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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the official results of the Women's Javelin Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 31 participating athletes, with the final held on Sunday 6 September 1987. All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin (old design).

The winning margin was 4.88 metres which as of 2024 remains the only time the women's javelin throw has been won by more than four metres at these championships, although in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics the winning margins in the women's javelin throw were 5.71 metres and 5.29 metres respectively.

Gold	Fatima Whitbread Great Britain (GBR)
Silver	Petra Felke East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Beate Peters West Germany (FRG)

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

• All results shown are in metres

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Petra Felke (GDR)	78.90 m	July 29, 1987	Leipzig, East Germany
Event Record	Tiina Lillak (FIN)	70.82 m	August 13, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season Best	Petra Felke (GDR)	78.90 m	July 29, 1987	Leipzig, East Germany

• Held on Saturday 1987-09-05

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Petra Felke (GDR)	69.16 m
2.	Tessa Sanderson (GBR)	66.46 m
3.	Beate Peters (FRG)	64.26 m
4.	Irina Kostyuchenkova (URS)	63.04 m
5.	Katalin Hartai (HUN)	62.68 m
6.	Natalya Kolenchukova (URS)	60.78 m
7.	Anna Verouli (GRE)	60.60 m
8.	Zhou Yuanxiang (CHN)	59.46 m
9.	Elisabet Nagy (SWE)	58.72 m
10.	María Caridad Colón (CUB)	57.82 m
11.	Emi Matsui (JPN)	57.78 m
12.	Denise Thiémard (SUI)	56.34 m
13.	Sueli dos Santos (BRA)	55.48 m
14.	Marieta Riera (VEN)	53.38 m
15.	Lee Hui-cheng (TPE)	51.42 m
16.	Mereoni Vibose (FIJ)	48.60 m

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)	67.00 m
2.	Ingrid Thyssen (FRG)	64.52 m
3.	Ivonne Leal (CUB)	62.60 m
4.	Tiina Lillak (FIN)	62.34 m
5.	Susanne Jung (GDR)	62.26 m
6.	Manuela Alizadeh (FRG)	62.16 m
7.	Natalya Shikolenko (URS)	60.40 m
8.	Céline Chartrand (CAN)	59.06 m
9.	Tuula Laaksalo (FIN)	57.24 m
10.	Li Baolian (CHN)	55.96 m
11.	Trine Solberg (NOR)	55.30 m
12.	Cathie Wilson (USA)	54.80 m
13.	Íris Grönfeldt (ISL)	54.00 m
14.	Iammo Launa (PNG)	42.70 m
—	Laverne Eve (BAH)	NM

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)							76.64 m	CR
	Petra Felke (GDR)							71.76 m
	Beate Peters (FRG)							68.82 m
4	Tessa Sanderson (GBR)							67.54 m
5	Susanne Jung (GDR)							67.46 m
6	Tiina Lillak (FIN)							66.82 m
7	Natalya Kolenchukova (URS)							65.52 m
8	Ivonne Leal (CUB)							64.90 m
9	Ingrid Thyssen (FRG)							64.12 m
10	Manuela Alizadeh (FRG)							63.40 m
11	Katalin Hartai (HUN)							60.88 m
12	Irina Kostyuchenkova (URS)							60.60 m

• 1982 Women's European Championships Javelin Throw (Athens)
• 1984 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Women's European Championships Javelin Throw (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Seoul)
• 1990 Women's European Championships Javelin Throw (Split)
• 1992 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Barcelona)

• Results