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
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The men's high jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 6 and 7 March.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Igor Paklin  Soviet Union	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko  Soviet Union	Ján Zvara  Czechoslovakia

Qualification: 2.24 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) qualified for the final.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko	Soviet Union	2.24	Q
1	Jimmy Howard	United States	2.24	Q
1	Sorin Matei	Romania	2.24	Q
1	Milton Ottey	Canada	2.24	Q
1	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union	2.24	Q
1	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	2.24	Q
1	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.24	Q
1	Carlo Thränhardt	West Germany	2.24	Q
9	Roland Dalhäuser	Switzerland	2.24	Q
9	James Lott	United States	2.24	Q
9	Ján Zvara	Czechoslovakia	2.24	Q
12	Zhu Jianhua	China	2.24	Q
12	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.24	Q
14	Eugen-Cristian Popescu	Romania	2.20
15	André Schneider-Laub	West Germany	2.20
16	Takao Sakamoto	Japan	2.20
	Judex Lefou	Mauritius	NM
	Alexis Neophytou	Cyprus	DNS

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union	2.38	CR, NR
	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko	Soviet Union	2.38	NR
	Ján Zvara	Czechoslovakia	2.34
4	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.32	AR
5	Roland Dalhäuser	Switzerland	2.32	NR
6	Sorin Matei	Romania	2.32
7	Milton Ottey	Canada	2.28
8	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.28
8	Zhu Jianhua	China	2.28
10	James Lott	United States	2.24
10	Jimmy Howard	United States	2.24
	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	NM
	Carlo Thränhardt	West Germany	NM