Ivanka Christowa

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Iwanka Christowa ( Bulgarian Иванка Христова , English transcription Ivanka Khristova ; born November 19, 1941 in Ossikowiza , Prawez ) is a former Bulgarian shot putter and Olympic champion . With a height of 1.72 m, she had a competition weight of 90 kg.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , Iwanka Christowa was sixth with 17.25 m. At the European Athletics Championships in 1969 , she finished fourth with a Bulgarian national record of 18.04 m. Two years later at the European Championships in 1971 she was sixth with 17.78 m.

1972 Iwanka Christowa won the Olympic Games in Munich with 19.35 m bronze behind Nadezhda Tschischowa from the Soviet Union and Margitta Gummel from the GDR . At the European Championships in 1974 Christowa was fourth with 19.17 m.

In early July 1976 Christowa set two world records in Belmeken with 21.87 m and 21.89 m. Helena Fibingerová from Czechoslovakia exceeded these widths on September 26th with 21.99 m. On 31 July 1976, the shot put final of the women found in the Olympic Games in Montreal instead. After the first round, Nadezhda Tschischowa led, which increased to 20.96 m in the second round. At the end of the fourth round, Tschischowa was still leading with her distance from the second attempt in front of Iwanka Christowa and Marianne Adam from the GDR with 20.55 m. In the fifth round, Fibingerová first rose to 20.67 m and then Christowa to 21.16 m. The medal winners were determined and Iwanka Christowa had set a new Olympic record .

Iwanka Christowa reached from 1967 to 1969 at the European Indoor Games and from 1970 to 1976 at the European Indoor Championships every year the final. Your services and placements in detail:

  • 1967: 2nd place - 16.55 m
  • 1968: 4th place - 17.11 m
  • 1969: 2nd place - 16.94 m
  • 1970: 5th place - 17.58 m
  • 1971: 5th place - 17.42 m
  • 1972: 4th place - 17.92 m
  • 1973: 4th place - 17.92 m
  • 1974: 4th place - 19.23 m
  • 1975: 3rd place - 19.35 m
  • 1976: 1st place - 20.45 m

literature

  • Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (Ed.): European Indoor Handbook. Madrid 2005, ISBN 84-87704-89-1
  • Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF records. Shot put women , accessed December 21, 2017