World Athletics Championships 1987/10 km women's walking

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	10 km walk
gender	Women
Attendees	35 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Circuit through Rome
Competition phase	September 1
Medalists Irina Strachowa ( URS )   Kerry Saxby ( AUS )   Yan Hong ( CHN )

Panoramic view of the city of Rome in 2004

The women's 10 km walk at the 1987 World Athletics Championships was held on the streets of Rome on September 1, 1987 .

This discipline was new to the world championship program. For the first time since last year's European Championships , a walking competition was also held for women at a major international championship.

World champion was Irina Strachowa from the Soviet Union . She won ahead of the world record holder, Australian Kerry Saxby . Bronze went to the Chinese Yan Hong .

Existing records / best performances

World record	42:52 min	Kerry Saxby	Melbourne , Australia	May 4th 1987
World championship record	No World Cup records yet, competition is new to the program.

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

World champion Irina Strachowa from the Soviet Union set the first world championship record in the race on September 1st with 44:12 minutes .

execution

There was no preliminary round, all 35 walkers went to the final together.

Result

María Reyes Sobrino (here in 2015) - ninth place

Beate Anders, later Beate Gummelt - sixteenth place

Sari Essayah (on the photo in 2009) - nineteen place

September 1, 1987

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Irina Strachova	Soviet Union	44:12 CR
2	Kerry Saxby	Australia	44:23
3	Yan Hong	People's Republic of China	44:42
4th	Mari Cruz Díaz	Spain	44:48
5	Elena Nikolaeva	Soviet Union	44:54
6th	Monica Gunnarsson	Sweden	45:09
7th	Jin Bingjie	People's Republic of China	45:24
8th	Ann Peel	Canada	45:27
9	María Reyes Sobrino	Spain	45:37
10	Dana Vavracová	Czechoslovakia	46:10
11	Ann Jansson	Sweden	46:15
12	Susan Cook	Australia	46:20
13	Lisa Langford	Great Britain	46:23
14th	Janice McCaffrey	Canada	46:41
15th	Lynn Weik	United States	46:51
16	Beate Anders	GDR	47:00
17th	Maria Luz Colin	Mexico	47:23
18th	Giuliana Salce	Italy	47:28
19th	Sari essayah	Finland	47:30
20th	Debbi Lawrence	United States	47:31
21st	Alison Baker	Canada	47:48
22nd	Suzanne Griesbach	France	48:06
23	Sirkka Oikarinen	Finland	48:25
24	Maryanne Torrellas	United States	48:27
25th	Beverley Allen	Great Britain	48:50
26th	Sølvi Furnes	Norway	49:18
27	María Graciela Mendoza	Mexico	49:46
28	Hideko Hirayama	Japan	49:50
29	Emilia Cano	Spain	50:11
30th	Nirva Hämäläinen	Finland	52:03
DNF	Lorraine Jachno	Australia
	Barbara Kollorz	BR Germany
	Maria Grazia Orsani	Italy
DSQ	Guan Ping	People's Republic of China
	Olga Krishtop	Soviet Union

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 23, 2020
• Women 20km Walk Athletics II World Championship Rome (JPN) 1987 on todor66.com, accessed April 5, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 20km Walk, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 360), English, accessed on April 5, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ^ Track and Field Statistics Records Progression - World Records. Women, 10 km Road Walk on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 5, 2020