1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's high jump

1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m walk		women
5000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump		women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women

The men's high jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 6 and 7 March.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Igor Paklin  Soviet Union	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko  Soviet Union	Ján Zvara  Czechoslovakia

Qualification: 2.24 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) qualified for the final.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko	Soviet Union	2.24	Q
1	Jimmy Howard	United States	2.24	Q
1	Sorin Matei	Romania	2.24	Q
1	Milton Ottey	Canada	2.24	Q
1	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union	2.24	Q
1	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	2.24	Q
1	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.24	Q
1	Carlo Thränhardt	West Germany	2.24	Q
9	Roland Dalhäuser	Switzerland	2.24	Q
9	James Lott	United States	2.24	Q
9	Ján Zvara	Czechoslovakia	2.24	Q
12	Zhu Jianhua	China	2.24	Q
12	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.24	Q
14	Eugen-Cristian Popescu	Romania	2.20
15	André Schneider-Laub	West Germany	2.20
16	Takao Sakamoto	Japan	2.20
	Judex Lefou	Mauritius	NM
	Alexis Neophytou	Cyprus	DNS

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union	2.38	CR, NR
	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko	Soviet Union	2.38	NR
	Ján Zvara	Czechoslovakia	2.34
4	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.32	AR
5	Roland Dalhäuser	Switzerland	2.32	NR
6	Sorin Matei	Romania	2.32
7	Milton Ottey	Canada	2.28
8	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.28
8	Zhu Jianhua	China	2.28
10	James Lott	United States	2.24
10	Jimmy Howard	United States	2.24
	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	NM
	Carlo Thränhardt	West Germany	NM