1997 World Athletics Championships / men's marathon

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	108 athletes from 43 countries
venue	Athens
place	Circuit through Athens
Competition phase	August 10
Medalist
gold	Abel Antón ( ESP )
silver	Martín Fiz ( ESP )
bronze	Steve Moneghetti ( AUS )
Marathon Cup (team ranking) without counting in the medal table
Rank 1	Spain
Rank 2	Italy
Rank 3	Brazil

View from the Acropolis on Athens in 2008

The men's marathon at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 10, 1997 in the streets of the Greek capital, Athens .

The Spanish marathon runners achieved a double victory in this competition. World champion was the reigning European champion over 10,000 meters and European Championship third over 5000 meters from 1994 Abel Antón . The defending champion and reigning European champion Martín Fiz came in second. Bronze went to the Australian Steve Moneghetti .

For the first time at world championships there was a team classification, the so-called Marathon Cup. This explains the extremely high number of participants this year. Five runners per nation were allowed, the times of the best three were added up for the evaluation. However, this competition was not part of the official medal table. The team from Spain won ahead of Italy and Brazil.

Existing best times / records

World record	2:06:50 h	Belayneh Dinsamo	Rotterdam Marathon , Netherlands	April 17, 1988
World championship record	2:10:03 h	Robert de Castella	World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 14, 1983

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Even at these world championships, nobody came close to the world championship record that had existed since the first world championship in 1983 .

Result

After his victory over 10,000 meters and third place over 5000 meters at the European Championships in 1994 , Abel Antón (photo: 2008) has now become world champion on the marathon distance

Martín Fiz, defending champion and reigning European champion, won silver

Bronze medalist Steve Moneghetti

Fabián Roncero came in sixth

Vanderlei de Lima was 23rd - he won the 2004 Olympic bronze after a spectator attacked him and pulled him off the track

Pavel Loskutov - 48th place

August 10, 1997, 8:05 a.m.

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Abel Antón	Spain	2:13:16
	Martín Fiz	Spain	2:13:21
	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	2:14:16
04th	Danilo Goffi	Italy	2:14:47
05	Luíz Antônio dos Santos	Brazil	2:15:31
06th	Fabián Roncero	Spain	2:16:53
07th	Giacomo Leone	Italy	2:17:16
08th	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	2:17:44
09	Eduard Tuchbatullin	Russia	2:17:44
10	Antonio Rodrigues	Portugal	2:17:54
11	Philippe Rémond	France	2:18:19
12	Xolile Yawa	South Africa	2:18:37
13	Dave Scudamore	United States	2:18:41
14th	Willy Kalombo Mwenze	Democratic Republic of Congo	2:19:18
15th	José Manuel García	Spain	2:19:31
16	Bruce Deacon	Canada	2:20:29
17th	Dave Buzza	Great Britain	2:20:34
18th	José Luis Molina	Costa Rica	2:20:55
19th	Nikolaos Pollias	Greece	2:21:03
20th	Mostafa El Damaoui	Morocco	2:21:05
21st	Ahmed Hussein	Ethiopia	2:21:08
22nd	Akira Manai	Japan	2:21:23
23	Vanderlei de Lima	Brazil	2:21:48
24	Hence Gadid Omar	Djibouti	2:21:57
25th	Shinji Kawashima	Japan	2:22:33
26th	Baek Seung-do	South Korea	2:22:40
27	Sean Quilty	Australia	2:23:10
28	João Lopes	Portugal	2:23:15
29	Jean Pierre Monciaux	France	2:23:19
30th	Francesco Ingargiola	Italy	2:23:30
31	Stéphane Franke	Germany	2:23:53
32	Karel David	Czech Republic	2:24:42
33	Adam Motlagale	South Africa	2:24:49
34	Katsuhiko Hanada	Japan	2:25:00
35	Max Wenisch	Austria	2:25:12
36	Osmiro Silva	Brazil	2:25:37
37	Antonio Zeferino	Cape Verde	2:25:56
38	Dominique Chauvelier	France	2:26:06
39	Abner Chipu	South Africa	2:26:06
40	Takahiro Hattori	Japan	2:26:33
41	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil	2:27:12
42	Girma Daba	Ethiopia	2:27:30
43	Sérgio Jimenez	Mexico	2:27:30
44	Pascal Zilliox	France	2:27:50
45	Knut Hegvold	Norway	2:27:54
46	Klaus Peter Hansen	Denmark	2:28:29
47	Terje Naess	Norway	2:29:04
48	Pavel Loskutov	Estonia	2:29:10
49	Jean-Paul Gahimbaré	Burundi	2:30:56
50	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	2:31:11
51	Hsu Gi-Sheng	Chinese Taipei	2:31:31
52	Woliye Jara	Ethiopia	2:31:44
53	Raymond Boyd	Australia	2:32:07
54	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	2:34:26
55	Molatlhegi Segobaetso	Botswana	2:23:47
56	Dan hero	United States	2:35:19
57	Éder Fialho	Brazil	2:36:14
58	Kōji Shimizu	Japan	2:37:11
59	Asaf Bimro	Israel	2:37:45
60	Mpakeletsa Sephali	Lesotho	2:38:37
61	Isaac Simelane	Swaziland	2:40:32
62	Marco Ochoa	United States	2:44:21
63	Jon Warren	United States	2:45:56
64	Marcos Juarez	Guatemala	2:55:14
65	Emilio Velasquez	Guatemala	2:56:07
66	Sergey Zabavski	Tajikistan	3:02:49
67	Alain Nkulu	Democratic Republic of Congo	3:08:32
68	Zebedayo Bayo	Tanzania	3:11:19
69	Roderic De Highden	Australia	3:13:44
70	Errol Peters	Guyana	3:14:30
DNF	Sophuong Vanh	Cambodia
	Patrick Ntambwe Ngoie	Democratic Republic of Congo
	Tumo Turbo	Ethiopia
	Dale Rixon	Great Britain
	George Karagiannis	Greece
	Ioannis Perifanos	Greece
	Marcello Curioni	Italy
	Cosmas Ndeti	Kenya
	Mbarak Hussein	Kenya
	Trpe Martinovski	Macedonia
	Vitor Vasco	Portugal
	Abel Mokibe	South Africa
	Francis Naali	Tanzania
	Petro Meta	Tanzania
	Rubén Maza	Venezuela
	Luketz Swartbooi	Namibia
	Paulo Catarino	Portugal
	Chang Ki-shik	South Korea
	Salah Qoqaiche	Morocco
	Alberto Juzdado	Spain
	Antonio Pinto	Portugal
	Andrés Espinosa	Mexico
	Faustino Reynoso	Mexico
	Lawrence Peu	South Africa
	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	Morocco
	Moges Taye	Ethiopia
	Isidro Rico	Mexico
	Don Janicki	United States
	Diego García	Spain
	Bruno Leger	France
	Joseph Tjitunga	Namibia
	Benjamin Paredes	Mexico
	Vincenzo Modica	Italy
	Abdillahi Bouh	Djibouti
	William Koech	Kenya
	Panagiotis Charamis	Greece
	Yayeh Aden	Djibouti
	Spyros Andriopoulos	Greece
DNS	Sonam Tobgay	Bhutan
	Marco Condori	Bolivia
	Darren Wilson	Australia

Marathon cup

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Spain	Abel Antón Martín Fiz Fabián Roncero	6:43:30
2	Italy	Danilo Goffi Giacomo Leone Francesco Ingargiola	6:55:33
3	Brazil	Luíz Antônio dos Santos Vanderlei de Lima Osmiro Silva	7:02:56
4th	France	Philippe Rémond Jean Pierre Monciaux Dominique Chauvelier	7:07:44
5	Japan	Akira Manai Shinji Kawashima Katsuhiko Hanada	7:08:56
6th	South Africa	Xolile Yawa Adam Motlagale Abner Chipu	7:09:32
7th	Australia	Steve Moneghetti Sean Quilty Raymond Boyd	7:09:33
8th	Ethiopia	Ahmed Hussein Girma Daba Woliye Jara	7:20:22
9	United States	Dave Scudamore Dan hero Marco Ochoa	7:38:21
10	Guatemala	Luis Martínez Marcos Juarez Emilio Velasquez	8:22:32

Video

• 1997 Athens World Championships Marathon on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020

Web links

• Homepage for the 1997 World Cup on the IAAF website , accessed on June 17, 2020
• Men Marathon Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 17, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Marathon, Athens 1997, p. 136 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 17, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Marathon men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 16, 2020