Vladimir Yashchenko
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| Full name | Vladimir Ilyich Yashchenko | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 January 1959 Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 November 1999 (aged 40) Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 2.34 m 2.35 m (indoors) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vladimir Ilyich Yashchenko (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ященко) or Volodymyr Yashchenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Ященко) (12 January 1959 – 30 November 1999) was a Ukrainian member of the Soviet national team and former world record holder in the high jump (2.33 m, 2.34 m, and 2.35 m (7 ft 8+1⁄2 in).
Yashchenko first broke the record at age 18 with a jump of 2.33 m (7 ft 7+3⁄4 in), at the USA-USSR junior dual meet in June 1977 at Richmond, Virginia. He won the 1978 European Championships high jump competition with a jump of 230 cm. On 12 March 1978, he achieved the highest mark using the straddle technique.
In 1979, Yashchenko suffered a severe knee injury and his career was effectively over at age twenty; he died from cirrhosis in 1999 at age forty.