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

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

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

Gold	Daniel García Mexico (MEX)
Silver	Mikhail Shchennikov Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy Belarus (BLR)

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

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	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 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

• 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