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The Fund’s purpose is to ensure that elite Ukrainian athletes can continue to train, qualify for and participate in World Championship events this year

Athletics offers funding to help Ukraine train for worlds | 2023-05-09 00:05:29

High jumper Hamish Kerr has bettered his own national record, leaping to 2.34m in Slovakia and extending his unbeaten run indoors

Commonwealth Games gold medallist Hamish Kerr has surpassed his own national high jump record, with victory at an athletics meet in Slovakia.

March 19, 2022. The Stark Arena, Belgrade. And the winner of the women’s high jump at the World Athletics Indoor Championships is celebrating with intense, almost fierce joy as she brandishes her national flag - the flag of Ukraine.

Canoe champion Yuri Cheban won Olympic gold in the 200 meters in 2012 and 2016 and a bronze in 2008. He is auctioning his medals in hopes of raising a six-figure donation to contribute to the war effort in his native land.

Ukrainian canoe champion Yuri Cheban is auctioning off his two Olympic gold medals and a bronze medal to help raise funds for the war effort in his native land.

“My Olympic medals won’t matter if Ukraine can’t stand for this fight for freedom and independence,” two-time canoe champion Yuri Cheban said.

(Reuters) - Olympic pole vault champion Katie Nageotte and Commonwealth Games heptathlon winner Katarina Johnson-Thompson have been named among the no...

(Reuters) - Olympic pole vault champion Katie Nageotte and Commonwealth Games heptathlon winner Katarina Johnson-Thompson have been named among the no...