Athletics at the 1987 Summer Universiade

Athletics at the 1987 Summer Universiade
Dates	13–19 July 1987
Host city	Zagreb Yugoslavia
Venue	Stadion Maksimir
Events	42
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Athletics events were contested at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia between 13 and 19 July.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.5 m/s) details	Lee McRae (USA)	10.07	Brian Cooper (USA)	10.21	Bruno Marie-Rose (FRA)	10.25
200 metres (wind: +1.4 m/s) details	Wallace Spearmon, Sr. (USA)	20.42	Floyd Heard (USA)	20.44	Edgardo Guilbe (PUR)	20.92
400 metres details	Mike Franks (USA)	45.33	Moses Ugbisie (NGR)	45.37	Raymond Pierre (USA)	45.67
800 metres details	Slobodan Popović (YUG)	1:46.13	Moussa Fall (SEN)	1:46.71	Luis Toledo (MEX)	1:47.07
1500 metres details	Hauke Fuhlbrügge (GDR)	3:44.87	Rob Harrison (GBR)	3:45.13	(URS)	3:45.52
5000 metres details	Anacleto Jiménez (ESP)	14:08.15	(USA)	14:08.30	(GBR)	14:09.21
10,000 metres details	(GDR)	29:07.02	Spyros Andriopoulos (GRE)	29:08.65	Pat Porter (USA)	29:20.95
Marathon details	(JPN)	2:24:23	(JPN)	2:24:55	(URS)	2:27:01
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.1 m/s) details	Jon Ridgeon (GBR)	13.29	Arthur Blake (USA)	13.38	(USA)	13.40
400 metres hurdles details	Dave Patrick (USA)	48.75	Athanasios Kalogiannis (GRE)	48.80	Ryoichi Yoshida (JPN)	49.20
3000 metres steeplechase details	(URS)	8:33.23	(CUB)	8:33.86	Shigeyuki Aikyo (JPN)	8:34.23
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Lee McRae Floyd Heard Lorenzo Daniel Wallace Spearmon Sr. Michael Marsh Brian Cooper	38.66	France (FRA) Jean-Charles Trouabal	39.42	Japan (JPN) Shinji Aoto Hiroki Fuwa	39.57
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Raymond Pierre Lorenzo Daniel David Patrick Kevin Robinzine	3:01.78	Yugoslavia (YUG) Branislav Karaulić Slobodan Popović Slobodan Branković Ismail Mačev	3:03.95	Soviet Union (URS) Oleg Fatun Vladimir Prosin	3:05.85
20 kilometres walk details	Raffaello Ducceschi (ITA)	1:25:02	Giacomo Poggi (ITA)	1:25:17	(ITA)	1:26:58
High jump details	James Lott (USA)	2.30	(YUG)	2.30	Sorin Matei (ROM)	2.30
Pole vault details	Viktor Spasov (URS)	5.65	Radion Gataullin (URS)	5.60	(USA)	5.60
Long jump details	Mike Powell (USA)	8.19	Paul Emordi (NGR)	8.11	(URS)	8.06
Triple jump details	Charles Simpkins (USA)	17.16	Kenny Harrison (USA)	17.07	Māris Bružiks (URS)	16.90
Shot put details	(GDR)	20.38	(URS)	20.12	Ron Backes (USA)	20.09
Discus throw details	Randy Heisler (USA)	62.38	Vaclavas Kidykas (URS)	61.72	Kostas Georgakopoulos (GRE)	60.54
Hammer throw details	Igor Astapkovich (URS)	78.46	Heinz Weis (FRG)	76.98	Lucio Serrani (ITA)	75.70
Javelin throw details	Marek Kaleta (URS)	81.42	Sejad Krdžalić (YUG)	80.26	Volker Hadwich (GDR)	78.82
Decathlon details	Siegfried Wentz (FRG)	8348	(USA)	8026	(FRA)	7786

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.9 m/s) details	Gwen Torrence (USA)	11.09	Irina Slyusar (URS)	11.34	Tina Iheagwam (NGR)	11.40
200 metres (wind: +1.5 m/s) details	Gwen Torrence (USA)	22.44	Mary Onyali (NGR)	22.64	Dannette Young (USA)	22.72
400 metres details	Denean Howard (USA)	51.07	Lyudmila Dzhigalova (URS)	51.32	Sandie Richards (JAM)	51.42
800 metres details	Slobodanka Čolović (YUG)	1:56.88	Mitica Junghiatu (ROM)	1:59.28	Joetta Clark (USA)	1:59.92
1500 metres details	Paula Ivan (ROM)	4:01.32	Svetlana Kitova (URS)	4.03.03	Mitica Junghiatu (ROM)	4:03.04
3000 metres details	Paula Ivan (ROM)	8:53.61	(USA)	8:59.56	Natalya Artyomova (URS)	9:02.98
10,000 metres details	(USA)	33:11.26	Zhong Huandi (CHN)	33:11.59	(URS)	33:14.71
Marathon details	(URS)	2:46:30	(JPN)	2:46:33	(USA)	3:03:00
100 metres hurdles (wind: +1.5 m/s) details	(GDR)	12.84	Aliuska López (CUB)	12.84	Florence Colle (FRA)	12.84
400 metres hurdles details	Nawal El Moutawakel (MAR)	55.21	Nicoleta Carutasu (ROM)	55.35	Sophia Hunter (USA)	55.45
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Wendy Vereen Dannette Young Gwen Torrence	42.90	Soviet Union (URS) Nadezhda Roshchupkina Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova Yelena Vinogradova Irina Slyusar	43.17	Nigeria (NGR) Tina Iheagwam Mary Onyali Falilat Ogunkoya	43.71
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Rochelle Stevens Denean Howard	3:27.16	Soviet Union (URS) Yelena Vinogradova Tatyana Ledovskaya Lyudmila Dzhigalova	3:27.65	Nigeria (NGR) Kehinde Vaughan Airat Bakare Maria Usifo	3:33.37
5000 metres walk details	(CHN)	21:51.50	(URS)	22:00.01	Ann Peel (CAN)	22:01.09
High jump details	Svetlana Isaeva (BUL)	1.95	(URS)	1.91	Megumi Sato (JPN)	1.88
Long jump details	Marieta Ilcu (ROM)	6.81	Ljudmila Ninova (BUL)	6.78	(GDR)	6.74
Shot put details	Natalya Lisovskaya (URS)	20.48	Kathrin Neimke (GDR)	20.07	Larisa Peleshenko (URS)	19.49
Discus throw details	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)	67.96	Gabriele Reinsch (GDR)	64.12	Hou Xuemei (CHN)	64.04
Javelin throw details	Irina Kostyuchenkova (URS)	66.72	Susanne Jung (GDR)	65.36	Brigitte Graune (FRG)	61.24
Heptathlon details	Liliana Năstase (ROM)	6364	(URS)	6272	Zuzana Lajbnerová (TCH)	6224

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	15	6	9	30
2	Soviet Union (URS)	7	12	8	27
3	East Germany (GDR)	4	3	2	9
4	Romania (ROM)	4	2	2	8
5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	3	0	5
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	1	0	3
7	Japan (JPN)	1	2	4	7
8	Cuba (CUB)	1	2	0	3
9	Italy (ITA)	1	1	2	4
10	China (CHN)	1	1	1	3
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	1	3
	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	1	3
13	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
15	Nigeria (NGR)	0	3	3	6
16	Greece (GRE)	0	2	1	3
17	France (FRA)	0	1	3	4
18	Senegal (SEN)	0	1	0	1
19	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Jamaica (JAM)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 nations)		42	42	42	126

See also[]

• 1987 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

• World Student Games (Universiade - Men) - GBR Athletics
• World Student Games (Universiade - Women) - GBR Athletics