 | |
| Host city | Rome, Italy |
|---|---|
| Nations | 159 |
| Athletes | 1451 |
| Events | 43 |
| Dates | 28 August – 6 September 1987 |
| Opened by | President Francesco Cossiga |
| Main venue | Stadio Olimpico |
The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6, 1987.
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
1 Ben Johnson of Canada originally won the gold medal in 9.83, but he was disqualified in September 1989 after he admitted to using steroids between 1981 and 1988.
* Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High jump | Patrik Sjöberg  Sweden | 2.38 CR | Hennadiy Avdyeyenko  Soviet Union Igor Paklin Soviet Union | 2.38 CR | Not awarded | |
| Pole vault | Sergey Bubka Soviet Union | 5.85 CR | Thierry Vigneron  France | 5.80 | Radion Gataullin Soviet Union | 5.80 |
| Long jump | Carl Lewis  United States | 8.67 CR | Robert Emmiyan Soviet Union | 8.53 | Larry Myricks United States | 8.331 |
| Triple jump | Khristo Markov  Bulgaria | 17.92 CR and AR | Mike Conley United States | 17.67 | Oleg Sakirkin Soviet Union | 17.43 |
| Shot put | Werner Günthör  Switzerland | 22.23 CR | Alessandro Andrei  Italy | 21.88 | John Brenner United States | 21.75 |
| Discus throw | Jürgen Schult  East Germany | 68.74 CR | John Powell United States | 66.22 | Luis Delís  Cuba | 66.02 |
| Hammer throw | Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union | 83.06 CR | Jüri Tamm Soviet Union | 80.84 | Ralf Haber East Germany | 80.76 |
| Javelin throw | Seppo Räty  Finland | 83.54 CR | Viktor Yevsyukov Soviet Union | 82.52 | Jan Železný  Czechoslovakia | 82.20 |
| Decathlon | Torsten Voss East Germany | 8680 | Siegfried Wentz  West Germany | 8461 | Pavel Tarnavetskiy Soviet Union | 8375 |
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) | ||||||
1 Giovanni Evangelisti of Italy originally won the bronze medal with 8.37 m, but it was later determined that Italian field officials had entered a pre-arranged fake result for a jump of 7.85 m. . While Evangelisti had no involvement in or knowledge of the fraud, Italian head coach Sandro Donati, who revealed it, was fired. [1]
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High jump | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | 2.09 WR | Tamara Bykova (URS) | 2.04 | Susanne Beyer (GDR) | 1.99 |
| Long jump | Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) | 7.36 CR | Yelena Belevskaya (URS) | 7.14 | Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 7.13 |
| Shot put | Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) | 21.24 CR | Kathrin Neimke (GDR) | 21.21 | Ines Müller (GDR) | 20.76 |
| Discus throw | Martina Hellmann (GDR) | 71.62 CR | Diana Gansky (GDR) | 70.12 | Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL) | 68.82 |
| Javelin throw |  Fatima Whitbread (GBR) | 76.64 CR | Petra Felke (GDR) | 71.76 | Beate Peters (FRG) | 68.82 |
| Heptathlon | Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) | 7128 CR | Larisa Nikitina (URS) | 6564 | Jane Frederick (USA) | 6502 |
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) | ||||||
Two exhibition para-athletics events appeared at the competition, but results did not go towards the overall medal count. The two wheelchair races were the first time disability events had appeared at the championships, and were the first exhibition event of any kind to feature at the World Championships in Athletics. This began a tradition of such events which continued until 2011. Wheelchair exhibition events were contested until that year, bar 1999 and 2009. [2]
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 m wheelchair | Mustapha Badid (FRA) | 3:54.32 | Lars Lofström (SWE) | 3:54.90 | Franz Nietlispach (SUI) | 3:55.27 |
| Women's 800 m wheelchair |  Diane Rakiecki (CAN) | 2:32.52 |  Connie Hansen (DEN) | 2:37.07 | Ingrid Lauridsen (DEN) | 2:39.95 |
* Host nation (Italy)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 10 | 11 | 10 | 31 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 10 | 4 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 7 | 12 | 6 | 25 |
| 4 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 |  Kenya (KEN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Italy (ITA)* | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 8 |  Portugal (POR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Morocco (MAR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Somalia (SOM) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | France (FRA) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 16 |  Australia (AUS) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 |  Jamaica (JAM) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 18 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 19 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
 Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 22 |  Djibouti (DJI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Nigeria (NGR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 24 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 25 |  Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Brazil (BRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (27 entries) | 43 | 44 | 42 | 129 | |
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