World Athletics Championships 1987/50 km men's walk

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	50 km walk
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Circuit through Rome
Competition phase	5th September
Medalist Hartwig Gauder ( GDR )   Ronald Weigel ( GDR )   Vyacheslav Ivanenko ( URS )

Panoramic view of the city of Rome in 2004

The men's 50 km walk at the 1987 World Athletics Championships was held on the streets of Rome on September 5, 1987 .

In this competition, the walkers from the GDR achieved a double victory. World champion was the 1980 Olympic champion and reigning European champion Hartwig Gauder . He won ahead of the defending champion and holder of the world record, Ronald Weigel . Bronze went to the Vice European Champion from 1986 Vyacheslav Ivanenko from the Soviet Union .

Records / best performances

Existing records

World record	3:38:17 h	Ronald Weigel	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	May 25, 1986
World championship record	3:43:08 h		1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 12, 1983

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.

Record improvement

World champion Hartwig Gauder from the GDR improved the existing World Cup record on September 5th by 2:15 minutes to 3:40:53 h.

execution

There was no preliminary round, all 37 walkers competed together for the final.

Result

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  Fourth placed Raffaello Ducceschi

Jan Cortenbach - 20th place

Jorge Llopart, Olympic runner-up in 1980 and European champion in 1978
, was disqualified

5th September 1987

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
1	Hartwig Gauder	GDR	3:40:53 CR
2	Ronald Weigel	GDR	3:41:30
3	Vyacheslav Ivanenko	Soviet Union	3:44:02
4th	Raffaello Ducceschi	Italy	3:47:49
5	Martín Bermúdez	Mexico	3:48:27
6th	Sandro Bellucci	Italy	3:48:52
7th	Pavol Szikora	Czechoslovakia	3:49:44
8th	Arturo Bravo	Mexico	3:52:08
9	Andrés Marín	Spain	3:52:16
10	Gottfried De Jonckheere	Belgium	3:52:21
11	Raúl González	Mexico	3:53:30
12	Erling Andersen	Norway	3:55:52
13	François Lapointe	Canada	3:56:11
14th	Thierry Toutain	France	3:56:34
15th	José Pinto	Portugal	3:56:40
16	Carl Schueler	United States	3:57:09
17th	Marco Evoniuk	United States	3:57:43
18th	Pavol Blažek	Czechoslovakia	3:58:43
19th	Paul Blagg	Great Britain	3:59:55
20th	Jan Cortenbach	Netherlands	4:00:10
21st	Takehiro Sonohara	Japan	4:00:11
22nd	Jim Heiring	United States	4:03:34
23	Alain Lemercier	France	4:09:53
24	Denis Terraz	France	4:10:55
25th	Michael Harvey	Australia	4:11:04
26th	Willi Sawall	Australia	4:14:25
27	Martin Archambault	Canada	4:26:03
DNF	Reima saloons	Finland
	Manuel Alcalde	Spain
DSQ	Dietmar Meisch	GDR
	Valery Suntsov	Soviet Union
	Wenjamin Nikolaev	Soviet Union
	Jorge Llopart	Spain
	Bo Gustafsson	Sweden
	Vesa Puukari	Finland
	Grzegorz Ledzion	Poland
	Giacomo Poggi	Italy

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 24, 2020
• Men 50km Walk Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 on todor66.com, accessed March 24, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 50km Walk, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 220f), English, accessed on March 24, 2020
• To person. Hartwig Gauder was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung June 22, 2016 on mz-web.de, accessed on March 18, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 24, 2020