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Yaroslava Mahuchikh

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Oleksiyivna and the family name is Mahuchikh.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh
Mahuchikh at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Native nameЯрослава Олексіївна Магучіх
Full nameYaroslava Oleksiyivna Mahuchikh
NationalityUkrainian
Born (2001-09-19) 19 September 2001 (age 22)[1]
Dnipro, Ukraine[1]
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight55 kg (121 lb)[2]
Sport
CountryUkraine
SportAthletics
EventHigh jump
Coached byTetyana Stepanova
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
World finals
Highest world ranking1st (2023)[3]
Personal bestsHigh jump:

2.10 m (6 ft 10+1⁄2 in) WR (Paris 2024)

2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) NR (Banská Bystrica 2021)
Medal record
Senior level
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 1
World Championships 1 2 0
World Indoor Championships 1 1 0
Diamond League Final 2 1 0
World Indoor Tour 1 0 0
European Championships 2 0 0
European Indoor Championships 2 0 0
European Games 1 0 0
Total 11 4 1
Women's athletics
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris High jump
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo High jump
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Budapest High jump
Silver medal – second place 2019 Doha High jump
Silver medal – second place 2022 Eugene High jump
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Belgrade High jump
Silver medal – second place 2024 Glasgow High jump
Diamond League
Second place 2021 High jump
First place 2022 High jump
First place 2023 High jump
World Athletics Indoor Tour
First place 2020 High jump
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Munich High jump
Gold medal – first place 2024 Rome High jump
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Chorzów High jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Torun High jump
Gold medal – first place 2023 Istanbul High jump
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Tallinn High jump
European U20 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Borås High jump
Youth Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Buenos Aires High jump
World U18 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Nairobi High jump
European Youth Olympic Festival
Gold medal – first place 2017 Győr High jump
European U18 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Győr High jump
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Diamond League Series 16 4 3
World Indoor Tour Meetings 4 0 0
Total 20 4 3

Yaroslava Oleksiyivna Mahuchikh (Ukrainian: Ярослава Олексіївна Магучіх; pronounced [jarosˈɫawa maˈɦutʃix]; born 19 September 2001) is a Ukrainian high jumper and women's high jump world record holder. She won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2023 World Championships and 2022 World Indoor Championships. Mahuchikh is also the 2020 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, 2019 and 2022 World Championships silver medalist and 2024 World Indoor Championships silver medalist.

At the 2024 Paris Diamond League, she broke the world record in the event with a jump of 2.10 m.

Career

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Yaroslava Mahuchikh started the high jump at the age of 13, and she was able to improve significantly in two years.[5][6] In 2016, she won the gold medal at the Ukrainian National Juniors Athletics Championships, held in Zaporizhzhia.[7] 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.[8] A few weeks later, she won the high jump event at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Győr with a clearance of 1.89 m.[9]

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.[10] In October, she won the gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires with a combined height of 3.87 m and set a new personal best of 1.95 m at stage 2.[11] 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 Minsk.[12]

Mahuchikh at the 2019 World Athletics Championships

During the 2019 indoor season, Mahuchikh jumped 1.99 m at the Miloslava Hübnerová Memorial in Hustopeče and equaled Vashti Cunningham's U20 world record.[13] In the outdoor season, she won the opening meeting of the 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.[14] In September, she jumped 1.89 m at the Diamond League Final in Brussels, finishing in sixth place.[15] Later that month, 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 and World Athletics Female Rising Star that year.[16][17]

In January 2020, Mahuchikh jumped 2.01 m in Lviv, a new world U20 indoor record,[18] which she broke again a few days later when she jumped over 2.02 m in Karlsruhe.[19] She was the overall winner of the World Indoor Tour in February.[20]

In February 2021, Mahuchikh cleared 2.06 m at Banská Bystrica, the highest any woman had jumped indoors since 2012 and a Ukrainian national record.[21] In March, she won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships. In July, she won the gold medal at the European U23 Championships. In August, Mahuchikh won the bronze medal in the high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[22] In September, she won the silver medal at the Diamond League Final in Zürich with a jump of 2.03 m.[23]

Mahuchikh at the 2022 European Athletics Championships

In March 2022, days after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mahuchikh claimed the gold medal in the high jump at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade.[24] She had to undertake a three-day journey of 2000 km by car from Ukraine to Serbia to compete at the championships.[25] Afterwards, she moved to Germany to train while the war continued in her country.[26] Later that year, Mahuchikh won the silver medal at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon,[27] 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. Later that month, she won the Diamond League Final in Zürich with a jump of 2.03 m, 9 cm ahead of her nearest competitors. Mahuchikh won five of the seven Diamond League high jump events in 2022.[28]

In March 2023, Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships. In June, she won the gold medal at the European Games. The following month, she won the gold medal at the World Championships.[29] In September, she won the gold medal at the Diamond League Final with a world-leading mark of 2.03 m, becoming a twice Diamond League winner firstly in Ukrainian history. [30] Mahuchikh was nominated for Women’s World Athlete of the Year 2023 according to IAAF,[31] and Women’s European Athlete of the Year according to European Athletic Association.[32]

In January 2024, she cleared a world-leading jump of 2.04 m at the Internationales Springer-Meeting in Cottbus.[33] In February, she debuted competing at the Millrose Games, where she won the gold medal with a jump of 2.00 metres.[34] In March, Mahuchikh won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships.[35] In June, she won the gold medal at the European Championships in Rome, Italy, becoming twice European champion.[36]

In July 2024, she broke the world record in high jump by jumping 2.10 metres at the Wanda Diamond League in Paris. The previous record (2.09) was one of the longest-standing on the books, set by Stefka Kostadinova at the 1987 World Championships.[37]

In August 2024, Mahuchikh won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Paris, jumping 2.00 metres and becoming an Olympic champion.[38][39][40] It was Ukraine’s first individual gold of these Summer Games, following a victory in women’s team sabre fencing.[41] After the qualification and final event, Time, New York Times and other world mass media wrote about her sleeping during jump breaks, which caused her gold medal at these Summer Olympics, and she became a hero of memes.[42][43][44]

International competitions

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Representing  Ukraine
Year Competition Venue Position Result Notes
2017 World U18 Championships Nairobi, Kenya 1st 1.92 m CR[45]
European Youth Olympics Győr, Hungary 1st 1.89 m [46]
2018 European U18 Championships Győr, Hungary 1st 1.94 m CR[47]
Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires, Argentina 1st 1.92 m + 1.95 m[a] [48]
2019 European U20 Championships Borås, Sweden 1st 1.92 m [49]
Diamond League Final Brussels, Belgium 6th 1.89 m [50]
World Championships Doha, Qatar 2nd 2.04 m WJR[51]
2021 European Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland 1st 2.00 m [52]
European U23 Championships Tallinn, Estonia 1st 2.00 m CR[53]
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 3rd 2.00 m [54]
Diamond League Final Zürich, Switzerland 2nd 2.03 m [55]
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 1st 2.02 m [56]
World Championships Eugene, USA 2nd 2.02 m [57]
European Championships Munich, Germany 1st 1.95 m [58]
Diamond League Final Zürich, Switzerland 1st 2.03 m [59]
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 1st 1.98 m [60]
European Games Chorzów, Poland 1st 1.97 m [61]
World Championships Budapest, Hungary 1st 2.01 m [62]
Diamond League Final Eugene, USA 1st 2.03 m [63]
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 2nd 1.97 m [64]
European Championships Rome, Italy 1st 2.01 m [65]
Olympic Games Paris, France 1st 2.00 m [66]

Personal bests

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Event Best Venue Date
High jump (outdoor) 2.10 m (6 ft 10+1⁄2 in) Paris, France 7 July 2024
High jump (indoor) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Banská Bystrica, Slovakia 2 February 2021
Sources:[4][67]

Personal life

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She is currently dating Nazar Stepanov, a Ukrainian hurdler and a record holder, who is a son of Yaroslava's coach Tetyana Stepanova.[68]

Recognition

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Notes

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  1. ^ This event took place in two stages, and these results were added for the final placing.

See also

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References

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