World Athletics Championships 1987 / Men's discus throw
2. World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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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) |
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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
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
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 |
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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 |
The reigning European champion Romas Ubartas had to be content with sixth place
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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 28, 2020