1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Events at the
1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
10 km walk women
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men
 

These are the official results of the Men's 50 km Walk event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. The race was held on Saturday September 5, 1987.

Contents

Medalists

Gold Hartwig Gauder
East Germany (GDR)
Silver Ronald Weigel
East Germany (GDR)
Bronze Vyacheslav Ivanenko
Soviet Union (URS)

Abbreviations

DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
WL world leading
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record  Ronald Weigel (GDR) 3:38:17 Potsdam, East Germany May 25, 1986
Championship Record  Ronald Weigel (GDR) 3:43.08 Helsinki, Finland August 12, 1983

Intermediates

Final

RANK FINAL TIME
 Hartwig Gauder (GDR) 3:40.53 CR
 Ronald Weigel (GDR) 3:41.30
 Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS) 3:44.02
4.  Raffaello Ducceschi (ITA) 3:47.49
5.  Martín Bermúdez (MEX) 3:48.27
6.  Sandro Bellucci (ITA) 3:48.52
7.  Pavol Szikora (TCH) 3:49.44
8.  Arturo Bravo (MEX) 3:52.08
9.  Andres Marín (ESP) 3:52.16
10.  Godfried Dejonckheere (BEL) 3:52.21
11.  Raúl González (MEX) 3:53.30
12.  Erling Andersen (NOR) 3:55.52
13.  François Lapointe (CAN) 3:56.11
14.  Thierry Toutain (FRA) 3:56.34
15.  José Pinto (POR) 3:56.40
16.  Carl Schueler (USA) 3:57.09
17.  Marco Evoniuk (USA) 3:57.43
18.  Pavol Blažek (TCH) 3:58.43
19.  Paul Blagg (GBR) 3:59.55
20.  Jan Cortenbach (NED) 4:00.10
21.  Takehiro Sonohara (JPN) 4:00.11
22.  Jim Heiring (USA) 4:03.34
23.  Alain Lemercier (FRA) 4:09.53
24.  Denis Terraz (FRA) 4:10.55
25.  Michael Harvey (AUS) 4:11.04
26.  Willi Sawall (AUS) 4:14.25
27.  Martin Archambault (CAN) 4:26.03
 Reima Salonen (FIN) DNF
 Manuel Alcalde (ESP) DNF
 Jordi Llopart (ESP) DSQ
 Bo Gustafsson (SWE) DSQ
 Vesa Puukari (FIN) DSQ
 Grzegorz Ledzion (POL) DSQ
 Giacomo Poggi (ITA) DSQ
 Dietmar Meisch (GDR) DSQ
 Valeriy Suntsov (URS) DSQ
 Venyamin Nikolayev (URS) DSQ

See also

References