Ivajlo Mladenov

Iwajlo Mladenow ( Bulgarian Ивайло Младенов , English transcription Ivaylo Mladenov ; born October 6, 1973 in Wraza ) is a former Bulgarian long jumper .

At the Junior World Championships in 1992 he was third. The following year he was sixth with 7.86 m at the World Athletics Championships in Toronto and fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart with 8.00 m.

In 1994 he finished fourth at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris with 8.07 m. Compared to third-placed Romanian Bogdan Tudor , he only missed bronze because of the worse second-best jump. At the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki , Mladenow just qualified for the final with 7.83 m in twelfth place. In the finals he managed a jump of 8.02 m in his first attempt. In the second attempt, the Czech Milan Gombala took the lead with 8.04 m. In the sixth and final attempt, Mladenow jumped 8.09 m and relegated Gombala to second place.

After he could not qualify for the final at the 1995 World Indoor Championships , he achieved his last place in a grand final at the 1995 World Championships with 7.93 m and eighth place. At the European Indoor Championships in 1996 he was qualified for the finals, but did not appear, and at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta Mladenow succeeded in qualifying not a valid jump.

Iwajlo Mladenow is 1.84 m tall and weighed 68 kg during his playing days.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 1996. Surbiton 1996, ISBN 1-899807-01-2

Web links

• Ivaylo Mladenov in the database of World Athletics (English)