1997 World Games

The medal tally during the fifth World Games is as follows. United States finished at the top of the final medal table.[2] Two bronze medals were awarded in each of the nine karate kumite events. No bronze medals were awarded in two bodybuilding and three weightlifting events. No silver medal was awarded in one weightlifting event.

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	17	18	10	45
2	China (CHN)	16	14	5	35
3	Germany (GER)	15	16	10	41
4	Russia (RUS)	15	10	13	38
5	Italy (ITA)	12	12	15	39
6	Sweden (SWE)	8	5	10	23
7	Great Britain (GBR)	6	8	9	23
8	Japan (JPN)	6	3	5	14
9	Belgium (BEL)	6	3	4	13
10	France (FRA)	5	12	7	24
11	Ukraine (UKR)	5	7	0	12
12	Australia (AUS)	5	4	5	14
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	5	4	4	13
14	Spain (ESP)	5	2	7	14
15	Netherlands (NED)	4	6	7	17
16	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	4	3	3	10
17	Belarus (BLR)	3	1	4	8
18	Canada (CAN)	3	1	2	6
19	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	3	7
20	Colombia (COL)	2	2	2	6
21	Egypt (EGY)	2	1	1	4
22	South Africa (RSA)	2	0	4	6
23	Austria (AUT)	1	3	1	5
24	Slovakia (SVK)	1	2	2	5
25	Denmark (DEN)	1	2	1	4
26	Norway (NOR)	1	1	4	6
27	Slovenia (SVN)	1	1	2	4
	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	2	4
29	Greece (GRE)	1	1	1	3
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	1	3
31	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
	Indonesia (INA)	1	1	0	2
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	1	0	2
34	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	2	3
35	Argentina (ARG)	1	0	1	2
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	1	2
37	Malaysia (MAS)	1	0	0	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	1	0	0	1
39	Finland (FIN)*	0	9	8	17
40	Poland (POL)	0	2	5	7
41	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	2	3
42	Liechtenstein (LIE)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
44	Georgia (GEO)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (48 nations)		164	163	168	495

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	2	1	0	3
2	Netherlands (NED)	2	0	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
4	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
6	Spain (ESP)	0	2	0	2
7	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	1	2
	Finland (FIN)*	0	1	1	2
9	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
10	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
11	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SVN)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		8	8	8	24

The venue was the Lahti City Theater. The competition took place on August 8 and 9.

The venue was the Lahti Bowling Centre. The competition took place on August 8 to 10.

The venue was the Kisapuisto Sports Park. The competition took place on August 10 to 12.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Fly Accuracy	Thomas Maire	Werner Gattermaier	Frode Semb
Fly Distance Single Handed	Slaveyko Slaveykov	Robert Meszaros	Patrik Lexa
Spinning Accuracy Arenberg Target	Patrik Lexa	Henrik Harjanne	Josef Luxa
Spinning Accuracy	Patrik Lexa	Thomas Maire	Jan Meszaros
Spinning Distance Single Handed	Jan Meszaros	Thomas Maire	Patrik Lexa
Multiplier Accuracy	Steve Rajeff	Harvey Beck	Henrik Österberg

The source available does not say whether or not there was a Men's Multiplier Distance Single Handed event.

The venue was the Urheilutalo. The competition took place on August 10 and 11.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Standard	Hazel Newberry Christopher Hawkins	Alessandra Bucciarelli William Pino	Pia David Stefan Ossenkop
Latin	Mie Bach Steen Lund	Katerina Venturini Andrej Skufca	Katja Koukkula Jussi Väänänen

The venue was the Lahti Sport Centre. The competition took place on August 9 to 11.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Germany	Austria	Brazil

These were the final individual events of trampoline at the World Games. The individual trampoline has been part of the program of the Olympic Games from 2000.

The competition took place at Suurhalli Exhibition.