| 1985 IAAF World Indoor Games | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Track events | ||
| 60 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | men | women |
| 60 m hurdles | men | women |
| 3000 m walk | women | |
| 5000 m walk | men | |
| Field events | ||
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | |
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
The men's high jump event at the 1985 IAAF World Indoor Games was held at the Palais Omnisports Paris-Bercy on 18 January.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 2.00 | 2.05 | 2.10 | 2.15 | 2.18 | 2.21 | 2.24 | 2.27 | 2.30 | 2.32 | 2.38 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Patrik Sjöberg |  Sweden | – | – | – | – | – | o | – | o | o | xxo | xxx | 2.32 | |
 | Javier Sotomayor |  Cuba | – | – | o | o | – | o | o | o | o | xxx | 2.30 | ||
 | Othmane Belfaa |  Algeria | – | – | o | xxo | xo | – | xxo | o | x– | xx | 2.27 | AR | |
| 4 | Valeriy Sereda |  Soviet Union | – | – | – | – | o | – | o | – | xxx | 2.24 | |||
| 5 | Carlo Thränhardt |  West Germany | – | – | – | – | – | o | xxo | x– | xx | 2.24 | |||
| 6 | Ján Zvara |  Czechoslovakia | – | – | o | o | o | o | xxx | 2.21 | |||||
| 7 | Krzysztof Krawczyk |  Poland | – | – | o | xo | o | o | xxx | 2.21 | |||||
| 8 | Gerd Nagel | West Germany | – | – | o | xxo | o | o | xxx | 2.21 | |||||
| 9 | Alain Metellus |  Canada | – | – | – | o | xo | xxo | – | xxx | 2.21 | ||||
| 10 | Luca Toso |  Italy | – | o | o | o | xxo | xxo | xxx | 2.21 | |||||
| 11 | Cai Shu |  China | o | – | o | o | o | xxx | 2.18 | ||||||
| 12 | Takao Sakamoto |  Japan | – | – | xo | o | xo | xxx | 2.18 | ||||||
| 13 | Paolo Borghi | Italy | – | o | o | o | xxx | 2.15 | |||||||
| 14 | Atsushi Inaoka | Japan | – | o | o | xxx | 2.10 | ||||||||
| 14 | Dimitrios Kattis |  Greece | – | o | o | xxx | 2.10 | ||||||||
| 16 | Abdulla Al-Sheib |  Qatar | o | o | xxx | 2.05 | NR | ||||||||
| 17 | Michael Minoudis | Greece | o | xo | xxx | 2.05 | |||||||||
| 18 | Nalluswamy Annavi |  India | xo | xo | 2.05 | NR | |||||||||
| 19 | Ezequiel Ortiz |  Puerto Rico | xo | xxo | xxx | 2.05 | NR | ||||||||
| 20 | Mohamed Aghlal |  Morocco | xo | xxx | 2.00 | NR | |||||||||
| Tang Al-Farmain |  Kuwait | xxx | NM |
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