World Athletics Championships 1987/110 m hurdles for men

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 1st (preliminary / semi-finals) September 3rd (final)
Medalist Greg Foster ( USA )   Jonathan Ridgeon ( GBR )   Colin Jackson ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome in 2009

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 1 and 3, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

In this competition, the British hurdlers won two medals, silver and bronze. World champion was the US defending champion and 1984 Olympic runner-up Greg Foster . Jonathan Ridgeon came in second . Bronze went to Colin Jackson .

Records

Existing records

World record	12.93 s	Renaldo Nehemiah	World class Zurich , Switzerland	19th August 1981
World championship record	13.22 s	Greg Foster	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 12, 1983

Record improvement

Improved in his first lead on September 1 world champion Greg Foster 's from the first world championships existing WM -record with good wind conditions by two hundredths of a second in 13.20 s. In the semifinals, the runners had to struggle with headwinds, in the final Foster missed the new record with less wind support than in the run-up to a hundredth of a second.

Preliminary round

September 1, 1987

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Greg Foster	United States	13.20 CR
2	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.37
3	Carlos Sala	Spain	13.48
4th	Jiří Hudec	Czechoslovakia	13.48
5	Florian Schwarthoff	BR Germany	13.72
6th	Fabien Niederhäuser	Switzerland	14.04
7th	Erik Jensen	Denmark	14.06
8th	Mauricio Carranza	El Salvador	15.67

Forward 2

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mark McKoy	Canada	13.50
2	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.62
3	Krzysztof Piątek	Poland	13.63
4th	Lyndon Johnson	Brazil	13.91
5	Andrew Parker	Jamaica	13.94
6th	Yu Zhicheng	People's Republic of China	13.97
7th	Antonio Lanau	Spain	14.25
8th	Wu Ching-Jing	Chinese Taipei	14.45

Forward 3

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jonathan Ridgeon	Great Britain	13.46
2	Alexander Markin	Soviet Union	13.56
3	Aleš Höffer	Czechoslovakia	13.70
4th	Mikael Ylöstalo	Finland	13.90
5	Ulf Söderman	Sweden	14.01
6th	Luigi Bertocchi	Italy	14.02
7th	Judex Lefou	Mauritius	14.35
DNS	Javier Moracho	Spain

Forward 4

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jack Pierce	United States	13.61
2	Nigel Walker	Great Britain	13.62
3	Igors Kazanovs	Soviet Union	13.68
4th	Thomas J. Kearns	Ireland	14.02
5	Derek Knowles	Bahamas	14.39
6th	João Lima	Portugal	14.41
DNF	Jean-Marc pattern	Switzerland
DNS	Stephen Kerho	Canada

Forward 5

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Caristan	France	13.44
2	György Bakos	Hungary	13.76
3	Cletus Clark	United States	13.81
4th	Michael Radzey	BR Germany	13.82
5	Gianni Tozzi	Italy	13.87
6th	Sergei Usov	Soviet Union	13.90
DNF	Alain Cuypers	Belgium

Semifinals

September 1, 1987

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

• 

  Aleš Höffer retired as seventh of his semi-final run

• 

  Florian Schwarthoff (left, in 2016; far right: Colin Jackson) did not reach the finals as eighth of the first semi-final

Run 1

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jonathan Ridgeon	Great Britain	13.34
2	Greg Foster	United States	13.41
3	Carlos Sala	Spain	13.60
4th	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.62
5	Alexander Markin	Soviet Union	13.63
6th	Krzysztof Piątek	Poland	13.68
7th	Aleš Höffer	Czechoslovakia	13.78
8th	Florian Schwarthoff	BR Germany	13.98

Jiří Hudec (right, next to him: Aleš Höffer) failed in eighth place in the second semi-final race

Run 2

Wind: -1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mark McKoy	Canada	13.42
2	Jack Pierce	United States	13.45
3	Igors Kazanovs	Soviet Union	13.58
4th	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.58
5	Stéphane Caristan	France	13.62
6th	Nigel Walker	Great Britain	13.68
7th	György Bakos	Hungary	13.90
8th	Jiří Hudec	Czechoslovakia	14.06

final

• 

  Bronze medalist Colin Jackson was at the start of an extremely successful career

• 

  Arto Bryggare (here in 2009) , 1983 Vice World Champion, 1984 Olympic third, 1986 Vizeeuropa-
  champion and two-time EM -Dritter ( 1978 / 1982 ), did not appear at the finale

3rd September 1987

Wind: +0.50 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Greg Foster	United States	13.21
2	Jonathan Ridgeon	Great Britain	13.29
3	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.38
4th	Jack Pierce	United States	13.41
5	Igors Kazanovs	Soviet Union	13.48
6th	Carlos Sala	Spain	13.55
7th	Mark McKoy	Canada	13.71
DNS	Arto Bryggare	Finland

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 23, 2020
• Men 110m Hurdles Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 23, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 110m Hurdles, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 147), English, accessed on March 23, 2020

Video

• World Championships in Athletics 1995 - 110m hurdles men's final on youtube.com, accessed March 23, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 110 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 23, 2020