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

Men

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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

1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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)
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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

See also

• 1997 in athletics (track and field)

References

External links

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