Ivana Španović

Ivana Španović
Ivana Španović (2017)
nation	Serbia
birthday	10th May 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Zrenjanin , Serbia
size	176 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	7.24 m
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 0 × 2 × European championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 1 × 1 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 3 × 0 × 0 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Youth World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 7.08 m  World championships bronze Moscow 2013 6.82 m bronze Beijing 2015 7.01 m  European championships silver Zurich 2014 6.81 m gold Amsterdam 2016 6.94 m Indoor world championships bronze Sopot 2014 6.77 m silver Portland 2016 7.07 m gold Birmingham 2018 6.96 m  European Indoor Championships gold Prague 2015 6.98 m gold Belgrade 2017 7.24 m gold Glasgow 2019 6.99 m  Universiade gold Belgrade 2009 6.64 m  U23 European Championships silver Ostrava 2011 6.74 m  Junior World Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2008 6.61 m  Junior European Championships silver Novi Sad 2009 6.71 m  Youth World Championships gold Ostrava 2007 6.41 m
last change: March 3, 2019

Ivana Španović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ивана Шпановић ; born May 10, 1990 in Zrenjanin ) is a Serbian long jumper .

Career

Španović celebrated her first international success at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Marrakech , where she reached eighth place in the long jump in qualification and fifth place in the semifinals over 100 meters . At the Junior World Championships in Beijing in 2006 she reached the final in the long jump and finished seventh. At the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham she reached only an 18th place with 6.18 m in the qualification and therefore no starting place in the finals. In the same year she started again at the Youth World Championships in Ostrava and finished the final with 6.41 m in second place, which she won silver. At the Junior European Championships 2007 in Hengelo she reached second place in the qualification. She could not place in the final. In July 2008 Španović won gold at the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz .

She was then nominated for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . In Beijing, however, she missed the final round in 16th place and was eliminated after qualifying. She finally won gold at the 2009 Summer Universiade . A year later she qualified for the final at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona and ended up eighth with a jump of 6.60 m. At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow , she finished third with a personal best of 6.82 m. This makes Španović the first Serbian athlete to achieve a medal at world championships. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , she was able to repeat this success with the bronze medal and the national record of 7.01 m. At the end of the year, Španović was voted Serbian Sportswoman of the Year. In 2016 she became European champion in Amsterdam and won the bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with a national record of 7.08 m behind the two Americans Tianna Bartoletta (7.17 m) and Brittney Reese (7.15 m).

Španović has been successful at the national level since 2006. From 2006 to 2008 she won the national junior title in the long jump three times in a row and in 2009 also in the 100 meter run. In 2008 she also won the Serbian championship title in the senior long jump. In 2009 she was also able to win the Junior Balkan Championship. One of her trademarks are her long fingernails, which she often painted in striking colors. Ivana Španović would like to see this as a throwback to great athletes like Florence Griffith-Joyner and Gail Devers .

At the European Indoor Championships in her home country in 2017 , she lived up to her role as a favorite and showed three jumps over seven meters and thus secured the gold medal. Her best attempt of 7.24 was only ever surpassed by Heike Drechsler and Galina Tschistjakowa .

Top performances

open air

• Long jump: 7.10 m (NR), September 11, 2016, Belgrade
• 100-meter run : 11.90 s, May 18, 2013, Sremska Mitrovica

Hall

• Long jump: 7.24 m, March 5, 2017, Belgrade
• 60-meter run : 7.31 s, January 31, 2015, Novi Sad

Web links

Commons : Ivana Španović  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ivana Španović in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ivana Španović in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NAJBOLJA I NAJLEPŠA Ivana Španović: hocu medalju i nacionalni record and Riju sport.blic.rs December 18, 2015
2. ↑ http://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/european-athletics-indoor-championships/history/year=2017/results/index.html