World Athletics Championships 1987 / men's triple jump

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalist Christo Markow ( BUL )   Mike Conley Sr. ( USA )   Oleg Sakirkin ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The men's triple jump at the World Athletics Championships 1987 was held on August 30 and 31, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

World champion was the reigning European champion Christo Markow from Bulgaria . The US Olympic runner-up in 1984 Mike Conley Sr. won the silver medal. Third place went to Oleg Sakirkin from the Soviet Union .

Records

Existing records

World record	17.97 m	Willie Banks	Indianapolis , USA	June 16, 1985
World championship record	17.42 m	Zdzisław Hoffmann	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 8, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Christo Markow from Bulgaria improved the existing World Cup record in the final on August 30th by exactly half a meter to 17.92 m and at the same time set a new European record.

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

qualification

August 30, 1987

32 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 16.85 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next placed athletes to actually twelve jumpers. The twelfth best distance of 16.57 m was achieved by two athletes, both of whom were approved for the final. Eight participants qualified for the final (highlighted in light green), which was contested by thirteen athletes on the following day.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind
1	Oleg Sakirkin	Soviet Union	17.35 / -0.1
2	Oleg Prozenko	Soviet Union	17.08 / +2.0
3	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	17.06 / +1.5
4th	Zdzisław Hoffmann	Poland	16.73 / +1.1
5	Dario Badinelli	Italy	16.64 / +0.3
6th	Ivan Slanar	Czechoslovakia	16.57 / +1.3
7th	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	16.57 / +0.5
8th	Didier Falise	Belgium	16.51 / +1.1
9	José Leitão	Portugal	16.17 / +1.2
10	Frank Rutherford	Bahamas	15.99 / +0.8
11	Francisco dos Santos	Brazil	15.85 / -0.7
12	Arne Holm	Sweden	15.76 / -0.5
13	José Gregorio Salazar	Venezuela	15.76 / +0.5
14th	Ajayi Agbebaku	Nigeria	15.66 / -0.8
15th	Toussaint Rabenala	Madagascar	15.53 / +0.2
16	Paulo Noronha	Mozambique	14.62 / +0.5

Group B

The Olympic runner-up from 1984 and world record holder Willie Banks did not get beyond the preliminary round with his 16.37 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind
1	Christo Markow	Bulgaria	17.20 / +1.1
2	Alexander Kovalenko	Soviet Union	17.16 / +0.2
3	Peter Bouschen	BR Germany	17.01 / -0.2
4th	Jacek Pastusinski	Poland	17.00 / -0.6
5	Norbert Elliott	Bahamas	16.65 / +0.4
6th	Joseph Taiwo	Nigeria	16.63 / +0.4
7th	Georgi Pomaschki	Bulgaria	16.49 / +1.3
8th	Francis Dodoo	Ghana	16.48 / +0.5
9	Serge Hélan	France	16.41 / +0.5
10	Charles Simpkins	United States	16.40 / +0.7
11	Willie Banks	United States	16.37 / +0.7
12	Đorđe Kožul	Yugoslavia	16.37 / -0.5
13	Edrick Floreal	Canada	16.33 / -0.1
14th	Edward Cruden	Suriname	15.32 / -0.5
15th	Marios Hadjiandreou	Cyprus	14.78 / +0.6
NM	Mohamed Zaki Sadri	Malaysia	ogV

final

August 31, 1987

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Christo Markow	Bulgaria	17.92 CR , ER / +1.6	17.70	17.73	x	17.92	x	x
2	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	17.67 / -1.0	17.34	17.37	x	17.65	x	17.67
3	Oleg Sakirkin	Soviet Union	17.43 / +1.4	17.03	17.36	17.31	x	17.29	17.43
4th	Alexander Kovalenko	Soviet Union	17.38 / -1.0	17.38	x	x	x	16.81	16.99
5	Jacek Pastusinski	Poland	17.35 / +1.7	17.27	17.20	17.13	17.28	17.35	17.26
6th	Joseph Taiwo	Nigeria	17.29 / +3.9	17.29	x	17.09	16.82	16.96	x
7th	Peter Bouschen	BR Germany	17.26 / +3.6	x	17.26	x	17.08	16.73	16.72
8th	Oleg Prozenko	Soviet Union	17.23 / +3.9	x	x	17.23	x	x	16.30
9	Norbert Elliott	Bahamas	16.79 / +1.9
10	Ivan Slanar	Czechoslovakia	16.69 / +0.9
11	Dario Badinelli	Italy	16.64 / +0.3
12	Zdzisław Hoffmann	Poland	16.58 / +1.9
NM	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	ogV

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  Runner-up was the 1984 Olympic runner-up ,
  Mike Conley Sr.

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  Bronze medalist Oleg Sakirkin  (right)

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  The defending champion Zdzisław Hoffmann reached the final, but had to be content with twelfth place

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 27, 2020
• Men Triple Jump Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 27, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Triple Jump, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 171), English, accessed on March 27, 2020

Video

• Khristo Markov from Bulgaria - 17.92mts - Triple Jump (Rome 87) on youtube.com, accessed March 27, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 27, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Triple Jump Men , Spanish / English, p. 26 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on March 27, 2020