Events at the 1997 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's marathon at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, on Sunday August 10, 1997.

Gold	Abel Antón  Spain
Silver	Martín Fiz  Spain
Bronze	Steve Moneghetti  Australia

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

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
	Abel Antón	Spain (ESP)	2:13:16
	Martín Fiz	Spain (ESP)	2:13:21
	Steve Moneghetti	Australia (AUS)	2:14:16
4	Danilo Goffi	Italy (ITA)	2:14:47
5	Luíz Antônio dos Santos	Brazil (BRA)	2:15:31
6	Fabián Roncero	Spain (ESP)	2:16:53
7	Giacomo Leone	Italy (ITA)	2:17:16
8	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria (ALG)	2:17:44
9	Eduard Tukhbatullin	Russia (RUS)	2:17:44
10	António Rodrigues	Portugal (POR)	2:17:54
11	Philippe Rémond	France (FRA)	2:18:19
12	Xolile Yawa	South Africa (RSA)	2:18:37
13	Dave Scudamore	United States (USA)	2:18:41
14	Willy Kalombo Mwenze	DR Congo (COD)	2:19:18
15	José Manuel García	Spain (ESP)	2:19:31
16	Bruce Deacon	Canada (CAN)	2:20:29
17	Dave Buzza	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:20:34
18	José Luis Molina	Costa Rica (CRC)	2:20:55
19	Nikolaos Polias	Greece (GRE)	2:21:03
20	Mostafa El Damaoui	Morocco (MAR)	2:21:05
21	Ahmed Hussein	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:21:08
22	Akira Manai	Japan (JPN)	2:21:23
23	Vanderlei de Lima	Brazil (BRA)	2:21:48
24	Daher Gadid Omar	Djibouti (DJI)	2:21:57
25	Shinji Kawashima	Japan (JPN)	2:22:33
26	Baek Seung-Do	South Korea (KOR)	2:22:40
27	Sean Quilty	Australia (AUS)	2:23:10
28	João Lopes	Portugal (POR)	2:23:15
29	Jean Pierre Monciaux	France (FRA)	2:23:19
30	Francesco Ingargiola	Italy (ITA)	2:23:30
31	Stéphane Franke	Germany (GER)	2:23:53
32	Karel David	Czech Republic (CZE)	2:24:42
33	Adam Motlagale	South Africa (RSA)	2:24:49
34	Katsuhiko Hanada	Japan (JPN)	2:25:00
35	Max Wenisch	Austria (AUT)	2:25:12
36	Osmiro Silva	Brazil (BRA)	2:25:37
37	António Zeferino	Cape Verde (CPV)	2:25:56
38	Dominique Chauvelier	France (FRA)	2:26:06
39	Abner Chipu	South Africa (RSA)	2:26:06
40	Takahiro Hattori	Japan (JPN)	2:26:33
41	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil (BRA)	2:27:12
42	Girma Daba	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:27:30
43	Sérgio Jimenez	Mexico (MEX)	2:27:30
44	Pascal Zilliox	France (FRA)	2:27:50
45	Knut Hegvold	Norway (NOR)	2:27:54
46	Klaus Peter Hansen	Denmark (DEN)	2:28:29
47	Terje Naess	Norway (NOR)	2:29:04
48	Pavel Loskutov	Estonia (EST)	2:29:10
49	Jean-Paul Gahimbaré	Burundi (BDI)	2:30:56
50	Luis Martínez	Guatemala (GUA)	2:31:11
51	Hsu Gi-sheng	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	2:31:31
52	Woliye Jara	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:31:44
53	Raymond Boyd	Australia (AUS)	2:32:07
54	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria (ALG)	2:34:26
55	Molatlhegi Segobaetso	Botswana (BOT)	2:34:47
56	Dan Held	United States (USA)	2:35:19
57	Éder Fialho	Brazil (BRA)	2:36:14
58	Koji Shimizu	Japan (JPN)	2:37:11
59	Asaf Bimro	Israel (ISR)	2:37:45
60	Mpakeletsa Sephali	Lesotho (LES)	2:38:37
61	Isaac Simelane	Swaziland (SWZ)	2:40:32
62	Marco Ochoa	United States (USA)	2:44:21
63	Jon Warren	United States (USA)	2:45:56
64	Marcos Juarez	Guatemala (GUA)	2:55:14
65	Emilio Velasquez	Guatemala (GUA)	2:56:07
66	Sergey Zabavski	Tajikistan (TJK)	3:02:49
67	Alain Nkulu	DR Congo (COD)	3:08:32
68	Zebedayo Bayo	Tanzania (TAN)	3:11:19
69	Roderic De Highden	Australia (AUS)	3:13:44
70	Errol Peters	Guyana (GUY)	3:14:30
—	Sophuong Vanh	Cambodia (CAM)	DNF
—	Patrick Ntambwe Ngoie	DR Congo (COD)	DNF
—	Tumo Turbo	Ethiopia (ETH)	DNF
—	Dale Rixon	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	DNF
—	George Karagiannis	Greece (GRE)	DNF
—	Ioannis Perifanos	Greece (GRE)	DNF
—	Marcello Curioni	Italy (ITA)	DNF
—	Cosmas Ndeti	Kenya (KEN)	DNF
—	Mbarak Hussein	Kenya (KEN)	DNF
—	Trpe Martinovski	Macedonia (MKD)	DNF
—	Vitor Vasco	Portugal (POR)	DNF
—	Abel Mokibe	South Africa (RSA)	DNF
—	Francis Naali	Tanzania (TAN)	DNF
—	Petro Meta	Tanzania (TAN)	DNF
—	Rubén Maza	Venezuela (VEN)	DNF
—	Luketz Swartbooi	Namibia (NAM)	DNF
—	Paulo Catarino	Portugal (POR)	DNF
—	Chang Ki-Shik	South Korea (KOR)	DNF
—	Salah Qoqaiche	Morocco (MAR)	DNF
—	Alberto Juzdado	Spain (ESP)	DNF
—	António Pinto	Portugal (POR)	DNF
—	Andrés Espinosa	Mexico (MEX)	DNF
—	Faustino Reynoso	Mexico (MEX)	DNF
—	Lawrence Peu	South Africa (RSA)	DNF
—	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	Morocco (MAR)	DNF
—	Moges Taye	Ethiopia (ETH)	DNF
—	Isidro Rico	Mexico (MEX)	DNF
—	Don Janicki	United States (USA)	DNF
—	Diego García	Spain (ESP)	DNF
—	Bruno Leger	France (FRA)	DNF
—	Joseph Tjitunga	Namibia (NAM)	DNF
—	Benjamín Paredes	Mexico (MEX)	DNF
—	Vincenzo Modica	Italy (ITA)	DNF
—	Abdillahi Bouh	Djibouti (DJI)	DNF
—	William Koech	Kenya (KEN)	DNF
—	Panagiotis Charamis	Greece (GRE)	DNF
—	Yayeh Aden	Djibouti (DJI)	DNF
—	Spyros Andriopoulos	Greece (GRE)	DNF
—	Sonam Tobgay	Bhutan (BHU)	DNS
—	Marco Condori	Bolivia (BOL)	DNS
—	Darren Wilson	Australia (AUS)	DNS

• Men's Olympic Marathon (1996)
• 1997 World Marathon Cup

• Results
• Results - World Athletics