Season's Bests
| Event | Men | Women | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athlete | Mark | Notes | Athlete | Mark | Notes | |
| 100 metres | Donovan Bailey (CAN) | 9.91 | Gwen Torrence (USA) | 10.84 | ||
| 200 metres | Michael Johnson (USA) | 19.79 | Gwen Torrence (USA) | 21.77 | ||
| 400 metres | Michael Johnson (USA) | 43.39 | Marie-José Pérec (FRA) | 49.28 | ||
| 800 metres | Wilson Kipketer (DEN) | 1:42.87 | Maria Mutola (MOZ) | 1:55.72 | ||
| 1500 metres | Noureddine Morceli (ALG) | 3:27.37 | WR | Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL) | 3:58.85 | |
| 3000 metres | Moses Kiptanui (KEN) | 7:27.18 | Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL) | 8:27.57 | ||
| 5000 metres | Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) | 12:44.39 | WR | Fernanda Ribeiro (POR) | 14:36.45 | WR |
| 10,000 metres | Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) | 26:43.53 | WR | Fernanda Ribeiro (POR) | 31:04.99 | |
| 100/110 metres hurdles | Allen Johnson (USA) | 12.98 | Olga Shishigina (KAZ) | 12.44 | ||
| 400 metres hurdles | Stéphane Diagana (FRA) | 47.37 | Kim Batten (USA) | 52.61 | WR | |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Moses Kiptanui (KEN) | 7:59.18 | WR | — | ||
| Pole vault | Okkert Brits (RSA) | 6.03 m | Emma George (AUS) | 4.28 m | ||
| High jump | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.40 m | Inga Babakova (UKR) | 2.05 m | ||
| Long jump | Iván Pedroso (CUB) | 8.71 m | Heike Drechsler (GER) | 7.07 m | ||
| Triple jump | Jonathan Edwards (GBR) | 18.29 m | WR | Inessa Kravets (UKR) | 15.50 m | WR |
| Shot put | John Godina (USA) | 22.00 m | Astrid Kumbernuss (GER) | 21.22 m | ||
| Discus throw | Lars Riedel (GER) | 69.08 m | Mette Bergmann (NOR) | 69.68 m | ||
| Javelin throw | Raymond Hecht (GER) | 92.60 m | Natalya Shikolenko (BLR) | 71.18 m | ||
| Hammer throw | Andrey Abduvaliyev (UZB) | 83.10 m | Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) | 68.16 m | WR | |
| Heptathlon | — | Ghada Shouaa (SYR) | 6715 pts | |||
| Decathlon | Dan O'Brien (USA) | 8695 pts | — | |||
| 4×100 metres relay | Canada Robert Esmie Glenroy Gilbert Bruny Surin Donovan Bailey |
38.16 | United States Celena Mondie-Milner Carlette Guidry Chryste Gaines Gwen Torrence |
42.12 | ||
| 4×400 metres relay | United States Marlon Ramsey Derek Mills Harry Reynolds Michael Johnson |
2:57.32 | Russia Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Tatyana Zakharova Yelena Andreyeva |
3:22.24 | ||
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