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News and Reports From the IAAF Grand Prix Circuit and the 1997 Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka

Grand Prix Final Event reports

9/13/1997	Men's Pole Vault
	"Czar" Bubka still rules
9/13/1997	Men's Long jump
	Pedroso victory ahead of Walder
9/13/1997	Men's 200 metres
	Frankie Fredericks "not dead yet"
9/13/1997	Men's Javelin throw
	Zelezny wins - best throw out of area
9/13/1997	Men Mile
	El Guerrouj pipped at the post
9/13/1997	Women's 5000 metres
	Sally Barsosio first junior to win a Grand Prix Final event
9/13/1997	Women's 100m hurdles
	Freeman withstands Engquist
9/13/1997	Men's 110 metre hurdles
	Another victory for Mark Crear & 3rd place overall
9/13/1997	Women's 800m
	Quirot snatches victory from Mutola
9/13/1997	Women's triple jump
	Victory for Ashia Hansen. New Grand Prix Record
9/13/1997	Women's shot put
	Kumbernuss dominates and assures overall GP victory
9/13/1997	Women's 200 metres
	Victory for Marion Jones ahead of Ottey
9/13/1997	Men's 5000 metres
	Komen loses out as Boulami wins at close
9/13/1997	Women's high jump
	Babakova wins with equal world best of 2.02
9/13/1997	Women's Mile
	World Champion Sacramento takes easy victory
9/13/1997	Men's 800 metres
	Great Dane wins again - $250,000 almost in the bank
9/13/1997	Men's 400m hurdles
	Victory for Samuel Matete
9/13/1997	Men's Discus Throw
	Riedel still unbeatable
9/13/1997	Women's 400m hurdles
	Kim Batten beats Deon Hemmings dashes hopes of overall victory
9/13/1997	3000 steeplechase
	Event report on Joseph Keter's spectacular win

Grand Prix Final News

9/13/1997	Roundup
	Mark Butler summarises the Grand Prix Final
9/13/1997	The Winners
	Table of leading prize winners in the IAAF Grand Prix Final
9/12/1997	GP Final boosts Athletics in Japan
	Fukuoka will give major stimulus to Japanese Track & Field
9/11/1997	Watch out Merlene
	Marion Jones is back on top form and ready to repair her defeat in Tokyo by Merlene Ottey
9/11/1997	Pedroso tired but still game
	Ivan Pedroso may be tired but he is still set to take victory in long jump at the Final
9/11/1997	Kiptanui predicts a tactical race
	Moses Kiptanui doesn't rule out a record attempt but will be running a tactical race tomorrow
9/11/1997	The Contenders
	Mark Butler looks at likely winners and what they stand to gain
9/11/1997	Humidity threatens record chances
	Daniel Komen will be going for a new 5000m record, but thinks that high humidity may affecty his chances
9/11/1997	Deon loses her passport
	Jamaica's Deon Hemmings missed the Tokyo meeting when she lost her passport and arrived just in time for the Final
9/10/1997	The Richest Final
	This will be the richest ever edition of the IAAF Grand Prix Final
9/10/1997	Grand Finale to Season of Records
	Saturday's Final will draw the curtain on what has truly been a "Season of Records"
9/10/1997	Fight to the Finish
	There will be a closely fought battle for the women's overall title
9/9/1997	After Athens..Fukuoka
	Denmark's Wilson Kipketer looks set for Grand Slam victory in Grand Prix Final

1997 Grand Prix Reports

5/4/1997	Rio Grand Prix Report
	The opening meeting of the 1997 IAAF Grand Prix Circuit

5/10/1997	Osaka Grand Prix report
	Frankie Fredericks and Daniel Komen kick start the Grand Prix series in Osaka.
5/25/1997	Prefontaine Classic
	Johnson's final warm-up before Toronto: capacity crowd for Prefontaine Classic - only Grand Prix in the USA this year
6/5/1997	Rome Golden Gala
	Kipketer, Komen, El Guerrouj, Beckford and Pedroso put on a great show in a rain-drenched Golden Gala
6/8/1997	Moscow Znamensky Memorial
	Defeat for Bailey (100m) and Rodal (800m) in IAAF Moscow Grand Prix: 40th Znamensky Memorial continues despite the deluge.
6/25/1997	Paris Gaz de France
	Rainy weather thwarts world record ambitions while Michael Johnson and Marie Jos�e P�rec sink in Charl�ty
6/29/1997	Sheffield Securicor Games
	Bailey does it again as Britons show bulldog spirit
7/2/1997	Athletissima Lausanne
	Running in the Rain - American Sprint strikes back
7/4/1997	Oslo Bislett Games
	Gebrselassie breaks 10,000m World record in Oslo
7/7/1997	Stockholm DN Galan
	Kipketer equals 800m World Record
7/16/1997	Nice - Nikaia
	Tarasov joins exclusive 6-Metre Club
8/13/1997	Z�rich Weltklasse
	World records tumble in night of Weltklasse Magic
8/16/1997	Monte Carlo Herculis
	Komen shows his speed
8/22/1997	Brussels Van Damme Memorial
	39 Minutes wipe Gebrselassie off the record books
8/24/1997	Weltklasse in K�ln
	End of season fatigue? Never heard of it.. More records in Cologne
8/26/1997	Berlin - ISTAF 97
	Fredericks, El Guerrouj and Szabo take Golden Four Gold whilst "Gebre" finds the clock a pace too fast.