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Events at the 1997 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the——official results of the Men's 20 km Walk event at the 1997 World Championships held on Saturday 2 August 1997 in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 49 participating athletes.

Medalists※

Gold	Daniel García Mexico (MEX)
Silver	Mikhail Shchennikov Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy Belarus (BLR)

Abbreviations※

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records※

Standing records prior——to the 1997 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Narinder Singh	1:24:50	19 April 1997	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
World Record	Bu Lingtang (CHN)	1:18.04	April 7, 1994	Beijing, PR China
Event Record	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:19.37	August 24, 1991	Tokyo, Japan

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Final ranking※

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Daniel García (MEX)	1:21:43
	Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS)	1:21:53
	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy (BLR)	1:22:01
4	Yu Guohui (CHN)	1:22:57
5	Li Zewen (CHN)	1:23:03
6	Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR)	1:23:10
7	Michele Didoni (ITA)	1:23:14
8	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:23:33
9	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	1:23:49
10	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:23:53
11	Robert Ihly (GER)	1:24:12
12	Alessandro Gandellini (ITA)	1:24:24
13	Igor Kollár (SVK)	1:24:37
14	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:24:46
15	Jacek Muller (POL)	1:24:47
16	Joel Sánchez (MEX)	1:24:48
17	Denis Langlois (FRA)	1:25:27
18	Omar Zepeda (MEX)	1:25:38
19	Nicholas A'Hern (AUS)	1:25:46
20	Artur Meliashkevich (BLR)	1:25:47
21	Sérgio Galdino (BRA)	1:25:50
22	Roberto Oscal (GUA)	1:26:20
23	Marco Giungi (ITA)	1:26:23
24	Modris Liepins (LAT)	1:26:24
25	Jean-Olivier Brosseau (FRA)	1:26:39
26	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:26:50
27	Gyula Dudás (HUN)	1:27:17
28	José Urbano (POR)	1:27:25
29	Milos Holusa (CZE)	1:27:27
30	Fedosei Ciumacenco (MDA)	1:28:51
31	Luis Fernando García (GUA)	1:28:51
32	Dion Russell (AUS)	1:30:49
33	Róbert Valíček (SVK)	1:31:28
34	Curt Clausen (USA)	1:32:05
35	Valeriy Borisov (KAZ)	1:32:32
36	Dimitrios Orfanopoulos (GRE)	1:32:37
37	Fernando Vázquez (ESP)	1:32:44
38	Chris Britz (RSA)	1:34:02
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Aigars Fadejevs (LAT)	DNF
—	Scott Nelson (NZL)	DNF
—	Claus Jørgensen (DEN)	DNF
—	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	DNF
—	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Jan Staaf (SWE)	DSQ
—	Andreas Erm (GER)	DSQ
—	Julio René Martínez (GUA)	DSQ
—	Ilya Markov (RUS)	DSQ
—	Rami Ali Deeb (PLE)	DSQ
—	Narinder Singh Al Harbans Singh (MAS)	DSQ

See also※

• 1994 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1996 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Atlanta)
• 1997 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1998 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Budapest)

References※

• Results
• Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite