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

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

Schedule

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
Qautomatic qualification
qqualification by rank
DNSdid not start
NMno mark
WRworld record
ARarea record
NRnational record
PBpersonal best
SBseason best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)2.42 m June 30, 1987Sweden Stockholm, Sweden
Event Record Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)2.32 m August 13, 1983Finland Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)2.38 m September 6, 1987Italy Rome, Italy

Qualifying round

  • Held on Saturday 1987-09-05
RANK GROUP A HEIGHT
1.  Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) 2.27 m
 Tom McCants (USA)
 Carlo Thränhardt (FRG)
 Ján Zvara (TCH)
 Sergey Malchenko (URS)
6.  Jianhua Zhu (CHN) 2.24 m
 Luca Toso (ITA)
 Roland Dalhäuser (SUI)
9.  Lee Balkin (USA) 2.21 m
 Georgi Dakov (BUL)
11.  Markus Einberger (AUT) 2.18 m
12.  Sašo Apostolovski (YUG) 2.10 m
 Motochika Inoue (JPN)
 Jean-Charles Gicquel (FRA)
 Milton Francisco (BRA)
—  Fakhredin Fouad (JOR) NM
 Hilaire Onwanlele (GAB)


RANK GROUP B HEIGHT
1.  Geoff Parsons (GBR) 2.27 m
 Sorin Matei (ROU)
 Javier Sotomayor (CUB)
 Robert Marinov (BUL)
 Clarence Saunders (BER)
 Arturo Ortíz (ESP)
 Krzysztof Krawczyk (POL)
 Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG)
 Gerd Nagel (FRG)
 Igor Paklin (URS)
 Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)
12.  Jerome Carter (USA) 2.24 m
 Troy Kemp (BAH)
14.  Róbert Ruffini (TCH) 2.21 m
15.  Othmane Belfaa (ALG) 2.15 m
 Mikko Levola (FIN)
 Paul Ngadjadoum (CHA)

Final

RANK FINAL HEIGHT
 Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) 2.38 m CR
 Igor Paklin (URS) 2.38 m
 Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)
4.  Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) 2.35 m
5.  Clarence Saunders (BER) 2.32 m
6.  Sorin Matei (ROU) 2.32 m
7.  Ján Zvara (TCH) 2.32 m
8.  Carlo Thränhardt (FRG) 2.29 m
9.  Javier Sotomayor (CUB) 2.29 m
10.  Krzysztof Krawczyk (POL) 2.25 m
 Geoff Parsons (GBR)
12.  Tom McCants (USA) 2.25 m
 Arturo Ortíz (ESP)
14.  Gerd Nagel (FRG) 2.20 m
15.  Robert Marinov (BUL) 2.20 m
—  Sergey Malchenko (URS) NM

See also

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.