Athens (Greece)
1st - 10th August 1997
(Olympic Stadium)
100 m
1. Marion Jones - USA - 10.83
2. Zhanna Pintusevich - Ukraine - 10.85
(national record)
3. Savatheda Fynes - Bahamas - 11.03
200 m
1. Zhanna Pintusevich - Ukraine - 22.32
2. Susanthika Jayasinghe - Sri Lanka - 22.39
3. Merlene Ottey - Jamaica - 22.40
400 m
1. Cathy Freeman - Australia - 49.77
2. Sandie Richards - Jamaica - 49.79
3. Jearl Miles-Clark - USA - 49.90
800 m
1. Ana Fidelia Quirot - Cuba - 1:57.14
2. Yelena Afanasyeva - Russia - 1:57.56
3. Maria Mutola - Mozambique - 1:57.59
1500 m
1. Carla Sacramento - Portugal - 4:04.24
2. Regina Jacobs - USA - 4:04.63
3. Anita Weyermann - Switzerland - 4:04.70
5000 m
1. Gabriela Szabo - Romania - 14:57.68
2. Roberta Brunet - Italy - 14:58.29
3. Fernanda Ribeiro - Portugal - 14:58.85
10000 m
1. Sally Barsosio - Kenya - 31:32.92
2. Fernanda Ribeiro - 31:39.15
3. Masako Chiba - Japan - 31:41.93
marathon
1. Hiromi Suzuki - Japan - 2:29:48
2. Manuela Machado - Portugal - 2:31:12
3. Lidia Simon - Romania - 2:31:55
100 m hurdles
1. Ludmila Engquist - Sweden - 12.50
2. Svetla Dimitrova - Bulgaria - 12.58
3. Michelle Freeman - Jamaica - 12.61
400m hurdles
1. Nezha Bidouane - Morocco - 52.97
(African record)
2. Deon Hemmings - Jamaica - 53.09
3. Kim Batten - USA - 53.52
4. Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova - Ukraine - 53.81
(national rercord)
10 km walk
1. Annarita Sidoti - Italy - 42:55.49
2. Olga Kardopoltseva - Belarus - 43:30.20
3. Valentina Tsybulskaya - Belarus - 43:49.24
4 x 100 m
1. United States - 41.47
(Chryste Gaines, Marion Jones, Inger Miller, Gail Devers)
2. Jamaica - 42.10
(Beverly McDonald, Merlene Frazer, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly Grant)
3. France - 42.21 (national record)
(Patricia Girard, Christine Arron, Delphine Combe, Sylviane Félix)
4 x 400 m
1. Germany - 3:20.92
(Anke Feller, Uta Rohlander, Anja Rucker, Grit Breuer)
2. United States - 3:21.03
(Maicel Malone-Wallace, Kim Graham, Kim Batten, Jearl Miles-Clark)
3. Jamaica - 3:21:30 (national record)
(Inez Turner, Lorraine Graham, Deon Hemmings, Sandie Richards)
long jump
1. Lyudmila Galkina - Russia - 7,05 m
2. Niki Xanthou - Greece - 6,94 m
3. Fiona May - Italy - 6,91 m
triple jump
1. Šárka Kašpárková - Czech Republic - 15,20 m
2. Rodica Mateescu - Romania - 15,16 m
(national record)
3. Olena Hovorova - Ukraine - 14,67 m
4. Olga Vasdeki - Greece - 14,62 m
(national record)
high jump
1. Hanne Haugland - Norway - 1,99 m
2=. Olga Kaliturina - Russia - 1,96 m
2=. Inga Babakova - Ukraine - 1,96 m
shot put
1. Astrid Kumbernuss - Germany - 20,71 m
2. Vita Pavlysh - Ukraine - 20,66 m
3. Stephanie Storp - Germany - 19,22 m
discus throw
1. Beatrice Faumuina - New Zealand - 66,82 m
2. Ellina Zvereva - Belarus - 65,90 m
3. Natalya Sadova - Russia - 65,14 m
javelin throw
1. Trine Hattestad - Norway - 68,78 m
2. Joanna Stone - Australia - 68,64 m
3. Tanja Damaske - Germany - 67,12 m
heptathlon
1. Sabine Braun - Germany - 6739 points
2. Denise Lewis - Great Britain - 6654 points
3. Remigija Nazaroviene - Lithuania - 6566 points
