World Athletics Championships 1987/400 m hurdles for men

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	45 athletes from 29 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (preliminary) August 31st (semi-finals) September 1st (final)
Medalist Edwin Moses ( USA )   Danny Harris ( USA )   Harald Schmid ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome in 2009

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held from August 30 to September 1, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

In this competition, the US hurdlers achieved a double success. In one of the most exciting finals at world championships ever, the defending champion won, two-time Olympic champion ( 1976 / 1984 ) and world record holder Edwin Moses with a new WM -record in 47.46 s. Just two hundredths of a second after him, the 1984 Olympic runner-up Danny Harris won the silver medal. Bronze went to the three-time European champion ( 1978 / 1982 / 1986 ), Olympic bronze medalists from 1984 and Vice World Champion from 1983 Harald Schmid from the Federal Republic of Germany , which at the same time came up with Harris to the finish and equaled his own European record.

Records

Existing records

World record	47.02 s	Edwin Moses	Koblenz , FR Germany	August 31, 1983
World championship record	47.50 s		1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 9, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Edwin Moses ( USA ) improved his own world championship record from the last world championships in the final on September 1st by four hundredths of a second to 47.46 s.

Preliminary round

August 30, 1987

The preliminary round was carried out in six runs. The first two 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

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Edwin Moses	United States	49.03
2	Henry Amike	Nigeria	49.56
3	Ryoichi Yoshida	Japan	49.87
4th	Simon Kitur	Kenya	50.30
5	Martin Gillingham	Great Britain	50.64
6th	Michel Zimmermann	Belgium	50.70
7th	Pedro Chiamulera	Brazil	50.71
DNS	Victor Lima	Sao Tome and Principe

Forward 2

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  Pablo Squella, who later worked as a journalist (here in 2016) , was eliminated in sixth place in his race in the preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Danny Harris	United States	48.74
2	Max Robertson	Great Britain	49.73
3	Shem Ochako	Kenya	49.86
4th	Gilles Vimbert	France	50.34
5	Thomas Futterknecht	Austria	50.44
6th	Pablo Squella	Chile	50.73
7th	Edgar Itt	BR Germany	51.18
DNS	Prince Dowai	Sierra Leone

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Harald Schmid	BR Germany	49.28
2	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	49.36
3	Alexander Vasilyev	Soviet Union	49.99
4th	Joseph Maritime	Kenya	50.04
5	Angelo Locci	Italy	51.15
6th	Shigenori Ohmori	Japan	51.20
7th	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia	51.53
8th	Ilian Goldwasser	Israel	51.54

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.95
2	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	50.02
3	Uwe Schmitt	BR Germany	50.54
4th	Rik Tommelein	Belgium	50.63
5	Jasem Al Dowaila	Kuwait	50.97
6th	Krasimir Demirev	Bulgaria	51.07
7th	Jozef Kucej	Czechoslovakia	51.13
8th	Wilfredo Ferrer	Venezuela	53.03

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Toma Tomov	Bulgaria	49.27
2	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	49.34
3	José Alonso	Spain	49.42
4th	Randy Cox	Trinidad and Tobago	50.14
5	Philippe Gonigam	France	50.38
6th	Daniel Ogidi	Nigeria	50.51
7th	Klause Ehrle	Austria	50.91
8th	Ahmed Ghamen	Egypt	51.35

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Thomas Nyberg	Sweden	50.06
2	David Patrick	United States	50.10
3	John Graham	Canada	50.23
4th	Greg role	Bahamas	50.63
5	Stanislav Navesnak	Czechoslovakia	50.65
6th	Athanassis Kaloyiannis	Greece	51.94
7th	Ken Gordon	Australia	52.22

Semifinals

August 31, 1987

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Harald Schmid	BR Germany	48.23
2	Danny Harris	United States	48.24
3	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.46
4th	Henry Amike	Nigeria	48.50
5	David Patrick	United States	48.56
6th	Winthrop Graham	Jamaica	48.64
7th	Shem Ochako	Kenya	49.87
8th	Max Robertson	Great Britain	49.90

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Edwin Moses	United States	48.38
2	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	48.53
3	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	48.64
4th	José Alonso	Spain	49.00
5	Thomas Nyberg	Sweden	49.03
6th	Toma Tomov	Bulgaria	49.11
7th	Ryoichi Yoshida	Japan	49.39
DNF	Alexander Vasilyev	Soviet Union

The defending champion, two-time Olympic champion ( 1976 / 1984 ) and world record holder Edwin Moses was victorious in an extremely tight race

final

September 1, 1987

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Edwin Moses	United States	47.46 CR
2	Danny Harris	United States	47.48
3	Harald Schmid	BR Germany	47.48 ERe
4th	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.37
5	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	48.37
6th	Henry Amike	Nigeria	48.63
7th	Kriss Akabusi	Great Britain	48.74
8th	José Alonso	Spain	49.46

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  Danny Harris, second in the 1984 Olympic Games, was runner-up two hundredths of a second behind

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  Harald Schmid, the three-time European champion ( 1978 / 1982 / 1986 ), Olympic bronze medalists from 1984 and Vice World Champion of 1983, there were coinciding with Harris at leveling his own European record Bronze

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  The European Championship third from 1986 Sven Nylander (here in 2014) finished fourth

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  Kriss Akabusi (on the photo in 2012) came in seventh place

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 23, 2020
• Men 400m 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 400m Hurdles, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 153), English, accessed on March 23, 2020
• Harald Schmid on germanroadraces.de, accessed on March 23, 2020

Video

• Closest Ever Finish !! Ed Moses-World Championships, Rome, 1987. 400m.H. on youtube.com, accessed March 23, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 23, 2020