1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw

These are the official results of the Men's Hammer Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 26 participating athletes, with the final held on Tuesday September 1, 1987. The qualification round was staged on Monday August 31, 1987, with the mark set at 80.00 metres.

Medalists

Gold	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Jüri Tamm Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Ralf Haber East Germany (GDR)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
31.08.1987 – ??:??h	31.08.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
01.09.1987 – 15:00h

Abbreviations

• 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

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	82.68 m	August 9, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season Best	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	83.48 m	June 21, 1987	Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	83.06 m	September 1, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Sergey Litvinov (URS)				81.78 m
2	9	Walter Ciofani (FRA)				76.12 m
3	10	Günther Rodehau (GDR)				76.06 m
4	12	Plamen Minev (BUL)				75.18 m
5	13	Juha Tiainen (FIN)				75.10 m
6	14	Jud Logan (USA)				74.80 m
7	15	Kjell Bystedt (SWE)				74.46 m
8	16	Lucio Serrani (ITA)				74.00 m
9	17	Jörg Schäfer (FRG)				73.58 m
10	19	Viktor Apostolov (BUL)				73.46 m
11	21	Michael Beierl (AUT)				72.70 m
12	24	Andrés Charadia (ARG)				63.70 m
13	25	Gary Halpin (IRL)				63.68 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	2	Ralf Haber (GDR)				79.46 m
2	3	Igor Nikulin (URS)				78.60 m
3	4	Heinz Weis (FRG)				77.78 m
4	5	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)				77.52 m
5	6	Jüri Tamm (URS)				77.42 m
6	7	Christoph Sahner (FRG)				77.02 m
7	8	Ivan Tanev (BUL)				76.50 m
8	11	Harri Huhtala (FIN)				75.64 m
9	18	Tore Gustafsson (SWE)				73.54 m
10	20	Ken Flax (USA)				73.36 m
11	22	Francisco Fuentes (ESP)				69.54 m
12	23	Dave Smith (GBR)				68.56 m
13	26	Angus Cooper (NZL)				63.64 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	74.76	83.06	80.58	81.50	X	80.64	83.06 m	CR
	Jüri Tamm (URS)	78.38	77.94	X	76.88	78.18	80.84	80.84 m
	Ralf Haber (GDR)	X	77.92	78.94	79.18	80.76	78.78	80.76 m
4	Christoph Sahner (FRG)	72.38	75.80	76.68	77.32	79.50	80.58	80.58 m
5	Igor Nikulin (URS)	76.62	78.74	79.48	78.18	80.18	80.00	80.18 m
6	Heinz Weis (FRG)	77.70	79.02	78.36	79.26	80.18	78.76	80.18 m
7	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)	76.54	75.80	77.34	77.56	74.94	76.94	77.56 m
8	Plamen Minev (BUL)	75.16	77.06	X	X	X	X	77.06 m
9	Günther Rodehau (GDR)							76.18 m
10	Ivan Tanev (BUL)							76.00 m
11	Walter Ciofani (FRA)							75.34 m
12	Harri Huhtala (FIN)							74.98 m

See also

• 1984 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Hammer Throw (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Hammer Throw Year Ranking
• 1988 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships Hammer Throw (Split)

References

• Results
• hammerthrow.wz