Olympic and World Championship gold medalist Mariya Lasitskene is a Russian athlete who competes in the high jump. She is a three-time world champion (2015, 2017 and 2019) and the 2020 Olympic champion. After Stefka Kostadinova, Heike Henkel, and Anna Chicherova, Lasitskene is the fourth female high jumper in history to have won gold at both the Olympic Games and the World Championships.
Lasitskene was born in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. She began he...