1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw

Events at the 1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Women's Javelin Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 31 participating athletes, with the final held on Sunday September 6, 1987. All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin (old design).

Medalists

Gold	Fatima Whitbread Great Britain (GBR)
Silver	Petra Felke-Meier East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Beate Peters West Germany (FRG)

Schedule

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

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
05.09.1987 – ??:??h	05.09.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
06.09.1987 – 17:30h

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	Petra Felke-Meier (GDR)	78.90 m	July 29, 1987	Leipzig, East Germany
Event Record	Tiina Lillak (FIN)	70.82 m	August 13, 1983	Tampere, Finland
Season Best	Petra Felke-Meier (GDR)	78.90 m	July 29, 1987	Leipzig, East Germany

Qualification

• Held on Saturday 1987-09-05

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Petra Felke-Meier (GDR)	69.16 m
2.	Tessa Sanderson (GBR)	66.46 m
3.	Beate Peters (FRG)	64.26 m
4.	Irina Kostyuchenkova (URS)	63.04 m
5.	Katalin Hartai (HUN)	62.68 m
6.	Natalya Kolenchukova (URS)	60.78 m
7.	Anna Verouli (GRE)	60.60 m
8.	Zhou Yuanxiang (CHN)	59.46 m
9.	Elisabet Nagy (SWE)	58.72 m
10.	María Caridad Colón (CUB)	57.82 m
11.	Emi Matsui (JPN)	57.78 m
12.	Denise Thiémard (SUI)	56.34 m
13.	Sueli dos Santos (BRA)	55.48 m
14.	Marieta Riera (VEN)	53.38 m
15.	Hui-Cheng Lee (TPE)	51.42 m
16.	Mereoni Vibose (FIJ)	48.60 m

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)	67.00 m
2.	Ingrid Thyssen (FRG)	64.52 m
3.	Ivonne Leal (CUB)	62.60 m
4.	Tiina Lillak (FIN)	62.34 m
5.	Susanne Jung (GDR)	62.26 m
6.	Manuela Alizadeh (FRG)	62.16 m
7.	Natalya Shikolenko (URS)	60.40 m
8.	Céline Chartrand (CAN)	59.06 m
9.	Tuula Laaksalo (FIN)	57.24 m
10.	Li Baolian (CHN)	55.96 m
11.	Trine Solberg-Hattestad (NOR)	55.30 m
12.	Cathie Wilson (USA)	54.80 m
13.	Íris Grönfeldt (ISL)	54.00 m
14.	Iammo Launa (PNG)	42.70 m
—	Laverne Eve (BAH)	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)							76.64 m	CR
	Petra Felke-Meier (GDR)							71.76 m
	Beate Peters (FRG)							68.82 m
4	Tessa Sanderson (GBR)							67.54 m
5	Susanne Jung (GDR)							67.46 m
6	Tiina Lillak (FIN)							66.82 m
7	Natalya Kolenchukova (URS)							65.52 m
8	Ivonne Leal (CUB)							64.90 m
9	Ingrid Thyssen (FRG)							64.12 m
10	Manuela Alizadeh (FRG)							63.40 m
11	Katalin Hartai (HUN)							60.88 m
12	Irina Kostyuchenkova (URS)							60.60 m

See also

• 1982 Women's European Championships Javelin Throw (Athens)
• 1984 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Women's European Championships Javelin Throw (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Javelin Throw Year Ranking
• 1988 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Seoul)
• 1990 Women's European Championships Javelin Throw (Split)
• 1992 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Barcelona)

References

• Results