Yuliya Levchenko

Yuliya Levchenko
Levchenko at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Personal information
Full nameYuliya Andriyivna Levchenko
Born (1997-11-28) 28 November 1997
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
CountryUkraine
SportAthletics
Event
High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • 2.02 m (6 ft 7+12 in) (Minsk 2019)
  • Indoors
  • 2.00 m (6 ft 6+12 in) (Eaubonne 2019)

Yuliya Andriyivna Levchenko or Yuliia Andriivna Levchenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Андріївна Левченко, pronounced[ˈjul⁽ʲ⁾ijɐleu̯ˈtʃɛnko]; born 28 November 1997)[1] is a Ukrainian high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. Indoors at European level, Levchenko claimed bronze in 2017 and silver in 2019. 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 Rio de Janeiro, where she did not reach the final.[1]

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.[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).

Levchenko jumps at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul.

Statistics

Yuliya Levchenko at the 2018 Meeting de Paris in France.
Yuliya Levchenko and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posing for a selfie at the Olympic House.

International competitions

Representing  Ukraine
YearCompetitionVenuePosition
2013 World Youth ChampionshipsDonetsk, Ukraine 13th 1.70 m
2014 Youth Olympic GamesNanjing, China 1st 1.89 m
2015 World ChampionshipsBeijing, China 24th (q) 1.85 m
2016 World U20 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland 3rd 1.86 m
Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil 19th (q) 1.92 m
2017 European Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia 3rd 1.94 m
European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland 1st 1.96 m
World ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom 2nd 2.01 m
2018 World Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom 5th 1.89 m
European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany 9th 1.91 m
2019 European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom 2nd 1.99 m
World ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar 4th 2.00 m
2021 European Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland 4th 1.94 m
Olympic GamesTokyo, Japan 8th 1.96 m
2022 World ChampionshipsEugene, OR, United States 15th (q) 1.90 m
European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany 9th 1.86 m
2023 European Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey 5th 1.94 m
World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary17th (q) 1.89 m
2024 World Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom9th 1.84 m
European ChampionshipsRome, Italy23rd (q) 1.81 m
Olympic GamesParis, France— (q) NM
2025 World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan5th 1.97 m

National titles

References

  1. ^ ab"Yuliia LEVCHENKO – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  2. ^"ALL-ATHLETICS WORLD RANKINGS – 07.11.2017 (31.10.2017)". Archived from the original on 10 November 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2017.