21 Facts About Bohdan Bondarenko

Bohdan Viktorovych Bondarenko is a Ukrainian high jumper.

Bohdan Bondarenko is the 2013 World champion, 2014 European champion, and 2016 Olympic bronze medalist.

Bohdan Bondarenko is one of the tallest high jumpers competing on the elite Diamond League circuit, standing 1.98 meters.

When Bohdan Bondarenko won the European Athlete of the Year trophy 2013 his father received a trainer's award of the European Athletics Association.

In 2008, Bohdan Bondarenko was eligible for his second World Junior Championships.

Bohdan Bondarenko had not recorded a notable result during the indoor season, but with a jump of 2.25 metres he qualified for the 2008 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, leading the season's list for juniors.

Bohdan Bondarenko set a new personal best of 2.31 on 17 June 2012, jumping in his native Ukraine at Mykolaiv.

Bohdan Bondarenko was a finalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on 7 August 2012, clearing 2.29 and finishing in 7th place.

Only 2 men jumped higher, as Bohdan Bondarenko and five other jumpers ended their competition at 2.29, with the places determined by the countback: there was a 3-way tie for the third place bronze medal, with Bohdan Bondarenko relegated to seventh because he needed two attempts to clear that height.

Bohdan Bondarenko seems not to have competed on the indoor circuit during the previous years.

Bohdan Bondarenko bested that by jumping 2.33 in his first two Diamond League meets in 2013, beginning with the season's first Diamond League meet at Doha, UAE on 10 May, then again at Shanghai, China, on 18 May Bohdan Bondarenko won 8 of his first 9 competitions.

Less than a week later, in July 2013, Bohdan Bondarenko cleared 2.41 metres at another Diamond League meet, the Athletissima, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Bohdan Bondarenko did not even begin jumping until 2.28, the highest "opening" height ever in a Diamond League event.

Bohdan Bondarenko needed to in order to win the competition, since he had passed 2.38, a height cleared by both his opponents.

Bohdan Bondarenko was awarded the 2013 European Athlete of the Year trophy.

Early in the season, Ivan Ukhov and then Mutaz Essa Barshim equalled Bohdan Bondarenko's 2.41m making for the trio of contemporary athletes having cleared the third highest height in history.

Bohdan Bondarenko won the Diamond League meeting in Tokyo with a jump of 2.40m in Tokyo on Sunday, beating the Olympic Champion Ivan Ukhov, who could manage "only" 2.34m.

Bohdan Bondarenko then had three close attempts at what would have been a European record of 2.43m.

Bohdan Bondarenko then had the bar raised to world record height of 2.46m and made three unsuccessful attempts.

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, Bohdan Bondarenko tied for silver with China's Zhang Guowei, behind Canada's Derek Drouin.

Bohdan Bondarenko won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.