Kateryna Oleksandrivna Tabashnyk (; born 15 June 1994) is a Ukrainian

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er who formerly competed in the

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. She is a former European U20 champion,

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winner,

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ist, and Top 8 at the

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Family

In July 2022, ''The New York Times'' reported that Tabashnyk said her family’s apartment in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

, Ukraine, was struck by a Russian Army rocket that injured her 8-year-old nephew, who was hospitalized, and had one of his kidneys removed. On 18 August 2022 shelling of Kharkiv by the

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killed Kateryna's mother.

Career

Tabashnyk is a former European U20 champion,

winner,

ist, and Top 8 at the

2013-19

Tabashnyk competed in high jump without reaching the final at the 2011 World Youth Championships, and the 2013 European Indoor Championships. In May 2012 at the Ukrainian Junior Championships in

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, Tabashnyk came in 4th place. Tabashnyk then won the

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at the 2013 European Junior Championships. In June 2017 she won a bronze medal at the Paavo Nurmi Games in

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, in Women's high jump. In August 2018 Tabashnyk won the high jump with a 1.90 metre jump at the

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in Berlin, Germany. On 28 March 2019 in

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(Turkey) she tested positive for the diuretic

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, a prohibited substance under the WADA 2019. On 13 January 2020 the

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disqualified her for 19 months from 28 March 2019.Decision
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2020-present

In February 2022 she won the Meeting International de Montreuil in Women's high jump. In May 2022 with a high jump of 1.90 Tabashnyk won the Ibero American Championships in

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, Spain. In June 2022 she won the AtletiCAGenève - EAP in Women's high jump. In August 2022 she won a bronze medal at the 2022 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial. In March 2023 Tabashnyk won a bronze medal at the

, in Women's high jump.

Personal bests

Tabashnyk's personal best high jump is 1.99 metres, achieved indoors on 26 January 2019 in

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. Her highest world ranking in women's high jump has been fifth place.

References

External links

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1994 births Living people Athletes from Kharkiv Ukrainian female high jumpers Ukrainian heptathletes 21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen {{Ukraine-athletics-bio-stub