1987 World Championships in Athletics

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.

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

Men's results

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Track

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Carl Lewis
  United States
9.931
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Ray Stewart
  Jamaica
10.08 Linford Christie
  Great Britain
10.14
200 m
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Calvin Smith
  United States
20.16 Gilles Quénéhervé
  France
20.16 John Regis
  Great Britain
20.18
400 m
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Thomas Schönlebe
  East Germany
44.33
AR
Innocent Egbunike
  Nigeria
44.56 Butch Reynolds
  United States
44.80
800 m
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Billy Konchellah
  Kenya
1:43.06
CR
Peter Elliott
  Great Britain
1:43.41 José Luíz Barbosa
  Brazil
1:43.76
1,500 m
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Abdi Bile
  Somalia
3:36.80 José Luis González
  Spain
3:38.03 Jim Spivey
  United States
3:38.82
5,000 m
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Saïd Aouita
  Morocco
13:26.44 Domingos Castro
  Portugal
13:27.59 Jack Buckner
  Great Britain
13:27.74
10,000 m
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Paul Kipkoech
  Kenya
27:38.63
CR
Francesco Panetta
  Italy
27:48.98 Hansjörg Kunze
  East Germany
27:50.37
Marathon
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Douglas Wakiihuri
  Kenya
2:11:48 Hussein Ahmed Salah
  Djibouti
2:12:30 Gelindo Bordin
  Italy
2:12:40
110 m hurdles
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Greg Foster
  United States
13.21 Jon Ridgeon
  Great Britain
13.29 Colin Jackson
  Great Britain
13.38
400 m hurdles
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Edwin Moses
  United States
47.46
CR
Danny Harris
  United States
47.48 Harald Schmid
  West Germany
47.48
AR
3,000 m st.
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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  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
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  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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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
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  Martina Hellmann (GDR) 71.62
CR
  Diana Gansky (GDR) 70.12   Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL) 68.82
Javelin throw
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  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.