1997 World Championships in Athletics

The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletic Federations, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between 1 and 10 August 1997. 1,882 athletes from 198 participant nations participated in this event.

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.

Men's results

Track

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	9.86	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	9.91	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	9.94
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	20.04	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	20.23	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	20.26
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	44.12	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	44.37 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	44.39 Template:AthAbbr
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1:43.38	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1:44.00	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1:44.25 Template:AthAbbr
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	3:35.83	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	3:36.63	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	3:37.26
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	13:07.38	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	13:09.34	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	13:11.09
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	27:24.58	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	27:25.62	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	27:28.67 Template:AthAbbr
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	2:13:16	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	2:13:21	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	2:14:16
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	12.93 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	13.05	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	13.18
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	47.70 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	47.86 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	47.88
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	8:05.84	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	8:06.04	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	8:06.04
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1:21:43	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1:21:53	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1:22:01
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	3:44:46	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	3:44:59	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	3:48:30
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkteam Robert Esmie Glenroy Gilbert Bruny Surin Donovan Bailey Carlton Chambers*	37.86 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkteam Osmond Ezinwa Olapade Adeniken Francis Obikwelu Davidson Ezinwa	38.07	Template:Flaglinkteam Darren Braithwaite Darren Campbell Douglas Walker Julian Golding Marlon Devonish* Dwain Chambers*	38.14
Template:AthleticsLink[nb1]	Template:Flaglinkteam Iwan Thomas Roger Black Jamie Baulch Mark Richardson Mark Hylton*	2:56.65	Template:Flaglinkteam Michael McDonald Greg Haughton Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke Linval Laird*	2:56.75 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkteam 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.

Field

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	2.37 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	2.35 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	2.35 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	6.01 m Template:AthAbbr/Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	5.96 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	5.91 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	8.42 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	8.38 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	8.18 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	17.85 m Template:AthAbbr/Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	17.69 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	17.64 m
Template:AthleticsLink[nb2]	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	21.44 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	21.24 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	20.33 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	68.54 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	66.70 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	66.14 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	81.78 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	81.46 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	80.76 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	88.40 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	86.80 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	86.64 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	8837 pts Template:AthAbbr/Template:AthAbbr/Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	8730 pts Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	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
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	10.83 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	10.85	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	11.03 Template:AthAbbr
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	22.32	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	22.39	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	22.40
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	49.77	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	49.79 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	49.90
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1:57.14	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1:57.56	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1:57.59
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	4:04.24	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	4:04.63	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	4:04.70
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	14:57.68	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	14:58.29	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	14:58.85
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	31:32.92 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	31:39.15	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	31:41.93
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	2:29:48	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	2:31:12	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	2:31:55
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	42:55.49 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	43:30.20	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	43:49.24
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	12.50	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	12.58	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	12.61
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	52.97 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	53.09	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	53.52
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkteam Chryste Gaines Marion Jones Inger Miller Gail Devers	41.47 Template:AthAbbr/Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkteam Beverly McDonald Merlene Frazer Juliet Cuthbert Beverly Grant	42.10	Template:Flaglinkteam Patricia Girard-Léno Christine Arron Delphine Combe Sylviane Félix Frédérique Bangué*	42.21 Template:AthAbbr
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkteam Anke Feller Uta Rohländer Anja Rücker Grit Breuer	3:20.92 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkteam Maicel Malone-Wallace Kim Graham Kim Batten Jearl Miles Clark Michelle Collins* Natasha Kaiser-Brown*	3:21.03	Template:Flaglinkteam Inez Turner Lorraine Graham Deon Hemmings Sandie Richards Nadia Graham-Hutchinson*	3:21.30 Template:AthAbbr
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
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1.99 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist Template:Flaglinkmedalist	1.96 m	Not awarded
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	7.05 m Template:AthAbbr/Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	6.94 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	6.91 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	15.20 m Template:AthAbbr/Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	15.16 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	14.67 m Template:AthAbbr
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	20.71 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	20.66 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	19.22 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	66.82 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	65.90 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	65.14 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	68.78 m	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	68.64 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	67.12 m Template:AthAbbr
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	6739 pts	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	6654 pts	Template:Flaglinkmedalist	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

File:Beer glass 1997 IAAF World Championships.jpg

Beer glass with championships branding

References

• IAAF 1997