Bohdan Bondarenko

Bohdan Bondarenko
Bohdan Bondarenko at the World Cup in Moscow (2013)
nation	Ukraine
birthday	30th August 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Kharkiv ,  Soviet Union
size	198 cm
Weight	77 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.42 m
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 1 × 1 × 0 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 2.33 m  World championships gold Moscow 2013 2.41 m silver Beijing 2015 2.33 m  European championships gold Zurich 2014 2.35 m  Junior World Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2008 2.26 m bronze Beijing 2006 2.26 m  U23 European Championships gold Ostrava 2011 2.30 m
last change: August 16, 2016

Bohdan Viktorovych Bondarenko ( Ukrainian Богдан Вікторович Бондаренко ; born August 30, 1989 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian high jumper . His greatest achievement is winning the 2013 World Championships in Moscow . At 2.42 m, it is third on the all-time world best list.

Career

Bondarenko celebrated his first international success in 2006 when he won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Beijing with a height of 2.26 m . Two years later he became Junior World Champion in Bydgoszcz with the same height .

In 2011 he won the U23 European Championships in Ostrava with a skipped 2.30 m and at the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen .

In 2012, Bondarenko finished 7th at the Olympic Games in London with 2.29 m.

In 2013 Bondarenko set a new personal best at the Athletissima in Lausanne with a height of 2.41 m. He confirmed this height at the World Championships in Moscow and thus secured the gold medal. Then he only just failed at the new world record height of 2.46 m.

On June 14, 2014, Bondarenko won the Diamond League meeting in New York City with a new personal best of 2.42 m. With this height Bondarenko set the 1987 European record by Patrik Sjöberg . In the same competition, Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar also reached 2.42 m. At the European Championships in Zurich in 2014 , he won the title with 2.35 m.

In 2015 he won the silver medal at the World Championships in Beijing with 2.33 m , but only lost to the Canadian Derek Drouin in the jump-off .

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he won the bronze medal behind Olympic champion Derek Drouin (2.38 m) and runner-up Mutaz Essa Barshim (2.36 m) with a height of 2.33 m.

Web links

Commons : Bohdan Bondarenko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bohdan Bondarenko in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://www.european-athletics.org/index.php?option=com_content&catid=371&id=10300&view=article  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ High jumper Bondarenko and Barshim make history