Rome (Italy)
28th August - 6th September 1987
(Stadio Olimpico)
100 m - 30-08-1987
1. Silke Gladisch - East Germany - 10.90
(Championship record)
2. Heike Drechsler - East Germany - 11.00
3. Merlene Ottey - Jamaica - 11.04
200 m - 03-09-1987
1. Silke Gladisch - East Germany - 21.74
(Championship record)
2. Florence Griffith - USA - 21.96
3. Merlene Ottey - Jamaica - 22.06
400 m - 31-08-1987
1. Olga Bryzgina - Soviet Union - 49.38
2. Petra Müller - East Germany - 49.94
3. Kirsten Emmelmann - East Germany - 50.20
800 m - 31-08-1987
1. Sigrun Wodars - East Germany - 1:55.26
(national record)
2. Christine Wachtel - East Germany - 1:55.32
3. Lyubov Gurina - Soviet Union - 1:55.56
4. Ana Fidelia Quirot - Cuba - 1:55.84
(Central American record)
1500 m - 05-09-1987
1. Tetyana Samolenko - Soviet Union - 3:58.56
(Championship record)
2. Hildegard Körner - East Germany - 3:58.67
3. Doina Melinte - Romania - 3:59.27
3000 m - 01-09-1987
1. Tetyana Samolenko - Soviet Union - 8:38.73
2. Maricica Puica - Romania - 8:39.45
3. Ulrike Bruns - East Germany - 8:40.30
10000 m - 04-09-1987
1. Ingrid Kristiansen - Norway - 31:05.85
2. Yelena Zhupiyeva - Soviet Union - 31:09.40
3. Kathrin Ullrich - East Germany - 31:11.34
marathon - 29-08-1987
1. Rosa Mota - Portugal - 2:25:17
(Championship record)
2. Zoya Ivanova - Soviet Union - 2:32:38
3. Jocelyne Villeton - France - 2:32:53
100 m hurdles - 04-09-1987
1. Ginka Zagorcheva - Bulgaria - 12.34
(Championship record)
2. Gloria Uibel-Siebert - East Germany - 12.44
3. Cornelia Oschkenat - East Germany - 12.46
400m hurdles - 03-09-1987
1. Sabine Busch - East Germany - 53.62
( Championship record)
2. Debbie Flintoff-King - Australia - 54.19
3. Cornelia Ullrich - East Germany - 54.31
10 km walk - 01-09-1987
1. Irina Strakhova - Soviet Union - 44:12
2. Kerry Saxby-Junna - Australia - 44:23
3. Yan Hong - China - 44:32
4 x 100 m - 06-09-1987
1. United States - 41.58
( Championship record)
(Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Florence Griffith, Pam Marshall)
2. East Germany - 41.95
(Silke Gladisch, Cornelia Oschkenat, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Göhr)
3. Soviet Union - 42.33
(Irina Slyusar, Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova, Natalya German, Olga Antonova)
4 x 400 m - 06-09-1987
1. East Germany - 3:18.63
( Championship record)
(Dagmar Neubauer, Kirsten Emmelmann, Petra Muller, Sabine Busch)
2. Soviet Union - 3:19.50
(Aelita Yurchenko, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina)
3. United States - 3:21.04
(Diane Dixon, Denean Howard-Hill, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Lillie Leatherwood)
long jump - 04-09-1987
1. Jackie Joyner-Kersee - USA - 7,36 m
( Championship record)
2. Yelena Belevskaya - Soviet Union - 7,14 m
3. Heike Drechsler - East Germany - 7,13 m
high jump - 30-08-1987
1. Stefka Kostadinova - Bulgaria - 2,09 m
( World record)
2. Tamara Bykova - Soviet Union - 2,04 m
3. Susanne Beyer - East Germany - 1,99 m
shot put - 05-09-1987
1. Natalya Lisovskaya - Soviet Union - 21,24 m
( Championship record)
2. Kathrin Neimke - East Germany - 21,21 m
( Championship record)
3. Ines Müller - East Germany - 20,76 m
discus throw - 31-08-1987
1. Martina Opitz-Hellmann - East Germany - 71,62 m
( Championship record)
2. Diana Sachse-Gansky - East Germany - 70,12 m
3. Tsvetanka Khristova - Bulgaria - 68,82 m
javelin throw - 06-09-1987
1. Fatima Whitbread - Great Britain - 76,64 m
( Championship record)
2. Petra Felke - East Germany - 71,76 m
3. Beate Peters - West Germany - 68,82 m
heptathlon - 31-08/01-09-1987
1. Jackie Joyner-Kersee - USA - 7128 points
( Championship record)
2. Larisa Nikitina - Soviet Union - 6564 points
3. Jane Frederick - USA - 6502 points
