History of Yaroslava Mahuchikh in Timeline
"Yaroslava Oleksiyivna Mahuchikh, a Ukrainian high jumper, holds the world record in the women's high jump. Her impressive track record includes gold medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2023 World Championships, and 2022 World Indoor Championships. Additionally, she secured a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics and silver medals at the 2019 and 2022 World Championships, as well as the 2024 World Indoor Championships."
1987: Previous World Record
The previous world record in the women's high jump was set in 1987 by Stefka Kostadinova at the 1987 World Championships.
2000: Journey to Compete
Yaroslava Mahuchikh had to undertake a 2000km journey from Ukraine to Serbia in order to compete in the 2022 World Indoor Championships.
September 2001: Birth
Yaroslava Mahuchikh was born in September 2001.
2003: IAAF World U18 Championships Record Set
Iryna Kovalenko set a record at the IAAF World U18 Championships in 2003 that Yaroslava Mahuchikh would equal in 2017.
2012: Last Highest Jump
The highest jump by a woman in over a decade was recorded before Yaroslava Mahuchikh's impressive 2.06m jump in February of 2021.
2016: Ukrainian National Juniors Athletics Championships Gold Medalist
In 2016, Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the Ukrainian National Juniors Athletics Championships in Zaporizhzhia.
2017: IAAF World U18 Championships Gold Medalist
At the age of 15, Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in Nairobi with a personal best jump of 1.92 m, equaling the championship record set by Iryna Kovalenko in 2003, and setting an unofficial world record for a 15-year old.
2018: European U18 Championships Gold Medalist and Youth Olympic Games Gold Medalist
In 2018, Yaroslava Mahuchikh won gold at the European U18 Championships with a jump of 1.94m, setting a new championship record, and then won gold at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires with a combined height of 3.87m, achieving a new personal best of 1.95m in stage 2 of the competition. She would go on to set another personal best a month later with a 1.96m jump at an indoor meeting in Minsk.
2019: Diamond League Winner and World U20 Record Breaker
In 2019, Yaroslava Mahuchikh matched Vashti Cunningham's U20 world record with a 1.99m jump at the Miloslava Hübnerová Memorial. Later that year, she would become the youngest athlete to win a Diamond League event at just 17 years old, and would break her own U20 world record with a 2.04m jump at the World Championships in Doha where she won the silver medal. She was subsequently voted both the European Athletics Female Rising Star and the World Athletics Female Rising Star.
2019: World Championship Silver Medalist
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships.
January 2020: World U20 Indoor Record
In January 2020, Yaroslava Mahuchikh set a new world U20 indoor record in Lviv with a jump of 2.01m and then broke it again a few days later in Karlsruhe with a 2.02m jump.
2020: Olympic Bronze Medalist
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the bronze medal in high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
2020: Olympic Bronze Medalist
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
February 2021: Highest Jump in Over a Decade
In February 2021, Yaroslava Mahuchikh cleared 2.06m in Banská Bystrica, the highest jump by any woman since 2012 and a new Ukrainian national record.
March 2022: World Indoor Championship Gold Medalist
In March 2022, Yaroslava Mahuchikh won gold at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade just days after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, undertaking a 2000km, three day journey to compete.
2022: World Indoor Championship Gold Medalist
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the 2022 World Indoor Championships.
March 2023: European Indoor Championship Gold Medalist
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in March 2023.
2023: World Championship Gold Medalist
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships.
January 2024: World Leading Jump
Yaroslava Mahuchikh cleared a world-leading 2.04m jump at the Internationales Springer-Meeting in Cottbus in January 2024.
July 2024: World Record in Paris
Yaroslava Mahuchikh broke the world record in the high jump on July 2024 in Paris with a jump of 2.10 meters at the Wanda Diamond League.
August 2024: Olympic Gold Medalist
In August 2024, Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Paris with a jump of 2.00 meters.
2024: Olympic Gold Medalist
In August 2024, Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Paris with a jump of 2.00 meters.
2024: World Record at Paris Diamond League
Yaroslava Mahuchikh broke the world record at the 2024 Paris Diamond League with a jump of 2.10 meters.
2024: World Record in Paris
Yaroslava Mahuchikh set a new world record in the high jump on July 2024 in Paris with a jump of 2.10m, breaking the previous record of 2.09m set by Stefka Kostadinova in 1987.