World Athletics Championships 1987 / women's javelin

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	31 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 5th (qualification) September 6th (final)
Medalists Fatima Whitbread ( GBR )   Petra Felke ( GDR )   Beate Peters ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The women's javelin at the World Athletics Championships 1987 was held on September 5 and 6, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

The British vice world champion from 1983 and reigning European champion Fatima Whitbread became world champion . She won ahead of the world record holder and Vice European Champion from 1986 Petra Felke , later Petra Meier, from the GDR . Bronze went to the German thrower Beate Peters .

Records

Existing records

World record	78.90 m	Petra Felke	Leipzig , GDR (now Germany )	July 29, 1987
World championship record	70.82 m	Tiina Lillak	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 31, 1983

Record improvement

The existing World Cup record was improved three times in the final on September 6th:

• 71.76 m - Petra Felke ( GDR ), 2nd attempt
• 73.16 m - Fatima Whitbread ( Great Britain ), 4th attempt
• 76.64 m - Fatima Whitbread (Great Britain), 5th attempt

qualification

5th September 1987

31 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 64.00 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the seven next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 60.78 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Petra Felke	GDR	69.16
2	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	66.46
3	Beate Peters	BR Germany	64.26
4th	Irina Kostyuchenkova	Soviet Union	63.04
5	Katalin Hartai	Hungary	62.68
6th	Natalja Yermolowitsch	Soviet Union	60.78
7th	Anna Verouli	Greece	60.60
8th	Zhou Yuanxiang	People's Republic of China	59.46
9	Elisabet Nagy	Sweden	58.72
10	María Caridad Colón	Cuba	57.82
11	Emi Matsui	Japan	57.78
12	Denise Thiémard	Switzerland	56.34
13	Sueli dos Santos	Brazil	55.48
14th	Marietta Riera	Venezuela	53.38
15th	Lee Huei-Chen	Chinese Taipei	51.42
16	Mereoni Vibose	Fiji	48.60

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Fatima Whitbread	Great Britain	67.00
2	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	64.52
3	Ivonne Leal	Cuba	62.60
4th	Tiina Lillak	Finland	62.34
5	Susanne Jung	GDR	62.26
6th	Manuela Alizadeh	BR Germany	62.16
7th	Natallja Schykalenka	Soviet Union	60.40
8th	Celine Chartrand	Canada	59.06
9	Tuula Laaksalo	Finland	57.24
10	Li Baolian	People's Republic of China	55.96
11	Trine Solberg	Norway	55.30
12	Cathie Wilson	United States	54.80
13	Iris Grönfeldt	Iceland	54.00
14th	Iammo Launa	Papua New Guinea	42.70
NM	Laverne Eve	Bahamas	ogV

Note

The x character indicates an invalid attempt.

final

September 6, 1987

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Fatima Whitbread	Great Britain	76.64 CR	61.80	69.02	71.34	73.16 CR	76.64 CR	72.14
2	Petra Felke	GDR	71.76	70.30	71.76 CR	66.84	x	71.56	x
3	Beate Peters	BR Germany	68.82	68.82	x	62.24	61.12	57.56	x
4th	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	67.54	x	67.54	63.54	62.88	62.00	63.66
5	Susanne Jung	GDR	67.46	60.36	x	67.46	x	57.96	x
6th	Tiina Lillak	Finland	66.82	56.56	66.82	x	56.80	59.74	x
7th	Natalja Yermolowitsch	Soviet Union	65.52	60.14	65.52	x	x	x	x
8th	Ivonne Leal	Cuba	64.90	61.86	64.90	x	x	x	64.90
9	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	64.12	Individual attempts are not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Manuela Alizadeh	BR Germany	63.40
11	Katalin Hartai	Hungary	60.88
12	Irina Kostyuchenkova	Soviet Union	60.60

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  After finishing second four years earlier , the reigning European champion Fatima Whitbread won the World Cup this time

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  Vice world champion was the world record holder and vice European champion from 1986 Petra Felke, later Petra Meier

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  Tessa Sanderson, 1984 Olympic champion and 1978 vice European champion, took fourth place

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  The defending champion and Olympic runner-up in 1984 Tiina Lillak came in sixth place

Video

• Fatima Whitbread 76.64 World Championships 1987 on youtube.com, accessed April 9, 2020

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 9, 2020
• Women Javelin Throw Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed April 9, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Javelin Throw, Rome 1987, p. 347 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 9, 2020