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Ukraine's national team lost Yuliya Levchenko before the European Championship: Mafuchich will compete in Birmingham
World record holder and Olympic champion Yaroslava Mafuchich has entered the final list of participants for the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham from 2026, which will take place in Birmingham from 10 to 16 August. At the same time, the Ukrainian team suffered personnel losses: Ukrainian high jumpers Yuliya Levchenko and Kateryna Tabashnik were not included in the entry, so the national team will not use the maximum possible quota in the high jump.
This is written by OBOZ.UA.
Mafuchich will go to the tournament as the reigning European champion. The Ukrainian woman won the continental championship in Munich in 2022 and in Rome in 2024, and now will defend the title she won.
Together with her, Irina Herashchenko will represent Ukraine at the championship, who won a "bronze" at the previous European Championship.
Levchenko, whom they consider the most beautiful athlete in Ukraine, previously met the qualifying standards, but will probably not be able to compete, most likely due to an injury. As a result, the blue-and-yellow national team lost the opportunity to nominate the maximum number of athletes in this discipline.
The European Championship qualification finished on 26 July. The straight qualification standard 1,94 was met by only ten athletes, and the remaining places were allocated by the World Athletics world ranking.
Among the main rivals of the Ukrainian women at the tournament are Angelina Topić from Serbia, Christina Honzell from Germany, Morgan Lake from Great Britain, and Maria Zhodik from Poland.
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