1987 World Championships in Athletics

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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.

Contents

1 Medal Winners

1.1 Medal table by country
1.2 Track
1.3 Field

2 References

3 See Also

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Medal Winners

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Medal table by country

Position	Country:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.	USA	10	5	5	20
2.	East Germany	9	11	9	29
3.	USSR	7	13	7	27
4.	Bulgaria	3	0	1	4
5.	Kenya	3	0	0	3
6.	Italy	2	2	1	5
7.	Great Britain	1	3	4	8
8.	Portugal	1	1	0	1
9=	Finland	1	0	0	1
9=	Morocco	1	0	0	1
9=	Norway	1	0	0	1
9=	Somalia	1	0	0	1
9=	Sweden	1	0	0	1
9=	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
15.	France	0	2	1	3
16.	Jamaica	0	1	3	4
17=	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
17=	Spain	0	1	1	2
17=	West Germany	0	1	1	2
20=	Australia	0	1	0	1
20=	Djibouti	0	1	0	1
20=	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
23.	Cuba	0	0	2	2
24=	Belgium	0	0	1	1
24=	Brazil	0	0	1	1
24=	China	0	0	1	1
24=	Romania	0	0	1	1

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Track

Event:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
100 m Men	Carl Lewis, USA	Ray Stewart, Jamaica	Linford Christie, Great Britain
100 m Women	Silke Gladisch, East Germany	Heike Drechsler, East Germany	Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
100 m Hurdles Women	Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgaria	Gloria Uibel, East Germany	Cornelia Oschkenat, East Germany
110 m Hurdles Men	Greg Foster, USA	Jon Ridgeon, Great Britain	Colin Jackson, Great Britain
200 m Men	Calvin Smith, USA	Gilles Quen�herv�, France	John Regis, Great Britain
200 m Women	Silke Gladisch, East Germany	Florence Griffith, USA	Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
400 m Men	Thomas Sch�nlebe, East Germany	Innocent Egbunike, Nigeria	Butch Reynolds, USA
400 m Women	Olga Bryzgina, USSR	Petra M�ller, East Germany	Kirsten Emmelmann, East Germany
400 m Hurdles Men	Edwin Moses, USA	Danny Harris, USA	Harald Schmid, West Germany
400 m Hurdles Women	Yekaterina Fesenko, USSR	Ana Ambrazien�, USSR	Ellen Fiedler, East Germany
800 m Men	Billy Konchellah, Kenya	Peter Elliott, Great Britain	Jos� Barbosa, Brazil
800 m Women	Sigrun Wodars, East Germany	Christine Wachtel, East Germany	Lyubov Gurina, USSR
1500 m Men	Abdi Bile, Somalia	Jos� González, Spain	Jim Spivey, USA
1500 m Women	Tatyana Samolenko, USSR	Hildegard K�rner, East Germany	Doina Melinte, Romania
3,000 m Steeplechase Men	Francesco Panetta, Italy	Hagen Melzer, East Germany	William Van Dijck, Belgium
5,000 m Men	Sa�d Aouita, Morocco	Domingos Castro, Portugal	Jack Buckner, Great Britain
10,000 m Men	Paul Kipkoech, Kenya	Francesco Panetta, Italy	Hansjorg Kunze, East Germany
10,000 m Women	Ingrid Kristiansen, Norway	Yelena Zhupiyova, USSR	Kathrin Ullrich, USSR
Marathon Men	Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenya	Ahmed Salah, Djibouti	Gelindo Bordin, Italy
Marathon Women	Rosa Mota, Portugal	Zoya Ivanova, USSR	Jocelyne Villeton, France
10 km Walk Women	Irina Strakhova, USSR	Kerry Saxby, Australia	Yan Hong, China
20 km Walk Men	Maurizio Damilano, Italy	Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakia	Jos� Mar�n, Spain
50 km Walk Men	Hartwig Gauder, East Germany	Ronald Weigel, East Germany	Vyacheslav Ivanenko, USSR
4 x 100 m Relay Men	USA	USSR	Jamaica
4 x 100 m Women	USA	East Germany	USSR
4 x 400 m Men	USA	Great Britain	Cuba
4 x 400 m Women	East Germany	USSR	USA

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Field

Event:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Long Jump Men	Carl Lewis, USA	Robert Emmiyan, USSR	Larry Myricks, USA
Long Jump Women	Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA	Yelena Belevskaya, USSR	Heike Drechsler, East Germany
Triple Jump Men	Khristo Markov, Bulgaria	Mike Conley, USA	Oleg Sakirkin, USSR
high jump Men	Patrik Sj�berg, Sweden	Gennadiy Avdeyenko and Igor Paklin both USSR (tied)
high jump Women	Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria	Tamara Bykova, USSR	Susanne Beyer, East Germany
javelin throw Men	Seppo R�ty, Finland	Viktor Yevsyukov, USSR	Jan Zelezn�, Czechoslovakia
javelin throw Women	Fatima Whitbread, Great Britain	Petra Felke, East Germany	Beate Peters, East Germany
Discus Men	J�rgen Schult, East Germany	John Powell, USA	Luis Del�s, Cuba
Discus Women	Martina Hellmann, East Germany	Diana Gansky, East Germany	Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgaria
Hammer Men	Sergey Litvinov, USSR	J�ri Tamm, USSR	Ralf Haber, East Germany
Shot Put Men	Werner G�nth�r, Switzerland	Alessandro Andrei, Italy	John Brenner, USA
Shot Put Women	Natalya Lisovskaya, USSR	Kathrin Neimke, East Germany	Ines M�ller, East Germany
pole vault Men	Sergey Bubka, USSR	Thierry Vigneron, France	Rodion Gataullin, USSR
Heptathlon Women	Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA	Larisa Nikitina, USSR	Jane Frederick, USA
Decathlon Men	Torsten Voss, East Germany	Siegfried Wentz, West Germany	Pavel Tarnovetskiy, USSR