Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh wins gold in the high jump at the Belgrade Indoor World Championships after fleeing her country due to the Russian invasion
The Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh has been proclaimed this Saturday the world champion of the indoor track in high jump in the morning session of the World Championship of the specialty that takes place in Belgrade. Mahuchikh is part of the group of six Ukrainian athletes present in Belgrade despite the invasion of her country by Russia, excluded from the event for this reason, as well as Belarus for its support of Moscow’s aggression. The young athlete, 20 years old, who had to leave her country in very difficult conditions and travel for three days to reach Belgrade, thus wins her first major international title, although she had already stood on the podium at the Tokyo 2020 Games (was third) and at the 2019 Doha Outdoor World Cup & lpar; she was second & rpar ;.
With a jump of 2.02 meters she has surpassed the Australian Eleanor Patterson (2.00 m) and Kazakh Nadezhda Dubovitskaya (1.98 m), who completed the podium. As soon as she became champion, Mahuchikh surrounded herself with a flag of her country to the applause of the Serbian public, without any incident being recorded, despite the strong ties that Serbia and Russia maintain historically. Before competing in Belgrade, the athlete recounted “the nightmare” that she has lived since Russia began the invasion of her country. “It took me three days to get here, a very stressful journey. Hundreds of phone calls, numerous changes of address, explosions, fires and bombing sirens. I would like to think that it is just a nightmare, but it is the reality of my country,” has explained. “We left our city of Dnipro three weeks ago when the conflict started to settle in a small town, not far from our home. No one could train because we were forced to spend our days in a basement, following the minute-by-minute news of what was happening. in kyiv, Sumy and Kharkiv,” he added. (France Presse)
In the image that precedes these paragraphs, which is from Robert Ghementfrom the Efe agency, the Ukrainian athlete Yaroslava Mahuchikh celebrates her gold at the Belgrade World Cup this Saturday with her country’s flag.
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