Womens High Jump Final | 07 Aug 21 | |||||
Womens High Jump Qualification Group B | 05 Aug 21 | |||||
Mariya Aleksandrovna Lasitskene (Russian: Мария Александровна Ласицкене, pronounced ; née Kuchina; born 14 January 1993) is a Russian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She is the 2020 Olympic champion and three-time world champion (2015, 2017 and 2019). With her victory in Tokyo, Lasitskene became the fourth female high jumper in history (after Stefka Kostadinova, Heike Henkel & Anna Chicherova) to win gold at both the Olympic Games and the World Championships.