1987 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships explained

1987 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
Host City:	San Jose, California, United States
Dates:	June 26–27
Stadium:	Jaguar Stadium San Jose City College
Previous:	1986
Next:	1988

The 1987 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships took place between June 26–27 at Jaguar Stadium on the campus of San Jose City College in San Jose, California. The meet was organized by The Athletics Congress.

As recently as six years before this meet, only two individuals had ever long jumped . Here, three different individuals jumped further.

Results

Men track events

100 meters (+1.8 m/s)	Mark Witherspoon	10.04	Carl Lewis	10.05	Lee McRae	10.08
200 meters (+0.4 m/s)	Carl Lewis	20.12	Wallace Spearmon	20.33	Calvin Smith	20.34
400 meters	Butch Reynolds	44.46	Roddie Haley	44.83	Antonio McKay	45.24
800 meters	Johnny Gray	1:45.15	Stanley Redwine	1:45.47	David Mack	1:46.49
1500 meters	Jim Spivey	3:43.66	Steve Scott	3:44.10	Charles Marsala	3:44.73
5000 meters	Sydney Maree	13:51.45	Doug Padilla	13:52.61	Terry Brahm	13:56.80
10,000 meters	Gerard Donakowski	28:25.10	Steve Plasencia	28:27.57	Ed Eyestone	28:28.85
110 meters hurdles (+2.8 m/s)	Greg Foster	13.15	Cletus Clark	13.28	Jack Pierce	13.29
400 meters hurdles	Edwin Moses	47.99	Danny Harris	48.7	David Patrick	48.76
3000 meters steeplechase	Henry Marsh	8:20.26	Brian Abshire	8:20.83	Brian Diemer	8:20.95
20 kilometres race walk	Tim Lewis	1:24:12	Carl Schueler	1:26:10	Ray Sharp	1:27:00

Men field events

High jump
Pole vault	=CR
Long jump			w
Triple jump		w	w
Shot put
Discus throw
Hammer throw	,CR
Javelin throw
Decathlon	8340	8134	8053

Women track events

100 meters (+2.8 m/s)	Diane Williams	10.93w	Alice Brown	10.95w	Pam Marshall	10.99w
200 meters (+1.3 m/s)	Pam Marshall	21.6hw	Florence Griffith	21.7hw	Grace Jackson Juliet Cuthbert Evelyn Ashford	21.8hw 21.8hw 21.9hw
400 meters	Lillie Leatherwood	50.62	Diane Dixon	51.02	Denean Hill	51.28
800 meters	Essie Washington	1:59.07	Delisa Floyd	1:59.20	Joetta Clark-Diggs	1:59.45
1500 meters	Regina Jacobs	4:03.70	Linda Sheskey	4:05.80	Angela Chalmers Chris Pfitzinger Diana Richburg	4:06.43 4:06.47 4:07.32
3000 meters	Mary Knisely	8:57.60	Cindy Bremser	8:58.80	Leslie Seymour	9:02.64
5000 meters	Nan Davis	15:57.46	Maureen Cogan	16:08.81	Sylvia Mosqueda	16:34.50
10,000 meters	Lynn Jennings	32:19.95	Francie Larrieu Smith	32:45.43	Lynn Nelson	32:52.55
100 meters hurdles (-1.2 m/s)	LaVonna Martin-Floreal	12.80 CR	Stephanie Hightower	12.99	Sophia Hunter	13.05
400 meters hurdles	Judi Brown-King	54.45 CR	Sandra Farmer-Patrick LaTanya Sheffield	54.69 55.05	Schowonda Williams	55.3
20 kilometres race walk	Maryanne Torrellas	47:23.8 , CR	Lynn Weik	47:36.5	Debbi Lawrence	48:30.3

Women field events

High jump
Long jump
Triple jump	WR, , CR
Shot put
Discus throw
Javelin throw
Heptathlon	6979 CR	6389	6275

References

Results from T&FN
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