1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

Events at the 1997 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The Men's Marathon at the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Greece was held on Sunday August 10, 1997.

Medalists

Gold	Abel Antón Spain (ESP)
Silver	Martín Fiz Spain (ESP)
Bronze	Steve Moneghetti Australia (AUS)

Abbreviations

All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Belayneh Densamo (ETH)	2:06:50	April 17, 1988	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Event Record	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:10:03	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season Best	Domingos Castro (POR)	2:07:51	April 20, 1997	Rotterdam, Netherlands

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time
01 !	Abel Antón (ESP)	2:13:16
02 !	Martín Fiz (ESP)	2:13:21
03 !	Steve Moneghetti (AUS)	2:14:16
4	Danilo Goffi (ITA)	2:14:47
5	Luis Antonio dos Santos (BRA)	2:15:31
6	Fabián Roncero (ESP)	2:16:53
7	Giacomo Leone (ITA)	2:17:16
8	Azzedine Sakhri (ALG)	2:17:44
9	Eduard Tukhbatullin (RUS)	2:17:44
10	Antonio Rodrigues (POR)	2:17:54
11	Philippe Rémond (FRA)	2:18:19
12	Xolile Yawa (RSA)	2:18:37
13	Dave Scudamore (USA)	2:18:41
14	Willy Kalombo Mwenze (COD)	2:19:18
15	José Manuel García (ESP)	2:19:31
16	Bruce Deacon (CAN)	2:20:29
17	Dave Buzza (GBR)	2:20:34
18	José Luis Molina (CRC)	2:20:55
19	Nikolaos Pollias (GRE)	2:21:03
20	Mostafa El Damaoui (MAR)	2:21:05
21	Ahmed Hussein (ETH)	2:21:08
22	Akira Manai (JPN)	2:21:23
23	Vanderlei de Lima (BRA)	2:21:48
24	Daher Gadid Omar (DJI)	2:21:57
25	Shinji Kawashima (JPN)	2:22:33
26	Baek Seung-Do (KOR)	2:22:40
27	Sean Quilty (AUS)	2:23:10
28	João Lopes (POR)	2:23:15
29	Jean Pierre Monciaux (FRA)	2:23:19
30	Francesco Ingargiola (ITA)	2:23:30
31	Stephane Franke (GER)	2:23:53
32	Karel David (CZE)	2:24:42
33	Adam Motlagale (RSA)	2:24:49
34	Katsuhiko Hanada (JPN)	2:25:00
35	Max Wenisch (AUT)	2:25:12
36	Osmiro Silva (BRA)	2:25:37
37	António Zeferino (CPV)	2:25:56
38	Dominique Chauvelier (FRA)	2:26:06
39	Abner Chipu (RSA)	2:26:06
40	Takahiro Hattori (JPN)	2:26:33
41	Valdenor dos Santos (BRA)	2:27:12
42	Girma Daba (ETH)	2:27:30
43	Sérgio Jimenez (MEX)	2:27:30
44	Pascal Zilliox (FRA)	2:27:50
45	Knut Hegvold (NOR)	2:27:54
46	Klaus Peter Hansen (DEN)	2:28:29
47	Terje Naess (NOR)	2:29:04
48	Pavel Loskutov (EST)	2:29:10
49	Jean-Paul Gahimbaré (BDI)	2:30:56
50	Luis Martínez (GUA)	2:31:11
51	Gi-Sheng Hsu (TPE)	2:31:31
52	Woliye Jara (ETH)	2:31:44
53	Raymond Boyd (AUS)	2:32:07
54	Azzedine Sakhri (ALG)	2:34:26
55	Molatlhegi Segobaetso (BOT)	2:34:47
56	Dan Held (USA)	2:35:19
57	Éder Fialho (BRA)	2:36:14
58	Koji Shimizu (JPN)	2:37:11
59	Asaf Bimro (ISR)	2:37:45
60	Mpakeletsa Sephali (LES)	2:38:37
61	Isaac Simelane (SWZ)	2:40:32
62	Marco Ochoa (USA)	2:44:21
63	Jon Warren (USA)	2:45:56
64	Marcos Juarez (GUA)	2:55:14
65	Emilio Velasquez (GUA)	2:56:07
66	Sergey Zabavski (TJK)	3:02:49
67	Alain Nkulu (COD)	3:08:32
68	Zebedayo Bayo (TAN)	3:11:19
69	Roderic De Highden (AUS)	3:13:44
70	Errol Peters (GUY)	3:14:30
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Sophuong Vanh (CAM)	DNF
—	Patrick Ntambwe Ngoie (COD)	DNF
—	Tumo Turbo (ETH)	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 (MKD)	DNF
—	Vitor Vasco (POR)	DNF
—	Abel Mokibe (RSA)	DNF
—	Francis Naali (TAN)	DNF
—	Petro Meta (TAN)	DNF
—	Rubén Maza (VEN)	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)	DNF
—	Isidro Rico (MEX)	DNF
—	Don Janicki (USA)	DNF
—	Diego García (ESP)	DNF
—	Bruno Leger (FRA)	DNF
—	Joseph Tjitunga (NAM)	DNF
—	Benjamin 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
DID NOT START (DNS)
—	Sonam Tobgay (BHU)	DNS
—	Marco Condori (BOL)	DNS
—	Darren Wilson (AUS)	DNS

References

Results
IAAF

Marathon at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Complete event overview

Men	1983 1987 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

Women	1983 1987 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

World Champions in men's marathon

1983: Robert de Castella (AUS) 1987: Douglas Wakiihuri (KEN) 1991: Hiromi Taniguchi (JPN) 1993: Mark Plaatjes (USA) 1995: Martín Fiz (ESP) 1997–1999: Abel Antón (ESP) 2001: Gezahegne Abera (ETH) 2003–2005 Jaouad Gharib (MAR) 2007: Luke Kibet (KEN) 2009–2011: Abel Kirui (KEN) 2013: Stephen Kiprotich (UGA) 2015: Ghirmay Ghebreslassie (ERI)

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