| Vladimir Yashchenko | |
| Fullname: | Vladimir Ilyich Yashchenko |
| Birth Date: | 12 January 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Death Place: | Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine |
| Height: | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| Sport: | Track and field |
| Event: | High jump |
| Pb: | 2.34 m 2.35 m (indoors) |
Vladimir Ilyich Yashchenko (ru|Владимир Ильич Ященко) or Volodymyr Yashchenko (uk|Володимир Ященко) (12 January 1959 - 30 November 1999) was a Ukrainian member of the Soviet national team and former world record holder in the high jump (2.33 m, 2.34 m, and .
Yashchenko first broke the record at age 18 with a jump of, at the USA-USSR junior dual meet in June 1977 at Richmond, Virginia.[1] [2] He won the 1978 European Championships high jump competition with a jump of 230 cm.[1] On 12 March 1978, he achieved the highest mark using the straddle technique.
In 1979, Yashchenko suffered a severe knee injury and his career was effectively over at age twenty;[3] he died from cirrhosis in 1999 at age forty.[1]