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| 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 |
| ← 1983 Helsinki1991 Tokyo → | |
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.
Men's results
Track
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
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.
Field
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
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.
Women's results
Track
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.
Field
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High jump details |
 Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) |
2.09 WR |
 Tamara Bykova (URS) |
2.04 |  Susanne Beyer (GDR) |
1.99 |
| Long jump details |
 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) |
7.36 CR |
Yelena Belevskaya (URS) |
7.14 | Heike Drechsler (GDR) |
7.13 |
| Shot put details |
Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) |
21.24 CR |
Kathrin Neimke (GDR) |
21.21 | Ines Müller (GDR) |
20.76 |
| Discus throw details |
Martina Hellmann (GDR) |
71.62 CR |
Diana Gansky (GDR) |
70.12 | Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL) |
68.82 |
| Javelin throw details |
 Fatima Whitbread (GBR) |
76.64 CR |
Petra Felke (GDR) |
71.76 |  Beate Peters (FRG) |
68.82 |
| Heptathlon details |
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) | ||||||
Exhibition events
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.
| 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 |
Medal table
* 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 | |
See also
References
- Longman, Jere (4 August 1995). "Pedroso's World Mark In Long Jump in Doubt". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
- The Man Who Knows Too Much Archived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, Sport Monthly, March 2003, retr from chrisharrisonwriting.com on 2012 10 20
- Butler, Mark et al. (2013). IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (archived), pp. 306–8. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-06.
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