Svetlana Leseva
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born | Montana, Bulgaria | 18 March 1967
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | High jump |
Club | Spartak Pleven Trakia Club |
Svetlana Mitkova Isaeva-Leseva (Bulgarian: Светлана Миткова Исаева-Лесева; born 18 March 1967 in Montana, Bulgaria) is a retired Bulgarian athlete who specialised in the high jump.[2] She represented her country at the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as two indoor and three outdoor World Championships. Her biggest success is the silver medal at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart.
Her personal best in the event is 2.00 metres outdoors (Dráma 1987) and 1.94 metres indoors (Pireaus 1994).
Competition record
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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Representing Bulgaria | ||||
1983 | European Junior Championships | Schwechat, Austria | 4th | 1.85 m |
1985 | European Junior Championships | Cottbus, East Germany | 3rd | 1.88 m |
1986 | European Indoor Championships | Madrid, Spain | 7th | 1.85 m |
Goodwill Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | 3rd | 1.96 m | |
European Championships | Stuttgart, West Germany | 2nd | 1.93 m | |
1987 | European Indoor Championships | Liévin, France | 12th | 1.85 m |
Universiade | Zagreb, Yugoslavia | 1st | 1.95 m | |
World Championships | Rome, Italy | 7th | 1.93 m | |
1990 | European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | 9th | 1.89 m |
1991 | World Indoor Championships | Seville, Spain | 8th | 1.88 m |
World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 13th (q) | 1.86 m | |
1992 | European Indoor Championships | Genoa, Italy | 13th | 1.85 m |
Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 34th (q) | 1.83 m | |
1994 | Goodwill Games | St. Petersburg, Russia | 6th | 1.88 m |
European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 7th | 1.90 m | |
1995 | World Indoor Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 12th | 1.85 m |
World Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 7th | 1.93 m |
References
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- 1967 births
- Living people
- People from Montana, Bulgaria
- Bulgarian female high jumpers
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- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Bulgaria
- Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games
- Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games
- 20th-century Bulgarian women
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