Yuliya Andriyivna Levchenko or Yuliia Andriivna Levchenko ( uk, Юлія Андріївна Левченко; ; born 28 November 1997 is a Ukrainian

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er. She won the silver medal at the

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. Indoors at European level, Levchenko claimed bronze in

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and silver in

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. She was the 2017 European Under-23 champion. Levchenko earned gold at the 2014 Youth Olympics and bronze at the 2016 World U20 Championships. She won five Ukrainian national titles.

Career

Yuliya Levchenko competed in the high jump at the 2016 Olympics Games in

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, where she did not reach the final. She was the 2017 European Under-23 Championships gold medalist and the 2017 World Championships silver medalist. She was ranked second in the world for the 2017 season. Also in 2017, she was named the European Athletics Rising Star of the Year. Levchenko competed at the postponed

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in 2021, where she finished eighth. Her personal bests in the high jump are 2.02 metres outdoors (

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2019) and 2.00 metres indoors (

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2019). none, upright=1.2, Levchenko jumps at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul.

Statistics

International competitions

National titles

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: 2018, 2019 * Ukrainian Indoor Athletics Championships ** High jump: 2018, 2019, 2023

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* 1997 births Living people People from Bakhmut Ukrainian female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Ukraine World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Youth Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine Ukrainian Athletics Championships winners European Athletics Rising Star of the Year winners Sportspeople from Donetsk Oblast 21st-century Ukrainian women Military World Games silver medalists for Ukraine Military World Games medalists in athletics (track and field) {{Ukraine-athletics-bio-stub