The 1987 World Marathon Cup was the second edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Seoul, South Korea on 12 April.^[1]

Results

Team men # Nations Time 1  Italy Salvatore Bettiol Salvatore Nicosia Osvaldo Faustini 6:36:38 2  Japan Taisuke Kodama Kazuyoshi Kudo Yoshihiro Nishimura 6:39:23 3  France Alain Lazare Jacques Marechet Alexandre Gonzalez 6:43:46

Team women # Nations Time 1  Soviet Union Zoya Ivanova Tatyana Gridnyeva Yekaterina Khramenkova 7:34:39 2  East Germany Katrin Dörre Uta Pippig Annette Fincke 7:42:10 3  France Maria Rebelo Françoise Bonnet Jocelyne Villeton 7:46:41

Individual men

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (h:m:s)
1	Hussein Ahmed Saleh	Djibouti (DJI)	2:10:55
2	Taisuke Kodama	Japan (JPN)	2:11:23
3	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy (ITA)	2:11:28
4	Salvatore Nicosia	Italy (ITA)	2:12:13
5	Osvaldo Faustini	Italy (ITA)	2:12:57
6	Sid-Ali Sakhri	Algeria (ALG)	2:13:29
7	Kazuyoshi Kudo	Japan (JPN)	2:13:34
8	Honorato Hernandez	Spain (ESP)	2:13:40
9	Alain Lazare	France (FRA)	2:13:43
10	Jacques Marechet	France (FRA)	2:13:47
11	Mirko Vindis	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2:13:47
12	Spyridon Andriopoulos	Greece (GRE)	2:14:19
13	Yoshihiro Nishimura	Japan (JPN)	2:14:26
14	John Vermeule	Netherlands (NED)	2:14:32
15	Thomas Ratcliffe	United States (USA)	2:14:44
16	Michael Heilmann	East Germany (GDR)	2:14:51
17	Aldo Fantoni	Italy (ITA)	2:14:54
18	Jürgen Eberding	East Germany (GDR)	2:14:59
19	Alfonso Abellan	Spain (ESP)	2:15:03
20	David Long	Great Britain (GBR)	2:15:04
21	Juan-Antonio Balsera	Spain (ESP)	2:15:06
22	Lindsay Robertson	Great Britain (GBR)	2:15:07
23	Christos Papachristos	Greece (GRE)	2:15:22
24	Peter Lyrenmann	Switzerland (SUI)	2:15:30
25	Hugo Rey	Switzerland (SUI)	2:15:30
26	Paul Herlihy	New Zealand (NZL)	2:15:51
27	Anastassios Psathas	Greece (GRE)	2:15:53
28	Brad Hawthorne	United States (USA)	2:15:57
29	Peter Gschwend	Switzerland (SUI)	2:15:57
30	Janos Papp	Hungary (HUN)	2:16:00
31	Alexandre Gonzalez	France (FRA)	2:16:16
32	Veselin Vasilev	Bulgaria (BUL)	2:16:18
33	Lee Chun-keun	South Korea (KOR)	2:16:19
34	Peter Dall	Denmark (DEN)	2:16:21
35	Thomas Eickmann	West Germany (FRG)	2:16:26
36	Hans Pfisterer	West Germany (FRG)	2:16:28
37	Justin Gloden	Luxembourg (LUX)	2:16:39
38	Stanimir Nenov	Bulgaria (BUL)	2:17:00
39	Gideon Buthana	Eswatini (SWZ)	2:17:08
40	Loris Pimazzoni	Italy (ITA)	2:17:12
41	Zoltan Kiss	Hungary (HUN)	2:17:21
42	Stephan Seidemann	East Germany (GDR)	2:17:34
43	Graham Macky	New Zealand (NZL)	2:17:35
44	Kim Reijnierse	Netherlands (NED)	2:17:37
45	Patrick Carroll	Australia (AUS)	2:17:39
46	Paul Pieters	Belgium (BEL)	2:17:41
47	Fraser Clyne	Great Britain (GBR)	2:17:43
48	Osmiro da Silva	Brazil (BRA)	2:17:48
49	Dragan Isailovic	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2:17:49
50	Peter Mitchell	Australia (AUS)	2:18:02
51	Andy Jones	Canada (CAN)	2:18:15
52	Semir Berber	Turkey (TUR)	2:18:22
53	Hanifi Atmaca	Turkey (TUR)	2:18:24
54	Derek Froude	New Zealand (NZL)	2:18:28
55	Richard Vollenbroek	Netherlands (NED)	2:18:32
56	Johan Geirnaert	Belgium (BEL)	2:18:40
57	Richard Mannen	Canada (CAN)	2:19:00
58	Steven Poulton	Australia (AUS)	2:19:22
59	Manuel de Oliviera	Portugal (POR)	2:19:40
60	Marc Agosta	Luxembourg (LUX)	2:19:44
61	Farid Belhmadi	Algeria (ALG)	2:19:51
62	Pierre Levisse	France (FRA)	2:19:59
66	Bigboy Matlapeng	Botswana (BOT)	2:20:48
79	Angel Zanev	Bulgaria (BUL)	2:23:24
86	Fernando Zuluaga	Spain (ESP)	2:24:23
87	Frank Plasso	United States (USA)	2:24:30
91	Colin Neave	Australia (AUS)	2:25:16
100	Daniel Gonzalez	United States (USA)	2:27:11
101	Youssef Doukal	Djibouti (DJI)	2:27:14
109	John Guerin	Australia (AUS)	2:29:06
116	Thomas Dlamini	Eswatini (SWZ)	2:30:39
—	Juan Antonio Garcia	Spain (ESP)	DNF

Individual women

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (h:m:s)
1	Zoya Ivanova	Soviet Union (URS)	2:30:39
2	Maria Rebelo	France (FRA)	2:31:27
3	Katrin Dörre	East Germany (GDR)	2:31:30
4	Tatyana Gridnyeva	Soviet Union (URS)	2:31:56
5	Yekaterina Khramenkova	Soviet Union (URS)	2:32:04
6	Kim Mi-gyeong	South Korea (KOR)	2:32:40
7	Irina Bogacheva	Soviet Union (URS)	2:33:50
8	Uta Pippig	East Germany (GDR)	2:34:48
9	Gabriela Wolf	West Germany (FRG)	2:35:12
10	Genoveva Eichenmann	Switzerland (SUI)	2:35:40
11	Annette Fincke	East Germany (GDR)	2:35:52
12	Rita Marchisio	Italy (ITA)	2:36:12
13	Antonella Bizioli	Italy (ITA)	2:36:39
14	Janice Ettle	United States (USA)	2:37:02
15	Im Eun-ju	South Korea (KOR)	2:37:06
16	Mercedes Calleja	Spain (ESP)	2:37:13
17	Françoise Bonnet	France (FRA)	2:37:34
18	Sally Ellis	Great Britain (GBR)	2:37:39
19	Jocelyne Villeton	France (FRA)	2:37:40
20	Carolyn Naisby	Great Britain (GBR)	2:38:04
21	Irina Ruban	Soviet Union (URS)	2:38:07
22	Maria Curatolo	Italy (ITA)	2:38:30
23	Emma Scaunich	Italy (ITA)	2:39:26
24	Carol McLatchie	United States (USA)	2:39:39
25	Paola Moro	Italy (ITA)	2:40:18
26	Sandra Branney	Great Britain (GBR)	2:40:44
27	Kristina Garlipp	East Germany (GDR)	2:42:37
28	Maria-Luisa Irizar	Spain (ESP)	2:42:49
29	Anne Corneliussen	Norway (NOR)	2:43:34
30	Laura de Wald	United States (USA)	2:43:56
31	Margaret Reddan	Australia (AUS)	2:44:05
32	Patricia Rapet	France (FRA)	2:44:39
33	Gizela Molnar	Hungary (HUN)	2:45:31
34	Hanne Jensen	Denmark (DEN)	2:45:46
35	Denise Verhaert	Belgium (BEL)	2:45:55
36	Viviene Van Buggenhout	Belgium (BEL)	2:46:08
37	Bernadette Hudy	West Germany (FRG)	2:46:17
38	Petrina Trowbridge	Australia (AUS)	2:46:48
39	Consuelo Alonso	Spain (ESP)	2:46:52
40	Maria-Esther Pedrosa	Spain (ESP)	2:47:05
41	Joan Carstensen	Denmark (DEN)	2:47:26
42	Oddrun Hovsengen	Norway (NOR)	2:48:25
43	Ellinor Ljungros	Sweden (SWE)	2:48:37
44	Carmen Mingorance	Spain (ESP)	2:49:10
45	Margarita Galicia	Mexico (MEX)	2:49:48
46	Eva Isaacs	Sweden (SWE)	2:49:55
47	Ilona Zsilak	Hungary (HUN)	2:50:36
48	Barbara Filutze	United States (USA)	2:51:06
49	Jillian Costley	New Zealand (NZL)	2:51:13
50	Helle Dossing	Denmark (DEN)	2:51:23
51	Teresa Kidd	Ireland (IRL)	2:51:29
53	May-Britt Aastad	Sweden (SWE)	2:52:52
54	Tove Lorentzen	Denmark (DEN)	2:53:23
67	Cheryl Harper	United States (USA)	3:06:38