The 1997 European Cup was the 18th edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

Beginning with this edition athletes in throws and horizontal jumps were limited to only four attempts instead of the usual six. It was also the first edition to feature women's pole vault and hammer throw.

The Super League Finals were held at the Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany.

Super League

Held on 21 and 22 June in Munich, Germany.^[2]

Team standings

Men

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Great Britain	118
2	Germany	105
3	Russia	104
4	Italy	96
5	Spain	78
6	France	75
7	Norway	72.5
8	Greece	71.5

Women

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Russia	127
2	Germany	113
3	Great Britain	86
4	Italy	77
5	France	77
6	Ukraine	76
7	Romania	72
8	Belarus	55

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +0.2 m/s)	Linford Christie  Great Britain	10.04 =CR	Geir Moen  Norway	10.18	Andrey Fedoriv  Russia	10.19
200 m (Wind: +0.7 m/s)	Linford Christie  Great Britain Georgios Panayotopoulos  Greece	20.56	Not awarded		Geir Moen  Norway	20.60
400 m	Roger Black  Great Britain	45.63	David Canal  Spain	46.28	Marco Vaccari  Italy	46.40
800 m	Vebjørn Rodal  Norway	1:47.54	Nico Motchebon  Germany	1:47.89	Mark Sesay  Great Britain	1:48.11
1500 m	Fermín Cacho  Spain	3:37.79	Gennaro Di Napoli  Italy	3:37.81	Vyacheslav Shabunin  Russia	3:38.14
3000 m	Dieter Baumann  Germany	7:41.08 CR	Manuel Pancorbo  Spain	7:41.60	Panagiotis Papoulias  Greece	7:45.65
5000 m	Gennaro Di Napoli  Italy	13:38.33	Anacleto Jiménez  Spain	13:39.42	Panagiotis Papoulias  Greece	13:40.02
3000 m steeplechase	Rob Hough  Great Britain	8:35.03	Alessandro Lambruschini  Italy	8:36.15	Vladimir Pronin  Russia	8:36.94
110 m hurdles (Wind: +0.2 m/s)	Florian Schwarthoff  Germany	13.20	Colin Jackson  Great Britain	13.28	Andrey Kislykh  Russia	13.53
400 m hurdles	Fabrizio Mori  Italy	48.93	Stéphane Diagana  France	49.15	Ruslan Mashchenko  Russia	49.74
4 × 100 m	Italy Nicola Asuni Giovanni Puggioni Angelo Cipolloni Sandro Floris	38.80	Norway Fernando Ramirez John Ertzgaard Per Ivar Sivle Geir Moen	38.96 NR	Great Britain Jason Gardener Marlon Devonish Doug Walker Ian Mackie	38.97
4 × 400 m	Great Britain Roger Black Jamie Baulch Iwan Thomas Mark Richardson	2:59.46 CR	Italy Marco Vaccari Alessandro Aimar Fabrizio Mori Ashraf Saber	3:02.60	Russia Innokentiy Zharov Dmitriy Kosov Dmitriy Golovastov Dmitriy Bey	3:03.09
High jump	Arturo Ortiz  Spain	2.30	Sergey Klyugin  Russia	2.30	Martin Buss  Germany	2.30
Pole vault (indoor)	Maksim Tarasov  Russia	5.95	Jean Galfione  France	5.75	Tim Lobinger  Germany	5.70
Long jump	Kirill Sosunov  Russia	8.00	Kostas Koukodimos  Greece	7.88	Emmanuel Bangué  France	7.86
Triple jump	Jonathan Edwards  Great Britain	17.74	Denis Kapustin  Russia	17.24	Charles Friedek  Germany	16.71
Shot put	Oliver-Sven Buder  Germany	20.41	Corrado Fantini  Italy	19.72	Manuel Martínez  Spain	19.29
Discus throw	Lars Riedel  Germany	63.36	Robert Weir  Great Britain	61.62	Sergey Lyakhov  Russia	59.72
Hammer throw	Heinz Weis  Germany	81.42	Vadim Khersontsev  Russia	78.48	Alexandros Papadimitriou  Greece	74.12
Javelin throw	Steve Backley  Great Britain	86.86	Kostas Gatsioudis  Greece	86.10	Boris Henry  Germany	85.42
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Natalya Voronova  Russia	11.18	Andrea Philipp  Germany	11.23	Natalya Safronnikova  Belarus	11.41
200 m (Wind: -0.2 m/s)	Christine Arron  France	22.89	Andrea Philipp  Germany	22.98	Marina Trandenkova  Russia	23.16
400 m	Grit Breuer  Germany	50.38	Donna Fraser  Great Britain	51.51	Olga Kotlyarova  Russia	51.53
800 m	Yelena Afanasyeva  Russia	1:59.93	Irina Lishchinskaya  Ukraine	2:00.71	Linda Kisabaka  Germany	2:01.07
1500 m	Kelly Holmes  Great Britain	4:04.79	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	4:06.25	Irina Biryukova  Russia	4:07.98
3000 m	Roberta Brunet  Italy	8:51.66	Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim  Germany	8:52.20	Paula Radcliffe  Great Britain	8:52.79
5000 m	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	15:02.68 CR	Roberta Brunet  Italy	15:02.87	Luminita Zaituc  Germany	15:52.95
100 m hurdles (Wind: +0.7 m/s)	Svetlana Laukhova  Russia	12.94	Patricia Girard  France	13.03	Angie Thorp  Great Britain	13.16
400 m hurdles	Sally Gunnell  Great Britain	54.57	Silvia Rieger  Germany	55.23	Yekaterina Bakhvalova  Russia	55.66
4 × 100 m	Russia Yekaterina Leshchova Galina Malchugina Natalya Voronova Marina Trandenkova	43.05	France Frédérique Bangué Christine Arron Patricia Girard Sylviane Félix	43.21	Germany Shanta Ghosh Gabi Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier Andrea Philipp	43.25
4 × 400 m	Russia Yekaterina Bakhvalova Yekaterina Kulikova Natalya Khrushcheleva Olga Kotlyarova	3:24.10	Germany Anke Feller Uta Rohländer Silvia Rieger Anja Rücker	3:26.12	Great Britain Allison Curbishley Donna Fraser Michelle Thomas Sally Gunnell	3:26.48
High jump	Heike Balck  Germany	1.94	Tatyana Motkova  Russia	1.92	Antonella Bevilacqua  Italy	1.88
Pole vault	Anzhela Balakhonova  Ukraine	4.25	Andrea Müller  Germany	4.20	Janine Whitlock  Great Britain	4.10
Long jump	Fiona May  Italy	6.61	Nina Perevedentseva  Russia	6.60	Susen Tiedtke-Greene  Germany	6.57
Triple jump	Inna Lasovskaya  Russia	14.91	Rodica Mateescu  Romania	14.53	Ashia Hansen  Great Britain	14.52
Shot put	Astrid Kumbernuss  Germany	20.64	Irina Korzhanenko  Russia	18.18	Mara Rosolen  Italy	17.28
Discus throw	Natalya Sadova  Russia	67.72	Franka Dietzsch  Germany	61.72	Yelena Antonova  Ukraine	60.16
Hammer throw	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	73.10	Mihaela Melinte  Romania	69.76	Lyudmila Gubkina  Belarus	68.24
Javelin throw	Oksana Ovchinnikova  Russia	67.16	Felicia Tilea  Romania	64.98	Tanja Damaske  Germany	64.72
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

First League

The First League was held on 7 and 8 June^[2]

Men

Group A Held in Prague, Czech Republic Pos. Nation Points 1  Czech Republic 117 2  Poland 114 3  Hungary 98 4  Romania 92 5  Ukraine 83 6  Latvia 80.5 7  Yugoslavia 68.5 8  Bulgaria 64

Group B Held in Dublin, Ireland Pos. Nation Points 1  Finland 102 2  Sweden 100 3  Belgium 99.5 4  Switzerland 90 5  Netherlands 88 6  Portugal 85.5 7  Ireland 85 8  Austria 68

Women

Group A Held in Prague, Czech Republic Pos. Nation Points 1  Czech Republic 113 2  Poland 113 3  Greece 95 4  Spain 90.5 5  Hungary 87 6  Bulgaria 77 7  Yugoslavia 57 8  Lithuania 51.5

Group B Held in Dublin, Ireland Pos. Nation Points 1  Slovenia 103.5 2  Finland 103 3  Switzerland 97.5 4  Portugal 96 5  Sweden 82.5 6  Norway 74 7  Austria 60.5 8  Belgium 60

Second League

The Second League was held on 28 and 29 June^[2]

Men

Group A Held in Odense, Denmark Pos. Nation Points 1  Slovenia 125 2  Denmark 115 3  Israel 115 4  Cyprus 107 5  Lithuania 84 6 AASSE 71 7  Iceland 62 8  Armenia 30

Group B Held in Riga, Latvia Pos. Nation Points 1  Belarus 86 2  Slovakia 71 3  Estonia 54 4  Turkey 53 5  Moldova 26

Women

Group A Held in Odense, Denmark Pos. Nation Points 1  Netherlands 100 2  Denmark 93 3  Iceland 62 4  Israel 57 5  Cyprus 53 6 AASSE 30

Group B Held in Riga, Latvia Pos. Nation Points 1  Latvia 74 2  Slovakia 59 3  Turkey 57 4  Estonia 56 5  Moldova 23