Oleksiy Demyanyuk (July 30, 1958 in Baranivka, Ukrainian SSR – April 5, 1999) was a

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er from the Soviet Union, who set the world's best year performance in 1981 with a leap of 2.33 metres at a meet in Leningrad. He ended up in eleventh place at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

in Moscow. His son,

Dmytro Dem'yanyuk Dmytro Dem'yanyuk (born 30 June 1983) is a male high jumper from Ukraine. He competed at the 2007 World Championships, the 2008 World Indoor Championships, the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2012 Summer Olympics without reaching the final. At the ...

, is also a high jumper.

References

1981 Year Ranking

1958 births 1999 deaths Ukrainian male high jumpers Soviet male high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union Sportspeople from Zhytomyr Oblast {{Ukraine-athletics-bio-stub