Australians Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson have won the silver and bronze medals in the women’s high jump at the Paris Olympics.

New world record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh from Ukraine claimed the gold medal on countback with a first-time clearance at 2m on Sunday.

Olyslagers stayed in the competition with a clutch third and final clearance at 2m, but then missed three times at 2.02m.

It was the 27-year-old Australian’s second consecutive Olympic silver.

Patterson tied for the bronze with Ukraine’s Iryna Gerashchenko on countback with first-time clearances at 1.95m.

Patterson, 28, has won gold and silver at the previous two world championships in Eugene and Budapest but this was her first Olympic medal.

Once the gold medal was safely in her keeping on Sunday, Mahuchikh had one unsuccessful crack at 2.04m.

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The great Ukrainian broke the 37-year-old world record with a clearance of 2.10m at the Paris Diamond League meet at Stade de France in early July.

She also relegated Patterson and Olyslagers to the minor medal positions at the 2023 world championships in Budapest.

The leading Australian and Ukrainian jumpers have dominated women’s high jump on the global stage in recent years and Sunday’s final was just the latest instalment of that battle.