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1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships

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6th IAAF World Indoor Championships
Official competition logo
Dates7 March–9 March
Host cityParis, France
VenuePalais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Events28
Participation712 athletes from
118 nations

The 6th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France from March 7 to March 9, 1997. It was the first athletic championships to introduce women's pole vault. There were a total number of 712 participating athletes from 118 countries.

Results

Men

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres
details 		 Haralabos Papadias (GRE) 6.50
(NR) 		 Michael Green (JAM) 6.51  Davidson Ezinwa (NGR) 6.52
(PB)
200 metres
details 		 Kevin Little (USA) 20.40
(CR) 		 Iván García (CUB) 20.46
(PB) 		 Francis Obikwelu (NGR) 21.10
400 metres
details 		 Sunday Bada (NGR) 45.51
(AR) 		 Jamie Baulch (GBR) 45.62  Shunji Karube (JPN) 45.76
(AR)
800 metres
details 		 Wilson Kipketer (DEN) 1:42.67
(WR) 		 Mahjoub Haida (MAR) 1:45.76
(NR) 		 Rich Kenah (USA) 1:46.16
(PB)
1500 metres
details 		 Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 3:35.31
(CR) 		 Rüdiger Stenzel (GER) 3:37.24  William Tanui (KEN) 3:37.48
3000 metres
details 		 Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) 7:34.71
(CR) 		 Paul Bitok (KEN) 7:38.84  Ismaïl Sghyr (MAR) 7:40.01
60 metres hurdles
details 		 Anier García (CUB) 7.48
(NR) 		 Colin Jackson (GBR) 7.49  Tony Dees (USA) 7.50
4 × 400 metres relay
details 		 United States
Jason Rouser
Mark Everett
Sean Maye
Deon Minor		 3:04.93  Jamaica
Linval Laird
Michael McDonald
Dinsdale Morgan
Gregory Haughton		 3:08.11  France
Pierre-Marie Hilaire
Rodrigue Nordin
Loïc Lerouge
Fred Mango		 3:09.68
High jump
details 		 Charles Austin (USA) 2.35  Lambros Papakostas (GRE) 2.32  Dragutin Topic (FR Yugoslavia) 2.32
Pole vault
details 		 Igor Potapovich (KAZ) 5.90
(AR) 		 Lawrence Johnson (USA) 5.85  Maksim Tarasov (RUS) 5.80
Long jump
details 		 Iván Pedroso (CUB) 8.51
(CR) 		 Kirill Sosunov (RUS) 8.41
(PB) 		 Joe Greene (USA) 8.41
(PB)
Triple jump
details 		 Yoel García (CUB) 17.30  Aliecer Urrutia (CUB) 17.27  Aleksandr Aseledchenko (RUS) 17.22
(PB)
Shot put
details 		 Yuriy Bilonog (UKR) 21.02  Aleksandr Bagach (UKR) 20.94  John Godina (USA) 20.87
Heptathlon
details 		 Robert Změlík (CZE) 6228  Erki Nool (EST) 6213
(PB) 		 Jón Magnússon (ISL) 6145
(NR)

Women

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres
details 		 Gail Devers (USA) 7.06  Chandra Sturrup (BAH) 7.15  Frederique Bangue (FRA) 7.17
200 metres
details 		 Ekaterini Koffa (GRE) 22.76
(NR) 		 Juliet Cuthbert (JAM) 22.77  Svetlana Goncharenko (RUS) 22.85
400 metres
details 		 Jearl Miles Clark (USA) 50.96
(WL) 		 Sandie Richards (JAM) 51.17
(PB) 		 Helena Fuchsová (CZE) 52.04
(PB)
800 metres
details 		 Maria Mutola (MOZ) 1:58.96  Natalya Dukhnova (BLR) 1:59.31
(NR) 		 Joetta Clark (USA) 1:59.82
(PB)
1500 metres
details 		 Yekaterina Podkopayeva (RUS) 4:05.19
(PB) 		 Patricia Djaté-Taillard (FRA) 4:06.16
(NR) 		 Lidia Chojecka (POL) 4:06.25
(NR)
3000 metres
details 		 Gabriela Szabo (ROU) 8:45.75  Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL) 8:46.19
(NR) 		 Fernanda Ribeiro (POR) 8:49.79
60 metres hurdles
details 		 Michelle Freeman (JAM) 7.82
(CR) 		 Gillian Russell (JAM) 7.84
(PB) 		 Cheryl Dickey (USA) 7.84
(PB)
4 × 400 metres relay
details 		 Russia
Tatyana Chebykina
Svetlana Goncharenko
Olga Kotlyarova
Tatyana Alekseyeva		 3:26.84
(WR) 		 United States
Shanelle Porter
Natasha Kaiser-Brown
Anita Howard
Jearl Miles Clark		 3:27.66
(AR) 		 Germany
Anja Rucker
Anke Feller
Heike Meissner
Grit Breuer		 3:28.39
High jump
details 		 Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) 2.02  Inga Babakova (UKR) 2.00
(NR) 		 Hanne Haugland (NOR) 2.00
(NR)
Pole vault
details 		 Stacy Dragila (USA) 4.40
(WR) 		 Emma George (AUS) 4.35  Cai Weiyan (CHN) 4.35
(AR)
Long jump
details 		 Fiona May (ITA) 6.86
(NR) 		 Chioma Ajunwa (NGR) 6.80  Agata Karczmarek (POL) 6.71
(PB)
Triple jump
details 		 Inna Lasovskaya (RUS) 15.01
(WL) 		 Ashia Hansen (GBR) 14.70
(NR) 		 Šárka Kašpárková (CZE) 14.66
(NR)
Shot put
details 		 Vita Pavlysh (UKR) 20.00  Astrid Kumbernuss (GER) 19.92  Irina Korzhanenko (RUS) 19.49
(PB)
Pentathlon
details 		 Sabine Braun (GER) 4780  Mona Steigauf (GER) 4681
(PB) 		 Kym Carter (USA) 4627
  • Mary Slaney of USA originally came second in the 1500 metre and was awarded the silver medal, but was later disqualified for doping.[1]

Medal table

1  United States 6 2 7 15
2  Cuba 3 2 0 5
3  Russia 3 1 4 8
4  Ukraine 2 2 0 4
5  Greece (GRE) 2 1 0 3
6  Jamaica 1 5 0 6
7  Germany 1 3 1 5
8  Nigeria 1 1 2 4
9  Morocco 1 1 1 3
10  Czech Republic 1 0 2 3
11  Bulgaria 1 0 0 1
 Denmark 1 0 0 1
 Ethiopia 1 0 0 1
 Italy 1 0 0 1
 Mozambique 1 0 0 1
 Kazakhstan 1 0 0 1
 Romania 1 0 0 1
18  Great Britain 0 3 0 3
19  France 0 1 2 3
20  Kenya 0 1 1 2
21  Australia 0 1 0 1
 Bahamas 0 1 0 1
 Belarus 0 1 0 1
 Estonia 0 1 0 1
 Ireland 0 1 0 1
26  Poland 0 0 2 2
27  Iceland 0 0 1 1
 Japan 0 0 1 1
 Norway 0 0 1 1
 Portugal 0 0 1 1
 China 0 0 1 1
 FR Yugoslavia 0 0 1 1

Participating nations

4

See also

References

  1. ^ Mark Butler (ed.), "DOPING VIOLATIONS AT IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS", IAAF Statistics Book – World Indoor Championships SOPOT 2014 (PDF), IAAF, pp. 47–48, retrieved 27 September 2015


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