World Athletics Championships 1987/100 m hurdles for women

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	26 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 3rd (preliminary) September 4th (semifinals / final)
Medalists Ginka Sagortschewa ( BUL )   Gloria Uibel ( GDR )   Cornelia Oschkenat ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome in 2009

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 3rd and 4th, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

In this competition, the hurdlers of the GDR won two medals with silver and bronze. Ginka Sagortschewa became world champion in the Bulgarian World Cup, third in 1983 . Silver went to Gloria Uibel , later Gloria Siebert. The 1986 Vice European Champion, Cornelia Oschkenat , won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	12.26 s	Jordanka Donkova	Ljubljana , Yugoslavia (now Slovenia )	September 7, 1986
World championship record	12.75 s	Bettine Jahn	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland , quarter-finals	August 12, 1983
		Ginka Sagortschewa	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland , semi-finals	August 13, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Ginka Sagortschewa from Bulgaria improved the world championship record that she herself held twice:

• 12.51 s (wind: −1.0 m / s) - 1st advance on September 3rd
• 12.34 s (wind: −0.5 m / s) - final on September 4th

Preliminary round

3rd September 1987

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: −1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ginka Sagortschewa	Bulgaria	12.51 CR
2	Anne Piquereau	France	13.24
3	Aliuska López	Cuba	13.24
4th	Rita Heggli	Switzerland	13.32
5	Wendy Jeal	Great Britain	13.41
6th	Dinah Yankey	Ghana	13.90
7th	Helga Halldorsdóttir	Iceland	13.97

Forward 2

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	12.97
2	Florence Colle	France	13.20
3	Stephanie Hightower	United States	13.22
4th	Nancy Vallecilla	Ecuador	13.30
5	Lesley-Ann Skeete	Great Britain	13.40
6th	Tiina Lindgren	Finland	13.76
7th	Chen Wen-Ing	Chinese Taipei	14.12

Forward 3

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Cornelia Oschkenat	GDR	12.83
2	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	13.02
3	LaVonna Martin	United States	13.19
4th	Patrizia Lombardo	Italy	13.25
5	Karin Malmbratt	Sweden	13.43
6th	Karen Nelson	Canada	13.60

Forward 4

Wind: −1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gloria Uibel	GDR	12.81
2	Laurence Elloy	France	13.08
3	Claudia Zaczkiewicz	BR Germany	13.15
4th	Sophia Hunter	United States	13.19
5	Feng Yinghua	People's Republic of China	13.85
6th	Sandra Tavares	Mexico	13.86

Semifinals

4th September 1987

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

Semi-final run 1

Sally Gunnell (on the photo in 1995) , later u. a. Olympic champion and world champion over 400 meter hurdles , was eliminated here in the semifinals

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Cornelia Oschkenat	GDR	12.65
2	Ginka Sagortschewa	Bulgaria	12.75
3	LaVonna Martin	United States	12.94
4th	Anne Piquereau	France	12.95
5	Florence Colle	France	13.04
6th	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	13.06
7th	Rita Heggli	Switzerland	13.20
8th	Nancy Vallecilla	Ecuador	13.28

Semi-final run 2

Stephanie Hightower (here in 2011) missed the final by one place

Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gloria Uibel	GDR	12.68
2	Jordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	12.76
3	Laurence Elloy	France	12.88
4th	Claudia Zaczkiewicz	BR Germany	13.01
5	Stephanie Hightower	United States	13.12
6th	Sophia Hunter	United States	13.26
7th	Aliuska López	Cuba	13.31
8th	Patrizia Lombardo	Italy	13.38

final

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  Vice world champion Gloria Uibel, later also active under her name Gloria Siebert

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  After silver at the European Championships last year , Cornelia Oschkenat received bronze here

4th September 1987

Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ginka Sagortschewa	Bulgaria	12.34 CR
2	Gloria Uibel	GDR	12.44
3	Cornelia Oschkenat	GDR	12.46
4th	Jordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	12.49
5	Anne Piquereau	France	12.82
6th	Laurence Elloy	France	12.83
7th	Claudia Zaczkiewicz	BR Germany	12.98
8th	LaVonna Martin	United States	13.06

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 4, 2020
• Women 100m Hurdles Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed April 4, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 100m Hurdles, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 299f), English, accessed on April 4, 2020

Video

• Ginka Zagorcheva - 100m Hurdles - Rome World Champs 1987 on youtube.com, accessed April 4, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 4, 2020