Denys Yurchenko
![]() Denys Yurchenko in 2007 | |
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Born | Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 27 January 1978
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) |
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Country | ![]() |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Pole Vault |
Denys Sergiyovich Yurchenko (Ukrainian: Денис Сергійович Юрченко) (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.[1]
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.[2]
In May 2017, he was disqualified for two years.[3]
His personal best jump (outdoor) is 5.83 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Kyiv.
Competition record
References
- ^ "Hooker wins pole vault gold medal for Australia". Associated Press. 2008-08-22. Archived from the original on August 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
- ^ "IOC sanctions 16 athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008". IOC. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
- ^ "Six Russian, Ukrainian track athletes handed doping bans after Olympic retests | CTV News". 31 May 2017.
External links
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
- Ukrainian male pole vaulters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Ukraine
- Sportspeople from Donetsk
- Doping cases in athletics
- Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases
- Ukrainian athletics biography stubs