Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh is the champion of the indoor world in high jump. Mahuchikh is one of the six athletes of the country, invaded by Russia, present at these World Championships. Mahuchikh (20), who had to leave Ukraine in very difficult conditions to go to Serbia, won his first world champion gold in his career. With a 2.02m jump, she beat Australia’s Eleanor Patterson (2.00m) and Kazakh Nadezhda Dubovitskaya (1.98m).
As soon as she was certain she had won the race, Mahuchikh draped herself with a flag of her country to the applause of the audience. There were no hostile demonstrations among spectators, although Serbia and Russia have very strong historical ties.
Before the start of the Indoor World Cup, Mahuchikh had talked about his trip to Belgrade and the “nightmare” he experienced for the attack by the Russian army against Ukraine. “It took more than three days to get here, a stressful journey. Hundreds of phone calls, numerous changes of direction, explosions, fires and air raid sirens. I’d like to think it’s not a nightmare, but it’s the reality in my country. . It is the reality of war, “he told the website of the European Athletics Federation.
“We left our city of Dnipro three weeks ago, as soon as the conflict broke out, to settle in a small village not far from our home – said the vice-champion of the outdoor world (2019 in Doha), third in the Tokyo Olympics of 2021 – Nobody thought of training at that moment because we were forced to spend days in the cellar following the news from Kiev, Sumy and Kharkiv minute by minute “.
Source: Ansa
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