Oleh Doroshchuk

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Oleh Doroshchuk
Doroshchuk Oleg Evgen'evich.jpg
Personal information
NationalityUkrainian
Born (2001-07-04) 4 July 2001 (age 23)
Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Height2.05 m (6 ft 8+12 in)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)2.34m (Apeldoorn, 2025)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Diamond League Final
Silver medal icon.svg 2024 High jump
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Rome High jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Apeldoorn High jump
European Athletics U23 Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Espoo High jump
European U20 Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Borås High jump
Youth Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Buenos Aires High jump

Oleh Yevheniyovych Doroshchuk (Ukrainian : Олег Євгенійович Дорощук; born 4 July 2001) is a Ukrainian high jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships and a bronze medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships. [1]

Career

He won bronze in the high jump at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires in October 2018. [2] He finished second at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in Boras. [3]

He finished fourth at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich in August 2022. [4] He won the Ukrainian national high jump title in September 2022 in Lutsk. [5]

He won silver at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo in July 2023, sharing the runner-up spot with compatriot Roman Petruk on count-back. [6] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest where he qualified for the final. [7]

He won the Ukrainian indoor national title in the high jump in February 2024 in Kyiv. [8] That month, he jumped a personal best height of 2.30m in Banská Bystrica at the Banskobystrická latka competition. [9] [10] He finished fourth at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March 2024. [11]

Competing at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024, he won the bronze medal on the high jump competition with a clearance of 2.26 metres. [12] He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where he qualified for the final, finishing in sixth place overall with a personal best clearance of 2.31 metres. [13]

He set a new personal best height of 2.32 metres at the Ukrainian Indoor Championships in Kyiv on 22 February 2025. [14] In March 2025, he won the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, achieving a personal best height of 2.34 metres. [15] He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, where he finished in fifth place overall on countback, as one of four athletes who cleared 2.28 metres, including silver and bronze medalists Hamish Kerr and Ratmond Richards. [16]

References

  1. "Oleh Doroshcuk". World Athletics. 4 March 2024.
  2. "Oleh Doroshchuk Wins Bronze Medal at Summer Youth Olympics". uatv.ua. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  3. "Carmoy European U20 champion in height, Vekemans in bronze in pole vault". rtbf.be. 21 July 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  4. Smythe, Steve (August 22, 2022). "Brits rule Europe – full results from Munich 2022". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  5. "Ukrainian Championships High Jumping". 9 September 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  6. "French gold rush on the penultimate evening in Espoo 2023". European Athletics. 15 July 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  7. "High Jump Men". World Athletics. 20 August 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  8. "Ukrainian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 2 February 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  9. "Topic equals her national record with 1.97m in Banska Bystrica". European Athletics. 13 February 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  10. "WIC Glasgow 24 preview: high jump". World Athletics. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  11. "Men's High Jump". World Athletics. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  12. "The Gimbo show! Tamberi skies championship record of 2.37m in Roma 2024". European Athletics. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  13. "Men's High Jump Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  14. "Doroshchuk clears 2.32m world lead in Kyiv". European Athletics. 24 February 2025. Retrieved 25 Feb 2025.
  15. "Skotheim sets European heptathlon record in Apeldoorn". World Athletics. 8 March 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  16. "Woo regains world indoor high jump title in Nanjing". World Athletics. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025.