About Denys Yurchenko
Born 1978. Denys Yurchenko is a Ukrainian pole vaulter and athletics competitor.
Denys Serhiyovych Yurchenko (born 27 January 1978 in Donetsk) is a Ukrainian pole vaulter with three medals in Indoor Athletics Championships.
Career At the 2000 Summer Olympics he suffered a mishap with a vaulting pole, injuring his groin and ending his season. He also initially won the bronze medal in the men's pole vault event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
On 17 November 2016, the IOC disqualified him from the 2008 Olympic Games, stripped his Olympic bronze medal and struck his results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of his doping sample from 2008.
In May 2017, he was disqualified for two years.
His personal best jump (outdoor) is 5.83 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Kyiv.
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Who is Denys Yurchenko?
Ukrainian pole vaulter
When was Denys Yurchenko born?
Denys Yurchenko was born on 27 January 1978 in Donetsk.
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Denys Yurchenko is a pole vaulter and athletics competitor.
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Denys Yurchenko is Ukrainian.
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