1991 Athletics World Championships |  |
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Events |
World Champions |
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| 100 m W |  | GER | Katrin Krabbe | ||
| 100 m M |  | USA | Carl Lewis | ||
| 200 m W | | GER | Katrin Krabbe | ||
| 200 m M | | USA | Michael Johnson | ||
| 400 m W |  | FRA | Marie-Jose Pérec | ||
| 400 m M | | USA | Antonio Pettigrew | ||
| 800 m W |  | URS | Liliya Nurutdinova | ||
| 800 m M |  | KEN | Billy Konchellah | ||
| 1500 m W |  | ALG | Hassiba Boulmerka | ||
| 1500 m M | | ALG | Noureddine Morceli | ||
| 3000 m W | | URS | Tatyana Samolenko | ||
| 5000 m M | | KEN | Yobes Ondieki | ||
| 10000 m W |  | GBR | Elizabeth McColgan | ||
| 10000 m M | | KEN | Moses Tanui | ||
| Marathon W |  | POL | Wanda Panfil | ||
| Marathon M |  | JPN | Hiromi Taniguchi | ||
| 100 m hurdles W | | URS | Ludmila Engquist | ||
| 110 m hurdles M | | USA | Greg Foster | ||
| 400 m hurdles W | | URS | Tatyana Ledovskaya | ||
| 400 m hurdles M |  | ZAM | Samuel Matete | ||
| 3000 m steeplechase M | | KEN | Moses Kiptanui | ||
| 10 km walk W | | URS | Alina Ivanova | ||
| 20 km walk M |  | ITA | Maurizio Damilano | ||
| 50 km walk M | | URS | Aleksandr Potashov | ||
| High jump W | | GER | Heike Henkel | ||
| High jump M | | USA | Charles Austin | ||
| Long jump W | | USA | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | ||
| Long jump M | | USA | Mike Powell | ||
| Triple jump M | | USA | Kenny Harrison | ||
| Pole vault M | | URS | Sergey Bubka | ||
| Javelin throw W |  | CHN | Xu Demei | ||
| Javelin throw M |  | FIN | Kimmo Kinnunen | ||
| Discus throw W |  | BUL | Tzvetanka Khristova | ||
| Discus throw M | | GER | Lars Riedel | ||
| Hammer throw M | | URS | Yuri Sedykh | ||
| Shot put W | | CHN | Huang Zhihong | ||
| Shot put M |  | SUI | Werner Günthör | ||
| Heptathlon W | | GER | Sabine Braun | ||
| Decathlon M | | USA | Dan O'Brien | ||
| 4x100 m W |  | JAM | Juliet Cuthbert | ||
| Merlene Ottey | |||||
| Dahlia Duhaney | |||||
| Beverly McDonald | |||||
| 4x100 m M | | USA | Andre Cason | ||
| Dennis Mitchell | |||||
| Leroy Burrell | |||||
| Carl Lewis | |||||
| 4x400 m W | | URS | Olga Nazarova | ||
| Tatyana Ledovskaya | |||||
| Lyudmila Dzhigalova | |||||
| Olga Bryzgina | |||||
| 4x400 m M | | GBR | Derek Redmond | ||
| Roger Black | |||||
| John Regis | |||||
| Kriss Akabusi | |||||
