| 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 | ||
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | |
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Hammer throw | men | |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| 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.
| Gold | Sweden (SWE) |
| Silver | Soviet Union (URS) |
| Silver | Soviet Union (URS) |
| Qualification Round | |
|---|---|
| Group A | Group B |
| 05.09.1987 – ??:??h | 05.09.1987 – ??:??h |
| Final Round | |
| 06.09.1987 – 16:30h | |
| 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 |
| Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Record | 2.42 m | June 30, 1987 | | |
| Event Record | 2.32 m | August 13, 1983 | | |
| Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships | ||||
| Event Record | 2.38 m | September 6, 1987 | | |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 2.10 | 2.15 | 2.20 | 2.25 | 2.29 | 2.32 | 2.35 | 2.38 | 2.40 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrik Sjöberg | – | – | – | o | – | o | o | o | xxx | 2.38 | CR | ||
| Igor Paklin | – | – | o | o | xo | o | xo | xxo | xxx | 2.38 | CR | ||
| Hennadiy Avdyeyenko | – | – | o | o | o | o | xxo | xxo | xxx | 2.38 | CR | ||
| 4 | Dietmar Mögenburg | – | – | – | o | o | o | o | x– | xx | 2.35 | ||
| 5 | Clarence Saunders | – | – | o | o | o | o | xxx | 2.32 | ||||
| 6 | Sorin Matei | – | – | o | xxo | o | o | x– | xx | 2.32 | |||
| 7 | Ján Zvara | – | o | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | 2.32 | ||||
| 8 | Carlo Thränhardt | – | – | o | o | o | xxx | 2.29 | |||||
| 9 | Javier Sotomayor | – | – | o | o | xo | xx | 2.29 | |||||
| 10 | Krzysztof Krawczyk | – | o | o | o | xxx | 2.25 | ||||||
| 10 | Geoff Parsons | – | o | – | o | xxx | 2.25 | ||||||
| 12 | Tom McCants | – | – | o | xo | xxx | 2.25 | ||||||
| 12 | Arturo Ortiz | – | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.25 | ||||||
| 14 | Gerd Nagel | – | – | o | xxx | 2.20 | |||||||
| 15 | Robert Marinov | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.20 | |||||||
| Sergey Malchenko | – | xxx | NM |