World Athletics Championships 1987 / men's hammer throw

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	26 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 31 (qualifying) September 1 (final)
Medalist Sergei Litvinov ( URS )   Jüri Tamm ( URS )   Ralf Haber ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The men's hammer throw at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on August 31 and September 1, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

The hammer throwers from the Soviet Union recorded a double victory in this competition. World champion was the defending champion, Olympic runner-up in 1980 , and two-time EM medalist ( 1986 silver / 1982 bronze) Sergei Litvinow . Second place in the occupied WM -Third of 1983 Jüri Tamm . Bronze went to the GDR pitcher Ralf Haber .

Records

Existing records

World record	86.74 m	Yuri Sedych	EM 1986 in Stuttgart , FR Germany	August 30, 1986
World championship record	82.86 m	Sergei Litvinov	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 9, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Sergei Litvinow from the Soviet Union improved his own World Cup record in the final on September 1st by eight inches to 83.06 m.

qualification

August 31, 1987

26 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 76.50 m. Eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the four next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 75.18 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Sergei Litvinov	Soviet Union	81.78
2	Walter Ciofani	France	76.12
3	Gunther Rodehau	GDR	76.06
4th	Plamen Minew	Bulgaria	75.18
5	Juha Tiainen	Finland	75.10
6th	Jud Logan	United States	74.80
7th	Kjell Bystedt	Sweden	74.46
8th	Lucio Serrani	Italy	74.00
9	Jörg Schäfer	BR Germany	73.58
10	Viktor Apostolov	Bulgaria	73.46
11	Michael Beierl	Austria	72.70
12	Andrés Charadia	Argentina	63.70
13	Garret Halpin	Ireland	63.68

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Ralf Haber	GDR	79.76
2	Igor Nikulin	Soviet Union	78.60
3	Heinz Weis	BR Germany	77.78
4th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	77.52
5	Jüri Tamm	Soviet Union	77.42
6th	Christoph Sahner	BR Germany	77.02
7th	Ivan Tanev	Bulgaria	76.50
8th	Harri Huhtala	Finland	75.64
9	Tore Gustafsson	Sweden	73.54
10	Ken Flax	United States	73.36
11	Francisco Fuentes	Spain	69.54
12	David Smith	Great Britain	68.56
13	Angus Cooper	New Zealand	63.64

final

September 1, 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	Sergei Litvinov	Soviet Union	83.06 CR	74.76	83.06	80.58	81.50	x	80.64
2	Jüri Tamm	Soviet Union	80.84	78.37	77.92	x	76.78	78.18	80.84
3	Ralf Haber	GDR	80.76	x	77.92	78.94	79.18	80.76	78.78
4th	Christoph Sahner	BR Germany	80.58	72.38	75.80	76.68	77.32	79.50	80.58
5	Igor Nikulin	Soviet Union	80.18	76.62	78.74	79.48	78.18	80.18	80.00
6th	Heinz Weis	BR Germany	80.18	77.70	79.02	78.36	79.26	80.18	78.76
7th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	77.56	76.54	75.80	77.34	77.56	74.94	76.94
8th	Plamen Minew	Bulgaria	77.06	75.16	77.56	x	x	x	x
9	Gunther Rodehau	GDR	76.18
10	Ivan Tanev	Bulgaria	76.00
11	Walter Ciofani	France	75.34
12	Harri Huhtala	Finland	74.98

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  Jüri Tamm (here in 2017) improved from third place at the 1983 World Championships to second place here

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  Bronze medalist Ralf Haber

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  Gunther Rodehau finished ninth

Video

• 1987 World Championships Men's hammer throw (26 attempts) on youtube.com, accessed March 29, 2020

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 29, 2020
• Men Hammer Throw Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 29, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Hammer Throw, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 195), English, accessed on March 29, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 29, 2020