Vladimir Yashchenko

Vladimir Yashchenko

Personal information
Full name	Vladimir Ilyich Yashchenko
Born	12 January 1959 Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Died	30 November 1999(1999-11-30) (aged 40) Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	2.34 m 2.35 m (indoors)
Medal record Representing the Soviet Union European Championships 1978 Prague High jump European Indoor Championships 1978 Milan High jump 1979 Vienna High jump European Junior Championships 1977 Donetsk High jump

Vladimir Ilyich Yashchenko (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ященко) or Volodymyr Yashchenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Ященко) (12 January 1959 – 30 November 1999) was a Ukrainian member of the Soviet national team and former world record holder in the high jump (2.33 m, 2.34 m, and 2.35 m (7 ft 8+1⁄2 in).

Yashchenko first broke the record at age 18 with a jump of 2.33 m (7 ft 7+3⁄4 in), at the USA-USSR junior dual meet in June 1977 at Richmond, Virginia. He won the 1978 European Championships high jump competition with a jump of 230 cm. On 12 March 1978, he achieved the highest mark using the straddle technique.

In 1979, Yashchenko suffered a severe knee injury and his career was effectively over at age twenty; he died from cirrhosis in 1999 at age forty.

External links

• Vladimir Yashchenko at World Athletics