1987 World Championships in Athletics#Field

{{Infobox games

| name = 2nd World Championships in Athletics

| logo = Rome IAAF 1987.jpg

| size = 150

| host_city = Rome, Italy

| caption =

| nations = 159

| athletes = 1451

| events = 43

| dates = 28 August – 6 September 1987

| opened_by = President Francesco Cossiga

| stadium = Stadio Olimpico

| previous = 1983 Helsinki

| next = 1991 Tokyo

}}

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

100 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres}}

|Carl Lewis
{{flagu|United States}}

9.93¹
={{AthAbbr|WR}}

|Ray Stewart
{{flag|Jamaica}}

10.08

|Linford Christie
{{flagu|Great Britain}}

10.14

200 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres}}

|Calvin Smith
{{flagu|United States}}

20.16

|Gilles Quénéhervé
{{flagu|France}}

20.16

|John Regis
{{flagu|Great Britain}}

20.18

400 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres}}

|Thomas Schönlebe
{{flag|East Germany}}

44.33
{{AthAbbr|AR|European}}

|Innocent Egbunike
{{flag|Nigeria}}

44.56

|Butch Reynolds
{{flagu|United States}}

44.80

800 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres}}

|Billy Konchellah
{{flag|Kenya}}

1:43.06
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Peter Elliott
{{flagu|Great Britain}}

1:43.41

|José Luíz Barbosa
{{flag|Brazil|1968}}

1:43.76

1500 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres}}

|Abdi Bile
{{flag|Somalia}}

3:36.80

|José Luis González
{{flagu|Spain}}

3:38.03

|Jim Spivey
{{flagu|United States}}

3:38.82

5000 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres}}

|Saïd Aouita
{{flag|Morocco}}

13:26.44

|Domingos Castro
{{flag|Portugal}}

13:27.59

|Jack Buckner
{{flagu|Great Britain}}

13:27.74

10,000 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres}}

|Paul Kipkoech
{{flag|Kenya}}

27:38.63
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Francesco Panetta
{{flagu|Italy}}

27:48.98

|Hansjörg Kunze
{{flag|East Germany}}

27:50.37

Marathon
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's Marathon}}

|Douglas Wakiihuri
{{flag|Kenya}}

2:11:48

|Hussein Ahmed Salah
{{flag|Djibouti}}

2:12:30

|Gelindo Bordin
{{flagu|Italy}}

2:12:40

110 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles}}

|Greg Foster
{{flagu|United States}}

13.21

|Jon Ridgeon
{{flagu|Great Britain}}

13.29

|Colin Jackson
{{flagu|Great Britain}}

13.38

400 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles}}

|Edwin Moses
{{flagu|United States}}

47.46
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Danny Harris
{{flagu|United States}}

47.48

|Harald Schmid
{{flag|West Germany}}

47.48
{{AthAbbr|AR|European}}

3000 m st.
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase}}

|Francesco Panetta
{{flagu|Italy}}

8:08.57
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Hagen Melzer
{{flag|East Germany}}

8:10.32

|William Van Dijck
{{flagu|Belgium}}

8:12.18

20 km walk
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk}}

|Maurizio Damilano
{{flagu|Italy}}

1:20:45
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Jozef Pribilinec
{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}

1:21:07

|José Marín
{{flagu|Spain}}

1:21:24

50 km walk
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk}}

|Hartwig Gauder
{{flag|East Germany}}

3:40:53
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Ronald Weigel
{{flag|East Germany}}

3:41:30

|Vyacheslav Ivanenko
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

3:44:02

4 × 100 m relay
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay}}

|{{flagteam|USA}}
Lee McRae
Lee McNeill
Harvey Glance
Carl Lewis
Dennis Mitchell*

37.90

|{{flagteam|URS}}
Aleksandr Yevgenyev
Viktor Bryzgin
Vladimir Muravyov
Vladimir Krylov
Andrey Fedoriv*

38.02
{{AthAbbr|AR|European}}

|{{flagteam|JAM}}
John Mair
Andrew Smith
Clive Wright
Ray Stewart

38.41

4 × 400 m relay
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay}}

|{{flagteam|USA}}
Danny Everett
Roddie Haley
Antonio McKay
Butch Reynolds
Michael Franks*
Raymond Pierre*

2:57.29
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagteam|GBR}}
Derek Redmond
Kriss Akabusi
Roger Black
Phil Brown
Todd Bennett*
Mark Thomas*

2:58.86
{{AthAbbr|AR|European}}

|{{flagteam|CUB}}
Leandro Peñalver
Agustín Pavó
Lázaro Martínez
Roberto Hernández

2:59.16
{{AthAbbr|NR|Cuban}}

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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

High jump
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump}}

|Patrik Sjöberg
{{flag|Sweden}}

2.38
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Hennadiy Avdyeyenko
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

Igor Paklin
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

2.38
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

!colspan=2|Not awarded

Pole vault
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault}}

|Sergey Bubka
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

5.85
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Thierry Vigneron
{{flagu|France}}

5.80

|Radion Gataullin
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

5.80

Long jump
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump}}

|Carl Lewis
{{flagu|United States}}

8.67
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Robert Emmiyan
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

8.53

|Larry Myricks
{{flagu|United States}}

8.33¹

Triple jump
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump}}

|Khristo Markov
{{flag|Bulgaria|1971}}

17.92
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}} and {{AthAbbr|AR|European}}

|Mike Conley
{{flagu|United States}}

17.67

|Oleg Sakirkin
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

17.43

Shot put
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put}}

|Werner Günthör
{{flagu|Switzerland}}

22.23
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Alessandro Andrei
{{flagu|Italy}}

21.88

|John Brenner
{{flagu|United States}}

21.75

Discus throw
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw}}

|Jürgen Schult
{{flag|East Germany}}

68.74
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|John Powell
{{flagu|United States}}

66.22

|Luis Delís
{{flag|Cuba}}

66.02

Hammer throw
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw}}

|Sergey Litvinov
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

83.06
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Jüri Tamm
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

80.84

|Ralf Haber
{{flag|East Germany}}

80.76

Javelin throw
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw}}

|Seppo Räty
{{flag|Finland}}

83.54
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|Viktor Yevsyukov
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

82.52

|Jan Železný
{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}

82.20

Decathlon
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon}}

|Torsten Voss
{{flag|East Germany}}

8680

|Siegfried Wentz
{{flag|West Germany}}

8461

|Pavel Tarnavetskiy
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

8375

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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.{{cite web |last1=Longman |first1=Jere |title=Pedroso's World Mark In Long Jump in Doubt |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/04/sports/track-and-field-pedroso-s-world-mark-in-long-jump-in-doubt.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=11 June 2024 |date=4 August 1995}} While Evangelisti had no involvement in or knowledge of the fraud, Italian head coach Sandro Donati, who revealed it, was fired.[http://www.chrisharrisonwriting.com/journalism/_3/ The Man Who Knows Too Much] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226212536/http://www.chrisharrisonwriting.com/journalism/_3/ |date=2014-02-26 }}, Sport Monthly, March 2003, retr from chrisharrisonwriting.com on 2012 10 20

Women's results

=Track=

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

100 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Silke Gladisch|GDR}}

10.90
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Heike Drechsler|GDR}}

11.00

|{{flagathlete|Merlene Ottey|JAM}}

11.04

200 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Silke Gladisch|GDR}}

21.74
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Florence Griffith|USA}}

21.96

|{{flagathlete|Merlene Ottey|JAM}}

22.06

400 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Olga Bryzgina|URS}}

49.38

|{{flagathlete|Petra Muller|GDR}}

49.94

|{{flagathlete|Kirsten Emmelmann|GDR}}

50.20

800 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Sigrun Wodars|GDR}}

1:55.26
{{AthAbbr|NR|East German}}

|{{flagathlete|Christine Wachtel|GDR}}

1:55.32

|{{flagathlete|Lyubov Gurina|URS}}

1:55.56

1500 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Tetyana Samolenko|URS}}

3:58.56
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Hildegard Körner|GDR}}

3:58.67

|{{flagathlete|Doina Melinte|ROU|1965}}

3:59.27

3000 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Tetyana Samolenko|URS}}

8:38.73

|{{flagathlete|Maricica Puică|ROU|1965}}

8:39.45

|{{flagathlete|Ulrike Bruns|GDR}}

8:40.30

10,000 m
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres}}

|{{flagathlete|Ingrid Kristiansen|NOR}}

31:05.85

|{{flagathlete|Yelena Zhupiyeva|URS}}

31:09.40

|{{flagathlete|Kathrin Ullrich|GDR}}

31:11.34

Marathon
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's Marathon}}

|{{flagathlete|Rosa Mota|POR}}

2:25:17
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Zoya Ivanova|URS}}

2:32:38

|{{flagathlete|Jocelyne Villeton|FRA}}

2:32:53

100 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles}}

|{{flagathlete|Ginka Zagorcheva|BUL|1971}}

12.34
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Gloria Uibel|GDR}}

12.44

|{{flagathlete|Cornelia Oschkenat|GDR}}

12.46

400 m hurdles
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles}}

|{{flagathlete|Sabine Busch|GDR}}

53.62
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Debbie Flintoff|AUS}}

54.19

|{{flagathlete|Cornelia Ullrich|GDR}}

54.31

10 km walk
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10 kilometres walk}}

|{{flagathlete|Irina Strakhova|URS}}

44:12
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Kerry Saxby|AUS}}

44:23

|{{flagathlete|Yan Hong|CHN}}

44:42

4 × 100 m relay
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay}}

|{{flagteam|USA}}
Alice Brown
Diane Williams
Florence Griffith
Pam Marshall

41.58
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagteam|GDR}}
Silke Gladisch
Cornelia Oschkenat
Kerstin Behrendt
Marlies Göhr

41.95

|{{flagteam|URS}}
Irina Slyusar
Natalya Pomoschchnikova
Natalya German
Olga Antonova

42.33

4 × 400 m relay
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay}}

|{{flagteam|GDR}}
Dagmar Neubauer
Kirsten Emmelmann
Petra Muller
Sabine Busch
Cornelia Ullrich*

3:18.63
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagteam|URS}}
Aelita Yurchenko
Olga Nazarova
Mariya Pinigina
Olga Bryzgina

3:19.50

|{{flagteam|USA}}
Diane Dixon
Denean Howard
Valerie Brisco
Lillie Leatherwood

3:21.04

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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

=Field=

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

High jump
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump}}

|{{flagathlete|Stefka Kostadinova|BUL|1971}}

2.09
{{AthAbbr|WR}}

|{{flagathlete|Tamara Bykova|URS}}

2.04

|{{flagathlete|Susanne Beyer|GDR}}

1.99

Long jump
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump}}

|{{flagathlete|Jackie Joyner-Kersee|USA}}

7.36
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Yelena Belevskaya|URS}}

7.14

|{{flagathlete|Heike Drechsler|GDR}}

7.13

Shot put
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put}}

|{{flagathlete|Natalya Lisovskaya|URS}}

21.24
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Kathrin Neimke|GDR}}

21.21

|{{flagathlete|Ines Müller|GDR}}

20.76

Discus throw
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw}}

|{{flagathlete|Martina Hellmann|GDR}}

71.62
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Diana Gansky|GDR}}

70.12

|{{flagathlete|Tsvetanka Khristova|BUL|1971}}

68.82

Javelin throw
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw}}

|{{flagathlete|Fatima Whitbread|GBR}}

76.64
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Petra Felke|GDR}}

71.76

|{{flagathlete|Beate Peters|FRG}}

68.82

Heptathlon
{{DetailsLink|1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon}}

|{{flagathlete|Jackie Joyner-Kersee|USA}}

7128
{{AthAbbr|CR|World Championships in Athletics}}

|{{flagathlete|Larisa Nikitina|URS}}

6564

|{{flagathlete|Jane Frederick|USA}}

6502

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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.Butler, Mark et al. (2013). [http://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/Moscow-2013-Statistics/sources/projet/IAAF-Moscow.pdf IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20141012091910/http://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/Moscow-2013-Statistics/sources/projet/IAAF-Moscow.pdf archived]), pp. 306–8. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-06.

Men's 1500 m wheelchair

|{{flagathlete|Mustapha Badid|FRA}}

3:54.32

|{{flagathlete|Lars Lofström|SWE}}

3:54.90

|{{flagathlete|Franz Nietlispach|SUI}}

3:55.27

Women's 800 m wheelchair

|{{flagathlete|Diane Rakiecki|CAN}}

2:32.52

|{{flagathlete|Connie Hansen|DEN}}

2:37.07

|{{flagathlete|Ingrid Lauridsen|DEN}}

2:39.95

Medal table

{{Medals table

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| host = ITA

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| source = [https://www.worldathletics.org/Competitions/world-athletics-championships/2nd-iaaf-world-championships-in-athletics-4/medaltable]

| gold_GDR = 10 | silver_GDR = 11 | bronze_GDR = 10

| gold_USA = 10 | silver_USA = 4 | bronze_USA = 6

| gold_URS = 7 | silver_URS = 12 | bronze_URS = 6

| gold_BUL = 3 | silver_BUL = 0 | bronze_BUL = 1 | name_BUL = {{flagteam|BUL|1971}}

| gold_KEN = 3 | silver_KEN = 0 | bronze_KEN = 0

| gold_ITA = 2 | silver_ITA = 2 | bronze_ITA = 1 | host_ITA = yes

| gold_GBR = 1 | silver_GBR = 3 | bronze_GBR = 4

| gold_POR = 1 | silver_POR = 1 | bronze_POR = 0

| gold_FIN = 1 | silver_FIN = 0 | bronze_FIN = 0

| gold_MAR = 1 | silver_MAR = 0 | bronze_MAR = 0

| gold_NOR = 1 | silver_NOR = 0 | bronze_NOR = 0

| gold_SOM = 1 | silver_SOM = 0 | bronze_SOM = 0

| gold_SWE = 1 | silver_SWE = 0 | bronze_SWE = 0

| gold_SUI = 1 | silver_SUI = 0 | bronze_SUI = 0

| gold_FRA = 0 | silver_FRA = 2 | bronze_FRA = 1

| gold_AUS = 0 | silver_AUS = 2 | bronze_AUS = 0

| gold_JAM = 0 | silver_JAM = 1 | bronze_JAM = 3

| gold_FRG = 0 | silver_FRG = 1 | bronze_FRG = 2

| gold_TCH = 0 | silver_TCH = 1 | bronze_TCH = 1

| gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 1 | bronze_ESP = 1

| gold_ROU = 0 | silver_ROU = 1 | bronze_ROU = 1 | name_ROU = {{flagteam|ROU|1965}}

| gold_DJI = 0 | silver_DJI = 1 | bronze_DJI = 0

| gold_NGR = 0 | silver_NGR = 1 | bronze_NGR = 0

| gold_CUB = 0 | silver_CUB = 0 | bronze_CUB = 2

| gold_BEL = 0 | silver_BEL = 0 | bronze_BEL = 1

| gold_BRA = 0 | silver_BRA = 0 | bronze_BRA = 1 | name_BRA = {{flagteam|BRA|1968}}

| gold_CHN = 0 | silver_CHN = 0 | bronze_CHN = 1

}}

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20041212070816/http://www2.iaaf.org/results/past/WCH87/index.html IAAF 1987]
[http://todor66.com/athletics/world/1987/index.html Results]

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1987 World Championships in Athletics#Field

Men's results

=Track=

=Field=

Women's results

=Track=

=Field=

Exhibition events

Medal table

See also

References