Tsanko Arnaudov

Tsanko Arnaudov
Full name	Tsanko Rosenov Arnaudov
nation	Portugal
birthday	14th March 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Goze Delchev , Bulgaria
size	198 cm
Weight	155 kg
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	21.56 m
society	Benfica Lisbon
Trainer	Volodymyr Zinchenko
status	active
Medal table
European championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European championships bronze Amsterdam 2016 20.59 m
last change: March 2nd, 2020

Tsanko Rosenov Arnaudov (born March 14, 1992 in Goze Deltschew ) is a Portuguese shot putter of Bulgarian origin.

Athletic career

Tsanko Arnaudov gained his first international experience in 2011 at the Junior European Championships in Tallinn , where he was eliminated from the qualification with a width of 17.66 m. Two years later he was eliminated from the U23 European Championships in Tampere with 17.14 m in the preliminary round. In 2014 he finished fifth at the U23 Mediterranean Championships in Aubagne with 17.81 m and in 2015 he took part in the World Championships in Beijing for the first time , but did not reach the final there either with 18.85 m . In 2016 Arnaudov won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Amsterdam with 20.59 m behind the German David Storl and Michał Haratyk from Poland. He also qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he did not reach the final with 18.88 m .

2017 he was at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade with 21.08 meters and fourth in the world championships in London , he retired with 20.08 meters in the qualifying from. The following year he reached twelfth place at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham with 19.93 and finished ninth at the European Championships in Berlin with 19.26 m, as well as at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow with 20.33 m Space. He then won the silver medal behind Brazilian Darlan Romani at the Ibero-American Championships in Trujillo with 19.34 m . In 2019 he was eliminated from the qualification at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow with 19.86 m.

From 2015 to 2019 Arnaudov was Portuguese champion in the shot put outdoors and from 2015 to 2018 also indoors.

Personal bests

• Shot put: 21.56 m, June 24, 2917 in Vaasa ( Portuguese record )
  • Shot put (hall): 21.27 m, February 18, 2018 in Pombal ( Portuguese record )

Web links

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