1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

None The men's marathon at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, on Sunday August 10, 1997. Medalists GoldAbel Antón ESP SilverMartín Fiz ESP BronzeSteve Moneghetti AUS Records Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics Championships World record Belayneh Densamo 1987 2:06:50 April 17, 1988 Rotterdam, Netherlands Championships record Robert de Castella Australia 2:10:03 August 14, 1983 Helsinki, Finland Season best Domingos Castro Portugal 2:07:51 April 20, 1997 Rotterdam, Netherlands Final ranking RankAthleteCountryTimeNote Abel Antón ESP 2:13:16 Martín Fiz ESP 2:13:21 Steve Moneghetti AUS 2:14:16 4Danilo Goffi ITA 2:14:47 5Luíz Antônio dos Santos BRA 2:15:31 6Fabián Roncero ESP 2:16:53 7Giacomo Leone ITA 2:17:16 8Azzedine Sakhri ALG 2:17:44 9Eduard Tukhbatullin RUS 2:17:44 10António Rodrigues POR 2:17:54 11Philippe Rémond FRA 2:18:19 12Xolile Yawa RSA 2:18:37 13Dave Scudamore USA 2:18:41 14Willy Kalombo Mwenze COD 1997 2:19:18 15José Manuel García ESP 2:19:31 16Bruce Deacon CAN 2:20:29 17Dave Buzza GBR 2:20:34 18José Luis Molina CRC 2:20:55 19Nikolaos Polias GRE 2:21:03 20Mostafa El Damaoui MAR 2:21:05 21Ahmed Hussein ETH 1996 2:21:08 22Akira Manai JPN 2:21:23 23Vanderlei de Lima BRA 2:21:48 24Daher Gadid Omar DJI 2:21:57 25Shinji Kawashima JPN 2:22:33 26Baek Seung-Do KOR 2:22:40 27Sean Quilty AUS 2:23:10 28João Lopes POR 2:23:15 29Jean Pierre Monciaux FRA 2:23:19 30Francesco Ingargiola ITA 2:23:30 31Stéphane Franke GER 2:23:53 32Karel David CZE 2:24:42 33Adam Motlagale RSA 2:24:49 34Katsuhiko Hanada JPN 2:25:00 35Max Wenisch AUT 2:25:12 36Osmiro Silva BRA 2:25:37 37António Zeferino CPV 2:25:56 38Dominique Chauvelier FRA 2:26:06 39Abner Chipu RSA 2:26:06 40Takahiro Hattori JPN 2:26:33 41Valdenor dos Santos BRA 2:27:12 42Girma Daba ETH 1996 2:27:30 43Sérgio Jimenez MEX 2:27:30 44Pascal Zilliox FRA 2:27:50 45Knut Hegvold NOR 2:27:54 46Klaus Peter Hansen DEN 2:28:29 47Terje Naess NOR 2:29:04 48Pavel Loskutov EST 2:29:10 49Jean-Paul Gahimbaré BDI 2:30:56 50Luis Martínez GUA 2:31:11 51Hsu Gi-sheng TPE 2:31:3152Woliye Jara ETH 1996 2:31:4453Raymond Boyd AUS 2:32:0754Sid-Ali Sakhri ALG 2:34:2655Molatlhegi Segobaetso BOT 2:34:4756Dan Held USA 2:35:1957Éder Fialho BRA 2:36:1458Koji Shimizu JPN 2:37:1159Asaf Bimro ISR 2:37:4560Mpakeletsa Sephali LES 1987 2:38:3761Isaac Simelane Swaziland 2:40:3262Marco Ochoa USA 2:44:2163Jon Warren USA 2:45:5664Marcos Juarez GUA 2:55:1465Emilio Velasquez GUA 2:56:0766Sergey Zabavski TJK 3:02:4967Alain Nkulu COD 1997 3:08:3268Zebedayo Bayo TAN 3:11:1969Roderic De Highden AUS 3:13:4470Errol Peters GUY 3:14:30 — Sophuong Vanh CAM DNF — Patrick Ntambwe Ngoie COD 1997 DNF — Tumo Turbo ETH 1996 DNF — Dale Rixon GBR DNF — George Karagiannis GRE DNF — Ioannis Perifanos GRE DNF — Marcello Curioni ITA DNF — Cosmas Ndeti KEN DNF — Mbarak Hussein KEN DNF — Trpe Martinovski Macedonia DNF — Vitor Vasco POR DNF — Abel Mokibe RSA DNF — Francis Naali TAN DNF — Petro Meta TAN DNF — Rubén Maza VEN 1930 DNF — Luketz Swartbooi NAM DNF — Paulo Catarino POR DNF — Chang Ki-Shik KOR DNF — Salah Qoqaiche MAR DNF — Alberto Juzdado ESP DNF — António Pinto POR DNF — Andrés Espinosa MEX DNF — Faustino Reynoso MEX DNF — Lawrence Peu RSA DNF — Abdelkader El Mouaziz MAR DNF — Moges Taye ETH 1996 DNF — Isidro Rico MEX DNF — Don Janicki USA DNF — Diego García ESP DNF — Bruno Leger FRA DNF — Joseph Tjitunga NAM DNF — Benjamín Paredes MEX DNF — Vincenzo Modica ITA DNF — Abdillahi Bouh DJI DNF — William Koech KEN DNF — Panagiotis Charamis GRE DNF — Yayeh Aden DJI DNF — Spyros Andriopoulos GRE DNF — Sonam Tobgay BHU DNS — Marco Condori BOL DNS — Darren Wilson AUS DNS See also Men's Olympic Marathon (1996) 1997 World Marathon Cup References Results Results - World Athletics Marathon Category:Marathons at the World Athletics Championships World Championships Category:Men's marathons Category:Marathons in Greece