Mariya Lasitskene

Mariya Lasitskene

Mariya Lasitskene in FBK Games, 2017
Personal information
Nationality	Russian
Born	(1993-01-14) 14 January 1993[1] Prokhladny, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)[2]
Sport
Country	Russia / ANA (2017–18)
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	2.06 m (2017)
Medal record Senior level Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships 2 0 0 World Indoor Championships 2 0 0 European Championships 1 0 0 European Indoor Championships 1 0 0 Total 6 0 0 Representing  Russia World Championships 2015 Beijing High jump World Indoor Championships 2014 Sopot High jump European Championships 2014 Zürich High jump European Indoor Championships 2015 Praha High Jump European Junior Championships 2011 Tallinn High Jump Youth Olympic Games 2010 Singapore High jump World Junior Championships 2012 Barcelona High jump World Youth Championships 2009 Brixen High jump Representing  Authorised Neutral Athletes World Championships 2017 London High jump World Indoor Championships 2018 Birmingham High jump Continental Cup 2018 Ostrava High jump European Championships 2018 Berlin High jump

Mariya Aleksandrovna Lasitskene (Russian: Мария Александровна Ласицкене; née Kuchina Russian: Кучина; born 14 January 1993) is a Russian track and field athlete who specialises in the high jump. She won the gold medal at the 2015 and 2017 World Championships.

Career

Lasitskene won her first international medal at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where she cleared a personal best of 1.85 m to take the silver medal behind Italian Alessia Trost.^[3] She was also the silver medallist at the 2009 European Youth Olympic Festival and 2009 Gymnasiade.^[4][5]

In the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics, Lasitskene won a gold medal in the girls' high jump with a clearance of 1.86 m, ahead of Alessia Trost.^[6]

She started her 2011 season with a major scalp in the form of Yelena Slesarenko, who she defeated with an indoor best jump of 1.90 m.^[7] A greater effort soon followed on the Moravia High Jump Tour meet in Třinec, as she cleared 1.97 m to claim the world junior indoor best which Desislava Aleksandrova had held since 1994.^[8]

Lasitskene won the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships with a personal best of 2.01 m. Lasitskene has also won the gold medal both at the 2014 World Indoor Championships and at the 2015 European Indoor Championships. Lasitskene has also won the silver medal at the 2014 European Championships.

Following her world championships win, she was considered a favorite to win the Olympic title at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. However, she was barred from competing when the CAS upheld their decision to ban the Russian Track and Field Federation from the Games. At a domestic competition she jumped a height of 2.00 m—a height that would've easily won gold in Rio—only 2 hours after she learned that she would not get to compete at the Olympics. In April 2017, her application to compete as a neutral athlete until Russia is reinstated was accepted; this allows Lasitskene to resume competition despite the Federation's ban. Her first competition back was the third Diamond League in the series at Eugene. She won the women's high jump with a personal best and world leading height of 2.03 m.

She improved to 2.04 m on 11 June 2017 in Hengelo. On 6 July 2017 she set a new personal best at the Diamond League in Lausanne with a height of 2.06 m, a Diamond League record. She followed up her strong performances in the Diamond League competitions by defending her world title later in London on 12 August 2017 with a height of 2.03 m.

International competitions

Personal bests

Winning streak (45)

From 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2018 Lasitskene won 45 tournaments in a row. On 13 July 2018, the streak breaking was interrupted in Rabat, one of the IAAF Diamond League meetings, where she claimed bronze.^[9]

1. V All-Russian Summer Universiade – Smolensk, Russia (1.90 m)
2. Russian Cup – Zhukovsky, Russia (2.00 m)
3. Stars of 2016 – Moscow, Russia (1.88 m)
4. Y. Lukashevich and V. Seredkin Memorial – Chelyabinsk, Russia (1.94 m, indoors)
5. N. G. Ozolin and V. M. Dyachkov Memorial – Moscow, Russia (2.00 m, indoors)
6. Governor Cup – Volgograd, Russia (1.95 m, indoors)
7. Russian Winter Meeting – Moscow, Russia (1.91 m, indoors)
8. Merited Master of the USSR V. I. Alekseev Memorial – Saint Petersburg, Russia (1.96 m, indoors)
9. 2017 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships – Moscow, Russia (2.03 m, indoors)
10. Prefontaine Classic – Eugene, USA (2.03 m)
11. 12th Opole Festival of Jumpers – Opole, Poland (2.00 m)
12. Golden Gala Pietro Mennea – Rome, Italy (2.00)
13. FBK Games – Hengelo, Netherlands (2.04 m)
14. Paavo Nurmi Games – Turku, Finland (1.95 m)
15. V. M. Evstratov Memorial – Zhukovsky, Russia (1.97 m)
16. Bauhaus-Galan – Stockholm, Sweden (2.00 m)
17. Moscow Oblast Championships – Zhukovsky, Russia (2.00 m)
18. Brothers Znamensky Memorial – Zhukovsky, Russia (1.95 m)
19. Athletissima – Lausanne, Switzerland (2.06 m)
20. Anniversary Games – London, Great Britain (2.00 m)
21. Russian Cup – Yerino, Russia (2.01 m)
22. Atletica Mondiale – Padova, Italy (2.00 m)
23. Herculis – Monaco (2.05 m)
24. 2017 Russian Athletics Championships – Zhukovsky, Russia (1.96 m)
25. 2017 World Athletics Championships – London, Great Britain (2.03 m)
26. Kamila Skolimowska Memorial – Warsaw, Poland (1.95 m)
27. Memorial Van Damme – Brussels, Belgium (2.02 m)
28. Christmas Starts – Minsk, Belarus (2.00 m, indoors)
29. Y. Lukashevich and V. Seredkin Memorial – Chelyabinsk, Russia (1.95 m, indoors)
30. N. G. Ozolin and V. M. Dyachkov Memorial – Moscow, Russia (2.01 m, indoors)
31. Battle of the Sexes – Moscow, Russia (1.99 m, indoors)
32. Stalingrad Cup – Volgograd, Russia (2.04 m, indoors)
33. Banskobystricka latka – Banska Bystrica, Slovakia (2.02 m, indoors)
34. Madrid Indoor – Madrid, Spain (2.00 m, indoors)
35. 2018 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships – Moscow, Russia (1.88 m, indoors)
36. Copernicus Cup – Torun, Poland (2.00 m, indoors)
37. Muller Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow – Glasgow, Scottland (1.95 m, indoors)
38. 2018 World Indoor Athletics Championships – Birmingham, Great Britain (2.01 m, indoors)
39. Shanghai Golden Grand Prix – Shanghai, China (1.97 m)
40. Golden Gala Pietro Mennea – Rome, Italy (2.02 m)
41. FBK Games – Hengelo, Netherlands (2.03 m)
42. Bauhaus-Galan – Stockholm, Sweden (2.00 m)
43. Opole Festival of Jumpers – Opole, Poland (1.94 m)
44. V. M. Evstratov Memorial – Zhukovsky, Russia (2.01 m)
45. Meeting de Paris – Paris, France (2.04 m)

See also

• Female two metres club

References

External links

• Mariya Lasitskene at IAAF

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Aníta Hinriksdóttir	Women's European Athletics Rising Star of the Year 2014	Succeeded by Noemi Zbären
Sporting positions
Preceded by Brigetta Barrett	Women's High Jump Best Year Performance 2014 (tied with Anna Chicherova and Ruth Beitia)	Succeeded by Anna Chicherova