Yaroslava Oleksiyivna Mahuchikh is a Ukrainian high jumper. She started high jump at the age 13 and just two years later (2015) she won the gold medal at the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in Nairobi by the largest margin in World U18 Championships history with her personal best of 1.92 m.
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Thus far, her medals include;
- The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics gold medalist,
- 2019 World Championships silver medalist,
- 2020 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, and
- 2022 World Indoor Championships gold medalist.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh Net Worth
What is Yaroslava Mahuchikh net worth? Yaroslava has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh Career
In 2018, Yaroslava cleared 1.94 m at the European U18 Championships and won the gold medal by 10 centimeters over the runner-up, setting a new championship record.
In October of the same year (2018), she won the gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires with a combined height of 3.87 m and set a new personal best of 1.95 m at stage 2.
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During the 2019 indoor season, Yaroslava jumped 1.99 m at the Miloslava Hübnerová Memorial in Hustopeče and equaled Vashti Cunningham’s U20 World record.
In the outdoor season, she won the opening meet of the 2019 Diamond League in Doha with an outdoor personal best of 1.96 m and became the youngest athlete ever to win a Diamond League event at the age of 17 years and 226 days.
In September of the same year (2019), she jumped 2.04 m at the World Championships in Doha, winning the silver medal and breaking the world U20 record.
In January 2020, Yaroslava jumped 2.01 m in Lviv, a new world U20 indoor record, which she broke again a few days later when she jumped over 2.02 m in Karlsruhe.
In February 2021, Yaroslava cleared 2.06 m at Banská Bystrica, the highest any woman had jumped indoors since 2012 and in August, she won the bronze medal in the high jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
In March 2022, days after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yaroslava claimed the gold medal in the high jump at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
It’s worthy to note that she had to undertake a three-day journey of 2000 km by car from Ukraine to Serbia in order to compete at the championships
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