Yaroslav Rybakov

Yaroslav Rybakov

Yaroslav Rybakov during 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Personal information
Full name	Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov
Born	November 22, 1980 Mogilyev, Belarusian SSR
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	84 kg (185 lb)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Track and field athletics
Event(s)	High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	2.35 m 2.38 m (indoors)
Medal record Men's athletics Olympic Games 2008 Beijing High jump World Championships 2009 Berlin High jump 2001 Edmonton High jump 2005 Helsinki High jump 2007 Osaka High jump World Indoor Championships 2006 Moscow High jump 2003 Birmingham High jump 2004 Budapest High jump 2008 Valencia High jump 2010 Doha High jump European Championships 2002 Munich High jump European Indoor Championships 2005 Madrid High jump 2002 Vienna High jump

Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov (Russian: Ярослав Владимирович Рыбаков, born November 22, 1980 in Mogilyev, Belarusian SSR) 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 Victor 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.

Achievements

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 2.39 on his third, and final, attempt.^[1]

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Russia
1998	World Junior Championships	Annecy, France	5th	2.18 m
1999	European Junior Championships	Riga, Latvia	3rd	2.16 m
2001	World Indoor Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	7th	2.25 m
	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	2nd	2.33 m
	Goodwill Games	Brisbane, Australia	3rd	2.31 m
2002	European Indoor Championships	Vienna, Austria	3rd	2.30 m
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	1st	2.31 m
	World Cup	Madrid, Spain	1st	2.31 m
	IAAF Grand Prix Final	Paris, France	2nd	2.28 m
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, England	2nd	2.33 m
	World Championships	Paris, France	9th	2.25 m
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	1st	2.30 m
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	2nd	2.32 m
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	6th	2.32 m
	IAAF World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	2nd	2.30 m
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	2nd	2.38 m
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	2nd	2.29 m
	IAAF World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	3rd	2.32 m
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	1st	2.37 m
	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	5th	2.30 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	3rd	2.29 m
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	2nd	2.35 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	6th	2.27 m
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	2nd	2.34 m
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	3rd	2.34 m
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	1st	2.32 m
2010	World Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	2nd	2.31 m

References

1. official IAAF.org news release, Tuesday 15 February 2005, "Rybakov flies over 2.38m in Stockholm"; accessed 6 March 2011
2. official Russian Athletics News press release, 29 January 2007; Ukhov stuns with 2.39 leap in Moscow; accessed 6 March 2011
3. Official IAAF.org news release, 4 February 2007, "Rybakov breaks Arnstadt meet record with 2.38m leap"; accessed 6 March 2011

• Yaroslav Rybakov profile at IAAF
• 2009 season review from IAAF