World Athletics Championships 1987 / women's high jump

World Athletics Championships 1987
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Rome
Competition phase	August 29th (qualification) August 30th (final)
Medalists Stefka Kostadinowa ( BUL )   Tamara Bykowa ( URS )   Susanne Beyer ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The women's high jump at the 1987 World Athletics Championships took place on August 29 and 30, 1987 in Rome , Italy .

24 athletes from 19 countries took part in the competition. The gold medal was won by the reigning European champion Stefka Kostadinowa from Bulgaria , who increased her own world record by one centimeter to 2.09 m with her victory jump. Silver went to the defending champion and EC runner-up in 1982, Tamara Bykowa from the Soviet Union , with a height of 2.04 m . The bronze medal was won by the GDR athlete Susanne Beyer , formerly Susanne Helm, with 1.99 m.

Records

Existing records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Stefka Kostadinova	2.08 m	Sofia , Bulgaria	May 31, 1986
World championship record	Tamara Bykowa	2.01 m	World Championships in Helsinki , Finland	August 9, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Stefka Kostadinova from Bulgaria improved the existing World Cup record in the final on August 30th by eight centimeters to 2.09 m, which at the same time increased her own world record by one centimeter.

qualification

August 29, 1987

24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.93 m. After exactly twelve high jumpers had jumped the height of 1.91 m (highlighted in light green) and all others had dropped out, the qualification could be ended. The twelve athletes scheduled for participation in the finals had been found, there was no need to further differentiate. No athlete even had to approach the actual level of qualification.

Group A

Galina Astafei was eliminated from the qualification with her 1.88 m

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Coleen summer	United States	1.91
	Silvia Costa	Cuba
	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria
	Madely Beaugendre	France
	Heike Redetzky	BR Germany
	Ludmilla Avdejenko	Soviet Union
7th	Galina Astafei	Romania	1.88
	Kim Hee-sun	South Korea
	Amra Temim	Yugoslavia
	Ni Yiuling	People's Republic of China
11	Alessandra Bonfiglioli	Italy	1.85
	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria	NM

Group B

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Louise Ritter	United States	1.91
	Susanne Beyer	German Democratic Republic
	Lyudmila Andonova	Bulgaria
	Svetlana Issaewa	Bulgaria
	Tamara Bykowa	Soviet Union
	Larisa Kositsynka	Soviet Union
7th	Megumi Sato	Japan	1.88
	Christine Stanton	Australia
9	Phyllis Bluntson	United States	1.85
	Hanne Haugland	Norway
11	Þórdís Gísladóttir	Iceland	1.80
	Orlane Maria Dos Santos	Brazil

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	Omitted height
x	Failed attempt
O	Skipped height

final

August 30, 1987

space	Athlete	country	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.90 m	1.93 m	1.96 m	1.99 m	2.02 m	2.04 m	2.06 m	2.08 m	2.09 m	Height (m)
	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	-	O	O	-	O	O	O	xxo	xo	-	x o	2.09 WR
	Tamara Bykowa	Soviet Union	-	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	xx–	x		2.04
	Susanne Beyer	German Democratic Republic	-	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx					1.99
4th	Silvia Costa	Cuba	-	O	O	O	O	xx–	x					1.99
5	Larissa Kositsyna	Soviet Union	-	O	O	xxo	O	xxx						1.96
6th	Heike Redetzky	BR Germany	-	O	O	O	x o	xxx						1.96
7th	Svetlana Issaewa	Bulgaria	-	O	O	O	xxx							1.93
8th	Ludmilla Avdejenko	Soviet Union	-	xo	O	O	xxx							1.93
	Louise Ritter	United States	-	O	xo	O	xxx							1.93
10	Madely Beaugendre	France	Expiration not listed in the sources			? O	Further process not listed in the sources							1.93
11	Coleen summer	United States	-	O	xo	x? O								1.93
12	Lyudmila Andonova	Bulgaria	O	O	xxx									1.85

• 

  Bronze medalist Susanne Beyer, former Susanne Helm

• 

  Heike Redetzky, later as Heike Henkel, among other things, Olympic champion from 1992 , came in sixth

Video

• Stefka Kostadinova World High Jump Record at World Championships in Rome 1987 published July 22, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed April 5, 2020

Web links and sources

• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on April 5, 2020
• Women High Jump Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed April 5, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 311, English), accessed on April 5, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 5, 2020