Nadezhda Dubovitskaya is a Kazakhstani athlete specializing in high jump. She is a World Indoor Championships Bronze medalist, Asian Indoor champion, and multiple national champion. Her personal best is 2.00m outdoors, which is also Asian record, and 1.98m indoors.
Nadezhda Dubovitskaya, also known as Nadya Dubovitskaya, was born on March 12, 1998, in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. She started in athletics at an early age and proved to be one of the biggest athletics talents in the country.
Nadezhda Dubovitskaya started her competitive career in 2014, competing at the Bangkok Youth Olympic Games Qualification and finished 4th. In the next season, she already won the title at the Shimkent Kazakh U18 Championships.
In 2016, Nadezhda Dubovitskaya debuted at major international championships, winning the silver at the Ho Chi-Minh Asian Junior Championships. During the season, she won also the silver at the Almaty Kosanov Memorial and Ust-Kamenogorsk Rypakova Indoor Meet. She competed also at the Bydgoszcz IAAF World U20 Championships but failed to reach the final.
Nadezhda Dubovitskaya won her first national title in 2017, triumphing with the high jump gold at the Ust-Kamenogorsk Kazakh Indoor Championships, improving her personal best to 1.80m. She also won the junior titles U18 and U20. During the outdoor season, Nadya Dubovitskaya competed at the 2017 Asian Grand Prix, winning the bronze at the Jiaxing Asian Grand Prix and finishing 4th at the Jinhua Asian Grand Prix and Taipei City Asian Grand Prix. During the season she won the silver at the Almaty Kazakh Championships and competed at the Bhubaneshwar Asian Championships, but finished 6th and missed the honors.
In 2018, Nadezhda Dubovitskaya defended her national indoor title, triumphing again at the Ust-Kamenogorsk Kazakh Indoor Championships. She also earned the bronze at the Tehran Asian Indoor Championships. During the outdoor season, she won the bronze at the Jakarta Asian Games, while locally won the silver at the Almaty Kazakh Championships.
In 2019, Nadezhda Dubovitskaya continued dominating high jump locally, winning the gold at the Kazakh Indoor Championships and Almaty Kazakh Championships. She won another silver at the Doha Asian Athletics Championships, setting a new personal best of 1.88m. Meanwhile, she won the silver at the Chongqing Asian Grand Prix Series and qualified for the finals of the Napoli Universiade, where finished 6th with 1.80m, far from her abilities.
Nadezhda Dubovitskaya had a short 2020 season due to the world’s coronavirus pandemic, winning the silver at the Ust-Kamenogorsk Kazakh Indoor Championships and the gold at the Istanbul Cup, but jumped 1.90m, which was her personal best at that time.
In 2021, Nadya Dubovitskayawas part of the Kazakhstani team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but failed to reach the high jump finals, as finished 14th in her qualifying series with a jump of 1.86m. During the season she won two more national titles at the Ust-Kamenogorsk Kazakh Indoor Championships and Almaty Kazakh Championships, as well as the prestigious gold medal at the Almaty XXXI Qosanov Memorial.
In 2022, Nadezhda Dubovitskaya had a fantastic season, winning the bronze at the Beograd World Athletics Indoor Championships with a personal indoor best of 1.98m. She also finished 8th at the Eugene World Athletics Championships and debuted in the Diamond League, winning the bronze at the Prefontaine Classic and finishing 4th at the Diamond League Final in Zurich. Earlier in the year, she won the gold at the Ust-Kamenogorsk Kazakh Indoor Championships.
Nadezhda Dubovitskaya started the 2023 indoor season by winning the gold at the Astana Kazakh Indoor Championships and Astana Meeting but also won the gold at the Nur-Sultan 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. During the outdoor season, she competed at the Budapest World Athletics Championships but finished only 9th. She won the gold at the Almaty Kazakh Championships and the silver at the XXXIII Qosanov Memorial, as well as the bronze at the Rabat Diamond League.