The review of the World Championships by the leader of the World Championships Organising Committee Dr. Clemens Prokop

Fired up for the first time by new idols:

Berlin 2009 - that was the means of firing people up with enthusiasm for track and field in Germany. We have witnessed exciting races. The German team has totally captivated the population with nine medals. With his two world records and three Gold Medals, Usain Bolt caused "Boltmania" in the city and in 196 countries where the stunning pictures from Berlin were to be seen.

Viewing figures on TV were outstanding - in Germany almost 10 million tuned in on the evening of the 100 metre world record - more than ever before during an athletics broadcast.

But whenever I look back at these World Championships in the next few years, I will first of all see the moment where Jennifer Oeser fell in the final 800 metre run of the heptathlon. Many thought: what is she going to do now? And then she got up, got to the finish line and won Silver. That has symbolic value. You can fall, but you have to get up again. Just as, a year before, our German team lived down the low point of the Olympics in Beijing with only one Bronze Medal.

Tremendous strength aroused:

The public in the Olympic Stadium roused tremendous strength in the athletes. Not only in the Germans. It was impressive how frenetically all the athletes were fired up - even when German medals were in jeopardy through the excellent performances of our international visitors. For this, I would like to thank the spectators in the Olympic Stadium, more than 500,000 in number, and also the hundreds of thousands on the running and walking tracks in the city and over 3,000 voluntary helpers - without these people the World Championships in Berlin would not have been possible.

After the nine fantastic days, people are beginning to recognise faces of the track and field-world. Which German does not know Ariane Friedrich? With the World Championships, she has developed a status like Ulrike Meyfarth or Heike Henkel before her. And almost all of the successful athletes in Berlin are so young that they will still bring us joy for quite a while longer. As idols they will in the future inspire many more young people to one of the most varied and enjoyable types of sport.