Paris (France)
7th – 9th March 1997
(Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy)
60 m - 07-03-1997
1. Charalambos Papadias - Greece - 6.50
(national record)
2. Michael Green - Jamaica - 6.51
3. Davidson Ezinwa - Nigeria - 6.52
Five more national records were set in the heats
and the semifinals.
200 m - 08-03-1997
1. Kevin Little - USA - 20.40
(Championship record)
2. Iván García - Cuba - 20.46
3. Francis Obikwelu - Nigeria - 21.10
One more Championship record and
five national records
were set in the heats and the semifinals.
400 m - 09-03-1997
1. Sunday Bada - Nigeria - 45.51
(African record)
2. Jamie Baulch - Great Britain - 45.62
3. Shunji Karube - Japan - 45.76
(Asian record)
Two South American records and
two national records were set in the heats
and the semifinals.
800 m - 09-03-1997
1. Wilson Kipketer - Denmark - 1:42.67
(World record, improving the World record
(1:43.96) he ran in the heat)
2. Mahjoub Haida - Morocco - 1:45.76
(national record)
3. Rich Kenah - USA - 1:46.16
1500 m - 08-03-1997
1. Hicham El Guerrouj - Morocco - 3:35.31
(Championship record)
2. Rüdiger Stenzel - Germany - 3:37.24
3. William Tanui - Kenya - 3:37.48
3000 m - 09-03-1997
1. Haile Gebrselassie - Ethiopia - 7:34.71
(Championship record)
2. Paul Bitok - Kenya - 7:38.84
3. Ismaďl Sghyr - Morocco - 7:40.01
4. Gennaro Di Napoli - Italy - 7:41.05
(national record)
60 m hurdles - 09-03-1997
1. Anier García - Cuba - 7.48
(equals national record)
2. Colin Jackson - Great Britain - 7.49
3. Tony Dees - USA - 7.50
5. Igor Kovác - Slovakia - 7:59
(national record)
One Oceanic record and
one South American record
were set in the heats.
4 x 400 m - 09-03-1997
1. United States - 3:04.33
(Jason Rouser, Mark Everett, Sean Maye, Deon Minor)
2. Jamaica - 3:08.11
(Linval Laird, Michael McDonald, Dinsdale Morgan, Greg Haughton)
3. France - 3:09.68
(Pierre-Marie Hilaire, Rodrigue Nordin, Loic Lerouge, Fred Mango)
long jump - 08-03-1997
1. Iván Pedroso - Cuba - 8,51 m
(equals Championship record)
2. Kirill Sosunov - Russia - 8,41 m
2. Joe Greene - USA - 8,41 m
Two national records
were set in the qualifications.
triple jump - 09-03-1997
1. Yoel García - Cuba - 17,30 m
2. Aliecer Urrutia - Cuba - 17,27 m
3. Aleksandr Aseledchenko - 17,22 m
high jump - 09-03-1997
1. Charles Austin - USA - 2,35 m
2. Labros Papakostas - Greece - 2,32 m
3. Dragutin Topic - Yugoslavia - 2,32 m
pole vault - 08-03-1997
1. Igor Potapovich - Kazakhstan - 5,90 m
(Asian record)
2. Lawrence Johnson - USA - 5,85 m
3. Maksim Tarasov - Russia - 5,80 m
7. Trond Barthel - Norway - 5,65 m
(equals national record)
shot put - 07-03-1997
1. Yuriy Bilonoh - Ukraine - 21,02 m
2. Oleksandr Bagach - Ukraine - 20,94 m
3. John Godina - USA - 20,87 m
5. Manuel Martínez - Spain - 20,37 m
(national record)
One more national record
was set in the qualifications.
heptathlon - 08/09-03-1997
1. Robert Zmelík - Czech Republic - 6228 points
(national record)
2. Erik Nool - Estonia - 6213 points
3. Jón Arnar Magnússon - Iceland - 6145 points
(national record)
