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
[edit]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+1⁄4 in). On her second attempt, she went over. Kostadinova's world record has stood until July 2024.
Medalists
[edit]Gold | ![]() Bulgaria (BUL) |
Silver | ![]() Soviet Union (URS) |
Bronze | ![]() East Germany (GDR) |
Schedule
[edit]- All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)
Qualification Round | |
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Group A | Group B |
29.08.1987 – ??:??h | 29.08.1987 – ??:??h |
Final Round | |
30.08.1987 – 16:30h |
Abbreviations
[edit]- 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
[edit]Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships | ||||
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World Record | ![]() | 2.08 m | May 31, 1986 | ![]() |
Event Record | ![]() | 2.01 m | August 9, 1983 | ![]() |
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships | ||||
World Record | ![]() | 2.09 m | August 30, 1987 | ![]() |
Event Record |
Results
[edit]Qualifying round
[edit]- Held on Saturday 1987-08-29
Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | 1.80 | 1.85 | 1.88 | 1.91 | Result | Notes |
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1 | A | Heike Redetzky | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
1 | A | Lyudmila Avdeyenko | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
1 | A | Coleen Sommer | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
1 | A | Silvia Costa | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
1 | A | Stefka Kostadinova | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
1 | A | Madely Beaugendre | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
7 | A | Amra Temim | ![]() | 1.88 | |||||
7 | A | Ni Xiuling | ![]() | 1.88 | |||||
7 | A | Kim Hee-sun | ![]() | 1.88 | |||||
7 | A | Galina Astafei | ![]() | 1.88 | |||||
11 | A | Alessandra Bonfiglioli | ![]() | 1.85 | |||||
A | Sigrid Kirchmann | ![]() | NM | ||||||
1 | A | Louise Ritter | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
1 | A | Susanne Beyer | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
1 | A | Lyudmila Andonova | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
1 | A | Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
1 | A | Tamara Bykova | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
1 | A | Larisa Kositsyna | ![]() | 1.91 | q | ||||
7 | A | Megumi Sato | ![]() | 1.88 | |||||
7 | A | Christine Stanton | ![]() | 1.88 | |||||
9 | A | Phyllis Bluntson | ![]() | 1.85 | |||||
9 | A | Hanne Haugland | ![]() | 1.85 | |||||
11 | A | Disa Gísladóttir | ![]() | 1.80 | |||||
11 | A | Orlane Maria dos Santos | ![]() | 1.80 |
Final
[edit]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 |
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![]() | Stefka Kostadinova | ![]() | – | o | o | – | o | o | o | xxo | xo | – | xo | 2.09 | WR |
![]() | Tamara Bykova | ![]() | – | o | o | o | o | o | o | o | xx– | x | 2.04 | ||
![]() | Susanne Beyer | ![]() | o | o | o | o | o | xo | xxx | 1.99 | |||||
4 | Silvia Costa | ![]() | – | o | o | o | o | xx- | x | 1.96 | |||||
5 | Larisa Kositsyna | ![]() | – | o | o | xxo | o | xx- | x | 1.96 | |||||
6 | Heike Redetzky | ![]() | – | o | o | o | xo | xxx | 1.96 | ||||||
7 | Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva | ![]() | – | o | o | o | xxx | 1.93 | |||||||
8 | Lyudmila Avdeyenko | ![]() | – | xo | o | o | xxx | 1.93 | |||||||
8 | Louise Ritter | ![]() | – | o | xo | o | xxx | 1.93 | |||||||
10 | Madely Beaugendre | ![]() | o | o | o | xo | xxx | 1.93 | |||||||
11 | Coleen Sommer | ![]() | – | o | xo | x | 1.93 | ||||||||
12 | Lyudmila Andonova | ![]() | o | o | xxx | 1.85 |
See also
[edit]- National champions high jump (women)
- 1984 Women's Olympic High Jump (Los Angeles)
- 1984 Women's Friendship Games High Jump (Prague)
- 1986 Women's European Championships High Jump (Stuttgart)
- 1988 Women's Olympic High Jump (Seoul)
- 1990 Women's European Championships High Jump (Split)
- 1991 Women's World Championships High Jump (Tokyo)
References
[edit]- ^ "Detailed results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 24 March 2019.