1987 World Championships in Athletics
Host city | Rome, Italy |
---|---|
Nations | 159 |
Athletes | 1451 |
Events | 43 |
Dates | 28 August – 6 September 1987 |
Opened by | President Francesco Cossiga |
Main venue | Stadio Olimpico |
The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the
Men's results
Track
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 m |
Carl Lewis United States |
9.931 EWR |
10.08 | Linford Christie Great Britain |
10.14 | |
200 m |
Calvin Smith United States |
20.16 | Gilles Quénéhervé France |
20.16 | John Regis Great Britain |
20.18 |
400 m |
Thomas Schönlebe East Germany |
44.33 AR |
Innocent Egbunike Nigeria |
44.56 | Butch Reynolds United States |
44.80 |
800 m |
Billy Konchellah Kenya |
1:43.06 CR
|
Peter Elliott Great Britain |
1:43.41 | José Luíz Barbosa Brazil |
1:43.76 |
1,500 m |
Abdi Bile Somalia |
3:36.80 | José Luis González Spain |
3:38.03 | Jim Spivey United States |
3:38.82 |
5,000 m |
Saïd Aouita Morocco |
13:26.44 | Domingos Castro Portugal |
13:27.59 | Jack Buckner Great Britain |
13:27.74 |
10,000 m |
Paul Kipkoech Kenya |
27:38.63 CR
|
Francesco Panetta Italy |
27:48.98 | Hansjörg Kunze East Germany |
27:50.37 |
Marathon |
Douglas Wakiihuri Kenya |
2:11:48 | Hussein Ahmed Salah Djibouti |
2:12:30 | Gelindo Bordin Italy |
2:12:40 |
110 m hurdles |
Greg Foster United States |
13.21 | Jon Ridgeon Great Britain |
13.29 | Colin Jackson Great Britain |
13.38 |
400 m hurdles |
Edwin Moses United States |
47.46 CR
|
Danny Harris United States |
47.48 | Harald Schmid West Germany |
47.48 AR |
3,000 m st. |
Francesco Panetta Italy |
8:08.57 CR
|
Hagen Melzer East Germany |
8:10.32 | William Van Dijck Belgium |
8:12.18 |
20 km walk |
Maurizio Damilano Italy |
1:20:45 CR
|
Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia |
1:21:07 | José Marín Spain |
1:21:24 |
50 km walk |
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 |
* | 37.90 | * | 38.02 AR |
Ray Stewart |
38.41 |
4 × 400 m relay |
United States (USA) Danny Everett Roddie Haley Antonio McKay Butch Reynolds Michael Franks* Raymond Pierre* |
2:57.29 CR
|
* | 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
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High jump |
Patrik Sjöberg Sweden |
2.38 CR
|
Hennadiy Avdyeyenko Soviet Union Igor Paklin Soviet Union |
2.38 CR
|
Not awarded | |
Pole vault |
Sergey Bubka Soviet Union |
5.85 CR
|
Thierry Vigneron France |
5.80 | Radion Gataullin Soviet Union |
5.80 |
Long jump |
Carl Lewis United States |
8.67 CR
|
Robert Emmiyan Soviet Union |
8.53 | Larry Myricks United States |
8.331 |
Triple jump |
Khristo Markov Bulgaria |
17.92 CR and AR
|
Mike Conley United States |
17.67 | Oleg Sakirkin Soviet Union |
17.43 |
Shot put |
Werner Günthör Switzerland |
22.23 CR
|
Alessandro Andrei Italy |
21.88 | John Brenner United States |
21.75 |
Discus throw |
Jürgen Schult East Germany |
68.74 CR
|
John Powell United States |
66.22 | Luis Delís Cuba |
66.02 |
Hammer throw |
Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union |
83.06 CR
|
Jüri Tamm Soviet Union |
80.84 | Ralf Haber East Germany |
80.76 |
Javelin throw |
Seppo Räty Finland |
83.54 CR
|
Viktor Yevsyukov Soviet Union |
82.52 | Jan Železný Czechoslovakia |
82.20 |
Decathlon |
Torsten Voss East Germany |
8680 | Siegfried Wentz West Germany |
8461 | 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.[1]
Women's results
Track
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 m |
Silke Gladisch (GDR) |
10.90 CR
|
Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 11.00 | Merlene Ottey (JAM) | 11.04 |
200 m |
Silke Gladisch (GDR) |
21.74 CR
|
Florence Griffith (USA) | 21.96 | Merlene Ottey (JAM) | 22.06 |
400 m |
Olga Bryzgina (URS) |
49.38 | Petra Muller (GDR) |
49.94 | Kirsten Emmelmann (GDR) | 50.20 |
800 m |
Sigrun Wodars (GDR) | 1:55.26 NR |
Christine Wachtel (GDR) | 1:55.32 | Lyubov Gurina (URS) | 1:55.56 |
1,500 m |
Tetyana Samolenko (URS) | 3:58.56 CR
|
Hildegard Körner (GDR) | 3:58.67 | Doina Melinte (ROU) | 3:59.27 |
3,000 m |
Tetyana Samolenko (URS) | 8:38.73 | Maricica Puică (ROU) | 8:39.45 | Ulrike Bruns (GDR) | 8:40.30 |
10,000 m |
Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) | 31:05.85 | Yelena Zhupiyeva (URS) |
31:09.40 | Kathrin Ullrich (GDR) |
31:11.34 |
Marathon |
Rosa Mota (POR) | 2:25:17 CR
|
Zoya Ivanova (URS) | 2:32:38 | Jocelyne Villeton (FRA) | 2:32:53 |
100 m hurdles |
Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL) | 12.34 CR
|
Gloria Uibel (GDR) | 12.44 | Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR) | 12.46 |
400 m hurdles |
Sabine Busch (GDR) | 53.62 CR
|
Debbie Flintoff (AUS) | 54.19 | Cornelia Ullrich (GDR) | 54.31 |
10 km walk |
Irina Strakhova (URS) | 44:12 CR
|
Kerry Saxby (AUS) |
44:23 | Yan Hong (CHN) | 44:42 |
4 × 100 m relay |
United States (USA) Alice Brown Diane Williams Florence Griffith Pam Marshall |
41.58 CR
|
41.95 | Soviet Union (URS) Irina Slyusar Natalya Pomoschchnikova Natalya German Olga Antonova |
42.33 | |
4 × 400 m relay |
* | 3:18.63 CR
|
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
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High jump |
Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | 2.09 WR |
Tamara Bykova (URS) | 2.04 | Susanne Beyer (GDR) | 1.99 |
Long jump |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) | 7.36 CR
|
Yelena Belevskaya (URS) | 7.14 | Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 7.13 |
Shot put |
Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) | 21.24 CR
|
Kathrin Neimke (GDR) | 21.21 | Ines Müller (GDR) | 20.76 |
Discus throw |
Martina Hellmann (GDR) | 71.62 CR
|
Diana Gansky (GDR) | 70.12 | Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL) | 68.82 |
Javelin throw |
Fatima Whitbread (GBR) | 76.64 CR
|
Petra Felke (GDR) | 71.76 | Beate Peters (FRG) | 68.82 |
Heptathlon |
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
Two exhibition
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
* Host nation (Italy)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | East Germany (GDR) | 10 | 11 | 10 | 31 |
2 | United States (USA) | 10 | 4 | 6 | 20 |
3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 7 | 12 | 6 | 25 |
4 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
5 | Kenya (KEN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
6 | Italy (ITA)* | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
7 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
8 | Portugal (POR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
9 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Morocco (MAR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Somalia (SOM) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
15 | France (FRA) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
16 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
17 | Jamaica (JAM) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
18 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
19 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
22 | Djibouti (DJI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Nigeria (NGR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
24 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
25 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Brazil (BRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (27 entries) | 43 | 44 | 42 | 129 |
See also
- 1987 in athletics (track and field)
References
- ^ 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
- ^ Butler, Mark et al. (2013). IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (archived), pp. 306–8. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-06.