1997 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ATHLETICS

The '6th World Championships in Athletics', under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10, 1997.

Contents

Men's results

Track

Field

Women's Results

Track

Field

Medals table

References

Men's results

Track

1993 |1995 |1997 |1999 |2001

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Maurice Greene	9.86	Donovan Bailey	9.91	Tim Montgomery	9.94
200 m	Ato Boldon	20.04	Frankie Fredericks	20.23	Claudinei da Silva	20.26
400 m	Michael Johnson	44.12	Davis Kamoga	44.37 NR	Tyree Washington	44.39 PB
800 m	Wilson Kipketer	1:43.38	Norberto Téllez	1:44.00 SB	Rich Kenah	1:44.25 PB
1500 m	Hicham El Guerrouj	3:35.83	Fermín Cacho	3:36.63	Reyes Estévez	3:37.26
5000 m	Daniel Komen	13:07.38	Khalid Boulami	13:09.34	Tom Nyariki	13:11.09
10,000 m	Haile Gebrselassie	27:24.58	Paul Tergat	27:25.62 SB	Salah Hissou	27:28.67 PB
Marathon	Abel Antón	2:13:16	Martín Fiz	2:13:21	Steve Moneghetti	2:14:16
110 m hurdles	Allen Johnson	12.93 WL	Colin Jackson	13.05 SB	Igor Kovác	13.18 SB
400 m hurdles	Stéphane Diagana	47.70 WL	Herbert Llewellyn	47.86 NR	Bryan Bronson	47.88
3000 m steeplechase	Wilson Boit Kipketer	8:05.84	Moses Kiptanui	8:06.04	Bernard Barmasai	8:06.04
20 km walk	Daniel García	1:21:43	Mikhail Shchennikov	1:21:53	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy	1:22:01
50 km walk	Robert Korzeniowski	3:44:46	Jesús Ángel García	3:44:59	Miguel Ángel Rodríguez	3:48:30
4 × 100 m	Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey	37.86 WL	Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa	38.07	Darren Braithwaite, Darren Campbell, Douglas Walker, Julian Golding	38.14 SB
4 × 400 m	Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Chris Jones, Tyree Washington	2:56.47 WL	Iwan Thomas, Roger Black, Jamie Baulch, Mark Richardson	2:56.65 SB	Michael McDonald, Greg Haughton, Danny McFarlane, Davian Clarke	2:56.75 NR

Field

1993 |1995 |1997 |1999 |2001 |

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump	Javier Sotomayor	2.37 WL	Artur Partyka	2.35 SB	Tim Forsyth	2.35
Pole Vault	Sergey Bubka	6.01 CR WL	Maksim Tarasov	5.96	Dean Starkey	5.91 SB
Long Jump	Iván Pedroso	8.42 SB	Erick Walder	8.38 SB	Kirill Sosunov	8.18 SB
Triple Jump	Yoelbi Quesada	17.85 WL NR	Jonathan Edwards	17.69	Aliecer Urrutia	17.64 SB
Shot Put	John Godina	21.44	Oliver-Sven Buder	21.24	C. J. Hunter	20.33
Discus throw	Lars Riedel	68.54	Virgilijus Alekna	66.70 SB	Jürgen Schult	66.14 SB
Hammer throw	Heinz Weis	81.78	Andriy Skvaruk	81.46 SB	Alexey Sidorenko	80.76 SB
Javelin throw	Marius Corbett	88.40 AR	Steve Backley	86.80	Kostas Gatsioudis	86.64
Decathlon	Tomáš Dvořák	8837 CR WL NR	Eduard Hämäläinen	8730	Frank Busemann	8652

Women's Results

Track

1993 |1995 |1997 |1999 |2001

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Marion Jones	10.83 WL	Zhanna Pintusevich	10.85 NR	Sevatheda Fynes	11.03 PB
200 m	Zhanna Pintusevich	22.32	Susanthika Jayasinghe	22.39	Merlene Ottey	22.40
400 m	Cathy Freeman	49.77	Sandie Richards	49.79 PB	Jearl Miles-Clark	49.90
800 m	Ana Fidelia Quirot	1:57.14	Yelena Afanasyeva	1:57.56	Maria Mutola	1:57.59
1500 m	Carla Sacramento	4:04.24 SB	Regina Jacobs	4:04.63	Anita Weyermann	4:04.70 SB
5000 m	Gabriela Szabó	14:57.68	Roberta Brunet	14:58.29 SB	Fernanda Ribeiro	14:58.85
10,000 m	Sally Barsosio	31:32.92 WJR	Fernanda Ribeiro	31:39.15 SB	Masako Chiba	31:41.93
Marathon	Hiromi Suzuki	2:29:48	Manuela Machado	2:31:12	Lidia Slavuteanu-Simon	2:31:55
10,000 m walk	Annarita Sidoti	42:55.49 WL	Olga Kardopoltseva	43:30.20	Valentina Tsybulskaya	43:49.24
100 m hurdles	Ludmila Engquist	12.50 SB	Svetla Dimitrova	12.58	Michelle Freeman	12.61
400 m hurdles	Nezha Bidouane	52.97 AR	Deon Hemmings	53.09 SB	Kim Batten	53.52
4 x 100 m	Chryste Gaines, Marion Jones, Inger Miller, Gail Devers	41.47 CR AR	Beverly McDonald, Merlene Frazer, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly Grant	42.10 SB	Patricia Girard, Christine Arron, Delphine Combe, Sylviane Félix	42.21 NR
4 x 400 m	Anke Feller, Uta Rohlände, Anja Rücker, Grit Breuer	3:20.92 WL	Maicel Malone-Wallace, Kim Graham, Kim Batten, Jearl Miles-Clark	3:21.03 SB	Inez Turner, Lorraine Fenton, Deon Hemmings, Sandie Richards	3:21.30 NR

Field

1993 |1995 |1997 |1999 |2001 |

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump	Hanne Haugland	1.99	Olga Kaliturina Inha Babakova	1.96
Long Jump	Lyudmila Galkina	7.05 WL PB	Niki Xanthou	6.94 SB	Fiona May	6.91
Triple Jump	Šárka Kašpárková	15.20 WL NR	Rodica Mateescu	15.16 NR	Olena Govorova	14.67 PB
Shot Put	Astrid Kumbernuss	20.71	Vita Pavlysh	20.66	Stephanie Storp	19.22
Discus throw	Beatrice Faumuina	66.82	Ellina Zvereva	65.90	Natalya Sadova	65.14
Javelin throw	Trine Hattestad	68.78	Joanna Stone	68.64 PB	Tanja Damaske	67.12 PB
Heptathlon	Sabine Braun	6739	Denise Lewis	6654	Remigija Nazarovienė	6566

Medals table

Position	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.		7	3	8	18
2.		5	1	4	10
3.		4	1	1	6
4.		3	2	2	7
5.		2	4	1	7
6.		2	1	1	4
7=		2	0	0	2
7=		2	0	0	2
9.		1	4	3	8
10.		1	3	1	5
11.		1	2	1	4
12.		1	1	2	4
13=		1	1	1	3
13=		1	1	1	3
15=		1	1	0	2
15=		1	1	0	2
15=		1	1	0	2
18=		1	0	1	2
18=		1	0	1	2
18=		1	0	1	2
21=		1	0	0	1
21=		1	0	0	1
21=		1	0	0	1
21=		1	0	0	1
21=		1	0	0	1
26.		0	5	1	6
27.		0	3	4	7
28.		0	2	2	4
29=		0	1	1	2
29=		0	1	1	2
31=		0	1	0	1
31=		0	1	0	1
31=		0	1	0	1
31=		0	1	0	1
31=		0	1	0	1
31=		0	1	0	1
36=		0	0	1	1
36=		0	0	1	1
36=		0	0	1	1
36=		0	0	1	1
36=		0	0	1	1

References

★ IAAF 1997