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1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump

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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

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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 Bulgaria Stefka Kostadinova
Bulgaria (BUL)
Silver Soviet Union Tamara Bykova
Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze East Germany 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 Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria
Event Record  Tamara Bykova (URS) 2.01 m August 9, 1983 Finland Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record  Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) 2.09 m August 30, 1987 Italy 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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Stefka Kostadinova  Bulgaria o o o o o xxo xo xo 2.09 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tamara Bykova  Soviet Union o o o o o o o xx– x 2.04
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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.