Kyriakos Ioannou

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 of the favourites 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.

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 m1
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	10th (q)	2.25 m1
	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

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