Darya Klishina
January 15, 1991 (Russia)
Long jumper
- Host for the The Ball Out
- Ambassador DryWorld.
Darya Klishina is a Russian long jumper and model. She holds the Russian junior record with 7.03 m, and the second best junior mark of all time.
Her face is on the covers of popular magazines and TV, more than 500 thousand fans follow her on social media, and large companies conclude advertising contracts with her.
CAREER and ACHIEVEMENTS
- Having started her career in Russia at the age of 13, Darya moved the U.S. in 2013 to advance her training.
- She has a truly impressive collection of awards to her credit. As the World Silver Medal Long Jump Champion, Darya knows how to be dominant on a global stage.
- Young athlete won the gold at the 2007 World Youth Championships and the European Youth Olympics for the first time. As well as she became a winner of the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships. Darya is the two-time European Indoor Champion (2011, 2013), European Youth Champion (2011).
- At the XXVII World Summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan the athlete won a gold medal. After that she became the bronze medalist of the 2014 European Championships.
- In July 2016, Klishina was the only member of the Russian track and field team in the Olympics in Rio (the IAAF had suspended the Russian national federation from competing due to breach of anti-doping rules, and Klishina was the only member of the athletics team allowed to compete). This decision was initially reversed on 13 August 2016. Klishina immediately appealed the decision. On 15 August 2016, the eve of the long jump event, she won a last-minute verdict by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to compete. She qualified for the long jump final, finishing ninth.
- Klishina finished second at the World Championships in London in 2017.
- She competed as an “authorised neutral athlete” after the Russian doping scandal saw athletes banned from competing under the country’s flag.
- She won a silver medal with a season-best jump of 7.00m, finishing two centimeters behind gold-medalist.
- Darya won the Russian Athletics Championships 2019, but later an injury forced Klishina to pull out from World Championships 2019 in Doha. Darya announced that she had skipped the competition citing health problems.
- Darya was one of only 10 track and field athletes allowed to compete under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in Tokyo 2021, but she failed to make it count after getting injured during the qualification round. She having allowed two spades in qualifying. On the third attempt, she was unable to get out due to injury and left the arena in a wheelchair.
Currently, Darya lives and trains in the USA.
Interesting facts:
- in 2011, the Bulgarian sports Internet resource SPORTAL.BG named Klishina “the sexiest Russian athlete”, and previously the magazine PROSPORT chose Klishina the most beautiful young athlete.
- Darya among the five Russian athletes entered the Top-100 Sexiest Russians according to Maxim magazine in 2017.
- in 2021, Darya released the book «BREATHE: Fast Lung Recovery Methods by World Elite Athlete».
