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
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 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.

Summary

Stefka Kostadinova came into the competition as the world record holder at 2.08m and favorite, but it was not going to be uncontested. Soviet Tamara Bykova was the defending champion and the woman Kostadinova replaced as world record holder, her Bulgarian teammate, Lyudmila Andonova was also a finalist, though she was untested following a 2-year doping suspension.

By 2.02m the rest of the competition had topped out, the last being Susanne Beyer clearing 1.99m, Bykova and Kostadinova still having a clean round. Jumping first, Bykova continued clean at 2.04m, but Kostadinova took three tries to stay alive in the competition, putting Bykova in the driver's seat. After Bykova missed a second time at 2.06m, Kostadinova cleared, taking the lead. Bykova passed to take a heroic attempt to equal the world record, 3 cm over her personal best, her only chance for the win. Bykova missed and the medals were settled.

Having nothing to gain from equalling her own world record, Kostadinova passed to 2.09 m (6 ft 10+1⁄4 in). On her second attempt, she went over. Kostadinova's world record has stood since.

Medalists

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

Schedule

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

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

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

Results

Qualifying round

• Held on Saturday 1987-08-29

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1.80	1.85	1.88	1.91	Result	Notes
1	A	Heike Redetzky	West Germany					1.91	q
1	A	Lyudmila Avdeyenko	Soviet Union					1.91	q
1	A	Coleen Sommer	United States					1.91	q
1	A	Silvia Costa	Cuba					1.91	q
1	A	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria					1.91	q
1	A	Madely Beaugendre	France					1.91	q
7	A	Amra Temim	Yugoslavia					1.88
7	A	Ni Xiuling	China					1.88
7	A	Kim Hee-sun	South Korea					1.88
7	A	Galina Astafei	Romania					1.88
11	A	Alessandra Bonfiglioli	Italy					1.85
	A	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria					NM
1	A	Louise Ritter	United States					1.91	q
1	A	Susanne Beyer	East Germany					1.91	q
1	A	Lyudmila Andonova	Bulgaria					1.91	q
1	A	Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva	Bulgaria					1.91	q
1	A	Tamara Bykova	Soviet Union					1.91	q
1	A	Larisa Kositsyna	Soviet Union					1.91	q
7	A	Megumi Sato	Japan					1.88
7	A	Christine Stanton	Australia					1.88
9	A	Phyllis Bluntson	United States					1.85
9	A	Hanne Haugland	Norway					1.85
11	A	Disa Gísladóttir	Iceland					1.80
11	A	Orlane Maria dos Santos	Brazil					1.80

Final

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Rank	Name	Nationality	1.80	1.85	1.90	1.93	1.96	1.99	2.02	2.04	2.06	2.08	2.09	Result	Notes
	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	–	o	o	–	o	o	o	xxo	xo	–	xo	2.09	WR
	Tamara Bykova	Soviet Union	–	o	o	o	o	o	o	o	xx–	x		2.04
	Susanne Beyer	East Germany	o	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx					1.99
4	Silvia Costa	Cuba	–	o	o	o	o	xx-	x					1.96
5	Larisa Kositsyna	Soviet Union	–	o	o	xxo	o	xx-	x					1.96
6	Heike Redetzky	West Germany	–	o	o	o	xo	xxx						1.96
7	Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva	Bulgaria	–	o	o	o	xxx							1.93
8	Lyudmila Avdeyenko	Soviet Union	–	xo	o	o	xxx							1.93
8	Louise Ritter	United States	–	o	xo	o	xxx							1.93
10	Madely Beaugendre	France	o	o	o	xo	xxx							1.93
11	Coleen Sommer	United States	–	o	xo	x								1.93
12	Lyudmila Andonova	Bulgaria	o	o	xxx									1.85

See also

• National champions high jump (women)
• 1984 Women's Olympic High Jump (Los Angeles)
• 1984 Women's Friendship Games High Jump (Prague)
• 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

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