Yuliya Levchenko
Yuliya Andriyivna Levchenko or Yuliia Andriivna Levchenko (; ; born 28 November 1997 is a Ukrainian high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. Indoors at European level, Levchenko claimed bronze in 2017 and silver in 2019. She was the 2017 European Under-23 champion.

Levchenko earned gold at the 2014 Youth Olympics and bronze at the 2016 World U20 Championships. She won five Ukrainian national titles.

Career
Yuliya Levchenko competed in the high jump at the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she did not reach the final.

She was the 2017 European Under-23 Championships gold medalist and the 2017 World Championships silver medalist. She was ranked second in the world for the 2017 season. Also in 2017, she was named the European Athletics Rising Star of the Year.

Levchenko competed at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, where she finished eighth.

Her personal bests in the high jump are 2.02 metres outdoors (Minsk 2019) and 2.00 metres indoors (Eaubonne 2019).

Statistics

International competitions

National titles
 Ukrainian Athletics Championships
 High jump: 2018, 2019
 Ukrainian Indoor Athletics Championships
 High jump: 2018, 2019, 2023

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1997 births
Living people
People from Bakhmut
Ukrainian female high jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Ukraine
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine
Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Youth Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Youth Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine
Ukrainian Athletics Championships winners
European Athletics Rising Star of the Year winners
Sportspeople from Donetsk Oblast
21st-century Ukrainian women