Ukrainian athlete Yaroslava Maguchikh won the Olympic gold medal in high jump.
Australian Nicola Olislagers came in second, with Ukrainian Irina Gerashchenko and Australian representative Eleanor Patterson sharing third place.
Maguchikh set a world record in high jump at the Diamond League stage in Paris. This happened on July 7, 2024.
Maguchy reached a height of 2.10 metres. The previous success by Stefka Kostadinova from Bulgaria took 37 years.
The Olympic Games began on July 26, with competitions running through August 11. The opening ceremony took place on the Seine River. Russian athletes, who compete in the Summer Olympics as neutrals, did not attend the ceremony.
At the end of February 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) appealed to international sports federations, recommending that domestic and Belarusian athletes not be allowed to participate in any competitions. On March 4, 2022, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) decided to ban Russians and Belarusians from participating in competitions under its auspices due to the situation in Ukraine.
Dmitry Guberniev earlier called a world record Ukrainians are a product of planetary scale.
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Source: Gazeta
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