1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

None September 2021 These are the official results of the Men's 50 km Walk event at the 1997 World Championships held on Thursday 7 August 1997 in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 42 participating athletes. Medalists GoldPOL Robert KorzeniowskiPoland (POL)SilverESP Jesús Ángel GarcíaSpain (ESP)BronzeMEX Miguel RodríguezMexico (MEX) Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startNM no markWR world recordWL world leadingAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best Final ranking RankAthleteTimeNote Robert Korzeniowski POL3:44:46 Jesús Ángel García ESP3:44:59 Miguel Rodríguez MEX3:48:30 4 Oleg Ishutkin RUS3:50:04 5 Tomasz Lipiec POL3:50:14 6 Fumio Imamura JPN3:50:27 7 Sylvain Caudron FRA3:51:17 8 Arturo Di Mezza ITA3:51:33 9 Valentin Kononen FIN3:53:40 10 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS3:54:28 11 René Piller FRA3:55:06 12 Sergey Korepanov KAZ3:56:19 13 Craig Barrett NZL3:56:30 14 Giovanni Perricelli ITA3:57:38 15 Nikolay Matyukhin RUS3:58:18 16 Axel Noack GER3:59:29 17 Héctor Moreno COL3:59:33 18 Štefan Malík SVK3:59:52 19 Ruben Arikado MEX4:04:17 20 Zoltán Czukor HUN4:05:09 21 Santiago Perez ESP4:05:25 22 Dmitriy Savaytan BLR4:05:35 23 Julio César Urías GUA4:07:18 24 Peter Zanner GER4:07:38 25 Christophe Cousin FRA4:08:26 26 Milos Holusa CZE4:09:08 27 José Magalhaes POR4:10:03 28 Orazio Romanzi ITA4:11:00 29 Christos Karagiorgos GRE4:30:05 DID NOT FINISH (DNF)— Zhao Yongsheng CHNDNF — Jaime Barroso ESPDNF — Tim Berrett CANDNF — Bo Gustafsson SWEDNF — Viktor Ginko BLRDNF DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)— Peter Tichý SVKDSQ — Roman Mrázek SVKDSQ — Dirk Nicque BELDSQ — Jacek Muller POLDSQ — Germán Sánchez MEXDSQ — Thomas Wallstab GERDSQ — Andrew Hermann USADSQ — Aleksandar Raković FR Yugoslavia YUGDSQ See also 1994 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Helsinki) 1996 Men's Olympic 50km Walk (Atlanta) 1998 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Budapest) References Results W Category:Race walking at the World Athletics Championships