Denys Yurchenko

Denys Yurchenko (Ukrainian Денис Юрченко, English transcription Denys Yurchenko, . Born January 27, 1978 in Donetsk ) is a Ukrainian pole vaulter.

Career

In 2000 he was national champion, beating his boyhood idol Serhiy Bubka. At the Olympic Games in Sydney, his staff met his groin, so he had to be hospitalized.

Although injuries made ​​him in the next few years to create, he was sixth at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 and the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis and won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest in 2004. At the Olympic Games in Athens, he was in spite of an inflammation on his Absprungfuß ninth.

He was with his personal indoor record of 5.85 m European indoor champion runner-up in 2005. At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005, he left in qualifying. In 2007 he was again runner- European indoor champion and twelfth at the World Championships in Osaka.

On 3 July 2008, he was with his personal best of 5.83 meters a second time Ukrainian Champion. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, he jumped 5.70 m in the first attempt, but then had to give up injured. The performance was enough yet to win the bronze medal behind Steve Hooker and Yevgeniy Lukyanenko (RUS ), since the other three athletes who crossed 5.70 m, this is managed only after one or two failed attempts.

Denys Yurchenko is 1,75 m tall and weighs 76 kg. He is married to the ballerina Anna Prokhorenko and since June 2008 has one daughter.