Sport Events in August 1997
1st Aug
Nitin Mongia wins Laser standard in sailing championship in Hyderabad.
Anand wins Credit Suisse Masters chess in Beil.
3rd Aug
Leander-Mahesh win Maurier Open super 9 doubles in Montreal.
5th Aug
Sanath Jayasuriya (326) and Roshan Mahanama (211) share an unfinished second wicket association of 548 runs, the highest for any wicket in Tests, in the first Test against India in Colombo.
6th Aug
Sri Lanka posts the highest total in Test cricket - 952 for six declared. Jayasuriya makes 340, adds a record 576 with Mahanama -the highest for any wicket in Test cricket.
8th Aug
Sri Lankan Susanthika Jayasinghe shocks defending champion Merlene Ottey to bag the silver in 200m of the World athletics championships in Athens.
10th Aug
Australia retains the Ashes for the third time.
Sergi Bubka wins the pole vault for sixth time at the World championships.
11th Aug
For first time in ten years an athletics World championships ends without a record.
15th Aug
IWM Vijayalakshmi wins Asian zonal women's chess tournament in Tehran.
K. Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open chess tournament.
17th Aug
Leander-Mahesh duo wins International ATP doubles in Connecticut.
25th Aug
Neelam J. Singh rewrites own discus mark in the Domestic circuit meet in Chennai.
27th Aug
Daljeet Singh in javelin and Debi Bose in hurdles set National records in the Federation Cup athletics in Chennai.
28th Aug
Tiwari and Surinderjit Kaur set National records in hammer throw in Federation Cup athletics.
29th Aug
B.M. Sumavathi creats National record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.