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Events at the 1997 World Championships
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These are the official results of the Men's 20 km Walk event at the 1997 World Championships held on Saturday 2 August 1997 in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 49 participating athletes.

Medalists

Gold	Daniel García Mexico (MEX)
Silver	Mikhail Shchennikov Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy Belarus (BLR)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records

Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Narinder Singh	1:24:50	19 April 1997	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
World Record	Bu Lingtang (CHN)	1:18.04	April 7, 1994	Beijing, PR China
Event Record	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:19.37	August 24, 1991	Tokyo, Japan

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Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Daniel García (MEX)	1:21:43
	Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS)	1:21:53
	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy (BLR)	1:22:01
4	Yu Guohui (CHN)	1:22:57
5	Li Zewen (CHN)	1:23:03
6	Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR)	1:23:10
7	Michele Didoni (ITA)	1:23:14
8	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:23:33
9	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	1:23:49
10	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:23:53
11	Robert Ihly (GER)	1:24:12
12	Alessandro Gandellini (ITA)	1:24:24
13	Igor Kollár (SVK)	1:24:37
14	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:24:46
15	Jacek Muller (POL)	1:24:47
16	Joel Sánchez (MEX)	1:24:48
17	Denis Langlois (FRA)	1:25:27
18	Omar Zepeda (MEX)	1:25:38
19	Nicholas A'Hern (AUS)	1:25:46
20	Artur Meliashkevich (BLR)	1:25:47
21	Sérgio Galdino (BRA)	1:25:50
22	Roberto Oscal (GUA)	1:26:20
23	Marco Giungi (ITA)	1:26:23
24	Modris Liepins (LAT)	1:26:24
25	Jean-Olivier Brosseau (FRA)	1:26:39
26	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:26:50
27	Gyula Dudás (HUN)	1:27:17
28	José Urbano (POR)	1:27:25
29	Milos Holusa (CZE)	1:27:27
30	Fedosei Ciumacenco (MDA)	1:28:51
31	Luis Fernando García (GUA)	1:28:51
32	Dion Russell (AUS)	1:30:49
33	Róbert Valíček (SVK)	1:31:28
34	Curt Clausen (USA)	1:32:05
35	Valeriy Borisov (KAZ)	1:32:32
36	Dimitrios Orfanopoulos (GRE)	1:32:37
37	Fernando Vázquez (ESP)	1:32:44
38	Chris Britz (RSA)	1:34:02
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Aigars Fadejevs (LAT)	DNF
—	Scott Nelson (NZL)	DNF
—	Claus Jørgensen (DEN)	DNF
—	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	DNF
—	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Jan Staaf (SWE)	DSQ
—	Andreas Erm (GER)	DSQ
—	Julio René Martínez (GUA)	DSQ
—	Ilya Markov (RUS)	DSQ
—	Rami Ali Deeb (PLE)	DSQ
—	Narinder Singh Al Harbans Singh (MAS)	DSQ

See also

• 1994 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1996 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Atlanta)
• 1997 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1998 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Budapest)

References

• Results
• Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite

• Events at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics
• Racewalking at the World Athletics Championships