1987 Athletics World Championships
Events and Champions

100 m W

GDR

Silke Gladisch Möller

100 m M

USA

Carl Lewis

200 m W

JAM

Merlene Ottey

200 m M

USA

Calvin Smith

400 m W

URS

Olga Bryzgina

400 m M

GDR

Thomas Schönlebe

800 m W

GDR

Sigrun Wodars

800 m M

KEN

Billy Konchellah

1500 m W

URS

Tatyana Samolenko

1500 m M

SOM

Abdi Bile

3000 m W

URS

Tatyana Samolenko

5000 m M

MAR

Said Aouita

10000 m W

NOR

Ingrid Kristiansen

10000 m M

KEN

Paul Kipkoech

Marathon W

POR

Rosa Mota

Marathon M

KEN

Douglas Wakiihuri

100 m hurdles W

BUL

Ginka Zagorcheva

110 m hurdles M

USA

Greg Foster

400 m hurdles W

GDR

Sabine Busch

400 m hurdles M

USA

Edwin Moses

3000 m steeplechase M

ITA

Francesco Panetta

4x400 m W

GDR

Dagmar Neubauer

Kirsten Emmelmann

Petra Schersing

Sabine Busch

4x100 m W

USA

Alice Brown

Diane Williams

Florence Griffith Joyner

Pamela Marshall

4x100 m M

USA

Lee McRae

Lee McNeill

Harvey Glance

Carl Lewis

4x400 m M

USA

Danny Everett

Roddie Haley

Antonio McKay

Harry Reynolds

High jump W

BUL

Stefka Kostadinova

High jump M

SWE

Patrick Sjöberg

Long jump W

USA

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Long jump M

USA

Carl Lewis

Triple jump M

BUL

Hristo Markov

Pole vault M

URS

Sergey Bubka

Javelin throw W

GBR

Fatima Whitbread

Javelin throw M

FIN

Seppo Räty

Discus throw W

GDR

Martina Hellmann

Discus throw M

GDR

Jürgen Schult

Hammer throw M

URS

Sergey Litvinov

Shot put W

URS

Natalya Lisovskaya

Shot put M

ITA

Alessandro Andrei

Heptathlon W

USA

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Decathlon M

GDR

Torsten Voss

10 km walk W

URS

Irina Strakhova

20 km walk M

ITA

Maurizio Damilano

50 km walk M

GDR

Hartwig Gauder