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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Men's Hammer Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 26 participating athletes, with the final held on Tuesday September 1, 1987. The qualification round was staged on Monday August 31, 1987, with the mark set at 80.00 metres.

Medalists[edit]

Gold	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Jüri Tamm Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Ralf Haber East Germany (GDR)

Schedule[edit]

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

Abbreviations[edit]

• All results shown are in metres

Records[edit]

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	82.68 m	August 9, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season Best	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	83.48 m	June 21, 1987	Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	83.06 m	September 1, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualification[edit]

Group A[edit]

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Sergey Litvinov (URS)				81.78 m
2	9	Walter Ciofani (FRA)				76.12 m
3	10	Günther Rodehau (GDR)				76.06 m
4	12	Plamen Minev (BUL)				75.18 m
5	13	Juha Tiainen (FIN)				75.10 m
6	14	Jud Logan (USA)				74.80 m
7	15	Kjell Bystedt (SWE)				74.46 m
8	16	Lucio Serrani (ITA)				74.00 m
9	17	Jörg Schäfer (FRG)				73.58 m
10	19	Viktor Apostolov (BUL)				73.46 m
11	21	Michael Beierl (AUT)				72.70 m
12	24	Andrés Charadia (ARG)				63.70 m
13	25	Gary Halpin (IRL)				63.68 m

Group B[edit]

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	2	Ralf Haber (GDR)				79.46 m
2	3	Igor Nikulin (URS)				78.60 m
3	4	Heinz Weis (FRG)				77.78 m
4	5	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)				77.52 m
5	6	Jüri Tamm (URS)				77.42 m
6	7	Christoph Sahner (FRG)				77.02 m
7	8	Ivan Tanev (BUL)				76.50 m
8	11	Harri Huhtala (FIN)				75.64 m
9	18	Tore Gustafsson (SWE)				73.54 m
10	20	Ken Flax (USA)				73.36 m
11	22	Francisco Fuentes (ESP)				69.54 m
12	23	Dave Smith (GBR)				68.56 m
13	26	Angus Cooper (NZL)				63.64 m

Final[edit]

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	74.76	83.06	80.58	81.50	X	80.64	83.06 m	CR
	Jüri Tamm (URS)	78.38	77.94	X	76.88	78.18	80.84	80.84 m
	Ralf Haber (GDR)	X	77.92	78.94	79.18	80.76	78.78	80.76 m
4	Christoph Sahner (FRG)	72.38	75.80	76.68	77.32	79.50	80.58	80.58 m
5	Igor Nikulin (URS)	76.62	78.74	79.48	78.18	80.18	80.00	80.18 m
6	Heinz Weis (FRG)	77.70	79.02	78.36	79.26	80.18	78.76	80.18 m
7	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)	76.54	75.80	77.34	77.56	74.94	76.94	77.56 m
8	Plamen Minev (BUL)	75.16	77.06	X	X	X	X	77.06 m
9	Günther Rodehau (GDR)							76.18 m
10	Ivan Tanev (BUL)							76.00 m
11	Walter Ciofani (FRA)							75.34 m
12	Harri Huhtala (FIN)							74.98 m

See also[edit]

• 1984 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Hammer Throw (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Hammer Throw Year Ranking
• 1988 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships Hammer Throw (Split)

References[edit]

• Results
• hammerthrow.wz