Ivan Ukhov
Ukhov during the 2013 World Championships in Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ivan Sergeyevich Ukhov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 March 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Men's athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | High jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Sergey Klyugin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Outdoor: 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) Indoor: 2.40 m (7 ft 10+1⁄4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ivan Sergeyevich Ukhov (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Ухов; born 29 March 1986) is a Russian high jumper. He won a gold medal at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships and is a two-time European Indoor champion (2009 and 2011). He was also the silver medallist at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and the winner of the high jump at the inaugural 2010 IAAF Diamond League. In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he won the gold medal, but it was later stripped for a doping violation.
Ukhov has broken the Russian national record indoors four times: jumping 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) on 28 January 2007 in Moscow; besting that with a 2.40 m (7 ft 10+1⁄4 in) jump on 25 February 2009 in Athens. His best outdoor effort, 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in), was set in Cheboksary on 5 July 2012. His leap of 2.40 m (7 ft 10+1⁄4 in) in 2009 made him the 11th man in history to jump 2.40 or better, and only four of those men have jumped higher (indoors and out); only three men have jumped higher indoors (Patrik Sjöberg, 2.41 in 1987; Carlo Thränhardt, 2.42 in 1988, and Javier Sotomayor, 2.43 in 1993).