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She started her 2011 season with a major scalp in the form of Yelena Slesarenko, who she defeated with an indoor best jump of 1.90 m. [8] A greater effort soon followed on the Moravia High Jump Tour meet in Třinec , as she cleared 1.97 m to claim the world junior indoor best which Desislava Aleksandrova had held since 1994.
She was ranked second in the world for the 2017 season. [2] Also in 2017, she was named the European Athletics Rising Star of the Year. Levchenko competed at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, where she finished eighth. Her personal bests in the high jump are 2.02 metres outdoors (Minsk 2019) and 2.00 metres indoors (Eaubonne 2019).
Standing records prior to the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships World record Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) 2.08: Arnstadt, Germany: 4 February 2006 European record Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) 2.08: Arnstadt, Germany: 4 February 2006 Championship record Tia Hellebaut (BEL) 2.05: Birmingham, United Kingdom: 3 March 2007 World Leading Yaroslava ...
In March 2021, she was selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team to compete at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, held in Toruń, Poland. [3] At the event she secured a new personal best with a third-time clearance at 1.91m to qualify for the final of the women’s high jump where she finished 8th. [ 4 ]
In August, Mahuchikh won the bronze medal in the high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [60] It was the third Olympic medal won by Ukraine in the women's high jump event after Inha Babakova and Vita Styopina, who both clinched bronze medals too at the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics respectively. [61] [62]
The championship records for the event are 2.41 m for men, set by Bohdan Bondarenko in 2013, and 2.09 m for women, set by Stefka Kostadinova in 1987. Additionally, Kostadinova's championship record jump of 2.09 m was also the only time the world record has been broken at the World Athletics Championships.
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to three qualified athletes in the women's high jump event if all athletes meet the entry standard or qualify by ranking during the qualifying period; this limit of three has been in place since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The qualifying standard was 1.96 metres.
Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is the world record holder with a jump of 2.45 m (8 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in) set in 1993 – the longest-standing record in the history of the men's high jump. Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Ukraine) is the women's world record holder with a jump of 2.10 m ( 6 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) set in 2024.