1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon
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The men's marathon at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, on Sunday August 10, 1997.
Medalists
| Gold | Abel Antón Spain |
| Silver | Martín Fiz Spain |
| Bronze | Steve Moneghetti Australia |
Records
| Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics Championships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | Belayneh Densamo |  Ethiopia | 2:06:50 | April 17, 1988 | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Championships record | Robert de Castella | Australia | 2:10:03 | August 14, 1983 | Helsinki, Finland |
| Season best | Domingos Castro |  Portugal | 2:07:51 | April 20, 1997 | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Final ranking
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Abel Antón | Spain |
2:13:16 | |
 | Martín Fiz | Spain |
2:13:21 | |
 | Steve Moneghetti |  Australia |
2:14:16 | |
| 4 | Danilo Goffi |  Italy |
2:14:47 | |
| 5 | Luíz Antônio dos Santos |  Brazil |
2:15:31 | |
| 6 | Fabián Roncero | Spain |
2:16:53 | |
| 7 | Giacomo Leone | Italy |
2:17:16 | |
| 8 | Azzedine Sakhri |  Algeria |
2:17:44 | |
| 9 | Eduard Tukhbatullin |  Russia |
2:17:44 | |
| 10 | António Rodrigues | Portugal |
2:17:54 | |
| 11 | Philippe Rémond |  France |
2:18:19 | |
| 12 | Xolile Yawa |  South Africa |
2:18:37 | |
| 13 | Dave Scudamore |  United States |
2:18:41 | |
| 14 | Willy Kalombo Mwenze |  DR Congo |
2:19:18 | |
| 15 | José Manuel García | Spain |
2:19:31 | |
| 16 | Bruce Deacon |  Canada |
2:20:29 | |
| 17 | Dave Buzza |  Great Britain & N.I. |
2:20:34 | |
| 18 | José Luis Molina |  Costa Rica |
2:20:55 | |
| 19 | Nikolaos Polias |  Greece |
2:21:03 | |
| 20 | Mostafa El Damaoui |  Morocco |
2:21:05 | |
| 21 | Ahmed Hussein |  Ethiopia |
2:21:08 | |
| 22 | Akira Manai |  Japan |
2:21:23 | |
| 23 | Vanderlei de Lima | Brazil |
2:21:48 | |
| 24 | Daher Gadid Omar |  Djibouti |
2:21:57 | |
| 25 | Shinji Kawashima | Japan |
2:22:33 | |
| 26 | Baek Seung-Do |  South Korea |
2:22:40 | |
| 27 | Sean Quilty | Australia |
2:23:10 | |
| 28 | João Lopes | Portugal |
2:23:15 | |
| 29 | Jean Pierre Monciaux | France |
2:23:19 | |
| 30 | Francesco Ingargiola | Italy |
2:23:30 | |
| 31 | Stéphane Franke |  Germany |
2:23:53 | |
| 32 | Karel David |  Czech Republic |
2:24:42 | |
| 33 | Adam Motlagale | South Africa |
2:24:49 | |
| 34 | Katsuhiko Hanada | Japan |
2:25:00 | |
| 35 | Max Wenisch |  Austria |
2:25:12 | |
| 36 | Osmiro Silva | Brazil |
2:25:37 | |
| 37 | António Zeferino |  Cape Verde |
2:25:56 | |
| 38 | Dominique Chauvelier | France |
2:26:06 | |
| 39 | Abner Chipu | South Africa |
2:26:06 | |
| 40 | Takahiro Hattori | Japan |
2:26:33 | |
| 41 | Valdenor dos Santos | Brazil |
2:27:12 | |
| 42 | Girma Daba | Ethiopia |
2:27:30 | |
| 43 | Sérgio Jimenez |  Mexico |
2:27:30 | |
| 44 | Pascal Zilliox | France |
2:27:50 | |
| 45 | Knut Hegvold |  Norway |
2:27:54 | |
| 46 | Klaus Peter Hansen |  Denmark |
2:28:29 | |
| 47 | Terje Naess | Norway |
2:29:04 | |
| 48 | Pavel Loskutov |  Estonia |
2:29:10 | |
| 49 | Jean-Paul Gahimbaré |  Burundi |
2:30:56 | |
| 50 | Luis Martínez |  Guatemala |
2:31:11 | |
| 51 | Hsu Gi-sheng |  Chinese Taipei | 2:31:31 | |
| 52 | Woliye Jara | Ethiopia | 2:31:44 | |
| 53 | Raymond Boyd | Australia | 2:32:07 | |
| 54 | Sid-Ali Sakhri | Algeria | 2:34:26 | |
| 55 | Molatlhegi Segobaetso |  Botswana | 2:34:47 | |
| 56 | Dan Held | United States | 2:35:19 | |
| 57 | Éder Fialho | Brazil | 2:36:14 | |
| 58 | Koji Shimizu | Japan | 2:37:11 | |
| 59 | Asaf Bimro |  Israel | 2:37:45 | |
| 60 | Mpakeletsa Sephali |  Lesotho | 2:38:37 | |
| 61 | Isaac Simelane |  Swaziland | 2:40:32 | |
| 62 | Marco Ochoa | United States | 2:44:21 | |
| 63 | Jon Warren | United States | 2:45:56 | |
| 64 | Marcos Juarez | Guatemala | 2:55:14 | |
| 65 | Emilio Velasquez | Guatemala | 2:56:07 | |
| 66 | Sergey Zabavski |  Tajikistan | 3:02:49 | |
| 67 | Alain Nkulu | DR Congo | 3:08:32 | |
| 68 | Zebedayo Bayo |  Tanzania | 3:11:19 | |
| 69 | Roderic De Highden | Australia | 3:13:44 | |
| 70 | Errol Peters |  Guyana | 3:14:30 | |
| — | Sophuong Vanh |  Cambodia | DNF | |
| — | Patrick Ntambwe Ngoie | DR Congo | DNF | |
| — | Tumo Turbo | Ethiopia | DNF | |
| — | Dale Rixon | Great Britain & N.I. | DNF | |
| — | George Karagiannis | Greece | DNF | |
| — | Ioannis Perifanos | Greece | DNF | |
| — | Marcello Curioni | Italy | DNF | |
| — | Cosmas Ndeti |  Kenya | DNF | |
| — | Mbarak Hussein | Kenya | DNF | |
| — | Trpe Martinovski |  Macedonia | DNF | |
| — | Vitor Vasco | Portugal | DNF | |
| — | Abel Mokibe | South Africa | DNF | |
| — | Francis Naali | Tanzania | DNF | |
| — | Petro Meta | Tanzania | DNF | |
| — | Rubén Maza |  Venezuela | DNF | |
| — | Luketz Swartbooi |  Namibia | DNF | |
| — | Paulo Catarino | Portugal | DNF | |
| — | Chang Ki-Shik | South Korea | DNF | |
| — | Salah Qoqaiche | Morocco | DNF | |
| — | Alberto Juzdado | Spain | DNF | |
| — | António Pinto | Portugal | DNF | |
| — | Andrés Espinosa | Mexico | DNF | |
| — | Faustino Reynoso | Mexico | DNF | |
| — | Lawrence Peu | South Africa | DNF | |
| — | Abdelkader El Mouaziz | Morocco | DNF | |
| — | Moges Taye | Ethiopia | DNF | |
| — | Isidro Rico | Mexico | DNF | |
| — | Don Janicki | United States | DNF | |
| — | Diego García | Spain | DNF | |
| — | Bruno Leger | France | DNF | |
| — | Joseph Tjitunga | Namibia | DNF | |
| — | Benjamín Paredes | Mexico | DNF | |
| — | Vincenzo Modica | Italy | DNF | |
| — | Abdillahi Bouh | Djibouti | DNF | |
| — | William Koech | Kenya | DNF | |
| — | Panagiotis Charamis | Greece | DNF | |
| — | Yayeh Aden | Djibouti | DNF | |
| — | Spyros Andriopoulos | Greece | DNF | |
| — | Sonam Tobgay |  Bhutan | DNS | |
| — | Marco Condori |  Bolivia | DNS | |
| — | Darren Wilson | Australia | DNS |