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Mahuchikh claimed the gold medal in the high jump
at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade
She had to undertake a three-day journey of 2000 km
by car from Ukraine to Serbia to compete
at the championships. Later that year
Mahuchikh won the silver medal
at the World Championships in Eugene
Oregon,and the gold medal
at the European Championships in Munich
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 recordDuring the 2019 indoor season
Mahuchikh jumped 1.99 m at the
Miloslava Hübnerová Memorial in Hustopeče
and equaled Vashti Cunningham's U20 World record
In the outdoor season she won the
opening meeting of the 2019 Diamond League in Doha
with an outdoor personal best of 1.96 m
and became the youngest athlete
ever to win a Diamond League event
at the age of 17 years and 226 days
In September, she jumped 2.04 m
at the World Championships in Doha
winning the silver medal and breaking
the world U20 record. Mahuchikh was voted
the European Athletics Female Rising Star that yearYaroslava 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 Nairobi 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 2003
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 Győr with a clearance of 1.89 m
Yaroslava Oleksiyivna Mahuchikh born 19 September 2001
is a Ukrainian high jumper
She was the 2020 Summer Olympics bronze medalist
2019 and 2022 World Championships silver medalist
and 2022 World Indoor Championships gold medalist
At the 2022 Brussels Diamond League
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
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 Banská Bystrica the highest any woman
had jumped indoors since 2012 In August
she won the bronze medal in the high jump event
at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
In March 2022 days after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Mahuchikh claimed the gold medal in the high jump
at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade
She had to undertake a three-day journey of 2000 km
by car from Ukraine to Serbia to compete
at the championships. Later that year
Mahuchikh won the silver medal
at the World Championships in Eugene
Oregon,and the gold medal
at the European Championships in Munich
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