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.

[edit] Results

[edit] Men

1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Lee McRae (USA)	6.50 (CR)	Mark Witherspoon (USA)	6.54	Pierfrancesco Pavoni (ITA)	6.59
200 m details	Kirk Baptiste (USA)	20.73 (CR)	Bruno Marie-Rose (FRA)	20.89	Robson da Silva (BRA)	20.92
400 m details	Antonio McKay (USA)	45.98	Roberto Hernández (CUB)	46.09	Mike Franks (USA)	46.19
800 m details	José Luiz Barbosa (BRA)	1:47.49	Vladimir Graudyn (URS)	1:47.68	Faouzi Lahbi (MAR)	1:47.79
1,500 m details	Marcus O'Sullivan (IRL)	3:39.04 (CR)	José Manuel Abascal (ESP)	3:39.13	Han Kulker (NED)	3:39.51
3,000 m details	Frank O'Mara (IRL)	8.03.32	Paul Donovan (IRL)	8.03.39	Terry Brahm (USA)	8:03.92
60 m hurdles details	Tonie Campbell (USA)	7.51 (CR)	Stéphane Caristan (FRA)	7.62	Nigel Walker (GBR)	7.66
5,000 m walk details	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	18:27.79 (CR)	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	18:27.80	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	18:38.71
High jump details	Igor Paklin (URS)	2.38 (CR)	Gennadiy Avdeyenko (URS)	2.38	Ján Zvara (TCH)	2.34
Pole vault details	Sergey Bubka (URS)	5.85 (CR)	Earl Bell (USA)	5.80	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)	5.80
Long jump details	Larry Myricks (USA)	8.23 (CR)	Paul Emordi (NGR)	8.01	Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)	8.01
Triple jump details	Mike Conley (USA)	17.54 (CR)	Oleg Protsenko (URS)	17.26	Frank Rutherford (BAH)	17.02
Shot put details	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	22.24 (CR)	Werner Günthör (SUI)	21.61	Sergey Smirnov (URS)	20.67

[edit] Women

1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Nelli Fiere-Cooman (NED)	7.08 (CR)	Anelia Nuneva (BUL)	7.10	Angela Bailey (CAN)	7.12
200 m details	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	22.27 (CR)	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	22.66	Grace Jackson (JAM)	23.21
400 m details	Sabine Busch (GDR)	51.66 (CR)	Lillie Leatherwood (USA)	52.54	Judit Forgács (HUN)	52.68
800 m details	Christine Wachtel (GDR)	2:01.32 (CR)	Gabriela Sedláková (TCH)	2:01.85	Lyubov Kiryukhina (URS)	2:01.98
1,500 m details	Doina Melinte (ROU)	4:05.68 (CR)	Tatyana Dorovskikh (URS)	4:07.08	Svetlana Kitova (URS)	4:07.59
3,000 m details	Tatyana Dorovskikh (URS)	8:46.52 (CR)	Olga Bondarenko (URS)	8:47.08	Maricica Puica (ROU)	8:47.92
60 m hurdles details	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	7.82 (CR)	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	7.85	Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)	7.99
High jump details	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.05 (CR)	Susanne Beyer (GDR)	2.02	Emilia Dragieva (BUL)	2.00
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	7.10 (CR)	Helga Radtke (GDR)	6.94	Yelena Belevskaya (URS)	6.76
Shot put details	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	20.52 (CR)	Ilona Briesenick (GDR)	20.28	Claudia Losch (FRG)	20.14
3,000 m walk details	Olga Krishtop (URS)	12:05.49 (CR)	Giuliana Salce (ITA)	12:36.76	Ann Peel (CAN)	12:38.97

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	5	4	15
2	United States	6	3	2	11
3	East Germany	6	3	0	9
4	Ireland	2	1	0	3
5	Bulgaria	1	2	2	5
6	Brazil	1	0	1	2
	Netherlands	1	0	1	2
	Romania	1	0	1	2
9	Czechoslovakia	0	2	1	3
	France	0	2	1	3
11	Italy	0	1	2	3
12	Jamaica	0	1	1	2
13	Cuba	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
17	Canada	0	0	2	2
18	Bahamas	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	United Kingdom	0	0	1	1
	West Germany	0	0	1	1

[edit] See also

• 1987 in athletics (track and field)

[edit] External links

• GBR Athletics
• Athletics Australia