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

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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.

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Medalists

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

Abbreviations

DNSdid not start
NMno mark
WRworld record
WLworld leading
ARarea record
NRnational record
PBpersonal best
SBseason best

Intermediates

Final ranking

RankAthleteTimeNote
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Poland.svg  Robert Korzeniowski  (POL)3:44:46
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Spain.svg  Jesús Ángel García  (ESP)3:44:59
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Mexico.svg  Miguel Rodríguez  (MEX)3:48:30
4Flag of Russia.svg  Oleg Ishutkin  (RUS)3:50:04
5Flag of Poland.svg  Tomasz Lipiec  (POL)3:50:14
6Flag of Japan.svg  Fumio Imamura  (JPN)3:50:27
7Flag of France.svg  Sylvain Caudron  (FRA)3:51:17
8Flag of Italy.svg  Arturo Di Mezza  (ITA)3:51:33
9Flag of Finland.svg  Valentin Kononen  (FIN)3:53:40
10Flag of Russia.svg  Aleksey Voyevodin  (RUS)3:54:28
11Flag of France.svg  René Piller  (FRA)3:55:06
12Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Sergey Korepanov  (KAZ)3:56:19
13Flag of New Zealand.svg  Craig Barrett  (NZL)3:56:30
14Flag of Italy.svg  Giovanni Perricelli  (ITA)3:57:38
15Flag of Russia.svg  Nikolay Matyukhin  (RUS)3:58:18
16Flag of Germany.svg  Axel Noack  (GER)3:59:29
17Flag of Colombia.svg  Héctor Moreno  (COL)3:59:33
18Flag of Slovakia.svg  Štefan Malík  (SVK)3:59:52
19Flag of Mexico.svg  Ruben Arikado  (MEX)4:04:17
20Flag of Hungary.svg  Zoltán Czukor  (HUN)4:05:09
21Flag of Spain.svg  Santiago Perez  (ESP)4:05:25
22Flag of Belarus.svg  Dmitriy Savaytan  (BLR)4:05:35
23Flag of Guatemala.svg  Julio César Urías  (GUA)4:07:18
24Flag of Germany.svg  Peter Zanner  (GER)4:07:38
25Flag of France.svg  Christophe Cousin  (FRA)4:08:26
26Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Milos Holusa  (CZE)4:09:08
27Flag of Portugal.svg  José Magalhaes  (POR)4:10:03
28Flag of Italy.svg  Orazio Romanzi  (ITA)4:11:00
29Flag of Greece.svg  Christos Karagiorgos  (GRE)4:30:05
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Zhao Yongsheng  (CHN)DNF
Flag of Spain.svg  Jaime Barroso  (ESP)DNF
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Tim Berrett  (CAN)DNF
Flag of Sweden.svg  Bo Gustafsson  (SWE)DNF
Flag of Belarus.svg  Viktor Ginko  (BLR)DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Peter Tichý  (SVK)DSQ
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Roman Mrázek  (SVK)DSQ
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Dirk Nicque  (BEL)DSQ
Flag of Poland.svg  Jacek Muller  (POL)DSQ
Flag of Mexico.svg  Germán Sánchez  (MEX)DSQ
Flag of Germany.svg  Thomas Wallstab  (GER)DSQ
Flag of the United States.svg  Andrew Hermann  (USA)DSQ
Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (1992-2006).svg  Aleksandar Raković  (YUG)DSQ

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