Kyriakos Ioannou ( el, Κυριάκος Ιωάννου, born 26 July 1984) is a Cypriot high jumper. He has twice won medals at the

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(2007 and 2009) and was the bronze medallist at the

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in 2008. He is the only medalist for Cyprus at the World Athletics Championships since its creation in 1983. He's also the Cypriot record holder, both outdoors (2.35 m) and indoors (2.32 m). Ioannou is a two-time medallist at the

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(2006 and 2014) and took back-to-back gold medals at the Mediterranean Games in 2005 and 2009.

Career

His personal best jump and Cypriot national record is 2.35 metres, achieved at the 2007 World Championships held in

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where he won the bronze medal. He became the first World Championships medalist from Cyprus. Two years later, at the 2009 World Championships in

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, he won the silver medal (2,32 m), only beaten by Yaroslav Rybakov. He also took the bronze medal at the 2008 World Indoor Championships and finished fourth two years later at the same competition in

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. His best jump, outdoors in 2010, came at Lausanne on July 8, when he took third place with a jump of 2.30. Ioannou began his outdoor season at the first 2011 IAAF Diamond League meet in

and set a joint meeting record of 2.33 m alongside American Jesse Williams, though Williams was declared the winner on countback.iaaf.org, News, 6 May 2011, "Ten world leads in Doha’s flag-waving opener – Samsung Diamond League"; accessed 7 May 2011. Injured, he didn't come in the qualifying rounds at the World Championships in Daegu where he was one of the favourites for a medal. In 2012, still injured, he arrived to qualifying to the Olympic final in

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where he finished 12th with 2.20 m. The following year, he didn't compete. Back in 2014 at the

, Ioannou wins the silver medal with a SB of 2.28 m. Derek Drouin of

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takes gold (2.31 m). In March 2015, Ioannou makes the final of the

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but didn't arrived to make any jump due to an injury. In June, he makes the olympic standards by clearing 2.29 m. In February 2016, for his first competition of the year, the Cypriot equals his own indoor national record made in 2008 (and equaled by Dimitrios Chondrokoukis in 2015) by clearing 2.32 m in Hustopeče on his third try.

International competitions

¹No mark in the final

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