World Athletics Championships 1987 / men's marathon

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	65 athletes from 50 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Circuit through Rome
Competition phase	September 6th
Medalist Douglas Wakiihuri ( KEN )   Ahmed Salah ( DJI )   Gelindo Bordin ( ITA )

Panoramic view of the city of Rome in 2004

The men's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 6, 1987 in the streets of the Italian capital, Rome .

The Kenyan Douglas Wakiihuri became world champion . Silver went to Ahmed Salah from Djibouti . The reigning European champion Gelindo Bordin from Italy won the bronze medal.

Records / best performances

Existing records

World record	2:07:12 h	Carlos Lopes	Rotterdam marathon 1985 , the Netherlands	April 20, 1985
World championship record	2:10:03 h	Robert de Castella	World Cup 1983 in Helsinki	August 14, 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

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Result

Henrik Jørgensen - ninth place

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  World champion Douglas Wakiihuri (left) in 2011

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  Steve Moneghetti - fourth place

Herbert Steffny (here in 2013) - seventeenth place

Marti ten Kate - 24th place

Defending champion Robert de Castella did not reach the goal here

Abebe Mekonnen - not on target

September 6, 1987

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Douglas Wakiihuri	Kenya	2:11:48
	Ahmed Salah	Djibouti	2:12:30
	Gelindo Bordin	Italy	2:12:40
04th	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	2:12:49
05	Hugh Jones	Great Britain	2:12:54
06th	Juma Ikangaa	Tanzania	2:13:43
07th	Orlando Pizzolato	Italy	2:14:03
08th	Rawil Kashapov	Soviet Union	2:14:41
09	Henrik Jørgensen	Denmark	2:14:58
10	Dirk Vanderherten	Belgium	2:16:42
11	Jakow Tolstikov	Soviet Union	2:16:55
12	Martin Vrábel	Czechoslovakia	2:16:58
13	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy	2:17:45
14th	Mirko Vindiš	Yugoslavia	2:18:09
15th	Tefera Guta	Ethiopia	2:18:27
16	Vicente Antón	Spain	2:19:00
17th	Herbert Steffny	BR Germany	2:19:24
18th	Honorato Hernández	Spain	2:20:00
19th	Michael Mockery	BR Germany	2:20:43
20th	Graham Macky	New Zealand	2:20:43
21st	Don Janicki	United States	2:20:46
22nd	Masayuki Nishi	Japan	2:20:51
23	Eloi Rodrigues	Brazil	2:21:03
24	Marti ten Kate	Netherlands	2:22:21
25th	Kingston Mills	Ireland	2:22:52
26th	Yuichiro Osuda	Japan	2:23:25
27	Sam Hlawe	Swaziland	2:24:09
28	Alfonso Abellán	Spain	2:24:20
29	Bigboy Matlapeng	Botswana	2:24:43
30th	Fumiaki Abe	Japan	2:24:47
31	Jeong Man-hwa	South Korea	2:25:41
32	Peter Maher	Canada	2:26:40
33	William Aguirre	Nicaragua	2:27:19
34	Vithanakande Samarasinghe	Sri Lanka	2:28:35
35	José Jami	Ecuador	2:29:04
36	Peter Mitchell	Australia	2:30:04
37	Francis Mukuka	Zambia	2:30:05
38	Justin Gloden	Luxembourg	2:30:08
39	Gi-Sheng Hsu	Chinese Taipei	2:30:31
40	Moacir Marconi	Brazil	2:31:39
41	Stanimir Nenov	Bulgaria	2:32:44
42	Hari Singh	India	2:34:20
43	Albert Marie	Seychelles	2:40:48
44	Veselin Vasilev	Bulgaria	2:43:14
45	Salvator Sahabo	Brunei	2:43:43
46	Chandra Bahadur Gurung	Nepal	2:43:54
47	William Abrams	Guyana	3:12:33
DNF	Ralf Salzmann	BR Germany
	Bruno Lafranchi	Switzerland
	Policarpio Calizaya	Bolivia
	Robert de Castella	Australia
	Christos Papachristos	Greece
	El Mostafa Nechchadi	Morocco
	Dan Grimes	United States
	Geoff Smith	Great Britain
	Abebe Mekonnen	Ethiopia
	Delfim Moreira	Portugal
	Martti Vainio	Finland
	Mehmet Terzi	Turkey
	Alain Lazare	France
	Dave Gordon	United States
	Jorge Yeber	Argentina
	Djama Robleh	Djibouti
	James Walker	Guam
	Samu Samuelu	Western Samoa
DNS	Bogusaw Psujek	Poland
	Allan Zachariassen	Denmark

Web links and sources

Commons : World Athletics Championships 1987  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage for the 1987 World Cup on the IAAF website (English), accessed on March 22, 2020
• Men Marathon Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 22, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Marathon, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 135), in English, accessed on March 22, 2020

Videos

• 1987 World Marathon Championship - Part 1 on youtube.com, accessed March 22, 2020
• 1987 World Marathon Championship - Part 2 on youtube.com, accessed March 22, 2020
• 1987 World Marathon Championship - Part 3 on youtube.com, accessed March 22, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Men's marathon , accessed March 22, 2020