World Athletics Championships 1987 / men's high jump

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline		high jump
gender		Men
Attendees		34 athletes from 26 countries
venue		Rome
Competition location		Olympic Stadium
Competition phase		September 5th (qualification) September 6th (final)
Medalist
	Patrik Sjöberg ( SWE )
	Hennadij Awdjejenko ( URS ) Igor Paklin ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The men's high jump at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 5 and 6, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

In this competition, the silver medal was awarded twice because of the tie between two athletes, even after the failed attempt rule was applied. The shared second place was occupied by two high jumpers from the Soviet Union . The Swedish Olympic runner-up in 1984 and world record holder Patrik Sjöberg became world champions . The two silver medals went to defending champion Hennadij Awdjejenko and the reigning European champion Igor Paklin .

Records

Existing records

World record	2.42 m	Patrik Sjöberg	Stockholm , Sweden	July 30, 1987
World championship record	2.32 m	Hennadij Avdjejenko	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1983
		Tyke Peacock

Record improvement

The World Cup record was improved by all three medal winners by six centimeters to 2.38 m in the final on September 6:

• Patrik Sjöberg , Sweden
• Hennadij Avdjejenko , Soviet Union
• Igor Paklin , Soviet Union

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

5th September 1987

34 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.29 m. After sixteen athletes jumped 2.27 m, no further differentiation was made. These sixteen high jumpers (highlighted in light green) contested the final on the following day.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
q	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	2.27
	Tom McCants	United States
	Carlo Thränhardt	BR Germany
	Jan Zvara	Czechoslovakia
	Sergei Malchenko	Soviet Union
6th	Zhu Jianhua	People's Republic of China	2.24
	Luca Toso	Italy
	Roland Dalhauser	Switzerland
9	Lee Balkin	United States	2.21
	Georgi Dakov	Bulgaria
11	Markus Einberger	Austria	2.18
12	Saso Apostolovski	Yugoslavia	2.10
	Milton Francisco	Brazil
	Motochika Inoue	Japan
	Jean-Charles Gicquel	France
NM	Fouad Fahriedin	Jordan	ogV
	Hilaire Onwanlele	Gabon

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
q	Geoff Parsons	Great Britain	2.27
	Sorin Matei	Romania
	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba
	Robert Marinov	Bulgaria
	Clarence Saunders	Bermuda
	Arturo Ortiz	Spain
	Krzysztof Krawczyk	Poland
	Dietmar Mögenburg	BR Germany
	Gerd Nagel	BR Germany
	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union
	Hennadij Avdjejenko	Soviet Union
12	Jerome Carter	United States	2.24
	Troy Kemp	Bahamas
14th	Róbert Ruffini	Czechoslovakia	2.21
15th	Othmane Belfaa	Algeria	2.15
	Mikko Levola	Finland
	Paul Ngadjadoum	Chad

final

September 6, 1987

space

Surname

nation

Result (noun)

2.10 m

2.15 m

2.20 m

2.25 m

2.29 m

2.32 m

2.35 m

2.38 m

2.40 m

1

Patrik Sjöberg

Sweden

2.38 CR

-

-

-

O

-

O

O

O

xxx

2

Hennadij Avdjejenko

Soviet Union

2.38 CR

-

-

O

O

oxo

O

xo

xxo

xxx

Igor Paklin

Soviet Union

2.38 CR

-

-

O

O

O

O

xxo

xxo

xxx

4th

Dietmar Mögenburg

BR Germany

2.35

-

-

-

O

O

O

O

x

xx

5

Clarence Saunders

Bermuda

2.32

-

-

O

O

-

O

xxx

6th

Sorin Matei

Romania

2.32

-

-

O

xxo

O

O

x

xx

7th

Jan Zvara

Czechoslovakia

2.32

-

O

O

O

O

xxo

xxx

8th

Carlo Thränhardt

BR Germany

2.29

-

-

-

O

O

xxx

9

Javier Sotomayor

Cuba

2.29

-

-

O

O

xo

xxx

10

Krzysztof Krawczyk

Poland

2.25

-

-

-

O

xxx

Geoff Parsons

Great Britain

2.25

-

O

-

O

xxx

12

Tom McCants

United States

2.25

Arturo Ortiz

Spain

2.25

14th

Gerd Nagel

BR Germany

2.20

15th

Robert Marinov

Bulgaria

2.20

NM

Sergei Malchenko

Soviet Union

ogV

• 

  Patrik Sjöberg became world champion, 1984 Olympic runner-up and world record holder

• 

  Sorin Matei finished sixth

• 

  Javier Sotomayor, later, among others, Olympic champion ( 1992 ), two-time world champion ( 1993 / 1997 ) and world record holder, came to ninth place

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 26, 2020
• Men High Jump Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 26, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men High Jump, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 159), English, accessed on March 26, 2020

Video

• 1987 Rome - World Championship - High Jump - Men on youtube.com, accessed March 26, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 26, 2020