1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump

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
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

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These are the official results of the Women's High Jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 24 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday August 30, 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Stefka Kostadinova Bulgaria (BUL)
Silver	Tamara Bykova Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Susanne Helm-Beyer East Germany (GDR)

Schedule

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

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
29.08.1987 – ??:??h	29.08.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
30.08.1987 – 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	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.08 m	May 31, 1986	Sofia, Bulgaria
Event Record	Tamara Bykova (URS)	2.01 m	August 9, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.09 m	August 30, 1987	Rome, Italy
Event Record

Qualifying round

• Held on Saturday 1987-08-29

RANK	GROUP A	HEIGHT
1.	Heike Redetzky (FRG)	1.91 m
1.	Lyudmila Avdeyenko (URS)	1.91 m
1.	Coleen Sommer (USA)	1.91 m
1.	Silvia Costa (CUB)	1.91 m
1.	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	1.91 m
1.	Madely Beaugendre (FRA)	1.91 m
7.	Amra Temim (YUG)	1.88 m
7.	Ni Xiuling (CHN)	1.88 m
7.	Kim Hee-sun (KOR)	1.88 m
7.	Alina Astafei (ROU)	1.88 m
11.	Alessandra Bonfiglioli (ITA)	1.85 m
	Sigrid Kirchmann (AUT)	NM

RANK	GROUP B	HEIGHT
1.	Louise Ritter (USA)	1.91 m
1.	Susanne Helm-Beyer (GDR)	1.91 m
1.	Lyudmila Andonova (BUL)	1.91 m
1.	Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva (BUL)	1.91 m
1.	Tamara Bykova (URS)	1.91 m
1.	Larisa Kositsyna (URS)	1.91 m
7.	Megumi Sato (JPN)	1.88 m
7.	Christine Stanton (AUS)	1.88 m
9.	Phyllis Bluntson (USA)	1.85 m
9.	Hanne Haugland (NOR)	1.85 m
11.	Thórdís Gísladóttir (ISL)	1.80 m
11.	Orlane Maria dos Santos (BRA)	1.80 m

Final

RANK	FINAL	HEIGHT
	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.09 m WR
	Tamara Bykova (URS)	2.04 m
	Susanne Helm-Beyer (GDR)	1.99 m
4.	Silvia Costa (CUB)	1.96 m
5.	Larisa Kositsyna (URS)	1.96 m
6.	Heike Redetzky (FRG)	1.96 m
7.	Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva (BUL)	1.93 m
8.	Louise Ritter (USA)	1.93 m
8.	Lyudmila Avdeyenko (URS)	1.93 m
10.	Madely Beaugendre (FRA)	1.93 m
11.	Coleen Sommer (USA)	1.93 m
12.	Lyudmila Andonova (BUL)	1.85 m

See also

• National champions high jump (women)
• 1984 Women's Olympic High Jump (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Women's European Championships High Jump (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Women's Olympic High Jump (Seoul)
• 1990 Women's European Championships High Jump (Split)
• 1991 Women's World Championships High Jump (Tokyo)

References

• Results