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1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

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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 Switzerland Werner Günthör
Switzerland (SUI)
Silver Italy Alessandro Andrei
Italy (ITA)
Bronze United States 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 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

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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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