1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

These are the official results of the Men's 20 km Walk event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. The race was held on Sunday, August 30, 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Maurizio Damilano Italy (ITA)
Silver	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Bronze	Josep Marín Spain (ESP)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

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

Records

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Axel Noack (GDR)	1:19.12	June 21, 1987	Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany
Event Record	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:20.49	August 7, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:20.45	August 30, 1987	Rome, Italy

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:20.45 CR
	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:21.07
	Josep Marín (ESP)	1:21.24
4.	Viktor Mostovik (URS)	1:21.53
5.	Carlo Mattioli (ITA)	1:22.53
6.	Roman Mrázek (TCH)	1:23.01
7.	Jean-Claude Corre (FRA)	1:23.38
8.	Querubin Moreno (COL)	1:23.42
9.	Ian McCombie (GBR)	1:23.51
10.	Reima Salonen (FIN)	1:24.14
11.	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:24.37
12.	Andrew Jachno (AUS)	1:24.46
13.	Martial Fesselier (FRA)	1:24.51
14.	Dominique Guebey (FRA)	1:25.01
15.	Erling Andersen (NOR)	1:25.08
16.	José Urbano (POR)	1:25.10
17.	Jan Staaf (SWE)	1:25.12
18.	José Pinto (POR)	1:25.24
19.	Tim Lewis (USA)	1:26.00
20.	Ricardo Pueyo (ESP)	1:26.09
21.	Ray Sharp (USA)	1:27.06
22.	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:27.24
23.	Stefan Johansson (SWE)	1:27.27
24.	Simon Baker (AUS)	1:27.32
25.	Francisco Vargas (COL)	1:27.33
26.	Anatoliy Gorshkov (URS)	1:27.34
27.	Miguel Ángel Prieto (ESP)	1:27.40
28.	Wolfgang Wiedemann (FRG)	1:28.07
29.	Gary Morgan (USA)	1:28.08
30.	Vesa Puukari (FIN)	1:28.29
31.	Carlos Ramones (VEN)	1:28.40
32.	Santiago Fonseca (HON)	1:28.44
33.	François Lapointe (CAN)	1:29.22
34.	Chris Maddocks (GBR)	1:32.36
35.	Abdelwahab Ferguene (ALG)	1:34.26
—	Frants Kostyukevich (URS)	DNF
—	Héctor Moreno (COL)	DNF
—	Axel Noack (GDR)	DSQ
—	Walter Arena (ITA)	DSQ
—	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	DSQ
—	Carlos Mercenario (MEX)	DSQ
—	Dave Smith (AUS)	DSQ

See also

• 1978 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Prague)
• 1980 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Moscow)
• 1982 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Athens)
• 1984 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1988 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Seoul)

References

• Results
• Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite