1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's triple jump

The men's triple jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 6 and 8 March.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mike Conley United States	Oleg Protsenko Soviet Union	Frank Rutherford Bahamas

Qualification: 16.70 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).^[2]^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	Khristo Markov	Bulgaria	16.41	17.07		17.07	Q
2	Māris Bružiks	Soviet Union	16.35	16.93		16.93	Q
3	Oleg Protsenko	Soviet Union	16.64	16.46	16.75	16.75	Q
4	Mike Conley	United States	x	16.62		16.62	q
5	Ján Čado	Czechoslovakia	15.81	16.22	16.58	16.58	q
6	Joseph Taiwo	Nigeria	16.42	16.55	x	16.55	q
7	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	x	16.24	16.47	16.47	q
8	Frank Rutherford	Barbados	15.97	16.40	x	16.40	q
9	Didier Falise	Belgium	16.27	x	16.39	16.39	q
10	Al Joyner	United States	x	16.17	16.36	16.36	q
11	Steve Hanna	Bahamas	15.61	15.98	16.25	16.25	q
12	Đorđe Kožul	Yugoslavia	15.44	16.06	16.13	16.13	q
13	Arne Holm	Sweden	15.69	x	16.07	16.07
14	Peter Beames	Australia	x	16.05	x	16.05
15	Marios Hadjiandreou	Cyprus	x	15.72		15.72
16	Serge Hélan	France	14.90	15.26	15.69	15.69
17	José Quiñaliza	Ecuador	14.65	13.73	14.77	14.77	NR
18	Edward Manderson	Cayman Islands	x	14.39	x	14.39
19	Mauricio Carranza	El Salvador	13.74	x	13.59	13.74	NR
	Hassan Badra	Egypt	x	x	x	NM
	Jesús Oliván	Spain				DNS
	Ajayi Agbebaku	Nigeria				DNS
	Paul Emordi	Nigeria				DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Mike Conley	United States	16.56	17.01	17.15	17.13	16.07	17.54	17.54	CR
	Oleg Protsenko	Soviet Union	15.52	17.23	16.85	17.26	17.20	x	17.26
	Frank Rutherford	Bahamas	14.78	16.31	17.02	x	x	x	17.02
4	Khristo Markov	Bulgaria	16.87	16.96	16.87	16.70	16.68	–	16.96
5	Al Joyner	United States	16.61	16.36	16.62	–	16.25	16.92	16.92
6	Joseph Taiwo	Nigeria	16.48	16.63	16.65	16.41	16.48	16.50	16.65
7	Māris Bružiks	Soviet Union	16.12	16.55	15.91	16.34	16.61	15.82	16.61
8	Didier Falise	Belgium	16.40	16.53	16.26	16.27	16.20	16.27	16.53
9	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	15.49	16.22	16.43				16.43
10	Ján Čado	Czechoslovakia	16.33	14.23	16.19				16.33
11	Steve Hanna	Bahamas	15.61	16.09	x				16.09
12	Đorđe Kožul	Yugoslavia	15.59	–	15.53				15.59