1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

None These are the official results of the Men's 20 km Walk event at the 1997 World Championships held on Saturday 2 August 1997 in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 49 participating athletes. Medalists GoldMEX Daniel GarcíaMexico (MEX)SilverRUS Mikhail ShchennikovRussia (RUS)BronzeBLR Mikhail KhmelnitskiyBelarus (BLR) Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startNM no markWR world recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best Records Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics ChampionshipsEvent RecordNarinder Singh 1:24:5019 April 1997Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia World Record Bu Lingtang CHN 1:18.04 April 7, 1994 CHN Beijing, PR China Event Record Maurizio Damilano ITA 1:19.37 August 24, 1991 JPN Tokyo, Japan Final ranking RankAthleteTimeNote Daniel García MEX 1:21:43 Mikhail Shchennikov RUS 1:21:53 Mikhail Khmelnitskiy BLR 1:22:01 4 Yu Guohui CHN 1:22:57 5 Li Zewen CHN 1:23:03 6 Yevgeniy Misyulya BLR 1:23:10 7 Michele Didoni ITA 1:23:14 8 Giovanni De Benedictis ITA 1:23:33 9 Hatem Ghoula TUN 1:23:49 10 Daniel Plaza ESP 1:23:53 11 Robert Ihly GER 1:24:12 12 Alessandro Gandellini ITA 1:24:24 13 Igor Kollár SVK 1:24:37 14 Jefferson Pérez ECU 1:24:46 15 Jacek Muller POL 1:24:47 16 Joel Sánchez MEX 1:24:48 17 Denis Langlois FRA 1:25:27 18 Omar Zepeda MEX 1:25:38 19 Nicholas A'Hern AUS 1:25:46 20 Artur Meliashkevich BLR 1:25:47 21 Sérgio Galdino BRA 1:25:50 22 Roberto Oscal GUA 1:26:20 23 Marco Giungi ITA 1:26:23 24 Modris Liepins LAT 1:26:24 25 Jean-Olivier Brosseau FRA 1:26:39 26 Sándor Urbanik HUN 1:26:50 27 Gyula Dudás HUN 1:27:17 28 José Urbano POR 1:27:25 29 Milos Holusa CZE 1:27:27 30 Fedosei Ciumacenco MDA 1:28:51 31 Luis Fernando García GUA 1:28:51 32 Dion Russell AUS 1:30:49 33 Róbert Valíček SVK 1:31:28 34 Curt Clausen USA 1:32:05 35 Valeriy Borisov KAZ 1:32:32 36 Dimitrios Orfanopoulos GRE 1:32:37 37 Fernando Vázquez ESP 1:32:44 38 Chris Britz RSA 1:34:02 DID NOT FINISH (DNF)— Aigars Fadejevs LAT DNF — Scott Nelson NZL DNF — Claus Jørgensen DEN DNF — Thierry Toutain FRA DNF — Vladimir Andreyev RUS DNF DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)— Jan Staaf SWE DSQ — Andreas Erm GER DSQ — Julio René Martínez GUA DSQ — Ilya Markov RUS DSQ — Rami Ali Deeb PLE DSQ — Narinder Singh Al Harbans Singh MAS DSQ See also 1994 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Helsinki) 1996 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Atlanta) 1997 Race Walking Year Ranking 1998 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Budapest) References Results Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite W Category:Race walking at the World Athletics Championships