1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

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

The men's marathon at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, on Sunday August 10, 1997.

Medalists

Gold Abel Antón
 Spain
Silver Martín Fiz
 Spain
Bronze Steve Moneghetti
 Australia

Records

Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics Championships
World record Belayneh Densamo  Ethiopia 2:06:50 April 17, 1988 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Championships record Robert de Castella  Australia 2:10:03 August 14, 1983 Helsinki, Finland
Season best Domingos Castro  Portugal 2:07:51 April 20, 1997 Rotterdam, Netherlands

Final ranking

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1st place, gold medalist(s) Abel Antón  Spain (ESP) 2:13:16
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Martín Fiz  Spain (ESP) 2:13:21
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Steve Moneghetti  Australia (AUS) 2:14:16
4 Danilo Goffi  Italy (ITA) 2:14:47
5 Luíz Antônio dos Santos  Brazil (BRA) 2:15:31
6 Fabián Roncero  Spain (ESP) 2:16:53
7 Giacomo Leone  Italy (ITA) 2:17:16
8 Azzedine Sakhri  Algeria (ALG) 2:17:44
9 Eduard Tukhbatullin  Russia (RUS) 2:17:44
10 António Rodrigues  Portugal (POR) 2:17:54
11 Philippe Rémond  France (FRA) 2:18:19
12 Xolile Yawa  South Africa (RSA) 2:18:37
13 Dave Scudamore  United States (USA) 2:18:41
14 Willy Kalombo Mwenze  DR Congo (COD) 2:19:18
15 José Manuel García  Spain (ESP) 2:19:31
16 Bruce Deacon  Canada (CAN) 2:20:29
17 Dave Buzza  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 2:20:34
18 José Luis Molina  Costa Rica (CRC) 2:20:55
19 Nikolaos Polias  Greece (GRE) 2:21:03
20 Mostafa El Damaoui  Morocco (MAR) 2:21:05
21 Ahmed Hussein  Ethiopia (ETH) 2:21:08
22 Akira Manai  Japan (JPN) 2:21:23
23 Vanderlei de Lima  Brazil (BRA) 2:21:48
24 Daher Gadid Omar  Djibouti (DJI) 2:21:57
25 Shinji Kawashima  Japan (JPN) 2:22:33
26 Baek Seung-Do  South Korea (KOR) 2:22:40
27 Sean Quilty  Australia (AUS) 2:23:10
28 João Lopes  Portugal (POR) 2:23:15
29 Jean Pierre Monciaux  France (FRA) 2:23:19
30 Francesco Ingargiola  Italy (ITA) 2:23:30
31 Stéphane Franke  Germany (GER) 2:23:53
32 Karel David  Czech Republic (CZE) 2:24:42
33 Adam Motlagale  South Africa (RSA) 2:24:49
34 Katsuhiko Hanada  Japan (JPN) 2:25:00
35 Max Wenisch  Austria (AUT) 2:25:12
36 Osmiro Silva  Brazil (BRA) 2:25:37
37 António Zeferino  Cape Verde (CPV) 2:25:56
38 Dominique Chauvelier  France (FRA) 2:26:06
39 Abner Chipu  South Africa (RSA) 2:26:06
40 Takahiro Hattori  Japan (JPN) 2:26:33
41 Valdenor dos Santos  Brazil (BRA) 2:27:12
42 Girma Daba  Ethiopia (ETH) 2:27:30
43 Sérgio Jimenez  Mexico (MEX) 2:27:30
44 Pascal Zilliox  France (FRA) 2:27:50
45 Knut Hegvold  Norway (NOR) 2:27:54
46 Klaus Peter Hansen  Denmark (DEN) 2:28:29
47 Terje Naess  Norway (NOR) 2:29:04
48 Pavel Loskutov  Estonia (EST) 2:29:10
49 Jean-Paul Gahimbaré  Burundi (BDI) 2:30:56
50 Luis Martínez  Guatemala (GUA) 2:31:11
51 Hsu Gi-sheng  Chinese Taipei (TPE) 2:31:31
52 Woliye Jara  Ethiopia (ETH) 2:31:44
53 Raymond Boyd  Australia (AUS) 2:32:07
54 Azzedine Sakhri  Algeria (ALG) 2:34:26
55 Molatlhegi Segobaetso  Botswana (BOT) 2:34:47
56 Dan Held  United States (USA) 2:35:19
57 Éder Fialho  Brazil (BRA) 2:36:14
58 Koji Shimizu  Japan (JPN) 2:37:11
59 Asaf Bimro  Israel (ISR) 2:37:45
60 Mpakeletsa Sephali  Lesotho (LES) 2:38:37
61 Isaac Simelane  Swaziland (SWZ) 2:40:32
62 Marco Ochoa  United States (USA) 2:44:21
63 Jon Warren  United States (USA) 2:45:56
64 Marcos Juarez  Guatemala (GUA) 2:55:14
65 Emilio Velasquez  Guatemala (GUA) 2:56:07
66 Sergey Zabavski  Tajikistan (TJK) 3:02:49
67 Alain Nkulu  DR Congo (COD) 3:08:32
68 Zebedayo Bayo  Tanzania (TAN) 3:11:19
69 Roderic De Highden  Australia (AUS) 3:13:44
70 Errol Peters  Guyana (GUY) 3:14:30
— Sophuong Vanh  Cambodia (CAM) DNF
— Patrick Ntambwe Ngoie  DR Congo (COD) DNF
— Tumo Turbo  Ethiopia (ETH) DNF
— Dale Rixon  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) DNF
— George Karagiannis  Greece (GRE) DNF
— Ioannis Perifanos  Greece (GRE) DNF
— Marcello Curioni  Italy (ITA) DNF
— Cosmas Ndeti  Kenya (KEN) DNF
— Mbarak Hussein  Kenya (KEN) DNF
— Trpe Martinovski  Macedonia (MKD) DNF
— Vitor Vasco  Portugal (POR) DNF
— Abel Mokibe  South Africa (RSA) DNF
— Francis Naali  Tanzania (TAN) DNF
— Petro Meta  Tanzania (TAN) DNF
— Rubén Maza  Venezuela (VEN) DNF
— Luketz Swartbooi  Namibia (NAM) DNF
— Paulo Catarino  Portugal (POR) DNF
— Chang Ki-Shik  South Korea (KOR) DNF
— Salah Qoqaiche  Morocco (MAR) DNF
— Alberto Juzdado  Spain (ESP) DNF
— António Pinto  Portugal (POR) DNF
— Andrés Espinosa  Mexico (MEX) DNF
— Faustino Reynoso  Mexico (MEX) DNF
— Lawrence Peu  South Africa (RSA) DNF
— Abdelkader El Mouaziz  Morocco (MAR) DNF
— Moges Taye  Ethiopia (ETH) DNF
— Isidro Rico  Mexico (MEX) DNF
— Don Janicki  United States (USA) DNF
— Diego García  Spain (ESP) DNF
— Bruno Leger  France (FRA) DNF
— Joseph Tjitunga  Namibia (NAM) DNF
— Benjamín Paredes  Mexico (MEX) DNF
— Vincenzo Modica  Italy (ITA) DNF
— Abdillahi Bouh  Djibouti (DJI) DNF
— William Koech  Kenya (KEN) DNF
— Panagiotis Charamis  Greece (GRE) DNF
— Yayeh Aden  Djibouti (DJI) DNF
— Spyros Andriopoulos  Greece (GRE) DNF
— Sonam Tobgay  Bhutan (BHU) DNS
— Marco Condori  Bolivia (BOL) DNS
— Darren Wilson  Australia (AUS) DNS

See also

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