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

Events at the
1997 World Championships
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
5000 mmenwomen
10,000 mmenwomen
100 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmenwomen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4 × 100 m relaymenwomen
4 × 400 m relaymenwomen
Road events
Marathonmenwomen
10 km walkwomen
20 km walkmen
50 km walkmen
Field events
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmenwomen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Combined events
Heptathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

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 Mexico Daniel García
Mexico (MEX)
Silver Russia Mikhail Shchennikov
Russia (RUS)
Bronze Belarus 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 China Beijing, PR China
Event Record  Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 1:19.37 August 24, 1991 Japan Tokyo, Japan

Startlist

Intermediates

Final ranking

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

References