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 29 August 1987.

Medalists

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

Schedule

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

Abbreviations

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  • 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

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Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record   Alessandro Andrei (ITA) 22.91 m August 12, 1987   Viareggio, Italy
Event Record   Edward Sarul (POL) 21.39 m August 7, 1983   Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record   Alessandro Andrei (ITA) 21.57 m August 29, 1987   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

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  • 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

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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

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References

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