Yaroslava Mahuchikh, of Ukraine, rests before competing in the women's high jump final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. Credit: AP/Matthias Schrader Once ...

SAINT-DENIS, France – Ukraine’s Yaroslava Manuchikh won the Olympic Games high jump title on a night that never was about just the gold medal. Manuchikh initially considered volunteering to ...

Yaroslava Mahuchikh is the women's high jump world record holder. She was born on September 19, 2001, in Ukraine's fourth largest city, Dnipro. She took up high jumping at the age of 13 and won ...

Ukraine's best high jumper captured a world record on Sunday ... bring home an Olympic gold medal to her war-torn country. Yaroslava Mahuchikh erased a mark that had stood for 37 years at a ...

“Finally I signed Ukraine to the history of world athletics,” she said after breaking the mark. Yaroslava Mahuchikh makes an attempt in the high jump final at the the European Athletics ...

Thousands of Ukrainians watched on YouTube as high jumper Yaroslava ... in the high jump and Mykhaylo Kokhan then claimed a bronze in the hammer throw, too -- doubling Ukraine's Olympic medal ...

(Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/ SCNG) SAINT-DENIS, France – Ukraine’s Yaroslava Manuchikh won the Olympic Games high jump title on a night that never was about just the ...