Role Athlete Children Elisabeth Yurchenko Name Denys Yurchenko Spouse Anna Prokhorenko | Event(s) Pole Vault Weight 75 kg Sport Athletics Height 1.75 m | |
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Born January 27, 1978 (age 46) ( 1978-01-27 ) Olympic medals Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault | ||
Denys Yurchenko (UKR) - 5.85m - 05.03.2005 - Madrid/ESP
Denys Sergiyovich Yurchenko (Ukrainian: Денис Сергійович Юрченко) (born January 27, 1978 in Donetsk) is a Ukrainian pole vaulter with three medals in Indoor Athletics Championships.
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Painful Pole Vault
Career
At the 2000 Summer Olympics he suffered a mishap with a vaulting pole. He also initially won the bronze medal in the men's pole vault event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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.
In May 2017, he was disqualified for two years.
His personal best jump (outdoor) is 5.83 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Kiev.
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