1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

None These are the official results of the Men's 400 metres Hurdles event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 47 participating athletes, with six qualifying heats, two semi-finals and the final held on Tuesday 1987-09-01. Summary After 122 consecutive victories, Edwin Moses's winning streak was finally broken in June by Danny Harris. Harris was in lane 5, while Moses was in lane three. Between them was Harald Schmid, the man who had last beaten Moses at the beginning of the streak. Surrounding them were the usual suspects of 1980's long hurdling. From the gun, Moses took the race out hard, making up the stagger to catch Schmid just past the fourth hurdle. Harris was also out fast but not as aggressively as Moses, taking hurdles one stride behind. Running his famous 13 steps, Moses pulled away through the final turn as Schmid accelerated to keep pace. He had a two-metre lead coming of the 9th hurdle with Schmid passing Harris as Harris took the hurdle leaning back. Moses maintained his lead over the final hurdle as Harris fought back to a slight advantage against Schmid. But Moses was struggling to maintain his stride, Harris had the momentum and Schmid was responding to the challenge. The gap was disappearing as all three were fighting to get to the line. Moses dived for the line in desperation, Harris maintained form and Schmid gave a textbook lean reminiscent of Colin Jackson to try to get ahead. In the closest 400 metres hurdles race in World Championship history, Moses saved the victory in 47.46, while Harris and Schmid were given the same time of 47.48, with Harris getting the nod for silver. After 11 years of chasing Moses, it was a European record and personal best for Schmid. Schmid's record would last almost 8 years and still ranks #16 on the all-time list. It was a World Championship record for Moses. Final RANKLANEFINALTIMEImage:Med 1.png3Edwin Moses USA47.46 CRImage:Med 2.png5Danny Harris USA47.48Image:Med 3.png4Harald Schmid FRG47.48 AR4.6Sven Nylander SWE48.375.2Amadou Dia Ba SEN48.376.1Henry Amike NGR48.637.7Kriss Akabusi GBR48.748.8José Alonso ESP49.46 Semi-finals Held on Monday 1983-08-31 RANKHEAT 1TIME1.Harald Schmid FRG48.232.Danny Harris USA48.243.Sven Nylander SWE48.464.Henry Amike NGR48.50 NR5.David Patrick USA48.566.Winthrop Graham JAM48.647.Shem Ochako KEN49.878.Max Robertson GBR49.90 RANKHEAT 2TIME1.Edwin Moses USA48.382.Amadou Dia Ba SEN48.533.Kriss Akabusi GBR48.644.José Alonso ESP49.00 NR5.Thomas Nyberg SWE49.036.Toma Tomov BUL49.117.Ryoichi Yoshida JPN49.39—Aleksandr Vasilyev URSDNF Qualifying heats Held on Sunday 1987-08-30 RANKHEAT 1TIME1.Edwin Moses USA49.032.Henry Amike NGR49.563.Ryoichi Yoshida JPN49.874.Simon Kitur KEN50.305.Martin Gillingham GBR50.646.Michel Zimmerman BEL50.707.Pedro Chiamulera BRA 196850.71 –Victor Lima Raimundo STPDNS RANKHEAT 2TIME1.Danny Harris USA48.742.Max Robertson GBR49.733.Shem Ochako KEN49.864.Gilles Vimbert FRA50.345.Thomas Futterknecht AUT50.446.Pablo Squella CHI50.737.Edgar Itt FRG51.18 –Prince Dowai SLEDNS RANKHEAT 3TIME1.Harald Schmid FRG49.282.Kriss Akabusi GBR49.363.Aleksandr Vasilyev URS49.994.Joseph Maritim KEN50.045.Angelo Locci ITA51.156.Shigenobu Ohmori JPN51.207.Rok Kopitar YUG51.538.Ilan Goldwasser ISR52.54 RANKHEAT 4TIME1.Sven Nylander SWE49.952.Amadou Dia Ba SEN50.023.Uwe Schmitt FRG50.544.Rik Tommelein BEL50.635.Jasem Goma'an Al-Duaillah KUW50.976.Krasimir Demirev BUL 197151.077.Jozef Kucej TCH51.138.Wilfredo Ferrer VEN 193053.03 RANKHEAT 5TIME1.Toma Tomov BUL 197149.272.Winthrop Graham JAM49.343.José Alonso ESP49.424.Randy Cox TRI50.145.Philippe Gonigam FRA50.386.Daniel Ogidi NGR50.517.Klaus Ehrle AUT50.918.Ahmed Abdelhalim Ghanem EGY51.35 RANKHEAT 6TIME1.Thomas Nyberg SWE50.062.David Patrick USA50.103.John Graham CAN50.234.Greg Rolle BAH50.635.Stanislav Navesnak TCH50.656.Athanasios Kalogiannis GRE51.947.Ken Gordon AUS52.22 References Results H Category:400 metres hurdles at the World Athletics Championships