1987 world championships in athletics

The 1987 World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6.

Medal Winners

Medal table by country

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b>Country:	!align="center" bgcolor="gold"\|Gold:	!align="center" bgcolor="silver"\|Silver:	!align="center" bgcolor="bronze"\|Bronze:	Total:
.	USA	10	5	5	20
.	East Germany	9	11	9	29
.	USSR	7	13	7	27
.	Bulgaria	3	0	1	4
.	Kenya	3	0	0	3
.	Italy	2	2	1	5
.	Great Britain	1	3	4	8
.	Portugal	1	1	0	1
=	Finland	1	0	0	1
=	Morocco	1	0	0	1
=	Norway	1	0	0	1
=	Somalia	1	0	0	1
=	Sweden	1	0	0	1
=	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
5.	France	0	2	1	3
6.	Jamaica	0	1	3	4
7=	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
7=	Spain	0	1	1	2
7=	West Germany	0	1	1	2
0=	Australia	0	1	0	1
0=	Djibouti	0	1	0	1
0=	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
3.	Cuba	0	0	2	2
4=	Belgium	0	0	1	1
4=	Brazil	0	0	1	1
4=	China	0	0	1	1
4=	Romania	0	0	1	1

Track

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00 m Men	Carl Lewis, USA	Ray Stewart, Jamaica	Linford Christie, Great Britain
00 m Women	Silke Gladisch, East Germany	Heike Drechsler, East Germany	Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
00 m Hurdles Women	Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgaria	Gloria Uibel, East Germany	Cornelia Oschkenat, East Germany
10 m Hurdles Men	Greg Foster, USA	Jon Ridgeon, Great Britain	Colin Jackson, Great Britain
00 m Men	Calvin Smith, USA	Gilles Quenherv, France	John Regis, Great Britain
00 m Women	Silke Gladisch, East Germany	Florence Griffith, USA	Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
00 m Men	Thomas Schnlebe, East Germany	Innocent Egbunike, Nigeria	Butch Reynolds, USA
00 m Women	Olga Bryzgina, USSR	Petra Mller, East Germany	Kirsten Emmelmann, East Germany
00 m Hurdles Men	Edwin Moses, USA	Danny Harris, USA	Harald Schmid, West Germany
00 m Hurdles Women	Yekaterina Fesenko, USSR	Ana Ambrazien, USSR	Ellen Fiedler, East Germany
00 m Men	Billy Konchellah, Kenya	Peter Elliott, Great Britain	Jos Barbosa, Brazil
00 m Women	Sigrun Wodars, East Germany	Christine Wachtel, East Germany	Lyubov Gurina, USSR
500 m Men	Abdi Bile, Somalia	Jos González, Spain	Jim Spivey, USA
500 m Women	Tatyana Samolenko, USSR	Hildegard Krner, East Germany	Doina Melinte, Romania
,000 m Steeplechase Men	Francesco Panetta, Italy	Hagen Melzer, East Germany	William Van Dijck, Belgium
,000 m Men	Sad Aouita, Morocco	Domingos Castro, Portugal	Jack Buckner, Great Britain
0,000 m Men	Paul Kipkoech, Kenya	Francesco Panetta, Italy	Hansjorg Kunze, East Germany
0,000 m Women	Ingrid Kristiansen, Norway	Yelena Zhupiyova, USSR	Kathrin Ullrich, USSR
arathon Men	Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenya	Ahmed Salah, Djibouti	Gelindo Bordin, Italy
arathon Women	Rosa Mota, Portugal	Zoya Ivanova, USSR	Jocelyne Villeton, France
0 km Walk Women	Irina Strakhova, USSR	Kerry Saxby, Australia	Yan Hong, China
0 km Walk Men	Maurizio Damilano, Italy	Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakia	Jos Marn, Spain
0 km Walk Men	Hartwig Gauder, East Germany	Ronald Weigel, East Germany	Vyacheslav Ivanenko, USSR
x 100 m Relay Men	USA	USSR	Jamaica
x 100 m Women	USA	East Germany	USSR
x 400 m Men	USA	Great Britain	Cuba
x 400 m Women	East Germany	USSR	USA

Field

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a href="/encyclopedia/Long-Jump" title="Long Jump">Long Jump Men	Carl Lewis, USA	Robert Emmiyan, USSR	Larry Myricks, USA
a href="/encyclopedia/Long-Jump" title="Long Jump">Long Jump Women	Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA	Yelena Belevskaya, USSR	Heike Drechsler, East Germany
a href="/encyclopedia/Triple-Jump" title="Triple Jump">Triple Jump Men	Khristo Markov, Bulgaria	Mike Conley, USA	Oleg Sakirkin, USSR
a href="/encyclopedia/high-jump" title="high jump">high jump Men	Patrik Sjberg, Sweden	Gennadiy Avdeyenko and Igor Paklin both USSR (tied)
a href="/encyclopedia/high-jump" title="high jump">high jump Women	Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria	Tamara Bykova, USSR	Susanne Beyer, East Germany
a href="/encyclopedia/javelin-throw" title="javelin throw">javelin throw Men	Seppo Rty, Finland	Viktor Yevsyukov, USSR	Jan Zelezn, Czechoslovakia
a href="/encyclopedia/javelin-throw" title="javelin throw">javelin throw Women	Fatima Whitbread, Great Britain	Petra Felke, East Germany	Beate Peters, East Germany
a href="/encyclopedia/Discus" title="Discus">Discus Men	Jrgen Schult, East Germany	John Powell, USA	Luis Dels, Cuba
a href="/encyclopedia/Discus" title="Discus">Discus Women	Martina Hellmann, East Germany	Diana Gansky, East Germany	Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgaria
ammer Men	Sergey Litvinov, USSR	Jri Tamm, USSR	Ralf Haber, East Germany
a href="/encyclopedia/Shot-Put" title="Shot Put">Shot Put Men	Werner Gnthr, Switzerland	Alessandro Andrei, Italy	John Brenner, USA
a href="/encyclopedia/Shot-Put" title="Shot Put">Shot Put Women	Natalya Lisovskaya, USSR	Kathrin Neimke, East Germany	Ines Mller, East Germany
a href="/encyclopedia/pole-vault" title="pole vault">pole vault Men	Sergey Bubka, USSR	Thierry Vigneron, France	Rodion Gataullin, USSR
a href="/encyclopedia/Heptathlon" title="Heptathlon">Heptathlon Women	Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA	Larisa Nikitina, USSR	Jane Frederick, USA
a href="/encyclopedia/Decathlon" title="Decathlon">Decathlon Men	Torsten Voss, East Germany	Siegfried Wentz, West Germany	Pavel Tarnovetskiy, USSR

References

http://www2.iaaf.org/results/past/WCH87/index.html

1987 World Championships In Athletics

Medal Winners

Medal table by country

Track

Field

References

See Also