International athletics championship event
1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Organisers IAAF Edition 15th Date March 22 Host city Warszawa , Poland Venue Służewiec Racecourse Events 3 Distances 11.95 km – Senior men 7.05 km – Junior men 5.05 km – Senior women Participation 576 athletes from 47 nations ← 1986 Colombier
1988 Auckland →
The 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Warszawa , Poland , at the Służewiec Racecourse on March 22, 1987. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald [1] and in the Evening Times .[2]
Complete results for men,[3] junior men,[4] women,[5] medallists,
[6] and the results of British athletes[7] were published.
Medallists [ ]
Race results [ ]
Senior men's race (11.95 km) [ ]
Teams
Rank
Team
Points
Kenya
53
England
146
Ethiopia
Abebe Mekonnen
4
Haji Bulbula
17
Wodajo Bulti
27
29
Melese Feissa
39
Bekele Debele
45
(Habte Negash )
(53)
()
(70)
()
(96)
161
4
Italy
223
5
France
245
6
Portugal
309
7
Spain
340
8
Belgium
378
Full results
Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Junior men's race (7.05 km) [ ]
Individual race
Rank
Athlete
Country
Time
Wilfred Kirochi
Kenya
22:18
Ethiopia
22:18
Debebe Demisse
Ethiopia
22:20
4
William Koskei Chemitei
Kenya
22:27
5
Kenya
22:28
6
Ethiopia
22:28
7
England
22:33
8
Ethiopia
22:37
9
Ethiopia
22:39
10
Thomas Osano
Kenya
22:55
11
Kenya
23:01
12
Turkey
23:07
Full results
Teams
Rank
Team
Points
Ethiopia
2
Debebe Demisse
3
6
8
()
(9)
()
(63)
19
Kenya
Wilfred Kirochi
1
William Koskei Chemitei
4
5
Thomas Osano
10
()
(11)
()
(13)
20
Japan
14
18
20
21
()
(85)
()
(92)
73
4
United States
120
5
Canada
124
6
Spain
125
7
Italy
171
8
Soviet Union
171
Full results
Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Senior women's race (5.05 km) [ ]
Individual race
Rank
Athlete
Country
Time
Annette Sergent
France
16:46
Liz Lynch
Scotland
16:48
Ingrid Kristiansen
Norway
16:51
4
Lynn Jennings
United States
16:55
5
Lesley Lehane
United States
16:57
6
Mariana Stanescu
Romania
17:04
7
Cornelia Bürki
Switzerland
17:08
8
Krishna Wood
Australia
17:11
9
Paula Ivan
Romania
17:12
10
Natalya Sorokivskaya
Soviet Union
17:13
11
Kenya
17:14
12
Martine Fays
France
17:19
Full results
Teams
Rank
Team
Points
United States
Lynn Jennings
4
Lesley Lehane
5
Mary Knisely
14
Janet Smith
23
()
(44)
(Sabrina Dornhoefer )
(53)
46
France
Annette Sergent
1
Martine Fays
12
18
Maria Lelut
19
(Patricia Demilly )
(25)
()
(128)
50
Soviet Union
Natalya Sorokivskaya
10
Olga Bondarenko
13
Yelena Romanova
15
17
(Svetlana Ulmasova )
(34)
()
(62)
55
4
Romania
94
5
Kenya
117
6
Norway
143
7
England
152
8
Portugal
159
Full results
Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Medal table (unofficial) [ ]
Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.
Participation [ ]
An unofficial count yields the participation of 576 athletes from 47 countries. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[7]
See also [ ]
References [ ]
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Gillon, Doug (March 23, 1987), Lynch's supreme effort just fails in Polish mud - Liz Lynch gave everything she had, and then found a little more, but it was not quite enough to capture the world cross-country title on the freezing muddy wastes of Sluzewiac racecourse this afternoon... , Glasgow Herald , p. 10, retrieved October 22, 2013
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Sad Lynch comes out second best - Not even the consolidation of the silver medal could bring a smile to the face of Scotland's Liz Lynch after the World Cross Cross Country Championships in Warsaw.. , Evening Times , March 23, 1987, p. 17, retrieved October 22, 2013
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Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Warszawa Sluzewiec Date: Sunday, March 22, 1987 , Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 22, 2013 CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
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Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 7.1km CC Men - Warszawa Sluzewiec Date: Sunday, March 22, 1987 , Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 22, 2013 CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
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Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 5.1km CC Women - Warszawa Sluzewiec Date: Sunday, March 22, 1987 , Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 22, 2013 CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
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IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS , Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
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36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF) , IAAF , p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013
External links [ ]
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