No longer ‘Mr. Silver’: Experience reaps dividends for Rybakov
13.01.2010
After collecting silver medals at the 2001, 2005 and 2007 World Championships, Russian Yaroslav Rybakov finally struck gold in Berlin last August.
At 29, a veteran athlete may permit himself to be philosophical. And Rybakov is indeed a breed type of high jumper. He is friendly, handsome and intelligent, but one you’d describe as ‘open’. He is one with himself, always fully concentrated on his main occupation which is, naturally, jumping high.
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