1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
Location	Varna, Bulgaria
Start date	17 September 1987
End date	20 September 1987
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1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held inVarna, Bulgaria on September 17–20, 1987.

The World Championships were a qualifying event for the1988 Summer Olympics. The top 50 gymnasts in the all-around won an Olympic quota for their country, up to two per country.^[1]

Bulgaria dominated the competition; the individual all-around winner,Bianka Panova, received aperfect 10.0 score on every routine and won all four apparatus finals as well (though with ties with different gymnasts on each event).^[1] She was the first gymnast to win all five individual medals at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships.^[2] The two tied silver medalists,Adriana Dunavska andElizabeth Koleva, were also Bulgarian. Bulgaria also won the group competition and both routine finals, receiving a perfect 20.0 score for most of their routines and one 19.900.^[1]

The competition was the first World Championships where groups were required to compete two different routines. Video replay was used by the judges more frequently than in the past. Nora Hitzel, the head of the United States rhythmic gymnastics program, noted changes in difficulty and style in routines performed at the competition, with more use of the feet to manipulate the hoop, more bouncing and rolling of the clubs, and better jumping and skipping in rope routines.^[1]

The following countries sent competitors: 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, the United States, the USSR, West Germany, and Yugoslavia.

Nation	Name		Nation	Name		Nation	Name		Nation	Name
	Paula Paradelas			Malene Franzen			Linda Oers			Eva Lundovist
	Antonietta Guida			Susanne Ravn			Mirjam de Kramer			Sofia Hedman
	Nicole Mozes			Leena Murtamo			Natascha Vervoort			Viktoria Bengtsson
	Elisabeth Bergmann			Marika Kosonen			Ann Kristin Albertsen			Caroline Müller
	Annik Vanderstraeten			Mira Luhtanen			Victoria Ystborg			Maura Genasci
	Caroline Verbruggen			Annette Walle			Ylje Wiede			Sabrina Muheim
	Laurence Brihaye			Claudia Bouabca			Ok Sun Djang			Chih-Yuan Yan
	Francoise Biot			Emmanuelle Serre			Suk Yong Li			Huei-Mei Lee
	Jaqueline Pedreira			Jota Tsitsela			Angela Walker			Hui-Huang Tsai
	Rosane Favila Ferreira			Maggy Michailidou			Katherine Agnew			Lisa Black
	Adriana Dunavska			Maria Alevizou			Melanie Cairns			Nicola Walker
	Elizabeth Koleva			Andrea Sinko			Eliza Bialkowska			Viva Seifert
	Bianka Panova			Nora Erfalvi			Izabela Zuravska			Dacon Lister
	Jennefer Hopkins			Zsuzsana Muszil			Teresa Folga			Diane Simpson
	Lisa Merritt			Einat Argaman			Lourdes Silva			Irina Rubinstein
	Lise Gatreau			Rakefet Ramigolski			Margarida Carmo			Anna Kotchneva
	Pang Qiong			Shulamit Goldstein			Patricia Jorge			Marina Lobatch
	He Xiaomin			Barbara Ferrari			Adriana Stonescu			Tatiana Druchinina
	Yanfei Xia			Micaela Imperatori			Florentina Butaru			Diana Schmiemann
	Lourdes Medina			Simona Brusa			Petruta Dumitrescu			Marion Rothaar
	Sandra Arregoitia			Akemi Fujino			In-Wha Kim			Regina Weber
	Thalia Fung			Erika Akiyama			Soo-Yung Kim			Dara Terzić
	Andrea Koppová			Hiroko Otsuka			Sung-Hee Hong			Dominika Kacin
	Denisa Sokolovská			Diana Velarde			Maria Isabel Lloret			Milena Reljin
	Lenka Oulehlová			Mariela Castillo			María Martín
	Ana-Katrine Korning			Miriam Hinojosa			Monserrat Manzanares

Countries who participated in the group competition are as follows.

Flag	Nation		Flag	Nation		Flag	Nation		Flag	Nation
	Austria			Czechoslovakia			Japan			Spain
	Brazil			Finland			The Netherlands			Switzerland
	Bulgaria			France			North Korea			The United States
	Canada			Hungary			Norway			USSR
	China			Italy			New Zealand			West Germany

Place	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bulgaria	9	2	1	12
2	USSR	3	2	4	9
3	China	0	1	2	3
4	Spain	0	0	2	2

Place	Nation	Name	Rope	Hoop	Clubs	Ribbon	Total
1		Bianka Panova	10.000	10.000	10.000	10.000	40.000
2		Adriana Dunavska	10.000	10.000	9.900	9.900	39.800
2		Elizabeth Koleva	9.950	9.850	10.000	10.000	39.800
4		Anna Kotchneva	9.900	10.000	10.00	9.750	39.650
4		Marina Lobatch	9.900	10.000	9.950	9.800	39.650
6		Tatiana Druchinina	9.900	9.950	9.700	10.000	39.550
7		Florentina Butaru	9.800	9.700	9.550	9.800	38.850
8		Milena Reljin	9.800	9.650	9.700	9.650	38.800
9		Maria Isabel Lloret	9.700	9.650	9.700	9.700	38.750
9		Andrea Sinko	9.700	9.700	9.650	9.700	38.750
11		Adriana Stonescu	9.700	9.650	9.700	9.650	38.700
12		Regina Weber	9.700	9.700	9.650	9.600	38.650
13		Denisa Sokolovská	9.600	9.700	9.600	9.550	38.450
14		Izabela Zuravska	9.650	9.650	9.500	9.600	38.400
15		Teresa Folga	9.450	9.700	9.600	9.600	38.350
16		Erika Akiyama	9.400	9.700	9.600	9.550	38.250
16		Zsuzsana Muszil	9.450	9.700	9.600	9.500	38.250
18		Maria Martin	9.600	9.500	9.600	9.500	38.200
18		Suk Yong Li	9.200	9.700	9.600	9.700	38.200
20		Micaela Imperatori	9.550	9.600	9.500	9.450	38.100
21		Xiaomin He	9.600	9.550	9.400	9.500	38.050
22		Eliza Bialkowska	9.450	9.550	9.500	9.500	38.000
22		Diana Schmiemann	9.600	9.500	9.550	9.350	38.000
22		Diane Simpson	9.600	9.600	9.450	9.350	38.000
25		Andrea Koppová	9.500	9.600	9.450	9.400	37.950
25		Qiong Pang	9.600	9.450	9.600	9.300	37.950
27		Petruta Dumitrescu	9.300	9.500	9.500	9.550	37.850
28		Simona Brusa	9.400	9.350	9.500	9.550	37.800
28		Monserrat Manzanares	9.450	9.600	9.650	9.100	37.800
30		Lenka Oulehlová	9.500	9.450	9.400	9.400	37.750
31		Yanfei Xia	9.550	9.450	9.300	9.400	37.700
32		Barbara Ferrari	9.400	9.450	9.400	9.400	37.650
32		Lisa Merritt	9.450	9.450	9.450	9.300	37.650
34		Nora Erfalvi	9.400	9.400	9.400	9.400	37.600
34		Marion Rothhaar	9.300	9.500	9.400	9.400	37.600
36		Lourdes Medina	9.500	9.300	9.050	9.550	37.400
36		Ok Sun Djang	9.450	9.550	9.400	9.000	37.400
38		Dacon Lister	9.450	9.350	9.200	9.350	37.350
39		Akemi Fujino	9.400	9.300	9.400	9.150	37.35
40		Maria Alevizou	9.400	9.200	9.250	9.150	37.000
40		Thalia Fung	9.300	9.300	9.200	9.200	37.000
40		Jota Tsitsela	9.200	9.300	9.200	9.300	37.000
43		Hiroko Oisuka	9.300	9.000	9.250	9.300	36.850
43		Victoria Ystborg	9.100	9.300	9.200	9.250	36.850
45		Sung-Hee Hong	9.150	9.300	9.000	9.300	36.750
46		Irina Rubinstein	9.200	9.250	9.200	9.000	36.650
46		Dara Terzić	9.200	9.200	9.300	8.950	36.650
48		Maggy Michailidou	9.350	9.100	8.950	9.200	36.600
49		Claudia Bouabca	9.200	9.100	9.100	9.150	36.550
49		Malene Franzen	9.150	9.200	9.000	9.200	36.550
49		Annette Walle	9.150	9.150	9.050	9.200	36.550
52		Elisabeth Bergmann	9.150	9.200	8.850	9.300	36.500
52		Dominika Kacin	9.300	9.200	8.800	9.200	36.500
54		Viktoria Bengtsson	9.100	9.400	8.800	9.150	36.450
54		In-Wha Kim	8.900	9.300	9.000	9.250	36.450
56		Sandra Arregoitia	9.250	9.000	8.750	9.400	36.400
57		Angela Walker	8.850	9.250	9.200	9.050	36.350
58		Natascha Vervoort	9.200	9.300	8.850	8.900	36.250
59		Laurence Brihaye	8.950	9.200	9.000	9.000	36.150
59		Susanne Ravn	8.900	9.250	8.950	9.050	36.150
61		Jennefer Hopkins	9.200	9.000	8.800	9.100	36.100
62		Leena Murtamo	8.800	9.200	8.750	9.200	35.950
63		Patricia Jorge	8.850	9.000	8.950	9.100	35.900
63		Linda Oers	8.900	9.150	8.950	8.900	35.900
63		Ylje Wiede	8.700	9.250	8.900	9.050	35.900
66		Nicola Walker	9.050	8.800	9.100	8.900	35.850
67		Emmanuelle Serre	8.900	9.400	8.800	8.700	35.800
68		Ana-Katrine Korning	8.900	9.100	8.800	8.950	35.75
69		Eva Lundovist	8.750	8.600	9.100	9.250	35.700
70		Marika Kosonen	8.850	9.100	8.750	8.900	35.600
71		Rakefet Ramigolski	8.850	8.950	8.700	9.050	35.550
72		Shulamit Goldstein	8.800	8.900	8.750	9.050	35.500
72		Mirjam de Kramer	9.000	9.100	8.700	8.700	35.500
74		Sofia Hedman	8.850	8.800	8.700	8.950	35.300
75		Katherine Agnew	8.750	9.200	8.600	8.700	35.250
76		Einat Argaman	8.850	8.700	8.600	9.000	35.150
76		Lisa Black	8.950	9.050	8.150	9.000	35.150
78		Ann Kristin Albertsen	9.250	9.150	7.850	8.800	35.05
78		Jaqueline Pedreira	8.800	8.750	8.700	8.800	35.05
78		Lurdes Silva	8.550	9.000	8.850	9.000	36.000
81		Margarida Carmo	8.950	8.600	8.250	9.200	35.00
82		Francoise Biot	8.700	9.050	8.700	8.500	34.95
83		Rosane Favila Ferreira	8.650	9.050	8.500	8.700	34.900
84		Caroline Müller	8.650	8.700	8.550	8.600	34.500
85		Maura Genasci	8.200	8.900	8.700	8.600	34.400
85		Sabrina Muheim	8.650	8.700	8.500	8.550	34.400
87		Viva Seifert	8.350	9.000	7.85	9.050	34.250
88		Soo-Yung Kim	8.350	8.800	8.500	8.500	34.150
89		Mira Luhtanen	8.000	8.900	8.350	8.800	34.050
90		Melanie Cairns	8.400	8.750	8.500	8.350	34.000
90		Paula Paradelas	8.700	8.850	7.650	8.800	34.000
92		Diana Velarde	8.350	8.500	8.350	8.450	33.650
93		Nicole Mozes	8.400	7.850	8.400	8.800	33.450
94		Annik Vanderstraeten	8.250	8.500	8.150	8.500	33.400
95		Caroline Verbruggen	8.300	8.600	8.000	8.400	33.300
96		Antonietta Guida	8.500	8.450	8.150	8.150	33.250
97		Miriam Hinososa	8.250	8.400	7.900	8.350	32.900
98		Hui-Huang Tsai	8.300	8.200	7.700	8.550	32.750
99		Huei-Mei Lee	7.600	7.800	8.300	8.450	32.15
100		Mariela Castillo	7.950	8.150	7.250	8.200	31.550
101		Chih-Yuan Yan	8.250	7.800	7.200	8.100	31.350
102		Lise Gautreau	9.150	9.350	-	-	18.500

Place	Nation	Name	All Around	Rope	Total
1		Adriana Dunavska	10.000	10.000	20.000
1		Bianka Panova	10.000	10.000	20.000
3		Anna Kotchneva	9.900	9.900	19.800
3		Marina Lobatch	9.900	9.900	19.800
5		Florentina Butaru	9.800	9.900	19.700
6		Milena Reljin	9.800	9.750	19.550
7		Andrea Sinko	9.700	9.800	19.500
8		Maria Isabel Lloret	9.700	9.700	19.400

Place	Nation	Name	All Around	Hoop	Total
1		Marina Lobatch	10.000	10.000	20.000
1		Bianka Panova	10.000	10.000	20.000
3		Anna Kotchneva	10.000	9.900	19.900
4		Adriana Dunavska	10.000	9.850	19.850
5		Florentina Butaru	9.700	9.800	19.500
5		Andrea Sinko	9.700	9.800	19.500
7		Regina Weber	9.700	9.750	19.450
8		Denisa Sokolovská	9.700	9.700	19.400

Place	Nation	Name	All Around	Clubs	Total
1		Anna Kotchneva	10.000	10.000	20.000
1		Bianka Panova	10.000	10.000	20.000
3		Marina Lobatch	9.950	10.000	19.950
4		Elizabeth Koleva	10.000	9.850	19.850
5		Milena Reljin	9.700	9.700	19.400
5		Andrea Sinko	9.650	9.750	19.400
5		Adriana Stonescu	9.700	9.700	19.400
8		Maria Isabel Lloret	9.700	9.650	19.350

Place	Nation	Name	All Around	Ribbon	Total
1		Tatiana Druchinina	10.000	10.000	20.000
1		Bianka Panova	10.000	10.000	20.000
3		Elizabeth Koleva	10.000	9.900	19.900
4		Florentina Butaru	9.800	9.800	19.600
4		Marina Lobatch	9.800	9.800	19.600
6		Suk Yong Li	9.700	9.600	19.300
7		Andrea Sinko	9.700	9.500	19.200
8		Maria Isabel Lloret	9.700	9.150	18.85

The first exercise consisted of 3 balls and 3 hoops. The second exercise consisted of 6 balls.

Place	Nation	First Exercise	Second Exercise	Total
1	Bulgaria	20.000	20.000	40.000
2	USSR	19.300	19.900	39.200
3	China	19.600	19.050	38.650
3	Spain	19.450	19.200	38.650
5	Japan	19.350	18.700	38.050
6	Italy	18.950	18.900	37.850
7	Finland	18.900	18.850	37.750
8	Czechoslovakia	19.100	18.400	37.500
9	Hungary	18.200	19.100	37.300
9	North Korea	17.900	19.400	37.00
11	France	17.750	19.150	36.900
12	Norway	17.950	18.600	36.550
13	Norway	17.950	18.600	36.550
14	Canada	18.350	18.000	36.350
15	The Netherlands	18.000	18.200	36.200
16	Switzerland	17.650	18.500	36.150
17	West Germany	17.900	17.950	35.850
18	USA	16.850	18.650	35.500
19	Brazil	16.800	18.250	35.050
20	New Zealand	17.400	17.400	34.800

Place	Nation	All Around	Final	Total
1	Bulgaria	20.000	19.900	39.900
2	USSR	19.900	19.750	39.650
3	China	19.050	19.800	38.850
4	Spain	19.200	19.500	38.700
5	France	19.150	19.250	38.400
6	Hungary	19.100	19.200	38.300
7	Austria	19.000	19.250	38.250
8	North Korea	19.400	18.350	37.750

Place	Nation	All Around	Final	Total
1	Bulgaria	20.000	20.000	40.000
2	China	19.600	19.600	39.200
3	Spain	19.450	19.300	38.750
4	USSR	19.300	19.350	38.650
4	Japan	19.350	19.300	38.650
6	Finland	18.900	19.150	38.050
7	Czechoslovakia	19.100	18.550	37.650
8	Italy	18.950	18.650	37.600

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