1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's triple jump

The men's triple jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 6 and 8 March.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mike Conley United States	Oleg Protsenko Soviet Union	Frank Rutherford Bahamas

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 16.70 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Khristo Markov	Bulgaria	17.07	Q
2	Māris Bružiks	Soviet Union	16.93	Q
3	Oleg Protsenko	Soviet Union	16.75	Q
4	Mike Conley	United States	16.62	q
5	Ján Čado	Czechoslovakia	16.58	q
6	Joseph Taiwo	Nigeria	16.55	q
7	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	16.47	q
8	Frank Rutherford	Barbados	16.40	q
9	Didier Falise	Belgium	16.39	q
10	Al Joyner	United States	16.36	q
11	Steve Hanna	Bahamas	16.25	q
12	Đorđe Kožul	Yugoslavia	16.13	q
13	Arne Holm	Sweden	16.07
14	Peter Beames	Australia	16.05
15	Marios Hadjiandreou	Cyprus	15.72
16	Serge Hélan	France	15.69
17	José Quiñaliza	Ecuador	14.77	NR
18	Edward Manderson	Cayman Islands	14.39
19	Mauricio Carranza	El Salvador	13.74	NR
	Hassan Badra	Egypt	NM
	Jesús Oliván	Spain	DNS
	Ajayi Agbebaku	Nigeria	DNS
	Paul Emordi	Nigeria	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Mike Conley	United States	16.56	17.01	17.15	17.13	16.07	17.54	17.54	CR
	Oleg Protsenko	Soviet Union	15.52	17.23	16.85	17.26	17.20	x	17.26
	Frank Rutherford	Bahamas							17.02
4	Khristo Markov	Bulgaria							16.96
5	Al Joyner	United States							16.92
6	Joseph Taiwo	Nigeria							16.65
7	Māris Bružiks	Soviet Union							16.61
8	Didier Falise	Belgium							16.53
9	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan							16.43
10	Ján Čado	Czechoslovakia							16.33
11	Steve Hanna	Bahamas							16.09
12	Đorđe Kožul	Yugoslavia							15.59