1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

These are the official results of the Men's 50 km Walk event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. The race was held on Saturday September 5, 1987.

Medalists

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Gold   Hartwig Gauder
East Germany (GDR)
Silver   Ronald Weigel
East Germany (GDR)
Bronze   Vyacheslav Ivanenko
Soviet Union (URS)

Abbreviations

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  • All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
WL world leading
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

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Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record   Ronald Weigel (GDR) 3:38:17 Potsdam, East Germany May 25, 1986
Championship Record   Ronald Weigel (GDR) 3:43.08 Helsinki, Finland August 12, 1983

Final

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RANK FINAL TIME
    Hartwig Gauder (GDR) 3:40.53 CR
    Ronald Weigel (GDR) 3:41.30
    Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS) 3:44.02
4.   Raffaello Ducceschi (ITA) 3:47.49
5.   Martín Bermúdez (MEX) 3:48.27
6.   Sandro Bellucci (ITA) 3:48.52
7.   Pavol Szikora (TCH) 3:49.44
8.   Arturo Bravo (MEX) 3:52.08
9.   Andres Marín (ESP) 3:52.16
10.   Godfried Dejonckheere (BEL) 3:52.21
11.   Raúl González (MEX) 3:53.30
12.   Erling Andersen (NOR) 3:55.52
13.   François Lapointe (CAN) 3:56.11
14.   Thierry Toutain (FRA) 3:56.34
15.   José Pinto (POR) 3:56.40
16.   Carl Schueler (USA) 3:57.09
17.   Marco Evoniuk (USA) 3:57.43
18.   Pavol Blažek (TCH) 3:58.43
19.   Paul Blagg (GBR) 3:59.55
20.   Jan Cortenbach (NED) 4:00.10
21.   Takehiro Sonohara (JPN) 4:00.11
22.   Jim Heiring (USA) 4:03.34
23.   Alain Lemercier (FRA) 4:09.53
24.   Denis Terraz (FRA) 4:10.55
25.   Michael Harvey (AUS) 4:11.04
26.   Willi Sawall (AUS) 4:14.25
27.   Martin Archambault (CAN) 4:26.03
  Reima Salonen (FIN) DNF
  Manuel Alcalde (ESP) DNF
  Jordi Llopart (ESP) DSQ
  Bo Gustafsson (SWE) DSQ
  Vesa Puukari (FIN) DSQ
  Grzegorz Ledzion (POL) DSQ
  Giacomo Poggi (ITA) DSQ
  Dietmar Meisch (GDR) DSQ
  Valeriy Suntsov (URS) DSQ
  Venyamin Nikolayev (URS) DSQ

See also

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References

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