1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships

International athletics championship event

1st IAAF World Indoor Championships

Dates| March 6–8
Host city| Indianapolis, United States
Venue| Hoosier Dome
Events| 24
Participation| 401 athletes from
85 nations

<- 1985 Paris

1989 Budapest ->

The 1st IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Indianapolis, United States from March 6 to March 8, 1987. The championship had previously been known as the World Indoor Games, which were held once before changing the name.

Being the second championship of its kind, there were several championship records. New championship records were set for every single women's event. There were a total number of 401 participating athletes from 85 countries.

## Results

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### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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60 metres
details |  Lee McRae (USA) | 6.501
(CR) |  Mark Witherspoon (USA) | 6.54  |  Pierfrancesco Pavoni (ITA) | 6.59
200 metres
details |  Kirk Baptiste (USA) | 20.73
(CR) |  Bruno Marie-Rose (FRA) | 20.89  |  Robson da Silva (BRA) | 20.92
400 metres
details |  Antonio McKay (USA) | 45.98  |  Roberto Hernández (CUB) | 46.09  |  Michael Franks (USA) | 46.19
800 metres
details |  José Luíz Barbosa (BRA) | 1:47.49  |  Vladimir Graudyn (URS) | 1:47.68  |  Faouzi Lahbi (MAR) | 1:47.79
1500 metres
details |  Marcus O'Sullivan (IRL) | 3:39.04
(CR) |  José Manuel Abascal (ESP) | 3:39.13  |  Han Kulker (NED) | 3:39.51
3000 metres
details |  Frank O'Mara (IRL) | 8.03.32  |  Paul Donovan (IRL) | 8.03.39  |  Terry Brahm (USA) | 8:03.92
60 metres hurdles
details |  Tonie Campbell (USA) | 7.51
(CR) |  Stéphane Caristan (FRA) | 7.62  |  Nigel Walker (GBR) | 7.66
5000 metres walk
details |  Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) | 18:27.79
(CR) |  Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) | 18:27.80  |  Ernesto Canto (MEX) | 18:38.71
High jump
details |  Igor Paklin (URS) | 2.38
(CR) |  Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS) | 2.38  |  Ján Zvara (TCH) | 2.34
Pole vault
details |  Sergey Bubka (URS) | 5.85
(CR) |  Earl Bell (USA) | 5.80  |  Thierry Vigneron (FRA) | 5.80
Long jump
details |  Larry Myricks (USA) | 8.23
(CR) |  Paul Emordi (NGR) | 8.01  |  Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA) | 8.01
Triple jump
details |  Mike Conley (USA) | 17.54
(CR) |  Oleg Protsenko (URS) | 17.26  |  Frank Rutherford (BAH) | 17.02
Shot put
details |  Ulf Timmermann (GDR) | 22.24
(CR) |  Werner Günthör (SUI) | 21.61  |  Sergey Smirnov (URS) | 20.67

1 Ben Johnson of Canada originally won the 60 metres in 6.41, but was disqualified in September 1989 after admitting to using steroids between 1981 and 1988.[1]

### Women

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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60 metres
details |  Nelli Fiere-Cooman (NED) | 7.08
(CR) |  Aneliya Nuneva (BUL) | 7.101 |  Angela Bailey (CAN) | 7.12
200 metres
details |  Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 22.27
(CR) |  Merlene Ottey-Page (JAM) | 22.66  |  Grace Jackson (JAM) | 23.21
400 metres
details |  Sabine Busch (GDR) | 51.66
(CR) |  Lillie Leatherwood (USA) | 52.54  |  Judit Forgács (HUN) | 52.68
800 metres
details |  Christine Wachtel (GDR) | 2:01.32
(CR) |  Gabriela Sedláková (TCH) | 2:01.85  |  Lyubov Kiryukhina (URS) | 2:01.98
1500 metres
details |  Doina Melinte (ROU) | 4:05.68
(CR) |  Tatyana Samolenko (URS) | 4:07.08  |  Svetlana Kitova (URS) | 4:07.59
3000 metres
details |  Tatyana Samolenko (URS) | 8:46.52
(CR) |  Olga Bondarenko (URS) | 8:47.08  |  Maricica Puică (ROU) | 8:47.92
60 metres hurdles
details |  Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR) | 7.82
(CR) |  Yordanka Donkova (BUL) | 7.85  |  Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL) | 7.99
3000 metres walk
details |  Olga Krishtop (URS) | 12:05.49
(CR) |  Giuliana Salce (ITA) | 12:36.76  |  Ann Peel (CAN) | 12:38.97
High jump
details |  Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | 2.05
(CR) |  Susanne Beyer (GDR) | 2.02  |  Emiliya Dragieva (BUL) | 2.00
Long jump
details |  Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 7.10
(CR) |  Helga Radtke (GDR) | 6.94  |  Yelena Belevskaya (URS) | 6.76
Shot put
details |  Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) | 20.52
(CR) |  Ilona Briesenick (GDR) | 20.28  |  Claudia Losch (FRG) | 20.14

1 Angella Issajenko of Canada originally finished second in the 60 metres in 7.08, but was disqualified in September 1989 after admitting to steroid use between 1985 and 1988.[1]

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Soviet Union (URS)| 6| 5| 4| 15
2|  United States (USA)| 6| 3| 2| 11
3|  East Germany (GDR)| 6| 3| 0| 9
4|  Ireland (IRL)| 2| 1| 0| 3
5|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 1| 2| 2| 5
6|  Brazil (BRA)| 1| 0| 1| 2
Netherlands (NED)| 1| 0| 1| 2
Romania (ROU)| 1| 0| 1| 2
9|  Czechoslovakia (TCH)| 0| 2| 1| 3
France (FRA)| 0| 2| 1| 3
11|  Italy (ITA)| 0| 1| 2| 3
12|  Jamaica (JAM)| 0| 1| 1| 2
13|  Cuba (CUB)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Nigeria (NGR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Spain (ESP)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Switzerland (SUI)| 0| 1| 0| 1
17|  Canada (CAN)| 0| 0| 2| 2
18|  Bahamas (BAH)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Great Britain (GBR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Hungary (HUN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Mexico (MEX)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Morocco (MAR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
West Germany (FRG)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (23 entries)| 24| 24| 24| 72

## Participating nations

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* Anguilla (1)
* Antigua and Barbuda (3)
* Argentina (2)
* Aruba (1)
* Australia (9)
* Austria (4)
* Bahamas (2)
* Bahrain (1)
* Barbados (2)
* Belgium (4)
* Bermuda (2)
* Bolivia (1)
* Botswana (1)
* Brazil (3)
* Bulgaria (12)
* Burkina Faso (1)
* Burundi (1)
* Canada (15)
* Cayman Islands (1)
* Chile (3)
* China (8)
* Colombia (2)
* Costa Rica (1)
* Cuba (7)
* Cyprus (2)
* Czechoslovakia (7)
* Denmark (2)
* Dominican Republic (2)
* East Germany (10)
* Ecuador (2)
* Egypt (4)
* Finland (3)
* France (12)
* Gambia (1)
* Great Britain (17)
* Greece (3)
* Guatemala (4)
* Hungary (6)
* Iceland (2)
* India (1)
* Ireland (4)
* Italy (15)
* Ivory Coast (1)
* Jamaica (8)
* Japan (5)
* Kenya (10)
* Kuwait (1)
* Lebanon (2)
* Liberia (1)
* Malaysia (2)
* Mauritius (1)
* Mexico (6)
* Morocco (2)
* Netherlands (9)
* Netherlands Antilles (2)
* New Zealand (1)
* Nigeria (11)
* Norway (4)
* Panama (1)
* Paraguay (1)
* Peru (2)
* Philippines (1)
* Poland (6)
* Romania (10)
* Saint Kitts and Nevis (3)
* Saint Lucia (1)
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2)
* El Salvador (1)
* Senegal (2)
* Seychelles (1)
* Trinidad and Tobago (1)
* Soviet Union (24)
* Spain (12)
* Swaziland (1)
* Sweden (5)
* Switzerland (7)
* Thailand (1)
* Trinidad and Tobago (1)
* Turks and Caicos Islands (2)
* Uganda (2)
* United States (42)
* United States Virgin Islands (3)
* West Germany (14)
* Yugoslavia (3)
* Zimbabwe (2)

## See also

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* 1987 in athletics (track and field)

## References

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1. ^ a b Mark Butler (ed.), "DOPING VIOLATIONS AT IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS", IAAF Statistics Book – World Indoor Championships SOPOT 2014 (PDF), IAAF, pp. 47–48, retrieved September 27, 2015[permanent dead link‍]

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