Svetlana Leseva
Bulgarian high jumper
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Born | (1967-03-18) 18 March 1967 (age 57) Montana, Bulgaria |
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
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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
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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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
- ^ Sports-Reference profile
- ^ Svetlana Leseva at World Athletics
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Summer Universiade champions in women's high jump
- 1959–1961: Iolanda Balaș (ROM)
- 1963: Taisia Chenchik (URS)
- 1965: Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)
- 1967: Mami Takeda (JPN)
- 1970: Snežana Hrepevnik (YUG)
- 1973: Virginia Ioan (ROM)
- 1975: Galina Filatova (URS)
- 1977: Sara Simeoni (ITA)
- 1979: Andrea Mátay (HUN)
- 1981: Sara Simeoni (ITA)
- 1983: Tamara Bykova (URS)
- 1985: Silvia Costa (CUB)
- 1987: Svetlana Isaeva (BUL)
- 1989: Alina Astafei (ROM)
- 1991: Alison Inverarity (AUS)
- 1993: Tanya Hughes (USA)
- 1995: Viktoriya Fyodorova (RUS)
- 1997: Amy Acuff (USA)
- 1999: Monica Iagăr (ROM)
- 2001: Vita Palamar (UKR)
- 2003: Dóra Győrffy (HUN)
- 2005: Anna Chicherova (RUS)
- 2007: Marina Aitova (KAZ)
- 2009: Ariane Friedrich (GER)
- 2011: Brigetta Barrett (USA)
- 2013: Kamila Lićwinko (POL)
- 2015: Airinė Palšytė (LTU)
- 2017: Oksana Okunyeva (UKR)
- 2019: Yuliya Chumachenko (UKR)
- 2021: Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah (GHA)
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