Alyona Lutkovskaya

Lutkovskaya's junior career is marked by an impressive series of medals. She won gold at the 2014 World Junior Championships and at the 2013 European Junior Championships, and took silver at the 2013 World Youth Championships. In her senior debut at the 2014 European Championships, she finished seventh, jumping 4.45 m in qualification and 4.35 m in the final. In February 2014, she broke the Russian junior indoor record with a jump of 4.50 m, surpassing the previous record of 4.47 m set by Yelena Isinbayeva in 2001. At the 2014 World Junior Championships, she equalled the World Junior Championships record of 4.50 m, set by Angelica Bengtsson in 2012, and also matched the Russian junior outdoor record set by Valeriya Volik in 2008.

She continued to break records in 2015. In February, she improved her own Russian junior indoor record to 4.54 m. On May 21, 2015, she set a World junior outdoor record with a jump of 4.61 m, surpassing the previous record that had been set just one day earlier by Robeilys Peinado at 4.60 m. This jump also bettered the prior World junior outdoor record of 4.58 m, which had already been broken twice earlier in the season by Nina Kennedy and Peinado. Her personal bests are 4.61 m outdoors and 4.54 m indoors. In September 2014, she was nominated for the European Athletics Rising Star award, alongside athletes like Mariya Kuchina and Katarina Johnson-Thompson, though the award ultimately went to Kuchina. Lutkovskaya's achievements have solidified her reputation in the sport.