Yaroslava Oleksiyivna Mahuchikh ( uk, Ярослава Олексіївна Магучіх; ; born 19 September 2001) is a Ukrainian

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er. She was the

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bronze medalist,

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and 2022 World Championships silver medalist, and 2022 World Indoor Championships gold medalist. At the 2022 Brussels

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, Mahuchikh jumped 2.05 m, which is her outdoor personal best and a Ukrainian record. In 2021, she achieved her indoor personal best of 2.06 m, which is also a national record.

Career

Yaroslava Mahuchikh started the high jump at the age of 13, and she was able to improve significantly in two years. At the age of 15, she won the gold medal at the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in

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by the largest margin in World U18 Championships history with her personal best of 1.92 m. She equaled the championship record of her compatriot Iryna Kovalenko from

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and set an unofficial world record for a 15-year-old. A few weeks later, she won the high jump event at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival in

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with a clearance of 1.89 m. In 2018, Mahuchikh cleared 1.94 m at the European U18 Championships and won the gold medal by 10 cm over the runner-up, setting a new championship record. In October, she won the gold medal at the

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with a combined height of 3.87 m and set a new personal best of 1.95 m at stage 2. A month after her Youth Olympic success, Mahuchikh improved her personal best to 1.96 m and equaled the World U18 best in an annual indoor meeting in

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. During the 2019 indoor season, Mahuchikh jumped 1.99 m at the Miloslava Hübnerová Memorial in

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and equaled

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's U20 World record. In the outdoor season, she won the opening meet of the

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with an outdoor personal best of 1.96 m and became the youngest athlete ever to win a

event at the age of 17 years and 226 days. In September, she jumped 2.04 m at the

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in Doha, winning the silver medal and breaking the world U20 record. Mahuchikh was voted the European Athletics Female Rising Star that year. In January 2020, Mahuchikh jumped 2.01 m in Lviv, a new world U20 indoor record, which she broke again a few days later when she jumped over 2.02 m in Karlsruhe. In February 2021, Mahuchikh cleared 2.06 m at

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, the highest any woman had jumped indoors since 2012. In August, she won the bronze medal in the high jump event at the

in Tokyo. In March 2022, days after fleeing the

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, Mahuchikh claimed the gold medal in the

at the

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. She had to undertake a three-day journey of 2000 km by car from Ukraine to Serbia in order to compete at the championships. Later that year, Mahuchikh won the silver medal at the

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, and the gold medal at the

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. In September, she won the high jump at the Brussels Diamond League meeting with a world-leading 2.05 m, which is also a Ukrainian national record.

International competitions

Personal bests

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mahuchikh, Yaroslava 2001 births Living people Sportspeople from Dnipro Ukrainian female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Olympic athletes of Ukraine World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine World Athletics Indoor Championships winners Diamond League winners European Athletics Championships winners European Athletics Indoor Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Youth Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine World Youth Championships in Athletics winners 21st-century Ukrainian women