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 Saturday 1987-08-29.

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 1987-08-29

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Alessandro Andrei (ITA)	21.57 m
2.	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	21.11 m
3.	Vyacheslav Lykho (URS)	20.99 m
4.	Werner Günthör (SUI)	20.66 m
5.	Helmut Krieger (POL)	19.73 m
6.	Karsten Stolz (FRG)	19.69 m
7.	Gregg Tafralis (USA)	19.62 m
8.	Georgi Todorov (BUL)	19.43 m
9.	Ron Backes (USA)	19.34 m
10.	Dimitrios Koutsoukis (GRE)	19.05 m
—	Jan Sagedal (NOR)	DNS

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Udo Beyer (GDR)	20.95 m
2.	John Brenner (USA)	20.28 m
3.	Remigius Machura (TCH)	20.27 m
4.	Klaus Bodenmüller (AUT)	19.96 m
5.	Sergey Gavryushin (URS)	19.96 m
6.	Gert Weil (CHI)	19.76 m
7.	Udo Gelhausen (FRG)	19.10 m
8.	Janne Ronkainen (FIN)	18.36 m
9.	Lars Sundin (SWE)	17.25 m
—	Arne Pedersen (NOR)	DNS

Final

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
	Werner Günthör (SUI)	22.23 m CR
	Alessandro Andrei (ITA)	21.88 m
	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)
• 1987 Shot Put Year Ranking
• 1988 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships Shot Put (Split)
• 1992 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Barcelona)

References

• Results