1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

Events at the
1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
10 km walk women
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

These are the official results of the Men's Hammer Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 26 participating athletes, with the final held on Tuesday September 1, 1987. The qualification round was staged on Monday August 31, 1987, with the mark set at 80.00 metres.

Medalists

GoldSoviet Union Sergey Litvinov
Soviet Union (URS)
SilverSoviet Union Jüri Tamm
Soviet Union (URS)
BronzeEast Germany Ralf Haber
East Germany (GDR)

Schedule

Qualification Round
Group A Group B
31.08.1987 ??:??h 31.08.1987 ??:??h
Final Round
01.09.1987 15:00h

Abbreviations

Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 86.74 m August 30, 1986 West Germany Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record  Sergey Litvinov (URS) 82.68 m August 9, 1983 Finland Helsinki, Finland
Season Best  Sergey Litvinov (URS) 83.48 m June 21, 1987 East Germany Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record  Sergey Litvinov (URS) 83.06 m September 1, 1987 Italy Rome, Italy

Qualification

Group A

Rank Overall Athlete Attempts Distance
1 2 3
1 1  Sergey Litvinov (URS) 81.78 m
2 9  Walter Ciofani (FRA) 76.12 m
3 10  Günther Rodehau (GDR) 76.06 m
4 12  Plamen Minev (BUL) 75.18 m
5 13  Juha Tiainen (FIN) 75.10 m
6 14  Jud Logan (USA) 74.80 m
7 15  Kjell Bystedt (SWE) 74.46 m
8 16  Lucio Serrani (ITA) 74.00 m
9 17  Jörg Schäfer (FRG) 73.58 m
10 19  Viktor Apostolov (BUL) 73.46 m
11 21  Michael Beierl (AUT) 72.70 m
12 24  Andrés Charadia (ARG) 63.70 m
13 25  Gary Halpin (IRL) 63.68 m

Group B

Rank Overall Athlete Attempts Distance
1 2 3
1 2  Ralf Haber (GDR) 79.46 m
2 3  Igor Nikulin (URS) 78.60 m
3 4  Heinz Weis (FRG) 77.78 m
4 5  Tibor Gécsek (HUN) 77.52 m
5 6  Jüri Tamm (URS) 77.42 m
6 7  Christoph Sahner (FRG) 77.02 m
7 8  Ivan Tanev (BUL) 76.50 m
8 11  Harri Huhtala (FIN) 75.64 m
9 18  Tore Gustafsson (SWE) 73.54 m
10 20  Ken Flax (USA) 73.36 m
11 22  Francisco Fuentes (ESP) 69.54 m
12 23  Dave Smith (GBR) 68.56 m
13 26  Angus Cooper (NZL) 63.64 m

Final

Rank Athlete Attempts Distance Note
1 2 3 4 5 6
1st, gold medalist(s)  Sergey Litvinov (URS) 83.06 m CR
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Jüri Tamm (URS) 80.84 m
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Ralf Haber (GDR) 80.76 m
4  Christoph Sahner (FRG) 80.58 m
5  Igor Nikulin (URS) 80.18 m
6  Heinz Weis (FRG) 80.18 m
7  Tibor Gécsek (HUN) 77.56 m
8  Plamen Minev (BUL) 77.06 m
9  Günther Rodehau (GDR) 76.18 m
10  Ivan Tanev (BUL) 76.00 m
11  Walter Ciofani (FRA) 75.34 m
12  Harri Huhtala (FIN) 74.98 m

See also

References


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