PARIS: Ukrainian teenager Yaroslava Mahuchikh produced the best performance of the year in the high jump with a leap of 2.06m at an indoor meeting in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.The 19-year-old’s jump was three centimetres short of the world record of 2.09m set by the Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinova 34 years ago at the Rome world championships of 1987.
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After winning the junior world championships in 2017 and the Youth Olympics the following year, Mahuchikh announced herself on the senior circuit when she took silver behind Mariya Lasitskene at the 2019 world championships in Doha.
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