Yelena Slesarenko
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Yelena Vladimirovna Slesarenko, née Sivushenko is a Russian high jumper.
In 2007
Yelena Slesarenko in 2007.
High jump
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The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is p
Yelena Slesarenko
…Yelena Vladimirovna Slesarenko, née Sivushenko (Russian: Елена Владимировна Слесаренко; born February 28, 1982, in Volgograd) is a Russian high jumper. In 2004 she cleared 2.04 metres to win the World Indoor Championships. Outdoors that year she won the SPAR European Cup with the same height. At the…
Canadian high jumper Nicole Forrester demonstrating the Fosbury flop
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras during the standing high jump competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Gold medal winner Ethel Catherwood of Canada scissors over the bar at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Her winning result was 1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in).