1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump

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

These are the official results of the men's long jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 40 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Saturday 5 September 1987.

Italian Giovanni Evangelisti originally won the bronze with a jump of 8.37 m, but it was later determined that Italian field officials had entered a fake result for a jump of 7.85m.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Carl Lewis United States (USA)
Silver	Robert Emmiyan Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Larry Myricks United States (USA)

Schedule

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

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
04.09.1987 – ??:??h	04.09.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
05.09.1987 – ??:??h

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	Bob Beamon (USA)	8.90	Mexico City, Mexico	18 October 1968
Championship Record	Carl Lewis (USA)	8.55	Helsinki, Finland	10 August 1983

Qualifying round

• Held on Friday 1987-09-04

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Robert Emmiyan (URS)	8.19 m
2.	Paul Emordi (NGR)	8.14 m
3.	Vladimir Bobylyov (URS)	8.08 m
4.	Jarmo Kärnä (FIN)	8.06 m
5.	Junichi Usui (JPN)	8.02 m
6.	Jaime Jefferson (CUB)	8.00 m
7.	Mike Conley (USA)	7.99 m
8.	Norbert Brige (FRA)	7.96 m
9.	Frans Maas (NED)	7.78 m
10.	Róbert Széli (TCH)	7.59 m
11.	Dietmar Haaf (GER)	7.51 m
12.	Ray Quinones (PUR)	7.41 m
13.	Jeffrey Neptune (GRN)	7.11 m
14.	Marcus César Barros (BRA)	6.94 m
15.	Devon Hyde (BIZ)	6.61 m
—	António Santos (ANG)	NM
—	Stanisław Jaskułka (POL)	NM
—	Bruny Surin (CAN)	NM
—	Dimitrios Chatzopoulos (GRE)	NM
—	Lester Benjamin (ATG)	NM

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Carl Lewis (USA)	8.36 m
2.	Larry Myricks (USA)	8.20 m
3.	Jens Hirschberg (GDR)	8.10 m
4.	Yusuf Alli (NGR)	8.07 m
5.	Vladimir Amidzhinov (BUL)	8.05 m
6.	Heiko Reski (FRG)	8.03 m
7.	Sergey Layevskiy (URS)	7.98 m
8.	Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)	7.97 m
9.	Ivo Krsek (TCH)	7.96 m
10.	Emiel Mellaard (NED)	7.93 m
11.	Chen Zunrong (CHN)	7.90 m
12.	Andreas Steiner (AUT)	7.87 m
13.	Fred Salle (CMR)	7.60 m
14.	Antonio Corgos (ESP)	7.60 m
15.	Ian James (CAN)	7.54 m
16.	Badara Mbengue (SEN)	7.23 m
17.	Carlos Casar (MEX)	7.21 m
18.	Wilbert Lee (MLT)	6.61 m
—	Jeroen Fischer (BEL)	DNS
—	Kim Won-jin (KOR)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Carl Lewis (USA)							8.67 m	CR
	Robert Emmiyan (URS)							8.53 m
	Larry Myricks (USA)							8.33 m
4	Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)							8.19 m
5	Jens Hirschberg (GDR)							8.16 m
6	Jaime Jefferson (CUB)							8.14 m
7	Vladimir Amidzhinov (BUL)							8.11 m
8	Mike Conley (USA)							8.10 m
9	Sergey Layevskiy (URS)							8.08 m
10	Heiko Reski (FRG)							8.03 m
11	Yusuf Alli (NGR)							8.00 m
12	Junichi Usui (JPN)							8.00 m
13	Vladimir Bobylyov (URS)							7.90 m
14	Jarmo Kärnä (FIN)							7.83 m
15	Norbert Brige (FRA)							7.82 m
16	Paul Emordi (NGR)							7.80 m
17	Ivo Krsek (TCH)							7.72 m

See also

• 1983 Men's World Championships Long Jump (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Olympic Long Jump (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Long Jump (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Men's Olympic Long Jump (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships Long Jump (Split)

Notes

1. Longman, Jere (1995-08-04). TRACK AND FIELD; Pedroso's World Mark In Long Jump in Doubt. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2009-07-18.

References

• Results