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Powerlifting at the 1997 World Games consisted of six events, three events for women and three for men.^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	1	2	4
2	Poland (POL)	1	1	1	3
3	Norway (NOR)	1	1	0	2
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	1	2
5	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
7	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
8	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
10	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		6	6	6	18

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lightweight details	Alexey Sivokon	Sutrisno Bin Darimin	Hu Chun-hsiung
Middleweight details	Petri Triharyanto	Dmitriy Solovio	Jan Wilczyński
Heavyweight details	Sturla Davidsen	Carl Christoffersen	Janne Toivanen

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lightweight details	Lin Li-min	Raija Koskinen	Nadezhda Mir
Middleweight details	Carrie Boudreau	Ingebord Marx	Irene Frangi
Heavyweight details	Lisa Sjöstrand	Lee Chia-sui	Chao Chen-ye