1987 World Championships in Athletics

2nd World Championships in Athletics

Host city	Rome, Italy
Nations	159
Athletes	1451
Events	43
Dates	28 August – 6 September 1987
Opened by	President Francesco Cossiga
Main venue	Stadio 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

Track

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Carl Lewis  United States	9.93^1 =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 details	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 details	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 details	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

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Patrik Sjöberg  Sweden	2.38 CR	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko  Soviet Union Igor Paklin  Soviet Union	2.38 CR	Not awarded
Pole vault details	Sergey Bubka  Soviet Union	5.85 CR	Thierry Vigneron  France	5.80	Radion Gataullin  Soviet Union	5.80
Long jump details	Carl Lewis  United States	8.67 CR	Robert Emmiyan  Soviet Union	8.53	Larry Myricks  United States	8.33^1
Triple jump details	Khristo Markov  Bulgaria	17.92 CR and AR	Mike Conley  United States	17.67	Oleg Sakirkin  Soviet Union	17.43
Shot put details	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 details	Sergey Litvinov  Soviet Union	83.06 CR	Jüri Tamm  Soviet Union	80.84	Ralf Haber  East Germany	80.76
Javelin throw details	Seppo Räty  Finland	83.54 CR	Viktor Yevsyukov  Soviet Union	82.52	Jan Železný  Czechoslovakia	82.20
Decathlon details	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

Track

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Silke Gladisch (GDR)	10.90 CR	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	11.00	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	11.04
200 m details	Silke Gladisch (GDR)	21.74 CR	Florence Griffith (USA)	21.96	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	22.06
400 m details	Olga Bryzgina (URS)	49.38	Petra Muller (GDR)	49.94	Kirsten Emmelmann (GDR)	50.20
800 m details	Sigrun Wodars (GDR)	1:55.26 NR	Christine Wachtel (GDR)	1:55.32	Lyubov Gurina (URS)	1:55.56
1,500 m details	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 details	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 details	Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)	12.34 CR	Gloria Uibel (GDR)	12.44	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	12.46
400 m hurdles details	Sabine Busch (GDR)	53.62 CR	Debbie Flintoff (AUS)	54.19	Cornelia Ullrich (GDR)	54.31
10 km walk details	Irina Strakhova (URS)	44:12 CR	Kerry Saxby (AUS)	44:23	Yan Hong (CHN)	44:42
4 × 100 m relay details	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 details	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

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.09 WR	Tamara Bykova (URS)	2.04	Susanne Beyer (GDR)	1.99
Long jump details	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.36 CR	Yelena Belevskaya (URS)	7.14	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	7.13
Shot put details	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 details	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

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

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	10	11	10	31
2	United States (USA)	10	4	6	20
3	Soviet Union (URS)	7	12	6	25
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	3	0	1	4
5	Kenya (KEN)	3	0	0	3
6	Italy (ITA)*	2	2	1	5
7	Great Britain (GBR)	1	3	4	8
8	Portugal (POR)	1	1	0	2
9	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Somalia (SOM)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
15	France (FRA)	0	2	1	3
16	Australia (AUS)	0	2	0	2
17	Jamaica (JAM)	0	1	3	4
18	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	2	3
19	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	1	2
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
22	Djibouti (DJI)	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	1	0	1
24	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	2	2
25	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		43	44	42	129

Source: [1]

See also

• 1987 in athletics (track and field)

References

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.

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