 Yaroslav Rybakov during 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1980-11-22) November 22, 1980 (age 44) Mogilyev, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Men's athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 2.35 m 2.38 m (indoors) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov (Ярослав Владимирович Рыбаков, born November 22, 1980, in Mogilyev, Soviet Union) is a retired Russian high jumper.
He is the 2002 European Champion high jumper, and at the 2005 World Championships he shared the silver medal with Víctor Moya of Cuba.
In 2006 he won the World Indoor Championships, and finished fifth in the high jump final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. The next year he won his third World Championships silver medal in a new personal best jump of 2.35 metres. In 2009, he finally won gold at the World Championships in Berlin.
His indoor personal best is 2.38 metres, set in February 2005 in Stockholm. Since then he has equalled the mark three times, which has included a meet record for the Hochsprung mit Musik.
Records
Rybakov set the Russian national record of 2.38, indoors, at the 16th GE Galan meet at the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on Tuesday 15 February 2005. It was the highest indoor leap in the world since March 2000, and improved his personal best by one cm. He was pushed to the record by Czech jumper Jaroslav Baba, who finished second at 2.34. Rybakov set the record by making 5-consecutive first try clearances at 2.21, 2.26, 2.29, 2.32 and 2.34, and then clearing 2.38 on his third, and final, attempt.
Two years later, Rybakov would push his younger compatriot Ivan Ukhov to break his national record at the Moscow Winter Cup meet on 28 January 2007. In a tactical duel, Rybakov would finish second at 2.35 (with one attempt at 2.37 and two at 2.39), while 20-year-old Ukhov had a first try clearance at 2.39. One week later, at the Arnstadt, Germany meet on 3 February 2007, Rybakov would win, tying his personal best of 2.38, while Ukhov finished fourth at 2.31.
International competitions
References
- "Rybakov flies over 2.38m in Stockholm". IAAF. 15 February 2005. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- official Russian Athletics News press release, 29 January 2007; Ukhov stuns with 2.39 leap in Moscow; accessed 6 March 2011
- "Rybakov breaks Arnstadt meet record with 2.38m leap". IAAF. 4 February 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
External links
- Yaroslav Rybakov at World Athletics
- 2009 season review from IAAF
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Preceded by Stefan Holm (i)
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Men's High Jump Best Year Performance alongside Ivan Ukhov (i), Andrey Silnov 2006(i) |
Succeeded by Ivan Ukhov (i)
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| Preceded by Ivan Ukhov (i)
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Men's High Jump Best Year Performance alongside Andrey Silnov 2008(i) |
Succeeded by Ivan Ukhov (i)
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| World champions in men's high jump | |
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| World Indoor Champions in men's high jump | |
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| European Athletics Championships champions in men's high jump | |
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| IAAF World / Continental Cup champions in men's high jump | |
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| Russian Athletics Championships men's high jump champions | |
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- 1980 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Mogilev
- Russian male high jumpers
- Olympic athletes for Russia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia
- World Athletics Championships winners
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
- European Athletics Championships winners
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- IAAF Continental Cup winners
- Russian Athletics Championships winners
- IAAF World Athletics Final winners
- 21st-century Russian sportsmen