Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov
Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov ( Russian Ярослав Владимирович Рыбаков , English transcription Yaroslav Rybakov ; born November 22, 1980 in Mahiljou , Belarusian SSR ) is a former Russian high jumper who was world and European champion.
Life
He made his first big appearance in 2001 when he only had to admit defeat to the German Martin Buß at the World Championships in Edmonton and won the silver medal. In the following year at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 , he took revenge against Buss: Rybakow won the gold medal with a skipped 2.31 m, while the German was only seventh with a modest 2.25 m.
His big opponent, however, was to be the Swede Stefan Holm , who had finished third in Munich and at the beginning of the following season at the World Indoor Championships in 2003 in Birmingham, Rybakow, who won silver there, beat Rybakow for the first time. Rybakow was only rarely able to defeat Holm, for example at the IAAF World Athletics Final 2003 in Monte Carlo , where he only won because of the lower number of failed attempts.
At the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon in 2004 Rybakov came back to silver behind Holm, and at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Rybakov landed in sixth place with 2.32 m.
At the European Indoor Championships in Madrid in 2005 , even an excellent 2.38 m was not enough for him to win - the Swede jumped two centimeters higher. At the World Championships in Helsinki he then won bronze behind Jurij Krymarenko (UKR) and the Cuban Víctor Moya at the same height .
In 2006 Rybakov won the title at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow . At the European Championships in Gothenburg , he was fifth.
At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , three athletes were tied with 2.35 m. Donald Thomas (BAH) won with the fewest failed attempts ahead of Rybakow, who won silver with his personal best, and Kyriakos Ioannou (CYP). There was also silver for Rybakov at the World Indoor Championships 2008 in Valencia . In 2009 he became world champion in Berlin with a jump of 2.32 m in front of three jumpers of the same height. He had to cancel the start at the World Championships 2011 in Daegu due to a foot injury.
Yaroslav Rybakov was 1.96 m tall and had a competition weight of 84 kg.
successes
- 2001
- World Championships 2001 in Edmonton : Silver with 2.33 m behind the German Martin Buß with 2.36 m and tied with his compatriot Vyacheslav Voronin with 2.33 m
- European Cup 2001 in Bremen : Gold with 2.28 m ahead of Grzegorz Sposób (Poland) with 2.23 m and Martin Buss (Germany) with 2.19 m
- 2002
- European Championships 2002 in Munich : Gold with 2.31 m ahead of the two Swedes Stefan Holm with 2.29 m and Staffan Strand with 2.27 m
- European Indoor Championships 2002 in Vienna : BRONZE with 2.30 m behind the two Swedes Staffan Strand with 2.34 m and Stefan Holm with 2.30 m
- European Cup 2002 in Annecy : Silver 2.28 m behind Gregory Gabella (France) with 2.30 m and in front of Grzegorz Sposób (Poland) with 2.25 m
- IAAF Grand Prix Final 2002 in Paris : Silver with 2.28 m behind Stefan Holm (Sweden) with 2.31 m and in front of Abderrahmane Hammad (Algeria) with 2.28 m
- 2003
- Indoor World Championships 2003 in Birmingham : Silver with 2.33 m behind the Swede Stefan Holm with 2.35 m and in front of the Bulgarian Gennadij Moroz with 2.30 m
- European Cup 2003 in Florence : Gold with 2.34 m ahead of the Italian Alessandro Talotti with 2.30 m and the Polish Grzegorz Sposób with 2.27 m
- IAAF World Cup 2002 in Madrid : Gold with 2.31 m ahead of Mark Boswell (Canada) with 2.29 m and Ben Challenger (Great Britain) with 2.20 m
- IAAF World Athletics Final 2003 in Monte Carlo : Gold in front of Stefan Holm and Jamie Nieto ( USA ), all 2.30 m
- 2004
- Indoor World Championships 2004 in Budapest : Silver with 2.32 m behind the Swede Stefan Holm with 2.35 m and in front of three other jumpers: the Czech Jaroslav Bába , the Jamaican Germaine Mason and the Romanian Stefan Vasilache , all 2.25 m
- XVIII. 2004 Olympic Games in Athens : sixth with 2.32 m (victory height of Sweden's Stefan Holm : 2.36 m)
- IAAF World Athletics Final 2004 in Monte Carlo : Silver with 2.30 m behind Stefan Holm with 2.33 m and in front of Mark Boswell (Canada), also with 2.30 m
- 2005
- European Indoor Championships 2005 in Madrid : Silver with 2.38 m behind the Swede Stefan Holm with 2.40 m and in front of his compatriot Pawel Formenko with 2.32 m
- World Championships 2005 in Helsinki : BRONZE with 2.29 m behind the Ukrainian Jurij Krymarenko with 2.32 m and the Cuban Víctor Moya with 2.29 m
- IAAF World Athletics Final 2005 in Monte Carlo : BRONZE together with Stefan Holm behind Víctor Moya (Cuba) with 2.31 m and Vyacheslav Voronin , all 2.32 m
- 2006
- Indoor World Championships 2006 in Moscow : Gold with 2.37 m ahead of his compatriot Andrei Tereschin with 2.35 m and the Swede Linus Thörnblad with 2.33 m
- 2007
- World Championships 2007 in Osaka : Silver behind Donald Thomas (Bahamas) and in front of Kyriakos Ioannou (Cyprus), all over 2.35 m
- 2009
- World Championships 2009 in Berlin : Gold with 2.32 m ahead of Kyriakos Ioannou (Cyprus) and Sylwester Bednarek and Raúl Spank (both bronze), all over 2.32 m
Web links
- Yaroslav Rybakov in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Jaroslaw Wladimirowitsch Rybakow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ WM 2011 - Rybakow must fit ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Yahoo! Sport, Aug 23, 2011, accessed October 9, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Rybakov, Yaroslav Vladimirovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Рыбаков, Ярослав Владимирович (Russian); Rybakov, Yaroslav (English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian high jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mahiljou |