# 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

| 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 |

## Results
### Qualifying round

* Held on Saturday 1987-09-05
| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
| 1 | A | Patrik Sjöberg | Sweden | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | A | Tom McCants | United States | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | A | Carlo Thränhardt | West Germany | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | A | Ján Zvara | Czechoslovakia | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | A | Sergey Malchenko | Soviet Union | 2.27 | q |
| 6 | A | Zhu Jianhua | China | 2.24 | |
| 6 | A | Luca Toso | Italy | 2.24 | |
| 6 | A | Roland Dalhäuser | Switzerland | 2.24 | |
| 9 | A | Lee Balkin | United States | 2.21 | |
| 9 | A | Georgi Dakov | Bulgaria | 2.21 | |
| 11 | A | Markus Einberger | Austria | 2.18 | |
| 12 | A | Sašo Apostolovski | Yugoslavia | 2.10 | |
| 12 | A | Motochika Inoue | Japan | 2.10 | |
| 12 | A | Jean-Charles Gicquel | France | 2.10 | |
| 12 | A | Milton Francisco | Brazil | 2.10 | |
| | A | Fakhredin Fouad | Jordan | NM | |
| | A | Hilaire Onwanlele | Gabon | NM | |
| 1 | B | Geoff Parsons | Great Britain | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Sorin Matei | Romania | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Robert Marinov | Bulgaria | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Clarence Saunders | Bermuda | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Arturo Ortiz | Spain | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Krzysztof Krawczyk | Poland | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Dietmar Mögenburg | West Germany | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Gerd Nagel | West Germany | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Igor Paklin | Soviet Union | 2.27 | q |
| 1 | B | Hennadiy Avdyeyenko | Soviet Union | 2.27 | q |
| 12 | B | Jerome Carter | United States | 2.24 | |
| 12 | B | Troy Kemp | Bahamas | 2.24 | |
| 14 | B | Róbert Ruffini | Czechoslovakia | 2.21 | |
| 15 | B | Othmane Belfaa | Algeria | 2.15 | |
| 15 | B | Mikko Levola | Finland | 2.15 | |
| 15 | B | Paul Ngadjadoum | Chad | 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 | Sweden | – | – | – | o | – | o | o | o | xxx | 2.38 | CR |
| | Igor Paklin | Soviet Union | – | – | o | o | xo | o | xo | xxo | xxx | 2.38 | CR |
| | Hennadiy Avdyeyenko | Soviet Union | – | – | o | o | o | o | xxo | xxo | xxx | 2.38 | CR |
| 4 | Dietmar Mögenburg | West Germany | – | – | – | o | o | o | o | x– | xx | 2.35 | |
| 5 | Clarence Saunders | Bermuda | – | – | o | o | o | o | xxx | | | 2.32 | |
| 6 | Sorin Matei | Romania | – | – | o | xxo | o | o | x– | xx | | 2.32 | |
| 7 | Ján Zvara | Czechoslovakia | – | o | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | | | 2.32 | |
| 8 | Carlo Thränhardt | West Germany | – | – | o | o | o | xxx | | | | 2.29 | |
| 9 | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | – | – | o | o | xo | xx | | | | 2.29 | |
| 10 | Krzysztof Krawczyk | Poland | – | o | o | o | xxx | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 10 | Geoff Parsons | Great Britain | – | o | – | o | xxx | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 12 | Tom McCants | United States | – | – | o | xo | xxx | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 12 | Arturo Ortiz | Spain | – | o | o | xo | xxx | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 14 | Gerd Nagel | West Germany | – | – | o | xxx | | | | | | 2.20 | |
| 15 | Robert Marinov | Bulgaria | o | o | xo | xxx | | | | | | 2.20 | |
| | Sergey Malchenko | Soviet Union | – | xxx | | | | | | | | NM | |