1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

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
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

These are the official results of the Men's 50 km Walk event at the 1997 World Championships held on Thursday 7 August 1997 in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 42 participating athletes.

Gold	Robert Korzeniowski Poland (POL)
Silver	Jesús Ángel García Spain (ESP)
Bronze	Miguel Rodríguez Mexico (MEX)

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	3:44:46
	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	3:44:59
	Miguel Rodríguez (MEX)	3:48:30
4	Oleg Ishutkin (RUS)	3:50:04
5	Tomasz Lipiec (POL)	3:50:14
6	Fumio Imamura (JPN)	3:50:27
7	Sylvain Caudron (FRA)	3:51:17
8	Arturo Di Mezza (ITA)	3:51:33
9	Valentin Kononen (FIN)	3:53:40
10	Aleksey Voyevodin (RUS)	3:54:28
11	René Piller (FRA)	3:55:06
12	Sergey Korepanov (KAZ)	3:56:19
13	Craig Barrett (NZL)	3:56:30
14	Giovanni Perricelli (ITA)	3:57:38
15	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	3:58:18
16	Axel Noack (GER)	3:59:29
17	Héctor Moreno (COL)	3:59:33
18	Štefan Malík (SVK)	3:59:52
19	Ruben Arikado (MEX)	4:04:17
20	Zoltán Czukor (HUN)	4:05:09
21	Santiago Perez (ESP)	4:05:25
22	Dmitriy Savaytan (BLR)	4:05:35
23	Julio César Urías (GUA)	4:07:18
24	Peter Zanner (GER)	4:07:38
25	Christophe Cousin (FRA)	4:08:26
26	Milos Holusa (CZE)	4:09:08
27	José Magalhaes (POR)	4:10:03
28	Orazio Romanzi (ITA)	4:11:00
29	Christos Karagiorgos (GRE)	4:30:05
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Zhao Yongsheng (CHN)	DNF
—	Jaime Barroso (ESP)	DNF
—	Tim Berrett (CAN)	DNF
—	Bo Gustafsson (SWE)	DNF
—	Viktor Ginko (BLR)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Peter Tichý (SVK)	DSQ
—	Roman Mrázek (SVK)	DSQ
—	Dirk Nicque (BEL)	DSQ
—	Jacek Muller (POL)	DSQ
—	Germán Sánchez (MEX)	DSQ
—	Thomas Wallstab (GER)	DSQ
—	Andrew Hermann (USA)	DSQ
—	Aleksandar Raković (YUG)	DSQ

• 1994 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1996 Men's Olympic 50km Walk (Atlanta)
• 1998 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Budapest)

• Results