Weltklasse Zürich presents the high jump elite at Stadion Letzigrund
After its guest appearance at Sechseläutenplatz in 2025, the women's high jump returns to a sold-out Stadion Letzigrund for Weltklasse Zürich 2026. On 27 August, seven of the world's best jumpers will go head-to-head: Nicola Olyslagers, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Eleanor Patterson, Yuliia Levchenko, Angelina Topić, Maria Żodzik and Christina Honsel – among them two rivals who are shaping the discipline like no others.
Olyslagers vs. Mahuchikh: Defending champion vs. world record holder
Both are world champions, but what sets them apart beyond that title makes the high jump duel at Weltklasse Zürich 2026 truly special: Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) is the Olympic champion from Paris 2024 and holds the world record of 2.10 metres, set in 2024.
Nicola Olyslagers (AUS) is the defending champion at Weltklasse Zürich: she set her Oceanian record of 2.04 meters in August 2025 on the Sechseläutenplatz in the heart of Zurich. As the Wanda Diamond League champion and World Athletics Field Athlete of the Year, Olyslagers is currently ranked number one in the world. Mahuchikh, for her part, made headlines most recently at the 2026 World Indoor Championships in Toruń, where she won gold convincingly with 2.01 meters – a clear signal that the world record holder is back.
A world-class and highly competitive field
The following world-class athletes have also been confirmed: Eleanor Patterson (AUS) arrives with proven championship record as the 2022 World Champion and Paris Olympic bronze medalist. Yuliia Levchenko (UKR) claimed silver at the 2026 World Indoor Championships in Toruń alongside Olyslagers and Topić. That same Angelina Topić (SRB), still only 20 years old, is arguably the event’s most exciting young talent: she won bronze at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, sharing the medal with Mahuchikh, and secured the first senior global championship podium finish of her career.
Also set to take flight at Stadion Letzigrund is Maria Żodzik (POL), who captured silver in Tokyo to claim the first World Championship medal of her career. Christina Honsel (GER), the strongest German-speaking athlete in the field, earned her first Wanda Diamond League victory in Lausanne in 2025. Together, four of the seven athletes claimed all four medals awarded in Tokyo 2025: gold, silver and the shared bronze. Remarkably, all of them have also surpassed the two-meter barrier.
All confirmed athletes