Ladies’s Excessive Soar
The primary medals of the 2026 World Indoor Athletics Championships in Torun, Poland, went to the ladies’s excessive jumpers as follows:
1 Yaroslava MAHUCHIKH 2.01
2 Nicola OLYSLAGERS 1.99
2 Angelina TOPIĆ 1.99
2 Yuliia LEVCHENKO 1.99
The medallists all reached 1.99 meters with out failures, with solely Yaroslava clearing 2.01 meters. Three different athletes cleared 1.93, two 1.89, and two 1.85. 4 athletes leaping 1.99 set a superb normal for a championship remaining, however the competitors additionally had an early-season really feel.
Yaroslava’s feedback on her win underlined the challenges of life for Ukrainians over the last 4 years: “I began my profitable senior profession on this enviornment in 2021, however as we speak I had a distinct feeling. Torun is town the place many Ukrainians moved after the battle began in our nation, however I used to be actually stunned by what number of followers got here right here to assist me. It was superb. They gave me plenty of power and motivation to boost the bar greater, regardless that I’d already received the gold. I’m so pleased that two Ukrainians had been on the rostrum of girls’s excessive leap. My subsequent dream is to see three Ukrainian excessive jumpers within the high slots of a European or World Championships. We’re a very sturdy staff, and we’re able to doing it. This winter, I’ve been getting ready in Ukraine – I used to be a bit uninterested in transferring from one nation to a different. I needed to remain at house. We educated with out electrical energy in actually chilly halls, however the candy feeling that I can lastly be at house is way more vital.”
Nicola commented: “The competitors was superb. I can not bear in mind the final time we had one thing like that, with 4 ladies clearing 1.99m on their first try. However being in a state of affairs like this provides me a way of pleasure; it doesn’t scare me. It jogs my memory to remain motivated to leap effectively. Typically, you simply get up and don’t really feel able to compete. Right now was a type of days, however I simply prayed and was in a position to make myself really feel the precise manner. Clearing 1.99m was most likely an even bigger shock to me than to anybody else, and it feels nice to share this medal with two different ladies”.
Nicola additionally defined the problem of dwelling in Australia whereas competing primarily in Europe. Subsequent week, she will likely be again in Australia for the tip of the outside season down underneath.
Angelina mentioned: “I’m actually glad and actually happy with myself and what I’ve achieved after I had a very critical harm again in 2024. It was a fairly laborious competitors as we speak. I don’t bear in mind a contest at this degree being so excessive, the place you needed to clear 1.99m on the primary try and win a medal. It was a loopy competitors. I used to be totally targeted on leaping each peak from the primary try. That is my second time sharing a medal, after profitable bronze in Tokyo. I got here to Torun hoping to be on the rostrum, and I needed to leap 1.99m. I’m fairly certain I might have additionally jumped 2.01m, however sadly it didn’t occur as we speak”.
Yuliia mentioned, “I’ve been ready for this medal for a very long time. However the perfect reward I’ve obtained as we speak is a sense of pleasure. After years of preventing within the subject for outcomes, for medals, for data, I lastly might get pleasure from every thing I did, together with my jumps, my approach, and my communication with all the perfect girls within the subject. Three silver medallists at World Indoors is a really particular state of affairs, but it surely’s higher than after I cleared 2 meters in Doha in 2019 and nonetheless completed fourth. It’s so nice that we push one another to the following degree and to enhance at each single competitors.”
With Yaroslava getting again to her greatest after a difficult 2025, and the three silver medalists to push her – to not point out Eleanor Patterson, Morgan Lake, and many others., the ladies’s excessive leap might go from energy to energy in 2026.
