Ivan Sergeyevich Uchow

Ivan Uchow
Iwan Uchow at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona
Full name	Ivan Sergeyevich Uchow
nation	Russia
birthday	29th March 1986 (age 34)
size	192 cm
Weight	83 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.41 m 2.42 m (hall)
Trainer	Sergei Kljugin
status	active
Medal table
European championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 1 × 1 × Indoor European Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
European championships silver Barcelona 2010 2.31 m bronze Zurich 2014 2.30 m  Indoor world championships gold Doha 2010 2.36 m bronze Istanbul 2012 2.31 m silver Sopot 2014 2.38 m  European Indoor Championships gold Turin 2009 2.32 m gold Paris 2011 2.38 m  Junior European Championships gold Kaunas 2005 2.23 m
last change: August 20, 2014

Ivan Sergejewitsch Uchow ( Russian Иван Сергеевич Ухов ; born March 29, 1986 in Chelyabinsk ) is a Russian high jumper . At a height of 1.92 m, his competition weight is 83 kg.

Athletic career

Iwan Uchow, who started as a track and field athlete with the discus throw and only switched to high jump in early 2004, had his first major international competition at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Grosseto . He jumped 2.10 m in qualification. In the previous indoor season he had already jumped 2.15 m in Minsk . Already in the following year there were enormous increases, in January 2005 he crossed 2.29 m indoors in Yekaterinburg and was able to increase his best outdoor performance at a sports festival in Tula to 2.30 m. Ten days later, also in July 2005, he won the title at the Junior European Championships in Kaunas with 2.25 m. He finally made it to the top of the world with a jump over 2.37 m in the 2006 indoor season in Arnstadt . In the same year he jumped his previous outdoor best of 2.33 m, again it was in Germany, this time at the special meeting in Langen . Among other things, this achievement brought him to fifth place in the annual Grand Prix ranking and the start of the World Athletics Finals in Stuttgart , where he was also fifth with 2.25 m. On January 27, 2007 Uchow jumped 2.39 m Russian indoor record at the indoor meeting in Moscow. In the following outdoor season he could not meet the expectations placed in him, it remained with a season best of 2.20 m outdoors. In 2008 he was again one of the jumpers who managed 2.30 m, but Uchow caused a scandal in September 2008 when he entered the Super Grand Prix meeting in Lausanne while drunk and despite an initial height of 2.17 m without a valid height ended the competition.

In 2009 Uchow was able to increase his indoor best performance again when he cracked the 2.40 m mark at an indoor meeting in the Greek capital Athens on February 25th as the fifth jumper ever. Only three centimeters were missing from the world record set by Cuban Javier Sotomayor in 1989. Winning the title at the European Indoor Championships in Turin was another highlight of his indoor season. In May 2009 he improved his outdoor best in Castellón to 2.34 m, on July 25, 2009 at the Russian Championships in Cheboksary he increased it again and won with 2.35 m ahead of Yaroslav Rybakov, who was at the same height . As the best of the year, together with Rybakow and Andra Manson , Uchow traveled to the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. There he could not cope with the wet run-up due to the rain and did not qualify for the final fight. With 2.23 m, he took tenth place.

In the 2010 season, Uchow confirmed his strength in the hall on March 4, 2010 with a skipped 2.38 m in Banská Bystrica . As a favorite, he won the World Indoor Championships in Doha a little later with a performance of 2.36 m. Although Uchow was also best of the year outdoors in 2010 with 2.36, he was only second at the European Championships in Barcelona when his compatriot Alexandr Schustow beat him by two centimeters with 2.33 m. At the beginning of the 2010/2011 indoor season, the Russian demonstrated his resilience in the hall with 2.38 m in Hustopeče, Czech Republic , and in Banská Bystrica he jumped this height and tried 2.44 m each time, but just failed. Uchow again mastered 2.38 m in his title defense at the European Indoor Championships in 2011 .

Iwan Uchow at the 2011 European Indoor Championships

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Uchow won the gold medal with an Olympic record of 2.38 m. He arrived as a top favorite with a jump of 2.39 m.

The next season he was not in good shape. Only at the climax - the World Championships in Moscow - he jumped 2.35 m to his previous year's performance, but the height only reached fourth place.

On the other hand, his appearance in the 2014 indoor season was different: with three jumps over at least 2.40 m, whereby he was able to increase his best performance to 2.42 m and set the European record. This made him the favorite at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot , where he crossed 2.38 m and finished second. The level Mutaz Essa Barshim needed fewer attempts and thus secured the gold medal. On May 9th in Doha he set a personal best in the open air with a height of 2.41 m and a new Diamond League record , which Bohdan Bondarenko increased by one centimeter just a month later . Bondarenko defeated him in August in a direct duel at the European Championships in Zurich . With a skipped 2.30 m he also had to admit defeat Andrij Prozenko and thus only won the bronze medal.

Based on the McLaren report , Uchow was banned by the International Court of Justice for doping in 2019 . The suspension lasts four years starting February 1, 2019. In addition, all results between July 16, 2012 and December 31, 2015 have been canceled.

Uchow is compared by experts because of his jumping ability and his type with his compatriot Vladimir Yashchenko .

In the competitions he does not wear special high jump spikes with nails under the heel, but sprint spikes that only have nails under the ball of the foot.

family

Uchow is married and has one daughter.

Web links

Commons : Ivan Ukhov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Iwan Sergejewitsch Uchow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Iwan Sergejewitsch Uchow in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Portrait at rusathletics.com (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nickolai Dolgopolov and Rostislav Orlov: Lysenko closes in on world record with 75.95m (Hammer throw - Russian championships, day four) . IAAF. July 14, 2005. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
2. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Ivan Ukhov wins in Langen with 2.33 meters . Leichtathletik.de. June 25, 2006. Retrieved February 26, 2009.
3. ↑ 2006 World Athletics Tour Standings . IAAF - iaaf.org. September 3, 2006. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved on February 26, 2009.
4. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Ivan Ukhov crowns the flight show with a national record . Leichtathletik.de. January 28, 2007. Retrieved February 26, 2009.
5. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Drunk Ivan Ukhov causes a scandal . Leichtathletik.de. September 3, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2009.
6. ↑ Nico Elsäßer: Ivan Ukhov flies over 2.40 meters . Leichtathletik.de. February 25, 2009. Retrieved February 26, 2009.
7. ↑ Nico Elsäßer: Ivan Ukhov skips 2.35 meters . Leichtathletik.de. July 25, 2009. Retrieved July 26, 2009.
8. ↑ sid / fc: Doha day three - indoor world record at the end . Leichtathletik.de. March 14, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
9. ↑ Top List High Jump 2010 ( English ) iaaf.org. January 16, 2011. Retrieved February 7, 2011.
10. ↑ Top favorites do not stumble; Scrap strong eighth , HDsports.at, August 7, 2012
11. ↑ Twelve Russian athletes banned for doping
12. ↑ THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT (CAS) ISSUES DECISIONS IN 12 FIRST-INSTANCE DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES CONCERNING RUSSIAN TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES
13. ↑ Игорь Фейн (Igor Fein): Иван Ухов - Ivan Ukhov ( Russian ) АНО РИД "Новая Газета" (ANO RID "Novaya Gazeta") novayagazeta.ru. March 21, 2006. Retrieved February 26, 2009.
14. ↑ ^{a b} Ewald Walker: A high-flyer falls into the air hole Stuttgarter Zeitung v. August 20, 2012, p. 28