1997 World Championships in Athletics

The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10, 1997. In this event participated 1882 athletes from 198 participant nations.[1] Athens used the successful organization of the World Championships the next month during the IOC Session in Lausanne during its campaign to host the 2004 Summer Olympics as proof positive of Athens' and Greece's ability and readiness to organize large-scale, international sporting events.

6th World Championships in Athletics
Host cityAthens, Greece
Nations198
Athletes1882
Dates1–10 August 1997
Opened byPresident Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Main venueOlympic Stadium

It was the first edition to award wild cards to defending champions even if they did not qualify for their national team. This allowed four athletes from the same country to compete in an individual event in some cases.[2]

Men's results

Track

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Maurice Greene
 United States (USA)
9.86 Donovan Bailey
 Canada (CAN)
9.91 Tim Montgomery
 United States (USA)
9.94
200 metres
Ato Boldon
 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)
20.04 Frankie Fredericks
 Namibia (NAM)
20.23 Claudinei Quirino
 Brazil (BRA)
20.26
400 metres
Michael Johnson
 United States (USA)
44.12 Davis Kamoga
 Uganda (UGA)
44.37 NR Tyree Washington
 United States (USA)
44.39 PB
800 metres
Wilson Kipketer
 Denmark (DEN)
1:43.38 Norberto Téllez
 Cuba (CUB)
1:44.00 Rich Kenah
 United States (USA)
1:44.25 PB
1500 metres
Hicham El Guerrouj
 Morocco (MAR)
3:35.83 Fermín Cacho
 Spain (ESP)
3:36.63 Reyes Estévez
 Spain (ESP)
3:37.26
5000 metres
Daniel Komen
 Kenya (KEN)
13:07.38 Khalid Boulami
 Morocco (MAR)
13:09.34 Tom Nyariki
 Kenya (KEN)
13:11.09
10,000 metres
Haile Gebrselassie
 Ethiopia (ETH)
27:24.58 Paul Tergat
 Kenya (KEN)
27:25.62 Salah Hissou
 Morocco (MAR)
27:28.67 PB
Marathon
Abel Antón
 Spain (ESP)
2:13:16 Martín Fiz
 Spain (ESP)
2:13:21 Steve Moneghetti
 Australia (AUS)
2:14:16
110 metres hurdles
Allen Johnson
 United States (USA)
12.93 WL Colin Jackson
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
13.05 Igor Kováč
 Slovakia (SVK)
13.18
400 metres hurdles
Stéphane Diagana
 France (FRA)
47.70 WL Llewellyn Herbert
 South Africa (RSA)
47.86 NR Bryan Bronson
 United States (USA)
47.88
3000 metres steeplechase
Wilson Boit Kipketer
 Kenya (KEN)
8:05.84 Moses Kiptanui
 Kenya (KEN)
8:06.04 Bernard Barmasai
 Kenya (KEN)
8:06.04
20 kilometres walk
Daniel García
 Mexico (MEX)
1:21:43 Mikhail Shchennikov
 Russia (RUS)
1:21:53 Mikhail Khmelnitskiy
 Belarus (BLR)
1:22:01
50 kilometres walk
Robert Korzeniowski
 Poland (POL)
3:44:46 Jesús Ángel García
 Spain (ESP)
3:44:59 Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
 Mexico (MEX)
3:48:30
4 × 100 metres relay
 Canada (CAN)
Robert Esmie
Glenroy Gilbert
Bruny Surin
Donovan Bailey
Carlton Chambers*
37.86 WL  Nigeria (NGR)
Osmond Ezinwa
Olapade Adeniken
Francis Obikwelu
Davidson Ezinwa
38.07  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Darren Braithwaite
Darren Campbell
Douglas Walker
Julian Golding
Marlon Devonish*
Dwain Chambers*
38.14
4 × 400 metres relay
[nb1]
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Iwan Thomas
Roger Black
Jamie Baulch
Mark Richardson
Mark Hylton*
2:56.65  Jamaica (JAM)
Michael McDonald
Greg Haughton
Danny McFarlane
Davian Clarke
Linval Laird*
2:56.75 NR  Poland (POL)
Tomasz Czubak
Piotr Rysiukiewicz
Piotr Haczek
Robert Maćkowiak
3:00.26
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

  • nb1 The United States (Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Chris Jones, and Tyree Washington) originally won the 4 × 400 m relay in 2:56.47, but were disqualified in 2009 after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to using HGH and EPO between 1997 and 2003.[3]

Field

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
Javier Sotomayor
 Cuba (CUB)
2.37 m WL Artur Partyka
 Poland (POL)
2.35 m Tim Forsyth
 Australia (AUS)
2.35 m
Pole vault
Sergey Bubka
 Ukraine (UKR)
6.01 m CR/WL Maksim Tarasov
 Russia (RUS)
5.96 m Dean Starkey
 United States (USA)
5.91 m
Long jump
Iván Pedroso
 Cuba (CUB)
8.42 m Erick Walder
 United States (USA)
8.38 m Kirill Sosunov
 Russia (RUS)
8.18 m
Triple jump
Yoelbi Quesada
 Cuba (CUB)
17.85 m WL/NR Jonathan Edwards
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
17.69 m Aliecer Urrutia
 Cuba (CUB)
17.64 m
Shot put
[nb2]
John Godina
 United States (USA)
21.44 m Oliver-Sven Buder
 Germany (GER)
21.24 m C.J. Hunter
 United States (USA)
20.33 m
Discus throw
Lars Riedel
 Germany (GER)
68.54 m Virgilijus Alekna
 Lithuania (LTU)
66.70 m Jürgen Schult
 Germany (GER)
66.14 m
Hammer throw
Heinz Weis
 Germany (GER)
81.78 m Andriy Skvaruk
 Ukraine (UKR)
81.46 m Vasiliy Sidorenko
 Russia (RUS)
80.76 m
Javelin throw
Marius Corbett
 South Africa (RSA)
88.40 m AR Steve Backley
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
86.80 m Kostas Gatsioudis
 Greece (GRE)
86.64 m
Decathlon
Tomáš Dvořák
 Czech Republic (CZE)
8837 pts CR/WL/NR Eduard Hämäläinen
 Finland (FIN)
8730 pts NR Frank Busemann
 Germany (GER)
8652 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)
  • nb2 Aleksandr Bagach of Ukraine originally won the shot put with 21.47 m, but was disqualified after he tested positive for steroids.

Women's results

Track

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Marion Jones
 United States (USA)
10.83 WL Zhanna Pintusevich
 Ukraine (UKR)
10.85 Savatheda Fynes
 Bahamas (BAH)
11.03 PB
200 metres
Zhanna Pintusevich
 Ukraine (UKR)
22.32 Susanthika Jayasinghe
 Sri Lanka (SRI)
22.39 Merlene Ottey
 Jamaica (JAM)
22.40
400 metres
Cathy Freeman
 Australia (AUS)
49.77 Sandie Richards
 Jamaica (JAM)
49.79 PB Jearl Miles Clark
 United States (USA)
49.90
800 metres
Ana Fidelia Quirot
 Cuba (CUB)
1:57.14 Yelena Afanasyeva
 Russia (RUS)
1:57.56 Maria Mutola
 Mozambique (MOZ)
1:57.59
1500 metres
Carla Sacramento
 Portugal (POR)
4:04.24 Regina Jacobs
 United States (USA)
4:04.63 Anita Weyermann
 Switzerland (SUI)
4:04.70
5000 metres
Gabriela Szabo
 Romania (ROU)
14:57.68 Roberta Brunet
 Italy (ITA)
14:58.29 Fernanda Ribeiro
 Portugal (POR)
14:58.85
10,000 metres
Sally Barsosio
 Kenya (KEN)
31:32.92 WJR Fernanda Ribeiro
 Portugal (POR)
31:39.15 Masako Chiba
 Japan (JPN)
31:41.93
Marathon
Hiromi Suzuki
 Japan (JPN)
2:29:48 Manuela Machado
 Portugal (POR)
2:31:12 Lidia Șimon
 Romania (ROU)
2:31:55
10 kilometres walk
Annarita Sidoti
 Italy (ITA)
42:55.49 WL Olga Kardopoltseva
 Belarus (BLR)
43:30.20 Valentina Tsybulskaya
 Belarus (BLR)
43:49.24
100 metres hurdles
Ludmila Engquist
 Sweden (SWE)
12.50 Svetla Dimitrova
 Bulgaria (BUL)
12.58 Michelle Freeman
 Jamaica (JAM)
12.61
400 metres hurdles
Nezha Bidouane
 Morocco (MAR)
52.97 AR Deon Hemmings
 Jamaica (JAM)
53.09 Kim Batten
 United States (USA)
53.52
4 × 100 metres relay
 United States (USA)
Chryste Gaines
Marion Jones
Inger Miller
Gail Devers
41.47 CR/AR  Jamaica (JAM)
Beverly McDonald
Merlene Frazer
Juliet Cuthbert
Beverly Grant
42.10  France (FRA)
Patricia Girard-Léno
Christine Arron
Delphine Combe
Sylviane Félix
Frédérique Bangué*
42.21 NR
4 × 400 metres relay
 Germany (GER)
Anke Feller
Uta Rohländer
Anja Rücker
Grit Breuer
3:20.92 WL  United States (USA)
Maicel Malone-Wallace
Kim Graham
Kim Batten
Jearl Miles Clark
Michelle Collins*
Natasha Kaiser-Brown*
3:21.03  Jamaica (JAM)
Inez Turner
Lorraine Graham
Deon Hemmings
Sandie Richards
Nadia Graham-Hutchinson*
3:21.30 NR
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
Hanne Haugland
 Norway (NOR)
1.99 m Olga Kaliturina
 Russia (RUS)
Inha Babakova
 Ukraine (UKR)
1.96 m Not awarded
Long jump
Lyudmila Galkina
 Russia (RUS)
7.05 m WL/PB Niki Xanthou
 Greece (GRE)
6.94 m Fiona May
 Italy (ITA)
6.91 m
Triple jump
Šárka Kašpárková
 Czech Republic (CZE)
15.20 m WL/NR) Rodica Mateescu
 Romania (ROU)
15.16 m NR Olena Hovorova
 Ukraine (UKR)
14.67 m PB
Shot put
Astrid Kumbernuss
 Germany (GER)
20.71 m Vita Pavlysh
 Ukraine (UKR)
20.66 m Stephanie Storp
 Germany (GER)
19.22 m
Discus throw
Beatrice Faumuina
 New Zealand (NZL)
66.82 m Ellina Zvereva
 Belarus (BLR)
65.90 m Natalya Sadova
 Russia (RUS)
65.14 m
Javelin throw
Trine Hattestad
 Norway (NOR)
68.78 m Joanna Stone
 Australia (AUS)
68.64 m PB Tanja Damaske
 Germany (GER)
67.12 m PB
Heptathlon
Sabine Braun
 Germany (GER)
6739 pts Denise Lewis
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
6654 pts Remigija Nazarovienė
 Lithuania (LTU)
6566 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Beer glass with championships branding

  *   Host nation (Greece)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)63817
2 Germany (GER)51410
3 Cuba (CUB)4116
4 Kenya (KEN)3227
5 Ukraine (UKR)2417
6 Morocco (MAR)2114
7 Czech Republic (CZE)2002
 Norway (NOR)2002
9 Russia (RUS)1438
10 Great Britain (GBR)1416
11 Spain (ESP)1315
12 Portugal (POR)1214
13 Australia (AUS)1124
14 Italy (ITA)1113
 Poland (POL)1113
 Romania (ROM)1113
17 Canada (CAN)1102
 South Africa (RSA)1102
19 France (FRA)1012
 Japan (JPN)1012
 Mexico (MEX)1012
22 Denmark (DEN)1001
 Ethiopia (ETH)1001
 New Zealand (NZL)1001
 Sweden (SWE)1001
 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)1001
27 Jamaica (JAM)0437
28 Belarus (BLR)0224
29 Greece (GRE)*0112
 Lithuania (LTU)0112
31 Bulgaria (BUL)0101
 Finland (FIN)0101
 Namibia (NAM)0101
 Nigeria (NGR)0101
 Sri Lanka (SRI)0101
 Uganda (UGA)0101
37 Bahamas (BAH)0011
 Brazil (BRA)0011
 Mozambique (MOZ)0011
 Slovakia (SVK)0011
  Switzerland (SUI)0011
Totals (41 entries)444543132
Source:

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