1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships

6th IAAF World Indoor Championships
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Host city	Paris, France
Date(s)	7 March–9 March
Main stadium	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Participation	712 athletes from 118 nations
Events	28
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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	Haralabos Papadias (GRE)	6.50 (NR)	Michael Green (JAM)	6.51	Davidson Ezinwa (NGR)	6.52 (PB)
200 metres	Kevin Little (USA)	20.40 (CR)	Iván García (CUB)	20.46 (PB)	Francis Obikwelu (NGR)	21.10
400 metres	Sunday Bada (NGR)	45.51 (AR)	Jamie Baulch (GBR)	45.62	Shunji Karube (JPN)	45.76 (AR)
800 metres	Wilson Kipketer (DEN)	1:42.67 (WR)	Mahjoub Haida (MAR)	1:45.76 (NR)	Rich Kenah (USA)	1:46.16 (PB)
1500 metres	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	3:35.31 (CR)	Rüdiger Stenzel (GER)	3:37.24	William Tanui (KEN)	3:37.48
3000 metres	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)	7:34.71 (CR)	Paul Bitok (KEN)	7:38.84	Ismaïl Sghyr (MAR)	7:40.01
60 metres hurdles	Anier García (CUB)	7.48 (NR)	Colin Jackson (GBR)	7.49	Tony Dees (USA)	7.50
4 × 400 metres relay	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	Charles Austin (USA)	2.35	Lambros Papakostas (GRE)	2.32	Dragutin Topic (FR Yugoslavia)	2.32
Pole vault	Igor Potapovich (KAZ)	5.90 (AR)	Lawrence Johnson (USA)	5.85	Maksim Tarasov (RUS)	5.80
Long jump	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	8.51 (CR)	Kirill Sosunov (RUS)	8.41 (PB)	Joe Greene (USA)	8.41 (PB)
Triple jump	Yoel García (CUB)	17.30	Aliecer Urrutia (CUB)	17.27	Aleksandr Aseledchenko (RUS)	17.22 (PB)
Shot put	Yuriy Bilonog (UKR)	21.02	Aleksandr Bagach (UKR)	20.94	John Godina (USA)	20.87
Heptathlon	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	Gail Devers (USA)	7.06	Chandra Sturrup (BAH)	7.15	Frederique Bangue (FRA)	7.17
200 metres	Ekaterini Koffa (GRE)	22.76 (NR)	Juliet Cuthbert (JAM)	22.77	Svetlana Goncharenko (RUS)	22.85
400 metres	Jearl Miles Clark (USA)	50.96 (WL)	Sandie Richards (JAM)	51.17 (PB)	Helena Fuchsová (CZE)	52.04 (PB)
800 metres	Maria Mutola (MOZ)	1:58.96	Natalya Dukhnova (BLR)	1:59.31 (NR)	Joetta Clark (USA)	1:59.82 (PB)
1500 metres	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (RUS)	4:05.19 (PB)	Patricia Djaté-Taillard (FRA)	4:06.16 (NR)	Lidia Chojecka (POL)	4:06.25 (NR)
3000 metres	Gabriela Szabo (ROU)	8:45.75	Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL)	8:46.19 (NR)	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)	8:49.79
60 metres hurdles	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	7.82 (CR)	Gillian Russell (JAM)	7.84 (PB)	Cheryl Dickey (USA)	7.84 (PB)
4 × 400 metres relay	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	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.02	Inga Babakova (UKR)	2.00 (NR)	Hanne Haugland (NOR)	2.00 (NR)
Pole vault	Stacy Dragila (USA)	4.40 (WR)	Emma George (AUS)	4.35	Cai Weiyan (CHN)	4.35 (AR)
Long jump	Fiona May (ITA)	6.86 (NR)	Chioma Ajunwa (NGR)	6.80	Agata Karczmarek (POL)	6.71 (PB)
Triple jump	Inna Lasovskaya (RUS)	15.01 (WL)	Ashia Hansen (GBR)	14.70 (NR)	Šárka Kašpárková (CZE)	14.66 (NR)
Shot put	Vita Pavlysh (UKR)	20.00	Astrid Kumbernuss (GER)	19.92	Irina Korzhanenko (RUS)	19.49 (PB)
Pentathlon	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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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	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

Algeria (1)
Andorra (1)
Antigua and Barbuda (1)
Argentina (4)
Armenia (2)
Aruba (1)
Australia (6)
Austria (10)
Azerbaijan (1)
Bahamas (7)
Belarus (4)
Belgium (10)
Benin (2)
Bermuda (2)
Bolivia (1)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
Brazil (16)
Bulgaria (4)
Burkina Faso (1)
Burundi (1)
Cameroon (2)
Canada (8)
Central African Republic (1)
Chad (1)
Chile (1)
China (18)
Chinese Taipei (2)
Croatia (1)
Cuba (10)
Cyprus (2)
Czech Republic (18)
Denmark (7)
Dominica (2)
Egypt (1)
Equatorial Guinea (1)
Estonia (2)
Ethiopia (4)
Finland (6)
France (44)
Gabon (1)
Gambia (1)
Germany (34)
Ghana (4)
Great Britain (40)
Greece (14)
Guinea (1)
Haiti (1)
Hungary (14)
Iceland (3)
Ireland (8)
Israel (5)
Italy (25)
Ivory Coast (3)
Jamaica (17)
Japan (10)
Kazakhstan (4)
Kenya (5)
Kyrgyzstan (2)
Kuwait (1)
Latvia (4)
Lebanon (2)
Liberia (1)
Lithuania (3)
Luxembourg (1)
Madagascar (2)
Malaysia (1)
Mali (2)
Malta (2)
Mauritania (1)
Mauritius (1)
Mexico (4)
Moldova (2)
Mongolia (1)
Mozambique (2)
Morocco (8)
Netherlands (5)
Netherlands Antilles (1)
New Zealand (4)
Nigeria (9)
Norway (10)
Pakistan (1)
Papua New Guinea (1)
Paraguay (1)
Peru (1)
Philippines (1)
Poland (12)
Portugal (7)
Puerto Rico (1)
Qatar (3)
Republic of the Congo (1)
Romania (11)
Russia (42)
Rwanda (2)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
El Salvador (1)
Senegal (1)
Saudi Arabia (1)
Sierra Leone (2)
Slovakia (3)
Slovenia (7)
South Africa (3)
South Korea (1)
Spain (23)
Suriname (1)
Sweden (10)
Switzerland (5)
Tajikistan (1)
Tanzania (1)
Trinidad and Tobago (3)
Tunisia (1)
Turkey (2)
Uganda (1)
Ukraine (27)
United States (54)
United States Virgin Islands (2)
Yugoslavia (4)
Zaire (1)
Zambia (1)
Zimbabwe (2)

References

↑ 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

External links

IAAF 1997 World Indoor Championships Official Website (archived)
Athletics Australia

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