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
Schedule
| 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
Results
Qualifying round
- Held on Saturday 1987-09-05
| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | 2.10 | 2.15 | 2.18 | 2.21 | 2.24 | 2.27 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | A | Patrik Sjöberg | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | A | Tom McCants | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | A | Carlo Thränhardt | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | A | Ján Zvara | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | A | Sergey Malchenko | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 6 | A | Zhu Jianhua | | | | | | | | 2.24 | |
| 6 | A | Luca Toso | | | | | | | | 2.24 | |
| 6 | A | Roland Dalhäuser | | | | | | | | 2.24 | |
| 9 | A | Lee Balkin | | | | | | | | 2.21 | |
| 9 | A | Georgi Dakov | | | | | | | | 2.21 | |
| 11 | A | Markus Einberger | | | | | | | | 2.18 | |
| 12 | A | Sašo Apostolovski | | | | | | | | 2.10 | |
| 12 | A | Motochika Inoue | | | | | | | | 2.10 | |
| 12 | A | Jean-Charles Gicquel | | | | | | | | 2.10 | |
| 12 | A | Milton Francisco | | | | | | | | 2.10 | |
| A | Fakhredin Fouad | | | | | | | | ' | |
| A | Hilaire Onwanlele | | | | | | | | ' | |
| 1 | B | Geoff Parsons | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Sorin Matei | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Javier Sotomayor | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Robert Marinov | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Clarence Saunders | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Arturo Ortiz | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Krzysztof Krawczyk | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Dietmar Mögenburg | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Gerd Nagel | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Igor Paklin | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Hennadiy Avdyeyenko | | | | | | | | 2.27 | q |
| 12 | B | Jerome Carter | | | | | | | | 2.24 | |
| 12 | B | Troy Kemp | | | | | | | | 2.24 | |
| 14 | B | Róbert Ruffini | | | | | | | | 2.21 | |
| 15 | B | Othmane Belfaa | | | | | | | | 2.15 | |
| 15 | B | Mikko Levola | | | | | | | | 2.15 | |
| 15 | B | Paul Ngadjadoum | | | | | | | | 2.15 | |
Final
| 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 |
| Dietmar Mögenburg | | – | – | – | o | o | o | o | x– | xx | 2.35 | |
| Clarence Saunders | | – | – | o | o | o | o | xxx | | | 2.32 | |
| Sorin Matei | | – | – | o | xxo | o | o | x– | xx | | 2.32 | |
| Ján Zvara | | – | o | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | | | 2.32 | |
| Carlo Thränhardt | | – | – | o | o | o | xxx | | | | 2.29 | |
| Javier Sotomayor | | – | – | o | o | xo | xx | | | | 2.29 | |
| 10 | Krzysztof Krawczyk | | | | | | | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 10 | Geoff Parsons | | – | o | – | o | xxx | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 12 | Tom McCants | | | | | | | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 12 | Arturo Ortiz | | | | | | | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 14 | Gerd Nagel | | | | | | | | | | | 2.20 | |
| 15 | Robert Marinov | | | | | | | | | | | 2.20 | |
| Sergey Malchenko | | | | | | | | | | | | |
