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 29 August 1987.

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 29 August 1987

Group A

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Distance
1	Alessandro Andrei	Italy (ITA)	21.57 m
2	Ulf Timmermann	East Germany (GDR)	21.11 m
3	Vyacheslav Lykho	Soviet Union (URS)	20.99 m
4	Werner Günthör	Switzerland (SUI)	20.66 m
5	Helmut Krieger	Poland (POL)	19.73 m
6	Karsten Stolz	West Germany (FRG)	19.69 m
7	Gregg Tafralis	United States (USA)	19.62 m
8	Georgi Todorov	Bulgaria (BUL)	19.43 m
9	Ron Backes	United States (USA)	19.34 m
10	Dimitrios Koutsoukis	Greece (GRE)	19.05 m
—	Jan Sagedal	Norway (NOR)	DNS

Group B

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Distance
1	Udo Beyer	East Germany (GDR)	20.95 m
2	John Brenner	United States (USA)	20.28 m
3	Remigius Machura	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	20.27 m
4	Klaus Bodenmüller	Austria (AUT)	19.96 m
5	Sergey Gavryushin	Soviet Union (URS)	19.96 m
6	Gert Weil	Chile (CHI)	19.76 m
7	Udo Gelhausen	West Germany (FRG)	19.10 m
8	Janne Ronkainen	Finland (FIN)	18.36 m
9	Lars Sundin	Sweden (SWE)	17.25 m
—	Arne Pedersen	Norway (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)
• 1988 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships Shot Put (Split)
• 1992 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Barcelona)

References

• Results