1987 World Championships in Athletics
| 2nd World Championships in Athletics | |||
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| Host city | Rome, Italy | ||
| Nations participating | 159 | ||
| Athletes participating | 1451 | ||
| Events | 43 | ||
| Dates | August 28 – September 6, 1987 | ||
| Main venue | Stadio Olimpico | ||
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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
Note: 1 Ben Johnson of Canada originally won the 100 m in 9.83, but was disqualified in 1989 after he admitted to the use of performance enhancing drugs
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.
Field
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
1 Giovanni Evangelisti of Italy originally won the bronze in the long jump with a jump of 8.37 m, but it was later determined that Italian field officials had entered a pre-arranged fake result for a jump of 7.85m. . Evangelisti did not know about the scam, but Italian head coach Sandro Donati revealed the fraud and 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-Joyner (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 (PB) |
Lyubov Gurina (URS) | 1:55.56 (PB) |
| 1,500 m |
Tetyana Samolenko (URS) | 3:58.56 (CR) |
Hildegard Körner (GDR) | 3:58.67 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 |
.svg.png){kind=small} Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL) | 12.34 (CR) |
Gloria Siebert (GDR) | 12.44 | Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR) | 12.46 |
| 400 m hurdles |
Sabine Busch (GDR) | 53.62 (CR) |
 Debbie Flintoff (AUS) | 54.19 | Cornelia Feuerbach (GDR) | 54.31 |
| 10 km walk |
Irina Strakhova (URS) | 44:12 (CR) |
Kerry Saxby (AUS) | 44:23 |  Yan Hong (CHN) | 44:42 |
| 4x100 m relay |
Alice Brown Diane Williams Florence Griffith-Joyner Pam Marshall United States | 41.58 (CR) |
Silke Gladisch Cornelia Oschkenat Kerstin Behrendt Marlies Göhr East Germany | 41.95 | Irina Slyusar Natalya Pomoschchnikova Natalya German Olga Antonova Soviet Union | 42.33 |
| 4x400 m relay |
Dagmar Neubauer Kirsten Emmelmann Petra Muller Sabine Busch Cornelia Ullrich* East Germany | 3:18.63 (CR) |
Aelita Yurchenko Olga Nazarova Mariya Pinigina Olga Bryzgina Soviet Union | 3:19.50 | Diane Dixon Denean Howard Valerie Brisco Lillie Leatherwood United States | 3:21.04 |
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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 round.
Field
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long jump |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) | 7.36 (CR) |
Yelena Belevskaya (URS) | 7.14 | Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 7.13 |
| High jump |
Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | 2.09 (WR) |
Tamara Bykova (URS) | 2.04 | Susanne Beyer (GDR) | 1.99 |
| 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 |
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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) | ||||||
Medal table by country
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Germany |
10 | 11 | 10 | 31 |
| 2 | United States |
10 | 4 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | Soviet Union |
7 | 12 | 6 | 25 |
| 4 | Bulgaria |
3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 |  Kenya |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 |  Italy |
2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Great Britain |
1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 8 | Portugal |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9= |  Finland |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9= |  Morocco |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9= | Norway |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9= |  Somalia |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9= |  Sweden |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9= |  Switzerland |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | France |
0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 16 | Australia |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 | Jamaica |
0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 18 | West Germany |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 19= |  Czechoslovakia |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 19= |  Spain |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 19= | Romania |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 22= |  Djibouti |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22= |  Nigeria |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 |  Cuba |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 25= | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 25= | .svg.png){kind=small} Brazil |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 25= | China |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
See also
References
- ↑ The Man Who Knows Too Much, Sport Monthly, March 2003, retr from chrisharrisonwriting.com on 2012 10 20
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