World Athletics Championships 1987 / Men's Decathlon

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Decathlon
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	3rd / 4th September
Medalist Torsten Voss ( GDR )   Siegfried Wentz ( FRG )   Pavel Tarnovetsky ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The men's decathlon at the 2nd World Athletics Championships in 1987 took place on September 3rd and 4th, 1987 in Rome , Italy .

Torsten Voss from the GDR became world champion . Second place went to the West German World Cup third from 1983 , Olympic third from 1984 and EC third from 1986 Siegfried Wentz . Bronze went to Pavel Tarnovetsky from the Soviet Union .

Existing records

World record	Daley Thompson	8847 P	OS in Los Angeles , USA	8/9 August 1984
World championship record		8714 P	World Cup in Helsinki	12./13. August 1983

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

Comment on the record number of points:
The values ​​given result from the conversion of the performances using the new decathlon scoring table valid from 1985. The points originally scored by the record holder deviated from the values ​​given above, because a different scoring table was still valid at the original time.

execution

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days:

• Day 1 (September 3) - 100m , long jump , shot put , high jump , 400m
• Day 2 (September 4th) - 110 m hurdles , discus throw , pole vault , javelin throw , 1500 m

The rating was based on the 1985 point table, which is still valid today.

Results

3rd / 4th September 1987

Note on the overview of results:
The values ​​for the individual disciplines in the table indicate the performance in the first line and the respective number of points in the second line.

Pl	athlete	country	Pts		100 (s)	Far (m)	Ball ( noun )	High (m)	400 (s)		Day 1 (pts)		110 h (s)	Disk (noun)	Rod (noun)	Spear (noun)	1500 (min)
	Torsten Voss	GDR	8680		10.69 931	7.88 1030	14.98 788	2.10 896	47.96 911		4556		14.13 958	43.96 745	5.10 941	58.02 708	4: 25.93 772
	Siegfried Wentz	FRG	8461		10.78 910	7.42 w 915	15.57 825	1.98 785	48.48 886		4321		14.06 967	47.36 816	4.70 819	65.28 818	4: 33.70 720
	Pavel Tarnovetsky	URS	8375		11.01 858	7.43 918	15.32 809	2.07 868	49.22 851		4304		14.86 867	47.66 822	4.90 880	58.60 717	4: 23.96 785
4th	Christian Plaziat	FRA	8307		10.80 906	7.76 1000	14.70 771	2.10 896	49.63 832		4405		14.64 864	44.92 765	4.80 849	53.08 634	4: 27.72 760
5	Christian Schenk	GDR	8304		11.42 769	7.63 967	15.30 808	2.25 1041	51.34 754		4339		15.03 846	47.26 813	4.50 760	61.42 759	4: 23.55 787
6th	Simon Poelman	NZL	8296		10.83 899	7.46 925	15.57 825	2.04 840	50.07 811		4300		14.45 917	44.28 752	4.80 849	58.90 721	4: 28.08 757
7th	Alain Blondel	FRA	8178		11.15 827	7.47 927	13.68 709	1.98 785	47.91 913		4161		14.46 916	42.28 711	4.90 880	55.68 673	4: 16.31 837
8th	Alexander Nevsky	URS	8174		11.13 832	7.45 922	15.33 810	2.04 840	50.01 814		4218		15.01 848	46.42 796	4.70 819	60.56 746	4: 29.69 747
9	Daley Thompson	GBR	8124		10.67 935	7.52 940	15.09 795	2.01 813	48.61 880		4363		14.87 865	45.18 771	4.80 849	54.14 650	4: 48.78 626
10	William Motti	FRA	8062		11.27 801	7.21 864	14.98 788	2.19 982	50.88 774		4209		14.94 857	47.36 816	4.50 760	58.38 713	4: 35.83 707
11	Beat Gähwiler	SUI	8034		11.29 797	7.20 862	14.59 765	1.92 731	49.54 836		3991		14.83 870	43.24 731	4.80 849	63.28 787	4: 20.87 806
12	Gary children	United States	8030		11.03 854	7.31 888	16.23 865	1.95 758	52.22 715		4080		15.01 848	46.94 807	4.80 849	66.10 830	4: 50.52 616
13	Rob Muzzio	United States	8017		11.25 806	7.22 866	16.61 889	1.98 785	50.69 784		4129		14.97 853	45.90 786	4.70 819	59.14 725	4: 36.33 704
14th	Michael Neugebauer	FRG	7733		11.02 856	7.36 900	12.94 664	2.07 868	51.85 731		4019		14.43 920	39.70 658	4.40 731	56.28 682	4: 33.32 723
15th	Mikael Olander	SWE	7696		11.40 774	6.72 748	14.94 786	1.95 758	51.36 753		3819		16.32 697	46.76 803	4.60 790	70.94 904	4: 39.63 683
16	Věroslav Valenta	TCH	7574		11.36 782	7.16 852	14.68 770	1.95 758	52.38 708		3870		15.44 797	46.72 802	4.50 760	57.56 701	4: 45.83 644
17th	Lars Warming	THE	7537		11.12 834	7.25 874	12.85 658	1.95 758	50.42 795		3919		14.67 890	40.94 684	4.60 790	44.36 506	4: 29.53 748
18th	Paul Hewlett	IVB	6474		11.25 806	6.43 682	11.59 582	1.83 653	52.14 719		3442		15.96 737	32.88 521	3.80 562	45.46 522	4: 38.40 690
DNF	Tim Bright	United States	6525		11.23 810	7.26 w 876	14.10 734	1.95 758	51.68 739		3917		14.42 921	39.38 652	5.40 1035	DNS
	Dave Steen	CAN	6340		11.17 823	7.47 927	12.84 657	1.95 758	49.59 834		3999		15.73 763	40.18 910	5.00 910	DNS
	Lee Fu-An	TPE	4068		11.00 861	7.39 908	13.42 693	2.04 840	51.06 766		4068		DNS
	Valter Külvet	URS	3996		11.19 819	7.10 838	14.74 774	1.92 731	49.58 834		3996		DNS
	Pedro da Silva	BRA	3790		10.86 892	7.20 862	13.85 719	2.01 813	57.45 504		3790		DNS
	Petri Keskitalo	FIN	3303		10.79 908	7.49 932	14.49 758	1.89 705	DNS		3303
	Marco Rossi	ITA	3160		10.94 874	6.88 785	14.24 743	1.95 758	DNS		3160
	Jürgen Hingsen	FRG	2591		11.26 804	7.67 977	15.33 810	NM 0	DNS		2591
	Mike Smith	CAN	1592		11.14 830	6.78 w 762	DNS				1592
	Robert de Wit	NED	1524		11.26 804	6.60 720	DNS				1524

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  World champion Torsten Voss

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  Christian Schenk (here in 2014) took fifth place

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  Defending champion Daley Thompson (in the photo in 2007) , two-time Olympic champion ( 1980 / 1984 ) and two-time European champion ( 1982 7 1986 ), had to be satisfied here my ninth

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  Jürgen Hingsen, always second behind Daley Thompson in the important international championships (Olympic 1984, World Championships 1983, European Championships 1982/1986), gave up after the fourth exercise

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 18, 2020
• Men Decathlon Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Decathlon, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 207), English, accessed on March 18, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Decathlon , accessed March 29, 2020