1987 World Championships in Athletics

Athletics competition in Rome, Italy 2nd World Championships in Athletics Rome IAAF 1987.jpg 150 Rome, Italy 159 1451 43 28 August – 6 September 1987 President Francesco Cossiga Stadio Olimpico 1983 Helsinki 1991 Tokyo The 2nd World Championships in Athletics (it Campionati del mondo di atletica leggera 1987) 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. 3 Men's results Track 1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 100 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metresCarl Lewis USA9.931=WRRay Stewart JAM10.08Linford Christie GBR10.14 200 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metresCalvin Smith USA20.16Gilles Quénéhervé FRA20.16John Regis GBR20.18 400 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metresThomas Schönlebe GDR44.33AR EuropeanInnocent Egbunike NGR44.56Butch Reynolds USA44.80 800 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metresBilly Konchellah KEN1:43.06CR World Championships in AthleticsPeter Elliott GBR1:43.41José Luíz Barbosa BRA 19681:43.76 1500 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metresAbdi Bile SOM3:36.80José Luis González ESP3:38.03Jim Spivey USA3:38.82 5000 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metresSaïd Aouita MAR13:26.44Domingos Castro POR13:27.59Jack Buckner GBR13:27.74 10,000 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metresPaul Kipkoech KEN27:38.63CR World Championships in AthleticsFrancesco Panetta ITA27:48.98Hansjörg Kunze GDR27:50.37 Marathon1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathonDouglas Wakiihuri KEN2:11:48Hussein Ahmed Salah DJI2:12:30Gelindo Bordin ITA2:12:40 110 m hurdles1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdlesGreg Foster USA13.21Jon Ridgeon GBR13.29Colin Jackson GBR13.38 400 m hurdles1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdlesEdwin Moses USA47.46CR World Championships in AthleticsDanny Harris USA47.48Harald Schmid FRG47.48AR European 3000 m st.1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechaseFrancesco Panetta ITA8:08.57CR World Championships in AthleticsHagen Melzer GDR8:10.32William Van Dijck BEL8:12.18 20 km walk 1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walkMaurizio Damilano ITA1:20:45CR World Championships in AthleticsJozef Pribilinec TCH1:21:07José Marín ESP1:21:24 50 km walk1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walkHartwig Gauder GDR3:40:53CR World Championships in AthleticsRonald Weigel GDR3:41:30Vyacheslav Ivanenko URS3:44:02 4 × 100 m relay1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 x 100 metres relayUSALee McRaeLee McNeillHarvey GlanceCarl Lewis Dennis Mitchell*37.90URSAleksandr YevgenyevViktor BryzginVladimir MuravyovVladimir Krylov Andrey Fedoriv*38.02AR EuropeanJAMJohn MairAndrew SmithClive WrightRay StewartGreg Meghoo* 38.41 4 × 400 m relay1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 x 400 metres relayUSADanny EverettRoddie HaleyAntonio McKayButch Reynolds Michael Franks*Raymond Pierre*2:57.29CR World Championships in AthleticsGBRDerek RedmondKriss AkabusiRoger BlackPhil BrownTodd Bennett*Mark Thomas*2:58.86AR EuropeanCUBLeandro PeñalverAgustín PavóLázaro MartínezRoberto Hernández2:59.16NR Cuban 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 jump1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jumpPatrik Sjöberg SWE2.38CR World Championships in AthleticsHennadiy Avdyeyenko URSIgor Paklin URS2.38CR World Championships in AthleticsNot awarded Pole vault1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vaultSergey Bubka URS5.85CR World Championships in AthleticsThierry Vigneron FRA5.80Radion Gataullin URS5.80 Long jump1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jumpCarl Lewis USA8.67CR World Championships in AthleticsRobert Emmiyan URS8.53Larry Myricks USA8.331 Triple Jump1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jumpKhristo Markov BUL 197117.92CR World Championships in Athletics and AR EuropeanMike Conley USA17.67Oleg Sakirkin URS17.43 Shot put1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot putWerner Günthör SUI22.23CR World Championships in AthleticsAlessandro Andrei ITA21.88John Brenner USA21.75 Discus throw1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throwJürgen Schult GDR68.74CR World Championships in AthleticsJohn Powell USA66.22Luis Delís CUB66.02 Hammer throw1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throwSergey Litvinov URS83.06CR World Championships in AthleticsJüri Tamm URS80.84Ralf Haber GDR80.76 Javelin throw1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throwSeppo Räty FIN83.54CR World Championships in AthleticsViktor Yevsyukov URS82.52Jan Železný TCH82.20 Decathlon1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlonTorsten Voss GDR8680Siegfried Wentz FRG8461Pavel Tarnavetskiy URS8375 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.Longman Jere Pedroso's World Mark In Long Jump in Doubt https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/04/sports/track-and-field-pedroso-s-world-mark-in-long-jump-in-doubt.html The New York Times 11 June 2024 4 August 1995 While Evangelisti had no involvement in or knowledge of the fraud, Italian head coach Sandro Donati, who revealed it, was fired.The Man Who Knows Too Much https://web.archive.org/web/20140226212536/http://www.chrisharrisonwriting.com/journalism/_3/ 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 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metresSilke Gladisch GDR10.90CR World Championships in AthleticsHeike Drechsler GDR11.00Merlene Ottey JAM11.04200 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metresSilke Gladisch GDR21.74CR World Championships in AthleticsFlorence Griffith USA21.96Merlene Ottey JAM22.06400 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metresOlga Bryzgina URS49.38Petra Muller GDR49.94Kirsten Emmelmann GDR50.20800 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metresSigrun Wodars GDR1:55.26NR East GermanChristine Wachtel GDR1:55.32Lyubov Gurina URS1:55.561500 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metresTetyana Samolenko URS3:58.56CR World Championships in AthleticsHildegard Körner GDR3:58.67Doina Melinte ROU 19653:59.273000 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metresTetyana Samolenko URS8:38.73Maricica Puică ROU 19658:39.45Ulrike Bruns GDR8:40.3010,000 m1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metresIngrid Kristiansen NOR31:05.85Yelena Zhupiyeva URS31:09.40Kathrin Ullrich GDR31:11.34Marathon1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's MarathonRosa Mota POR2:25:17CR World Championships in AthleticsZoya Ivanova URS2:32:38Jocelyne Villeton FRA2:32:53100 m hurdles1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdlesGinka Zagorcheva BUL 197112.34CR World Championships in AthleticsGloria Uibel GDR12.44Cornelia Oschkenat GDR12.46400 m hurdles1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdlesSabine Busch GDR53.62CR World Championships in AthleticsDebbie Flintoff AUS54.19Cornelia Ullrich GDR54.3110 km walk1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10 kilometres walkIrina Strakhova URS44:12CR World Championships in AthleticsKerry Saxby AUS44:23Yan Hong CHN44:424 × 100 m relay1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relayUSAAlice BrownDiane Williams Florence GriffithPam Marshall41.58CR World Championships in AthleticsGDRSilke GladischCornelia OschkenatKerstin BehrendtMarlies Göhr41.95URSIrina SlyusarNatalya PomoschchnikovaNatalya GermanOlga Antonova 42.334 × 400 m relay1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relayGDRDagmar NeubauerKirsten EmmelmannPetra MullerSabine Busch Cornelia Ullrich*3:18.63CR World Championships in AthleticsURSAelita YurchenkoOlga NazarovaMariya PiniginaOlga Bryzgina3:19.50USADiane DixonDenean HowardValerie BriscoLillie Leatherwood3:21.04 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds. Field 1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 High jump1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jumpStefka Kostadinova BUL 19712.09WRTamara Bykova URS2.04Susanne Beyer GDR1.99Long jump1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jumpJackie Joyner-Kersee USA7.36CR World Championships in AthleticsYelena Belevskaya URS7.14Heike Drechsler GDR7.13Shot put1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot putNatalya Lisovskaya URS21.24CR World Championships in AthleticsKathrin Neimke GDR21.21Ines Müller GDR20.76Discus throw1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throwMartina Hellmann GDR71.62CR World Championships in AthleticsDiana Gansky GDR70.12Tsvetanka Khristova BUL 197168.82Javelin throw1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throwFatima Whitbread GBR76.64CR World Championships in AthleticsPetra Felke GDR71.76Beate Peters FRG68.82Heptathlon1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlonJackie Joyner-Kersee USA7128CR World Championships in AthleticsLarisa Nikitina URS6564Jane Frederick USA6502 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). IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (archived), pp. 306–8. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-06. Men's 1500 m wheelchairMustapha Badid FRA 3:54.32Lars Lofström SWE 3:54.90Franz Nietlispach SUI 3:55.27Women's 800 m wheelchairDiane Rakiecki CAN 2:32.52Connie Hansen DEN 2:37.07Ingrid Lauridsen DEN 2:39.95 Medal table ITA 10 11 10 10 4 6 7 12 6 3 0 1 BUL 1971 3 0 0 2 2 1 yes 1 3 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 ROU 1965 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 BRA 1968 0 0 1 See also 1987 in athletics (track and field) References IAAF 1987 Results Category:World Athletics Championships World Category:Sports competitions in Rome Category:International athletics competitions hosted by Italy World Championships in Athletics World Championships in Athletics World Championships in Athletics Category:1980s in Rome Category:Athletics in Rome Category:1987 in international sports