Mahuchikh nominated for the title of the best athlete in Europe 2025

Jaroslawa Mahuchikh won the biggest continental start of the season - Euro 2025 indoor. Photo: Ulf Schiller/athletix.ch

Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh has been shortlisted for the title of the best athlete in Europe in 2025.

This was reported by European Athletics.

This season, Mahuchikh won her third consecutive European Indoor Championships gold medal and won the high jump at the Euro 2025 team event in Madrid. In addition, she won two bronze medals at the World Championships — outdoors and indoors — and a silver in the Diamond League final.

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Last year, the athlete was already recognised as the best athlete in Europe at the Golden Tracks-2024 ceremony. Now she has a chance to repeat her success.

The winner will be determined by a vote of fans, national federations, journalists and European Athletics experts.

Other contenders for the title include:

• Nadia Buttocchetti (Italy)

• Femke Ball (Netherlands)

• Georgia Hunter Bell (Great Britain)

• Ditaji Kambunji (Switzerland)

• Kate O'Connor (Ireland)

• Maria Perez (Spain)

• Jessica Schilder (Netherlands)

• Tina Šutej (Slovenia)

• Jorinde van Klinken (Netherlands)

The winner will be announced on 25 October at the Golden Tracks ceremony. You can vote here.

We would like to remind you that Yaroslava Mahuchikh took first place in the high jump final at the 2024 Olympic Games. She brought Ukraine its fifth medal at this year's Games.

Yaroslava Mahuchikh also set a new world record in the women's high jump, clearing 2.10 metres.

Ukrainian track and field athlete Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who won gold at the 2024 Olympics, donated 500,000 hryvnias to help wounded soldiers «Azov».