Jordanka Donkova

Jordanka Donkova
Jordanka Donkova 2013
nation	Bulgaria
birthday	September 28, 1961
place of birth	Gorni Bogrow
Career
discipline	Hurdles run , short distance run
Best performance	11.27 s (100 m) 22.95 s (200 m) 6.77 s (50 m hurdles) 7.74 s (60 m hurdles) 12.21 s (100 m hurdles)
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × Indoor world championship 0 × 1 × 0 × European Championship 1 × 2 × 1 × European indoor championship 3 × 0 × 3 ×
Olympic games gold 1988 Seoul 100 m hurdles bronze 1992 Barcelona 100 m hurdles Indoor world championship silver 1987 Indianapolis 100 m hurdles European Championship silver 1982 Athens 100 m hurdles gold 1986 Stuttgart 100 m hurdles silver 1986 Stuttgart 4 × 100 m relay bronze 1994 Helsinki 100 m hurdles European indoor championship bronze 1982 Milan 60 m hurdles bronze 1984 Gothenburg 60 m hurdles gold 1987 Liévin 60 m hurdles gold 1989 The Hague 60 m hurdles bronze 1992 Genoa 60 m hurdles gold 1994 Paris 60 m hurdles

Jordanka Donkova ( Bulgarian Йорданка Донкова , English transcription Yordanka Donkova ; born September 28, 1961 in Gorni Bogrow near Sofia ) is a former Bulgarian hurdler and Olympic champion .

Donkowa held the world record in the 100 meter hurdles from August 20, 1988 to July 23, 2016 . In 1986 she broke Polish Grażyna Rabsztyn's seven-year record and improved it three times. In 1987 the Bulgarian Ginka Sagortschewa took the record from her. But Donkowa was able to undercut him by four hundredths in Stara Sagora . It wasn't until almost 28 years later that the American Kendra Harrison managed to improve the world record by a hundredth of a second to 12.20 s.

The most successful month for her was from mid-August 1986 to mid-September: on August 17, she set a world record at the Grand Prix in Cologne and improved it within an hour. On August 29, she won gold over the 100 meter hurdles at the European Championships in Stuttgart and two days later silver in the 4 x 100 meter relay in Bulgaria. On September 7th, she ran another world record in Ljubljana . Conclusion: 3 world records, 1 gold and 1 silver medal within one month.

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , she won the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles ahead of GDR runner Gloria Siebert and West German runner Claudia Zaczkiewicz . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , she could not repeat her success from 1988, but won the bronze medal behind the Greek Voula Patoulidou and the American LaVonna Martin .

At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1994 , she won again bronze in the 100-meter hurdles.

Personal bests

• 100 m : 11.27 s, August 14, 1982, Sofia
• 200 m : 22.95 s, September 16, East Berlin
• 50 m hurdles (hall): 6.77 s, February 7, 1993, Grenoble
• 60 m hurdles: 7.74 s, February 14, 1987, Sofia
• 100 m hurdles: 12.21 s, August 20, 1988, Stara Sagora (world record until July 22, 2016)

Web links

• Yordanka Donkova in the database of World Athletics (English)