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Bodybuilding at the 1997 World Games took part between 8 and 9 August 1997 at the Lahti City Theater in Lahti, Finland. It consisted of nine events, three events for women and three for men.^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	2	1	1	4
2	Japan (JPN)	2	0	0	2
3	United States (USA)	1	2	0	3
4	Egypt (EGY)	1	1	1	3
5	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
8	Finland (FIN)	0	4	2	6
9	Liechtenstein (LIE)	0	1	0	1
10	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		9	9	7	25

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
- 65 kg	Anwar el-Amawy	Mohamed Abdel el-Aziz	José Carlos Santos
- 70 kg	Toshiko Hirota	Chris Faildo
- 75 kg	Kim Jun-Ho	Juha Hakala	Ahmed al-Sayed
- 80 kg	Kester Pasche	Johnny Steward	Yrjö Jokela
- 90 kg	Milton Holloway	Ingo Fischer	Janos Lantos
+ 90 kg	Walter Lettner	Peter Keränen	Olegas Zuras

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
- 52 kg	Utako Mizuma	Katja Rydström	Heike Jung
- 57 kg	Barbara Furer	Rita Rinner
+ 57 kg	Michaela Baumer	Pauliina Kosola	Anne Oksanen