World Athletics Championships 1987 / Men's discus throw

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	26 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 3 (qualification) September 4 (final)
Medalist Jürgen Schult ( GDR )   John Powell ( USA )   Luis Delís ( CUB )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The men's discus throw at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 3 and 4, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

World champion was the world record holder Jürgen Schult from the GDR . Silver went to the two-time Olympic bronze medalists ( 1976 / 1984 ) John Powell of the United States . The Cuban Olympic third from 1980 and vice world champion from 1983 Luis Delís won bronze.

Records

Existing records

World record	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
World championship record	67.72 m	Imrich Bugár	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 14, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Jürgen Schult from the GDR improved the existing world championship record in the final on September 4th by 1.02 m to 68.74 m.

qualification

3rd September 1987

26 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 65.00 m. Two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the ten next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.70 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

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  Knut Hjeltnes - 61.64 m, he was six centimeters short of the final

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  Dariusz Juzyszyn - 61.38 m and thus eliminated

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  Vésteinn Hafsteinsson - failed with 59.32 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Luis Delís	Cuba	66.06
2	Rolf Danneberg	BR Germany	64.90
3	Romas Ubartas	Soviet Union	64.48
4th	John Powell	United States	63.62
5	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	62.68
6th	Bradley Cooper	Bahamas	61.70
7th	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	61.64
8th	Dariusz Juzyszyn	Poland	61.38
9	Stefan Fernholm	Sweden	61.36
10	Vésteinn Hafsteinsson	Iceland	59.32
11	Georgi Georgiev	Bulgaria	58.80
12	John Brenner	United States	58.44
13	Patrick Journoud	France	57.84
NM	Konstantinos Georgakopoulos	Greece	ogV

Group B

Svein Inge Valvik did not reach the final with his 59.76 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Jürgen Schult	GDR	66.04
2	Vaclavas Kidykas	Soviet Union	64.60
3	Vladimir Zinchenko	Soviet Union	64.30
4th	Géjza Valent	Czechoslovakia	63.66
5	Alois Hannecker	BR Germany	63.34
6th	Marco Martino	Spain	62.26
7th	Svein Inge Valvik	Norway	59.76
8th	Lars Sundin	Sweden	59.44
9	Ray Lazdins	Canada	59.16
10	Randy Heisler	United States	59.02
11	Came Dimitrov	Bulgaria	58.90
NM	Göran Svensson	Sweden	ogV
DNS	Werner Hartmann	BR Germany

final

4th September 1987

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Jürgen Schult	GDR	68.74 CR	65.80	68.74	66.18	67.36	66.74	65.94
2	John Powell	United States	66.22	66.22	60.41	61.48	x	x	x
3	Luis Delís	Cuba	66.02	63.30	64.18	x	x	65.55	66.02
4th	Rolf Danneberg	BR Germany	65.96	65.14	60.92	64.30	65.42	65.96	63.80
5	Vladimir Zinchenko	Soviet Union	65.60	65.60	63.04	65.26	64.78	64.04	x
6th	Romas Ubartas	Soviet Union	65.50	65.06	63.22	62.82	65.04	65.50	64.56
7th	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	65.32	x	63.12	65.32	62.16	x	x
8th	Vaclavas Kidykas	Soviet Union	63.64	57.78	62.30	63.64	60.22	x	x
9	Géjza Valent	Czechoslovakia	61.98	57.74	61.64	61.98	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Bradley Cooper	Bahamas	61.94	61.94	56.96	60.32
11	Alois Hannecker	BR Germany	60.98	58.44	x	60.98
12	Marco Martino	Spain	60.60	60.60	58.30	60.04

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  After his world record last year, Jürgen Schult has now won the World Cup

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  The reigning European champion Romas Ubartas had to be content with sixth place

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  Defending champion Imrich Bugár (here in 2013) - among other things European champion from 1982 - finished seventh

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 28, 2020
• Men Discus Throw Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 28, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Discus Throw, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 189f), English, accessed on March 28, 2020

Videos

• IAAF 1983 World Outdoor Championships Men's Discus Final on youtube.com, accessed March 28, 2020
• 1987 victory ceremony discus men World Championships Rome on youtube.com, accessed March 28, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 28, 2020