Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh in motion throughout the ladies’s excessive bounce.
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Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh set a brand new world document within the ladies’s excessive bounce on Sunday, clearing 2.10 meters on the Paris Diamond League to interrupt a mark that has stood since 1987.
The 22-year-old world champion dismissed options although that the bounce had made her the clear favorite for the Paris Olympics, which begins on July 26.
“I’m wanting ahead to the Olympic Video games right here. I’m positive it is going to be an excellent competitors with a good higher ambiance, however I do know it is going to be onerous and really aggressive,” she mentioned.
The Ukrainian outperformed the world indoor champion, Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers, with each opponents clearing the two.01 metre peak on their second makes an attempt.
Whereas Olyslagers didn’t clear 2.03 metres in three makes an attempt, Mahuchikh succeeded on her second strive.
Mahuchikh, who took bronze on the Tokyo Video games, raised the bar to 2.07 metres and cleared it once more on her second try, setting a Ukrainian document.
She then elevated the bar to 2.10 metres, which she cleared on her first strive, incomes applause from the viewers at Stade Charlety in southern Paris as she bettered Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinova’s document from 1987 by one cm.
“Lastly, I signed Ukraine into the historical past of world athletics,” mentioned Mahuchikh, who fled her dwelling metropolis of Dnipro in early 2022 after the Russian invasion. (Reporting by Tommy Lund in Gdansk Enhancing by Alison Williams)