1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

These are the official results of the Men's 50 km Walk event at the 1997 World Championships held on Thursday 7 August 1997 in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 42 participating athletes.

Medalists

Gold	Robert Korzeniowski Poland (POL)
Silver	Jesús Ángel García Spain (ESP)
Bronze	Miguel Rodríguez Mexico (MEX)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
WL	world leading
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	3:44:46
	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	3:44:59
	Miguel Rodríguez (MEX)	3:48:30
4	Oleg Ishutkin (RUS)	3:50:04
5	Tomasz Lipiec (POL)	3:50:14
6	Fumio Imamura (JPN)	3:50:27
7	Sylvain Caudron (FRA)	3:51:17
8	Arturo Di Mezza (ITA)	3:51:33
9	Valentin Kononen (FIN)	3:53:40
10	Aleksey Voyevodin (RUS)	3:54:28
11	René Piller (FRA)	3:55:06
12	Sergey Korepanov (KAZ)	3:56:19
13	Craig Barrett (NZL)	3:56:30
14	Giovanni Perricelli (ITA)	3:57:38
15	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	3:58:18
16	Axel Noack (GER)	3:59:29
17	Héctor Moreno (COL)	3:59:33
18	Štefan Malík (SVK)	3:59:52
19	Ruben Arikado (MEX)	4:04:17
20	Zoltán Czukor (HUN)	4:05:09
21	Santiago Perez (ESP)	4:05:25
22	Dmitriy Savaytan (BLR)	4:05:35
23	Julio César Urías (GUA)	4:07:18
24	Peter Zanner (GER)	4:07:38
25	Christophe Cousin (FRA)	4:08:26
26	Milos Holusa (CZE)	4:09:08
27	José Magalhaes (POR)	4:10:03
28	Orazio Romanzi (ITA)	4:11:00
29	Christos Karagiorgos (GRE)	4:30:05
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Zhao Yongsheng (CHN)	DNF
—	Jaime Barroso (ESP)	DNF
—	Tim Berrett (CAN)	DNF
—	Bo Gustafsson (SWE)	DNF
—	Viktor Ginko (BLR)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Peter Tichý (SVK)	DSQ
—	Roman Mrázek (SVK)	DSQ
—	Dirk Nicque (BEL)	DSQ
—	Jacek Muller (POL)	DSQ
—	Germán Sánchez (MEX)	DSQ
—	Thomas Wallstab (GER)	DSQ
—	Andrew Hermann (USA)	DSQ
—	Aleksandar Raković (YUG)	DSQ

See also

• 1994 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1996 Men's Olympic 50km Walk (Atlanta)
• 1998 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Budapest)

References

• Results