2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships

The Ataköy Athletics Arena.

The IAAF announced on March 25, 2007, at an IAAF Council meeting in Mombasa, Kenya that it had received bids from Turkey and Qatar to host the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In November 2007 at an IAAF Council meeting in Monaco, Doha was selected to host the 2010 edition, but due to the quality of the Istanbul bid, the Turkish city was chosen to host the following edition of the competition in 2012.[3] It will be the first time that Turkey has hosted a major global athletics event. Previously, the highest level events that the country had hosted included the Athletics at the 2005 Summer Universiade and lower-level sections of the European Cup/European Team Championships.

The events took place at the 7,450-seater Ataköy Athletics Arena, which was constructed especially for the event in the Ataköy neighborhood of Bakırköy next to the Sinan Erdem Dome.[4] The initial bid featured the Dome as the host stadium, but the venue was later changed as the Sinan Erdem Dome was host to the 2010 FIBA World Championship in the months before the event. The construction of the Ataköy Arena was behind schedule, leading to the cancellation of some tester events, meaning that the Turkish Indoor Championships in late January was the first competition to be held there.[5]

All dates are EET (UTC+2)

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	10	4	5	19
2	Great Britain (GBR)	2	3	4	9
3	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	1	2	5
4	Kenya (KEN)	2	1	1	4
5	Russia (RUS)	1	3	4	8
6	Ukraine (UKR)	1	2	0	3
7	France (FRA)	1	1	2	4
8	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
	Jamaica (JAM)	1	1	0	2
	Morocco (MAR)	1	1	0	2
11	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
	Costa Rica (CRC)	1	0	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
15	Germany (GER)	0	2	0	2
16	Bahamas (BAH)	0	1	1	2
17	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
24	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		26	28	25	79

Photos from the games in Istanbul:

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  Justin Gatlin celebrating his win in the 60 metres.
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  Nery Brenes celebrating his win after the 400 metres.
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  Ashton Eaton en route to victory in the heptathlon.
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  Mauro Vinícius da Silva celebrating his win after long jump.
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  Abdalaati Iguider (far right) en route to victory in the 1500 metres.
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  Ryan Whiting during the shot put in which he won gold.
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  Renaud Lavillenie during the pole vault in which he won gold.
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  Mohammed Aman celebrating his win after finishing the 800 metres.
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  Dimitrios Chondrokoukis celebrating his win in the high jump.
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  The winners in the pole vault (from left) Björn Otto, Renaud Lavillenie and Brad Walker.
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  Aries Merritt en route to victory in the 60 metres hurdles.
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  Silver medalist in the triple jump Christian Taylor.
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  Bernard Lagat en route to victory in the 3000 metres.
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  Genzebe Dibaba celebrating her win after the 1500 metres.
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  Yamilé Aldama celebrating her win after the triple jump.
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  Nataliya Dobrynska celebrating her win after the pentathlon.
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  Chaunté Lowe celebrating her win after the high jump.
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  Pamela Jelimo celebrating her win after finishing the 800 metres.
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  Aslı Çakır Alptekin celebrating her bronze medal performance in the 1500 metres.
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  Hellen Onsando Obiri winning the 3000 metres.
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  Gold medalist in the long jump Brittney Reese.

• Official website
• IAAF competition website
• Official entry standards
• Turkish athletics history, at a glance – Istanbul 2012 Archived 2011-12-04 at the Wayback Machine from IAAF