1987 World Championships in Athletics explained

2nd World Championships in Athletics
Size:	150
Host City:	Rome, Italy
Nations:	159
Athletes:	1451
Events:	43
Dates:	28 August – 6 September 1987
Opened By:	President Francesco Cossiga
Stadium:	Stadio Olimpico
Previous:	1983 Helsinki

The 2nd World Championships in Athletics 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.

Men's results

Track

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

100 m	Carl Lewis	9.93^1 =	Ray Stewart Jamaica	10.08	Linford Christie	10.14
200 m	Calvin Smith	20.16	Gilles Quénéhervé	20.16	John Regis	20.18
400 m	Thomas Schönlebe	44.33	Innocent Egbunike Nigeria	44.56	Butch Reynolds	44.80
800 m	Billy Konchellah Kenya	1:43.06	Peter Elliott	1:43.41	José Luíz Barbosa Brazil	1:43.76
1,500 m	Abdi Bile Somalia	3:36.80	José Luis González	3:38.03	Jim Spivey	3:38.82
5,000 m	Saïd Aouita Morocco	13:26.44	Domingos Castro Portugal	13:27.59	Jack Buckner	13:27.74
10,000 m	Paul Kipkoech Kenya	27:38.63	Francesco Panetta	27:48.98	Hansjörg Kunze	27:50.37
Marathon	Douglas Wakiihuri Kenya	2:11:48	Hussein Ahmed Salah Djibouti	2:12:30	Gelindo Bordin	2:12:40
110 m hurdles	Greg Foster	13.21	Jon Ridgeon	13.29	Colin Jackson	13.38
400 m hurdles	Edwin Moses	47.46	Danny Harris	47.48	Harald Schmid	47.48
3,000 m st.	Francesco Panetta	8:08.57	Hagen Melzer	8:10.32	William Van Dijck	8:12.18
20 km walk	Maurizio Damilano	1:20:45	Jozef Pribilinec	1:21:07	José Marín	1:21:24
50 km walk	Hartwig Gauder	3:40:53	Ronald Weigel	3:41:30	Vyacheslav Ivanenko	3:44:02
4 × 100 m relay	Lee McRae Lee McNeill Harvey Glance Carl Lewis Dennis Mitchell*	37.90	Aleksandr Yevgenyev Viktor Bryzgin Vladimir Muravyov Vladimir Krylov Andrey Fedoriv*	38.02	John Mair Andrew Smith Clive Wright Ray Stewart	38.41
4 × 400 m relay	Danny Everett Roddie Haley Antonio McKay Butch Reynolds Michael Franks* Raymond Pierre*	2:57.29	Derek Redmond Kriss Akabusi Roger Black Phil Brown Todd Bennett Mark Thomas	2:58.86	Leandro Peñalver Agustín Pavó Lázaro Martínez Roberto Hernández	2:59.16

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 jump	Patrik Sjöberg Sweden	2.38	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko Igor Paklin	2.38	Not awarded
Pole vault	Sergey Bubka	5.85	Thierry Vigneron	5.80	Radion Gataullin	5.80
Long jump	Carl Lewis	8.67	Robert Emmiyan	8.53	Larry Myricks	8.33^1
Triple jump	Khristo Markov Bulgaria	17.92 and	Mike Conley	17.67	Oleg Sakirkin	17.43
Shot put	Werner Günthör	22.23	Alessandro Andrei	21.88	John Brenner	21.75
Discus throw	Jürgen Schult	68.74	John Powell	66.22	Luis Delís Cuba	66.02
Hammer throw	Sergey Litvinov	83.06	Jüri Tamm	80.84	Ralf Haber	80.76
Javelin throw	Seppo Räty Finland	83.54	Viktor Yevsyukov	82.52	Jan Železný	82.20
Decathlon	Torsten Voss	8680	Siegfried Wentz	8461	Pavel Tarnavetskiy	8375

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.^[2]

Women's results

Track

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

100 m		10.90		11.00		11.04
200 m		21.74		21.96		22.06
400 m		49.38		49.94		50.20
800 m		1:55.26		1:55.32		1:55.56
1,500 m		3:58.56		3:58.67		3:59.27
3,000 m		8:38.73		8:39.45		8:40.30
10,000 m		31:05.85		31:09.40		31:11.34
Marathon		2:25:17		2:32:38		2:32:53
100 m hurdles		12.34		12.44		12.46
400 m hurdles		53.62		54.19		54.31
10 km walk		44:12		44:23		44:42
4 × 100 m relay	Alice Brown Diane Williams Florence Griffith Pam Marshall	41.58	Silke Gladisch Cornelia Oschkenat Kerstin Behrendt Marlies Göhr	41.95		42.33
4 × 400 m relay	Dagmar Neubauer Kirsten Emmelmann Petra Muller Sabine Busch Cornelia Ullrich*	3:18.63	Aelita Yurchenko Olga Nazarova Mariya Pinigina Olga Bryzgina	3:19.50	Diane Dixon Denean Howard Valerie Brisco Lillie Leatherwood	3:21.04

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

High jump		2.09		2.04		1.99
Long jump		7.36		7.14		7.13
Shot put		21.24		21.21		20.76
Discus throw		71.62		70.12		68.82
Javelin throw		76.64		71.76		68.82
Heptathlon		7128		6564		6502

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.^[3]

Men's 1500 m wheelchair		3:54.32		3:54.90		3:55.27
Women's 800 m wheelchair		2:32.52		2:37.07		2:39.95

See also

• 1987 in athletics (track and field)

References

• IAAF 1987
• Results

Notes and References

1. Web site: Longman . Jere . Pedroso's World Mark In Long Jump in Doubt . The New York Times . 11 June 2024 . 4 August 1995.
2. http://www.chrisharrisonwriting.com/journalism/_3/ The Man Who Knows Too Much
3. Butler, Mark et al. (2013). IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (archived), pp. 306–8. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-06.