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2nd World Championships in Athletics
Host city	Rome, Italy
Date(s)	August 28 – September 6, 1987
Main Stadium	Stadio Olimpico
Nations participating	159
Athletes participating	1451
Events	43

The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6.

[edit] Men's Results

[edit] Track

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Carl Lewis United States	9.93 (WR)	Ray Stewart Jamaica	10.08	Linford Christie United Kingdom	10.14
200 m details	Calvin Smith United States	20.16	Gilles Quénéhervé France	20.16	John Regis United Kingdom	20.18
400 m details	Thomas Schönlebe East Germany	44.33 (AR)	Innocent Egbunike Nigeria	44.56	Butch Reynolds United States	44.80
800 m details	Billy Konchellah Kenya	1:43:06 (CR)	Peter Elliott United Kingdom	1:43:41	José Luiz Barbosa Brazil	1:43:76
1,500 m details	Abdi Bile Somalia	3:36:80	José Luis González Spain	3:38:03	Jim Spivey United States	3:38:82
5,000 m details	Saïd Aouita Morocco	13:26:44	Domingos Castro Portugal	13:27:59	Jack Buckner United Kingdom	13:27:74
10,000 m details	Paul Kipkoech Kenya	27:38:63 (CR)	Francesco Panetta Italy	27:48:98	Hansjörg Kunze East Germany	27:50:26
Marathon details	Douglas Wakiihuri Kenya	2:11:48	Hussein Ahmed Salah Djibouti	2:12:30	Gelindo Bordin Italy	2:12:40
110 m hurdles details	Greg Foster United States	13.21	Jon Ridgeon United Kingdom	13.29	Colin Jackson United Kingdom	13.38
400 m hurdles details	Edwin Moses United States	47.46 (CR)	Danny Harris United States	47.48	Harald Schmid West Germany	47.48 (AR)
3,000 m st. details	Francesco Panetta Italy	8:08:57 (CR)	Hagen Melzer East Germany	8:10:32	William Van Dijck Belgium	8:12:18
20 km walk details	Maurizio Damilano Italy	1:20:45 (CR)	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia	1:21:07	José Marín Spain	1:21:24
50 km walk details	Hartwig Gauder East Germany	3:40:53 (CR)	Ronald Weigel East Germany	3:41:30	Vyacheslav Ivanenko Soviet Union	3:44:02
4x100 m relay details	Lee McRae Lee McNeill Harvey Glance Carl Lewis United States	37.90	Aleksandr Yevgenyev Viktor Bryzgin Vladimir Muravyov Vladimir Krylov Soviet Union	38.02 (AR)	John Mair Andrew Smith Clive Wright Ray Stewart Jamaica	38.41
4x400 m relay details	Danny Everett Roddie Haley Antonio McKay Butch Reynolds United States	2:57.29 (CR)	Derek Redmond Kriss Akabusi Roger Black Phil Brown United Kingdom	2:58.86 (AR)	Leandro Peñalver Agustin Pavó Lazaro Martínez Roberto Hernández Cuba	2:59.16 (NR)
AR Area record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB/PR personal best/record \| SB seasonal best \| WL world leading (in a given season) \| WR world record

Ben Johnson won the 100 m in 9.83, but was disqualified by the IAAF after Johnson admitted to the use of performance enhancing drugs in 1988.

[edit] Field

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Long jump details	Carl Lewis United States	8.67 (CR)	Robert Emmiyan Soviet Union	8.53	Larry Myricks United States	8.33
Triple jump details	Hristo Markov Bulgaria	17.92 (CR)	Mike Conley United States	17.67	Oleg Sakirkin Soviet Union	17.43
High jump details	Patrik Sjöberg Sweden	2.38 (CR)	Gennadiy Avdeyenko Soviet Union Igor Paklin Soviet Union	2.38 (CR)
Pole vault details	Sergey Bubka Soviet Union	5.85 (CR)	Thierry Vigneron France	5.80	Rodion Gataullin Soviet Union	5.80
Shot put details	Werner Günthör Switzerland	22.23 (CR)	Alessandro Andrei Italy	21.88	John Brenner United States	21.75
Discus throw details	Jürgen Schult East Germany	68.74 (CR)	John Powell United States	66.22	Luis Delís Cuba	66.02
Hammer throw details	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union	83.06 (CR)	Jüri Tamm Soviet Union	80.84	Ralf Haber East Germany	80.76
Javelin throw details	Seppo Räty Finland	83.54 (CR)	Viktor Yevsyukov Soviet Union	82.52	Jan Železný Czechoslovakia	82.20
Decathlon details	Torsten Voss East Germany	8680	Siegfried Wentz West Germany	8461	Pavel Tarnovetskiy Soviet Union	8375
AR Area record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB/PR personal best/record \| SB seasonal best \| WL world leading (in a given season) \| WR world record

Giovanni Evangelisti of Italy was originally came third in the long jump at 8.37 m, but it was later determined that field officials had entered a fake result for a jump of 7.85m. [1]

[edit] Women's Results

[edit] Track

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Silke Gladisch (GDR)	10.90 (CR)	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	11.00	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	11.04
200 m details	Silke Gladisch (GDR)	21.74 (CR)	Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA)	21.96	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	22.06
400 m details	Olga Bryzgina (URS)	49.38	Petra Schersing (GDR)	49.94	Kirsten Emmelmann (GDR)	50.20
800 m details	Sigrun Wodars (GDR)	1:55.26 (NR)	Christine Wachtel (GDR)	1:55.32 (PB)	Lyubov Gurina (URS)	1:55.56 (PB)
1,500 m details	Tatyana Dorovskikh (URS)	3:58.56 (CR)	Hildegard Körner (GDR)	3:58.67	Doina Melinte (ROU)	3:59.27
3,000 m details	Tatyana Dorovskikh (URS)	8:38.73	Marcicia Puica (ROU)	8:39.45	Ulrike Bruns (GDR)	8:40.30
10,000 m details	Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)	31:05.85	Yelena Zhupiyeva (URS)	31:09.40	Kathrin Ullrich (GDR)	31:11.34
Marathon details	Rosa Mota (POR)	2:25:17 (CR)	Zoya Ivanova (URS)	2:32:38	Jocelyne Villeton (FRA)	2:32:53
100 m hurdles details	Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)	12.34 (CR)	Gloria Siebert (GDR)	12.44	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	12.46
400 m hurdles details	Sabine Busch (GDR)	53.62 (CR)	Debbie Flintoff (AUS)	54.19	Cornelia Feuerbach (GDR)	54.31
10 km walk details	Irina Strakhova (URS)	44:12 (CR)	Kerry Saxby (AUS)	44:23	Yan Hong (CHN)	44:42
4x100 m relay details	Alice Brown Diane Williams Florence Griffith-Joyner Pam Marshall United States	41.58 (CR)	Silke Möller 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 details	Dagmar Neubauer Kirsten Emmelmann Petra Schersing Sabine Busch East Germany	3:18.63 (CR)	Aelita Yurchenko Olga Nazarova Mariya Pingina Olga Bryzgina Soviet Union	3:19.50	Diane Dixon Denean Howard Valerie Brisco Lillie Leatherwood United States	3:21.04
AR Area record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB/PR personal best/record \| SB seasonal best \| WL world leading (in a given season) \| WR world record

[edit] Field

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Long jump details	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.36 (CR)	Yelena Belevskaya (URS)	7.14	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	7.13
High jump details	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.09 (WR)	Tamara Bykova (URS)	2.04	Susanne Beyer (GDR)	1.99
Shot put details	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	21.24 (CR)	Kathrin Neimke (GDR)	21.21	Ines Müller (GDR)	20.76
Discus throw details	Martina Hellmann (GDR)	71.62 (CR)	Diana Gansky (GDR)	70.12	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)	68.82
Javelin throw details	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)	76.64 (CR)	Petra Felke (GDR)	71.76	Beate Peters (FRG)	68.82
Heptathlon details	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7128 (CR)	Larisa Nikitina (URS)	6564	Jane Frederick (USA)	6502
AR Area record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB/PR personal best/record \| SB seasonal best \| WL world leading (in a given season) \| WR world record

[edit] Medal table by country

Position	Country:	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.	United Kingdom	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=	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
18=	Spain	0	1	1	2
18=	West Germany	0	1	1	2
18=	Romania	0	1	1	2
22=	Djibouti	0	1	0	1
22=	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
24	Cuba	0	0	2	2
25=	Belgium	0	0	1	1
25=	Brazil	0	0	1	1
25=	China	0	0	1	1

[edit] See also

1987 in athletics (track and field)

[edit] References

Contents

[edit] Men's Results

[edit] Track

[edit] Field

[edit] Women's Results

[edit] Track

[edit] Field

[edit] Medal table by country

[edit] See also

[edit] References