Antoniya Yordanova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Antoniya Yordanova

Olympic long jumper

Date of Birth: 17-Aug-1976

Place of Birth: Kyustendil, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Antoniya Yordanova

  • Antoniya Yordanova (Bulgarian: ??????? ?????????; born 17 August 1976 in Kyustendil) is a retired Bulgarian long jumper.
  • She was selected to compete for the Bulgarian Olympic team in the long jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics after recording a personal best of 6.78 metres from the European Cup First League in the capital Sofia.
  • Yordanova also trained as a member of the athletics squad for the sport club Lokomotiv Plovdiv under her coach and three-time Balkan champion Atanas Atanasov.Yordanova qualified for the Bulgarian squad in the women's long jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
  • Two months before the Games, she jumped 6.78 metres to attain both her personal best and an Olympic A-standard at the European Cup First League in Sofia.
  • During the prelims, Yordanova spanned a striking leap of 6.45 on her first attempt, thirty-three hundredths of a metre shorter than her personal best.
  • With two more attempts receiving lower marks, Yordanova's best result was worthily enough to put her in the twenty-first position against a vast field of thirty-nine long jumpers, nearly missing her a chance to compete for the final round by a tenth of a meter.

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