Vladimir Yashchenko
Template:Infobox athlete Vladimir Ilyich Yashchenko (Template:Langx) or Volodymyr Yashchenko (Template:Langx) (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 Template:Height.
Yashchenko first broke the record at age 18 with a jump of Template:Height, at the USA-USSR junior dual meet in June 1977 at Richmond, Virginia.<ref name=iaaf>Reineri, Giorgio (1999-12-01) Yashchenko, the last King of the Straddle. IAAF. Retrieved on 2019-10-11.</ref><ref>Clark, Marsh (1977-07-25) Just An Old-fashioned Lad. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2019-10-11.</ref> He won the 1978 European Championships high jump competition with a jump of 230 cm.<ref name="iaaf"/> 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;<ref>Downes, Steven (1999-12-08) Obituary: Vladimir Yashchenko. The Independent. Retrieved 2019-10-11.</ref> he died from cirrhosis in 1999 at age forty.<ref name=iaaf/>
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