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.

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.

Bykova passed to take a heroic attempt to equal the world record, 3 cm over her personal best, her only chance for the win.