Julia Levchenko

Julia Levchenko
Julija Levchenko (left) in Wuhan 2019
Full name	Yulia Andrijivna Levchenko
nation	Ukraine
birthday	28th November 1997 (age 22)
place of birth	Kiev , Ukraine
size	179 cm
Weight	59 kg
job	Sports soldier
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.02 m (open air) 2.00 m (hall)
Trainer	Irina Pustowojt
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Military world games 0 × 1 × 0 × U23 European Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Youth Olympic Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships silver London 2017 2.01 m  European Indoor Championships bronze Belgrade 2017 1.94 m silver Glasgow 2019 1.99 m Military world games silver Wuhan 2019 1.92 m  U23 European Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2017 1.96 m gold Gävle 2019 1.97 m  Junior World Championships bronze Bydgoszcz 2016 1.86 m  Youth Olympic Games gold Nanjing 2014 1.89 m
last change: May 11, 2020

Julija Andrijiwna Levtschenko ( Ukrainian Юлія Андріївна Левченко , English transcription Yuliya Levchenko; born November 28, 1997 in Kiev ) is a Ukrainian high jumper .

Athletic career

Julija Levtschenko gained her first international experience at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk , where she finished 13th with 1.70 m. In 2014 she won the gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing with a new personal best of 1.89 m. In 2015 she took part in the Junior European Championships in Eskilstuna and was sixth there with 1.83 m. She also qualified for the World Championships in Beijing and failed there in the qualifying round . At the U20 World Championships in 2016 in Bydgoszcz , Poland , she won the bronze medal with 1.86 m. She took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , but missed the final of the top twelve.

In 2017 she won the bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships with a new personal best of 1.94 m. At the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz, she won the gold medal in front of her compatriot Iryna Herashchenko with a new personal best of 1.96 meters . After several performance improvements at the Diamond League meeting, she qualified for the World Championships in London . There she increased her best to 2.01 m and won the silver medal behind the favored, independent starter, Marija Lassizkene . In 2018 she took part in the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , where she finished fifth with just 1.89 m. In August she took part in the European Championships in Berlin for the first time and reached ninth place with a jump over 1.91 m in the final. The following year she crossed 1.99 m at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow and thus won the silver medal behind Marija Lassizkene. She then defended her title at the U23 European Championships in Gävle with 1.97 m and improved to 2.02 m at The Match Europe v USA in Minsk in early September. At the World Championships in Doha a few weeks later, she jumped 2.00 m in the final and was fourth. At the end of October, she won the silver medal behind Lassizkene at the World Military Games in Wuhan with 1.92 m.

In 2018 and 2019 Levchenko became Ukrainian champion in high jump both outdoors and indoors.

Top performances

• High jump (open air): 2.02 m, September 10, 2019 in Minsk
  • Hall: 2.00 m, February 12, 2019 in Eaubonne

Web links

Commons : Julija Levtschenko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Julija Levchenko in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Julija Levtschenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result list of the U20 European Championships in Eskilstuna 2015
2. ^ Result list of the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz 2017
3. ^ Result list of the European Championships in Berlin 2018
4. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Levchenko tops 2.02m in Minsk as Europe powers to duel match victory over USA ( English ) IAAF. September 10, 2019. Accessed May 11, 2020.