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Yaroslava Mahuchikh was born on 19 September 2001 in Dnipropetrovsk (now - Dnipro) [1] to Olha and Oleksiy Mahuchikh. Her father Olekiy was a canoeist and mother Olha was a gymnast and did athletics. Older sister Anastasia Hryhorovich was into karate and athletics and represented Ukraine in karate competitively. [9] [10] [11]
Stepanova is married to Serhii Stepanov, a high jump coach, who joined the coaching team after the full-scale invasion in 2022 to help with strength training. [12] They have a son Nazar, a Ukrainian hurdler and a national record holder, who is engaged to Yaroslava Mahuchikh.
The high jump season included the surprise world record of Yaroslava Mahuchikh. Less than a month before this competition at the 2024 Meeting de Paris, held across town at the Stade Sébastien Charléty, Mahuchikh had already cleared 2.03 m to win the competition. A high jump competition only ends with three failures or a withdrawal.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine relaxes during the women's high-jump final at the Paris Olympics on August 4, 2024. Credit - Cameron Spencer–Getty Images
Yaroslava Mahuchikh erased a mark that had stood for 37 years at a Diamond League meet in Paris, jumping 2.10 meters (6.88 feet) in one of the last big tuneups leading into the Olympics. The ...
For Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Bogdan Iadov, competing in the Olympics while their country is at war with Russia gives them even more motivation to win for Ukraine.
Her world record of 2.09 metres stood since 1987 until being broken by Yaroslava Mahuchikh in 2024 (record not verified [citation needed]). She is the 1996 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion, and a five-time World Indoor champion. She has been the president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee since 2005. [3]
At some point last year, Yaroslava Mahuchikh vowed to stop reading the news before competitions, so distressing did she find the stories and images of bloodshed in her native Ukraine.