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