# 1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

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

## 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.

### Individual

| Name | Name | Name | 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 |

### Groups

Countries who participated in the group competition are as follows.
| Nation | Nation | Nation | 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 |

## Medal table

| 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 |

## Individual Final
### Individual All-Around

| Place | 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 |

### Individual Rope

| Place | 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 |

### Individual Hoop

| Place | 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 |

### Individual Clubs

| Place | 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 |

### Individual Ribbon

| Place | 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 |

## Group
### All-Around

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 |

### Finals – 6 Balls

| 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 |

### Finals – 3 Balls, 3 Hoops

| 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 |