	3:06.91 (SB)
High Jump	Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia	2.37 (WL)	Andrey Tereshin  Russia	2.35 (WL)	Linus Thörnblad  Sweden	2.33 (PB)
Pole Vault	Brad Walker  United States	5.80 (SB)	Alhaji Jeng  Sweden	5.70	Tim Lobinger  Germany	5.60
Long Jump	Ignisious Gaisah  Ghana	8.30	Irving Saladino  Panama	8.29 (AR)	Andrew Howe  Italy	8.19 (PB)
Triple Jump	Walter Davis  United States	17.73 (PB)	Jadel Gregório  Brazil	17.56 (AR)	Yoandri Betanzos  Cuba	17.42 (PB)
Shot Put	Reese Hoffa  United States	22.11 (WL)	Andrei Mikhnevich  Belarus	21.37 (PB)	Joachim Olsen  Denmark	21.16
Heptathlon	André Niklaus  Germany	6192 (PB) (7.06 - 7.64 - 14.41 - 2.07 - 8.14 - 5.30 - 2:47.80)	Bryan Clay  United States	6187 (SB) (6.67 - 7.74 - 13.89 - 2.10 - 7.83 - 4.60 - 2:50.92)	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	6161 (SB) (7.10 - 7.76 - 15.74 - 2.10 - 8.08 - 4.80 - 2:49.38)
AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

[edit] Women

2003 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Me'Lisa Barber  United States	7.01 (WL)	Lauryn Williams  United States	7.01 (WL)	Kim Gevaert  Belgium	7.11 (NR)
400 m	Olesya Krasnomovets  Russia	50.04 (CR)	Vania Stambolova  Bulgaria	50.21 (NR)	Christine Amertil  Bahamas	50.34 (AR)
800 m	Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique	1:58.90 (SB)	Kenia Sinclair  Jamaica	1:59.54 (NR)	Hasna Benhassi  Morocco	2:00.34 (SB)
1500 m	Yuliya Chizhenko  Russia	4:04.70	Yelena Soboleva  Russia	4:05.21	Maryam Yusuf Jamal  Bahrain	4:05.53
3000 m	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	8:38.80	Liliya Shobukhova  Russia	8:42.18	Lidia Chojecka  Poland	8:42.59 (SB)
60 m H	Derval O'Rourke  Ireland	7.84 (NR)	Glory Alozie  Spain	7.86 (SB)	Susanna Kallur  Sweden	7.87
4 X 400 m	Russia Tatyana Levina Natalya Nazarova Olesya Krasnomovets Natalya Antyukh	3:24.91	United States Debbie Dunn Tiffany Williams Monica Hargrove Mary Danner	3:28.63 (SB)	Belarus Natallia Solohub Anna Kozak Yulyana Zhalniryuk Ilona Usovich	3:28.65
High Jump	Yelena Slesarenko  Russia	2.02 (SB)	Blanka Vlašić  Croatia	2.00	Ruth Beitia  Spain	1.98 (SB)
Pole Vault	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.80	Anna Rogowska  Poland	4.75	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.70 (SB)
Long Jump	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	7.00 (WL)	Tianna Madison  United States	6.80 (PB)	Naide Gomes  Portugal	6.76*
Triple Jump	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	14.95 (WL)	Anna Pyatykh  Russia	14.93 (PB)	Yamilé Aldama  Sudan	14.86 (SB)
Shot Put	Natallia Kharaneka  Belarus	19.84 (PB)	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	19.64 (PB)	Olga Ryabinkina  Russia	19.24 (SB)
Pentathlon (60mH, HJ, SP, LJ, 800m)	Lyudmila Blonska  Ukraine	4685 (PB) (8.29 - 1.84 - 13.43 - 6.50 - 2:19.62)	Karin Ruckstuhl  Netherlands	4607 (8.47 - 1.81 - 13.64 - 6.33 - 2:16.72)	Olga Levenkova  Russia	4579 (8.55 - 1.78 - 13.20 - 6.44 - 2:15.12)
AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

Concepción Montaner also jumped 6.76 metres, but finished fourth due to a shorter next best jump.

[edit] Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	8	5	5	18
2	United States	7	4	2	13
3	Ethiopia	2	0	0	2
	Ukraine	2	0	0	2
5	Kenya	1	1	2	4
6	Belarus	1	1	1	3
	Germany	1	1	1	3
8	Ghana	1	0	0	1
	Grenada	1	0	0	1
	Ireland	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique	1	0	0	1
12	Poland	0	2	1	3
13	Sweden	0	1	2	3
14	Spain	0	1	1	2
	Cuba	0	1	1	2
16	Botswana	0	1	0	1
	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Jamaica	0	1	0	1
	Qatar	0	1	0	1
	Panama	0	1	0	1
25	Bahamas	0	0	2	2
26	Bahrain	0	0	1	1
	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
	Sudan	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1

[edit] External links

• 2006 Championships Official site
• IAAF site