Dmitry Kroyter
Kroyter in 2011
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| Nationality |
 Israel
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| Born |
18 February 1993 Siberia, Russia |
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| Residence | Tel Aviv, Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Anatoly Shafran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | High jump - 2.29 m (Schifflange, Luxembourg; August 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Dmitry (Dima) Kroyter (Hebrew: דמיטרי קרויטר, IPA: [ˈkʀɔɪ̯tɐ], Russian: Дмитрий Кройтер; born 18 February 1993) is an Israeli Olympic high jumper. He is a former World Youth Champion and Youth Olympics Champion.
Born in Siberia, Kroyter and his family emigrated to Israel in 1999. He grew up in south Tel Aviv, raised by his single mother, Tatiana, who works as a housekeeper. His parents are divorced, and he has no contact with his father Piotr, who lives in Moldova. His brother Evgeni died from a serious liver illness in 2012. Kroyter served in the Israel Defense Forces, completing his service in 2015.
Kroyter has been coached in the high jump since 2005 by Anatoly "Tolek" Shafran, at Maccabi Tel Aviv.
In 2009 he became Israel's first Youth (17 or younger) World Champion at the age of 16 by winning the gold medal with a high jump of 2.20 m at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics (the sixth IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics) in Brixen, Italy. That year Kroyter also won the Israeli senior championship in the high jump, with a jump of 2.19 m. In June 2009 he set a world record for boys under 17 years of age, at 2.21 m. He was hampered, however, by a thigh injury that prevented him from training.
In 2010, despite a nagging injury Kroyter won the gold medal in the high jump at the Youth (18 or younger) Olympics in Singapore. His jump of 2.24 at the age of 16 at a competition in Moscow in February 2010 remains as of August 2016 the best high jump ever by a European youth under 17 years of age. He was dubbed a "rising young star" at the age of 17 by Allon Sinai of the Jerusalem Post.
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