World Athletics Championships 1987 / medal table

This table shows the medal table of the World Athletics Championships 1987 in Rome. The placements are sorted according to the number of gold medals won, followed by the number of silver and bronze medals ( lexicographical order ). If two or more countries have an identical medal balance, they are listed alphabetically on the same rank.

Medal table
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
15th	France	-	2	1	3
16	Australia	-	2	-	2
17th	Jamaica	-	1	3	4th
18th	BR Germany	-	1	2	3
19th	Romania	-	1	1	2
	Spain	-	1	1	2
	Czechoslovakia	-	1	1	2
22nd	Djibouti	-	1	-	1
	Nigeria	-	1	-	1
24	Cuba	-	-	2	2
25th	Belgium	-	-	1	1
	Brazil	-	-	1	1
	People's Republic of China	-	-	1	1