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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 , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ..., Italy. There were a total number of 41 participating athletes, with six qualifying heats and the final held on 31 August 1987. Results Final Monday, 31 August 1987 Semifinals Sunday, 30 August 1987 Heats Saturday, 29 August 1987 References Results {{DEFAULTSORT:1987 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 400 Metres 400 metres at the World Athletics Championships 1987 in women's athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
400 Metres
The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and race in separate lanes for the entire course. In many countries, athletes previously competed in the 440-yard dash (402.336 m)—which is a quarter of a mile and was referred to as the 'quarter-mile'—instead of the 400 m (437.445 yards), though this distance is now obsolete. Like other sprint disciplines, the 400 m involves the use of starting blocks. The runners take up position in the blocks on the 'ready' command, adopt a more efficient starting posture which Isometric exercise#Isometric presses as preparation for explosive power movements, isometrically preloads their muscles on the 'set' command, and stride forwards from the block ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charmaine Crooks
Charmaine Crooks (born August 8, 1962), is a Canadian athlete, five-time Olympian and Olympic Silver Medallist (LA '84, 4X400m Relay). Crooks was born in Mandeville, Jamaica, but represented Canada for close to 20 years in athletics. The first Canadian woman to run 800 metres in under two minutes, she won gold medals at the Pan American, Commonwealth, World Cup, and the World Student Games. In 1996, she had the honour of being Canada's Flag Bearer at the Opening Ceremonies of the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games. She is the fifth child with five sisters and three brothers. Crooks won the 400 metre title at the first Pan Am Junior Championships in 1980, as well as a silver in the 4 x 400 metre relay. In 1981 she won a bronze at the World Cup in Rome as a member of the America's 4 x 400 metre relay team. She won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay and placed seventh in a nine-woman field in the individual 400 metre race at the 1982 Commonwealth games. In 1983, she won gold in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina
Mariya Dzhumabaevna Pinigina (russian: Мария Джумабаевна Пинигина, née Kulchunova; born 9 February 1958 in Ivanovka, Kyrgyz SSR) is a former Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres, training at Spartak in Kyiv. She represented the Soviet Union. Pinigina competed for USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates 400m hurdles silver medalist Tatyana Ledovskaya, 400m bronze medalist Olga Nazarova and olympic 400m champion Olga Bryzgina. That USSR relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten. She also won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics. In November 2013, she served as one of the torch bearers in Yakutsk for the 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay. Mariya Pinigina is married to Olympic wrestling champion Pavel Pinigin Pavel Pinigin (russian: Павел Павлович Пинигин; sah, Пини ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Usifo
Maria Usifo (born 1 August 1964) is Nigerian athlete and former Olympian who represented Nigeria at Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988) Olympic Games. She specialized in the 100 and 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once a .... She is one of the female athletes in Nigerian sports history who dominated athletic events both at national and international levels. Career in sports Usifo started her career in sports in Nigeria in the 1970s when the school sports system was functional. She was a former hurdler and quarter-miler whose athletic opened opportunities for her to choose from 10 foreign universities after her outstanding performance at the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia in 1982. She participated in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanca Lacambra
Blanca Lacambra Sáiz (born 28 August 1965, in San Sebastián) is a retired Spanish sprinter who competed primarily in the 200 and 400 metres. She represented her country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, as well as three consecutive World Championships, starting in 1987. In addition, she won the silver medal at the 1987 European Indoor Championships and multiple medals at the Ibero-American Championships Competition record Personal bests Outdoor * 100 metres – 11.61 (+1.3 m/s) (Barcelona 1987) * 200 metres – 23.04 (0.0 m/s) (Mexico City 1988) * 400 metres – 51.73 (Madrid 1988) Indoor * 200 metres – 23.19 (Liévin 1987) * 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor runn ... – 54.34 (Piraeus 1985) References All-Athletics profile 1965 births Livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilrey Oliver
Ilrey Oliver (2 September 1962 – 26 December 2002) was a Jamaican sprint (running), sprinter. She competed in the Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metres, women's 400 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics. She was killed in a road accident in Florida in 2002. Competing for the Tennessee Volunteers track and field team, Oliver won the 1986 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 4 × 100 meter relay at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, 4 × 100 m. References External links * 1962 births 2002 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Jamaican female sprinters Olympic athletes for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 1987 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for Jamaica Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Place of birth missing Road incident deaths in Florida Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games Olympic female sprinters 20th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judit Forgács
Judit Forgács (born 25 May 1959 in Budapest) is a Hungarian former sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. She won bronze medals at the 1987 World Indoor Championships and 1990 European Indoor Championships. In addition she competed at the 1980 and 1992 Summer Olympics. International competitions 1Representing Europe Personal bests Outdoor *100 metres – 11.95 (Budapest 1983) *200 metres – 23.46 (Sofia 1983) * 400 metres – 51.55 (Budapest 1983) Indoor *60 metres – 7.54 (Budapest 1984) *200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ... – 23.78 (Budapest 1987) * 400 metres – 52.29 (Budapest 1987) References All-Athletics profile 1959 births Living people Athletes from Budapest Hungarian female sprinters Olympic athletes for Hungary Athlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisca Chepkurui
Francisca Chepkurui, HSC (born 11 September 1963) is a retired Kenyan middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 400 metres at the 1987 All-Africa Games in Nairobi. Later in those games she anchored Kenya to a silver medal in set the 4 × 400 metres relay, setting a still-standing Kenyan record of 3:28.94. Later in the 1987 season, Chepkurui competed in the second-ever World Championships in Athletics in both the 400 m and the . She did not advance to the finals in either event. In 1988, Chepkurui moved up to the 800 metres, culminating in August with a 1:58.1 hand-timed personal best which at the time was a Kenyan record and African record. Her national record stood until 2007. She was viewed as a gold medal favorite for the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helga Arendt
Helga Arendt (24 April 1964 – 11 March 2013) was a West German sprinter who competed mainly in the 400 metres. Biography Arendt was born in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1987 she finished fourth at the 1987 European Indoor Championships, only 0.01 second behind bronze medalist Cristina Pérez. Later that year she competed at the 1987 World Championships. In the 4 x 400 metres relay she finished fifth with teammates Ute Thimm, Gudrun Abt and Gisela Kinzel. She also competed in the individual 400 metres distance, but did not reach the final round of competition. On 20 February the next year Arendt helped set a world indoor record of 1:32.55 minutes in the 4 x 200 metres relay, with Silke Knoll, Mechthild Kluth and Gisela Kinzel of the sports club SC Eintracht Hamm. At the 1988 European Indoor Championships she won a silver medal in the 400 metres, placing between East Germans Petra Müller and Dagmar Neubauer. At the 1988 Olympic Games she finished seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Kinzel
Gisela Kinzel, née Gottwald (born 17 May 1961 in Kirchhellen) is a retired athlete who represented West Germany. She specialized in 400 metres, and competed for the clubs VfL Gladbeck and SC Eintracht Hamm. Competition Results Her biggest success came in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1986 European Championships, where she won the silver medal, with the West German national team. The team consisted of Gisela Kinzel, Ute Thimm, Heidi-Elke Gaugel and Gaby Bußmann. In addition she helped finish sixth at the 1983 World Championships. She was fifth at the 1987 World Championships. She ran in the heats at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October .... Kinzel won a silver medal for the 400 metre category at the 1987 European Indoor Championships. Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabienne Ficher
Fabienne Ficher (born 25 April 1966 in Paris) is a retired French athlete who specialised in the 400 meters. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics as well as one outdoor and five indoor World Championships. International competitions Personal bests Outdoor *100 metres – 11.62 (+1.1 m/s, Montgeron 1996) *200 metres – 23.29 (+2.0 m/s, Montgeron 1998) * 400 metres – 51.81 (Tours 1988) Indoor *60 metres – 7.27 (Eaubonne 1999) *200 metres – 23.20 (Liévin 1999) * 400 metres – 53.17 (Liévin 1988) See also *French records in athletics The following are the national records in athletics in France maintained by France's national athletics federation – Fédération française d'athlétisme (FFA). Outdoor Key to tables: + = en route to a longer distance h = hand timing M ... * :French athletes References All-Athletics profile External links * French female sprinters Olympic athletes for France Living people 1966 births Athletes (track an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Rattray-Williams
Cathy Ann Rattray-Williams (born 19 August 1963) is a retired female sprinter from Jamaica, who mainly competed in the women's 400 metres during her career. She is a four-time Olympian, making her debut in 1980 (Moscow, Soviet Union). She won 17 All-American honors while competing in college for the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state .... International competitions References External links * * 1963 births Living people Jamaican female sprinters Olympic athletes for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Trelawny Parish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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