1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump

Events at the 1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

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