1987 World Championships in Athletics

2nd World Championships in Athletics
Host cityRome, Italy
Nations159
Athletes1451
Events43
Dates28 August – 6 September 1987
Opened byPresident Francesco Cossiga
Main venueStadio Olimpico

The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6, 1987.

Men's results

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Track

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1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
details
Carl Lewis
 United States
9.931
=WR
Ray Stewart
 Jamaica
10.08 Linford Christie
 Great Britain
10.14
200 m
details
Calvin Smith
 United States
20.16 Gilles Quénéhervé
 France
20.16 John Regis
 Great Britain
20.18
400 m
details
Thomas Schönlebe
 East Germany
44.33
AR
Innocent Egbunike
 Nigeria
44.56 Butch Reynolds
 United States
44.80
800 m
details
Billy Konchellah
 Kenya
1:43.06
CR
Peter Elliott
 Great Britain
1:43.41 José Luíz Barbosa
 Brazil
1:43.76
1,500 m
details
Abdi Bile
 Somalia
3:36.80 José Luis González
 Spain
3:38.03 Jim Spivey
 United States
3:38.82
5,000 m
details
Saïd Aouita
 Morocco
13:26.44 Domingos Castro
 Portugal
13:27.59 Jack Buckner
 Great Britain
13:27.74
10,000 m
details
Paul Kipkoech
 Kenya
27:38.63
CR
Francesco Panetta
 Italy
27:48.98 Hansjörg Kunze
 East Germany
27:50.37
Marathon
details
Douglas Wakiihuri
 Kenya
2:11:48 Hussein Ahmed Salah
 Djibouti
2:12:30 Gelindo Bordin
 Italy
2:12:40
110 m hurdles
details
Greg Foster
 United States
13.21 Jon Ridgeon
 Great Britain
13.29 Colin Jackson
 Great Britain
13.38
400 m hurdles
details
Edwin Moses
 United States
47.46
CR
Danny Harris
 United States
47.48 Harald Schmid
 West Germany
47.48
AR
3,000 m st.
details
Francesco Panetta
 Italy
8:08.57
CR
Hagen Melzer
 East Germany
8:10.32 William Van Dijck
 Belgium
8:12.18
20 km walk
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Maurizio Damilano
 Italy
1:20:45
CR
Jozef Pribilinec
 Czechoslovakia
1:21:07 José Marín
 Spain
1:21:24
50 km walk
details
Hartwig Gauder
 East Germany
3:40:53
CR
Ronald Weigel
 East Germany
3:41:30 Vyacheslav Ivanenko
 Soviet Union
3:44:02
4 × 100 m relay
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 United States (USA)
Lee McRae
Lee McNeill
Harvey Glance
Carl Lewis
Dennis Mitchell*
37.90  Soviet Union (URS)
Aleksandr Yevgenyev
Viktor Bryzgin
Vladimir Muravyov
Vladimir Krylov
Andrey Fedoriv*
38.02
AR
 Jamaica (JAM)
John Mair
Andrew Smith
Clive Wright
Ray Stewart
38.41
4 × 400 m relay
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 United States (USA)
Danny Everett
Roddie Haley
Antonio McKay
Butch Reynolds
Michael Franks*
Raymond Pierre*
2:57.29
CR
 Great Britain (GBR)
Derek Redmond
Kriss Akabusi
Roger Black
Phil Brown
Todd Bennett*
Mark Thomas*
2:58.86
AR
 Cuba (CUB)
Leandro Peñalver
Agustín Pavó
Lázaro Martínez
Roberto Hernández
2:59.16
NR
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

1 Ben Johnson of Canada originally won the gold medal in 9.83, but he was disqualified in September 1989 after he admitted to using steroids between 1981 and 1988.
* Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

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1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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Patrik Sjöberg
 Sweden
2.38
CR
Hennadiy Avdyeyenko
 Soviet Union
Igor Paklin
 Soviet Union
2.38
CR
Not awarded
Pole vault
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Sergey Bubka
 Soviet Union
5.85
CR
Thierry Vigneron
 France
5.80 Radion Gataullin
 Soviet Union
5.80
Long jump
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.67
CR
Robert Emmiyan
 Soviet Union
8.53 Larry Myricks
 United States
8.331
Triple jump
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Khristo Markov
 Bulgaria
17.92
CR and AR
Mike Conley
 United States
17.67 Oleg Sakirkin
 Soviet Union
17.43
Shot put
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Werner Günthör
  Switzerland
22.23
CR
Alessandro Andrei
 Italy
21.88 John Brenner
 United States
21.75
Discus throw
details
Jürgen Schult
 East Germany
68.74
CR
John Powell
 United States
66.22 Luis Delís
 Cuba
66.02
Hammer throw
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Sergey Litvinov
 Soviet Union
83.06
CR
Jüri Tamm
 Soviet Union
80.84 Ralf Haber
 East Germany
80.76
Javelin throw
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Seppo Räty
 Finland
83.54
CR
Viktor Yevsyukov
 Soviet Union
82.52 Jan Železný
 Czechoslovakia
82.20
Decathlon
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Torsten Voss
 East Germany
8680 Siegfried Wentz
 West Germany
8461 Pavel Tarnavetskiy
 Soviet Union
8375
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

1 Giovanni Evangelisti of Italy originally won the bronze medal with 8.37 m, but it was later determined that Italian field officials had entered a pre-arranged fake result for a jump of 7.85 m.[1] While Evangelisti had no involvement in or knowledge of the fraud, Italian head coach Sandro Donati, who revealed it, was fired.[2]

Women's results

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Track

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1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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 Silke Gladisch (GDR) 10.90
CR
 Heike Drechsler (GDR) 11.00  Merlene Ottey (JAM) 11.04
200 m
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 Silke Gladisch (GDR) 21.74
CR
 Florence Griffith (USA) 21.96  Merlene Ottey (JAM) 22.06
400 m
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 Olga Bryzgina (URS) 49.38  Petra Muller (GDR) 49.94  Kirsten Emmelmann (GDR) 50.20
800 m
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 Sigrun Wodars (GDR) 1:55.26
NR
 Christine Wachtel (GDR) 1:55.32  Lyubov Gurina (URS) 1:55.56
1,500 m
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 Tetyana Samolenko (URS) 3:58.56
CR
 Hildegard Körner (GDR) 3:58.67  Doina Melinte (ROU) 3:59.27
3,000 m
details
 Tetyana Samolenko (URS) 8:38.73  Maricica Puică (ROU) 8:39.45  Ulrike Bruns (GDR) 8:40.30
10,000 m
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 Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) 31:05.85  Yelena Zhupiyeva (URS) 31:09.40  Kathrin Ullrich (GDR) 31:11.34
Marathon
details
 Rosa Mota (POR) 2:25:17
CR
 Zoya Ivanova (URS) 2:32:38  Jocelyne Villeton (FRA) 2:32:53
100 m hurdles
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 Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL) 12.34
CR
 Gloria Uibel (GDR) 12.44  Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR) 12.46
400 m hurdles
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 Sabine Busch (GDR) 53.62
CR
 Debbie Flintoff (AUS) 54.19  Cornelia Ullrich (GDR) 54.31
10 km walk
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 Irina Strakhova (URS) 44:12
CR
 Kerry Saxby (AUS) 44:23  Yan Hong (CHN) 44:42
4 × 100 m relay
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 United States (USA)
Alice Brown
Diane Williams
Florence Griffith
Pam Marshall
41.58
CR
 East Germany (GDR)
Silke Gladisch
Cornelia Oschkenat
Kerstin Behrendt
Marlies Göhr
41.95  Soviet Union (URS)
Irina Slyusar
Natalya Pomoschchnikova
Natalya German
Olga Antonova
42.33
4 × 400 m relay
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 East Germany (GDR)
Dagmar Neubauer
Kirsten Emmelmann
Petra Muller
Sabine Busch
Cornelia Ullrich*
3:18.63
CR
 Soviet Union (URS)
Aelita Yurchenko
Olga Nazarova
Mariya Pinigina
Olga Bryzgina
3:19.50  United States (USA)
Diane Dixon
Denean Howard
Valerie Brisco
Lillie Leatherwood
3:21.04
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

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1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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 Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) 2.09
WR
 Tamara Bykova (URS) 2.04  Susanne Beyer (GDR) 1.99
Long jump
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 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) 7.36
CR
 Yelena Belevskaya (URS) 7.14  Heike Drechsler (GDR) 7.13
Shot put
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 Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) 21.24
CR
 Kathrin Neimke (GDR) 21.21  Ines Müller (GDR) 20.76
Discus throw
details
 Martina Hellmann (GDR) 71.62
CR
 Diana Gansky (GDR) 70.12  Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL) 68.82
Javelin throw
details
 Fatima Whitbread (GBR) 76.64
CR
 Petra Felke (GDR) 71.76  Beate Peters (FRG) 68.82
Heptathlon
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 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) 7128
CR
 Larisa Nikitina (URS) 6564  Jane Frederick (USA) 6502
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Exhibition events

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Two exhibition para-athletics events appeared at the competition, but results did not go towards the overall medal count. The two wheelchair races were the first time disability events had appeared at the championships, and were the first exhibition event of any kind to feature at the World Championships in Athletics. This began a tradition of such events which continued until 2011. Wheelchair exhibition events were contested until that year, bar 1999 and 2009.[3]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 1500 m wheelchair  Mustapha Badid (FRA) 3:54.32  Lars Lofström (SWE) 3:54.90  Franz Nietlispach (SUI) 3:55.27
Women's 800 m wheelchair  Diane Rakiecki (CAN) 2:32.52  Connie Hansen (DEN) 2:37.07  Ingrid Lauridsen (DEN) 2:39.95

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Italy)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 East Germany (GDR)10111031
2 United States (USA)104620
3 Soviet Union (URS)712625
4 Bulgaria (BUL)3014
5 Kenya (KEN)3003
6 Italy (ITA)*2215
7 Great Britain (GBR)1348
8 Portugal (POR)1102
9 Finland (FIN)1001
 Morocco (MAR)1001
 Norway (NOR)1001
 Somalia (SOM)1001
 Sweden (SWE)1001
 Switzerland (SUI)1001
15 France (FRA)0213
16 Australia (AUS)0202
17 Jamaica (JAM)0134
18 West Germany (FRG)0123
19 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0112
 Romania (ROU)0112
 Spain (ESP)0112
22 Djibouti (DJI)0101
 Nigeria (NGR)0101
24 Cuba (CUB)0022
25 Belgium (BEL)0011
 Brazil (BRA)0011
 China (CHN)0011
Totals (27 entries)434442129
Source: [1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Longman, Jere (4 August 1995). "Pedroso's World Mark In Long Jump in Doubt". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  2. ^ The Man Who Knows Too Much Archived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, Sport Monthly, March 2003, retr from chrisharrisonwriting.com on 2012 10 20
  3. ^ Butler, Mark et al. (2013). IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (archived), pp. 306–8. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-06.