1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump

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.

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Summary

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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+14 in). On her second attempt, she went over. Kostadinova's world record has stood until July 2024.

Medalists

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

Schedule

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Qualification Round
Group A Group B
29.08.1987 – ??:??h 29.08.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
30.08.1987 – 16:30h

Abbreviations

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  • All results shown are in metres
Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

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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

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Qualifying round

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ "Detailed results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 24 March 2019.