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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.

Table of contents
1 Medal Winners
2 See Also

Medal Winners

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

Track

Event: Gold: Silver: Bronze:
100m Men Carl Lewis, USA Ray Stewart, Jamaica Linford Christie, Great Britain
100m Women Silke Gladisch, East Germany Heike Drechsler, East Germany Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
100m Hurdles Women Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgaria Gloria Uibel, East Germany Cornelia Oschkenat, East Germany
110m Hurdles Men Greg Foster, USA Jon Ridgeon, Great Britain Colin Jackson, Great Britain
200m Men Calvin Smith, USA Gilles Quenéhervé, France John Regis, Great Britain
200m Women Silke Gladisch, East Germany Florence Griffith, USA Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
400m Men Thomas Schönlebe, East Germany Innocent Egbunike, Nigeria Butch Reynolds, USA
400m Women Olga Bryzgina, USSR Petra Müller, East Germany Kirsten Emmelmann, East Germany
400m Hurdles Men Edwin Moses, USA Danny Harris, USA Harald Schmid, West Germany
400m Hurdles Women Yekaterina Fesenko, USSR Ana Ambraziené, USSR Ellen Fiedler, East Germany
800m Men Billy Konchellah, Kenya Peter Elliott, Great Britain José Barbosa, Brazil
800m Women Sigrun Wodars, East Germany Christine Wachtel, East Germany Lyubov Gurina, USSR
1500m Men Abdi Bile, Somalia José González;, Spain Jim Spivey, USA
1500m Women Tatyana Samolenko, USSR Hildegard Körner, East Germany Doina Melinte, Romania
3,000m Steeplechase Men Francesco Panetta, Italy Hagen Melzer, East Germany William Van Dijck, Belgium
5,000m Men Saïd Aouita, Morocco Domingos Castro, Portugal Jack Buckner, Great Britain
10,000m Men Paul Kipkoech, Kenya Francesco Panetta, Italy Hansjorg Kunze, East Germany
10,000m 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
10Km Walk Women Irina Strakhova, USSR Kerry Saxby, Australia Yan Hong, China
20Km Walk Men Maurizio Damilano, Italy Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakia José Marín, Spain
50Km Walk Men Hartwig Gauder, East Germany Ronald Weigel, East Germany Vyacheslav Ivanenko, USSR
4 x 100m Relay Men USA USSR Jamaica
4 x 100m Women USA East Germany USSR
4 x 400m Men USA Great Britain Cuba
4 x 400m Women East Germany USSR USA

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 Sjöberg, 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 Räty, Finland Viktor Yevsyukov, USSR Jan Zelezný, Czechoslovakia
javelin throw Women Fatima Whitbread, Great Britain Petra Felke, East Germany Beate Peters, East Germany
Discus Men Jürgen Schult, East Germany John Powell, USA Luis Delís, Cuba
Discus Women Martina Hellmann, East Germany Diana Gansky, East Germany Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgaria
Hammer Men Sergey Litvinov, USSR Jüri Tamm, USSR Ralf Haber, East Germany
Shot Put Men Werner Günthör, Switzerland Alessandro Andrei, Italy John Brenner, USA
Shot Put Women Natalya Lisovskaya, USSR Kathrin Neimke, East Germany Ines Müller, 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

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