20 20 Onsite 2024-07-04 20 20 Onsite - Last update images today 20 20 Onsite Garcia, Melendez, Witt Homer Top Help Royals Rout Rockies 10-1, End 3-game Losing Streak PARIS -- Ukraine's best high jumper captured a world record on Sunday to go with her world championship, and now she has a good reason to think she might bring home an Olympic gold medal to her war-torn country. At a Diamond League meet in Paris, Yaroslava Mahuchikh erased a mark that had stood for 37 years, jumping 2.10 meters (6.88 feet) in one of the last big tuneups leading into the Olympics. The previous record of 2.09 was set by Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova in Rome in 1987. "Coming into this competition, I had feelings that I could jump 2.07 meters and maybe 2.10 meters," Mahuchikh said. "Finally I signed Ukraine to the history of world athletics." The 22-year-old Mahuchikh and world indoor champion Nicola Olyslagers both cleared 2.01 meters on their second attempt. After Olyslagers failed three times at 2.03, Mahuchikh cleared that height to secure victory. She then cleared 2.07 meters to set a Ukrainian record and had the bar raised to 2.10, which she cleared on her first try. Mahuchikh left her hometown of Dnipro shortly after the war with Russia began. Like virtually all elite athletes in her country, she has been training in foreign countries while keeping tabs on the war back home. She has been outspoken about the role Ukrainian sports can play to give signs of hope to those fighting for Ukraine's survival. "We all are fighting for our people, for our soldiers," she said last month after defending her European title. "We want to show every person in the world that we will continue fighting, that war in Ukraine it's not finished, unfortunately. We should fight in every field to show that Ukraine is strongest." World Athletics, which runs track on a global basis, has banned all Russian athletes from next month's Olympic track meet, a decision Mahuchikh agrees with. Just last weekend, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe visited Kyiv and reiterated his support for the Ukrainian effort in the war. "Nothing I witnessed tells me that the decision we've taken is anything other than the right decision, but the right decision on behalf of our sport," Coe said. ?media Id=634767781934835 2024 Vision Acuity Maxresdefault 2020 ONsite 1 Training Of Trainer Keperawatan 1 Scaled 2020 Onsite Van ONSITE 2024 4 2020 Onsite Inside 1 1024x692 30x30 2024 Social EN Imageijp7 1704355840727 ?fm=png&auto=format PT Web 3 ?rect=0,33,1739,913&w=1200&ar=40 21&auto=format,compress&ogImage=true&mode=crop&enlarge=true&overlay=false&overlay Position=bottom&overlay Width=100 089b28f4 4a4e 4c03 Ad10 660c584f3e5e 635bd75e D7bc 461b B625 A2b5b0b00fe7 170206123008 Thumbnail ?width=640&height=640&fit=bounds FeaureImages 06 1688567062556 ?w=1152&fm=auto&ar=2 1&mode=crop&crop=faces News Image TOI 30 01 2024 Image 1024x575 1635721847161412 0 Maxresdefault IN27.18 001 Scaled .optimal Png Roving Banner 0303 IStock 1210023594 1024x683 A28E117B 6A26 421E BAEB AF1D6A0698AF 1024x1024 1030 1 Maxresdefault 2023 24 Registration Onsite Graphic Infography 2 Ca655a 118529cc1112451f803271d89b63fcc2~mv2 Image 1