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

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

GoldMexico Daniel García
Mexico (MEX)
SilverRussia Mikhail Shchennikov
Russia (RUS)
BronzeBelarus Mikhail Khmelnitskiy
Belarus (BLR)

Abbreviations

  • All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
DNSdid not start
NMno mark
WRworld record
ARarea record
NRnational record
PBpersonal best
SBseason best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics Championships
Event Record Narinder Singh 1:24:50 19 April 1997 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
World Record Bu Lingtang (CHN)1:18.04April 7, 1994China Beijing, PR China
Event Record Maurizio Damilano (ITA)1:19.37 August 24, 1991Japan Tokyo, Japan

Final ranking

Rank Athlete Time Note
1st, gold medalist(s) Daniel García (MEX)1:21:43
2nd, silver medalist(s) Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS)1:21:53
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 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 Meleshkevich (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

References



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