1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

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 Saturday 1987-08-29.

Medalists

GoldSwitzerland Werner Günthör
Switzerland (SUI)
SilverItaly Alessandro Andrei
Italy (ITA)
BronzeUnited 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
Qautomatic qualification
qqualification by rank
DNSdid not start
NMno mark
WRworld record
ARarea record
NRnational record
PBpersonal best
SBseason best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record Alessandro Andrei (ITA)22.91 m August 12, 1987Italy Viareggio, Italy
Event Record Edward Sarul (POL)21.39 m August 7, 1983Finland Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record Alessandro Andrei (ITA)21.57 m August 29, 1987Italy 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 1987-08-29
RANK GROUP A DISTANCE
1.  Alessandro Andrei (ITA) 21.57 m
2.  Ulf Timmermann (GDR) 21.11 m
3.  Vyacheslav Lykho (URS) 20.99 m
4.  Werner Günthör (SUI) 20.66 m
5.  Helmut Krieger (POL) 19.73 m
6.  Karsten Stolz (FRG) 19.69 m
7.  Gregg Tafralis (USA) 19.62 m
8.  Georgi Todorov (BUL) 19.43 m
9.  Ron Backes (USA) 19.34 m
10.  Dimitrios Koutsoukis (GRE) 19.05 m
—  Jan Sagedal (NOR) DNS


RANK GROUP B DISTANCE
1.  Udo Beyer (GDR) 20.95 m
2.  John Brenner (USA) 20.28 m
3.  Remigius Machura (TCH) 20.27 m
4.  Klaus Bodenmüller (AUT) 19.96 m
5.  Sergey Gavryushin (URS) 19.96 m
6.  Gert Weil (CHI) 19.76 m
7.  Udo Gelhausen (FRG) 19.10 m
8.  Janne Ronkainen (FIN) 18.36 m
9.  Lars Sundin (SWE) 17.25 m
—  Arne Pedersen (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


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