1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus 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 Men's Discus Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 27 participating athletes, with the final held on Friday September 4, 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Jürgen Schult East Germany (GDR)
Silver	John Powell United States (USA)
Bronze	Luis Delis Cuba (CUB)

Schedule

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
03.09.1987 – ??:??h	03.09.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
04.09.1987 – 18:50h

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	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	74.08 m	January 6, 1986	Neubrandenburg, Neubrandenburg
Event Record	Imrich Bugár (TCH)	67.72 m	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	68.74 m	September 4, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualification

Held on Thurdsday 1987-09-03

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Luis Delis (CUB)	66.06 m
2.	Rolf Danneberg (FRG)	64.90 m
3.	Romas Ubartas (URS)	64.48 m
4.	John Powell (USA)	63.62 m
5.	Imrich Bugár (TCH)	62.68 m
6.	Bradley Cooper (BAH)	61.70 m
7.	Knut Hjeltnes (NOR)	61.64 m
8.	Dariusz Juzyszyn (POL)	61.38 m
9.	Stefan Fernholm (SWE)	61.36 m
10.	Vesteinn Hafsteinsson (ISL)	59.32 m
11.	Georgi Georgiev (BUL)	58.80 m
12.	John Brenner (USA)	58.44 m
13.	Patrick Journoud (FRA)	57.84 m
—	Konstantinos Georgakopoulos (GRE)	NM

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	66.04 m
2.	Vaclavas Kidykas (URS)	64.60 m
3.	Volodymyr Zinchenko (URS)	64.30 m
4.	Géjza Valent (TCH)	63.66 m
5.	Alois Hannecker (FRG)	63.34 m
6.	Marco Martino (ITA)	62.26 m
7.	Svein Inge Valvik (NOR)	59.76 m
8.	Lars Sundin (SWE)	59.44 m
9.	Ray Lazdins (CAN)	59.16 m
10.	Randy Heisler (USA)	59.02 m
11.	Kamen Dimitrov (BUL)	58.90 m
—	Göran Svensson (SWE)	NM
—	Werner Hartmann (FRG)	DNS

Final

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	68.74 m CR
	John Powell (USA)	66.22 m
	Luis Delis (CUB)	66.02 m
4.	Rolf Danneberg (FRG)	65.96 m
5.	Volodymyr Zinchenko (URS)	65.60 m
6.	Romas Ubartas (URS)	65.50 m
7.	Imrich Bugár (TCH)	65.32 m
8.	Vaclavas Kidykas (URS)	63.64 m
9.	Géjza Valent (TCH)	61.98 m
10.	Bradley Cooper (BAH)	61.94 m
11.	Alois Hannecker (FRG)	60.98 m
12.	Marco Martino (ITA)	60.60 m

References

Results

Discus throw at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Summary

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