1987 World Championships in Athletics

2nd World Championships in Athletics
Host city	Rome, Italy
Nations participating	159
Athletes participating	1451
Events	43
Dates	August 28 – September 6, 1987
Officially 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	Carl Lewis United States	9.93¹ EWR	Ray Stewart Jamaica	10.08	Linford Christie Great Britain	10.14
200 m	Calvin Smith United States	20.16	Gilles Quénéhervé France	20.16	John Regis Great Britain	20.18
400 m	Thomas Schönlebe East Germany	44.33 AR	Innocent Egbunike Nigeria	44.56	Butch Reynolds United States	44.80
800 m	Billy Konchellah Kenya	1:43.06 CR	Peter Elliott Great Britain	1:43.41	José Luiz Barbosa Brazil	1:43.76
1,500 m	Abdi Bile Somalia	3:36.80	José Luis González Spain	3:38.03	Jim Spivey United States	3:38.82
5,000 m	Saïd Aouita Morocco	13:26.44	Domingos Castro Portugal	13:27.59	Jack Buckner Great Britain	13:27.74
10,000 m	Paul Kipkoech Kenya	27:38.63 CR	Francesco Panetta Italy	27:48.98	Hansjörg Kunze East Germany	27:50.37
Marathon	Douglas Wakiihuri Kenya	2:11:48	Hussein Ahmed Salah Djibouti	2:12:30	Gelindo Bordin Italy	2:12:40
110 m hurdles	Greg Foster United States	13.21	Jon Ridgeon Great Britain	13.29	Colin Jackson Great Britain	13.38
400 m hurdles	Edwin Moses United States	47.46 CR	Danny Harris United States	47.48	Harald Schmid West Germany	47.48 AR
3,000 m st.	Francesco Panetta Italy	8:08.57 CR	Hagen Melzer East Germany	8:10.32	William Van Dijck Belgium	8:12.18
20 km walk	Maurizio Damilano Italy	1:20:45 CR	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia	1:21:07	José Marín Spain	1:21:24
50 km walk	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	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	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 Agustin 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
Long jump	Carl Lewis United States	8.67 CR	Robert Emmiyan Soviet Union	8.53	Larry Myricks United States	8.33¹
Triple jump	Khristo Markov Bulgaria	17.92 CR and AR	Mike Conley United States	17.67	Oleg Sakirkin Soviet Union	17.43
High jump	Patrik Sjöberg Sweden	2.38 CR	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko Soviet Union Igor Paklin Soviet Union	2.38 CR	Not awarded
Pole vault	Sergey Bubka Soviet Union	5.85 CR	Thierry Vigneron France	5.80	Rodion Gataullin Soviet Union	5.80
Shot put	Werner Günthör Switzerland	22.23 CR	Alessandro Andrei Italy	21.88	John Brenner United States	21.75
Discus throw	Jürgen Schult East Germany	68.74 CR	John Powell United States	66.22	Luis Delís Cuba	66.02
Hammer throw	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union	83.06 CR	Jüri Tamm Soviet Union	80.84	Ralf Haber East Germany	80.76
Javelin throw	Seppo Räty Finland	83.54 CR	Viktor Yevsyukov Soviet Union	82.52	Jan Železný Czechoslovakia	82.20
Decathlon	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 in the long jump with a jump of 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. . Evangelisti did not know about the scam, but Italian head coach Sandro Donati revealed the fraud and was fired.[1]

Women's results

Track

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Silke Gladisch (GDR)	10.90 CR	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	11.00	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	11.04
200 m	Silke Gladisch (GDR)	21.74 CR	Florence Griffith (USA)	21.96	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	22.06
400 m	Olga Bryzgina (URS)	49.38	Petra Muller (GDR)	49.94	Kirsten Emmelmann (GDR)	50.20
800 m	Sigrun Wodars (GDR)	1:55.26 NR	Christine Wachtel (GDR)	1:55.32	Lyubov Gurina (URS)	1:55.56
1,500 m	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	3:58.56 CR	Hildegard Körner (GDR)	3:58.67	Doina Melinte (ROU)	3:59.27
3,000 m	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	8:38.73	Maricica Puică (ROU)	8:39.45	Ulrike Bruns (GDR)	8:40.30
10,000 m	Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)	31:05.85	Yelena Zhupiyeva (URS)	31:09.40	Kathrin Ullrich (GDR)	31:11.34
Marathon	Rosa Mota (POR)	2:25:17 CR	Zoya Ivanova (URS)	2:32:38	Jocelyne Villeton (FRA)	2:32:53
100 m hurdles	Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)	12.34 CR	Gloria Uibel (GDR)	12.44	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	12.46
400 m hurdles	Sabine Busch (GDR)	53.62 CR	Debbie Flintoff (AUS)	54.19	Cornelia Ullrich (GDR)	54.31
10 km walk	Irina Strakhova (URS)	44:12 CR	Kerry Saxby (AUS)	44:23	Yan Hong (CHN)	44:42
4 × 100 m relay	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	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
Long jump	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.36 CR	Yelena Belevskaya (URS)	7.14	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	7.13
High jump	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.09 WR	Tamara Bykova (URS)	2.04	Susanne Beyer (GDR)	1.99
Shot put	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	21.24 CR	Kathrin Neimke (GDR)	21.21	Ines Müller (GDR)	20.76
Discus throw	Martina Hellmann (GDR)	71.62 CR	Diana Gansky (GDR)	70.12	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)	68.82
Javelin throw	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)	76.64 CR	Petra Felke (GDR)	71.76	Beate Peters (FRG)	68.82
Heptathlon	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.[2]

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
22	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 nations)		43	44	42	129

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References

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
Butler, Mark et al. (2013). IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (archived), pp. 306–8. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-06.

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[1] 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

[2] Butler, Mark et al. (2013). IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (archived), pp. 306–8. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-06.

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1987 World Championships in Athletics

Men's results

Track

Field

Women's results

Track

Field

Exhibition events

Medal table

See also

References