Yuliya Levchenko

Jumper

Birthday November 28, 1997

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Kiev, Ukraine

Age 26 years old

Nationality Ukraine

Height 1.79 m

Weight 60 kg

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1997

Yuliya Andriyivna Levchenko or Yuliia Andriivna Levchenko (Юлія Андріївна Левченко; ; born 28 November 1997 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.

2014

Levchenko earned gold at the 2014 Youth Olympics and bronze at the 2016 World U20 Championships.

She won five Ukrainian national titles.

2016

Yuliya Levchenko competed in the high jump at the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she did not reach the final.

2017

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.

Also in 2017, she was named the European Athletics Rising Star of the Year.

2019

Her personal bests in the high jump are 2.02 metres outdoors (Minsk 2019) and 2.00 metres indoors (Eaubonne 2019).

2020

Levchenko competed at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, where she finished eighth.