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1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

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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.

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.

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. 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 nod for silver.

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.

Final

RANK	LANE	FINAL	TIME
[[Image:Med 1.png]]	3	Edwin Moses	47.46 CR
[[Image:Med 2.png]]	5	Danny Harris	47.48
[[Image:Med 3.png]]	4	Harald Schmid	47.48 AR
4.	6	Sven Nylander	48.37
5.	2	Amadou Dia Ba	48.37
6.	1	Henry Amike	48.63
7.	7	Kriss Akabusi	48.74
8.	8	José Alonso	49.46

Semi-finals

Held on Monday 1983-08-31

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Harald Schmid	48.23
2.	Danny Harris	48.24
3.	Sven Nylander	48.46
4.	Henry Amike	48.50 NR
5.	David Patrick	48.56
6.	Winthrop Graham	48.64
7.	Shem Ochako	49.87
8.	Max Robertson	49.90

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Edwin Moses	48.38
2.	Amadou Dia Ba	48.53
3.	Kriss Akabusi	48.64
4.	José Alonso	49.00 NR
5.	Thomas Nyberg	49.03
6.	Toma Tomov	49.11
7.	Ryoichi Yoshida	49.39
—	Aleksandr Vasilyev	DNF

Qualifying heats

Held on Sunday 1987-08-30

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Edwin Moses	49.03
2.	Henry Amike	49.56
3.	Ryoichi Yoshida	49.87
4.	Simon Kitur	50.30
5.	Martin Gillingham	50.64
6.	Michel Zimmerman	50.70
7.	Pedro Chiamulera	50.71
–	Victor Lima Raimundo	DNS

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Danny Harris	48.74
2.	Max Robertson	49.73
3.	Shem Ochako	49.86
4.	Gilles Vimbert	50.34
5.	Thomas Futterknecht	50.44
6.	Pablo Squella	50.73
7.	Edgar Itt	51.18
–	Prince Dowai	DNS

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Harald Schmid	49.28
2.	Kriss Akabusi	49.36
3.	Aleksandr Vasilyev	49.99
4.	Joseph Maritim	50.04
5.	Angelo Locci	51.15
6.	Shigenobu Ohmori	51.20
7.	Rok Kopitar	51.53
8.	Ilan Goldwasser	52.54

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Sven Nylander	49.95
2.	Amadou Dia Ba	50.02
3.	Uwe Schmitt	50.54
4.	Rik Tommelein	50.63
5.	Jasem Goma'an Al-Duaillah	50.97
6.	Krasimir Demirev	51.07
7.	Jozef Kucej	51.13
8.	Wilfredo Ferrer	53.03

RANK	HEAT 5	TIME
1.	Toma Tomov	49.27
2.	Winthrop Graham	49.34
3.	José Alonso	49.42
4.	Randy Cox	50.14
5.	Philippe Gonigam	50.38
6.	Daniel Ogidi	50.51
7.	Klaus Ehrle	50.91
8.	Ahmed Abdelhalim Ghanem	51.35

RANK	HEAT 6	TIME
1.	Thomas Nyberg	50.06
2.	David Patrick	50.10
3.	John Graham	50.23
4.	Greg Rolle	50.63
5.	Stanislav Navesnak	50.65
6.	Athanasios Kalogiannis	51.94
7.	Ken Gordon	52.22

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