1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump

These are the official results of the Men's High Jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 38 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday September 6, 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Patrik Sjöberg Sweden (SWE)
Silver	Igor Paklin Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko Soviet Union (URS)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
05.09.1987 – ??:??h	05.09.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
06.09.1987 – 16:30h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)	2.42 m	June 30, 1987	Stockholm, Sweden
Event Record	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)	2.32 m	August 13, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)	2.38 m	September 6, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualifying round

• Held on Saturday 1987-09-05

RANK	GROUP A	HEIGHT
1.	Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)	2.27 m
	Tom McCants (USA)
	Carlo Thränhardt (FRG)
	Ján Zvara (TCH)
	Sergey Malchenko (URS)
6.	Jianhua Zhu (CHN)	2.24 m
	Luca Toso (ITA)
	Roland Dalhäuser (AUT)
9.	Lee Balkin (USA)	2.21 m
	Georgi Dakov (BUL)
11.	Markus Einberger (AUT)	2.18 m
12.	Sašo Apostolovski (YUG)	2.10 m
	Motochika Inoue (JPN)
	Jean-Charles Gicquel (FRA)
	Milton Francisco (BRA)
—	Fakhredin Fouad (JOR)	NM
	Hilaire Onwanlele (GAB)

RANK	GROUP B	HEIGHT
1.	Geoff Parsons (GBR)	2.27 m
	Sorin Matei (ROU)
	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)
	Robert Marinov (BUL)
	Clarence Saunders (BER)
	Arturo Ortíz (ESP)
	Krzysztof Krawczyk (POL)
	Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG)
	Gerd Nagel (FRG)
	Igor Paklin (URS)
	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)
12.	Jerome Carter (USA)	2.24 m
	Troy Kemp (BAH)
14.	Róbert Ruffini (TCH)	2.21 m
15.	Othmane Belfaa (ALG)	2.15 m
	Mikko Levola (FIN)
	Paul Ngadjadoum (CHA)

Final

RANK	FINAL	HEIGHT
	Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)	2.38 m CR
	Igor Paklin (URS)	2.38 m
	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)
4.	Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG)	2.35 m
5.	Clarence Saunders (BER)	2.32 m
6.	Sorin Matei (ROU)	2.32 m
7.	Ján Zvara (TCH)	2.32 m
8.	Carlo Thränhardt (FRG)	2.29 m
9.	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.29 m
10.	Krzysztof Krawczyk (POL)	2.25 m
	Geoff Parsons (GBR)
12.	Tom McCants (USA)	2.25 m
	Arturo Ortíz (ESP)
14.	Gerd Nagel (FRG)	2.20 m
15.	Robert Marinov (BUL)	2.20 m
—	Sergey Malchenko (URS)	NM

See also

• 1983 Men's World Championships High Jump (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Olympic High Jump (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships High Jump (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Men's Olympic High Jump (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships High Jump (Split)
• 1991 Men's World Championships High Jump (Tokyo)

References

• Results