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

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

Abbreviations

• 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

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

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

• 1978 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Prague)
• 1980 Men's Olympic 50km Walk (Moscow)
• 1982 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Athens)
• 1984 Men's Olympic 50km Walk (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1988 Men's Olympic 50km Walk (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Split)

References

• Results