World Athletics Indoor Championships: Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh wins emotional high jump gold
Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh won an emotional women's high jump gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
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Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh defies odds to win world indoor high jump gold
Yaroslava Mahuchikh overcame the "total panic" of armed conflict in her native Ukraine to win gold in the high jump at the World Indoor Championships on Saturday. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Mahuchikh was forced to flee her home, hide out in a cellar and eventually make the 2,000km trip over three days to Belgrade to face what she dubbed her own front line. The reigning European indoor high jump champion, who won Olympic bronze in Tokyo and world outdoor silver in Doha in 2019, was forced to leave her home in Dnipro just three weeks ago as the conflict escalated.
Aussies are beatable, we needed early wickets: Yastika Bhatia
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