1987 Winston 500, Background
Talladega Superspeedway, originally known as Alabama International Motor Superspeedway (AIMS), is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s. Talladega is most known for its steep banking and the unique location of the start/finish line - located just past the exit to pit road. The track currently hosts the NASCAR series such as the Monster Energy Cup Series, Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series. Talladega Superspeedway is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of 2.66 miles (4.28 km), and the track at its peak had a seating capacity of 175,000 spectators.


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Qualifying
Bill Elliott won the pole for this race at a qualifying speed of 212.809 mph (a lap time of 44.998 seconds) this speed created headlines across the country. Elliott had a picture taken of himself with his car and a sign proclaiming it "World's Fastest Race Car".


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Qualifying
For comparison, this qualifying speed was rivaling contemporary Indy Car racing; the 1987 Indianapolis 500 saw a top qualifying speed of 215.390 mph logged by Mario Andretti a few days later.


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Qualifying
Concerns were already being raised about these speeds. Chevrolet team drivers were reporting that rear tires of the Monte Carlo SS cars were lifting off the track entering turn 3.


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Race
The Winston 500 was scheduled for 188 laps. 178 laps were run.


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Race
A major wreck occurred on lap 22 when Bobby Allison ran over debris on the track and suffered a cut tire. "I think I ran over something, I couldn't really tell", Allison explained. "Something bounced under the car and then the tire exploded." This caused the car to turn backward, go airborne, and shear off about 100 feet of the catch fence in front of the start/finish line. Speeds for this event were upwards of 210 miles per hour or 340 kilometres per hour, a major factor in the severity of Allison's crash.


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Race
Five spectators would be injured as a result of Allison's crash; two of them had to be treated in the hospital while three were treated in the infield medical center and released. Allison's crash did not cause any fatalities, although one spectator lost an eye as a result of flying debris.


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Race
The race was red flagged, and remained stopped for two hours, twenty-six minutes while crews repaired the damaged catch fence. Talladega does not have track lighting, so this delay, as well as other caution periods, caused the race to be cut short at 178 laps due to the dark conditions that occurred after 7:45 PM in the Eastern Time Zone. There were 41 American-born drivers on the starting grid. More than one hundred thousand people would see Davey Allison defeat Terry Labonte by more than three-quarters of a second. While most drivers ran the middle or upper groove through the corners, Davey could hold it down low.


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Race
The average speed of the race was 154.228 miles per hour (248.206 km/h) lasting three hours and four minutes, excluding the red flag period. Darrell Waltrip broke the windshield on his Tide Ride #17 early in this race when he drove by Allison's car as it got the catch fence and ended up hitting the crankshaft of the #22 after it was ripped from the car and went flying during the wreck.


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Race
Waltrip's team put a new windshield in the #17 Chevrolet and DW got back in the race, salvaging an 11th-place finish one lap down despite the damage to the roof of his orange Monte Carlo. Richard Petty spun in the chaos of Bobby Allison's wreck and got the intercooler knocked out of his car, causing problems with rear-end fluids plus losing some of the rear panels allowing exhaust to get into the cockpit.


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Race
Petty started getting gassed by all the carbon monoxide in the car and was legitimately starting to get sleepy at the wheel as a result so he pitted to get out and get some oxygen. Greg Sacks, who had already crashed out his Valvoline #50 Pontiac, took over the King's #43 STP Pontiac for about the last 25 laps of this race once Petty got out.


1987 Winston 500, Race report, Race
There were 18 lead changes; Bill Elliott and Davey Allison each led 30 laps. Chet Fillip was the last-place finisher due to a faulty engine on the third lap. Ford and Chevrolet vehicles made up the majority of the participating manufacturers. Ron Bouchard made his final start in NASCAR Cup Series competition in this race while Ed Pimm made his first stock car racing start. Davey Allison would score his first victory in this race.


1987 Winston Western 500
The 1987 Winston Western 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that was held on November 8, 1987, at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.


1987 Winston Western 500
Rick Hendrick, Irv Hoerr and Tommy Kendall would make their respective debuts in the NASCAR Cup Series while George Follmer, Harry Goularte, Jim Robinson and Glen Steurer would leave the NASCAR Cup Series after this event. This race would turn out to be the final fall race in Riverside history; it eventually closed on July 2, 1989, after the 1988 Budweiser 400.


1987 Winston Western 500
Bob Howard also entered (and at least practiced) his #89 Pennzoil Oldsmobile for this race. However, he had to withdraw from qualifying for this event due to personal reasons. Commercialism had come into the fold during the late-1980s in NASCAR as 11 of the cars on the racing grid were sponsored by recognized national products like Levi Garrett, Coors, Folgers, SKOAL, and Coors.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
Approximately 18% of this event was held under a caution flag; with each green flag stretch lasting about 20 laps on average. 42 drivers would qualify for this 119-lap event. Drivers who failed to qualify were St. James Davis, Trevor Boys, Reno Fontana, Jack Sellers, John Krebs, Bob Howard and Brad Noffsinger.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
Geoffrey Bodine and Cup series champion Dale Earnhardt had an epic, door banging battle for the lead throughout the middle stages of this race. The titanic battle of yellow Chevrolets was the highlight of the race but both drivers would pay the price for it, Earnhardt used up his car blew the #3's motor, he had already locked up the series title one race earlier at Rockingham and had decided to go for broke in this one with nothing to lose.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
Bodine's #5 Monte Carlo was the fastest car on track after that but he would then blow a tire in the closing laps and went screaming off the track into a large mud puddle at Turn 1 as a result. Bodine's hopes of victory were dashed but he limped back to the pits and salvaged a top-10. Notable crew chiefs that fully participated in this race included Joey Arrington, Andy Petree, Dale Inman, Harry Hyde, Larry McReynolds, Jeff Hammond, Bud Moore and Kirk Shelmerdine.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
Rusty Wallace inherited the lead and drove to victory, Benny Parsons and Kyle Petty were too busy racing each other for second place to make a serious run at Wallace for the victory. Benny Parsons would make his 199th and final top-5 finish at this event. The performance that Wallace did with his Pontiac was very good compared to the rest of the Pontiac drivers who were very weak in comparison to Wallace.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
This would, unfortunately, mark the final win for the Pontiac 2+2. Only Rusty Wallace was able to win races with that model vehicle, and all of them were either on short tracks or road courses. Ironically, the Pontiac 2+2 was designed to be better aerodynamically at superspeedways such as Talladega and Daytona.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
Ken Schrader had a rough Cup weekend; he qualified near the back and failed to finish with an engine failure in his penultimate outing in Junie Donlavey's #90 Ford.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
This race included a very rare instance of Elmo Langley campaigning a non-Ford product since the late-1950s.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
He would never finish in the "top five" in a NASCAR Cup Series event after this one. Four yellow flags slowed the race for 21 laps while no red flags were given out. Jack Sellers' qualifying speed of 102.736 miles per hour (165.338 km/h) made him the slowest driver not to qualify for the race. The owner of Hendrick Motorsports would bring home for his team a lowly 33rd-place finish after qualifying in a half-decent 21st place.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
The first caution for this event came when Hershel McGriff is given a hard bump by Morgan Shepherd right after his engine blew; resulting in his unfortunate last-place finish. While Geoffrey Bodine, George Follmer and Darrell Waltrip dominated the early stretch of the race, the later portions of the race were dominated by Geoffrey Bodine, Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wallace.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
Roy Smith would be the only foreigner to qualify for this event; he was from Canada. Vehicles from Chevrolet and Ford were primarily the vehicles that raced in this event. Jimmy Means would become the lowest-place finisher to actually complete the race. Individual race winnings for each driver varied from the winner's portion of $47,725 ($108,716 when adjusted for inflation) to the last-place finisher's portion of $2,525 ($5,752 when adjusted for inflation); although three drivers (who finished ahead of last place) were only awarded triple-digit prize winnings. NASCAR officials authorized a grand total of $307,325 to be given out to all the qualifying drivers in this racing event ($700,078 when adjusted for inflation).


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
During the 1987 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season, there were three road course races on a schedule of 29 races, the last time three road courses would be on the schedule for the Cup series until 2018. In recent years, the second-tier Xfinity Series has run three road courses but will run four in 2018.


1987 Winston Western 500, Race report
After the conclusion of this racing event, NASCAR would never award less than $1,000 USD to any driver ever again ($2,278 when adjusted for inflation). Mark Martin would eventually return to the NASCAR Winston Cup Series for the 1988 season; racing for the legendary Jack Roush and carrying the #6 that would make him popular throughout the rest of the 1980s.


1987 Winter Universiade
The 1987 Winter Universiade, the XIII Winter Universiade, took place in Štrbské Pleso, Czechoslovakia.


1987 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 1987 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 7 May 1987 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections.


1987 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Notes
• italics denote the sitting councillor • bold denotes the winning candidate


1987 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1987 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1987 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election
The Council elections held in Wolverhampton on Thursday 7 May 1987 were one third, and 20 of the 60 seats were up for election.


1987 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election
During the 1987 election the Conservatives gained the Bilston North, Graiseley, Wednesfield North and Wednesfiled South seats from Labour whilst the SDP–Liberal Alliance gained Heath Town, East Park and Spring Vale wards from Labour.


1987 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election
Prior to the election the constitution of the Council was:


1987 Women's African Volleyball Championship
The 1987 Women's African Volleyball Championship was the Third Edition African continental volleyball Championship for women in Africa and it was held in Casablanca, Morocco, with Six teams participating.


1987 Women's British Open Squash Championship
The 1987 Women's Davies & Tate British Open Squash Championships was held at the South Bank Squash Club, Wandsworth with the later stages being held at the Wembley Conference Centre in London from 7–14 April 1987. The event was won for the fourth consecutive year by Susan Devoy who defeated Martine Le Moignan in the final.


1987 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship
The 1987 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the second edition of the Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, the quadrennial international women's field hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held at the Picketts Lock in London, England from 3 to 13 September 1987.


1987 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship
The defending champions the Netherlands won their second title by defeating the hosts England 3–1 in penalty strokes after the match finished 2–2 after extra time. The Soviet Union won the bronze medal by defeating West Germany 2–1.


1987 Women's European Volleyball Championship
The 1987 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the fifteenth edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in several cities in Belgium from 25 September to 3 October 1987, with the final round held in Ghent.


1987 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Format
The tournament was played in two different stages. In the first stage, the twelve participants were divided in two groups of six teams each. A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams' group position. The second stage of the tournament consisted of three sets of semifinals to determine the tournament final ranking. The group stage firsts and seconds played the semifinals for 1st to 4th place, group stage thirds and fourths played the 5th to 8th place semifinals and group stage fifths and sixths played the 9th to 12th semifinals. The pairing of the semifinals was made so teams played against the opposite group teams which finished in a different position (1st played against 2nd, 3rd played against 4th and 5th played against 6th).


1987 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier
The 1987 Women's Hockey Olympic Qualifier was held in Edinburgh, Scotland in April 1987. Six nations took part, and they played a round robin.


1987 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
The 1987 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy was the first edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for women. The tournament was held from 21–28 June 1987, in Amstelveen, Netherlands.


1987 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
Netherlands won the tournament, becoming the inaugural champions of the Champions Trophy. Australia and South Korea finished in second and third place, respectively.


1987 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Officials
The following umpires were appointed by the FIH to officiate the tournament:


1987 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 65 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 4.33 goals per match.


1987 Women's Junior World Handball Championship
The 1987 Women's Junior World Handball Championship was the sixth edition of the tournament which took place in Denmark from 23 October to 1 November 1987.


1987 Women's Junior World Handball Championship
Fifteen teams competed in the competition from three continents with Nigeria being the only country to debut in the tournament. For the second time in a row, a team had to withdraw before the tournament with Argentina withdrawing to lower the number of teams to fifteen. The Soviet Union took home their fifth gold medal in the final and their third in a row after defeating host nation Denmark by nine goals in the final. East Germany finished in third after defeating South Korea.


1987 Women's World Championship (snooker)
The 1987 Women's World Championship was a snooker tournament that took place in Puckpool. It was the 1987 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship first held in 1976.


1987 Women's World Championship (snooker)
Ann-Marie Farren won the competition, beating Stacey Hillyard 5–1 in the final.


1987 Women's World Championship (snooker), Tournament summary
The event was sponsored by Warner who provided a total prize fund of £10,000, and the event was held at Warner's Puckpool holiday camp.


1987 Women's World Championship (snooker), Tournament summary
Allison Fisher was the defending champion going in to the tournament and a strong favourite to win the title again, having not lost a competitive women's snooker match since the semi-final of the 1984 World Championship against Stacey Hillyard. Hillyard had gone on to win the 1984 title, and was seeded fourth for 1987. Hillyard was to beat Fisher in the semi-final again, recovering from 1–3 down to win 4–3 in a four-hour match. In the other semi-final, second seed Ann-Marie Farren whitewashed Mandy Fisher 4–0.


1987 Women's World Championship (snooker), Tournament summary
In the final, Farren took a 3–0 lead before Hillyard won a frame. Farren then took the next two frames to complete a 5–1 victory and claim the winner's prize of £3,500, and the trophy, plus a double magnum of champagne that she was not old enough to drink, being only 16 years and 48 days old at the time.


1987 Women's World Championship (snooker), Knockout
Players listed in bold indicate match winner. Seedings, where known, are bracketed after the players name.


1987 Women's World Open Squash Championship
The 1987 Women's Honda World Open Squash Championship was the women's edition of the 1987 World Open, which serves as the individual world championship for squash players. The event took place at the Henderson Squash Club and YMCA Stadium in Auckland in New Zealand between September 29 and October 6, 1987. Susan Devoy won her second World Open title, defeating Lisa Opie in a repeat of the 1985 final.


1987 Women's World Open Squash Championship, Third Round to Final, Notes
Susan Devoy won her second World Open and would go on to win four in total.


1987 Women's World Team Squash Championships
The 1987 Women's Honda World Team Squash Championships were held in Auckland, New Zealand and took place from October 7 until October 14, 1987.


1987 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
The World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men took place on 14 and 15 February 1987 in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice rink. This was the first international skating tournament to be held in an indoor stadium with the result that 9 world records and 93 personal records were set.


1987 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for women
The 48th edition of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women took place on 7 and 8 February 1987 in West Allis at the Wisconsin State Fair Park ice rink.


1987 World Archery Championships
The 1987 World Archery Championships was the 34th edition of the World Archery Championships. The event was held in Adelaide, Australia in March 1987 and was organised by World Archery Federation (FITA). It marked the first time that the competition took a knockout format.


1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 24th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1987. Yelena Shushunova became the first woman to medal in every event; this was followed by Simone Biles of the United States in 2018.


1987 World Badminton Grand Prix Finals
The 1987 World Badminton Grand Prix was the fifth edition of the World Badminton Grand Prix finals. It was held in Hong Kong, from January 6 to January 10, 1988.


1987 World Championship Tennis Finals – Singles
Anders Järryd was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


1987 World Championship Tennis Finals – Singles
Miloslav Mečíř won in the final 6–0, 3–6, 6–2, 6–2 against John McEnroe.


1987 World Championship Tennis Finals – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1987 World Championships in Athletics
The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics, Men's results, Track
1 Ben Johnson of Canada originally won the gold medal in 9.83, but he was disqualified in September 1989 after he admitted to using steroids between 1981 and 1988. * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.


1987 World Championships in Athletics, Men's results, Field
1 Giovanni Evangelisti of Italy originally won the bronze medal with 8.37 m, but it was later determined that Italian field officials had entered a pre-arranged fake result for a jump of 7.85 m. . While Evangelisti had no involvement in or knowledge of the fraud,  Italian head coach Sandro Donati, who revealed it, was fired.


1987 World Championships in Athletics, Exhibition events
Two exhibition para-athletics events appeared at the competition, but results did not go towards the overall medal count. The two wheelchair races were the first time disability events had appeared at the championships, and were the first exhibition event of any kind to feature at the World Championships in Athletics. This began a tradition of such events which continued until 2011. Wheelchair exhibition events were contested until that year, bar 1999 and 2009.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres
The men's 10,000 metres event featured at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 30 participating athletes, with the final being held on 29 August 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres
These are the official results of the Men's 100 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 56 participating athletes, with seven qualifying heats and the final held on Sunday 30 August 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres
Ben Johnson of Canada initially won the final in a world record time of 9.83 seconds, but he was disqualified by the IAAF on 30 September 1989 after he admitted to the use of performance-enhancing drugs between 1981 and 1988.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
These are the official results of the Men's 110 metres Hurdles event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 39 participating athletes, with five qualifying heats, two semi-finals and the final held on Thursday September 3, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres
These are the official results of the Men's 1,500 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 39 participating athletes, with three qualifying heats, two semi-finals and the final held on Sunday 1987-09-06.


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.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
These are the official results of the Men's 200 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 47 participating athletes, with six qualifying heats and the final held on Thursday 1987-09-03.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
These are the official results of the Men's 3.000 metres Steeplechase event at the inaugural 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 38 participating athletes, with three qualifying heats and the final held on Saturday 1987-09-05.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
The 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres
These are the official results of the Men's 400 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 48 participating athletes, with six qualifying heats and the final held on Thursday 1987-09-03.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
These are the official results of the Men's 400 metres Hurdles event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 47 participating athletes, with six qualifying heats, two semi-finals and the final held on Tuesday 1987-09-01.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Summary
After 122 consecutive victories, Edwin Moses's winning streak was finally broken in June by Danny Harris. Harris was in lane 5, while Moses was in lane three. Between them was Harald Schmid, the man who had last beaten Moses at the beginning of the streak. Surrounding them were the usual suspects of 1980's long hurdling.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Summary
From the gun, Moses took the race out hard, making up the stagger to catch Schmid just past the fourth hurdle. Harris was also out fast but not as aggressively as Moses, taking hurdles one stride behind. Running his famous 13 steps, Moses pulled away through the final turn as Schmid accelerated to keep pace. He had a two-metre lead coming of the 9th hurdle with Schmid passing Harris as Harris took the hurdle leaning back. Moses maintained his lead over the final hurdle as Harris fought back to a slight advantage against Schmid.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Summary
But Moses was struggling to maintain his stride, Harris had the momentum and Schmid was responding to the challenge. The gap was disappearing as all three were fighting to get to the line. Moses dived for the line in desperation, Harris maintained form and Schmid gave a textbook lean reminiscent of Colin Jackson to try to get ahead. In the closest 400 metres hurdles race in World Championship history, Moses saved the victory in 47.46, while Harris and Schmid were given the same time of 47.48, with Harris getting the knod for silver.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Summary
After 11 years of chasing Moses, it was a European record and personal best for Schmid. Schmid's record would last almost 8 years and still ranks #16 on the all-time list. It was a World Championship record for Moses.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
These are the official results of the Men's 50 km Walk event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. The race was held on Saturday September 5, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres
These are the official results of the Men's 5,000 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 36 participating athletes, with two qualifying heats and the final held on Sunday September 6, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Final
This final was a rather typical "kicker's race," with a mostly slow early pace, and a very quick last lap. The strongest pre-race favourite, Morocco's Said Aouita, led for over 200 metres. After that, Kenya's John Ngugi moved into the lead. However, until about 2,200 metres, he ran wide either on the second lane or on the first lane's outer edge. After 900 metres, Ireland's John Treacy injected a more respectable speed into the sluggish early race. Despite his noticeable acceleration, Treacy's 1,000-metre split was only 2:49.96. After 1,600 metres, Ngugi again took the lead.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Final
As he led the 15-man field through 2,000 metres in 5:34.93, the runners were tightly clustered behind him. After 2,200 metres, the Kenyan suddenly surged. Only Aouita and Ireland's Frank O'Mara followed Ngugi closely. Before that lap was over, however, Ngugi slowed down again, and the field closed the gap on him. Due to Ngugi's surge, the 3,000-metre split was 8:16.19. The pace remained moderate during the fourth kilometre, with Ngugi leading at 4,000 metres in 10:58.60. Then the field began to break up.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Final
Britain's Steve Ovett, Ireland's Treacy, Canada's Carey Nelson, and Spain's Abel Anton started to lose contact with the main group. Another pre-race favourite, Switzerland's Pierre Deleze, had accelerated to the third place behind Ngugi and Aouita at 4,000 metres. Ovett was able to temporarily catch the leaders by 4,400 metres. Sydney Maree of the United States had drifted to the rear of the main group. By the second last home straight, also Ireland's O'Mara began to struggle with the increasing pace. Shortly before 4,600 metres, Aouita eased past Ngugi, and the Moroccan's unofficial split at 4,600 metres was 12:33.52.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Final
Portugal's Domingos Castro sprinted past Deleze into the second place on the final lap's front bend. Britain's Jack Buckner, Belgium's Vincent Rousseau, Ngugi, Bulgaria's Evgeni Ignatov, Britain's Tim Hutchings, Portugal's Dionisio Castro, O'Mara, Maree, and Ovett were still in contention. However, on the final back straight, Aouita further accelerated his pace, and only Domingos Castro and Deleze were able to follow him. Buckner and Rousseau formed the first chasing group, with Ignatov, Hutchings, and Dionisio Castro fighting for the sixth place. Ngugi drifted to the leading group's rear, and Ovett and Maree were about to pass him.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Final
By 4,800 metres, Aouita's victory already started to look certain, but Domingos Castro tenaciously remained ahead of Deleze. On the final home straight, Aouita's superior middle-distance runner's speed took him to an easy and clear victory. Domingos Castro was able to secure the silver medal, while Deleze faded badly during the last 20 metres, losing the bronze medal to the quickly finishing Buckner. Unofficially, Aouita sprinted the final 400 metres in 52.92 seconds. (The World Athletics Championships in Rome / Yleisurheilun MM-kisat Roomassa, Helsinki, Finland:  The Runner Magazine (Juoksija-lehti), 1987;    1987, Frank O'Mara & John Treacy, 5000m Final, IAAF World Championships, Rome.)


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
These are the official results of the Men's 800 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 45 participating athletes, with six qualifying heats, four quarter-finals, two semi-finals and the final held on Tuesday September 1, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
In the final José Luiz Barbosa took the lead from the break, chased primarily by Billy Konchellah and Faouzi Lahbi up to a 50.59 400 metres. Peter Elliott stayed on the rail slightly off the lead through the first lap joined by Stephen Ole Marai on the outside and  Tom McKean boxed on the inside. Through the penultimate turn, these three tried to move forward, Elliott moving outside to the shoulders of the lead pack, followed by Mara and McKean, but McKean was held inside.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
By the time they reached the backstretch, McKean tried again to run around Marai, this time he tripped over Marai, injuring himself, eventually falling out the back of the field. Konchellah caught Barbosa at the end of the straightaway and went into the lead. Elliott tried to follow, but Barbosa held him off through the turn. By the end of the turn, the three medalists had separated from the rest of the field, Lahbi the last to hold on. As Konchellah sprinted away to victory, Barbosa and Elliott both started sprinting for home in chase. Barbosa came off the turn a bit wide, leaving room for Elliott to slowly edge his way along the rail and ahead of Barbosa to take the silver.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
These are the official results of the Men's Decathlon competition at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 28 participating athletes, including ten non-finishers. The competition started on September 3, 1987, and ended on September 4, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
These are the official results of the Men's Discus Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 27 participating athletes, with the final held on Friday September 4, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
These are the official results of the Men's Hammer Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 26 participating athletes, with the final held on Tuesday September 1, 1987. The qualification round was staged on Monday August 31, 1987, with the mark set at 80.00 metres.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
These are the official results of the Men's High Jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 38 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday September 6, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw
These are the official results of the Men's Javelin Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 37 participating athletes, with the final held on Sunday August 30, 1987. All results were made with rough surfaced javelin (old design). The qualification mark was set at 79.00 metres.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump
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.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump
Giovanni Evangelisti of Italy 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. Larry Myricks of the United States received the bronze medal nine months later.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon
The Men's Marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy was held on Sunday September 6, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault
These are the official results of the Men's Pole Vault event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 24 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Saturday September 5, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
These are the official results of the men's shot put event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 21 participating athletes, with the final held on 29 August 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
These are the official results of the Men's Triple Jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 32 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Monday August 31, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10 kilometres walk
These are the official results of the Women's 10 km Walk event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. The race was held on Tuesday 1 September 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
The women's 10,000 metres event featured at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 37 participating athletes, with the final being held on 4 September 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres
These are the official results of the Women's 100 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 51 participating athletes, with seven qualifying heats and the final held on Sunday 1987-08-30.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Quarterfinals
Saturday, 29 August 1987Wind:  Heat 1: -0.3Heat 2: +1.6Heat 3: -1.6Heat 4: -1.1


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Saturday, 29 August 1987Wind:  Heat 1: +2.3Heat 2 : +1.3Heat 3: +1.0Heat 4: -0.6Heat 5: +0.2Heat 6: +0.7Heat 7: -0.6


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
These are the official results of the Women's 100 metres Hurdles event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 26 participating athletes, with four qualifying heats, two semi-finals and the final held on Friday September 4, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres
These are the official results of the Women's 1,500 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 32 participating athletes and one non-starter, with three qualifying heats and the final held on Saturday 1987-09-05.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Final
Note Sandra Gasser was the original winner of the bronze medal in 3:59.06 but was disqualified for doping.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres
These are the official results of the Women's 200 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 31 participating athletes, with four qualifying heats and the final held on Thursday 1987-09-03.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Results, Heats
Tuesday, 1 September 1987Wind: Heat 1: -3.4Heat 2 : -0.6Heat 3: -2.6Heat 4: -0.6


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres
These are the official results of the Women's 3.000 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 30 participating athletes and one non-starter, with two qualifying heats and the final held on Tuesday 1987-09-01.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
The 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
The 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
These are the official results of the Women's 400 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 41 participating athletes, with six qualifying heats and the final held on 31 August 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
These are the official results of the Women's 400 metres Hurdles event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 35 participating athletes, with five qualifying heats, two semi-finals and the final held on Thursday 1987-09-03.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
These are the official results of the Women's 800 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 32 participating athletes, with four qualifying heats, two semi-finals and the final held on Monday 1987-08-31.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
These are the official results of the Women's Discus Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 23 participating athletes, with the final held on Monday August 31, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
These are the official results of the Women's Heptathlon competition at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 25 participating athletes, including six non-finishers. The competition started on August 31, 1987, and ended on September 1, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
These are the official results of the Women's High Jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 24 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday August 30, 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump, Summary
Stefka Kostadinova came into the competition as the world record holder at 2.08m and favorite, but it was not going to be uncontested. Soviet Tamara Bykova was the defending champion and the woman Kostadinova replaced as world record holder, her Bulgarian teammate, Lyudmila Andonova was also a finalist, though she was untested following a 2-year doping suspension.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump, Summary
By 2.02m the rest of the competition had topped out, the last being Susanne Beyer clearing 1.99m, Bykova and Kostadinova still having a clean round. Jumping first, Bykova continued clean at 2.04m, but Kostadinova took three tries to stay alive in the competition, putting Bykova in the driver's seat. After Bykova missed a second time at 2.06m, Kostadinova cleared, taking the lead. Bykova passed to take a heroic attempt to equal the world record, 3 cm over her personal best, her only chance for the win. Bykova missed and the medals were settled.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump, Summary
Having nothing to gain from equalling her own world record, Kostadinova passed to 2.09 m (6 ft 10 1⁄4 in). On her second attempt, she bounded over, not even touching the bar. Kostadinova's world record has stood since.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
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 September 6, 1987. All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin (old design).


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
These are the official results of the women's long jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 29 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Friday 4 September 1987.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump, Records
The following new world and championship records were set during this competition.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon
The women's marathon was one of the road events at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome, Italy. It took place on 29 August 1987; the course started and finished at the Stadio Olimpico and passed several of Rome's historic landmarks. The race was won by Portugal's Rosa Mota in 2:25:17, a new championship record, ahead of Zoya Ivanova of the Soviet Union in second and France's Jocelyne Villeton in third.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon
In warm conditions, the pre-race favourite, Mota, led from the start. Another of the runners expected to do well, Australia's Lisa Martin, was suffering from fatigue after working too hard in training, and she pulled out of the race after 25 kilometres (16 mi). Mota won the race by almost seven and a half minutes, but did not initially realise that she had finished the race, as she thought she still had to run another lap of the track in the stadium.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Background
The race started and finished at the Stadio Olimpico, and largely stayed within the area of central Rome enclosed by the Aurelian Walls. It skirted around the lower edges of three of the seven hills of Rome without climbing any of them, and passed several ancient landmarks, including the Colosseum, the Baths of Caracalla and St. Peter's Square. Part of the course ran along cobbled streets, which along with the warm temperatures forecast, led to expectations that there would not be fast times in the race.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Background
Several of the world's quickest female marathoners were absent from the race. Ingrid Kristiansen, who was the world record holder, having run the 1985 London Marathon in 2:21:06, opted to run the 10,000 metres instead. Joan Benoit, the Olympic champion, was also missing, as she was pregnant. Grete Waitz, the reigning world champion suffered a suspected stress fracture in her foot after running a 5,000-metre time-trial on 15 August, and although she travelled to Rome and considered running with painkillers, she decided not to take the risk, and withdrew.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Background
In their absence, the favourites were Rosa Mota of Portugal and Australia's Lisa Martin. Mota was a two-time European champion, and the third quickest female marathoner, while Martin had run the fifth fastest women's marathon time. Both came into the Championships in less than ideal situations: Mota had been suffering from a urinary tract infection, while training in Florida, Martin had overtrained in hot conditions.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Summary
The race started at 16:55 local time on 29 August 1987, the opening day of the Championships, in temperatures of around 27 °C (80 °F). Mota took the lead before the marathon left the stadium, and extended it as the race progressed. She completed the first half of the marathon in 1:12:10, and won by over seven minutes. When she crossed the finish line, in 2:25:17, she continued running, as she thought she had another lap to complete.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Summary
It was only when a race official flagged her down 30 metres (98 ft) into her second lap, telling her that she had finished, that she stopped. She blamed her mistake on the instructions she had received before the race: "an official told me I had to take two loops of the track". Mota's time was a new championship record, beating the 2:28:09 set by Grete Waitz at the 1983 marathon.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Summary
Martin, who was expected to be the most likely to challenge Mota in the race withdrew after 25 kilometres (16 mi); she was falling back down the field, and her whole body felt sore. She blamed it residual fatigue from the problems she had suffered during training in Florida. Martin was one of nine runners to pull out of the race. Zoya Ivanova of the Soviet Union finished in second, in 2:32:38, while France's Jocelyne Villeton claimed bronze, in 2:32:53.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Aftermath
At the 1988 Olympics, Mota beat Martin by 13 seconds and became the only woman to be the reigning European, World, and Olympic champion simultaneously.


1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
These are the official results of the Women's Shot Put event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. The final was held on Saturday September 5, 1987.


1987 World Club Challenge
The 1987 World Club Challenge (also known as the 1987 Foster's World Club Challenge due to sponsorship by brewers, Foster's) was only the second game of its kind to be played between Britain's and Australia's respective domestic rugby league champion clubs. Chairman of Britain's 1986–87 Rugby Football League season champions Wigan, Maurice Lindsay, invited Australia's 1987 NSWRL season premiers, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles to Wigan for the game. After this memorable match, the World Club Challenge was decided to be made an official annual feature on the rugby league calendar.


1987 World Club Challenge
Originally, Australian Rugby League boss and former long-time Manly club secretary Ken Arthurson proposed that regardless of the outcome, the prize money should be split evenly between the two clubs. However, Wigan chairman Maurice Lindsay convinced Arko and the Manly club that it should be "winner takes all" as it would give the players even more incentive to take the game seriously if there was a bigger money pool for the winners.


1987 World Club Challenge, Background, Wigan
The 1986–87 Rugby Football League season was the 105th in the history of English club Wigan. Coached by Graham Lowe and captained by Ellery Hanley, they finished at the top of the 1986–87 Rugby Football League to claim the RFL Championship. They had also won the 1986–87 John Player Special Trophy. By the time of the 1987 World Club Challenge Wigan had already begun playing in the 1987–88 Rugby Football League season.


1987 World Club Challenge, Background, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
The 1987 NSWRL season was the 41st in the history of Australian club the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. Coached by Bob Fulton and captained by Paul Vautin, they finished the regular season as minor premiers, then went on to win the 1987 NSWRL Grand Final against the Canberra Raiders on 27 September 1987 to claim the Premiership.


1987 World Club Challenge, Match details
The match was played at 7:45pm on a dry Wednesday night, 7 October at the Central Park ground in Wigan. A crowd of 36,895 was in attendance for the game, though unofficial estimates from those present put the attendance as high as 50,000. The game atmosphere was electric throughout the entirety of the match. The game was refereed by RFL international referee John Holdsworth. Former four-time Manly premiership winning Fullback Graham Eadie, who at the time was playing in England with 1987 Challenge Cup winners Halifax, was on hand as a match commentator as was dual Manly premiership player (and captain of the 1978 team) and the skipper of the 1982 Invincibles, Max Krilich.


1987 World Club Challenge, Match details
No tries were scored in what was a closely fought and, at times, spiteful encounter. Michael O'Connor opened the scoring for Manly with a successful penalty kick in only the second minute, which would turn out to be the only time the Sea Eagles scored. Tempers flared as the match went on, punctuated by more penalties and a few unsavoury incidents:


1987 World Club Challenge, Match details
Amongst all of these incidents Wigan's David Stephenson kicked four penalty goals, which in the end would prove decisive. The score was 8 - 2 in favour of the home side as the final whistle blew, prompting the overjoyed Wigan supporters to flood onto the field to celebrate with the players.


1987 World Club Challenge, Match details
In his biography The Strife and Times of Paul Vautin written by Mike Coleman and released in 1992, the Manly captain told that the Sea Eagles players were so convinced that they would beat Wigan after their Grand Final win over the Canberra Raiders and after the undefeated 1986 Kangaroo Tour, that they treated the trip to England more as a holiday than anything serious and continued celebrating their GF win while there. Vautin and the other Manly players believe that their poor attitude is what ultimately cost them the game.


1987 World Club Challenge, Match details
Wigan on the other hand, led by their Kiwi coach Graham Lowe and featuring 11 Great Britain and one New Zealand internationals (compared to 5 Australian and one New Zealand international for Manly), took the game very seriously with pride their main motivation after the Great Britain Lions had been humiliated by the Australian's with 4 straight 3-0 Ashes series losses since the disastrous 1979 Australasian tour and the popular belief that the NSWRL Premiership was superior to the RFL's.


1987 World Cup (men's golf)
The 1987 World Cup took place November 18–21 at Kapalua Resort, Bay Course, in Kapalua, Hawaii, United States. It was the 33rd World Cup event. The previous World Cup was played in 1985, since the 1986 event was cancelled. It was a stroke play team event with 32 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The Wales team of Ian Woosnam and David Llewellyn won after a sudden death playoff over the Scotland team of Sandy Lyle and Sam Torrance. It was the first playoff for the team title in the event's history. The individual competition was won by Woosnam, five strokes ahead of Lyle.


1987 World Cup (men's golf), Scores
Wales won after a sudden death playoff, with a par from each of the two players in the team, on the second extra hole.


1987 World Cup (snooker)
The 1987 Snooker World Cup was a professional snooker tournament played at the Bournemouth International Centre, England, between 18–21 March 1987 for teams of three players. The event was the eighth iteration of the World Cup snooker tournament, first played in 1979 as the World Challenge Cup. A total prize fund of £100,000 was awarded for the event, with the winning team receiving a share of £32,000. The event featured eight participating teams, including two from Ireland, the champions of the previous year's event. Danish brewery company Tuborg were the sponsors for the tournament.


1987 World Cup (snooker)
The defending champions, the Ireland "A" side of Dennis Taylor, Alex Higgins and Eugene Hughes met the Canadian team of Cliff Thorburn, Kirk Stevens and Bill Werbeniuk in the final for the second year in a row. The Irish team won the final 9–2 and their third straight championship, having also won the event in 1985 and 1986.


1987 World Cup (snooker), Format
The 1987 World Cup was a professional snooker non-ranking tournament held 18–21 March 1987. The event was hosted at the Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, England, and featured eight national teams each comprising three players. The tournament organisers, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association had wanted to change the format to remove the national basis of the teams and invite the top 24 players in the snooker world rankings. This idea was put aside after top-ranked player Steve Davis said he would not participate in tournament if it was run under the proposed new format. Brewers Tuborg sponsored the event.


1987 World Cup (snooker), Format
Matches in the first round and semi-finals were held as the best of nine frames. One player from each team played two frames against each other. Then two different players played two frames, and then the third players from each team played two frames. After this, a selected player from each team would play a further one or two frames. At 4–4, a single deciding frame would be played, with the participants nominated by the team captains.


1987 World Cup (snooker), Format
The final was held as the best of 17 frames. The first six frames were contested with each player from each team playing two frames against each other, and then a nominated player from each team playing a further two frames, for total of eight frames contested in both sessions. If, following 16 frames, the score was tied 8–8, a nominated player from each team would play in a deciding frame. As champions in the previous year, Ireland were entitled to enter two teams, denoted "A" and "B". The first round matches were played on 18 and 19 March, whilst the semi-finals were played on 20 March and the final was held on 21 March.


1987 World Cup (snooker), Format, Teams
Teams comprised three players representing national teams. As defending champions, Ireland were seeded first, and were allowed to enter a second team. All other nations were seeded depending on combined world ranking. Below is a list of teams that competed:


1987 World Cup (snooker), Summary, First round
The first round was held as the best-of-9-frame matches on 18 and 19 March. In the first match, Australia against Wales, Eddie Charlton won the first frame against Ray Reardon, but Reardon won the second, and then Doug Mountjoy beat Warren King 2–0, and Terry Griffiths beat John Campbell 2–0 to give Wales a 5–1 win. As champions in the previous year, Ireland were entitled to enter two teams. The two teams played each other in the first round, with Ireland A taking a 4–0 lead as Eugene Hughes beat Paddy Browne and Alex Higgins beat Patsy Fagan, both 2–0. Tommy Murphy of Ireland B then won a frame against Dennis Taylor before Taylor won the last to seal a 5–1 victory for Ireland A.


1987 World Cup (snooker), Summary, First round
In Canada's match against the "Rest of World Team", Kirk Stevens beat Silvino Francisco 2–0, Cliff Thorburn drew 1–1 with Tony Drago, and then Bill Werbeniuk lost 0–2 to Dene O'Kane to tie the scores at 3–3. Stevens then drew 1–1 with Drago to make it 4–4, and Thorburn beat Fransciso in the tie-break frame so that Canada won 5–4. Steve Davis and Tony Meo arrived at the venue only about 15 minutes before the start of England's match against Scotland, having travelled from Cheltenham Racecourse that day, with part of the journey by helicopter. Joe Johnson and Stephen Hendry shared the first two frames 1–1, then Davis and Meo recorded 2–0 victories over Matt Gibson and Murdo MacLeod respectively to finish the match at 5–1 to England.


1987 World Cup (snooker), Summary, Semi-finals
The semi-finals were both played on 20 March as best-of-9-frames. Griffiths scored breaks of 113 and 92 in beating Taylor and giving Wales a 2–0 lead over Ireland A. Hughes defeated Reardon 2–0 to level the match at 2–2. Higgins beat Mountjoy 2–0, then Griffiths 1–0, to give Ireland the win at 5–2. Canada won 5–4 against England. Stevens and Johnson drew 1–1, Thorburn beat Davis 2–0, Werbeniuk and Meo drew 1–1, and Stevens lost 0–2 to Davis, making the match level at 4–4. In the deciding frame, Thorburn beat Johnson 69–24. Griffiths' 113 break was the highest of the tournament.


1987 World Cup (snooker), Summary, Final
The final was played on 21 March as a best-of-17-frames match over two sessions. Ireland A won 9–2, having beaten Canada 9–7 in the final the previous year. Hughes shared the first two frames with Stevens, then there were 2–0 victories for Higgins over Thorburn and Taylor over Werbeniuk. Following this, Taylor beat Stevens 2–0 to give Ireland A a lead of 7–1 at the end of the afternoon session. In the evening session, Hughes and Stevens played to another 1–1 result. Taylor then beat Thorburn 76–29 to leave Ireland A the winners at 9 frames to 2.


1987 World Cup (snooker), Summary, Final
The Irish team's victory was their third consecutive triumph in the tournament, having won it in each of the previous two years. One of Taylor's frames against Stevens was won after Taylor obtained the two snookers he required. Higgins finished the tournament with a record of 26 frames won out of 30 played over three editions of the competition.


1987 World Cup (snooker), Main draw, Final
The final was a best-of-17 frames match, held over two sessions.


1987 World Doubles Championship
The 1987 Foster's World Doubles was the sixth staging of the doubles snooker tournament. It was played at the Derngate in Northampton and held between 1 and 13 December 1987 with the tournament televised on ITV from 4 December. Foster's became the sponsors for this tournament as part of the Courage Group as was previous sponsor Hofmeister.


1987 World Doubles Championship
Steve Davis and Tony Meo lost out in the pre-TV stages to unknowns Martin Clark and Jim Chambers 5–1 and the only time they failed to make the last 16 in the history of the World Doubles. Last year's finalists Mike Hallett and Stephen Hendry went of to win the final World Doubles beating Cliff Thorburn and Dennis Taylor 12–6 and as most of the champions of the tournament, they got the highest combined break of 182. The championship was discontinued as other snooker events were now filling the calendar.


1987 World Doubles Championship, Selected early results
First two rounds were played at the Crest Hotel, Portsmouth between 26 and 28 October 1987.


1987 World Fencing Championships
The 1987 World Fencing Championships were held in Lausanne, Switzerland.


1987 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1987 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, USA from March 10 to 15. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1987 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The 1987 Embassy World Indoor Bowls Championship was held at the Coatbridge indoor bowling club, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, from 07-13 February 1987. Tony Allcock won his second consecutive title beating David Bryant in the final by 5-4 (0-7, 7-6, 7-3, 3-7, 6-7, 7-6, 1-7, 7-5, 7-2).


1987 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The 1987 Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship was held at the Bournemouth International Centre from 23–29 March 1987. David Bryant & Tony Allcock won a second consecutive title defeating Stephen Rees & John Price 5-0 in the final (9-3, 7-2, 6-3, 6-4, 8-4).


1987 World Judo Championships
The 1987 World Judo Championships were the 15th edition of the World Judo Championships, and were held in Essen, West Germany from November 19–22, 1987.


1987 World Junior Curling Championships
The 1987 World Junior Curling Championships were held from March 15 to 21 at the Esquimalt Sports Centre Arena in Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. The tournament only consisted of a men's event.


1987 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 1987 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held on December 2–7, 1986 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The event was sanctioned by the International Skating Union and open to ISU member nations. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1987 WJHC) was the 11th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held in Piešťany, Trenčín, Nitra, and Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Finland captured its first World Junior gold medal, Czechoslovakia took silver, and Sweden the bronze. The tournament is most remembered, however, for how the medals were allocated (and Canada ended up with no medal); see the next section for more details.


1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Punch-up in Piestany
With 6:07 left in the second period of the final game of the tournament between Canada and the Soviet Union, Pavel Kostichkin took a two-handed slash at Theoren Fleury, sparking a fight between the two; the USSR's Evgeny Davydov left the bench to assist Valeri Zelepukin in the fight, who was already playing the game with a separated shoulder, and was being pummeled by Canadian forward Mike Keane. Davydov's intervention sparked one of the most infamous bench-clearing brawls in international hockey history.


1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Punch-up in Piestany
The officials, unable to break up the brawl, walked off the ice and tournament officials eventually tried shutting off the arena lights, but the brawl lasted for 20 minutes before the International Ice Hockey Federation declared the contest null and void. An emergency meeting was held following the brawl that ended with the delegates voting 7–1 to eject both teams from the tournament, with the sole dissenter being Canadian Dennis McDonald. The Canadian team, disgusted at what they perceived to be a conspiracy against them, chose to leave rather than stay for the end-of-tournament dinner, from which the Soviet team were banned.


1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Punch-up in Piestany
While the Soviets were out of medal contention, Canada was playing for the gold medal, and were leading 4–2 at the time of the brawl (they needed to win by at least five goals to claim the gold). Even had they lost the game, they were assured at least the bronze medal. Afterwards, Soviet hockey official Anatoly Kastriukov claimed that the hostilities were fueled by a Canadian trainer who he alleged had punched one of the Soviet assistant coaches in the stomach.


1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Punch-up in Piestany
Some Canadians maintained that the Soviets had started the brawl by leaving their bench first, and had deliberately done so with the intention of getting Canada ejected. Soviet administrator Yuri Korolev expressed regret that the incident occurred but did not admit any guilt. He felt that the game should have been finished instead of both teams being disqualified from the tournament.


1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Punch-up in Piestany
The ejections of the Canadian and Soviet teams had the retroactive effect of making the Finland-Czechoslovakia game (played earlier the same day) the gold medal game, while the Sweden-United States game became the bronze medal contest, and the Poland-Switzerland game determined who placed fifth. The loser of the latter game (Switzerland) was relegated, just as they were had the brawl not occurred. Poland avoided relegation despite giving up 80 goals in 7 games.


1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Final standings
Switzerland was relegated to Pool B for the 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.


1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Final standings
1 The game between  Canada and the  Soviet Union was declared null and void, and is excluded from the final standings.


1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool B
Took place from March 15 to 21 in Rouen France. Two groups of four played round robins, the top two and bottom two from the respective groups met up in two final round robins to determine placement. Teams did not replay opponents they were grouped with previously, their scores were carried forward to the final rounds.


1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool C
Pool C was played in Esbjerg, Denmark from March 16 to 22.


1987 World Marathon Cup
The 1987 World Marathon Cup was the second edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Seoul, South Korea on 12 April.


1987 World Masters Athletics Championships
The seventh World Masters Athletics Championships were held in Melbourne, Australia, from November 29 - December 6, 1987. The World Masters Athletics Championships serve the division of the sport of athletics for people over 35 years of age, referred to as masters athletics.


1987 World Masters Athletics Championships
A full range of track and field events were held, along with a cross country race and a marathon.


1987 World Mountain Running Trophy
The 1987 World Mountain Running Championships was the 3rd edition of the global Mountain running competition, World Mountain Running Championships, organised by the World Mountain Running Association and was held in Lenzerheide, Switzerland on 23 August 1987.


1987 World Netball Championships
The 1987 World Netball Championships was the seventh edition of the INF Netball World Cup, a quadrennial premier event in international netball. It was held in Glasgow, Scotland and it featured 17 teams which included the debut of (Cook Islands).


1987 World Netball Championships
The format of the 1987 edition was similar to the previous edition with the teams separated into two groups with the top two continuing on to the final round. New Zealand claimed their third title going unbeaten throughout the entire tournament.


1987 World Orienteering Championships
The 1987 World Orienteering Championships, the 12th World Orienteering Championships, were held in Gérardmer, France, 3–5 September 1987.


1987 World Orienteering Championships
The championships had four events; individual contests for men and women, and relays for men and women.


1987 World Polo Championship
The 1987 World Polo Championship was played in Buenos Aires Argentina during April 1987 and was won by Argentina. This event brought together five teams from around the world in the Campo Argentino de Polo.


1987 World Polo Championship, Final Match
In this first Championship all the teams played one game against each other. In the game between Argentina and Mexico the score was tied at 14 all. Argentina had won more games overall and therefore was the winner of the World Championship I and Mexico was second having won the next largest number of games in the tournament.


1987 World Rally Championship
The 1987 World Rally Championship was the 15th season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World Rally Championship (WRC). The season consisted of 13 rallies in the same venues of the previous season. The only alteration to the schedule was the move of the Olympus Rally from December to June on the calendar.


1987 World Rally Championship
1987 marked the beginning of a new era for the WRC, as it was the first season driven without the powerful and popular Group B rally cars, seeing the Group A cars come to the forefront of the world stage and the institution of championships not only for manufacturers and drivers, but also drivers of production and two-wheel drive cars. Group A would remain at the forefront of the championship for ten years, where a new specification, World Rally Car were made standard in 1997. The FIA also changed the basic scoring rules for manufacturers although they retained the policy of having two rallies not count toward manufacturers totals. New Zealand and the Ivory Coast were selected in 1987 to count solely for drivers' titles.


1987 World Rally Championship
Martini Lancia proved most successful in adjusting to the new lower-powered cars, adopting the Lancia Delta HF 4WD, driven by Finns Juha Kankkunen and Markku Alén as well as Italian Miki Biasion. Between the three, Lancia would gather nine rally wins over the thirteen race season, dominating the manufacturers' race for the championship. Meanwhile, the three drivers split success between them, placing closely in the top three places for the drivers' title by the end of the season.


1987 World Rally Championship
Audi Sport retained both Hannu Mikkola and Walter Röhrl, although they could not duplicate the success of their Group B seasons, both placing well down in the drivers' title competition. Audi however did gain some points from others team running the Quattro. Clarion Team Europe with driver Per Eklund contributed 26 points to the work's effort while Mig Linz's entry, Georg Fischer added another eight, bolstering Audi's bid for second overall.


1987 World Rally Championship
The Philips Renault Elf team struggled through the season with the Group A Renault 11 Turbo. French drivers Jean Ragnotti and François Chatriot were unable to gain much success, with the highlight of their season coming at Portugal with Ragnotti's second-place finish.


1987 World Rally Championship
Volkswagen Motorsport followed their success of the previous season with Swede Kenneth Eriksson, the 1986 winner of the championship for drivers of Group A cars. Eriksson was able to place fourth overall on the season, beaten only by Lancia drivers. Volkswagen, lacking a major second driver, was surpassed by not only Lancia, but Audi and Renault as well in the manufacturer standings.


1987 World Rally Championship
Ford Motor Company made its return to serious competition by enlisting drivers Ari Vatanen and Stig Blomqvist, but struggled early on with the Sierra XR 4x4. The car was dropped, its replacement on the works team coming in the end of the season in the form of the redesigned Sierra RS Cosworth, which met with much greater success, challenging the dominant Lancias in the final three events of the season.


1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Varna, Bulgaria on September 17–20, 1987.


1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, Participants
The following countries sent competitor(s) Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France,  Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Chinese Taipei, The United Kingdom, US, USSR, West Germany & Yugoslavia.


1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, Participants, Groups
Countries who participated in the group competition are as follows.


1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, Group, All Around
The First Exercise consisted of 3 balls and 3 hoops. The Second Exercise consisted of 6 balls.


1987 World Rowing Championships
The 1987 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 29 to 30 August 1987 in Copenhagen, Denmark while it was "outrageously windy".


1987 World Sambo Championships
The 1987 World Sambo Championships were held in Milan, Italy on November 1987. Championships were organized by FIAS.


1987 World Series
The 1987 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1987 season. The 84th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Minnesota Twins and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals. The Twins defeated the Cardinals four games to three to win the Series. Twins pitcher Frank Viola was named as the 1987 World Series MVP.


1987 World Series
It was the first World Series to feature games played indoors, and the first in which the home team won every game; this happened again in 1991 (also a Twins championship, over the Atlanta Braves) and in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks defeating the New York Yankees.


1987 World Series
The World Series win was the first for the Twins franchise since 1924, when it was located in Washington, D.C., and known as the Washington Senators.


1987 World Series
This was the third of four World Series played entirely on artificial turf, with the others in 1980, 1985, and 1993.


1987 World Series
This is the first World Series in which the series logo appeared on the jerseys; only the Cardinals wore it. Both contestants in the following year's World Series wore a patch.


1987 World Series, Summary
The 1987 World Series was notable in several regards:  It featured the first World Series games played in an indoor stadium (the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome) and, to date, the last World Series game to start earlier than prime time in the eastern United States (Game 6 started at 4:00 p.m. ET/3:00 p.m. CT), and it was the first World Series in which all games were won by the home team. (Four previous series had the home team winning the first six games, including the 1965 World Series, when the Twins dropped Game 7 to the Dodgers.)


1987 World Series, Summary
The bottom half of the ninth inning was never played in any game of this Series, the first and only time this has happened. In 1987, the Twins set the record for the worst (full 162 game) regular season win-loss record of any World Series championship team (85–77, .525). This record stood until it was broken when the Cardinals won the 2006 Series after going 83–78 (.516).


1987 World Series, Summary
Besides setting a record for the worst regular season winning percentage for a World Series winner and hosting the first World Series game indoors, the Twins were the first team to enter the World Series having been outscored in the regular season. The Twins, as a team, were outnumbered in virtually every major statistical category in 1987. As ABC play-by-play commentator Al Michaels put it in the pre-game show for Game 1 "They were out everything!"


1987 World Series, Summary
The Cardinals posted a 95–67 record during the regular season, but were affected by injuries throughout the postseason, most notably with the loss of their lone home run threat, first baseman Jack Clark, due to a sprained right ankle suffered in a game in Montreal on September 9. During the regular season, Clark led the National League in both on-base percentage and slugging percentage despite playing in Busch Memorial Stadium, which was reputed to be the league's most extreme "pitcher's park."


1987 World Series, Summary
He hit 35 home runs in 131 games, and was the only person on the team to hit more than 12. The player on the team who hit 12, starting third baseman Terry Pendleton (though named to the World Series roster) was hampered with a ribcage injury. Normally a switch-hitter, Pendleton was only able to swing lefthanded during the World Series and was also unable to play the field and thus was relegated to pinch-hitting duties or being the designated hitter in the games in Minnesota started by right-handed starters.


1987 World Series, Summary
Game 7 was won by Minnesota on the 35th birthday of the Twins' Roy Smalley – and was also the last game of his career. Smalley appeared in four games as a pinch-hitter and reached base all four times on a double, an error, and two walks.


1987 World Series, Summary
AL Minnesota Twins (4) vs. NL St. Louis Cardinals (3)


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
A raucous, sold-out Metrodome met the Cardinals on October 17, stunning them at times with the degree of noise. The crowd noise in the Metrodome could exceed 110 decibels SPL. The Cardinals struggled defensively, with outfielder Willie McGee losing sight of pop flies against the Metrodome's white roof in the fourth and eighth innings, and infielder Tom Lawless committing an infield error in the sixth inning. However, none of those miscues contributed to Twins runs. The Twins' aggressive play further compounded the problems of the Cards, and the game ended as a 10–1 blowout. Starting pitcher Frankie "Sweet Music" Viola had little trouble with the Cardinals' potent lineup. For the Twins, Dan Gladden hit a grand slam and totaled five RBIs, capping off a seven-run fourth inning, with Steve Lombardozzi adding a two-run homer, while Kent Hrbek had two RBIs.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Frank Viola was scheduled to be best man at his brother's wedding, but had to cancel when the Twins reached the World Series as it fell on the same night as Game 1, in which he was scheduled as starter. ABC showed clips of the wedding throughout the game's broadcast.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Coincidentally, the song "U Got The Look" peaked in popularity (#2 on the Billboard singles chart) on this date. The song was written and performed by Prince (a lifelong Minneapolis resident) and contains the line "boy versus girl in the World Series of love".


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
While improving on their game one performance, the Cards were unable to hold the Twins offense again and fell behind 7–0 before beginning to rally. The Cards' total of nine hits was just one short of the Twins but their bats lacked power as they managed only one double against three doubles and two home runs hit by Minnesota. Gary Gaetti hit a homer in the second inning. The Twins broke the game open in the fourth, scoring six runs resulting in starter Danny Cox being pulled from the game. The final score was 8–4. Randy Bush and Tim Laudner each came through with a pair of two-run-scoring hits in the fourth, with Laudner's being a home run and Bush's being a double. Bert Blyleven pitched seven innings of two-run baseball for the win.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Traveling down the Mississippi, to the open air of Busch Stadium, Game 3 saw a tense pitching duel between Twins starter Les Straker and John Tudor of the Cardinals. This match-up was also notable for Straker being the first Venezuelan to pitch in a World Series game.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
After five scoreless innings by both teams, the Twins broke through in the top of the sixth inning. Greg Gagne walked and Kirby Puckett got on base to move Gagne into scoring position. Tom Brunansky's RBI single looked like all the offense the game would see. But, in the bottom of the seventh, Juan Berenguer, in relief of Straker, surrendered leadoff back-to-back singles to Jose Oquendo and Tony Peña. Terry Pendleton sacrificed the runners to second and third, and Vince Coleman slammed a two-run double to give the Cards a 2–1 lead. Ozzie Smith followed by singling in Coleman for the final run, and Todd Worrell closed out saving the win for Tudor.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
In Game 4, the Twins scored first on Greg Gagne’s home run, but the Cardinals tied it on a Jim Lindeman RBI single. Tom Lawless hit a three-run homer in the fourth off Viola (only his second Major League homer after going 2 for 25 during the regular season), one of Viola's five earned runs in the game and six runs in the fourth. However, the Cards weren't done scoring. Dan Schatzeder allowed another RBI single to Lindeman and a two-run double to Willie McGee. Joe Niekro and George Frazier shut the Redbirds out the rest of the game. Bob Forsch got the win with 2+2⁄3 innings of one run relief. Starter Greg Mathews was injured in the fourth inning and was unable to play for the rest of the series. Ken Dayley got the save.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Just prior to Game 4, Reggie Jackson, who was working as a field reporter for ABC's coverage of the 1987 World Series, admitted that he didn't know who Tom Lawless was.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Game 5 was a much closer contest, with the Cardinals coming out victorious by a score of 4–2. Curt Ford hit a two-run single in the sixth, breaking a scoreless pitcher's duel between Danny Cox and Bert Blyleven. By the end of the seventh, the Cards were up 4–0. The Twins scored two in the eighth on a triple by Gary Gaetti off reliever Todd Worrell and made a game of it but eventually relinquished the save to him as Gaetti failed to score. The Cardinals stole five bases in Game 5, the most for team since the 1907 Chicago Cubs.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
The Series returned to the Metrodome with the Twins facing elimination (a position they would find themselves in four years later against the Atlanta Braves). ABC allowed the game to be played at 3 p.m. CT (4 p.m. ET) on Saturday afternoon – the only day game of the series, and the last World Series game to date to be played in the daytime (although as the game was played in the Metrodome, the game took place under artificial lighting).


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
The Cardinals drew first blood off Les Straker on a Tommy Herr home run in the first, and the Twins countered with two in their half of the first on RBI singles by Kirby Puckett and Don Baylor. The Cardinals soon tied it in the second on a Jose Oquendo RBI single.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
In the fourth, the Cards chased Straker when Dan Driessen led off with a double to right and went to third on a Willie McGee single. McGee took second on the attempted throw home by center fielder Kirby Puckett. Terry Pendleton followed by singling home Driessen and Oquendo hit a sacrifice fly to make it 4–2. Another run scored for the Cards in the fifth when lefty Dan Schatzeder walked Ozzie Smith. Smith went to second on a groundout, to third on a flyout, and scored on another McGee single.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
But, in the bottom of the fifth, the Twins began to claw back against John Tudor. Puckett led off with a single and was doubled in by Gary Gaetti. Benefitting from use of the designated hitter in their home ballpark, the Twins then tied it on a mammoth home run by their DH, Don Baylor. After Tom Brunansky followed with a single, the Twins took the lead for good when Steve Lombardozzi singled him with two out on a close play at the plate.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
The Twins then blew the game open in the sixth. Greg Gagne led off with an infield single and Puckett walked. A passed ball by Tony Peña advanced the runners. With first base open and one out, Cards veteran Bob Forsch intentionally walked Baylor to load the bases. After Brunansky popped out, left-hander Ken Dayley was brought in to face the lefty-hitting Kent Hrbek. Hrbek finally broke out of his slump and hit a grand slam.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Brunansky drove in the final run in the eighth and the Twins had staved off defeat.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
The 500th World Series game played, Game 7 forced a National Football League game between the Denver Broncos and the Minnesota Vikings, originally scheduled for that afternoon at the Metrodome, to be played the following night (also on ABC).


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
Joe Magrane of the St. Louis Cardinals became only the sixth rookie pitcher to start the seventh game of a World Series. He also is the only pitcher in World Series history to start Games 1 and 7 of a World Series without any starts in between, as the Cardinals' Game 4 starter, Greg Mathews, had had to be removed early due to an injury and was unavailable for the remainder of the Series. Magrane had actually started the 1987 season pitching for the Cardinals Triple-A team, the Louisville Redbirds.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
In the second, the Cardinals looked poised to send Frank Viola to an early shower. Three straight no-out singles by Jim Lindeman, Willie McGee, and Tony Peña plated the first run. Viola settled down to retire the next two hitters, but then Steve Lake singled in McGee for a 2–0 lead. Viola settled into a groove, however, and allow only two more hits and no runs in eight strong innings.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
The Twins came back in their half of the second on a Steve Lombardozzi RBI single, but not before a missed call at home plate by umpire Dave Phillips had already cost the Twins a run. Twins DH Don Baylor reached base on a hit-by-pitch by Magrane to lead off the inning and Tom Brunansky singled him to second. With one out, Tim Laudner singled to left and Baylor was called out at home on a throw from Vince Coleman in left, while replays clearly showed Baylor was safe. Lombardozzi then singled in Brunansky.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
In the fifth, the Twins tied the score when Greg Gagne reached on an infield hit and Kirby Puckett drove him in with a double. Incidentally, replays showed Gagne to be out on his infield hit, thus this run served to counteract the run the Twins lost in the second on the missed call on Baylor at the plate.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
The Twins seemed on the verge of taking the lead when Gary Gaetti followed Puckett with a walk and went to second when Puckett was thrown out by Lake trying to advance to third on a wild pitch that was deflected when it hit the home plate umpire in the face-mask. Baylor followed with a single to left, but Coleman threw out Gaetti at the plate in a violent collision with Lake. Coleman became the first outfielder to throw two runners out at the plate in one World Series game.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
The sixth inning proved to be controversial. In the top of the sixth, Tom Herr had hit a single with one out. With Jim Lindeman at bat, the third missed call of the game would occur. On a 3-2 count, Herr would get caught in a rundown and Lombardozzi ran him back to first where Kent Hrbek was standing off the bag near the basepath. Lombardozzi tossed the ball towards Hrbek and the ball sailed past him but into the glove of Viola behind the bag. Viola had come over to take part in the rundown.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
Herr was hindered by Hrbek returning to the bag, but clearly reached the bag safely before Viola tagged him. However, first base umpire Lee Weyer called Herr out. Weyer's view was blocked by Kent Hrbek and, according to the broadcast crew, Viola made the tag late and Hrbek should have been called for interference. Had this been called, Herr would have been safe, awarded second base, and the Cardinals would have had a runner at second with one out.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
It was the third missed call of the game for the normally highly regarded Weyer—often considered one of the best umpires in baseball. The next pitch, Lindeman flied out to right field to end the 6th inning. The Twins then took the lead in the bottom of the inning, off Danny Cox, who had relieved Magrane the previous inning. Cox walked Brunansky and Hrbek to lead off, and was replaced by Todd Worrell. As Cox was leaving, he got into an argument with home plate umpire Dave Phillips and was ejected as he was leaving the field.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
As of 2019, Cox is the last position player to be ejected from a World Series game. After retiring the first batter he faced, Worrell walked pinch-hitter Roy Smalley and struck out Dan Gladden for the second out. The next batter, Gagne, reached first on an infield hit as Brunansky scored the go-ahead run.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
The Twins' final run came in the eighth on an RBI double by Dan Gladden off Worrell, who stayed in the rest of the game for the Cardinals. Jeff Reardon retired the side in the ninth to give Minnesota their first World Series victory.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
Twins manager Tom Kelly became the youngest non-playing manager to win the World Series since John McGraw in 1905.


1987 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
By winning in the regulation nine innings, the Twins ensured the 1987 World Series was the first in which no games needed the bottom of the ninth inning. No other World Series since then has had that happen, as the two other Fall Classics in which the home team won every game—1991 and 2001—both included extra inning games and walk-off wins in the bottom of the ninth.


1987 World Series, Composite box
1987 World Series (4–3): Minnesota Twins (A.L.) over St. Louis Cardinals (N.L.)


1987 World Series, Aftermath
Although Steve Carlton was not on the Twins' playoff roster, he still attended the White House to be congratulated by President Reagan. While making a photo op with the president, local newspapers listed the names of all of the Minnesota Twins. The only man who wasn't listed (and simply identified as a Secret Service agent) was a tall man wearing dark sunglasses in the back. The man in question was Carlton.


1987 World Series, Aftermath
After their defeat in the '87 Series, the Cardinals' reign of dominance in the '80s ended. They failed to win their division again until 1996, did not return to the World Series until 2004 and did not win until 2006 in a season where they won two fewer regular season games than the 1987 Twins.


1987 World Series, Aftermath
In 1988, the Twins actually won more games than in their championship season, finishing with a 91–71 record. They finished 13 games behind the AL West champion Oakland A's, who won 104 games. The Twins eventually sank towards the bottom of the standings, finishing last in 1990. In 1991, the Twins returned to the playoffs by beating the Blue Jays in the ALCS and winning what many call the greatest World Series played over the Atlanta Braves.


1987 World Series, Aftermath
The 1987 World Series featured at least two players who went on to win Manager of the Year awards. The Twins' Don Baylor won it in 1995 for his work with the Colorado Rockies while the Cardinals' Tony Peña won it in 2003 for his work with the Kansas City Royals.


1987 World Series, Aftermath
The success of the 1987 Twins inspired Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley) in Beverly Hills 90210 to explain why the Twins were the ultimate definition of a team, thus enabling him to win the Dreyer Scholarship. However, his interview included a factual inaccuracy; he said Gladden hit a grand slam in the pivotal Game 4, when in fact Gladden hit one in Game 1, and Hrbek hit one in the pivotal Game 6.


1987 World Series, Aftermath
Some years after the conclusion of the series it emerged that a lone Metrodome technician had, at his own initiative, tried to influence games on the Twins behalf by adjusting the air conditioning fans while the Twins were at bat. It remains unclear whether this had any effect on game play, or in particular, on games played at the Metrodome during the 1987 World Series.


1987 World Series, Aftermath
In a February 2015 interview, sportscaster and author Al Michaels (who, as previously mentioned, did play-by-play for ABC's television coverage of the 1987 World Series) alleged the Twins pumped artificial crowd noise into the Metrodome during the 1987 World Series. Responding to Michaels' theory, Twins President Dave St. Peter said that he did not think the Twins needed "conspiracy theories" in order to win the World Series. Instead, he argued that "appreciation and respect" should be paid to players like Frank Viola, Gary Gaetti, Kent Hrbek, and Kirby Puckett, who, he said, "came out of nowhere to win a championship."


1987 World Series, Aftermath
The 1987 World Series was the final one that ABC aired that went the full seven games. The next time that ABC broadcast a World Series in 1989, the Oakland Athletics swept the San Francisco Giants in four games. For the final World Series that ABC would broadcast to date, 1995, they split the coverage with NBC. ABC only covered Games 1, 4-5 and a seventh game had it been necessary.


1987 World Series of Poker
The 1987 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.


1987 World Series of Poker, Main Event
There were 152 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament. The 1987 Main Event was Johnny Chan's first of back-to-back World Championships.


1987 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Other High Finishes
NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.


1987 World Snooker Championship
The 1987 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1987 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purpose of sponsorship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place between 18 April and 4 May 1987 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the sixth and final ranking event of the 1986–87 snooker season. The championship was the 1987 edition of the World Snooker Championship, first held in 1927, and had 32 participants.


1987 World Snooker Championship
The highest ranked 16 players were awarded a place in the first round draw, whilst a pre-tournament qualification event for 104 professionals was held between 26 March and 4 April at the Preston Guild Hall for the remaining places. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy and had a prize fund of £400,000 with the winner receiving £80,000.


1987 World Snooker Championship
Since his 1986 victory, Joe Johnson had experienced a disappointing season leading up to the 1987 Championship, and bookmakers considered it unlikely that he would retain the title. Johnson did reach the final, a rematch of the previous year's final against Steve Davis. Davis won his fourth championship by defeating Johnson 18 frames to 14. A total of 18 century breaks were made during the tournament, the highest of which was 127 made by Davis in first frame of the final. Stephen Hendry, aged 18, became the youngest player to win a match in the tournament's history since it moved to the Crucible in 1977, whilst it was the last time that six-times champion Ray Reardon appeared.


1987 World Snooker Championship, Overview
The World Snooker Championship is a professional tournament and the official world championship of the game of snooker. Founded in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India, the sport was popular in the British Isles. However, in the modern era it has become increasingly popular worldwide, especially in East and Southeast Asian nations such as China, Hong Kong and Thailand.


1987 World Snooker Championship, Overview
The 1987 championship featured 32 professional players competing in one-on-one snooker matches in a single elimination format, each played over several frames. The 32 competitors in the main tournament were selected using a combination of the top players in the world snooker rankings and a pre-tournament qualification stage. The tournament was promoted by WPBSA Promotions, a subsidiary of professional snooker governing body the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). Joe Davis won the first World Championship in 1927, the final match being held in Camkin's Hall, Birmingham, England. Since 1977, the event has been held in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.


1987 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Format
The championship was held from 18 April to 4 May 1987 at the Crucible, the 11th time that the tournament was held at the venue. It was the last ranking event of the 1986–87 snooker season on the World Snooker Tour. There were a total of 120 entrants from the tour, and the competition's main draw had 32 participants. A four-round knockout qualifying competition was held at Preston Guild Hall from 26 March to 4 April which produced the 16 qualifying players who progressed into the main draw to play the top 16 seeds.


1987 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Format
The top 16 players in the latest world rankings automatically qualified for the main draw as seeded players. As defending champion, Joe Johnson was seeded first for the event; the remaining 15 seeds were allocated based on the players' world ranking positions. Matches in the first round of the main draw were played as best-of-19-frames, meaning 10 frames were required to win the match. The number of frames needed to win a match increased to 13 in the second round and quarter-finals, and 16 in the semi-finals; the final match was played as best-of-35-frames.


1987 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Prize fund
The event featured a prize fund of £400,000 with the winner receiving £80,000. The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below:


1987 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary
The defending champion, Joe Johnson, had failed to reach as far as the quarter-finals of a major tournament in the 1986–87 snooker season after winning the 1986 World Championship. This record was described by The Sydney Morning Herald's Les Wheeler as "disappointing" and by Clive Everton as a "poor" season. Sydney Friskin of The Times reported that Johnson prepared for the Championship by practising diligently, and that the cyst on his back that previously troubled him had been removed. Johnson started the event as a bookmakers' outsider, priced at 66–1 against winning the tournament.


1987 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary
Leading up to the event, Neal Foulds had been the most successful player of the season, having gained the most ranking points during the season, ahead of Steve Davis. Twelve days before the start of the tournament, the two-times world champion Alex Higgins was fined £12,000 and given a six-month ban from tournaments by the WPBSA. The ban started on 5 May, the day after the final of the 1987 World Snooker Championship. The penalties resulted from a number of incidents, the most serious of which was headbutting Paul Hatherall, a WPBSA tournament director, at the 1986 UK Championship.