24th August 2013 06:07
His 2.41m equalled his world best of 2013, in what has been a year the Ukrainian will never forget.
But is his finest moment still to happen?
Eberstadt is a small municipality in south western Germany, which since 1979 has created a reputation as home to one of the biggest high jump meetings of the summer - and on Saturday afternoon Bondarenko will compete at their Internationales Hochsprung knowing he is stepping on the path of history.
Twice this year he has attempted to break the world record of 2.45m which Cuban Javier Sotamayor set in 1993. He has failed but he has not lost his desire to achieve it.
He thought Moscow might be the place, but it could just be that Eberstadt becomes the venue where Sotamayor's reign ends.
Twice before the world record has been broken at this meeting - in 1980, when Poland's Jacek Wszola cleared 2.35m, and then in 1984, China's Zhu Jianhua went over at 2.39m.
Sotomayor has held the meeting record of 2.40m from 1994 and while that height will surely come threat on Saturday at this European Athletics Special Premium event, the world mark will be in serious danger too.
No longer does Bondarenko, 23, have anything to prove this summer.
The desire of winning gold, while equally putting pressure on his rivals leading up to Moscow, has now gone, and it could just release in him a performance that will be his greatest.
Sotomayor is the most successful athlete in the meeting's history, with five victories, and returning to face Bondarenko is Russia's Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov, who won here in 2011 with 2.24m.
Canada's Derek Drouin, the bronze medallist from Moscow, and Great Britain's Robbie Grabarz, joint-Olympic bronze medallist, are also in a field of 10.
But all eyes will be on Bondarenko, and just how high he will attempt to go.
Full line-up:
Bohdan Bondarenko (Germany) PB: 2.41m
Ivan Ukhov (Russia) 2.40m
Derek Drouin (Canada) 2.38m
Robert Grabarz (Great Britain) 2.37m
Konstadinos Baniotis (Greece) 2.34m
Kabelo Kgosiemang (Botswana) 2.34m
Silvano Chesani (Italy) 2.33m
Andriy Protsenko (Ukraine) 2.31m
Daniil Tsyplakov (Russia) 2.31 m
Randy Ingraham (Bahamas) 2.30m