Kyriakos Ioannou

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Kyriakos Ioannou is a Cypriot athlete whose specialty is the high jump.

Ioannou was born in Lemesos on July 26, 1984. He is the current Cypriot record-holder for the high jump (2.35m) which he achieved in Osaka in the World championship of 2007. That performance earned him the bronze medal - the first for Cyprus in track and field.

On July 1, 2009, Ioannou won a gold medal in the Mediterranean Games of Pescara, Italy. Later in that same year (August 21) he won silver in the World Championship of Berlin with 2.32m.