1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships

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The 1st IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Indianapolis, United States from March 6 to March 8, 1987. The championship had previously been known as the World Indoor Games, which were held once before changing the name.

Being the second championship of its kind, there were a lot of championship records. In fact, new championship records were set for every single women event. There were a total number of 419 participating athletes from 85 countries.

Contents 1 Results 1.1 Men 1.2 Women 2 Medals table 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Results

[edit] Men

1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 |

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
60 m	Lee McRae  United States	6.50 CR	Mark Witherspoon  United States	6.54	Pierfrancesco Pavoni  Italy	6.59
200 m	Kirk Baptiste  United States	20.73 CR	Bruno Marie-Rose  France	20.89	Robson da Silva  Brazil	20.92
400 m	Antonio McKay  United States	45.98	Roberto Hernández  Cuba	46.09	Mike Franks  United States	46.19
800 m	José Luiz Barbosa  Brazil	1:47.49	Vladimir Graudyn  Soviet Union	1:47.68	Faouzi Lahbi  Morocco	1:47.79
1500 m	Marcus O'Sullivan  Ireland	3:39.04 CR	José Manuel Abascal  Spain	3:39.13	Han Kulker  Netherlands	3:39.51
3000 m	Frank O'Mara  Ireland	8.03.32	Paul Donovan  Ireland	8.03.39	Terry Brahm  United States	8:03.92
60 m Hurdles	Tonie Campbell  United States	7.51 CR	Stéphane Caristan  France	7.62	Nigel Walker  United Kingdom	7.66
High Jump	Igor Paklin  Soviet Union	2.38 CR	Gennadiy Avdeyenko  Soviet Union	2.38	Ján Zvara  Czechoslovakia	2.34
Pole Vault	Sergey Bubka  Soviet Union	5.85 CR	Earl Bell  United States	5.80	Thierry Vigneron  France	5.80
Long Jump	Larry Myricks  United States	8.23 CR	Paul Emordi  Nigeria	8.01	Giovanni Evangelisti  Italy	8.01
Triple Jump	Mike Conley  United States	17.54 CR	Oleg Protsenko  Soviet Union	17.26	Frank Rutherford  Bahamas	17.02
Shot Put	Ulf Timmermann  East Germany	22.24 CR	Werner Günthör  Switzerland	21.61	Sergey Smirnov  Soviet Union	20.67
5000 Metres Walk	Mikhail Shchennikov  Soviet Union	18:27.79 CR	Jozef Pribilinec  Czechoslovakia	18:27.80	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	18:38.71

[edit] Women

1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 |

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
60 m	Nelli Fiere-Cooman  Netherlands	7.08 CR	Anelia Nuneva  Bulgaria	7.10	Angela Bailey  Canada	7.12
200 m	Heike Drechsler  East Germany	22.27 CR	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	22.66	Grace Jackson  Jamaica	23.21
400 m	Sabine Busch  East Germany	51.66 CR	Lillie Leatherwood  United States	52.54	Judit Forgács  Hungary	52.68
800 m	Christine Wachtel  East Germany	2:01.32 CR	Gabriela Sedláková  Czechoslovakia	2:01.85	Lyubov Kiryukhina  Soviet Union	2:01.98
1500 m	Doina Melinte  Romania	4:05.68 CR	Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh  Soviet Union	4:07.08	Svetlana Kitova  Soviet Union	4:07.59
3000 m	Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh  Soviet Union	8:46.52 CR	Olga Bondarenko  Soviet Union	8:47.08	Maricica Puica  Romania	8:47.92
60 m Hurdles	Cornelia Oschkenat  East Germany	7.82 CR	Yordanka Donkova  Bulgaria	7.85	Ginka Zagorcheva  Bulgaria	7.99
High Jump	Stefka Kostadinova  Bulgaria	2.05 CR	Susanne Beyer  East Germany	2.02	Emilia Dragieva  Bulgaria	2.00
Long Jump	Heike Drechsler  East Germany	7.10 CR	Helga Radtke  East Germany	6.94	Yelena Belevskaya  Soviet Union	6.76
Shot Put	Natalya Lisovskaya  Soviet Union	20.52 CR	Ilona Briesenick  East Germany	20.28	Claudia Losch  West Germany	20.14
3000 Metres Walk	Olga Krishtop  Soviet Union	12:05.49 CR	Giuliana Salce  Italy	12:36.76	Ann Peel  Canada	12:38.97

[edit] Medals table

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[edit] See also

• 1987 in athletics (track and field)

[edit] External links

• GBR Athletics
• Athletics Australia

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