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VI World Championship, Athens 1997
Women, Track
100 m
1 Marion Jones USA 10.83  
2 Zhanna Pintusevich UKR 10.85  
3 Sevatheda Fynes BAH 11.03  
4 Christine Arron FRA 11.05  
5 Inger Miller USA 11.18  
6 Melanie Paschke GER 11.19  
7 Merlene Ottey JAM 11.29  
8 Chryste Gaines USA 11.32  
200 m
1 Zhanna Pintusevich UKR 22.32  
2 Susanthika Jayasinghe SRI 22.39  
3 Merlene Ottey JAM 22.40  
4 Yekaterina Leshchova RUS 22.50  
5 Inger Miller USA 22.52  
6 Marina Trandenkova RUS 22.65  
7 Melinda Gainsford-Taylor AUS 22.73  
8 Sylvianne Félix FRA 22.81  
400 m
1 Cathy Freeman AUS 49.77  
2 Sandie Richards JAM 49.79  
3 Jearl Miles-Clark USA 49.90  
4 Grit Breuer GER 50.06  
5 Falilat Ogunkoya NGR 50.27  
6 Helena Fuchsova CZE 50.66  
7 Pauline Davis BAH 50.68  
8 Tatyana Alekseyeva RUS 51.37  
800 m
1 Ana Fidelia Quirot CUB 1.57.14  
2 Yelena Afanasyeva RUS 1.57.56  
3 Maria Lurdes Mutola MOZ 1.57.59  
4 Letitia Vriesde SUR 1.58.12  
5 Ludmila Formanova CZE 1.59.52  
6 Toni Hodgkinson NZL 2.00.40  
7 Joetta Clark USA 2.02.05  
8 Stella Jongmans NED 2.05.50  
1500 m
1 Carla Sacramento POR 4.04.24  
2 Regina Jacobs USA 4.04.63  
3 Anita Weyermann SUI 4.04.70  
4 Maria Teresa Zuniga ESP 4.04.80  
5 Leah Pells CAN 4.06.18  
6 Andrea Suldesová CZE 4.06.23  
7 Olga Nelyubova RUS 4.07.34  
8 Sonia O'Sullivan IRL 4.07.81  
5000 m
1 Gabriela Szabo ROU 14.57.68  
2 Roberta Brunet ITA 14.58.29  
3 Fernanda Ribeiro POR 14.58.85  
4 Paula Radcliffe GBR 15.01.74  
5 Lydia Cheromei KEN 15.07.88  
6 Jianying Liu CHN 15.10.64  
7 Libbie Hickman USA 15.11.15  
8 Harumi Hiroyama JPN 15.21.19  
10000 m
1 Sally Barsosio KEN 31.32.92  
2 Fernanda Ribeiro POR 31.39.15  
3 Masako Chiba JPN 31.41.93  
4 Berhane Adere ETH 31.48.95  
5 Ren Xiujuan CHN 31.50.63  
6 Tegla Loroupe KEN 32.00.93  
7 Yang Siju CHN 32.01.61  
8 Colleen de Reuck RSA 32.03.81  
Marathon (42.195 km.)
1 Hiromi Suzuki JPN 2.29.48  
2 Maria Manuela Machado POR 2.31.12  
3 Lidia Simon ROU 2.31.55  
4 Takako Tobise JPN 2.32.18  
5 Ornelia Ferrara ITA 2.33.10  
6 Iris Biba GER 2.34.06  
7 Sonja Oberem GER 2.35.28  
8 Franziska Rochat-Moser SUI 2.36.16  
100 m Hurdles
1 Lyudmila Narozhilenko-Engquist SWE 12.50  
2 Svetla Dimitrova BUL 12.58  
3 Michelle Freeman JAM 12.61  
4 Brigitta Bukovec SLO 12.69  
5 Dionne Rose JAM 12.87  
6 Katie Anderson CAN 12.88  
7 Svetlana Laukhova RUS 12.98  
Patricia Girard FRA DNS  
400 m Hurdles
1 Nezha Bidouane MAR 52.97  
2 Deon Hemmings JAM 53.09  
3 Kim Batten USA 53.52  
4 Tatyana Tereshchuk UKR 53.81  
5 Debbie-Ann Parris JAM 54.19  
6 Tonja Buford-Bailey USA 54.77  
7 Susan Smith IRL 55.25  
8 Andrea Blackett BAR 55.63  
10 km Road Walk
(Track)
1 Anna-Rita Sidoti ITA 42.56  
2 Olga Kardopoltseva BLR 43.31  
3 Valentina Tsybulskaya BLR 43.50  
4 Hongyu Liu CHN 43.57  
5 Erica Alfridi ITA 44.00  
6 Anikó Szebenszky HUN 44.15  
7 Gu Yuan CHN 44.25  
8 Anita Liepina LAT 45.01  
Relays
4 x 100 m
1 United States 41.47  
  Gaines, Jones, Miller, Devers  
2 Jamaica 42.10  
  McDonald, Frazer, Cuthbert, Grant  
3 France 42.21  
  Girard, Arron, Combé, Félix  
4 Germany 42.44  
5 Russia 42.50  
6 Bahamas 42.77  
7 Nigeria 43.27  
8 China 43.32  
4 x 400 m
1 Germany 3.20.92  
  Feller, Rohländer, Rücker, Breuer  
2 United States 3.21.03  
  Malone, Graham, Batten, Miles-Clark  
3 Jamaica 3.21.30  
  Turner, Graham, Hemmings, Richards  
4 Russia 3.21.57  
5 Czech Republic 3.23.73  
6 Great Britain 3.26.27  
7 Nigeria 3.30.04  
8 Italy 3.30.63