"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."
The previous world record in the women's high jump was set in 1987 by Stefka Kostadinova at the 1987 World Championships.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh was born in September 2001.
Iryna Kovalenko set a record at the IAAF World U18 Championships in 2003 that Yaroslava Mahuchikh would equal in 2017.
The highest jump by a woman in over a decade was recorded before Yaroslava Mahuchikh's impressive 2.06m jump in February of 2021.
In 2016, Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the Ukrainian National Juniors Athletics Championships in Zaporizhzhia.
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.
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.
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.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships.
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.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
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.
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.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the 2022 World Indoor Championships.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in March 2023.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh cleared a world-leading 2.04m jump at the Internationales Springer-Meeting in Cottbus in January 2024.
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.
In August 2024, Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Paris with a jump of 2.00 meters.
In August 2024, Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Paris with a jump of 2.00 meters.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh broke the world record at the 2024 Paris Diamond League with a jump of 2.10 meters.
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.
Ukraine is a large country in Eastern Europe second only...
The modern Olympic Games are a leading international sporting event...
Tokyo officially Tokyo Metropolis is the capital and most populous...
Serbia is a landlocked country in Southeast and Central Europe...
Stars are giant balls of plasma held together by their...
September is the ninth month of the year in the...
22 minutes ago Madagascar faces drought, aids Antandroy; new gecko, dwarf species discovered.
22 minutes ago Marc Maron ends 'WTF' podcast, seeks new conversations outside the studio.
23 minutes ago Tracee Ellis Ross Credits Diana Ross for Teaching Her Independence and Self-Reliance
23 minutes ago Astros Eye Sandy Alcantara; Marlins Trade Rumors Surge, Cabrera Blockbuster Potential
2 months ago Eric Dane Shares Emotional Reaction After ALS Diagnosis: 'Not The End'
2 days ago Ninel Conde saves Abelito after fall on 'La Casa de los Famosos'.
The Boeing Dreamliner is an American wide-body airliner developed by...
Jeff Hardy is an American professional wrestler currently signed with...
John Michael Ozzy Osbourne is a prominent English singer songwriter...
Jupiter is the fifth and largest planet from the Sun...
Jeff Bezos is an American businessman renowned as the founder...
Hulk Hogan born Terry Gene Bollea is a retired American...