Sofiya Bozhanova
Bulgarian athletics competitor
Sofiya Bozhanova (Bulgarian: София Божанова) (born 4 October 1967) is a retired long and triple jumper from Bulgaria. She set the world's best year performance in 1994, jumping 14.98 metres at a meet in Stara Zagora on 16 July 1994. She won the bronze medal at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships, held in Seville, Spain, but the new event was a non-championship contest.
Doping
Bozhanova tested positive for amphetamine at the 1994 European Athletics Championships and was subsequently banned from sports for 4 years.[1]
References
- ^ Athletcis/Looking back at 1994 - Records and doping got the limelight, New Straits Times, 22 December 1994
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World Best Year Performance in women's triple jump
- 1986: Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia (BRA)
- 1987–1988: Li Huirong (CHN)
- 1989: Galina Chistyakova (URS)
- 1990: Li Huirong (CHN)
- 1991: Inessa Kravets (URS)
- 1992: Galina Chistyakova (RUS)
- 1993: Anna Biryukova (RUS)
- 1994: Sofiya Bozhanova (BUL)
- 1995–1996: Inessa Kravets (UKR)
- 1997: Šárka Kašpárková (CZE)
- 1998: Iva Prandzheva (BUL)
- 1999: Paraskevi Tsiamita (GRE)
- 2000–2001: Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)
- 2002: Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR)
- 2003: Yamilé Aldama (CUB)
- 2004: Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)
- 2005: Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS) and Trecia-Kaye Smith (JAM)
- 2006: Anna Pyatykh (RUS)
- 2007: Yargelis Savigne (CUB)
- 2008: Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR)
- 2009: Nadezhda Alekhina (RUS)
- 2010: Olga Rypakova (KAZ)
- 2011: Yargelis Savigne (CUB)
- 2012–2013: Olha Saladuha (UKR)
- 2014: Caterine Ibargüen (COL)
- 2015: Ekaterina Koneva (RUS)
- 2016: Caterine Ibargüen (COL)
- 2017: Yulimar Rojas (VEN)
- 2018: Caterine Ibargüen (COL)
- 2019–2023: Yulimar Rojas (VEN)
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