1997 World Championships in Athletics

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

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] Despite several attempts to sabotage,Athens used the successful organization of the World Championships to prove their capacity during the next IOC Session held the following month in Lausanne as a triumph and key event during the final stretch of the process to choose the city who hosted 2004 Summer Olympics. The success of the event showed the Greece abilities and readiness to organize large-scale, international sporting events.

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[edit]

Track[edit]

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Maurice Greene
 United States (USA)
9.86 Donovan Bailey
 Canada (CAN)
9.91 Tim Montgomery
 United States (USA)
9.94
200 metres
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Ato Boldon
 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)
20.04 Frankie Fredericks
 Namibia (NAM)
20.23 Claudinei Quirino
 Brazil (BRA)
20.26
400 metres
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Michael Johnson
 United States (USA)
44.12 Davis Kamoga
 Uganda (UGA)
44.37 NR Tyree Washington
 United States (USA)
44.39 PB
800 metres
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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
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Hicham El Guerrouj
 Morocco (MAR)
3:35.83 Fermín Cacho
 Spain (ESP)
3:36.63 Reyes Estévez
 Spain (ESP)
3:37.26
5000 metres
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Daniel Komen
 Kenya (KEN)
13:07.38 Khalid Boulami
 Morocco (MAR)
13:09.34 Tom Nyariki
 Kenya (KEN)
13:11.09
10,000 metres
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Haile Gebrselassie
 Ethiopia (ETH)
27:24.58 Paul Tergat
 Kenya (KEN)
27:25.62 Salah Hissou
 Morocco (MAR)
27:28.67 PB
Marathon
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Abel Antón
 Spain (ESP)
2:13:16 Martín Fiz
 Spain (ESP)
2:13:21 Steve Moneghetti
 Australia (AUS)
2:14:16
110 metres hurdles
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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
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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
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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
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Daniel García
 Mexico (MEX)
1:21:43 Mikhail Shchennikov
 Russia (RUS)
1:21:53 Mikhail Khmelnitskiy
 Belarus (BLR)
1:22:01
50 kilometres walk
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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
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 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
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 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[edit]

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
Javier Sotomayor
 Cuba (CUB)
2.37 m WL Artur Partyka
 Poland (POL)
2.35 m Tim Forsyth
 Australia (AUS)
2.35 m
Pole vault
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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
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Iván Pedroso
 Cuba (CUB)
8.42 m Erick Walder
 United States (USA)
8.38 m Kirill Sosunov
 Russia (RUS)
8.18 m
Triple jump
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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
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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
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Lars Riedel
 Germany (GER)
68.54 m Virgilijus Alekna
 Lithuania (LTU)
66.70 m Jürgen Schult
 Germany (GER)
66.14 m
Hammer throw
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Heinz Weis
 Germany (GER)
81.78 m Andriy Skvaruk
 Ukraine (UKR)
81.46 m Vasiliy Sidorenko
 Russia (RUS)
80.76 m
Javelin throw
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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
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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[edit]

Track[edit]

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Marion Jones
 United States (USA)
10.83 WL Zhanna Pintusevich
 Ukraine (UKR)
10.85 Savatheda Fynes
 Bahamas (BAH)
11.03 PB
200 metres
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Zhanna Pintusevich
 Ukraine (UKR)
22.32 Susanthika Jayasinghe
 Sri Lanka (SRI)
22.39 Merlene Ottey
 Jamaica (JAM)
22.40
400 metres
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Cathy Freeman
 Australia (AUS)
49.77 Sandie Richards
 Jamaica (JAM)
49.79 PB Jearl Miles Clark
 United States (USA)
49.90
800 metres
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Ana Fidelia Quirot
 Cuba (CUB)
1:57.14 Yelena Afanasyeva
 Russia (RUS)
1:57.56 Maria Mutola
 Mozambique (MOZ)
1:57.59
1500 metres
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Carla Sacramento
 Portugal (POR)
4:04.24 Regina Jacobs
 United States (USA)
4:04.63 Anita Weyermann
 Switzerland (SUI)
4:04.70
5000 metres
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Gabriela Szabo
 Romania (ROU)
14:57.68 Roberta Brunet
 Italy (ITA)
14:58.29 Fernanda Ribeiro
 Portugal (POR)
14:58.85
10,000 metres
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Sally Barsosio
 Kenya (KEN)
31:32.92 WJR Fernanda Ribeiro
 Portugal (POR)
31:39.15 Masako Chiba
 Japan (JPN)
31:41.93
Marathon
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Hiromi Suzuki
 Japan (JPN)
2:29:48 Manuela Machado
 Portugal (POR)
2:31:12 Lidia Șimon
 Romania (ROU)
2:31:55
10 kilometres walk
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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
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Ludmila Engquist
 Sweden (SWE)
12.50 Svetla Dimitrova
 Bulgaria (BUL)
12.58 Michelle Freeman
 Jamaica (JAM)
12.61
400 metres hurdles
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Nezha Bidouane
 Morocco (MAR)
52.97 AR Deon Hemmings
 Jamaica (JAM)
53.09 Kim Batten
 United States (USA)
53.52
4 × 100 metres relay
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 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
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 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[edit]

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
Hanne Haugland
 Norway (NOR)
1.99 m Olga Kaliturina
 Russia (RUS)
Inha Babakova
 Ukraine (UKR)
1.96 m Not awarded
Long jump
details
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
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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
details
Astrid Kumbernuss
 Germany (GER)
20.71 m Vita Pavlysh
 Ukraine (UKR)
20.66 m Stephanie Storp
 Germany (GER)
19.22 m
Discus throw
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Beatrice Faumuina
 New Zealand (NZL)
66.82 m Ellina Zvereva
 Belarus (BLR)
65.90 m Natalya Sadova
 Russia (RUS)
65.14 m
Javelin throw
details
Trine Hattestad
 Norway (NOR)
68.78 m Joanna Stone
 Australia (AUS)
68.64 m PB Tanja Damaske
 Germany (GER)
67.12 m PB
Heptathlon
details
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[edit]

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: [2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ [1]. Accessed 2009-04-03. 2009-05-10.
  2. ^ Rosenthal, Bert (2 August 1997). "Johnson can't wait to compete". The Stuart News. p. 31. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Results". www2.iaaf.org. Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2022.