The 1997 IAAF Grand Prix was the thirteenth edition of the annual global series of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series consisted of three levels: IAAF Grand Prix, IAAF Grand Prix II, and finally IAAF Permit Meetings. There were seventeen Grand Prix meetings and ten Grand Prix II meetings, making a combined total of 27 meetings for the series from 20 February to 20 September. An additional 12 IAAF Outdoor Permit Meetings were attached to the circuit.Outdoor Permit Meetings 1997. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-01.

Performances on designated events on the circuit earned athletes points which qualified them for entry to the 1997 IAAF Grand Prix Final, held on 13 September in Fukuoka, Japan.IAAF Grand Prix Final. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-08-27. Danish-Kenyan runner Wilson Kipketer was the winner of the overall men's title with 114 points, while Germany's Astrid Kumbernuss topped the women's rankings with 99 points in the discus throw.IAAF Grand Prix. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-01.

Meetings

Key:

#DateMeeting nameCityCountryLevel 1 Melbourne Track Classic Melbourne Australia IAAF Grand Prix II 2 All Africa Invitational Pretoria South Africa IAAF Grand Prix II — Engen Grand Prix Final Cape Town South Africa IAAF Permit Meeting — Memorial Marie Perrine Fort-de-France Martinique IAAF Permit Meeting 3 Grand Prix Brasil de Atletismo Rio de Janeiro Brazil IAAF Grand Prix I 4 Japan Grand Prix Osaka Japan IAAF Grand Prix I — Harry Jerome Track Classic Vancouver Canada IAAF Permit Meeting 5 Prefontaine Classic Eugene United States IAAF Grand Prix I 6 Gran Premio Diputacion Seville Spain IAAF Grand Prix II 7 Adriaan Paulen Memorial Hengelo Netherlands IAAF Grand Prix II 8 St Denis – l'Humanité Saint-Denis France IAAF Grand Prix II 9 Golden Gala Rome Italy IAAF Grand Prix I 10 Brothers Znamensky Memorial Moscow Russia IAAF Grand Prix I 11 Slovnaft Meeting Bratislava Slovakia IAAF Grand Prix II — Live Nuremberg Nuremberg Germany IAAF Permit Meeting 12 World Games Helsinki Helsinki Finland IAAF Grand Prix II — Meeting di Atletica Leggera Torino Turin Italy IAAF Permit Meeting 13 Meeting Gaz de France Paris France IAAF Grand Prix I — Meeting Lille-Métropole Lille France IAAF Permit Meeting 14 British Grand Prix Sheffield United Kingdom IAAF Grand Prix I 15 Athletissima Lausanne Switzerland IAAF Grand Prix I 16 Bislett Games Oslo Norway IAAF Grand Prix I 17 DN Galan Stockholm Sweden IAAF Grand Prix I 18 Zipfer Gugl Grand Prix Linz Austria IAAF Grand Prix II 19 Nikaia Nice France IAAF Grand Prix I — Meeting Internazionale del Sestriere Sestriere Italy IAAF Permit Meeting — International Meeting Budapest Budapest Hungary IAAF Permit Meeting 20 Weltklasse Zürich Zürich Switzerland IAAF Grand Prix I 21 Herculis Monte Carlo Monaco IAAF Grand Prix I 22 Memorial Van Damme Brussels Belgium IAAF Grand Prix I 23 Weltklasse in Köln Cologne Germany IAAF Grand Prix I 24 ISTAF Berlin Berlin Germany IAAF Grand Prix I 25 Rieti Meeting Rieti Italy IAAF Grand Prix II — Meeting de Atletismo Madrid Madrid Spain IAAF Permit Meeting — Toto International Super Meeting Tokyo Japan IAAF Permit Meeting 26 BUPA Games Grand Prix II Gateshead United Kingdom IAAF Grand Prix II F 1997 IAAF Grand Prix Final Fukuoka Japan IAAF Grand Prix Final — ITC International Meeting New Delhi India IAAF Permit Meeting — Bob Hasan Invitational Jakarta Indonesia IAAF Permit Meeting

Points standings Overall men RankAthleteNationMeetsPoints 1 Wilson Kipketer 114.0 2 Lars Riedel 8 99.0 3 Mark Crear 8 95.0 4 Hicham El Guerrouj 8 93.0 5 Moses Kiptanui 8 88.0 6 Daniel Komen 8 86.0 7 Jan Železný 8 85.0 8 James Beckford 8 85.0 9 Boris Henry 8 82.0 10 Maksim Tarasov 8 79.0 11 Bernard Barmasai 8 76.0 12 Tony Jarrett 8 69.0 13 Frankie Fredericks 5 68.0 13 Allen Johnson 8 68.0 15 Tom Nyariki 8 66.0 16 William Tanui 8 65.0 16 Virgilijus Alekna 7 65.0 18 Sergey Makarov 8 64.0 19 Adam Setliff 7 63.0 20 Steve Backley 8 62.0 20 Vénuste Niyongabo 7 62.0 22 Igor Kováč 8 61.0 22 Iván Pedroso 4 61.0 24 Jürgen Schult 8 60.0 24 Patrick Ndururi 7 60.0 24 Pat Manson 8 60.0 24 Khalid Boulami 5 60.0 28 Jon Drummond 5 59.0 29 Rich Kenah 8 58.0 30 Sergei Bubka 4 57.5 31 Haile Gebrselassie 5 57.0 31 Eliud Barngetuny 8 57.0 33 Tom Pukstys 8 56.0 34 Laban Rotich 6 55.0 34 Patrik Bodén 7 55.0 36 Florian Schwarthoff 8 54.5 37 Kirill Sosunov 6 54.0 38 Paul Koech 6 52.0 39 Ato Boldon 5 50.0 39 Wilson Boit Kipketer 6 50.0 41 Obadele Thompson 5 49.0 41 Jack Pierce 8 49.0 43 Mick Hill 7 48.0 43 Marko Koers 8 48.0 45 Tim Lobinger 8 47.8 46 Scott Huffman 8 47.3 47 Geir Moen 7 47.0 48 John Godina 5 46.0 48 Paul Bitok 7 46.0 48 Kevin Little 8 46.0 51 Andreas Seelig 8 45.0 51 Terry Reese 8 45.0 51 Patrick Sang 8 45.0 54 Dmitri Markov 8 44.5 54 Lawrence Johnson 7 44.5 56 Patrick Stevens 8 44.0 56 Erick Walder 4 44.0 58 David Kiptoo 7 43.0 58 Hezekiél Sepeng 8 43.0 60 Robert Kiplagat Andersen 5 41.0 61 Rohsaan Griffin 7 40.0 62 Ismaïl Sghyr 6 39.0 62 Vincent Malakwen 7 39.0 64 John Kibowen 6 38.0 65 Anier García 6 37.0 65 Colin Jackson 8 37.0 67 Sean Robbins 7 36.0 67 Mohammed Mourhit 6 36.0 69 Joseph Keter 4 35.0 69 Roland McGhee 4 35.0 71 Riaan Botha 6 34.8 72 Patrick Konchellah 6 34.0 73 Juha Laukkanen 6 32.0 74 Steve Holman 8 31.0 74 Roger Kingdom 7 31.0 74 Vebjørn Rodal 6 31.0 77 Anthony Whiteman 4 28.0 78 Okkert Brits 5 27.3 79 Raymond Hecht 6 27.0 79 Aki Parviainen 6 27.0 81 Assefa Mezgebu 4 26.0 82 Cheikh Touré 3 25.0 82 Salah Hissou 4 25.0 82 Vasiliy Kaptyukh 4 25.0 85 Jean Galfione 4 24.5 86 Bob Kennedy 5 24.0 86 Elijah Maru 5 24.0 88 Michael Möllenbeck 6 23.0 88 Paul Tergat 3 23.0 88 Mark Everett 3 23.0 91 Igor Potapovich 6 22.0 91 Aleksandr Glavatskiy 4 22.0 93 Courtney Hawkins 4 21.0 93 Dieter Baumann 5 21.0 93 Frederick Onyancha 6 21.0 96 John Mayock 5 20.0 97 Troy Douglas 4 18.0 97 Fermín Cacho 4 18.0 97 Michael Johnson 2 18.0 97 Viktor Chistiakov 6 18.0

Overall women RankAthleteNationMeetsPoints 1 Astrid Kumbernuss 8 99.0 2 Deon Hemmings 8 93.0 3 Kim Batten 8 91.0 4 Inha Babakova 8 90.0 5 Šárka Kašpárková 8 87.0 6 Ashia Hansen 8 79.0 7 Ana Fidelia Quirot 7 79.0 8 Maria Mutola 6 73.0 9 Yelena Afanasyeva 8 72.0 10 Tatyana Tereshchuk 8 70.0 11 Lydia Cheromei 6 65.0 12 Hanne Haugland 8 63.5 13 Marion Jones 4 63.0 14 Monica Iagăr 8 62.5 15 Amy Acuff 8 61.0 16 Carla Sacramento 7 60.0 17 Yuliya Lyakhova 8 57.5 18 Rodica Mateescu 5 57.0 19 Sally Barsosio 5 56.0 19 Olena Hovorova 8 56.0 21 Debbie-Ann Parris 8 53.0 21 Vita Pavlysh 4 53.0 21 Stephanie Storp 8 53.0 24 Melinda Gainsford-Taylor 5 52.0 24 Suzy Favor Hamilton 5 52.0 26 Marina Trandenkova 6 50.0 26 Jearl Miles Clark 6 50.0 26 Inger Miller 5 50.0 29 Nezha Bidouane 7 49.0 29 Ludmila Formanová 8 49.0 31 Juliet Campbell 8 48.0 32 Irina Korzhanenko 5 47.0 32 Merlene Ottey 4 47.0 34 Alina Astafei 7 46.5 35 Olga Kaliturina 8 45.5 36 Juliet Cuthbert 7 45.0 36 Paula Radcliffe 5 45.0 36 Gabriela Szabo 5 45.0 39 Letitia Vriesde 6 44.0 40 Connie Price-Smith 5 43.0 41 Tonja Buford-Bailey 6 42.0 42 Huang Zhihong 4 41.0 43 Jackline Maranga 5 39.0 44 Valentina Fedyushina 7 38.0 44 Roberta Brunet 6 38.0 46 Tatyana Motkova 7 37.5 47 Guðrún Arnardóttir 7 36.0 47 Joetta Clark 7 36.0 49 Galina Chistyakova 7 35.0 49 Anna Knoroz 8 35.0 51 Berhane Adere 4 34.0 52 Viktoriya Fyodorova 7 32.5 53 Judy Oakes 5 32.0 54 Julie Henner 4 30.0 54 Irina Samorokova-Biryukova 5 30.0 56 Zahra Ouaziz 5 29.0 57 Lyudmila Borisova 4 28.0 58 Cynthea Rhodes 7 27.0 58 Gete Wami 5 27.0 58 Merima Denboba 6 27.0 61 Theresia Kiesl 6 26.0 61 Susan Smith 8 26.0 61 Natalya Dukhnova 6 26.0 64 Fernanda Ribeiro 3 25.0 65 Merlene Frazer 4 24.0 66 Sonia O'Sullivan 4 23.0 67 Yelena Donkina 3 22.0 67 Rebecca Russell-Buchanan 6 22.0 67 Lidia Chojecka 3 22.0 70 Anita Weyermann 4 21.0 71 Cathy Freeman 4 20.0 71 Sally Gunnell 4 20.0 71 Svetlana Krivelyova 6 20.0 71 Tereza Marinova 4 20.0 75 Kelly Holmes 2 18.0 76 Leah Pells 3 17.0 77 Toni Hodgkinson 4 16.0 78 Valeyta Althouse 3 15.0 78 Hassiba Boulmerka 4 15.0 78 Inessa Kravets 3 15.0 78 Svetlana Masterkova 2 15.0 82 Stefka Kostadinova 2 14.5 83 Zhanna Pintusevich 3 14.0 83 Regina Jacobs 3 14.0 83 Leah Malot 3 14.0 83 Trevaia Williams 3 14.0 83 Nadine Kleinert 4 14.0 83 Michelle DiMuro 4 14.0 83 Andrea Blackett 4 14.0 90 Amy Wickus 4 13.5 91 Amy Rudolph 2 13.0 91 Irina Khudoroshkina 5 13.0 91 Chryste Gaines 3 13.0 94 Marina Bastos 3 12.0 94 Linda Kisabaka 4 12.0 94 Silvia Rieger 3 12.0 94 Sui Xinmei 3 12.0 94 Luciana Mendes 2 12.0 99 Yekaterina Podkopayeva 3 11.0 99 Kathy Butler 3 11.0 99 Donalda Duprey 3 11.0 99 Inez Turner 2 11.0 99 Harumi Hiroyama 2 11.0 99 Masako Chiba 1 11.0

References

Points standings 1997 Grand Prix Standings Overall - Men. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-01. 1997 Grand Prix Standings Overall - Women. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-01.