6th IAAF World Championships 1997 - men




Athens (Greece)
1st - 10th August 1997
(Olympic Stadium)


100 m -

1. Maurice Greene - USA - 9.86
(equals Championship record)
2. Donovan Bailey - Canada - 9.91
3. Tim Montgomery - USA - 9.94


200 m -

1. Ato Boldon - Trinidad and Tobago - 20.03
2. Frankie Fredericks - Namibia - 20.23
3. Claudinei da Silva - Brazil - 20.26


400 m

1. Michael Johnson - USA - 44.12
2. Davis Kamoga - Uganda - 44.37
(national record)
3. Tyree Washington - USA - 44.39


800 m

1. Wilson Kipketer - Denmark - 1:43.38
2. Norberto Téllez - Cuba - 1:44.00
3. Rich Kenah - USA - 1:44.25


1500 m

1. Hicham El Guerrouj - Morocco - 3:35.83
2. Fermín Cacho - Spain - 3:36.63
3. Reyes Estevez - Spain - 3:37.26


5000 m

1. Daniel Komen - Kenya - 13:07.38
2. Khalid Boulami - Morocco - 13:09.34
3. Tom Nyariki - Kenya - 13:11.09


10000 m

1. Haile Gebrselassie - Ethiopia - 27:24.58
2. Paul Tergat - Kenya - 27:25.62
3. Salah Hissou - Morocco - 27:28.67


marathon

1. Abel Antón - Spain - 2:13:16
2. Martín Fiz - Spain - 2:13.21
3. Steve Moneghetti - Australia - 2:14.16


110 m hurdles

1. Allen Johnson - USA - 12.93
2. Colin Jackson - Great Britain - 13.05
3. Igor Kovác - Slovakia - 13.18


400m hurdles

1. Stéphane Diagana - France - 47.70
2. Llewellyn Herbert - South Africa - 47.86
3. Bryan Bronson - USA - 47.88


3000 m steeple

1. Wilson Boit Kipketer - Kenya - 8:05.84
2. Moses Kiptanui - Kenya - 8:06.04
3. Bernard Barmasai - Kenya - 8:06.04

7. Jim Svenřy - Norway - 8:14.90
(national record)


20 km walk

1. Daniel García - Mexico - 1:21:43
2. Mikhail Shchennikov - Russia - 1:21:53
3. Mikhail Khmelnitskiy - Belarus - 1:22:01


50 km walk

1. Robert Korzeniowski - Poland - 3:44:46
2. Jesús Ángel García - Spain - 3:44:59
3. Miguel Rodríguez - Mexico - 3:48:30


4 x 100 m

1. Canada - 37.86
(Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey)
2. Nigeria - 38.07
(Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa)
3. Great Britain - 38.14
(Darren Braithwaite, Darren Campbell, Douglas Walker, Julian Golding)

4. (semi-final) - Brazil - 38.17 (South-American record)
(Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro)


4 x 400 m

1. Great Britain - 2:56.65
(Iwan Thomas, Roger Black, Jamie Baulch, Mark Richardson)
2. Jamaica - 2:56.75 (national record)
(Michael McDonald, Gregory Haughton, Danny McFarlane, Davian Clarke)
3. Poland - 3:00.26
(Tomasz Czubak, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Piotr Haczek, Robert Mackowiak)

4. South Africa - 3:00.26 (national record)
(Arnaud Malherbe, Hezekiel Sepeng, Hendrik Mokganyetsi, Llewellyn Herbert)

In the heats 7 additional national records were broken by Poland, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Austria, Latvia, Greece and Botwana)


long jump

1. Iván Pedroso - Cuba - 8,42 m
2. Erick Walder - USA - 8,38 m
3. Kirill Sosunov - Russia - 8,18 m


triple jump

1. Yoelbi Quesada - Cuba - 17,85 m
2. Jonathan Edwards - Great Britain - 17,69 m
3. Aliecer Urrutia - Cuba - 17,64 m


high jump

1. Javier Sotomayor - Cuba - 2,37 m
2. Artur Partyka - Poland - 2,35 m
3. Tim Forsyth - Australia - 2,35 m


pole vault

1. Sergey Bubka - Ukraine - 6,01 m
(Championship record)
2. Maksim Tarasov - Russia - 5,96 m
3. Dean Starkey - USA - 5,91 m


shot put

1. John Godina - USA - 21,44 m
2. Oliver-Sven Buder - Germany - 21,24 m
3. C.J. Hunter - USA - 20,33 m


discus throw

1. Lars Riedel - Germany - 68,54 m
2. Virgilijus Alekna - Lithuania - 66,70 m
3. Jürgen Schult - 66,14 m


javelin throw

1. Marius Corbett - South Africa - 88,40 m
2. Steve Backley - Great Britain - 86,80 m
3. Kostas Gatsioudis - Greece - 86,64 m


hammer throw

1. Heinz Weis - Germany - 81,78 m
2. Andrey Skvaruk - Ukraine - 81,46 m
3. Vasiliy Sidorenko - Russia - 80,76 m


decathlon

1. TomᚠDvorák - Czech Republic - 8837 points
2. Eduard Hämäläinen - Finland - 8730 points
3. Frank Busemann - Germany - 8652 points