Yaroslava Mahuchikh

Today’s excitement was off the charts! Day three’s events were a rollercoaster of thrills, but stealing the spotlight was the men’s 100m final – a race that had fans across the world on the edge of their seats from start to finish. In today’s edition of Torch Talk, we recap…

– Noah Lyles wins the first Olympic gold of his career by taking the 100m crown over Jamaica's Kishane Thompson. Both men ran 9.79 and the gold was decided by thousandths-of-a-second. American Fred Kerley came through for bronze in 9.81.

– World record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh won her first Olympic high jump title with a mark of 2.00m. Australia's Nicola Olyslagers won her second straight Olympic silver, while Iryna Gershchenko and Eleanor Patterson tied on countback for the bronze medal.

– Ethan Katzberg won the Olympic gold in the men's hammer with a mark of 84.12m, the second-best mark in Olympic history. It was the largest margin of victory since 1920. Hungary's Bence Halasz took silver and Ukraine's Mykhaylo Kokhan took bronze.

– Grant Holloway posted the fastest time of the Olympic 110m hurdles qualifying by a HUGE margin, clocking a 13.01 to win his heat by 0.41 seconds.

– The women’s 800m finalists were determined: Keely Hodgkinson, Tsige Duguma, Prudence Sekgodiso, Shafiqua Maloney, Juliette Whittaker, Rénelle Lamote, Mary Moraa, and Worknesh Mesele.

– The men’s 1500m finalists were determined: Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Josh Kerr, Cole Hocker, Brian Komen, Stefan Nillessen, Pietro Arese, Yared Nuguse, Hobbs Kessler, Neil Gourley, Niels Laros, Timothy Cheruiyot, and Narve Gilje Nordås.

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We are back with another edition of This Week In Track and Field after a bit of a break due to the U.S. Olympic Trials.

The Diamond League returned to action and brought some spectacular results right away as we saw two world records in Faith Kipyegon breaking her own world record in the women’s 1,500m in 3:49.04 and Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh taking down a 37-year-old mark in the women’s high jump to 2.10 m (That’s 6-10 3/4). We had a crazy men’s 800m that has shaken up that distance ahead of the Paris Olympics

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"In my mind, I have the situation going on in Ukraine. So it was really complicated for me to turn off this emotion and to be focused only on high jump. I'm really thankful to my coach because she said to me, ‘We come to show the results. We come for the gold medal. And we come for our country, to show all people that we are strong and will fight in all areas.’"

Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh will make her debut at the ⁠116th Millrose Games⁠ at The Armory on Feb. 11 in New York City.

Mahuchikh just wrapped up a stellar 2023 season in which the 21-year-old claimed gold in the women’s high jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest by clearing 2.01m on her second try. She completed her global outdoor medal set after earning a silver medal at the 2019 and 2022 World Championships and an Olympic bronze medal in Tokyo in 2021. 

Mahuchikh also earned a gold medal at the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia – which took place just weeks after fleeing her home in Dnipro due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She traced by car for three days to make her way to the championships.

She has been training in Germany and Turkey within the past year. At 21 years old, she has been very vocal about using sport as a platform for promoting peace and awareness about how the war has devastated Ukraine.

In September, Mahuchikh cleared a world-leading 2.03m to win the women’s high jump at the Prefontaine Classic and defend her Diamond League trophy. Following the meet, she spent a few days in New York City to celebrate her 21st birthday.

The Millrose Games is the sixth stop on the 2024 ⁠World Athletics Indoor Tour⁠ Gold calendar.

Livestream and television broadcast details will be announced in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more Millrose Games athlete announcements as the pro fields come together.

Tickets to the 116th Millrose Games can be purchased online at ⁠millrosegames.org⁠.

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