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
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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	Patrik Sjöberg Sweden (SWE)
Silver	Igor Paklin Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko Soviet Union (URS)

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

• All results shown are in metres

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

• 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	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

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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

• 1983 Men's World Championships High Jump (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Olympic High Jump (Los Angeles)
• 1984 Men's Friendship Games High Jump (Moscow)
• 1986 Men's European Championships High Jump (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Men's Olympic High Jump (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships High Jump (Split)
• 1991 Men's World Championships High Jump (Tokyo)

• Results