1987 in race walking

none This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1987 in both the men's and the women's race walking distances: 10 km, 20 km and 50 km (outdoor). One of the main events during this season were the 1987 World Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy. Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds WR world recordAR area recordCR event recordNR national recordPB personal best Men's 20 km Records Standing records prior to the 1987 season in track and field World Record Jozef Pribilinec TCH 1:19:30 September 24, 1983 NOR Bergen, Norway Broken records during the 1987 season in track and field World Record Carlos Mercenario MEX 1:19:24 May 3, 1987 USA New York City, United States World Record Axel Noack GDR 1:19:12 June 21, 1987 GDR Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany 1987 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 1:19:12 Axel Noack GDR Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany 21/06/1987 WR 2 1:19:22 Dave Smith AUS Hobart, Australia AR 3 1:19:24 Carlos Mercenario MEX New York, United States 03/05/1987 AR 4 1:19:32 Viktor Mostovik URS New York, United States 03/05/1987 NR 5 1:19:37 Ernesto Canto MEX 6 1:20:04 Anatoliy Gorshkov URS New York, United States 03/05/1987 7 1:20:19 Querubín Moreno COL New York, United States 03/05/1987 AR 8 1:20:40 Ronald Weigel GDR 9 1:20:45 Maurizio Damilano ITA Rome, Italy 30/08/1987 10 1:20:45 Reima Salonen FIN 11 1:20:51 Hartwig Gauder GDR 12 1:21:00 Valdas Kazlauskas URS 13 1:21:04 Frants Kostyukevich URS 14 1:21:07 Jozef Pribilinec TCH Rome, Italy 30/08/1987 15 1:21:10 Pyotr Kachnovich URS 16 1:21:24 Michail Potashov URS 17 1:21:24 José Marín ESP Rome, Italy 30/08/1987 18 1:21:27 Roman Mrázek TCH 19 1:21:28 Vyacheslav Ivanenko URS 20 1:21:35 Pyotr Pochenchuk URS Men's 50 km Records Standing records prior to the 1987 season in track and field World Record Ronald Weigel GDR 3:38:17 May 25, 1986 GDR Potsdam, East Germany 1987 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 3:40:07 Andrey Perlov URS 2 3:40:53 Hartwig Gauder GDR Rome, Italy 05/09/1987 3 3:41:30 Ronald Weigel GDR Rome, Italy 05/09/1987 4 3:42:20 Pavol Szikora TCH NR 5 3:43:14 Dietmar Meisch GDR New York, United States 02/05/1987 6 3:44:02 Vyacheslav Ivanenko URS New York, United States 02/05/1987 7 3:45:09 Valeriy Suntsov URS New York, United States 02/05/1987 8 3:46:28 Aleksandr Potashov URS New York, United States 02/05/1987 9 3:47:49 Raffaello Ducceschi ITA Rome, Italy 05/09/1987 NR 10 3:48:27 Martín Bermúdez MEX Rome, Italy 05/09/1987 11 3:48:52 Sandro Bellucci ITA Rome, Italy 05/09/1987 12 3:50:19 Venyamin Nikolayev URS 13 3:50:48 Manuel Alcalde ESP 14 3:52:08 Arturo Bravo MEX Rome, Italy 05/09/1987 15 3:52:16 Andrés Marín ESP Rome, Italy 05/09/1987 16 3:52:21 Godfried De Jonckheere BEL Rome, Italy 05/09/1987 NR 17 3:52:33 Giacomo Poggi ITA New York, United States 02/05/1987 18 3:52:38 François Lapointe CAN New York, United States 02/05/1987 19 3:52:51 Li Baojin CHN AR 20 3:53:30 Raúl González MEX Rome, Italy 05/09/1987 Women's 5 km Records Broken records during the 1987 season in track and field World Record Kerry Saxby AUS 20:34 September 24, 1987 FRG Hildesheim, West Germany 1987 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 20:34 Kerry Saxby AUS Hildesheim, West Germany 24/09/1987 WR 2 21:25 Maria Reyes Sobrino ESP La Coruña, Spain 16/05/1987 AR 3 21:36 Xu Yongjiu CHN Ann Jansson SWE NR 5 21:37 Olga Krishtop URS Yan Hong CHN 7 21:41 Yelena Nikolayeva URS 8 21:43 Nina Stachrova URS 9 21:46 Guan Ping CHN Olga Kardopolzeva URS 11 21:51 Natalya Yermolenko URS 12 21:53 Jin Bingjie CHN 13 21:57 Susan Cook AUS 14 22:01 Natalya Serbinenko URS 15 22:02 Irina Tolstik URS 16 22:06 Rimma Makarova URS 17 22:12 Lidiya Levandovskaya URS Graciella Mendoza ESP 19 22:14 Ann Peel CAN 20 22:16 Dana Vavracová TCH Women's 10 km Records Standing records prior to the 1987 season in track and field World Record Yan Hong CHN 44:14 March 16, 1985 CHN Jian, PR China Broken records during the 1987 season in track and field World Record Olga Krishtop URS 43:22 May 3, 1987 USA New York City, United States World Record Kerry Saxby AUS 42:52 May 4, 1987 AUS Melbourne, Australia 1987 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 42:52 Kerry Saxby AUS Melbourne, Australia 04/05/1987 WR 2 43:22 Olga Krishtop URS New York, United States 03/05/1987 AR 3 43:35 Irina Strakhova URS New York, United States 03/05/1987 4 43:45 Jin Bingjie CHN New York, United States 03/05/1987 AR 5 43:57 Yelena Nikolayeva URS New York, United States 03/05/1987 6 44:33 Yelena Rodionova URS 7 44:42 Yan Hong CHN Rome, Italy 01/09/1987 8 44:45 Lidiya Levandovskaya URS 9 44:48 Mari Cruz Díaz ESP Rome, Italy 01/09/1987 NR 10 44:51 Yelena Veremeychuk URS 11 44:55 Natalya Spiridonova URS 12 45:02 Graciela Mendoza MEX New York, United States 03/05/1987 AR 13 45:04 Natalya Serbinenko URS New York, United States 03/05/1987 14 45:06 Ann Peel CAN New York, United States 03/05/1987 AR 15 45:06 Tamara Kovalenko URS 16 45:07 Vera Ossipova URS 17 45:07 Natalya Yermolenko URS 18 45:09 Dana Vavracová TCH NR 19 45:09 Monica Gunnarsson SWE Rome, Italy 01/09/1987 NR 20 45:15 Olimpiada Ivanova URS See also 1987 IAAF World Race Walking Cup References maik-richter alltime-athletics 1987 Race Walking Year Ranking, 1987