Yaroslav Rybakov

Yaroslav Rybakov

Yaroslav Rybakov during 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Personal information
Full name	Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov
Born	(1980-11-22) November 22, 1980 (age 36) Mogilyev, Belarusian SSR
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	84 kg (185 lb)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Track and field athletics
Event(s)	High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	2.35 m 2.38 m (indoors)
Medal record Men's athletics Olympic Games 2008 Beijing High jump World Championships 2009 Berlin High jump 2001 Edmonton High jump 2005 Helsinki High jump 2007 Osaka High jump World Indoor Championships 2006 Moscow High jump 2003 Birmingham High jump 2004 Budapest High jump 2008 Valencia High jump 2010 Doha High jump European Championships 2002 Munich High jump European Indoor Championships 2005 Madrid High jump 2002 Vienna High jump

Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov (Russian: Ярослав Владимирович Рыбаков, born November 22, 1980 in Mogilyev, Belarusian SSR) is a retired Russian high jumper.

He is the 2002 European Champion high jumper, and at the 2005 World Championships he shared the silver medal with Victor Moya of Cuba.

In 2006 he won the World Indoor Championships, and finished fifth in the high jump final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. The next year he won his third World Championships silver medal in a new personal best jump of 2.35 metres. In 2009, he finally won gold at the World Championships in Berlin.

His indoor personal best is 2.38 metres, set in February 2005 in . Since then he has equalled the mark three times, which has included a meet record for the Hochsprung mit Musik.

Rybakov set the Russian national record of 2.38, indoors, at the 16th GE Galan meet at the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on Tuesday 15 February 2005. It was the highest indoor leap in the world since March 2000, and improved his personal best by one cm. He was pushed to the record by Czech jumper Jaroslav Baba, who finished second at 2.34. Rybakov set the record by making 5-consecutive first try clearances at 2.21, 2.26, 2.29, 2.32 and 2.34, and then clearing 2.39 on his third, and final, attempt.

Two years later, Rybakov would push his younger compatriot Ivan Ukhov to break his national record at the Moscow Winter Cup meet on 28 January 2007. In a tactical duel, Rybakov would finish second at 2.35 (with one attempt at 2.37 and two at 2.39), while 20-year-old Ukhov had a first try clearance at 2.39. One week later, at the Arnstadt, Germany meet on 3 February 2007, Rybakov would win, tying his personal best of 2.38, while Ukhov finished fourth at 2.31.