1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

The Men's Marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy was held on Sunday September 6, 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Douglas Wakiihuri Kenya (KEN)
Silver	Hussein Ahmed Salah Djibouti (DJI)
Bronze	Gelindo Bordin Italy (ITA)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
WL	world leading
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Carlos Lopes (POR)	2:07:12	April 20, 1985	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Event Record	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:10:03	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season Best	Hiromi Taniguchi (JPN)	2:09:50	May 10, 1987	London, United Kingdom

Final ranking

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Douglas Wakiihuri (KEN)	2:11:48
	Hussein Ahmed Salah (DJI)	2:12:30
	Gelindo Bordin (ITA)	2:12:40
4.	Steve Moneghetti (AUS)	2:12:49
5.	Hugh Jones (GBR)	2:12:54
6.	Juma Ikangaa (TAN)	2:13:43
7.	Orlando Pizzolato (ITA)	2:14:03
8.	Ravil Kashapov (URS)	2:14:41
9.	Henrik Jørgensen (DEN)	2:14:58
10.	Dirk Vanderherten (BEL)	2:16:42
11.	Yakov Tolstikov (URS)	2:16:55
12.	Martin Vrabel (TCH)	2:16:58
13.	Salvatore Bettiol (ITA)	2:17:45
14.	Mirko Vindiš (YUG)	2:18:09
15.	Tefera Guta (ETH)	2:18:27
16.	Vicente Antón (ESP)	2:19:00
17.	Herbert Steffny (FRG)	2:19:24
18.	Honorato Hernández (ESP)	2:20:00
19.	Michael Spottel (FRG)	2:20:43
20.	Graham Macky (NZL)	2:20:43
21.	Don Janicki (USA)	2:20:46
22.	Masayuki Nishi (JPN)	2:20:51
23.	Eloi Rodrigues (BRA)	2:21:03
24.	Marti ten Kate (NED)	2:22:21
25.	Kingston Mills (IRL)	2:22:52
26.	Yuichiro Osuda (JPN)	2:23:25
27.	Sam Hlawe (SWZ)	2:24:09
28.	Alfonso Abellán (ESP)	2:24:20
29.	Bigboy Matlapeng (BOT)	2:24:43
30.	Fumiaki Abe (JPN)	2:24:47
31.	Jeong Man-Hwa (KOR)	2:25:41
32.	Peter Maher (CAN)	2:26:40
33.	William Aguirre (NCA)	2:27:19
34.	Vithanakande Samarasinghe (SRI)	2:28:35
35.	José Jami (ECU)	2:29:04
36.	Peter Mitchell (AUS)	2:30:04
37.	Francis Mukuka (ZAM)	2:30:05
38.	Justin Gloden (LUX)	2:30:08
39.	Hsu Gi-sheng (TPE)	2:30:31
40.	Moacir Marconi (BRA)	2:31:39
41.	Stanimir Nenov (BUL)	2:32:44
42.	Hari Singh (IND)	2:34:20
43.	Albert Marie (SEY)	2:40:48
44.	Veselin Vasilev (BUL)	2:43:14
45.	Salvator Sahabo (BRU)	2:43:43
46.	Chandra Bahadur Gurung (NEP)	2:43:54
47.	William Abrams (GUY)	3:12:33
—	Ralf Salzmann (FRG)	DNF
—	Bruno Lafranchi (SUI)	DNF
—	Policarpio Calizaya (BOL)	DNF
—	Robert de Castella (AUS)	DNF
—	Christos Papachristos (GRE)	DNF
—	El Mostafa Nechchadi (MAR)	DNF
—	Dan Grimes (USA)	DNF
—	Geoff Smith (GBR)	DNF
—	Abebe Mekonnen (ETH)	DNF
—	Delfim Moreira (POR)	DNF
—	Martti Vainio (FIN)	DNF
—	Mehmet Terzi (TUR)	DNF
—	Alain Lazare (FRA)	DNF
—	Dave Gordon (USA)	DNF
—	Jorge Yeber (ARG)	DNF
—	Djama Robleh (DJI)	DNF
—	James Walker (GUM)	DNF
—	Samu Samuelu (WSM)	DNF
—	Bogusław Psujek (POL)	DNF
—	Allan Zachariassen (DEN)	DNF

See also

• 1987 Marathon Year Ranking
• Men's Olympic Marathon (1988)

References

• Results
• Results at World Athletics
• IAAF