Thewomen's high jump event at the1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at theHoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 8 March. There was no qualification round, only a final round.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 1.80 | 1.85 | 1.88 | 1.91 | 1.94 | 1.97 | 2.00 | 2.02 | 2.05 | 2.09 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Stefka Kostadinova |  Bulgaria | o | xo | xxx | 2.05 | WR,CR | |||||||
 | Susanne Helm |  East Germany | o | r | 2.02 | NR | ||||||||
 | Emilia Dragieva | Bulgaria | 2.00 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Tamara Bykova |  Soviet Union | 1.94 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Diana Davies |  Great Britain | 1.91 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Heike Redetzky |  West Germany | 1.91 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Katrena Johnson |  United States | 1.91 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Olga Turchak | Soviet Union | 1.91 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Katalin Sterk |  Hungary | 1.88 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Rita Graves | United States | 1.88 | |||||||||||
| 11 | Megumi Sato |  Japan | 1.85 | |||||||||||
| 11 | Urszula Kielan |  Poland | 1.85 | |||||||||||
| 13 | Elżbieta Trylińska | Poland | 1.80 | |||||||||||
| Debbie Brill |  Canada | DNS |
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