1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships

1st IAAF World Indoor Championships
1st IAAF World Indoor Championships
Dates	March 6–8
Host city	Indianapolis, United States
Venue	Hoosier Dome
Events	24
Participation	401 athletes from ; 85 nations
	← 1985 Paris 1989 Budapest → ;

The 1st IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Indianapolis, United States from March 6 to March 8, 1987. The championship had previously been known as the World Indoor Games, which were held once before changing the name.

Being the second championship of its kind, there were several championship records. New championship records were set for every single women's event. There were a total number of 419 participating athletes from 85 countries.

Results[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Lee McRae (USA)	6.50¹ (CR)	Mark Witherspoon (USA)	6.54	Pierfrancesco Pavoni (ITA)	6.59
200 metres details	Kirk Baptiste (USA)	20.73 (CR)	Bruno Marie-Rose (FRA)	20.89	Robson da Silva (BRA)	20.92
400 metres details	Antonio McKay (USA)	45.98	Roberto Hernández (CUB)	46.09	Michael Franks (USA)	46.19
800 metres details	José Luiz Barbosa (BRA)	1:47.49	Vladimir Graudyn (URS)	1:47.68	Faouzi Lahbi (MAR)	1:47.79
1500 metres details	Marcus O'Sullivan (IRL)	3:39.04 (CR)	José Manuel Abascal (ESP)	3:39.13	Han Kulker (NED)	3:39.51
3000 metres details	Frank O'Mara (IRL)	8.03.32	Paul Donovan (IRL)	8.03.39	Terry Brahm (USA)	8:03.92
60 metres hurdles details	Tonie Campbell (USA)	7.51 (CR)	Stéphane Caristan (FRA)	7.62	Nigel Walker (GBR)	7.66
5000 metres walk details	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	18:27.79 (CR)	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	18:27.80	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	18:38.71
High jump details	Igor Paklin (URS)	2.38 (CR)	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)	2.38	Ján Zvara (TCH)	2.34
Pole vault details	Sergey Bubka (URS)	5.85 (CR)	Earl Bell (USA)	5.80	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)	5.80
Long jump details	Larry Myricks (USA)	8.23 (CR)	Paul Emordi (NGR)	8.01	Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)	8.01
Triple jump details	Mike Conley (USA)	17.54 (CR)	Oleg Protsenko (URS)	17.26	Frank Rutherford (BAH)	17.02
Shot put details	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	22.24 (CR)	Werner Günthör (SUI)	21.61	Sergey Smirnov (URS)	20.67

¹ Ben Johnson of Canada originally won the 60 metres in 6.41, but was disqualified in September 1989 after admitting to using steroids between 1981 and 1988.^[1]

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Nelli Fiere-Cooman (NED)	7.08 (CR)	Aneliya Nuneva (BUL)	7.10¹	Angela Bailey (CAN)	7.12
200 metres details	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	22.27 (CR)	Merlene Ottey-Page (JAM)	22.66	Grace Jackson (JAM)	23.21
400 metres details	Sabine Busch (GDR)	51.66 (CR)	Lillie Leatherwood (USA)	52.54	Judit Forgács (HUN)	52.68
800 metres details	Christine Wachtel (GDR)	2:01.32 (CR)	Gabriela Sedláková (TCH)	2:01.85	Lyubov Kiryukhina (URS)	2:01.98
1500 metres details	Doina Melinte (ROU)	4:05.68 (CR)	Tatyana Samolenko (URS)	4:07.08	Svetlana Kitova (URS)	4:07.59
3000 metres details	Tatyana Samolenko (URS)	8:46.52 (CR)	Olga Bondarenko (URS)	8:47.08	Maricica Puică (ROU)	8:47.92
60 metres hurdles details	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	7.82 (CR)	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	7.85	Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)	7.99
3000 metres walk details	Olga Krishtop (URS)	12:05.49 (CR)	Giuliana Salce (ITA)	12:36.76	Ann Peel (CAN)	12:38.97
High jump details	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.05 (CR)	Susanne Beyer (GDR)	2.02	Emiliya Dragieva (BUL)	2.00
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	7.10 (CR)	Helga Radtke (GDR)	6.94	Yelena Belevskaya (URS)	6.76
Shot put details	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	20.52 (CR)	Ilona Briesenick (GDR)	20.28	Claudia Losch (FRG)	20.14

¹ Angella Issajenko of Canada originally finished second in the 60 metres in 7.08, but was disqualified in September 1989 after admitting to steroid use between 1985 and 1988.^[1]

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	5	4	15
2	United States (USA)	6	3	2	11
3	East Germany (GDR)	6	3	0	9
4	Ireland (IRL)	2	1	0	3
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	2	2	5
6	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	1	2
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	1	2
9	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	2	1	3
9	France (FRA)	0	2	1	3
11	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
12	Jamaica (JAM)	0	1	1	2
13	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
17	Canada (CAN)	0	0	2	2
18	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 nations)		24	24	24	72

Participating nations[]

Anguilla (1)
Antigua and Barbuda (3)
Argentina (2)
Aruba (1)
Australia (9)
Austria (4)
Bahamas (2)
Bahrain (1)
Barbados (2)
Belgium (4)
Bermuda (2)
Bolivia (1)
Botswana (1)
Brazil (3)
Bulgaria (12)
Burkina Faso (1)
Burundi (1)
Canada (15)
Cayman Islands (1)
Chile (3)
China (8)
Colombia (2)
Costa Rica (1)
Cuba (7)
Cyprus (2)
Czechoslovakia (7)
Denmark (2)
Dominican Republic (2)
East Germany (10)
Ecuador (2)
Egypt (4)
Finland (3)
France (12)
Gambia (1)
Great Britain (17)
Greece (3)
Guatemala (4)
Hungary (6)
Iceland (2)
India (1)
Ireland (4)
Italy (15)
Ivory Coast (1)
Jamaica (8)
Japan (5)
Kenya (10)
Kuwait (1)
Lebanon (2)
Liberia (1)
Malaysia (2)
Mauritius (1)
Mexico (6)
Morocco (2)
Netherlands (9)
Netherlands Antilles (2)
New Zealand (1)
Nigeria (11)
Norway (4)
Panama (1)
Paraguay (1)
Peru (2)
Philippines (1)
Poland (6)
Romania (10)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (3)
Saint Lucia (1)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2)
El Salvador (1)
Senegal (2)
Seychelles (1)
Trinidad and Tobago (1)
Soviet Union (24)
Spain (12)
Swaziland (1)
Sweden (5)
Switzerland (7)
Thailand (1)
Trinidad and Tobago (1)
Turks and Caicos Islands (2)
Uganda (2)
United States (42)
United States Virgin Islands (3)
West Germany (14)
Yugoslavia (3)
Zimbabwe (2)

References[]

^ ^a ^b Mark Butler (ed.), "DOPING VIOLATIONS AT IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS", IAAF Statistics Book – World Indoor Championships SOPOT 2014 (PDF), IAAF, pp. 47–48, retrieved 27 September 2015^{[permanent dead link]}

External links[]

[Sopot_2014-1] Mark Butler (ed.), "DOPING VIOLATIONS AT IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS", IAAF Statistics Book – World Indoor Championships SOPOT 2014 (PDF), IAAF, pp. 47–48, retrieved 27 September 2015^{[permanent dead link]}

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