Indianapolis (United States) 6th – 8th March 1987 (Hoosier Dome) 60 m - 07-03-1987 1. Lee McRae - USA - 6.50 (World record and Championship record) 2. Mark Witherspoon - USA - 6.54 3. Pierfrancesco Pavoni - Italy - 6.59 Seventeen (17) national records were set in the heats and the semifinals. 1. Ben Johnson - Canada - 6.41 (disqualified for doping) 200 m - 08-03-1987 1. Kirk Baptiste - USA - 20.73 (Championship record) 2. Bruno Marie-Rose - France - 20.89 3. Robson da Silva - Brazil - 20.92 Eleven national records were set in the heats. 400 m - 07-03-1987 1. Antonio McKay - USA - 45.598 2. Roberto Hernández - Cuba - 46.09 (national record) 3. Michael Franks - USA - 46.19 Seven more national records were set in the heats. 800 m - 08-03-1987 1. José Luíz Barbosa - Brazil - 1:47.49 (South American record) 2. Vladimir Graudyn - Soviet Union - 1:47.68 3. Faouzi Lahbi - Morocco - 1:47.79 5. Dieudonné Kwizera - Burundi - 1:47.87 (national record) 7. Babacar Niang - Senegal - 1:48.33 (national record) Six more national records were set in the heats. 1500 m - 07-03-1987 1. Marcus O'Sullivan - Ireland - 3:39.04 (Championship record) 2. José Manuel Abascal - Spain - 3:39.13 3. Han Kulker - Netherlands - 3:39.51 (national record) 5. Michael Hillardt - Australia - 3:39.77 (national record) Five more national records were set in the heats. 3000 m - 08-03-1987 1. Frank O'Mara - Ireland - 8:03.32 (Championship record) 2. Paul Donovan - Ireland - 8:03.89 3. Terry Brahm - USA - 8:03.92 One Championship record and one national record were set in the heats. 60 m hurdles - 08-03-1987 1. Tonie Campbell - USA - 7.51 2. Stéphane Caristan - France - 7.62 3. Nigel Walker - Great Britain - 7.66 One World record - Greg Foster - USA - 7.46) and three national records were set in the heats. 5000 metres walk - 06-03-1987 1. Mikhail Shchennikov - Russia - 18:27.79 (World record and Championship record) 2. Jozef Pribilinec - Czechoslovakia - 18:27.80 3. Ernesto Canto - Mexico - 18:38.71 (Central American record) 5. David Smith - Australia - 18:52.20 (Oceanoc record) 8. Tim Lewis - USA - 19:18.40 (national record) 17. Hirofumi Sakai - Japan - 21:10.01 (Asian record) long jump - 06-03-1987 1. Larry Myricks - USA - 8,23 m (Championship record) 2. Paul Emordi - Nigeria - 8,01 m 3. Giovanni Evangelisti - Italy - 8,01 m triple jump - 08-03-1987 1. Mike Conley Sr. - USA - 17,54 m (Championship record) 2. Oleg Protsenko - Soviet Union - 17,26 m 3. Frank Rutherford - Bahamas - 17,02 m Two national records were set in the qualification. high jump - 07-03-1987 1. Igor Paklin - Soviet Union - 2,38 m (Championship record and national record) 2. Hennadiy Avdyeyenko - Soviet Union - 2,38 m 3. Ján Zvara - Czechoslovakia - 2,34 m 4. Javier Sotomayor - Cuba - 2,32 m (Central American record) 5. Roland Dalhäuser - Switzerland - 2,32 m (national record) pole vault - 08-03-1987 1. Sergey Bubka - Soviet Union - 5,85 m (Championship record) 2. Earl Bell - USA - 5,80 m 3. Thierry Vigneron - France - 5,80 m shot put - 07-03-1997 1. Ulf Timmermann - East Germany - 22,24 m (Championship record and national record) 2. Werner Günthör - Switzerland - 21,61 m 3. Sergey Smirnov - Soviet Union - 20,67 m