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

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	Note
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

See also

• Men's Olympic Marathon (1996)
• 1997 World Marathon Cup

References

• Results
• IAAF