The men's marathon at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, on Sunday August 10, 1997.
Medalists Gold Silver Bronze
Records Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics Championships World record Belayneh Densamo 2:06:50 April 17, 1988 Rotterdam, Netherlands Championships record Robert de Castella 2:10:03 August 14, 1983 Helsinki, Finland Season best Domingos Castro 2:07:51 April 20, 1997 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Final ranking RankAthleteCountryTimeNote Abel Antón 2:13:16 Martín Fiz 2:13:21 Steve Moneghetti 2:14:16 4Danilo Goffi 2:14:47 5Luíz Antônio dos Santos 2:15:31 6Fabián Roncero 2:16:53 7Giacomo Leone 2:17:16 8Azzedine Sakhri 2:17:44 9Eduard Tukhbatullin 2:17:44 10António Rodrigues 2:17:54 11Philippe Rémond 2:18:19 12Xolile Yawa 2:18:37 13Dave Scudamore 2:18:41 14Willy Kalombo Mwenze 2:19:18 15José Manuel García 2:19:31 16Bruce Deacon 2:20:29 17Dave Buzza 2:20:34 18José Luis Molina 2:20:55 19Nikolaos Polias 2:21:03 20Mostafa El Damaoui 2:21:05 21Ahmed Hussein 2:21:08 22Akira Manai 2:21:23 23Vanderlei de Lima 2:21:48 24Daher Gadid Omar 2:21:57 25Shinji Kawashima 2:22:33 26Baek Seung-Do 2:22:40 27Sean Quilty 2:23:10 28João Lopes 2:23:15 29Jean Pierre Monciaux 2:23:19 30Francesco Ingargiola 2:23:30 31Stéphane Franke 2:23:53 32Karel David 2:24:42 33Adam Motlagale 2:24:49 34Katsuhiko Hanada 2:25:00 35Max Wenisch 2:25:12 36Osmiro Silva 2:25:37 37António Zeferino 2:25:56 38Dominique Chauvelier 2:26:06 39Abner Chipu 2:26:06 40Takahiro Hattori 2:26:33 41Valdenor dos Santos 2:27:12 42Girma Daba 2:27:30 43Sérgio Jimenez 2:27:30 44Pascal Zilliox 2:27:50 45Knut Hegvold 2:27:54 46Klaus Peter Hansen 2:28:29 47Terje Naess 2:29:04 48Pavel Loskutov 2:29:10 49Jean-Paul Gahimbaré 2:30:56 50Luis Martínez 2:31:11 51Hsu Gi-sheng 2:31:3152Woliye Jara 2:31:4453Raymond Boyd 2:32:0754Sid-Ali Sakhri 2:34:2655Molatlhegi Segobaetso 2:34:4756Dan Held 2:35:1957Éder Fialho 2:36:1458Koji Shimizu 2:37:1159Asaf Bimro 2:37:4560Mpakeletsa Sephali 2:38:3761Isaac Simelane 2:40:3262Marco Ochoa 2:44:2163Jon Warren 2:45:5664Marcos Juarez 2:55:1465Emilio Velasquez 2:56:0766Sergey Zabavski 3:02:4967Alain Nkulu 3:08:3268Zebedayo Bayo 3:11:1969Roderic De Highden 3:13:4470Errol Peters 3:14:30 — Sophuong Vanh — Patrick Ntambwe Ngoie — Tumo Turbo — Dale Rixon — George Karagiannis — Ioannis Perifanos — Marcello Curioni — Cosmas Ndeti — Mbarak Hussein — Trpe Martinovski — Vitor Vasco — Abel Mokibe — Francis Naali — Petro Meta — Rubén Maza — Luketz Swartbooi — Paulo Catarino — Chang Ki-Shik — Salah Qoqaiche — Alberto Juzdado — António Pinto — Andrés Espinosa — Faustino Reynoso — Lawrence Peu — Abdelkader El Mouaziz — Moges Taye — Isidro Rico — Don Janicki — Diego García — Bruno Leger — Joseph Tjitunga — Benjamín Paredes — Vincenzo Modica — Abdillahi Bouh — William Koech — Panagiotis Charamis — Yayeh Aden — Spyros Andriopoulos — Sonam Tobgay — Marco Condori — Darren Wilson
See also Men's Olympic Marathon (1996) 1997 World Marathon Cup
References Results Results - World Athletics