1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships

International athletics championship event

6th IAAF World Indoor Championships

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Dates| 7 March–9 March
Host city| Paris, France
Venue| Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Events| 28
Participation| 712 athletes from
118 nations

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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

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### Men

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1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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60 metres
details | Haralabos Papadias
Greece | 6.50
(NR) | Michael Green
Jamaica | 6.51  | Davidson Ezinwa
Nigeria | 6.52
(PB)
200 metres
details | Kevin Little
United States | 20.40
(CR) | Iván García
Cuba | 20.46
(PB) | Francis Obikwelu
Nigeria | 21.10
400 metres
details | Sunday Bada
Nigeria | 45.51
(AR) | Jamie Baulch
Great Britain | 45.62  | Shunji Karube
Japan | 45.76
(AR)
800 metres
details | Wilson Kipketer
Denmark | 1:42.67
(WR) | Mahjoub Haida
Morocco | 1:45.76
(NR) | Rich Kenah
United States | 1:46.16
(PB)
1500 metres
details | Hicham El Guerrouj
Morocco | 3:35.31
(CR) | Rüdiger Stenzel
Germany | 3:37.24  | William Tanui
Kenya | 3:37.48
3000 metres
details | Haile Gebrselassie
Ethiopia | 7:34.71
(CR) | Paul Bitok
Kenya | 7:38.84  | Ismaïl Sghyr
Morocco | 7:40.01
60 metres hurdles
details | Anier García
Cuba | 7.48
(NR) | Colin Jackson
Great Britain | 7.49  | Tony Dees
United States | 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
United States | 2.35  | Lambros Papakostas
Greece | 2.32  | Dragutin Topić
Yugoslavia | 2.32
Pole vault
details | Igor Potapovich
Kazakhstan | 5.90
(AR) | Lawrence Johnson
United States | 5.85  | Maksim Tarasov
Russia | 5.80
Long jump
details | Iván Pedroso
Cuba | 8.51
(CR) | Kirill Sosunov
Russia | 8.41
(PB) | Joe Greene
United States | 8.41
(PB)
Triple jump
details | Yoel García
Cuba | 17.30  | Aliecer Urrutia
Cuba | 17.27  | Aleksandr Aseledchenko
Russia | 17.22
(PB)
Shot put
details | Yuriy Bilonog
Ukraine | 21.02  | Aleksandr Bagach
Ukraine | 20.94  | John Godina
United States | 20.87
Heptathlon
details | Robert Změlík
Czech Republic | 6228  | Erki Nool
Estonia | 6213
(PB) | Jón Magnússon
Iceland | 6145
(NR)

### Women

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1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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60 metres
details | Gail Devers
United States | 7.06  | Chandra Sturrup
Bahamas | 7.15  | Frederique Bangue
France | 7.17
200 metres
details | Ekaterini Koffa
Greece | 22.76
(NR) | Juliet Cuthbert
Jamaica | 22.77  | Svetlana Goncharenko
Russia | 22.85
400 metres
details | Jearl Miles Clark
United States | 50.96
(WL) | Sandie Richards
Jamaica | 51.17
(PB) | Helena Fuchsová
Czech Republic | 52.04
(PB)
800 metres
details | Maria Mutola
Mozambique | 1:58.96  | Natalya Dukhnova
Belarus | 1:59.31
(NR) | Joetta Clark
United States | 1:59.82
(PB)
1500 metres
details | Yekaterina Podkopayeva
Russia | 4:05.19
(PB) | Patricia Djaté-Taillard
France | 4:06.16
(NR) | Lidia Chojecka
Poland | 4:06.25
(NR)
3000 metres
details | Gabriela Szabo
Romania | 8:45.75  | Sonia O'Sullivan
Ireland | 8:46.19
(NR) | Fernanda Ribeiro
Portugal | 8:49.79
60 metres hurdles
details | Michelle Freeman
Jamaica | 7.82
(=CR) | Gillian Russell
Jamaica | 7.84
(PB) | Cheryl Dickey
United States | 7.84
(PB)
Patricia Girard
France | 7.84
(SB)
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 Rücker
Anke Feller
Heike Meissner
Grit Breuer | 3:28.39
High jump
details | Stefka Kostadinova
Bulgaria | 2.02  | Inga Babakova
Ukraine | 2.00
(NR) | Hanne Haugland
Norway | 2.00
(NR)
Pole vault
details | Stacy Dragila
United States | 4.40
(WR) | Emma George
Australia | 4.35  | Cai Weiyan
China | 4.35
(AR)
Long jump
details | Fiona May
Italy | 6.86
(NR) | Chioma Ajunwa
Nigeria | 6.80  | Agata Karczmarek
Poland | 6.71
(PB)
Triple jump
details | Inna Lasovskaya
Russia | 15.01
(WL) | Ashia Hansen
Great Britain | 14.70
(NR) | Šárka Kašpárková
Czech Republic | 14.66
(NR)
Shot put
details | Vita Pavlysh
Ukraine | 20.00  | Astrid Kumbernuss
Germany | 19.92  | Irina Korzhanenko
Russia | 19.49
(PB)
Pentathlon
details | Sabine Braun
Germany | 4780  | Mona Steigauf
Germany | 4681
(PB) | Kym Carter
United States | 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

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States (USA)| 6| 2| 7| 15
2|  Cuba (CUB)| 3| 2| 0| 5
3|  Russia (RUS)| 3| 1| 4| 8
4|  Ukraine (UKR)| 2| 2| 0| 4
5|  Greece (GRE)| 2| 1| 0| 3
6|  Jamaica (JAM)| 1| 5| 0| 6
7|  Germany (GER)| 1| 3| 1| 5
8|  Nigeria (NGA)| 1| 1| 2| 4
9|  Morocco (MAR)| 1| 1| 1| 3
10|  Czech Republic (CZE)| 1| 0| 2| 3
11|  Bulgaria (BGR)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Denmark (DEN)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Ethiopia (ETH)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Italy (ITA)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Mozambique (MOZ)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Romania (ROM)| 1| 0| 0| 1
18|  Great Britain (GBR)| 0| 3| 0| 3
19|  France (FRA)| 0| 1| 2| 3
20|  Kenya (KEN)| 0| 1| 1| 2
21|  Australia (AUS)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Bahamas (BAH)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Belarus (BLR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Estonia (EST)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Ireland (IRL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
26|  Poland (POL)| 0| 0| 2| 2
27|  China (CHN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Iceland (ISL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Japan (JPN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Norway (NOR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Portugal (POR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Yugoslavia (FR Yugoslavia)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (32 entries)| 28| 28| 28| 84

## Participating nations

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* 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 (GRE) (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)

## See also

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* 1997 in athletics (track and field)

## References

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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 201547-48&rft.pub=IAAF&rft_id=http://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/2014/Sopot2014/projet/SOPOT-2014.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1997+IAAF+World+Indoor+Championships" class="Z3988">

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