1987 IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

The '1st IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics' were held in Indianapolis, United States in March 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 a lot of championship records. In fact, new championship records were set for every single women event.

Contents

Results

Men

Women

Medals table

External links

Results

Men

1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 |

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
60 m	Lee McRae	6.50 CR	Mark Witherspoon	6.54	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	6.59
200 m	Kirk Baptiste	20.73 CR	Bruno Marie-Rose	20.89	Robson da Silva	20.92
400 m	Antonio McKay	45.98	Roberto Hernández	46.09	Mike Franks	46.19
800 m	José Luiz Barbosa	1:47.49	Vladimir Graudyn	1:47.68	Faouzi Lahbi	1:47.79
1500 m	Marcus O'Sullivan	3:39.04 CR	José Manuel Abascal	3:39.13	Han Kulker	3:39.51
3000 m	Frank O'Mara	8.03.32	Paul Donovan	8.03.39	Terry Brahm	8:03.92
60 m Hurdles	Tonie Campbell	7.51 CR	Stéphane Caristan	7.62	Nigel Walker	7.66
High Jump	Igor Paklin	2.38 CR	Gennadiy Avdeyenko	2.38	Ján Zvara	2.34
Pole Vault	Sergey Bubka	5.85 CR	Earl Bell	5.80	Thierry Vigneron	5.80
Long Jump	Larry Myricks	8.23 CR	Paul Emordi	8.01	Giovanni Evangelisti	8.01
Triple Jump	Mike Conley	17.54 CR	Oleg Protsenko	17.26	Frank Rutherford	17.02
Shot Put	Ulf Timmermann	22.24 CR	Werner Günthör	21.61	Sergey Smirnov	20.67
5000 Metres Walk	Mikhail Shchennikov	18:27.79 CR	Jozef Pribilinec	18:27.80	Ernesto Canto	18:38.71

Women

1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 |

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
60 m	Nelli Fiere-Cooman	7.08 CR	Anelia Nuneva	7.10	Angela Bailey	7.12
200 m	Heike Drechsler	22.27 CR	Merlene Ottey	22.66	Grace Jackson	23.21
400 m	Sabine Busch	51.66 CR	Lillie Leatherwood	52.54	Judit Forgács	52.68
800 m	Christine Wachtel	2:01.32 CR	Gabriela Sedláková	2:01.85	Lyubov Kiryukhina	2:01.98
1500 m	Doina Melinte	4:05.68 CR	Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh	4:07.08	Svetlana Kitova	4:07.59
3000 m	Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh	8:46.52 CR	Olga Bondarenko	8:47.08	Maricica Puica	8:47.92
60 m Hurdles	Cornelia Oschkenat	7.82 CR	Yordanka Donkova	7.85	Ginka Zagorcheva	7.99
High Jump	Stefka Kostadinova	2.05 CR	Susanne Beyer	2.02	Emilia Dragieva	2.00
Long Jump	Heike Drechsler	7.10 CR	Helga Radtke	6.94	Yelena Belevskaya	6.76
Shot Put	Natalya Lisovskaya	20.52 CR	Ilona Briesenick	20.28	Claudia Losch	20.14
3000 Metres Walk	Olga Krishtop	12:05.49 CR	Giuliana Salce	12:36.76	Ann Peel	12:38.97

Medals table

External links

★ GBR Athletics