World Athletics Championships 1987

2. World Athletics Championships
The Olympic Stadium Rome in 2009
city	Rome , Italy
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
participating countries	157
Participating athletes	1741
Competitions	43
opening	August 28, 1987
Final day	September 6, 1987
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Medal table (final score after 43 decisions)
space	country
1	GDR	10	11	10	31
2	United States	10	4th	6th	20th
3	Soviet Union	7th	12	6th	25th
4th	Bulgaria	3	-	1	4th
5	Kenya	3	-	-	3
6th	Italy	2	2	1	5
7th	Great Britain	1	3	4th	8th
8th	Portugal	1	1	-	2
9	Finland	1	-	-	1
	Morocco	1	-	-	1
	Norway	1	-	-	1
	Sweden	1	-	-	1
	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
	Somalia	1	-	-	1
Complete medal table

The 2nd  World Athletics Championships took place from August 28 to September 6, 1987 in the Italian capital Rome . With the exception of the marathons and the walking competitions , the competitions were held in the Olympic Stadium in 1960 . 1741 athletes from 157 countries took part.

Competitions

The women’s 10 km walk and 10,000 meter run have been added to the world championship program. For the first time, a walking competition was added to the competition calendar for women , the length of which was increased in 1999 to the 20 kilometers that had long been the norm for men. There were now three long distances for women and men , the shorter one over 3000 meters for women and 5000 meters for men . That changed in 1995 when the distance for women was adjusted to match the men's program. The 10,000-meter and marathon races were offered for both sexes in the same form from 1987 onwards.

Athletic performance

The second edition of the World Athletics Championships was also characterized by a high level of performance.

• There were two world records:
  • 100 meter men - Carl Lewis ( USA ): 9.93 s (equalization of the record of Calvin Smith from 1983)
  • High jump women - Stefka Kostadinowa ( Bulgaria ): 2.09 m
• Seven continental records have been set:
  • 400 meters men - Thomas Schönlebe ( GDR ): European record in 44.33 s
  • 400 meter hurdles men - Harald Schmid ( BR Germany ): European record (equalized) in 47.48 s
  • 4 × 100 m men - Soviet Union in the line-up of Alexandr Evgenjew , Wiktor Bryshin , Vladimir Muravyov , Vladimir Krylov : European record in 38.02 s
  • 4 × 400 m men - Great Britain in the line-up Derek Redmond , Kriss Akabusi , Roger Black , Philip Brown : European record in 2: 58.86 min
  • Triple jump men - Christo Markow ( Bulgaria ): European record with 17.92 m
  • 800 meters women - Ana Fidelia Quirot (Cuba): America record in 1: 55.85 min
  • Heptathlon women - Zhu Yuqing ( People's Republic of China ): Asian record in 6211 p
• There were also four national records:
  • 10,000 meters men - Spyros Andriopoulos ( Greece ): Greek record in 28: 07.17 min
  • 4 × 400 m men - Cuba with Leandro Peñalver , Agustin Pavó , Lázaro Martínez , Roberto Hernández : Cuban record in 2: 59.16 minutes
  • 4 × 400 m men - BR Germany with the cast Norbert Dobeleit , Mark Henrich , Edgar Itt , Harald Schmid : German record in 2: 59.96 min
  • 800 meters women - Sigrun Wodars (GDR): GDR record in 1: 55.26 min
• In addition, 37 world championship records were set in 35 disciplines.

doping

There were three retrospectively determined doping cases with disqualifications of the athletes concerned:

• Ben Johnson ( Canada ) - 100 meters , initially first in world record time / 4 × 100 m , initially fourth in the Canadian relay. Johnson tested positive for stanozolol three days after his 1988 Olympic victory and had to give up his gold medal. His results at these world championships were also canceled because he admitted that he had previously violated the doping regulations. He was initially banned for two years, but had to accept a lifelong ban after his return to competitive sport because a doping violation was proven again.
• Angella Issajenko , former Angella Taylor (Canada) - 100 meters, initially fifth / 4 × 100 m , initially in sixth place. Angella Issajenko was involved in the Ben Johnson doping case. She belonged to the same training group as Johnson under Charlie Francis. The doctor responsible for the doping preparations George Astaphan was responsible for Issajenko as well as for Johnson. After Ben Johnson was convicted of the doping offense, Issajenko exposed numerous doping practices and admitted that she had also doped herself. She then received a suspension, among other things, her results achieved at these world championships were canceled.
• Sandra Gasser ( Switzerland ) - 1500 meters , initially third. Your doping sample submitted after the World Cup race tested positive for testosterone . She had to surrender her medal and was banned for two years.

Results men

100 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	09.93 WRe
2	Raymond Stewart	JAM	10.08
3	Linford Christie	GBR	10.14
4th	Attila Kovács	HUN	10.20
5	Wiktor Bryshin	URS	10.25
6th	Lee McRae	United States	10.34
7th	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	ITA	16.23
	Ben Johnson	CAN	DOP

Final: August 30, 1987

Wind: +0.95 m / s

There was a doping case in this race:
The Canadian Ben Johnson, initially the first in a world record time, tested positive for stanozolol three days after his Olympic victory in 1988 and had to surrender his gold medal. His results at these world championships - in addition to the original first place over 100 meters, also the fourth place in the Canadian 4 x 100 meter relay - were canceled because he admitted to having violated the doping regulations before. He was initially banned for two years, but had to accept a lifelong ban after his return to competitive sport because a doping violation was proven again.

200 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Calvin Smith	United States	20.16
2	Gilles Quenéhervé	FRA	20.16
3	John Regis	GBR	20.18
4th	Robson da Silva	BRA	20.22
5	Vladimir Krylov	URS	20.23
6th	Floyd Heard	United States	20.25
7th	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	ITA	20.45
8th	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	20.78

Final: September 3, 1987

Wind: −0.4 m / s

400 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Thomas Schönlebe	GDR	44.33 ER
2	Innocent Egbunike	NGR	44.56
3	Harry Reynolds	United States	44.80
4th	Roberto Hernández	CUB	44.99
5	Derek Redmond	GBR	45.08
6th	David Kitur	KEN	45.34
7th	Gabriel Tiacoh	CIV	46.27
8th	Roddie Haley	United States	46.77

Final: September 3, 1987

Vice world champion Innocent Egbunike had set a new world championship record with 44.26 seconds in the semifinals.

800 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Billy Konchellah	KEN	1: 43.06 CR
2	Peter Elliott	GBR	1: 43.41
3	José Luíz Barbosa	BRA	1: 43.76
4th	Ryszard Ostrowski	POLE	1: 44.59
5	Faouzi Lahbi	MAR	1: 44.83
6th	Stephen Ole Marai	KEN	1: 44.84
7th	Slobodan Popović	YUG	1: 45.07
8th	Tom McKean	GBR	1: 49.21

Final: September 1, 1987

1500 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Abdi Bile	SOM	3: 36.80
2	José Luis González	ESP	3: 38.03
3	Jim Spivey	United States	3: 38.82
4th	Joseph Chesire	KEN	3: 39.36
5	Omer Khalifa	SOUTH	3: 39.81
6th	Jens-Peter Herold	GDR	3: 40.14
7th	Michael Hillardt	OUT	3: 40.23
8th	Steve Cram	GBR	3: 41.19

Final: September 6, 1987

5000 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Said Aouita	MAR	13: 26.44
2	Domingos Castro	POR	13: 27.59
3	Jack Buckner	GBR	13: 27.74
4th	Pierre Délèze	SUI	13: 28.06
5	Vincent Rousseau	BEL	13: 28.56
6th	Evgeni Ignatov	BUL	13: 29.68
7th	Timothy Hutchings	GBR	13: 30.01
8th	Dionísio Castro	POR	13: 30.94

Final: September 6, 1987

10,000 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Paul Kipkoech	KEN	27: 38.63 CR
2	Francesco Panetta	ITA	27: 48.98
3	Hansjörg Kunze	GDR	27: 50.37
4th	Arturo Barrios	MEX	27: 59.66
5	Steve Binns	GBR	28: 03.08
6th	Martin Vrábel	TCH	28: 05.59
7th	Spyros Andriopoulos	GRE	28: 07.17 NO
8th	Steve Plasencia	United States	28: 11.38

Date: August 29, 1987

marathon

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Douglas Wakiihuri	KEN	2:11:48
2	Ahmed Salah	DJI	2:12:30
3	Gelindo Bordin	ITA	2:12:40
4th	Steve Moneghetti	OUT	2:12:49
5	Hugh Jones	GBR	2:12:54
6th	Juma Ikangaa	TAN	2:13:43
7th	Orlando Pizzolato	ITA	2:14:03
8th	Rawil Kashapov	URS	2:14:41

Date: September 6, 1987

110 m hurdles

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Greg Foster	United States	13.21
2	Jonathan Ridgeon	GBR	13.29
3	Colin Jackson	GBR	13.38
4th	Jack Pierce	United States	13.41
5	Igors Kazanovs	URS	13.48
6th	Carlos Sala	ESP	13.55
7th	Mark McKoy	CAN	13.71
DNS	Arto Bryggare	FIN

Final: September 3, 1987

Wind: +0.50 m / s

400 m hurdles

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Edwin Moses	United States	47.46 CR
2	Danny Harris	United States	47.48
3	Harald Schmid	FRG	47.48 ERe
4th	Sven Nylander	SWE	48.37
5	Amadou Dia Ba	SEN	48.37
6th	Henry Amike	NGR	48.63
7th	Kriss Akabusi	GBR	48.74
8th	José Alonso	ESP	49.46

Final: September 1, 1987

3000 m obstacle

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Francesco Panetta	ITA	8: 08.57 CR
2	Hagen Melzer	GDR	8: 10.32
3	William Van Dijck	BEL	8: 12.18
4th	Brian Diemer	United States	8: 14.46
5	Graeme fur	CAN	8: 16.46
6th	Henry Marsh	United States	8: 17.78
7th	Peter Koech	KEN	8: 20.08
8th	Patrick Sang	KEN	8: 20.45

Final: September 5, 1987

4 × 100 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	United States	Lee McRae Lee McNeill Harvey Glance Carl Lewis (final) in the preliminary / semi-final also: Dennis Mitchell	37.90
2	Soviet Union	Alexandr Evgenjew Viktor Bryshin Vladimir Muravyov Vladimir Krylow (semifinals / finals) in the preliminary run also: Andrei Fedoriw	38.02 ER
3	Jamaica	John Mair Andrew Smith Clive Wright Raymond Stewart	38.41
4th	BR Germany	Fritz Heer Volker Westhagemann Christian Haas Norbert Dobeleit	38.73
5	Hungary	István Nagy László Karaffa István Tatár Attila Kovács	39.04
6th	Italy	Ezio Madonia Domenico Gorla Paolo Catalano Pierfrancesco Pavoni in the preliminary / semi-finals also: Stefano Tilli	39.62
7th	People's Republic of China	Li Tao Cai Jianming Li Feng Zheng Chen	39.93
DOP	Canada	Ben Johnson Atlee Mahorn Desai Williams Mike Dwyer

Final: September 6, 1987

There was a doping case in this race:
The Canadian Ben Johnson tested positive for stanozolol three days after his Olympic victory in 1988 and had to surrender his gold medal. His results at these world championships - first place in the 100 meters and fourth place in the Canadian 4 x 100 meter relay - were also canceled because Johnson admitted to having violated the doping regulations before. He was initially banned for two years, but had to accept a lifelong ban after his return to competitive sport because a doping violation was proven again.

4 × 400 m relay

→ Main article : World Athletics Championships 1987/4 × 400 men

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Danny Everett Roddie Haley (final) Antonio McKay Harry Reynolds (final) in the preliminary / semi-final also: Michael Franks Raymond Pierre	2: 57.29 CR
2	Great Britain	Derek Redmond (final) Kriss Akabusi Roger Black (final) Philip Brown in the preliminary / semi-final also: Mark Thomas Todd Bennett	2: 58.86 ER
3	Cuba	Leandro Peñalver Agustin Pavó Lázaro Martínez Roberto Hernández	2: 59,16 NO
4th	BR Germany	Norbert Dobeleit (final) Mark Henrich Edgar Itt Harald Schmid (final) also in the preliminary run: Peter Schwelm Klaus Just	2: 59.96 BR
5	Kenya	Joseph Sainah John Anzrah Elijah Bitok David Kitur (semifinals / finals) in the preliminary also: Tito Sawe	3: 01.67
6th	Jamaica	Mark Senior Devon Morris Winthrop Graham Bert Cameron	3: 04.53
DNF	Soviet Union	Yevgeny Lomtjew Vladimir Prosin Alexander Kurotschkin Vladimir Krylow (final) in the preliminary run also: Arkady Kornilov
DNS	Nigeria	Moses Ugbisie Joseph Falaye Henry Amike Innocent Egbunike

Final: September 6, 1987

20 km walking

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Maurizio Damilano	ITA	1:20:45 CR
2	Jozef Pribilinec	TCH	1:21:07
3	José Marín	ESP	1:21:24
4th	Viktor Mostovik	URS	1:21:53
5	Carlo Mattioli	ITA	1:22:53
6th	Roman Mrázek	TCH	1:23:01
7th	Jean-Claude Corre	FRA	1:23:38
8th	Querubin Moreno	COL	1:23:42

Date: August 30, 1987

50 km of walking

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Hartwig Gauder	GDR	3:40:53 CR
2	Ronald Weigel	GDR	3:41:30
3	Vyacheslav Ivanenko	URS	3:44:02
4th	Raffaello Ducceschi	ITA	3:47:49
5	Martín Bermúdez	MEX	3:48:27
6th	Sandro Bellucci	ITA	3:48:52
7th	Pavol Szikora	TCH	3:49:44
8th	Arturo Bravo	MEX	3:52:08

Date: September 5, 1987

high jump

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space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Patrik Sjöberg	SWE	2.38 CR
2	Hennadij Avdjejenko	URS	2.38 CR
	Igor Paklin	URS	2.38 CR
4th	Dietmar Mögenburg	FRG	2.35
5	Clarence Saunders	BER	2.32
6th	Sorin Matei	ROME	2.32
7th	Jan Zvara	TCH	2.32
8th	Carlo Thränhardt	FRG	2.29

Final: September 6, 1987

Pole vault

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space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Serhiy Bubka	URS	5.85 CR
2	Thierry Vigneron	FRA	5.80
3	Rodion Gataullin	URS	5.80
4th	Marian Kolasa	POLE	5.80
5	Earl Bell	United States	5.70
	Nikolay Nikolov	BUL	5.70
7th	Delko Lessew	BUL	5.60
8th	Atanas Tarew	BUL	5.60

Final: September 5, 1987

Long jump

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	8.67 CR
2	Robert Emmijan	URS	8.53
3	Larry Myricks	United States	8.33
4th	Giovanni Evangelisti	ITA	8.19
5	Jens Hirschberg	GDR	8.16
6th	Jaime Jefferson	CUB	8.14
7th	Vladimir Amidschinov	BUL	8.11
8th	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	8.10

Final: September 5, 1987

With his last jump - measured at 8.38 m - Giovanni Evangelisti first took the bronze place, displacing Larry Myricks, who had previously occupied third place with 8.33 m behind Carl Lewis and Robert Emmijan. Evangelisti was therefore initially awarded the bronze medal.

Computer evaluations, including by the German Helmar Hommel , showed in retrospect that Evangelisti's last jump could have been a maximum of 7.80 m, so that the judges made a conscious wrong decision in favor of their compatriot Evangelisti. Evangelisti, who was probably not involved, was subsequently ranked fourth with his real best jump of 8.19 m, while Myricks received the bronze medal.

Triple jump

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Christo Markow	BUL	17.92 CR / ER
2	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	17.67
3	Oleg Sakirkin	URS	17.43
4th	Alexander Kovalenko	URS	17.38
5	Jacek Pastusinski	POLE	17.35
6th	Joseph Taiwo	NGR	17.29
7th	Peter Bouschen	FRG	17.26
8th	Oleg Prozenko	URS	17.23

Final: August 31, 1987

Shot put

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Werner Günthör	SUI	22.23 CR
2	Alessandro Andrei	ITA	21.88
3	John Brenner	United States	21.75
4th	Remigius Machura	TCH	21.39
5	Ulf Timmermann	GDR	21.35
6th	Udo Beyer	GDR	21.13
7th	Klaus Bodenmüller	AUT	20.41
8th	Sergei Gavryushin	URS	20.15

Final: August 29, 1987

Discus throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Jürgen Schult	GDR	68.74 CR
2	John Powell	United States	66.22
3	Luis Delís	CUB	66.02
4th	Rolf Danneberg	FRG	65.96
5	Vladimir Zinchenko	URS	65.60
6th	Romas Ubartas	URS	65.50
7th	Imrich Bugár	TCH	65.32
8th	Vaclavas Kidykas	URS	63.64

Final: September 4th, 1987

Hammer throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Sergei Litvinov	URS	83.06 CR
2	Jüri Tamm	URS	80.84
3	Ralf Haber	GDR	80.76
4th	Christoph Sahner	FRG	80.58
5	Igor Nikulin	URS	80.18
6th	Heinz Weis	FRG	80.18
7th	Tibor Gécsek	HUN	77.56
8th	Plamen Minew	BUL	77.06

Final: September 1, 1987

Javelin throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Seppo Räty	FIN	83.54 CR
2	Viktor Jewsyukov	URS	82.52
3	Jan Železný	TCH	82.20
4th	Tom Petranoff	United States	81.28
5	Lev Shatilo	URS	81.02
6th	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi	JPN	80.24
7th	Mick Hill	GBR	79.66
8th	Dag Wennlund	SWE	78.40

Final: August 30, 1987

A modified spear was used for the first time at the World Championships in 1986. By shifting the center of gravity forward with the new spear, a) the problems with measuring - due to the flat angle of impact of the old spear models - as well as b) the difficulties due to the ever larger distances achieved were eliminated.

Decathlon

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space	athlete	country	Points
1	Torsten Voss	GDR	8680
2	Siegfried Wentz	FRG	8461
3	Pavlo Tarnovetsky	URS	8375
4th	Christian Plaziat	FRA	8307
5	Christian Schenk	GDR	8304
6th	Simon Poelman	NZL	8296
7th	Alain Blondel	FRA	8178
8th	Alexander Nevsky	URS	8174

Date: September 3rd and 4th, 1987

The rating was based on the 1985 point table, which is still valid today.

Results women

100 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Silke Gladisch	GDR	10.90 CR
2	Heike Drechsler	GDR	11.00
3	Merlene Ottey	JAM	11.04
4th	Diane Williams	United States	11.07
5	Anelija Nunewa	BUL	11.09
6th	Angela Bailey	CAN	11.18
7th	Pam Marshall	United States	11.19
DOP	Angella Issajenko	CAN

Final: August 30, 1987

Wind: −0.58 m / s

There was a doping case in this competition:
The fifth-placed Canadian Angella Issajenko , formerly Angella Taylor, was involved in the Ben Johnson doping case . She belonged to the same training group as Johnson under Charlie Francis. The doctor responsible for the doping preparations George Astaphan was responsible for Issajenko as well as for Johnson. After Ben Johnson was convicted of the doping offense, Issajenko exposed numerous doping practices and admitted that she had also doped herself. She then received a suspension, among other things, her results achieved at these world championships over 100 meters and with the 4 x 100 meter relay (initially sixth) were canceled.

200 m

→ Main article : World Athletics Championships 1987/200 m women

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Silke Gladisch	GDR	21.74 CR
2	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States	21.96
3	Merlene Ottey	JAM	22.06
4th	Pam Marshall	United States	22.18
5	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.40
6th	Mary Onyali	NGR	22.52
7th	Ewa Kasprzyk	POLE	22.52
8th	Nadezhda Georgieva	BUL	22.55

Final: September 3, 1987

Wind: +1.16 m / s

400 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Olha Bryshina	URS	49.38
2	Petra Müller	GDR	49.94
3	Kirsten Emmelmann	GDR	50.20
4th	Marija Pinigina	URS	50.53
5	Lillie Leatherwood	United States	50.82
6th	Jillian Richardson	CAN	51.03
7th	Diane Dixon	United States	51.13
8th	Olga Nazarova	URS	51.20

Final: August 31, 1987

800 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Sigrun Wodars	GDR	1: 55.26 NO
2	Christine Wachtel	GDR	1: 55.32
3	Lyubov Gurina	URS	1: 55.56
4th	Ana Fidelia Quirot	CUB	1: 55.84 AM
5	Jarmila Kratochvílová	TCH	1: 57.81
6th	Mitica Junghiatu	ROME	1: 59.66
7th	Nadia Olisarenko	URS	2: 00.28
8th	Slobodanka Čolović	YUG	2: 02.09

Final: August 31, 1987

1500 m

→ Main article : World Athletics Championships 1987/1500 m for women

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Tetiana Samolenko	URS	3: 58.56 CR
2	Hildegard Körner	GDR	3: 58.67
3	Doina Melinte	ROME	3: 59.27
4th	Cornelia Bürki	SUI	3: 59.90
5	Andrea Hahmann	GDR	4: 00.63
6th	Kirsty Wade	GBR	4: 01.41
7th	Diana Richburg	United States	4: 01.79
8th	Elly van Hulst	NED	4: 03.63

Final: September 5, 1987

There was a doping case in this competition:
The doping sample given after the World Cup race by the Swiss Sandra Gasser , who initially came third , tested positive for testosterone . She had to surrender her medal and was banned for two years.

3000 m

→ Main article : World Athletics Championships 1987/3000 m for women

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Tetiana Samolenko	URS	8: 38.73
2	Maricica Puică	ROME	8: 39.45
3	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	8: 40.30
4th	Cornelia Bürki	SUI	8: 40.31
5	Elena Romanova	URS	8: 41.33
6th	Elly van Hulst	NED	8: 42.56
7th	Yvonne Murray	GBR	8: 43.94
8th	Wendy Sly	GBR	8: 45.85

Final: September 1, 1987

10,000 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Ingrid Kristiansen	NOR	31: 05.85 CR
2	Elena Schupiyeva	URS	31: 09.40
3	Kathrin Ullrich	GDR	31: 11.34 NO
4th	Olga Bondarenko	URS	31: 18.38
5	Liz McColgan	GBR	31: 19.82
6th	Lynn Jennings	United States	31: 45.43
7th	Albertina Machado	POR	31: 46.61
8th	Wang Xiuting	CHN	31: 48.88

Date: September 6, 1987

marathon

→ Main article : 1987 World Athletics Championships / Women's marathon

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Pink Mota	POR	2:25:17 CR
2	Soy Ivanova	URS	2:32:38
3	Jocelyne Villeton	FRA	2:32:53
4th	Bente Moe	NOR	2:33:21
5	Alena Zuchlo	URS	2:33:55
6th	Ekaterina Khramenkova	URS	2:34:23
7th	Nancy Ditz	United States	2:34:54
8th	Sinikka Keskitalo	FIN	2:35:16

Date: August 29, 1987

100 m hurdles

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Ginka Sagortschewa	BUL	12.34 CR
2	Gloria Uibel	GDR	12.44
3	Cornelia Oschkenat	GDR	12.46
4th	Jordanka Donkova	BUL	12.49
5	Anne Piquereau	FRA	12.82
6th	Laurence Elloy	FRA	12.83
7th	Claudia Zaczkiewicz	FRG	12.98
8th	LaVonna Martin	United States	13.06

Final: September 4th, 1987

Wind: −0.5 m / s

400 m hurdles

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Sabine Busch	GDR	53.62 CR
2	Debbie Flintoff-King	OUT	54.19
3	Cornelia Ullrich	GDR	54.31
4th	Sandra Farmer	JAM	54.38
5	Tuija Helander-Kuusisto	FIN	54.62
6th	Ana Ambrazienė	URS	55.68
7th	Schowonda Williams	United States	55.86
8th	Judi Brown-King	United States	56.10

Final: September 3, 1987

4 × 100 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	United States	Alice Brown Diane Williams Florence Griffith-Joyner Pam Marshall	41.58 CR
2	GDR	Silke Gladisch Cornelia Oschkenat Kerstin Behrendt Marlies Göhr	41.95
3	Soviet Union	Irina Sljussar Natalja Pomoschtschnikowa Natalja German Olga Antonowa	42.33
4th	Bulgaria	Ginka Sagortschewa Anelija Nunewa Nadezhda Georgieva Valya Demirewa	42.71
5	BR Germany	Silke-Beate Knoll Ulrike Sarvari Andrea Thomas Ute Thimm	43.20
6th	Cuba	Eusebia Riquelme Aliuska López Susana Armenteros Liliana Allen	43.66
7th	France	Françoise Leroux Marie-Christine Cazier Laurence Bily Muriel Leroy	43.75
DOP	Canada	Angela Bailey Angela Phipps Angella Issajenko Keturah Anderson

Final: September 6, 1987

In this competition, there was a doping case:
a member of the first sixth-placed Canadian 4 x 100-meter relay was Angella Issajenko , former Angella Taylor, who was involved in doping case Ben Johnson. She belonged to the same training group as Johnson under Charlie Francis. The doctor responsible for the doping preparations George Astaphan was responsible for Issajenko as well as for Johnson. After Ben Johnson was convicted of the doping offense, Issajenko exposed numerous doping practices and admitted that she had also doped herself. She then received a suspension, among other things, her results achieved over 100 meters at these World Championships (initially fifth) and with the 4 x 100 meter relay were canceled.

4 × 400 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	GDR	Dagmar Neubauer Kirsten Emmelmann Petra Müller Sabine Busch (final) in the preliminary also: Cornelia Ullrich	3: 18.63 CR
2	Soviet Union	Aelita Yurchenko Olga Nazarowa Marija Pinigina Olha Bryshina	3: 19.50
3	United States	Diane Dixon Denean Howard-Hill Valerie Brisco-Hooks Lillie Leatherwood	3: 21.04
4th	Canada	Charmaine Crooks Molly Killingbeck Marita Payne-Wiggins Jillian Richardson	3: 24.11
5	BR Germany	Ute Thimm Helga Arendt Gudrun Abbot Gisela Kinzel	3: 24.94
6th	Jamaica	Cathy Rattray-Williams Sandra Farmer-Patrick Ilrey Oliver Sandie Richards	3: 27.51
7th	France	Nathalie Simon Nadine Debois Helene Huart Fabienne Ficher	3: 27.60
8th	Bulgaria	Zvetanka Iliewa Rossiza Stamenowa Pepa Pawlowa Juliana Marinowa	3: 30.24

Final: September 6, 1987

10 km walking

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Irina Strachova	URS	44:12 CR
2	Kerry Saxby	OUT	44:23
3	Yan Hong	CHN	44:42
4th	Mari Cruz Díaz	ESP	44:48
5	Elena Nikolaeva	URS	44:54
6th	Monica Gunnarsson	SWE	45:09
7th	Jin Bingjie	CHN	45:24
8th	Ann Peel	CAN	45:27

Date: September 1, 1987

high jump

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space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Stefka Kostadinova	BUL	2.09 WR
2	Tamara Bykowa	URS	2.04
3	Susanne Beyer	GDR	1.99
4th	Silvia Costa	CUB	1.96
5	Larissa Kositsyna	URS	1.96
6th	Heike Redetzky	FRG	1.96
7th	Svetlana Issaewa	BUL	1.93
8th	Louise Ritter	United States	1.93
	Lyudmyla Avdjejenko	URS	1.93

Final: August 30, 1987

Long jump

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	7.36 CR
2	Elena Belevskaya	URS	7.14
3	Heike Drechsler	GDR	7.13
4th	Helga Radtke	GDR	7.01
5	Galina Chistjakova	URS	6.99
6th	Irina Valyukevich	URS	6.89
7th	Jennifer Inniss	United States	6.80
8th	Nicole Boegman	OUT	6.63

Final: September 4th, 1987

Shot put

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Natalia Lisovskaya	URS	21.24 CR
2	Kathrin Neimke	GDR	21.21
3	Ines Müller	GDR	20.76
4th	Claudia Losch	FRG	20.73
5	Natalia Achrimenko	URS	20.68
6th	Heike Hartwig	GDR	20.63
7th	Li Meisu	CHN	20.43
8th	Helena Fibingerová	TCH	20.29

Final: September 5, 1987

Discus throw

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Martina Hellmann	GDR	71.62 CR
2	Diana Gansky	GDR	70.12
3	Tsvetanka Christova	BUL	68.82
4th	Ilke Wyludda	GDR	68.20
5	Svetla Mitkowa	BUL	66.58
6th	Zdeňka Šilhavá	TCH	64.82
7th	Laryssa Mychaltchenko	URS	64.72
8th	Mariana Lengyel	ROME	62.30

Final: August 31, 1987

Javelin throw

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Fatima Whitbread	GBR	76.64 CR
2	Petra Felke	GDR	71.76
3	Beate Peters	FRG	68.82
4th	Tessa Sanderson	GBR	67.54
5	Susanne Jung	GDR	67.46
6th	Tiina Lillak	FIN	66.82
7th	Natalja Yermolowitsch	URS	65.52
8th	Ivonne Leal	CUB	64.90

Final: September 6, 1987

Heptathlon

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space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	7128 CR
2	Larissa Nikitina	URS	6564
3	Jane Frederick	United States	6502
4th	Anke Behmer	GDR	6460
5	Liliana Năstase	ROME	6325
6th	Marion Reichelt	GDR	6296
7th	Marianna Maslennikova	URS	6228
8th	Zhu Yuqing	CHN	6211 AS

Date: August 31st and September 1st, 1987

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} No day like any other: Ben Johnson will be banned from eurosport.de, March 4, 2016, accessed on March 25, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Inga Böddeling, The Fall of Ben Johnson on Morgenpost.de, August 14, 2018, accessed on March 25, 2020
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Angella Taylor-Issajenko on holdraum.com, accessed March 18, 2020
4. ↑ ^{a b c} John Barnes, Recent Developments in Canadian Sports Law at commentary.canlii.org, 1991, English (PDF, 5554 kB), accessed on March 18, 2020
5. ↑ ^{a b} As for life on spiegel.de, October 5, 1987, accessed on April 2, 2020
6. ↑ Michael Reinsch, The giant sentence from Turin , article on faz.net, March 11, 2009, accessed on March 27, 2020
7. ↑ Dr. Jürgen Schiffer: "Why did the senior javelin specification have to be changed?" - Article in IAAF / New Studies in athletics 3 / 4.00 , accessed on March 29, 2020

Web links

Commons : World Athletics Championships 1987  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 18, 2020
• Athletics II World Championship 1987 Rome, Italy index on todor66.com, accessed March 18, 2020
• Results of all World Athletics Championships Rome 1987 on sportschau.de, accessed on March 18, 2020
• Athletics. World Champion - Medal Winner on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 18, 2020
• World Athletics Championships 1987 in Rome, Italy ifosta.de, accessed on March 18, 2020
• Slide in the legal drug swamp, Spiegel Online September 7, 1987, Spiegel 37/1987 at spiegel.de, accessed on March 18, 2020

Video

• World Athletics Championships 1987 , video posted on youtube.com June 9, 2016, accessed March 18, 2020