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1987 World Championships in Athletics

Athletics competition in Rome, Italy

Field	Value
name	2nd World Championships in Athletics
logo	Rome IAAF 1987.jpg
size	150
host_city	Rome, Italy
nations	159
athletes	1451
events	43
dates	28 August – 6 September 1987
opened_by	President Francesco Cossiga
stadium	Stadio Olimpico
previous	[1983 Helsinki](1983-world-championships-in-athletics)
next	[1991 Tokyo](1991-world-championships-in-athletics)

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

1 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

Not awarded
High jump

Pole vault

Long jump

Triple jump

Shot put

Discus throw

Hammer throw

Javelin throw

Decathlon

1 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

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.

Women's 800 m wheelchair	Diane Rakiecki	2:32.52	Connie Hansen	2:37.07	Ingrid Lauridsen	2:39.95

Medal table

References

(4 August 1995). "Pedroso's World Mark In Long Jump in Doubt".
[http://www.chrisharrisonwriting.com/journalism/_3/ The Man Who Knows Too Much] {{webarchive. link. (2014-02-26 , Sport Monthly, March 2003, retr from chrisharrisonwriting.com on 2012 10 20)
Butler, Mark et al. (2013). [http://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/Moscow-2013-Statistics/sources/projet/IAAF-Moscow.pdf IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20141012091910/http://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/Moscow-2013-Statistics/sources/projet/IAAF-Moscow.pdf archived]), pp. 306–8. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-06.

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