1987 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships

1987 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships
Dates	February 27
Host city	New York City, New York, United States
Venue	Madison Square Garden
Level	Senior
Type	Indoor
Events	25 (14 men's + 11 women's)
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The 1987 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships were held at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Organized by The Athletics Congress (TAC), the competition took place on February 27 and served as the national championships in indoor track and field for the United States.^[1] The championships in combined track and field events were held at a different date.^[2][3]

The competition acted as a qualifier for the U.S. team at the 1987 World Indoor Championships in Athletics. At the meeting, East Germany's Heike Drechsler set a world indoor record in the long jump despite being restricted by a "short pit".^[4]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
55 m	Lee McRae	6.14
400 m	Antonio McKay	47.00
500 m	Ian Morris (TRI)	1:01.55	Elvis Forde (BAR)	1:01.58	Chip Jenkins	1:01.89
800 m	Stanley Redwine	1:48.13
Mile run	Eamonn Coghlan (IRL)	3:59.25	Ray Flynn (IRL)	4:00.18	Jim Spivey	4:00.58
3000 m	Doug Padilla	7:51.03
55 m hurdles	Greg Foster	6.99
High jump	Igor Paklin (URS)	2.33 m	Jimmy Howard	7 ft 6 in (2.28 m)
Pole vault	Earl Bell	5.72 m
Long jump	Brian Cooper	8.22 m
Triple jump	Mike Conley	17.76 m
Shot put	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	21.63 m	Sergey Smirnov (URS)	67 ft 113⁄4 in (20.72 m)	Ron Backes	67 ft 11 in (20.7 m)
Weight throw	Lance Deal	22.68 m
5000 m walk	Tim Lewis	19:30.70

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
55 m	Anelia Nuneva (BUL)	6.64	Jeanette Bolden	6.79
200 m	Grace Jackson (JAM)	23.51	Valerie Brisco	23.58
400 m	Diane Dixon	52.20
800 m	Christine Wachtel (GDR)	2:03.51	Svetlana Kitova (URS)	2:03.97	Joetta Clark	2:04.05
Mile run	Doina Melinte (ROM)	4:30.29	Darlene Beckford	4:33.53
3000 m	Maricica Puica (ROM)	8:43.49	Lesley Welch	8:44.68
55 m hurdles	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	7.37	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	7.49	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	7.64
High jump[a]	Tamara Bykova (URS)	1.92 m	Susanne Beyer-Helm (GDR)	1.92 m	Debbie Brill (CAN)	6 ft 11⁄2 in (1.86 m)
Long jump	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	7.32 m	Galina Chistyakova (URS)	6.80 m	Carol Lewis	6.69 m
Shot put	Ilona Briesenick (GDR)	20.23 m	Ramona Pagel	64 ft 01⁄2 in (19.51 m)
3000 m walk	Maryanne Torrellas	13:05.41

Results

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• "Feb 28, 1987, page 3 - Times Colonist at Newspapers.com".
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• "UNITED STATES INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (WOMEN)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
• "2020 & 35th USA Indoor Men's Heptathlon Media Guide". DocsLib. p. 9. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
• "2014 USATF Indoor Women's Pentathlon" (PDF). Decathlon USA. p. 5. Retrieved 9 August 2024.