Ukraine’s Top High Jumper Breaks 37-Year-Old World Record in Olympic Tune-Up

Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh poses after breaking the world record in the women's high jump in Paris on July 7, 2024. Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images

PARIS—Ukraine’s best high jumper broke a world record on Sunday to go with her world championship, and now she has good reason to think she might bring home an Olympic gold medal to her war-torn country.

Yaroslava Mahuchikh erased a mark that had stood for 37 years at a Diamond League meet in Paris, jumping 2.10 meters (6.88 feet) in one of the last big tune-ups leading into the Olympics.