World Athletics Championships 1987 / Men's Shot Put

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	19 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	(Qualification / final)
Medalist Werner Günthör ( SUI )   Alessandro Andrei ( ITA )   John Brenner ( USA )

The shot put men at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was on August 29, 1987 at the Olympic Stadium of the Italian capital Rome held.

World champion was the Swiss Werner Günthör . He won ahead of the 1984 Italian Olympic champion and world record holder Alessandro Andrei . Bronze went to the American John Brenner .

Records

Existing records

World record	22.91 m	Alessandro Andrei	Viareggio , Italy	August 12, 1987
World championship record	21.39 m	Edward Sarul	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	20th August 1983

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

Record improvement

The existing World Cup record was improved four times at these World Championships:

21.57	Alessandro Andrei ( Italy )	qualification	August 29, 1987
21.63	Werner Günthör ( Switzerland )	Final, 1st attempt
22.12		Final, 4th attempt
22.23		Final, 6th attempt

qualification

August 29, 1987

Nineteen participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 20.40 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.69 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Alessandro Andrei	Italy	21.57 CR
2	Ulf Timmermann	GDR	21.11
3	Vyacheslav Lycho	Soviet Union	20.99
4th	Werner Günthör	Switzerland	20.66
5	Helmut Krieger	Poland	19.73
6th	Karsten pride	BR Germany	19.69
7th	Gregg Tafralis	United States	19.62
8th	Georgi Todorov	Bulgaria	19.43
9	Ron Backes	United States	19.34
10	Dimitris Koutsoukis	Greece	19.05
DNS	Jan Sagedal	Norway

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Udo Beyer	GDR	20.95
2	John Brenner	United States	20.28
3	Remigius Machura	Czechoslovakia	20.27
4th	Klaus Bodenmüller	Austria	19.96
5	Sergei Gavryushin	Soviet Union	19.96
6th	Gert Weil	Chile	19.76
7th	Udo Gelhausen	BR Germany	19.10
8th	Janne Ronkainen	Finland	18.36
9	Lars Sundin	Sweden	17.25
DNS	Arne Pedersen	Norway

final

August 29, 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	Werner Günthör	Switzerland	22.23 CR	21.63 CR	21.19	20.88	22.12 CR	20.67	22.23 CR
2	Alessandro Andrei	Italy	21.88	21.12	x	21.17	x	21.88	21.76
3	John Brenner	United States	21.75	x	21.75	21.14	x	19.91	21.18
4th	Remigius Machura	Czechoslovakia	21.39	21.15	x	21.39	x	x	21.29
5	Ulf Timmermann	GDR	21.35	20.80	21.22	21.28	21.35	x	21.05
6th	Udo Beyer	GDR	21.13	21.13	x	x	21.02	x	20.39
7th	Klaus Bodenmüller	Austria	20.41	19.30	20.41	x	18.74	x	19.52
8th	Sergei Gavryushin	Soviet Union	20.15	19.99	19.83	x	x	20.15	x
9	Vyacheslav Lycho	Soviet Union	19.98
10	Gert Weil	Chile	19.81
11	Karsten pride	BR Germany	19.22
12	Helmut Krieger	Poland	19.15

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  Remigius Machura took fourth place

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  Ulf Timmermann came in fifth

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  Udo Beyer reached sixth place

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 28, 2020
• Men Shot Put 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 Shot Put, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 183f), English, accessed on March 28, 2020

Video

• Werner Günthör 22.12m World Championships 1987 on youtube.com, accessed on March 28, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 28, 2020