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
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The 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.

[edit] Medals

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
East Germany Dagmar Neubauer Kirsten Siemon-Emmelmann Petra Schersing Sabine Busch	Soviet Union Aelita Yurchenko Olga Nazarova Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina Olga Vladykina-Bryzgina	United States Diane Dixon Denean Howard-Hill Valerie Brisco-Hooks Lillie Leatherwood

[edit] Results

[edit] Heats

All times shown are in minutes.

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

DNF = did not finish | DNS = did not start | DQ = disqualification | NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result) | Q = qualification by place in heat | q = qualification by overall place

[edit] Heat 1

1.  Soviet Union (Aelita Yurchenko, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina, Olga Vladykina-Bryzgina) 3:20.75 Q
2.  United States (Diane Dixon, Denean Howard-Hill, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Lillie Leatherwood) 3:22.32 Q
3.  Canada (Charmaine Crooks, Molly Killingbeck, Marita Payne-Wiggins, Jillian Richardson) 3:24.50 Q
4.  France (Nathalie Simon, Nadine Debois, Helene Huart, Fabienne Ficher) 3:27.76 Q
5.  Cuba (Ester Petitón, Odalys Hernandez, Tania Fernandez, Ana Fidelia Quirot) 3:29.78
6.  Kenya (Geraldine Shitandayi, Florence Wanjiru, Esther Kavaya, Francisca Chepkurui) 3:30.16
7.  Brazil (Suzete Montalvao, Maria Do Carmo Fialho, Soraya Vieira Telles, Maria Magnólia Souza Figueiredo) 3:30.91 (AR)
8.  India (Vandana Shanbag, Vandana Rao, Shiny Wilson, P.T. Usha) 3:31.55 (AR)

[edit] Heat 2

1.  East Germany (Kirsten Siemon-Emmelmann, Dagmar Neubauer, Cornelia Feuerbach-Ullrich, Petra Schersing) 3:22.97 Q
2.  Bulgaria (Malena Andonova, Rositsa Stamenova, Pepa Pavlova, Yuliana Marinova) 3:25.85 Q
3.  West Germany (Karin Lix, Helga Arendt, Gudrun Abt, Gisela Kinzel) 3:26.75 Q
4.  Jamaica (Cathy Rattray-Williams, Sandie Richards, Sandra Farmer-Patrick, Ilrey Oliver) 3:27.13 Q
5.  Hungary (Erzsebet Szabo, Erika Szopori, Noémi Bátori, Judit Forgács) 3:31.56
6.  Italy (Rossana Morabito, Cosetta Campana, Nevia Pistrino, Erica Rossi) 3:31.72
7.  Spain (Rosa Colorado, Cristina Pérez, Montserrat Pujol, Blanca Lacambra) 3:32.01
8.  Ireland (Michelle Walsh-Carroll, Barbara Johnson, Patricia Walsh, Patricia Amond) 3:32.56

[edit] Final

1.  East Germany (Dagmar Neubauer, Kirsten Siemon-Emmelmann, Petra Schersing, Sabine Busch) 3:18.63 (CR)
2.  Soviet Union (Aelita Yurchenko, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina, Olga Vladykina-Bryzgina) 3:19.50
3.  United States (Diane Dixon, Denean Howard-Hill, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Lillie Leatherwood) 3:21.04
4.  Canada (Charmaine Crooks, Molly Killingbeck, Marita Payne-Wiggins, Jillian Richardson) 3:24.11
5.  West Germany (Ute Thimm, Helga Arendt, Gudrun Abt, Gisela Kinzel) 3:24.94
6.  Jamaica (Cathy Rattray-Williams, Sandra Farmer-Patrick, Ilrey Oliver, Sandie Richards) 3:27.51
7.  France (Nathalie Simon, Nadine Debois, Helene Huart, Fabienne Ficher) 3:27.60
8.  Bulgaria (Tsvetanka Ilieva, Rositsa Stamenova, Pepa Pavlova, Yuliana Marinova) 3:30.24

[edit] References

• IAAF results, heats
• IAAF results, final

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