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This article contains an overview of the year 1987 in athletics.
EVENT | ATHLETE | MARK | DATE | VENUE |
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2,000 metres | Saïd Aouita ( MAR) | 4:50.81 | 16 July | Paris |
5,000 metres | Saïd Aouita ( MAR) | 12:58.39 | 22 July | Rome, Italy |
High jump | Patrik Sjöberg ( SWE) | 2.42 m | 30 June | Stockholm, Sweden |
Pole vault | Sergey Bubka ( URS) | 6.03 m | 23 June | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Shot put | Alessandro Andrei ( ITA) | 22.72m | 12 August | Viareggio, Italy |
Alessandro Andrei ( ITA) | 22.84m | 12 August | Viareggio, Italy | |
Alessandro Andrei ( ITA) | 22.91m | 12 August | Viareggio, Italy | |
Javelin (new) | Jan Železný ( TCH) | 87.66 m | 31 May | Nitra, Czechoslovakia |
Carl Lewis (USA) equalled the world record in the men's
100 metres held by countryman
Calvin Smith since 1983-07-03, clocking 9.93 seconds on 1987-08-30 at the
World Championships in
Rome, Italy.
EVENT | ATHLETE | MARK | DATE | VENUE |
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100m hurdles | Ginka Zagorcheva ( BUL) | 12.25 s | 8 August | Drama, Greece |
High Jump | Stefka Kostadinova ( BUL) | 2.09 m | 30 August | Rome, Italy |
Shot put | Natalya Lisovskaya ( URS) | 22.60 m | 7 June | Moscow, Soviet Union |
Natalya Lisovskaya ( URS) | 22.63 m | 7 June | Moscow, Soviet Union | |
Javelin (old) | Petra Meier ( GDR) | 78.90 m | 29 July | Leipzig, East Germany |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) equalled the world record in the women's
long jump held by East Germany's
Heike Drechsler since 1986-06-21, jumping 7.45 metres on 1987-08-13 at a meet in
Indianapolis.
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Carl Lewis ( USA) | 9.931 |
2. | Linford Christie ( GBR) | 10.03 |
3. | Mark Witherspoon ( USA) | 10.04 |
4. | Andrés Simón ( CUB) | 10.06 |
5. | Lee McRae ( USA) | 10.07 |
— | Calvin Smith ( USA) | 10.07 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Carl Lewis ( USA) | 19.92 |
2. | Floyd Heard ( USA) | 19.95 |
3. | Dwayne Evans ( USA) | 20.08 |
4. | Calvin Smith ( USA) | 20.10 |
5. | Attila Kovács ( HUN) | 20.11 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Butch Reynolds ( USA) | 44.10 |
2. | Innocent Egbunike ( NGR) | 44.17 |
3. | Thomas Schönlebe ( GDR) | 44.33 |
4. | Danny Everett ( USA) | 44.47 |
5. | Derek Redmond ( GBR) | 44.50 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Billy Konchellah ( KEN) | 1:43.06 |
2. | Peter Elliott ( GBR) | 1:43.41 |
— | José Luíz Barbosa ( BRA) | 1:43.76 |
4. | Philippe Collard ( FRA) | 1:43.95 |
5. | Johnny Gray ( USA) | 1:44.09 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Saïd Aouita ( MAR) | 3:30.69 |
2. | Steve Cram ( GBR) | 3:31.43 |
3. | Abdi Bile ( SOM) | 3:31.71 |
4. | José Luis González ( ESP) | 3:33.01 |
5. | Peter Elliott ( GBR) | 3:33.23 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Saïd Aouita ( MAR) | 3:46.76 |
2. | Steve Cram ( GBR) | 3:50.08 |
3. | Abdi Bile ( SOM) | 3:50.75 |
4. | Johan Fourie ( RSA) | 3:50.82 |
5. | John Gladwin ( GBR) | 3:51.02 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Dieter Baumann ( FRG) | 7:40.25 |
2. | Francesco Panetta ( ITA) | 7:42.73 |
3. | José Luis González ( ESP) | 7:42.93 |
4. | Frank O'Mara ( IRL) | 7:42.99 |
5. | Sydney Maree ( USA) | 7:43.13 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Saïd Aouita ( MAR) | 12:58.39 |
2. | Jack Buckner ( GBR) | 13:10.48 |
3. | José Luis González ( ESP) | 13:12.34 |
4. | José Manuel Abascal ( ESP) | 13:12.49 |
5. | Frank O'Mara ( IRL) | 13:13.02 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Francesco Panetta ( ITA) | 27:26.95 |
2. | Wodajo Bulti ( ETH) | 27:29.41 |
3. | Jean-Louis Prianon ( FRA) | 27:34.38 |
4. | Takeyuki Nakayama ( JPN) | 27:35.33 |
5. | Paul Kipkoech ( KEN) | 27:38.63 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Matthew Temane ( RSA) | 1:00:10 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Takeyuki Nakayama ( JPN) | 2:08:18 |
2. | Hiromi Taniguchi ( JPN) | 2:09:50 |
3. | El Mostafa Nechchadi ( MAR) | 2:10:09 |
4. | Hugh Jones ( GBR) | 2:10:11 |
5. | Gianni Poli ( ITA) | 2:10:15 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Greg Foster ( USA) | 13.17 |
2. | Tonie Campbell ( USA) | 13.19 |
3. | Mark McKoy ( CAN) | 13.23 |
4. | Rod Woodson ( USA) | 13.29 |
— | Jon Ridgeon ( GBR) | 13.29 |
— | Arthur Blake ( USA) | 13.29 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Edwin Moses ( USA) | 47.46 |
2. | Danny Harris ( USA) | 47.48 |
— | Harald Schmid ( FRG) | 47.48 |
4. | Amadou Dia Bâ ( SEN) | 48.03 |
5. | Kevin Young ( USA) | 48.15 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Francesco Panetta ( ITA) | 8:08.57 |
2. | Hagen Melzer ( GDR) | 8:10.32 |
3. | William Van Dijck ( BEL) | 8:12.18 |
4. | Julius Korir ( KEN) | 8:12.80 |
5. | Raymond Pannier ( FRA) | 8:13.88 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | HEIGHT |
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1. | Patrik Sjöberg ( SWE) | 2.42 |
2. | Igor Paklin ( URS) | 2.38 |
— | Hennadiy Avdyeyenko ( URS) | 2.38 |
4. | Javier Sotomayor ( CUB) | 2.37 |
5. | Jim Howard ( USA) | 2.36 |
— | Ján Zvara ( TCH) | 2.36 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Robert Emmiyan ( URS) | 8.86 |
2. | Carl Lewis ( USA) | 8.75 |
3. | Larry Myricks ( USA) | 8.66 |
4. | Jaime Jefferson ( CUB) | 8.51 |
5. | Giovanni Evangelisti ( ITA) | 8.43 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Khristo Markov ( BUL) | 17.92 |
2. | Mike Conley ( USA) | 17.87 |
3. | Aleksandr Kovalenko ( URS) | 17.77 |
4. | Aleksandr Yakovlev ( URS) | 17.65 |
5. | Oleg Protsenko ( URS) | 17.61 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Jürgen Schult ( GDR) | 69.52 |
2. | Mike Buncic ( USA) | 68.98 |
3. | Stefan Fernholm ( SWE) | 68.30 |
4. | Luis Delís ( CUB) | 67.92 |
5. | Alwin Wagner ( FRG) | 67.80 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Alessandro Andrei ( ITA) | 22.91 |
2. | John Brenner ( USA) | 22.52 |
3. | Werner Günthör ( SUI) | 22.47 |
4. | Udo Beyer ( GDR) | 22.31 |
5. | Ulf Timmermann ( GDR) | 22.01 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Sergey Litvinov ( URS) | 83.48 |
2. | Igor Astapkovich ( URS) | 82.96 |
3. | Vyacheslav Korovin ( URS) | 82.24 |
4. | Jüri Tamm ( URS) | 82.02 |
5. | Igor Nikulin ( URS) | 82.00 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Jan Železný ( TCH) | 87.66 |
2. | Klaus Tafelmeier ( FRG) | 86.64 |
3. | Mick Hill ( GBR) | 85.24 |
4. | Viktor Yevsyukov ( URS) | 85.16 |
5. | Lev Shatilo ( URS) | 84.30 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | HEIGHT |
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1. | Sergey Bubka ( URS) | 6.03 |
2. | Joe Dial ( USA) | 5.96 |
3. | Radion Gataullin ( URS) | 5.90 |
4. | Thierry Vigneron ( FRA) | 5.85 |
5. | Mike Tully ( USA) | 5.83 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | POINTS |
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1. | Torsten Voss ( GDR) | 8680 |
2. | Siegfried Wentz ( FRG) | 8645 |
3. | Pavel Tarnavetskiy ( URS) | 8375 |
4. | Simon Poelman ( NZL) | 8359 |
5. | Tim Bright ( USA) | 8340 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Anelia Nuneva ( BUL) | 10.86 |
— | Silke Gladisch ( GDR) | 10.86 |
3. | Merlene Ottey ( JAM) | 10.87 |
4. | Marlies Göhr ( GDR) | 10.93 |
5. | Heike Drechsler ( GDR) | 10.95 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Silke Gladisch ( GDR) | 21.74 |
2. | Florence Griffith ( USA) | 21.96 |
3. | Anelia Nuneva ( BUL) | 22.01 |
4. | Pam Marshall ( USA) | 22.06 |
— | Merlene Ottey ( JAM) | 22.06 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Olga Bryzgina ( URS) | 49.38 |
2. | Petra Müller ( GDR) | 49.64 |
3. | Mariya Pinigina ( URS) | 49.87 |
4. | Lillie Leatherwood ( USA) | 49.95 |
5. | Olga Nazarova ( URS) | 49.96 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Sigrun Wodars ( GDR) | 1:55.26 |
2. | Christine Wachtel ( GDR) | 1:55.32 |
3. | Lyubov Gurina ( URS) | 1:55.56 |
4. | Ana Fidelia Quirot ( CUB) | 1:55.84 |
5. | Slobodanka Čolović ( YUG) | 1:56.51 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Tatyana Samolenko ( URS) | 3:58.56 |
2. | Hildegard Körner ( GDR) | 3:58.67 |
3. | Doina Melinte ( ROU) | 3:59.27 |
4. | Cornelia Bürki ( SUI) | 3:59.90 |
5. | Andrea Lange ( GDR) | 4:00.07 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Doina Melinte ( ROU) | 4:24.05 |
2. | Elly van Hulst ( NED) | 4:25.13 |
3. | Diana Richburg ( USA) | 4:25.77 |
4. | Liz Lynch ( GBR) | 4:26.11 |
5. | Maricica Puică ( ROU) | 4:26.70 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Ulrike Bruns ( GDR) | 8:38.1 |
2. | Yelena Zhupiyeva ( URS) | 8:38.5 |
3. | Tatyana Samolenko ( URS) | 8:38.73 |
4. | Paula Ivan ( ROU) | 8:39.28 |
5. | Maricica Puică ( ROU) | 8:39.45 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Liz Lynch ( GBR) | 15:01.08 |
2. | Angela Tooby ( GBR) | 15:13.22 |
3. | Ingrid Kristiansen ( NOR) | 15:19.76 |
4. | Wendy Sly ( GBR) | 15:21.45 |
5. | Maricica Puică ( ROU) | 15:23.48 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Ingrid Kristiansen ( NOR) | 31:05.85 |
2. | Yelena Zhupiyeva ( URS) | 31:09.40 |
3. | Kathrin Ullrich ( GDR) | 31:11.34 |
4. | Olga Bondarenko ( URS) | 31:18.38 |
5. | Liz Lynch ( GBR) | 31:19.82 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Ingrid Kristiansen ( NOR) | 1:06:40 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Ingrid Kristiansen ( NOR) | 2:22:48 |
2. | Rosa Mota ( POR) | 2:25:17 |
3. | Katrin Dörre ( GDR) | 2:25:24 |
4. | Carla Beurskens ( NED) | 2:26:34 |
5. | Priscilla Welch ( GBR) | 2:26:51 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Ginka Zagorcheva ( BUL) | 12.25 |
2. | Yordanka Donkova ( BUL) | 12.33 |
3. | Gloria Siebert ( GDR) | 12.44 |
4. | Cornelia Oschkenat ( GDR) | 12.45 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Sabine Busch ( GDR) | 53.24 |
2. | Cornelia Ullrich ( GDR) | 53.58 |
3. | Debbie Flintoff-King ( AUS) | 53.95 |
4. | Judi Brown-King ( USA) | 54.23 |
5. | Sandra Farmer ( JAM) | 54.38 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | HEIGHT |
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1. | Stefka Kostadinova ( BUL) | 2.09 m |
2. | Tamara Bykova ( URS) | 2.04 m |
3. | Louise Ritter ( USA) | 2.01 m |
4. | Desiree du Plessis ( RSA) | 2.00 m |
— | Lyudmila Avdeyenko ( URS) | 2.00 m |
— | Svetlana Leseva ( BUL) | 2.00 m |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA) | 7.45 m |
2. | Heike Drechsler ( GDR) | 7.40 m |
3. | Yelena Belevskaya ( URS) | 7.39 m |
4. | Galina Chistyakova ( URS) | 7.27 m |
5. | Irina Valyukevich ( URS) | 7.17 m |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Natalya Lisovskaya ( URS) | 22.63 m |
2. | Claudia Losch ( FRG) | 22.19 m |
3. | Natalya Akhrimenko ( URS) | 21.34 m |
4. | Kathrin Neimke ( GDR) | 21.21 m |
5. | Ines Müller ( GDR) | 21.20 m |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Petra Meier ( GDR) | 78.90 |
2. | Fatima Whitbread ( GBR) | 76.64 |
3. | Ingrid Thyssen ( GDR) | 69.68 |
4. | Susanne Jung ( GDR) | 69.60 |
5. | Beate Peters ( FRG) | 68.84 |
RANK | 1987 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | POINTS |
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1. | Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA) | 7128 |
2. | Anke Behmer ( GDR) | 6692 |
3. | Svetlana Buraga ( URS) | 6585 |
4. | Larisa Nikitina ( URS) | 6564 |
5. | Jane Frederick ( USA) | 6533 |