| 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
| | ||
| 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 women's high jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 8 March. There was no qualification round, only a final round.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 1.80 | 1.85 | 1.88 | 1.91 | 1.94 | 1.97 | 2.00 | 2.02 | 2.05 | 2.09 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stefka Kostadinova | o | xo | xxx | 2.05 | WR , CR | |||||||||
| Susanne Helm | o | r | 2.02 | NR | ||||||||||
| Emilia Dragieva | 2.00 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Tamara Bykova | 1.94 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Diana Davies | 1.91 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Heike Redetzky | 1.91 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Katrena Johnson | 1.91 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Olga Turchak | 1.91 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Katalin Sterk | 1.88 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Rita Graves | 1.88 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Megumi Sato | 1.85 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Urszula Kielan | 1.85 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Elżbieta Trylińska | 1.80 | ||||||||||||
| Debbie Brill | DNS |