1987 World Championships
Womens Results

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Womens Events -
100m | 200m | 400m | 800m | 1,500m | 3,000m | 10,000m | Marathon | 100m Hurdles | 400m Hurdles | 10km Walk | 4x100m Relay | 4x400m Relay | High Jump | Long Jump | Shot Put | Discus | Javelin | Heptathlon
Womens - 100m Final 
August 30, 1987

1. Silke         Gladisch-Moller (GDR)      10.90    (CR)
2. Heike         Daute-Drechsler (GDR)      11.00
3. Merlene       Ottey (JAM)                11.04
4. Diane         Williams (USA)             11.07
5. Angella       Taylor-Issajenko (CAN)     11.09
6. Anelia        Nuneva (BUL)               11.09
7. Angela        Bailey (CAN)               11.18
8. Pam           Marshall (USA)             11.19
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Womens - 200m Final 
September 03, 1987

1. Silke         Gladisch-Moller (GDR)      21.74    (CR)
2. Florence      Griffith-Joyner (USA)      21.96
3. Merlene       Ottey (JAM)                22.06
4. Pam           Marshall (USA)             22.18
5. Gwen          Torrence (USA)             22.40
6. Mary          Onyali (NGR)               22.52
7. Ewa           Kasprzyk (POL)             22.52
8. Nadezhda      Georgieva (BUL)            22.55
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Womens - 400m Final 
August 31, 1987

1. Olga          Vladykina-Bryzgina (URS)   49.38
2. Petra         Muller-Schersing (GDR)     49.94
3. Kirsten       Siemon-Emmelmann (GDR)     50.20
4. Mariya        Kulchunova-Pinigina (URS)  50.53
5. Lillie        Leatherwood (USA)          50.82
6. Jillian       Richardson (CAN)           51.03
7. Diane         Dixon (USA)                51.13
8. Olga V.       Nazarova (URS)             51.20
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Womens - 800m Final 
August 31, 1987

1. Sigrun        Wodars-Grau (GDR)          1:55.26
2. Christine     Wachtel (GDR)              1:55.32
3. Lyubov        Gurina (URS)               1:55.56
4. Ana Fidelia   Quirot (CUB)               1:55.84
5. Jarmila       Kratochv'lova (TCH)        1:57.81
6. Mitica        Junghiatu-Constantin (ROM) 1:59.66
7. Nadezhda      Olizarenko (URS)           2:00.28
8. Slobodanka     Colovic (YUG)             2:02.09
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Womens - 1,500m Final 
September 05, 1987

1. Tatyana       Samolenko-Dorovskikh (URS) 3:58.56  (CR)
2. Hildegard     Korner (GDR)               3:58.67
3. Doina         Melinte (ROM)              3:59.27
4. Cornelia      Burki (SUI)                3:59.90
5. Andrea        Lange-Hahmann (GDR)        4:00.63
6. Kirsty        Wade (GBR)                 4:01.41
7. Diana         Richburg (USA)             4:01.79
8. Elly          Van Hulst (NED)            4:03.63
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Womens - 3,000m Final 
September 01, 1987

1. Samolenko-Doro   (URS)                   8:38.73
2. Puica, Maricica  (ROM)                   8:39.45
3. Bruns, Ulrike    (GDR)                   8:40.30
4. Burki, Cornelia  (SUI)                   8:40.31
5. Romanova, Yelena (URS)                   8:41.33
6. Van Hulst, Elly  (NED)                   8:42.56
7. Murray, Yvonne   (GBR)                   8:43.94
8. Smith-Sly, Wendy (GBR)                   8:45.85
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Womens - 10,000m Final 
September 04, 1987

1. Ingrid    Christensen-Kristiansen (NOR)  31:05.85
2. Yelena        Zhupiyeva-Vyazova (URS)    31:09.40
3. Kathrin       Ullrich-Wessel (GDR)       31:11.34
4. Olga          Bondarenko (URS)           31:18.38
5. Liz           Lynch-McColgan (GBR)       31:19.82
6. Lynn          Jennings (USA)             31:45.43
7. Albertina     Machado (POR)              31:46.61
8. Wang          Xiuting (CHN)              31:48.88
9. Angela        Tooby (GBR)                31:55.30
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Womens - Marathon Final 
August 29, 1987

1. Rosa          Mota (POR)                 2:25:17  (CR)
2. Zoya          Ivanova (URS)              2:32:38
3. Jocelyn       Villeton (FRA)             2:32:53
4. Bente         Moe (NOR)                  2:33:21
5. Yelena        Tsukhlo (URS)              2:33:55
6. Yekaterina    Khramenkova (URS)          2:34:23
7. Nancy         Ditz (USA)                 2:34:54
8. Sinikka       Keskitalo (FIN)            2:35:16
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Womens - 100m Hurdles Final 
September 04, 1987

1. Ginka Zagorche (BUL)                     12.34    (CR)
2. Gloria        Uibel-Siebert (GDR)        12.44
3. Cornelia      Riefstahl-Oschkenat (GDR)  12.46
4. Yordanka      Donkova (BUL)              12.49
5. Anne          Piquereau (FRA)            12.82
6. Laurence Elloy (FRA)                     12.83
7. Claudia       Zaczkiewicz (FRG)          12.98
8. LaVonna       Martin-Floreal (USA)       13.06
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Womens - 400m Hurdles Final 
September 03, 1987

1. Sabine        Busch (GDR)                53.62    (CR)
2. Debbie        Flintoff-King (AUS)        54.19
3. Cornelia      Feuerbach-Ullrich (GDR)    54.31
4. Sandra        Farmer-Patrick (JAM)       54.38
5. Tuija         Helander-Kuusisto (FIN)    54.62
6. Anna          Ambraziene (URS)           55.68
7. Schowonda     Williams (USA)             55.86
8. Judi          Brown-King (USA)           56.10
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Womens - 10km Walk Final 
September 01, 1987

1. Irina         Strakhova (URS)            44:12    (CR)
2. Kerry         Saxby-Junna (AUS)          44:23
3. Hong Yan       (CHN)                     44:42
4. Mari Cruz Diaz (ESP)                     44:48
5. Yelena        Nikolayeva (URS)           44:54
6. Monica        Gunnarsson (SWE)           45:09
7. JinBingjie     (CHN)                     45:24
8. Ann           Peel (CAN)                 45:27
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Womens - 4x100m Relay Final 
September 06, 1987
1. United States  (USA)                     41.58    (CR)
 (Alice Brown, Diane Williams,
 Florence Griffith-Joyner, Pam Marshall)
2. German Democra (GDR)                     41.95
 (Silke Gladisch-Moller, Cornelia Riefstahl-Oschkenat,
 Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Oelsner-Gohr)
3. USSR           (URS)                     42.33
 (Irina Slyusar, Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova,
 Natalya German, Olga Antonova)
4. Bulgaria       (BUL)                     42.71
5. Federal Republ (FRG)                     43.20
6. Canada         (CAN)                     43.26
7. Cuba           (CUB)                     43.66
8. France         (FRA)                     43.75
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Womens - 4x400m Relay Final 
September 06, 1987
1. German Democra (GDR)                     3:18.63  (CR)
 (Dagmar Rubsam-Neubauer, Kirsten Siemon-Emmelmann,
 Petra Muller-Schersing, Sabine Busch)
2. USSR           (URS)                     3:19.50
 (Aelita Yurchenko, Olga V. Nazarova,
 Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina, Olga Vladykina-Bryzgina)
3. United States  (USA)                     3:21.04
 (Diane Dixon, Denean Howard-Hill,
 Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Lillie Leatherwood)
4. Canada         (CAN)                     3:24.11
5. Federal Republ (FRG)                     3:24.94
6. Jamaica        (JAM)                     3:27.51
7. France         (FRA)                     3:27.60
8. Bulgaria       (BUL)                     3:30.24
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Womens - High Jump Final 
August 30, 1987

1. Stefka        Kostadinova (BUL)          2.09m.   (WR)
2. Tamara        Bykova (URS)               2.04m.
3. Susanne       Helm-Beyer (GDR)           1.99m.
4. Silvia        Costa (CUB)                1.96m.
5. Larisa        Kositsyna (URS)            1.96m.
6. Heike         Redetzky-Henkel (FRG)      1.96m.
7. Svetlana      Isaeva-Leseva (BUL)        1.93m.
8. Louise        Ritter (USA)               1.93m.
8. Lyudmila       Avdeyenko (URS)           1.93m.
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Womens - Long Jump Final 
September 04, 1987

1. Jackie        Joyner-Kersee (USA)        7.36m.   (CR)
2. Yelena        Belevskaya (URS)           7.14m.
3. Heike         Daute-Drechsler (GDR)      7.13m.
4. Helga         Radtke (GDR)               7.01m.
5. Galina        Chistyakova (URS)          6.99m.
6. Irina         Valyukevich (URS)          6.89m.
7. Jennifer      Inniss (USA)               6.80m.
8. Nicole        Boegman (AUS)              6.63m.
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Womens - Shot Put Final 
September 05, 1987

1. Natalya       Lisovskaya (URS)           21.24    (CR)
2. Kathrin       Neimke (GDR)               21.21
3. Ines          Muller (GDR)               20.76
4. Claudia       Losch (FRG)                20.73
5. Natalya       Akhrimenko (URS)           20.68
6. Heike         Hartwig (GDR)              20.63
7. Meisu         Li (CHN)                   20.43
8. Helena        Fibingerova (TCH)          20.29
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Womens - Discus Final 
August 31, 1987

1. Martina       Opitz-Hellmann (GDR)       71.62m.  (CR)
2. Diana         Sachse-Gansky (GDR)        70.12m.
3. Tsvetanka     Khristova (BUL)            68.82m.
4. Ilke          Wyludda (GDR)              68.20m.
5. Svetla        Mitkova-Sinirtas (BUL)     66.58m.
6. Zdenka        S˙ilhava (TCH)             64.82m.
7. Larisa        Mikhalchenko (URS)         64.72m.
8. Mariana       Lengyel (ROM)              62.30m.
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Womens - Javelin Final 
September 06, 1987

1. Fatima        Whitbread (GBR)            76.64m.  (CR)
2. Petra         Felke-Meier (GDR)          71.76m.
3. Beate         Peters (FRG)               68.82m.
4. Tessa         Sanderson (GBR)            67.54m.
5. Susanne       Jung (GDR)                 67.46m.
6. Tiina         Lillak (FIN)               66.82m.
7. Natalya   Kolenchukova-Yermolovich (URS) 65.52m.
8. Ivonne        Leal (CUB)                 64.90m.
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Womens - Heptathlon Final 
September 01, 1987

1. Jackie        Joyner-Kersee  (USA)       7128pts. (CR)
2. Larisa        Nikitina-Turchinskaya (URS)6564pts.
3. Jane          Frederick (USA)            6502pts.
4. Anke          Vater-Behmer  (GDR)        6460pts.
5. Liliana       Nastase (ROM)              6325pts.
6. Marion        Reichelt (GDR)             6296pts.
7. Marianna      Maslennikova (URS)         6228pts.
8. Yuqing        Zhu (CHN)                  6211pts.