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

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

Schedule

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

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

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	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

• Held on Saturday 29 August 1987

Group A

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Distance
1	Alessandro Andrei	File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (ITA)	21.57 m
2	Ulf Timmermann	File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany (GDR)	21.11 m
3	Vyacheslav Lykho	File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union (URS)	20.99 m
4	Werner Günthör	File:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland (SUI)	20.66 m
5	Helmut Krieger	File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland (POL)	19.73 m
6	Karsten Stolz	File:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany (FRG)	19.69 m
7	Gregg Tafralis	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (USA)	19.62 m
8	Georgi Todorov	File:Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria (BUL)	19.43 m
9	Ron Backes	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (USA)	19.34 m
10	Dimitrios Koutsoukis	File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece (GRE)	19.05 m
—	Jan Sagedal	File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway (NOR)	DNS

Group B

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Distance
1	Udo Beyer	File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany (GDR)	20.95 m
2	John Brenner	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (USA)	20.28 m
3	Remigius Machura	File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia (TCH)	20.27 m
4	Klaus Bodenmüller	File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria (AUT)	19.96 m
5	Sergey Gavryushin	File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union (URS)	19.96 m
6	Gert Weil	File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile (CHI)	19.76 m
7	Udo Gelhausen	File:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany (FRG)	19.10 m
8	Janne Ronkainen	File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland (FIN)	18.36 m
9	Lars Sundin	File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden (SWE)	17.25 m
—	Arne Pedersen	File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway (NOR)	DNS

Final

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
File:Med 1.png	Werner Günthör (SUI)	22.23 m CR
File:Med 2.png	Alessandro Andrei (ITA)	21.88 m
File:Med 3.png	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

• 1984 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Shot Put (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships Shot Put (Split)
• 1992 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Barcelona)

References

• Results