These are the official results of the Men's High Jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 38 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday September 6, 1987.
| Gold |  Patrik SjöbergSweden (SWE) | |
| Silver | Igor Paklin Soviet Union (URS) | |
| Silver | Hennadiy Avdyeyenko Soviet Union (URS) |
| Qualification Round | ||
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Group B | |
| 05.09.1987 - ??:??h | 05.09.1987 - ??:??h | |
| Final Round | ||
| 06.09.1987 - 16:30h | ||
| 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 |
| Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.42 m | June 30, 1987 | ||||
| 2.32 m | August 13, 1983 | ||||
| Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships | |||||
| 2.38 m | September 6, 1987 | ||||
| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | 2.10 | 2.15 | 2.18 | 2.21 | 2.24 | 2.27 | Result | Notes | |
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| 1 | A | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | A | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | A | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | A | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | A | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 6 | A | 2.24 | ||||||||||
| 6 | A | 2.24 | ||||||||||
| 6 | A | 2.24 | ||||||||||
| 9 | A | 2.21 | ||||||||||
| 9 | A | 2.21 | ||||||||||
| 11 | A | 2.18 | ||||||||||
| 12 | A | 2.10 | ||||||||||
| 12 | A | 2.10 | ||||||||||
| 12 | A | 2.10 | ||||||||||
| 12 | A | 2.10 | ||||||||||
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| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 1 | B | 2.27 | q | |||||||||
| 12 | B | 2.24 | ||||||||||
| 12 | B | 2.24 | ||||||||||
| 14 | B | 2.21 | ||||||||||
| 15 | B | 2.15 | ||||||||||
| 15 | B | 2.15 | ||||||||||
| 15 | B | 2.15 |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 2.10 | 2.15 | 2.20 | 2.25 | 2.29 | 2.32 | 2.35 | 2.38 | 2.40 | Result | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | – | – | o | – | o | o | o | xxx | 2.38 | CR | ||||
| – | – | o | o | xo | o | xo | xxo | xxx | 2.38 | CR | ||||
| – | – | o | o | o | o | xxo | xxo | xxx | 2.38 | CR | ||||
| – | – | – | o | o | o | o | x– | xx | 2.35 | |||||
| – | – | o | o | o | o | xxx | 2.32 | |||||||
| – | – | o | xxo | o | o | x– | xx | 2.32 | ||||||
| – | o | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | 2.32 | |||||||
| – | – | o | o | o | xxx | 2.29 | ||||||||
| – | – | o | o | xo | xx | 2.29 | ||||||||
| 10 | – | o | o | o | xxx | 2.25 | ||||||||
| 10 | – | o | – | o | xxx | 2.25 | ||||||||
| 12 | – | – | o | xo | xxx | 2.25 | ||||||||
| 12 | – | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.25 | ||||||||
| 14 | – | – | o | xxx | 2.20 | |||||||||
| 15 | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.20 | |||||||||
| – | xxx |