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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

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

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

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 Nazarova                     (URS)   51.20
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Womens - 800m Final

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 Kratochvilova             (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

1. Tatyana Samolenko                 (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

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

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
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Womens - Marathon

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

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

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

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. Jin Bingjie                       (CHN)   45:24
8. Ann Peel                          (CAN)   45:27
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Womens - 4x100m Relay Final

1. United States                    (USA)   41.58 (CR)   (Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Pam Marshall)
2. German Democra                   (GDR)   41.95        (Silke Moller, Cornelia Oschkenat, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Gohr)
3. USSR                             (URS)   42.33        (Irina Slyusar, Natalya 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

1. German Democra                   (GDR)   3:18.63 (CR) (Dagmar Neubauer, Kirsten Emmelmann, Petra Schersing, Sabine Busch)
2. USSR                             (URS)   3:19.50      (Aelita Yurchenko, Olga V. Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga 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

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

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

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

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

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

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.