Aleksey Vladimirovich Dmitrik (Russian: Алексей Владимирович Дмитрик; born 12 April 1984) is a Russian

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er. He won the

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at the 2009 European Indoor Championships. He was born in Slantsy,

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. He won the gold medal at the 2001 World Youth Championships, finished fourteenth at the 2002 World Junior Championships and was the runner-up to

Jaroslav Bába Jaroslav Bába () (born 2 September 1984 in Karviná) is a Czech Republic, Czech high jumper. At the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships he jumped 2.25 metres, winning a joint bronze medal along with Germaine Mason and Ştefan Vasilache. In th ...

at the

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. His first major win as a senior athlete came at the 2005 European Cup. He also competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships, but without reaching the final. He achieved a personal best jump of 2.33 m in

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in June 2009. He has 2.34 metres on the indoor track, achieved in January 2005 in

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. As one of three Russians in the men's high jump at the

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, he came seventh with a clearance of 2.26 m while Aleksander Shustov and

Ivan Ukhov Ivan Sergeyevich Ukhov (; born 29 March 1986) is a Russian high jumper. He won a gold medal at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships and is a two-time European Athletics Indoor Championships, European Indoor champion (2009 and 2011). He was ...

took the top two spots. In the 2011 season, he set a meet record of 2.30 m at the Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar, going on to jump an outright personal best of 2.35 m at the Gran Premio Iberoamericano in Huelva, Spain (which was also a world leading performance). At the

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he outperformed his compatriots

and Aleksandr Shustov by clearing 2.35 m. This mark brought Dmitrik the silver medal as he finished behind Jesse Williams on countback. The following year he won the

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meet in February 2012, again beating Ukhov.Ramsak, Bob (2012-02-05)
Chicherova flying high - 2.06m in Arnstadt
IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-02-12.

Competition record

References

1984 births Living people People from Slantsy Athletes from Leningrad Oblast Russian male high jumpers World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia World Athletics Championships medalists World Youth Championships in Athletics winners Russian Athletics Championships winners 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-highjump-athletics-bio-stub