Kateryna Tabashnyk

Kateryna Oleksandrivna Tabashnyk (; born 15 June 1994) is a Ukrainian high jumper who formerly competed in the heptathlon. She is a former European U20 champion, Ibero-American Championships winner, European Indoor Championships bronze medalist, and Top 8 at the European Championships.

Family In July 2022, The New York Times reported that Tabashnyk said her family’s apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, was struck by a Russian Army rocket that injured her 8-year-old nephew, who was hospitalized, and had one of his kidneys removed.

On 18 August 2022 shelling of Kharkiv by the Russian Armed Forces killed Kateryna's mother.

Career

Tabashnyk is a former European U20 champion, Ibero-American Championships winner, European Indoor Championships bronze medalist, and Top 8 at the European Championships.

2013-19

Tabashnyk competed in high jump without reaching the final at the 2011 World Youth Championships, and the 2013 European Indoor Championships.

In May 2012 at the Ukrainian Junior Championships in Yalta, Tabashnyk came in 4th place.

In August 2018 Tabashnyk won the high jump with a 1.90 metre jump at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany.

2020-present In February 2022 she won the Meeting International de Montreuil in Women's high jump. In May 2022 with a high jump of 1.90 Tabashnyk won the Ibero American Championships in La Nucia, Spain. In June 2022 she won the AtletiCAGenève - EAP in Women's high jump. In August 2022 she won a bronze medal at the 2022 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial.

In March 2023 Tabashnyk won a bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships, in Women's high jump.

Personal bests

Tabashnyk's personal best high jump is 1.99 metres, achieved indoors on 26 January 2019 in Hustopeče, Czech Republic.

Her highest world ranking in women's high jump has been fifth place.