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

{|

|-

| 100 m<br />

|||9.93<sup>1</sup><br>=

|||10.08

|||10.14

|-

| 200 m<br />

|||20.16

|||20.16

|||20.18

|-

| 400 m<br />

|||44.33<br>

|||44.56

|||44.80

|-

| 800 m<br />

|||1:43.06<br>

|||1:43.41

|||1:43.76

|-

| 1500 m<br />

|||3:36.80

|||3:38.03

|||3:38.82

|-

| 5000 m<br />

|||13:26.44

|||13:27.59

|||13:27.74

|-

| 10-000 m<br />

|||27:38.63<br>

|||27:48.98

|||27:50.37

|-

| Maratoia<br />

|||2:11:48

|||2:12:30

|||2:12:40

|-

| 110 m hesiak<br />

|||13.21

|||13.29

|||13.38

|-

| 400 m hesiak<br />

|||47.46<br>

|||47.48

|||47.48<br>

|-

| 3000 m ozt.<br />

|||8:08.57<br>

|||8:10.32

|||8:12.18

|-

| 20&nbsp;km martxa <br />

|||1:20:45<br>

|||1:21:07

|||1:21:24

|-

| 50&nbsp;km martxa<br />

|||3:40:53<br>

|||3:41:30

|||3:44:02

|-

| 4 × 100 m erreleboak<br />

|<br>Lee McRae<br>Lee McNeill<br>Harvey Glance<br>Carl Lewis <br>Dennis Mitchell*||37.90

|<br>Aleksandr Yevgenyev<br>Viktor Bryzgin<br>Vladimir Muravyov<br>Vladimir Krylov <br>Andrey Fedoriv*||38.02<br>

|<br>John Mair<br>Andrew Smith<br>Clive Wright<br>Ray Stewart|| 38.41

|-

| 4 × 400 m erreleboak<br />

|<br>Danny Everett<br>Roddie Haley<br>Antonio McKay<br>Butch Reynolds <br>Michael Franks*<br>Raymond Pierre*||2:57.29<br>

|<br>Derek Redmond<br>Kriss Akabusi<br>Roger Black<br>Phil Brown<br>Todd Bennett*<br>Mark Thomas*||2:58.86<br>

|<br>Leandro Peñalver<br>Agustín Pavó<br>Lázaro Martínez<br>Roberto Hernández||2:59.16<br>

|-

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|colspan=7|

|}

<sup>1</sup> 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.<br>

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

{|

|-

| Gorako jauzia<br />

|||2.38<br>

|<hr>||2.38<br>

!colspan=2|Not awarded

|-

| Pertika<br />

|||5.85<br>

|||5.80

|||5.80

|-

| Luzera jauzia<br />

|||8.67<br>

|||8.53

|||8.33<sup>1</sup>

|-

| Jauzi hirukoitza<br />

|||17.92<br> and

|||17.67

|||17.43

|-

| Pisu-jaurtiketa<br />

|||22.23<br>

|||21.88

|||21.75

|-

| Disko-jaurtiketa<br />

|||68.74<br>

|||66.22

|||66.02

|-

| Mailu-jaurtiketa<br />

|||83.06<br>

|||80.84

|||80.76

|-

| Xabaline-jaurtiketa<br />

|||83.54<br>

|||82.52

|||82.20

|-

| Dekatloia<br />

|||8680

|||8461

|||8375

|- bgcolor= e8e8e8

|colspan=7|

|}

<sup>1</sup> Giovanni Evangelisti of Italy originally won the bronze medal with 8.37&nbsp;m, but it was later determined that Italian field officials had entered a pre-arranged fake result for a jump of 7.85&nbsp;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

{|

|-

|100 m<br>

|||10.90<br>

|||11.00

|||11.04

|-

|200 m<br>

|||21.74<br>

|||21.96

|||22.06

|-

|400 m<br>

|||49.38

|||49.94

|||50.20

|-

|800 m<br>

|||1:55.26<br>

|||1:55.32

|||1:55.56

|-

|1500 m<br>

|||3:58.56<br>

|||3:58.67

|||3:59.27

|-

|3000 m<br>

|||8:38.73

|||8:39.45

|||8:40.30

|-

|10,000 m<br>

|||31:05.85

|||31:09.40

|||31:11.34

|-

|Marathon<br>

|||2:25:17<br>

|||2:32:38

|||2:32:53

|-

|100 m hurdles<br>

|||12.34<br>

|||12.44

|||12.46

|-

|400 m hurdles<br>

|||53.62<br>

|||54.19

|||54.31

|-

|10&nbsp;km walk<br>

|||44:12<br>

|||44:23

|||44:42

|-

|4 × 100 m relay<br>

|<br>Alice Brown<br>Diane Williams<br> Florence Griffith<br>Pam Marshall||41.58<br>

|<br>Silke Gladisch<br>Cornelia Oschkenat<br>Kerstin Behrendt<br>Marlies Göhr||41.95

|<br>Irina Slyusar<br>Natalya Pomoschchnikova<br>Natalya German<br>Olga Antonova ||42.33

|-

|4 × 400 m relay<br>

|<br>Dagmar Neubauer<br>Kirsten Emmelmann<br>Petra Muller<br>Sabine Busch <br>Cornelia Ullrich*||3:18.63<br>

|<br>Aelita Yurchenko<br>Olga Nazarova<br>Mariya Pinigina<br>Olga Bryzgina||3:19.50

|<br>Diane Dixon<br>Denean Howard<br>Valerie Brisco<br>Lillie Leatherwood||3:21.04

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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

{|

|-

|High jump<br>

|||2.09<br>

|||2.04

|||1.99

|-

|Long jump<br>

|||7.36<br>

|||7.14

|||7.13

|-

|Shot put<br>

|||21.24<br>

|||21.21

|||20.76

|-

|Discus throw<br>

|||71.62<br>

|||70.12

|||68.82

|-

|Javelin throw<br>

|||76.64<br>

|||71.76

|||68.82

|-

|Heptathlon<br>

|||7128<br>

|||6564

|||6502

|-

|- bgcolor= e8e8e8

|colspan=7|

|}

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.

{|

|-

|Men's 1500 m wheelchair

| || 3:54.32

| || 3:54.90

| || 3:55.27

|-

|Women's 800 m wheelchair

| || 2:32.52

| || 2:37.07

| || 2:39.95

|}

Medal table

See also

  • 1987 in athletics (track and field)

References

  • IAAF 1987
  • Results