1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

Events at the
1987 World Championships
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
3000 mwomen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmenwomen
100 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmenwomen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4 × 100 m relaymenwomen
4 × 400 m relaymenwomen
Road events
Marathonmenwomen
10 km walkwomen
20 km walkmen
50 km walkmen
Field events
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Combined events
Heptathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

These are the official results of the men's shot put event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 21 participating athletes, with the final held on 29 August 1987.

Medalists

Gold Switzerland Werner Günthör
Switzerland (SUI)
Silver Italy Alessandro Andrei
Italy (ITA)
Bronze United States John Brenner
United States (USA)

Schedule

Qualification Round
Group A Group B
29.08.1987 – ??:??h 29.08.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
29.08.1987 – 18:10h

Abbreviations

  • All results shown are in metres
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  Alessandro Andrei (ITA) 22.91 m August 12, 1987 Italy Viareggio, Italy
Event Record  Edward Sarul (POL) 21.39 m August 7, 1983 Finland Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record  Alessandro Andrei (ITA) 21.57 m August 29, 1987 Italy Rome, Italy
 Werner Günthör (SUI) 21.63 m
 John Brenner (USA) 21.75 m
 Werner Günthör (SUI) 22.12 m
 Werner Günthör (SUI) 22.23 m

Qualification

  • Held on Saturday 29 August 1987
Group A
Rank Athlete Nation Distance
1 Alessandro Andrei  Italy (ITA) 21.57 m
2 Ulf Timmermann  East Germany (GDR) 21.11 m
3 Vyacheslav Lykho  Soviet Union (URS) 20.99 m
4 Werner Günthör  Switzerland (SUI) 20.66 m
5 Helmut Krieger  Poland (POL) 19.73 m
6 Karsten Stolz  West Germany (FRG) 19.69 m
7 Gregg Tafralis  United States (USA) 19.62 m
8 Georgi Todorov  Bulgaria (BUL) 19.43 m
9 Ron Backes  United States (USA) 19.34 m
10 Dimitrios Koutsoukis  Greece (GRE) 19.05 m
— Jan Sagedal  Norway (NOR) DNS


Group B
Rank Athlete Nation Distance
1 Udo Beyer  East Germany (GDR) 20.95 m
2 John Brenner  United States (USA) 20.28 m
3 Remigius Machura  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 20.27 m
4 Klaus Bodenmüller  Austria (AUT) 19.96 m
5 Sergey Gavryushin  Soviet Union (URS) 19.96 m
6 Gert Weil  Chile (CHI) 19.76 m
7 Udo Gelhausen  West Germany (FRG) 19.10 m
8 Janne Ronkainen  Finland (FIN) 18.36 m
9 Lars Sundin  Sweden (SWE) 17.25 m
— Arne Pedersen  Norway (NOR) DNS

Final

RANK FINAL DISTANCE
 Werner Günthör (SUI) 22.23 m CR
 Alessandro Andrei (ITA) 21.88 m
 John Brenner (USA) 21.75 m
4.  Remigius Machura (TCH) 21.39 m
5.  Ulf Timmermann (GDR) 21.35 m
6.  Udo Beyer (GDR) 21.13 m
7.  Klaus Bodenmüller (AUT) 20.41 m
8.  Sergey Gavryushin (URS) 20.15 m
9.  Vyacheslav Lykho (URS) 19.98 m
10.  Gert Weil (CHI) 19.71 m
11.  Karsten Stolz (FRG) 19.22 m
12.  Helmut Krieger (POL) 19.15 m

See also

References