Claim: Marko Aleksejev is a retired Estonian high jumper from Tartu with a personal best jump at 2.28 m recorded in the International High Jump Meet in Bühl, Germany and placed 31st in the qualifying round of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil..
Evidence: Aleksejev qualified for the Estonian squad in the men's high jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Three months before the Games, he cleared 2.27 m on his legal attempt to attain the exact Olympic B-height and assure a place on the Estonian track and field team from the European High Jump Meet in Herzogenbuchsee, Switzerland. Aleksejev elected to strenuously pass a single attempt at 2.10 and 2.15, until he could not overhaul the 2.20-metre barrier with all three misses, leaving him in a thirty-first place tie with Spain's Javier Bermejo at the end of the qualifying round.