1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Events at the
1987 World Championships
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
3000 mwomen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmenwomen
100 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmenwomen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4 × 100 m relaymenwomen
4 × 400 m relaymenwomen
Road events
Marathonmenwomen
10 km walkwomen
20 km walkmen
50 km walkmen
Field events
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Combined events
Heptathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

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 East Germany Hartwig Gauder
East Germany (GDR)
Silver East Germany Ronald Weigel
East Germany (GDR)
Bronze Soviet Union 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

References