A respectable achievement.
The high jumper Jonathan Kapitolnik, finished tonight (Monday to Tuesday) in 11th place in the final of the World Championships in Oregon in the United States after passing 2.24 meters.
The 19-year-old Capitolnik, world and European youth champion, started the competition at a starting height of 2.19 meters, which he passed in the first attempt.
From a more guest, the continuum rose to 2.24 meters, when he also succeeded without difficulty already in the first attempt.
With 12 jumpers left and only one found himself outside, the next height was 2.27 meters, where the Israeli sculpted three times and finished his way in the competition in 11th place.
Gold won for the third time in a row, the Olympic champion is crowned in the heads of Qatar with 2.37 meters, the second Korean Wu Sanghyok with 2.35 meters, Bard settled for the Ukrainian Andrei Protsenko with 2.33 meters.
Jonathan Kapitolnik finished 11th at the World Championships,
As you may recall, the talented jumper advanced to the final stage of his senior championship debut, with 2.28 meters and caused a lot of heart palpitations, after he appeared to be injured, but later it turned out that it was just a muscle contraction and qualified for the final stage.
This is the second time in history that an Israeli athlete has reached the final of the World High Jump Championships, with the last to do so being Konstantin Metosevic, in the 1997 final in Athens, where he achieved 2.29 meters and finished in seventh place.
It should be noted that this was Israel's first men's final in the field disciplines, since the pole vaulter Alex Averbuch jumped at the world championships in Japan in 2007, then also finished seventh.
Jonathan Kapitolnik finished in 11th place at the World Championships, Photo: Reuters
Our coach Anatoly Shafran: "Overall we are very pleased with Jonathan's performance. We had a hard time making proper preparation because we did not want to aggravate the injury. He is only 19 years old and still does not have the experience in such positions and it affected today, probably with the minor injury he carried. Our goal It is now the European Championship in Munich. "
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