Kyriakos Ioannou

Kyriakos Ioannou (Greek: Κυριάκος Ιωάννου, born 26 July 1984) is a Cypriot high jumper. He has twice won medals at the World Championships in Athletics (2007 and 2009) and was the bronze medallist at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2008. He is the only medalist for Cyprus at the World Athletics Championships since its creation in 1983. He's also the Cypriot record holder, both outdoors (2.35 m) and indoors (2.32 m). Ioannou is a two-time medallist at the Commonwealth Games (2006 and 2014) and took back-to-back gold medals at the Mediterranean Games in 2005 and 2009.

Kyriakos Ioannou

Personal information
Born	26 July 1984 Limassol, Cyprus
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country	Cyprus
Event(s)	High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	2.35 m 2.32 m (indoors)
Medal record World Championships 2009 Berlin High jump 2007 Osaka High jump World Indoor Championships 2008 Valencia High jump European Indoor Championships 2009 Turin High jump Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow High jump 2006 Melbourne High jump Mediterranean Games 2005 Almera High jump 2009 Pescara High jump Universiade 2007 Bangkok High jump

Career

His personal best jump and Cypriot national record is 2.35 metres, achieved at the 2007 World Championships held in Osaka where he won the bronze medal. He became the first World Championships medalist from Cyprus.[1] Two years later, at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, he won the silver medal (2,32 m), only beaten by Yaroslav Rybakov. He also took the bronze medal at the 2008 World Indoor Championships and finished fourth two years later at the same competition in Doha.

His best jump, outdoors in 2010, came at Lausanne on July 8, when he took third place with a jump of 2.30. Ioannou began his outdoor season at the first 2011 IAAF Diamond League meet in Doha and set a joint meeting record of 2.33 m alongside American Jesse Williams, though Williams was declared the winner on countback.[2]

Injured, he didn't come in the qualifying rounds at the World Championships in Daegu where he was one the favourite for a medal.

In 2012, still injured, he arrived to qualifying to the Olympic final in London where he finished 12th with 2.20 m. The following year, he didn't compete. Back in 2014 at the Commonwealth Games, Ioannou wins the silver medal with a SB of 2.28 m. Derek Drouin of Canada takes gold (2.31 m).

In March 2015, Ioannou makes the final of the European Indoor Athletics Championships but didn't arrived to make any jump due to an injury. In June, he makes the olympic standards by clearing 2.29 m.

In February 2016, for his first competition of the year, the Cypriot equals his own indoor national record made in 2008 (and equaled by Dimitrios Chondrokoukis in 2015) by clearing 2.32 m in Hustopeče on his third try.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Cyprus
2001	World Youth Championships	Debrecen, Hungary	29th (q)	1.90 m
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	18th (q)	2.12 m
2003	European Junior Championships	Tampere, Finland	6th	2.15 m
	Military World Games	Catania, Italy	3rd	2.15 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	19th (q)	2.25 m
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	18th (q)	2.18 m
	Games of the Small States of Europe	Andorra la Vella, Andorra	1st	2.18 m
	Mediterranean Games	Almería, Spain	1st	2.24 m
	European U23 Championships	Erfurt, Germany	4th	2.27 m
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	10th	2.25 m
2006	Commonwealth Games	Melbourne, Australia	3rd	2.23 m
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	3rd	2.35 m (NR)
	Universiade	Bangkok, Thailand	2nd	2.26 m
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	3rd	2.30 m
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	18th (q)	2.25 m
2009	European Indoor Championships	Turin, Italy	2nd	2.29 m
	Games of the Small States of Europe	Nicosia, Cyprus	1st	2.25 m
	Mediterranean Games	Pescara, Italy	1st	2.30 m
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	2nd	2.32 m
	World Athletics Final	Thessaloniki, Greece	7th	2.22 m
2010	World Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	4th	2.28 m
2012	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	21st (q)	2.15 m
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	13th	2.20 m
2014	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, United Kingdom	2nd	2.28 m
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	7th (q)	2.28 m^1
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	10th (q)	2.25 m^1
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	7th	2.29 m
2019	Games of the Small States of Europe	Bar, Montenegro	2nd	2.09 m

¹No mark in the final

References

1. "Cyprus gets its first ever medal winner at worlds". Kathimerini. Agence France-Presse. 30 Aug 2007. Archived from the original on 2020-04-25. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
2. iaaf.org, News, 6 May 2011, "Ten world leads in Doha’s flag-waving opener – Samsung Diamond League"; accessed 7 May 2011.

External links

• Kyriakos Ioannou at World Athletics
• Qualifying for the 2004 Olympics