1997 British Athletics Championships

Track and field championship

International athletics championship event

1997 British Athletics Championships
Host city	Birmingham, England
Venue	Alexander Stadium

Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
← 1993 2007 → UK Athletics Championships British Athletics Championships

The 1997 BAF British Championships was the national championship in outdoor track and field for the United Kingdom held at Alexander Stadium, Birmingham. The 10,000 metres event was hosted separately at the Sheffield Hallam UCA Stadium.

Organised by the British Athletics Federation (BAF), the competition was limited to British athletes only and marked a replacement to the UK Athletics Championships, which had last been held in 1993. The BAF British Championships overshadowed that year's AAA Championships, which was open to foreign competitors and typically the most prominent meet on the domestic calendar. This has led some statisticians, such as the National Union of Track Statisticians (NUTS), to judge the British Championships event as the main national championships for the country for 1997. Many of the athletes below also competed at the 1997 AAA Championships.

The bankruptcy of the British Athletics Federation that same year effectively rendered the competition defunct. The British Athletics Championships returned ten years later in 2007, organised by UK Athletics – the government-led successor organisation to the British Athletics Federation.

The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the 1997 World Championships in Athletics. British javelin champion Steve Backley claimed world silver in Athens. UK runners-up Colin Jackson and Denise Lewis were also both runners-up at the global level.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Ian Mackie	10.28	Darren Campbell	10.29	Dwain Chambers	10.42
200 metres (wind: +2.3 m/s)	Dougie Walker	20.63 w	Owusu Dako	20.70 w	Douglas Turner	20.87 w
400 metres	Iwan Thomas	44.36	Mark Richardson	44.84	Jamie Baulch	45.02
800 metres	Andy Hart	1:46.36	Mark Sesay	1:47.36	Paul Walker	1:47.82
1500 metres	John Mayock	3:39.69	Kevin McKay	3:39.93	Matthew Yates	3:40.66
5000 metres	Adrian Passey	13:38.21	Robert Denmark	13:39.29	Ian Gillespie	13:39.72
10,000 metres	Ian Hudspith	28:35.11	Glynn Tromans	28:35.32	Dermot Donnelly	28:38.56
110 m hurdles	Tony Jarrett	13.33	Colin Jackson	13.39	Andrew Tulloch	13.85
400 m hurdles	Chris Rawlinson	49.69	Gary Jennings	50.02	Paul Gray	50.38
3000 metres steeplechase	Rob Hough	8:41.44	Spencer Duval	8:46.17	Matt O'Dowd	8:47.99
10,000 m walk	Andrew Penn	42:21.89	Martin Bell	42:31.19	Mark Easton	42:37.98
High jump	Brendan Reilly	2.28 m	Dalton Grant	2.20 m	David Barnetson	2.17 m
Pole vault	Paul Williamson	5.40 m	Kevin Hughes	5.40 m	Nick Buckfield	5.30 m
Long jump	Steve Phillips	7.58 m	Chris Davidson	7.52 m	Oni Onuorah	7.45 m
Triple jump	Francis Agyepong	16.48 m	Julian Golley	16.34 m	Larry Achike	15.77 m
Shot put	Shaun Pickering	19.25 m	Matt Simson	19.11 m	Steph Hayward	18.19 m
Discus throw	Robert Weir	63.74 m	Kevin Brown	59.44 m	Glen Smith	58.62 m
Hammer throw	Paul Head	71.58 m	David Smith	70.92 m	Mick Jones	69.68 m
Javelin throw	Steve Backley	86.20 m	Mick Hill	81.02 m	Nick Nieland	78.64 m

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Simmone Jacobs	11.50	Marcia Richardson	11.58	Beverly Kinch	11.62
200 metres	Katharine Merry	23.19	Simmone Jacobs	23.49	Donna Fraser	23.61
400 metres	Donna Fraser	51.82	Michelle Pierre	53.13	Lorraine Hanson	53.73
800 metres	Kelly Holmes	1:58.59	Hayley Parry	2:02.20	Claire Raven	2:03.15
1500 metres	Joanne Pavey	4:18.57	Angela Davies	4:20.86	Lynn Gibson	4:21.29
5000 metres	Paula Radcliffe	15:30.36	Yvonne Murray	15:39.08	Lynne MacDougall	16:04.01
10,000 metres	Vikki McPherson	33:30.81	Joanne Thompson	33:38.36	Lucy Wright	33:41.16
100 m hurdles	Angie Thorp	13.34	Jacqui Agyepong	13.38	Clova Court	13.46
400 m hurdles	Sally Gunnell	55.33	Alyson Layzell	57.44	Keri Maddox	58.52
5000 m walk	Sylvia Black	23:56.72	Catherine Charnock	25:26.25	Lynn Bradley	26:47.67
High jump	Debbie Marti	1.91 m	Susan Jones	1.88 m	Joanne Jennings	1.85 m
Pole vault	Janine Whitlock	4.00 m	Louise Schramm	3.70 m	Paula Wilson	3.60 m
Long jump	Joanne Wise	6.47 m	Denise Lewis	6.41 m	Tracy Joseph	6.24 m
Triple jump	Ashia Hansen	14.10 m	Michelle Griffith	13.11 m	Connie Henry	12.48 m
Shot put	Judy Oakes	18.42 m	Myrtle Augee	16.74 m	Tracy Axten	14.71 m
Discus throw	Shelley Drew	58.16 m	Tracy Axten	53.86 m	Jackie McKernan	53.28 m
Hammer throw	Sarah Moore	56.60 m	Ann Gardner	54.00 m	Liz Pidgeon	52.10 m
Javelin throw	Tessa Sanderson	58.30 m	Shelley Holroyd	55.20 m	Karen Martin	54.66 m

References

UK Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
AAA WAAA and National Championships Medalists. NUTS. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
Memorandum submitted by the Association of British Athletic Clubs - THE DEMISE OF BRITISH ATHLETICS FROM GRASS ROOTS TO ELITE. Parliament. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
IAAF World Championships in Athletics. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-09.

1997 in the sport of athletics

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World

Regional

Championships	Arab Balkan Outdoor Indoor Central American and Caribbean South American
Games	Bolivarian Games Central American Games East Asian Games Games of the Small States of Europe Island Games Jeux de la Francophonie Maccabiah Games Mediterranean Games Pan Arab Games Southeast Asian Games South Pacific Mini Games West Asian Games
Cross country	Asian Balkan European South American
Other	European Cup 10,000 m Combined Events Mountain Running
Age group	African U20 Asian U20 CARIFTA Games Central American U20/U18 Central American and Caribbean U14 European U20 U23 Youth Olympic Days Oceanian U18 Pan American U20 South American U20

Seasonal

Golden Four	Berlin Brussels Oslo Zürich
IAAF Grand Prix Final IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings World Cross Challenge WMRA Alpine Grand Prix

National

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Outdoor	Australian Belgian British Canada Championships Games China Championships Games Czech Dutch English Finnish French German Hungarian Icelandic Italian Jamaican Japanese Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Ukrainian United Kingdom United States NCAA XC NCAA Track

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